I occasionally work at a cooking school. By “occasionally,” I mean I used to work in a cooking school, but with a recent promotion (heyyyyy) I work almost exclusively on the retail floor (as a manager) at a store that contains the cooking school. But this is a story about the cooking school.
The first time I ever made my apple chai-der pie (an idea that I shamelessly stole from the Internet, but eventually made my own), I thought I had died and done gone to heaven, y’all. The apples were good and the spiced black tea filling even better, but the real kicker was the streusel. Every
previous fruit-y monthly muffins: 6/16, blackberry almond muffins || 8/16, gluten-free blueberry buttermilk muffins || 3/17, glazed lemon poppyseed muffins The first time I ever roasted strawberries was during my short stint working in a restaurant. In fact, the first time I’d ever eaten roasted strawberries was during that job. We filled hotel pans (deep baking
Well, here’s another first: the first layer cake recipe of the blog (also the first cake recipe period if you don’t count the poundcake from a few years ago)! I used to not really like cake or cupcakes (can you believe it?) I’m still not a fan of chocolate cake or strawberry cupcakes
previous monthly muffins 2/17, glazed lemon poppyseed muffins || 12/16, chocolate peppermint muffins || 9/16, whole wheat english muffins || 7/16, english muffins || 2/16, vegan ginger muffins Herbert’s first birthday was already three weeks ago, but the celebration never stops with him. He’s a little party starter. My farmor (paternal grandma) used to send
more yeast-y goodness whole wheat english muffins || english muffins || italian focaccia Someone’s celebrating a big day today…a big, first birthday! His name is Herbert, and he is all mine. I made him. Inspired by Michael Pollan’s Netflix series, Cooked, I decided last winter to make my own sourdough starter. I had
other fruit-y muffins gluten-free blueberry buttermilk muffins || lemon pecan whole wheat muffins || vegan spiced banana walnut muffins || almond blackberry muffins What if I told you it’s taken me almost a year to work up this recipe? They say the best axiom in baking is, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix
What is more lovable than potatoes? Puppies? I think not. Fluffy kittens? Sorry, no. A French vanilla-scented candle washing away all of your soul-crushing self-doubts and broken dreams on a cozy, rainy, winter evening in a kitchen with a glass of cheap red wine and chicken roasting in the oven? Hah. Don’t make me
I used to be picky about meat. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t particularly like it. I don’t know if I just got bored with what was on offer, or if I hadn’t developed a taste for it yet, but it was a rare meat that made me smile. They say “distance
previous monthly muffins 8/16, gluten-free blueberry buttermilk muffins || 6/16, blackberry almond muffins || 2/16, vegan ginger muffins My first year in college, a friend of mine wanted to show me around Los Angeles, so we drove all over, exploring his favorite places (ie., his favorite date spots…) One of the places we visited, a