What with holidays and more holidays and birthdays taking precedence, I didn’t get to tell you about this fantastic breakfast I made like three weeks ago. Similar to wheat berries, farro is apparently something you can eat for breakfast. Hearty and satisfying, a little bit sweet, a little bit creamy, a little bit licoricey, this [...]

What feels like a million years ago I made these mini cupcakes for Natalie’s birthday. They were basically her birthday present last year in mini cupcake form. Except without the cookie dough component. Dammit. I realized too late that I probably should’ve filled some of the cupcakes with cookie dough, and I hope she’ll forgive [...]

Well, this recipe almost made it up in time for Purim. I did St. Patrick’s Day, okay? What more do you want from me? I can’t do everything! Deep breath. Purim is really the most fleeting of the Jewish holidays. Every other year it comes and passes without my noticing, a shame since I love [...]

Dammit dammit dammit. I hate bundt pans. Never again. I’m getting rid of mine, does anyone want it?? I’ve been a little burnt out, yes even though I just got back from vacation, and I wasn’t going to make anything for St. Patrick’s Day. Instead, I was going to lamely refer you to last year’s [...]

You might think that making muffins all the time at work would make me sick of them. Quite the opposite. Muffins have now become synonymous with morning for me, and I’ve found myself baking them at home on my days off.

I feel a bit uncomfortable referring to butternut squash as simply squash, since to me “squash” refers to the crook-necked yellow variety that my mom would always make. But up north the default squash seems to be butternut, a winter squash, which makes perfect sense seeing how it’s winter here for most of the year.

A few posts ago I briefly mentioned a blood orange olive oil cake that I made and loved two years ago but that disappointed me when I made it this year because the oranges I bought were bitter. I was turned off to blood oranges for a few weeks, but I eventually had to give [...]