Y’all know how much I love BraveTart, right? Well if you didn’t know, I have a long-running baking crush on Stella Parks. It all started when she posted that herringbone pie crust– like 3 years ago and since then Stella has never let me down. When I made her oreo vanilla cream recipe, I literally yelled in my kitchen, “Damn that’s good , Stella!”. For short period of time, my husband thought I had an actual friend named “Stella” I talked about a complete stranger that much. …
Ever have browning bananas in the fruit bowl with a plan to make banana bread? This happens to me frequently. Good intentions- I always have them. Even still, a lot of times those bananas end up in the trash. This particular week, my husband was throwing not so subtle shade about what should happen with those bananas. “What could we possibly do with these bananas besides turn them in to compost? If only there was someone in the house with the talent to turn these bananas into anything else?” Did I mention my husband is a lobbyist? Yeah, he does that shit to me too. So after several hypothetical questions posed out loud, I made this healthy banana bread. But instead of my normal recipe, I lightened them up a bit. …
Did you do all of your holiday shopping online this year? I am usually the person who figures out exactly the last moment Amazon can deliver before Christmas. Then I wait until that very last minute to order gifts. Amazon isn’t as reliable as they used to be. “Two Day Shipping” sometimes means a week. So this year I went old school and actually went shopping. In person. At the mall. It wasn’t the sea of humanity that I’d remembered. Yes, the parking lot was a travesty, but overall it wasn’t that bad. In some ways it felt festive. People standing in lines to purchase Buy One Get One Free merchandise. everything at Gymboree was on sale. People out and about trying to make some Christmas magic happen for their loved ones. …
My baking is mostly based on whim, which I admit is weird, but I really just bake whatever comes to mind. Not a whole lot of curating happening over here. I like a challenge and when I have time to dig in, I do. For whatever reason, when it comes to baking I am 100% confident that whatever I try will work out the first time, which almost never happens, but nevertheless I persist. The beautiful brioche doughnuts you see here, took out how to took a ton of research and three attempts to get just right. As usual, the third time was the charm…
