Here is a collection of some of my favorite baking projects that feel spring appropriate. Spring is a tricky season for those of us in the northern part of the United States, because we’re craving fresh flavors after a long winter, but there isn’t much produce in season. The temperatures can swing wildly, so we …
When it comes to dessert, there are people who always go for rich chocolate, those who go for comforting apple, and then there are those who go for the bracing pucker of lemon. This lemon ginger tart is for the lemon lovers among us. This tart has been an idea I’d kicked around ever since …
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, …
Rhubarb is remarkably versatile. We tend to treat it like a fruit, but botanically, it’s a vegetable. The leaves have a reputation for being toxic because of their oxalic acid, which can interfere with the essential minerals like iron, magnesium, and calcium. But spinach has more oxalic acid than rhubarb leaves do, and it’s still …
This strawberry rhubarb buckle is just the thing to bake right now. “Now” meaning, whenever you’re reading this and happen to be in the possession of some rhubarb and strawberries. Buckles are part of the family of unfussy fruit desserts that includes things like crisps and crumbles and cobblers (and if you want a rhubarb …
There’s something hopeful about asparagus season. It means things are growing again. Things we can eat. And these days, I’ll grab hold of any bit of hope I can find. In-season asparagus is something special. When you get it soon after it’s harvested, it’s sweet and mild and so much better than the stuff that’s …