There’s little I like more than discovering a new dish that folds seamlessly into my life, like it’s always been there. That’s how I feel about this sweet corn and blueberry spoon cake. It’s the sort of dish that my grandmother would have made, except as far as I know she didn’t. But lots of …
Fruit desserts
When you find yourself with extra strawberries or rhubarb or peaches or plums or apples or, well, I could go on, one smart thing to do is walk over to the kitchen, and see if you have flour, butter, and sugar around. If so, you’re about 90% of the way to a buckle, a crisp, …
I’m on a rustic fruit dessert kick. So it was only a matter of time until I got around to peach cobbler. Which is such a comforting dessert. Especially when it’s topped with a nubbly cornmeal biscuit topping. Perfectly ripe, in-season peaches are one of my favorite fruits to eat fresh. When peaches are at …
Plums are farmers markets’ harbingers of fall. They come in with the peaches and the berries and go out with the apples and the pears. When plums show up, summer heads out. This raspberry plum crisp is a sort of summer’s last hurrah. It’s comfort baking at it’s simplest and best, like a light sweater …
For a number of years in my late twenties and early thirties, Dan and I and a group of friends took turns hosting fortnightly dinner parties where we cooked a meal and played board games and enjoyed each other’s company. (We also passed around an infamous set of poorly made, tangled chimes that had originally …
It’s December 23rd, and I’m sitting in my pajamas by the Christmas tree with a mug of coffee and the severed head of a gingerbread person from a fresh batch of cookies. There’s nothing like the holidays. Yesterday was a solid day of baking with my sister Erin, and now we have containers with eight (!) …