For many years, I would use the same banana bread recipe, trusting in my ability to find the recipe online again. Predictably, a few months ago, I tried to find the recipe and found that I no longer remembered which one it is that I […]
This is a recipe that I got from a friend, who in turn found it in a diary left behind in a Zipcar. Apparently it’s a recipe that has been featured in the NYT, but I am too lazy to go and find it, so […]
Blondies are supposedly the non-chocolate alternative to brownies, but let’s face it: they’re basically a chocolate chip cookie in bar form, and you get to cut them into bars without having to portion individual balls of cookie dough. I’ve been using a lightly adapted version […]
When I moved to California, I brought 37 boxes with me, including my collection of pint containers. Yes, pint containers, not pint glasses, procured from an online restaurant supply store. What can I say? I love ice cream, like a proper New Englander, and the […]
One of the tropes of the food blog is the home cook who reviews a recipe despite completely changing the recipe with “improvements.” Well, today is the day that I present to you a recipe that I have, in fact, completely changed — although as […]
At long last, here are the preliminary cookie survey results in poster format! Take a look at them here. More detailed results to follow next week.
When I was in college, I used to open my door during final exams and find a box of cookies underfoot. This meant that Jessica had been hard at work, somehow baking off hundreds of cookies in between studying for and taking exams. For […]
Here’s another cake that’s delicious when unadorned with any accoutrements. This is a cake made with almond paste, which I’ve found makes a cake with a moist but firm crumb. This cake bakes for a long time (as did the other almond paste cake […]
If you have leftover buttermilk, as I did, you should make this cake. This cake is a little lighter than a traditional pound cake, with a bit of tang from the buttermilk. It still has the tight and tender crumb of a pound cake, […]
I am invariably disappointed by brownies from the store, be they artisanal or made from a box (the sole exception being the gluten-free King Arthur brownie mix). As you know, I already have a favorite brownie recipe, which is more akin to brownie-flavored fudge […]