Scones are a tricky baked good. Some can be like biting into the ledge that New England sits upon; brittle bits of slate-like crumb, dry, yet dense – tempting us to dump their remains into bags labeled “Quickcrete” and then to plot how we can resell them as such at our local home improvement store.… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Breakfast
Blueberry-Lemon Coffee Cake with Lemon Glaze
Sundays at our house have a familiar cadence to them developed over more than a decade of practice: sleep in – a welcome change, particularly for JR who is up at 5am during the week; coffee made on the stove top, perhaps a fried egg or a frittata with freshly gathered eggs, then the start… Continue Reading
Does this muffin a rhubarbist make?
My childhood memories of rhubarb involve warm summer afternoons in a still-damp bathing suit, and being handed a raw stalk with a bowl full of sparkling white sugar, then being instructed to take a bite. A la tequila shots, as it were. Dunk the stalk in sugar, take a tangy bite, dunk the stalk in… Continue Reading
The Rapscallion and the Donut Trees
When I was a freshman in high school, I had my eye on a pair of Zodiak boots that at age fourteen, I was ill-equipped to afford, what with a savings account consisting of approximately $147.63 and some immature U.S. Savings Bonds as assets. U.S. Savings Bonds which, upon maturity just two years later would… Continue Reading
An out-of-season frittata
This recipe, and therefore this post, is a bit random, being completely out of season as it is. Even while I watch the bumblebees and the sparrows fight – not one another, there are no inter-species fisticuffs in my yard, but bee-on-bee and bird-on-bird aggression there is plenty of, and, quite honestly, I am a… Continue Reading