There is a moment when the cake has cooled, the dishes are done (or at least soaking) and the time has come to breathe the cake out of the pan. Breathe being the only useful verb I can find for this process, which is the scary moment of bundt cakes (silly as it feels to say bundt, it…
Archives for October 2014
the terrifying bundt (and a giveaway)
There is a moment when the cake has cooled, the dishes are done (or at least soaking) and the time has come to breathe the cake out of the pan. Breathe being the only useful verb I can find for this process, which is the scary moment of bundt cakes (silly as it feels to say bundt, it…
peak
Just this past week, that thing happened that I forget about every year, when the sky is less blue and instead becomes a deep, deep almost-black gray. It makes the trees glow. This is also when people start burning wood in their wood stoves, and so the color combination smells like woodsmoke. This makes me…
why I love/hate/have to cook
I finally sat down and read all the pieces people have sent to me and the ones I’ve flagged as they show up in my never-ending “feed”. It seems, on the whole, to be an attempt at an honest conversation about home cooking, although I don’t think we’re quite there yet. I’ve got responses and…
carrot top pesto
My friends, Jen and Pete, have a farm in Tyringham, Massachusetts called Woven Roots Farm. I’ve known them for over a decade and they’ve been farming even longer, but ever since I tasted the first salad they brought to a potluck when our babies were all really babies, it’s been clear to me that their…