Tag: writing
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Strawberry Rosé Pops
What is up with this New York heat?! These past few days have been the kind of weather that makes me want to wear as little clothing as possible and also do as little as possible. I just want to live in an ice cold swimming pool and maybe eat some ice cubes. OK, I…
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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,…
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Chocolate Cappuccino Cheesecake Bars
I like cheesecake bars. They’ve got all the creamy-ness of a big round cheesecake, but require less effort. They serve a crowd. They’re lowkey, but they don’t look it. So! Let’s talk about these! These cheesecake bars came about on a whim. I wanted to make coffee cheesecake but I didn’t want to make a big…
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Everything Bagel Feta and Spinach Bourekas
When I was a kid, cinnamon raisin bagels were my bagel of choice. A friend introduced me to the flavor as we were picking up lunch on the way to school one morning and it totally blew my mind. Add a thick schmear of cream cheese, she told me, and you’re golden. I loved the…
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Strawberry Sour Cream Rugelach
Hi everyone! How are you all enjoying this Spring weather? The weather and the flowers make me giddy every year, but I also love that the advent of Spring means Shavuot is right around the corner. In honor of Shavuot, I made these beautiful little rugelach for The Nosher. Rugelach are a classic Jewish pastry, made…
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Berries and Cream Sponge Layer Cake
A cake takes a lot out of me. It requires planning ahead: the softening of butter, the warming of eggs, the buying of ingredients. Often, I realize I am low on sugar, or an egg too short, once I have already started the mixer. Somehow, I always manage to dirty every utensil in the kitchen.…
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Strawberry Brioches with Orange Almond Cream
It’s Spring! Well, not really. There’s not a flower in sight, and the trees are as bare as ever. But it’s starting. Slowly. I’ve begun to hear the faint chirping of birds again, music to my ears, and one morning when I stepped out, it was misty and cool and it felt like Spring was…
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Pavlovas with Lemon Curd & Citrus
The past few weeks, my creativity, something I’d never given much thought to, demanded attention. Truthfully, it didn’t demand attention so much as seemingly vanish from existence: why couldn’t I think of a single thing to bake? Why did none of my attempts at writing result in anything other than a blank page? How come any painting…
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Chai Spiced Spelt Carrot Cake
It’s late at night when I decide to make carrot cake. The dishes are done, the counters are sparkling clean. Prime time to get messy. I could drag out the food processor, but I decide to grate the carrots by hand. Food processors have so many parts, and I can already envision orange shreds of…
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Sesame Braised Chicken with Squash and Chard
Dinners around here tend to be simple: roast chicken and potatoes, salmon with vegetables and rice, that sort of thing. There’s always a protein, some sort of carb and plenty of greens and vegetables, and the preparation’s always easy- we roast and grill a lot. But sometimes I come across a recipe that makes me…
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