Tag: oil

• 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

  Uncategorized

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

• 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

  Delectables

  baking, bread, delicious, food, honey, loaf, may, oil, recipes, sandwich, seasonal, vegan, wheat, writing

• Maple Glazed Apple Fritters

  Do you have any kitchen fears? Is frying things one of them? If it is, it’s time to do away with that fear. Poof! Vanish it. Because while you sit worrying about oil splatters and fat intake and other nonsensical things like that, people all over the world are eating FRESH DOUGHNUTS. HOMEMADE. DOUGHNUTS!!! I…

  Chaya

  October 15, 2015

  Delectables

  apple picking, apples, autumn, butter, delicious, dessert, doughnuts, fall, food, fried, fritters, october, oil, photography, recipes, seasonal