Tag: sugar

• Classic Cinnamon Buns

  Lately, I think about the transience of life and fear hits me, hard. Every breath I take feels measured, numbered, and I want to fill every moment with every thing. Time wasted hurts in a way that makes me think what are you doing? Live. You have no assurance for tomorrow, or even the rest of…

  Chaya

  November 17, 2017

  Delectables

  baking, buns, butter, cinnamon, cinnamon buns, cream cheese, dairy, delicious, food, frosting, photography, recipes, sugar

• 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,…

  Chaya

  August 11, 2017

  Delectables

  august, baking, butter, dessert, flour, food photography, gooseberries, peaches, pie, recipes, seasonal, sugar, summer, white peaches, writing

• When Words Fail: Red Fruit Galettes

  If words fail you: close your mouth. Open your ears, your eyes always. Let your hands do the talking. Your hands will tell you if you are hurt, if they cannot do the work. Your hands will tell you if you are soft, full of love, caressing butter into flour. Your hands will cry for…

  Chaya

  July 14, 2017

  Delectables

  butter, fruit, galettes, pastry, photography, raspberries, red, rhubarb, strawberries, sugar, writing

• 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…

  Chaya

  June 20, 2017

  Delectables

  blackberry, food, jam, photography, poetry, recipes, sugar, vanilla bean, writing

• 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…

  Chaya

  June 12, 2017

  Delectables

  apricots, butter, cherries, delicious, dough, food, lemon, pie, pop tarts, recipes, seasonal, sugar, whiskey, writing

• Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Tart with Roasted Rhubarb

  Let’s make cheesecake! In tart form! I’m a big fan of tarts because they look super elegant and are simple to make. I specifically love a cheesecake in tart form. The towering height of a classic cheesecake (such as this one) is too rich for some people, and a tart scales it down, yielding a…

  Chaya

  May 28, 2017

  Delectables

  baking, butter, cheesecake, dairy, may, photography, rhubarb, shavuot, spring, sugar, tart, vanilla bean, writing

• Whole Wheat Rhubarb Pie Bars

  It’s that time of year again. Trees, newly clothed in pink blossoms, shed their skeletal selves. Grass emerges, sparkling new and green, from beneath relentless streams of rain. Rhubarb finds its way into my kitchen and has me spellbound with its pearly, pink power. I want to make a pie, a purely rhubarb pie, but…

  Chaya

  May 5, 2017

  Delectables

  baking, bars, butter, crumble, photography, pie, rhubarb, seasonal, spring, sugar, writing

• Strawberry Spelt Shortcakes

  Who doesn’t love a good shortcake? Whenever I make them, they’re adored by everyone, and gone in a flash. Thankfully, they couldn’t be simpler to make: the biscuits come together with a quick pat of butter and a pour of cream and the seasonal fruit is showcased simply, gussied up with only a bit of…

  Chaya

  July 4, 2016

  Delectables

  biscuits, butter, cream, dairy, dessert, flour, food, june, photography, recipes, seasonal, shortcakes, spelt, strawberries, sugar, summer, vanilla, writing

• Triple Berry Crumble

  Happy first day of Summer, everyone! I love summer for lots of reasons, but I have to admit that berries might be the first and foremost. They’re the perfect snack, I love them with yogurt and granola and when baked, they become, if possible, even tastier. I’ve used berries in almost every form: in pie, on…

  Chaya

  June 20, 2016

  Delectables

  berries, blackberries, butter, crumble, dairy, delicious, dessert, flour, food, july, photography, raspberries, recipes, seasonal, strawberries, sugar, summer, vanilla bean, writing

• Chocolate Pavlovas With Lavender Cream & Strawberries

  Exciting news: I chewed today! For the first time in two months! As soon as my doctor gave me the go-ahead, I started thinking of what I’d have first: sushi? Pizza? God, I’d been dreaming of pizza. But he quickly brought me back down to earth. I have to start with soft foods as my…

  Chaya

  April 20, 2016

  Delectables

  chocolate, cocoa, cream, delicious, egg whites, food, kosher, lavender, passover, pavlova, pesach, recipes, seasonal, spring, strawberries, sugar, vanilla bean, writing