For those of you that may not be as familiar with eating dessert for breakfast as Amanda seemed to be in her post the other day… I would propose this: Bake a strawberry cobbler with butter cookie topping. Serve four small portions for dessert on Thursday, cover with plastic wrap, hide carefully in the fridge [...]
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Or, How TO Eat Dessert for Breakfast
Posted in Baking, Dining In, Recipes, tagged baking, breakfast, cobbler, dessert, easy recipe, fruit, inspiration, strawberries, summer on May 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Bake Sale
Posted in Baking, Food Culture, tagged 21st century lifestyle, bake sale, Fannie Farmer Baking Book, school on March 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There is just something about that old chestnut, the school bake sale. Something that is missing, that is. Home-baked goodies. The 21st century bake sale has been transformed by the 21st century lifestyle: Lack of time to bake, germ phobia, a desire to consume only what is recognizable. When I peruse cookbooks like The Fannie [...]
Cake Walking
Posted in Baking, tagged cakes, gastronomica, Sylvia Plath, The Cake Bible on March 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just read Lydia K. Bundtzen’s article, “Lucent Figs and Suave Veal Chops; Sylvia Plath and Food,” from the 10th anniversary issue of Gastronomica. Gives a peek into the daily life of this mysterious and controversial woman. Bundtzen quotes from Plath’s journals in which she outlines a potential story. Plath notes: “…woman at end of rope…lost [...]