Tag: honey

• Chocolate and Honey Fig Cake

  My grandparents have a fig tree near their garden in Switzerland. It is large, impassive to the treasures it holds, entrancing. Its leaves, elegant and waving green, shade little purple parcels of fig. It takes a measure of patience to watch the fruit ripen. When it does, it is perfect: floral, woodsy, dusk-colored and heady.…

  Chaya

  September 5, 2018

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  baking, cake, chocolate, cocoa, delicious, figs, food, food blog, food blogger, food photography, food styling, fruit, honey, jewish, kosher, oil, recipes, rosh hashana, september

• Peach, Goat Cheese and Mint Crostini

  When I worked in the bakery, I started off on the pastry station. I lasted around one month before I switched to bread. Pastry, it turned out, was awfully repetitive, much too boring for me. While I loved baking scones and weaving lattices at home, that love simply didn’t translate to large-scale baking. Bread baking,…

  Chaya

  June 14, 2018

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• Spiced Whiskey Honey Cake with Whipped Mascarpone

  While making lists and going over menu ideas for this year’s Rosh Hashana meals, I was struck by how little relevance was given to the honey cake. Sure, it was on the menu- it’s too traditional to do away with, and there are always a few diehard honey cake fans who would raise a hell…

  Chaya

  September 17, 2017

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• Labneh Mousse and Olive Oil Tart with Cardamom Figs

  Hi, everyone! Here’s a recipe I wrote up for The Nosher, an awesome, Jewish/Israeli food mashup site I occasionally write for. You can get the full recipe there! For me, summer desserts have to fit a few criteria. First off: they better be worth turning on the oven for. Second: if you don’t need to…

  Chaya

  June 29, 2017

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  cardamom, dairy, figs, food, heavy cream, honey, june, labneh, lemon, mousse, photography, pistachio, recipes, seasonal, summer, tart, writing

• Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf

  Ever since I started making sourdough bread, I’ve been giving other breads some serious side eye. Nothing is comparable to the taste and texture of sourdough and using instant yeast in place of a natural leavener seems like a major cop out to me. Why go the easy route when a slightly more involved one…

  Chaya

  May 2, 2016

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• Honeyed Asparagus, Beet & Chevre Crostini

  For one hot minute, I thought spring wasn’t going to come. I envisioned endless winter nights, sunglasses that would never see the light of day, too many oranges, and a devastating dearth of peaches. I doubted spring, and I wanted to cry. But then something magical happened: hope appeared, first in the guise of a…

  Chaya

  April 21, 2015

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