Tag: recipes
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White Peach, Gooseberry and Spelt Pie
To bottle summer- to capture its fleeting spirit- pie. Always pie. It starts with a good, flaky crust. It contains the prettiest of summer’s bounty. Hopefully, maybe if you are lucky, it is made at dusk, when the air is thick and the fireflies are dancing. Maybe, if you are like me, a midnight baker,…
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Herbed Wild Salmon with Roasted Summer Vegetables
My new job as a baker means lots of new side effects! Here are some of them: 1. Muscles! Whereas I couldn’t even lift one initially, I can now carry 50 lb. bags of flour across a room without breaking a sweat. Progress! 2. Back pain! Or stiff joints/tense shoulders/tense everything. Professional baking is like…
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Poached Eggs & Avocado Toast
There is beauty in the poaching of an egg, in the way it swirls gently into togetherness. Water as land. Vinegar as air. Watch it. See how it starts out. Timid, first. Invisible, extant only by way of the bright yellow orb at its center. Drop! In the water, a ghostly, whirling specter as it…
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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…
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Small Batch Blackberry Jam
blackberries, sweetbitter prickly on the tongue and they taste a bit like wine. i roll my sleeves. hair gets pinned back. i wash, tumbledry some burst in my fingers. this is fine; they’re destined for jam. with a bit of lemon some sugar rogue splatters, inky purples. bubbling, spitting, hissing jam begins to gather on…
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Boozy Cherry Apricot Pop Tarts
It’s a busy Friday and my mom and I are in the kitchen, preparing for Shabbos. Various pots are bubbling on different stoves, both ovens are full. The countertops are packed with ingredients- half a lemon, herbs strewn everywhere, carrot peels making a mountain. It’s hot, although the windows are open, and I am ready…
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Purple Potato, Cheddar and Spinach Frittata
I am a sweet brunch type of gal, a “where-are-the-croissants” and “can-you-please-pass-the-jam” type of woman. At my house, overnight guests always wake to fresh scones or steaming hot muffins, tenderly crumbed, in the morning. My brother takes care of the coffee. His grind, his french press, his side of the kitchen. See? I can share!…
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Black Fruit Galettes
I want to start this post by thanking you all so much for your wonderful responses to the video! I’ll admit I was a teeny tiny bit apprehensive when it went up, unsure if people would like it, but thankfully my apprehensions were unfounded. I am so so happy it was well received! For everyone who asked…
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Oat and Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Maple Berries
Hello hello! Checking in here, which I have not been doing enough of lately. I’m putting it to down to life/being busy- think 18 hour days on set, few breaks, lots of running around and barely enough time to eat or drink. Living the dream! I tend to get sick when my schedule looks like…
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My Mother’s Challah
I’ve wanted to post my mother’s challah recipe for a while now. Things got in the way. I wanted to tweak it. She wanted to tweak it. We went on a challah making hiatus (what?!) But mostly I thought, who needs another challah recipe? The internet is full of them. They are all described as…
