There aren’t many recipes that send me excitedly running to the kitchen these days, but this one? The moment I saw it, it was on. And I knew it would be delicious, I just knew, because the cardboard taste of matzo just doesn’t stand a chance against an aggressive coating of melted butter, maple syrup, [...]

This blog turned two over a week ago without so much as a happy birthday wish from me let alone a post to commemorate the fact, which says a lot about the sorry state of things over here. One year ago I had recently left my job as an editor and was working in my [...]

I am super in love with these. You can eat one for breakfast. You can have one for a snack. You can warm one up (or not) for dessert and top it with a scoop (or two) of vanilla ice cream. You can pick one up and eat it like a slice of pizza (over [...]

The other day I was feeling nostalgic about the things I used to make at Bluebird, these muffins most of all.

Um. It’s been so long I don’t even know what to say. It’s shameful. As usual, I have an excuse. Two this time.

I keep looking at this picture and thinking this piece of cake is evil. You see the beady eyes and pointy nose and tongue too, right? I’m not crazy. Anyway, here’s something embarrassing: before this crumb cake, I’d never cooked with rhubarb. I was always sort of afraid of it and now I know why! [...]

It’s time to address what’s been going on over here. I’ve been working on an ice cream project. Okay, but that’s all I’m going to say for now. As I’ve mentioned before, making ice cream requires a lot of egg yolks, thus leaving you with a lot of egg whites. When I first started making [...]

It’s been an unusually busy week, what with jetting off to Massachusetts to see a new baby and other relatives in from out of town, getting back late and working all the next day, then going straight to a seder, then working all day, going straight to another seder, working all day again, going straight [...]

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 [...]

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.

I did not take pictures while making this banana bread, which means that I wasn’t planning to share it with you. I know this is going to sound crraaazzy, but sometimes I like to cook for the pure pleasure of it, without having to stop every ten seconds to snap multiple photos. Mostly, though, I [...]

The husband said that if I ever wanted to make a noodle kugel to, ya know, just have in the fridge, he would eat it. I thought this was his way of asking me to make noodle kugel, and I was happy to oblige because it’s one of those things I need to know about, [...]

Number one, it is a frickin’ miracle that this post is even happening right now. How is it possible that every time the last four times I’ve managed to transfer pictures from my new camera to my computer I’ve forgotten how to do it and spent many many minutes, I might even say hours, trying to [...]

A runny egg yolk is one of life’s simplest pleasures, guaranteed to produce smiles on thesis-writing and non-thesis-writing faces alike. I love puncturing that gelatinous sac, my heart never failing to swell a bit at the river of bright yellow saucy deliciousness that floweth forth. Mmmm and then sopping it up, in this case with a thick slice [...]

I never knew it was weird to spread butter on frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts. I don’t know how we got on the subject, we must’ve been talking about what we ate for breakfast as kids, but the husband was like what? You put butter on Pop-Tarts? He seemed shocked and disgusted, and I was suddenly self-conscious. Wasn’t that normal? [...]

I remember very clearly the first time I made this cake. We had just moved to our new place in Brooklyn and I was sick and I was PISSED. Because I hate being sick (who doesn’t?), and it tends to happen to me when I move. I guess you could blame that old intangible enemy stress, [...]

As with the boeuf bourguignon and the braised short ribs, I made this quiche the night before I planned to eat it and holy mother, I really need to remember to take sleeping pills the next time I do that because the smell is so permeating and intoxicating, and the anticipation of eating so great, [...]

Since I make my own granola bars, it logically follows that I make my own granola, right? Right. Alright. Glad we’re on the same page. Interestingly enough (or at least interesting to me, since I’m fascinated by my own granola trajectory and everything that has to do with granola in general), the bars preceded the granola, and it wasn’t until I [...]

The only things better than warm, buttery frosted maple scones fresh from the oven for dessert are warm, buttery frosted maple scones fresh from the oven for breakfast. I know this because (are you ready for this?) I made these babies for dessert last night and again for breakfast this morning. But before you call [...]