Tag: seasonal

• Heirloom Tomatoes with Chili Oil, Pesto and Mozzarella

  Here is a little recipe for the unofficial last day of summer. Except, this isn’t a recipe so much as a suggestion, in the way that tomatoes suggest a sprinkling of salt, and that pesto suggests gratings of cheese, and that it all suggests a hunk of bread. In other words, here is a plate…

  Chaya

  August 31, 2015

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  bread, food, heirloom, lunch, mozzarella, parmesan, pesto, photography, recipes, seasonal, sourdough, summer, tomatoes, vegetables, vegetarian, writing

• Blackberry Buttermilk Rye Scones

  Scone dough is messy. It sticks to sun-warmed countertops and leaves buttery streaks in the bowl. It dusts me with a layer of flour and threatens to leak fruit as I work it. But scone dough is also restorative. It demands that you to knead it together. It requires that you worry about things like…

  Chaya

  August 25, 2015

  Delectables

  august, baking, blackberries, breakfast, brunch, buttermilk, food, photography, recipes, rye, scones, seasonal

• Spiced Stone Fruit Crumble Bars

  I don’t want to think about it being late August, or August at all. I don’t want to think about summer ending and taking with it its bounty of everything good. I don’t want to think about the ice cream maker that will sit collecting dust for a year, or about the peaches I won’t…

  Chaya

  August 21, 2015

  Delectables

  apricots, august, baking, bars, butter, crumble, delicious, dessert, food, peaches, photography, plums, recipes, seasonal, stone fruit, sugar, summer

• Roasted Blackberry Apricot Ice Cream

  The blackberries were on sale. Big boxes of them, full of ripe fruit- a sure sign of the advent of summer. They were calling to us, singing a song of green fields and sun, and their dark, midnight sheen was bewitching. We bought two cartons. “I bet we finish one box on the way home,”…

  Chaya

  July 19, 2015

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  apricots, blackberries, cream cheese, dairy, delicious, dessert, food photography, fruit, heavy cream, ice cream, milk, recipes, seasonal, summer, sweet

• Sour Cherry Pie

  Late night pie happens like this: come home from the cherry orchard as the sun begins its slow descent. Wonder, how will we eat six pounds of cherries? Think: pie! Proceed to look for a cherry pitter, come up with fingers. Settle for a piping tip. Painstakingly pit and stem three pounds of cherries. Turn…

  Chaya

  July 17, 2015

  Delectables

  butter, cherry, food, fruit, photography, pie, pies, recipes, seasonal, sour cherries, sugar, summer

• A ♥ Letter to Summer: Sweet Cherry & Blueberry Galette

  Dear Summer, I love you for a lot of things. I love you for the golden glow you give me. I love you for your long afternoons. I love you for juicy watermelons, eaten with sticky fingers besides a dwindling stack of napkins. I love you for your sounds: sometimes, a hazy stillness, sometimes, crickets…

  Chaya

  June 26, 2015

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  blueberries, butter, cherries, dairy, delicious, dessert, food, fruit, galette, june, photography, pie, recipes, seasonal, summer, writing

• Triple Berry Pavlova

  Summer! Fresh berries, freedom, joy. For the next few months, the sun is on my side. I like that very much. I am eating all the berries I can get my hands on. Mostly just fresh, or on yogurt. But when I feel fancy, I love putting berries on a pavlova. There’s something so perfect…

  Chaya

  June 19, 2015

  Delectables

  bake, berries, delicious, dessert, eat, fruit, good, june, pavlova, photography, recipes, seasonal, summer

• Toasty S’mores Ice Cream Sundae

  I’ve been on an ice cream kick lately. If you don’t believe me, come check our freezer. A myriad assortment of ice creams sits there, surrounded by things like caramel and fudge sauce, all of them just waiting for someone to stumble upon them. I can’t help it; you wouldn’t be able to, either, if…

  Chaya

  June 14, 2015

  Delectables

  cream, delicious, dessert, food, ice cream, june, photography, recipes, s’more, s’mores, seasonal, sugar, summer, sundae, sweet

• Cherry Buttermilk Cake with Brown Butter Streusel

  It’s cherry season, it’s cherry season! The sweet maroon orbs are flooding the stores, and I couldn’t be happier. They are, however, somewhat pricy; we’ve been eating them judiciously, smashed into a saucy mess and poured over oatmeal, tossed with yogurt and cacao nibs, or fresh from the bowl. This early in the season, we’re…

  Chaya

  June 5, 2015

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  breakfast, brown butter, brunch, cake, cherries, delicious, dessert, food, fruit, june, photography, recipes, seasonal, streusel, summer, sweet

• Cacao Nib & Frangelico Cheesecake

  

  Cheesecake. If you are lucky, you know it well: if you are luckier, you know it in it’s smoothest, creamiest form. But maybe you know cheesecake as being crumbly, or lacking flavor, in the name of cutting calories corners? Maybe you have had cheesecakes that cracked right down the middle, or ones that sogged from a leaky…

  Chaya

  May 22, 2015

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  cheesecake, delicious, dessert, food, kosher, may, photography, recipes, seasonal, shavuos, shavuot, sweet