Tag: brunch
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Best Vegan Coconut Bread or Muffins & Custom Recipes
One friend wanted a coconut bread recipe. Another wanted a dairy-free coconut “dessert thing.” Oldest son, now 14 and able to devour entire continents of food daily, especially post-soccer, pleaded for “a giant coconut thing filled with coconut topped with more coconut.” And my old friend, Cris, came to visit from her goat farm Central… Read more
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Deep Dish Raspberry Cornmeal Pudding Cake & Too Darn Hot
Yes, I wrote about deep dish cornbread yesterday. But the bright yellow cornmeal called out to me again and the raspberries are so sweet and plump and let’s be honest: it’s hot as the dickens in the Northeast today. That’s the first time I’ve ever used that expression. This is not the first time I… Read more
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Deep Dish Skillet Cornbread & My Deviant Best Friend
My best friend is from Indiana. She grew up in a tiny town and got kicked off the cheer squad for being too sarcastic. Go team! Many an afternoon have we spent driving the unnamed backroads looking for green tomatoes to fry and corn to steam and eat unbuttered; it’s that fresh and sweet. I… Read more
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Dear Brunch & Bagels
Dear Brunch, A while back, you were just a late breakfast. Then maybe a quiche or a simple salad in addition. Waffles if one really went wild. Now, there are wasabi-encrusted salmon fritters with chinchilla berries, buckwheat-semolina-semi-freddo cherry froth on an escarole blini. My daughter, age 7, asked why I wasn’t serving squid i its… Read more
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Grandma Ruth’s Double Streusel Coffee Cake & Einstein’s Theories
Oh, Mr. Einstein with your wondrous hair and brain. You theorized that it would be possible to overlap past and present and I am hoping you can make that possible so that I can dine with the great grandparents I know only from stories of root cellars and Yiddish accents and English maids and also… Read more
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Garlicky Green Tart with Sunflower Crust & Being Straightforward
4-yr-old: Do you have any gum? Me: No. Ask Daddy. [4-yo goes upstairs, comes back down]: Daddy’s in the shower. he says i can have gum when he gets out. Me: Okay. [4-yr-old considers something]: Can I sleep with gum? Me: that wouldn’t be a good idea. It could get stuck in your hair or… Read more