After last week’s Nutella, did you really think I could leave cronuts away? Not possible! In case you’ve been “unplugged” for the last year, cronuts are a mix between flaky, layered croissants and yeasty, deep-fried donuts. Sound amazing? Well… they are. They really, really are. The only trouble is that they’re absolutely laden with butter and other…
Breakfast
Chia Seed Breakfast Pudding
As the warmer months set in, you’ll probably start to crave food that’s a bit lighter and less, er, stove-intensive, but that’s still filling and nourishing. Enter.. the chia seed breakfast pudding. Chia seeds, for many years, were the butt of the, uh, seed world?, relinquished only to growing hair on terra cotta pets. That…
Peanut Butter Banana Toast
I wrestled with the idea of writing this up as an actual recipe for a couple weeks, convincing myself on one hand that, uh, this isn’t an actual recipe, but rather a self-describing title.. and then convincing myself that neither Omar and I had ever thought to make it for our combined 59 years of…
Homemade Rosemary Applesauce
You have no concept of the sheer magnitude of past-due foodstuffs slowly and silently rotting away in your fridge, squandering valuable climate-controlled real estate, until you ready the house for your extended vacation. “My pickles are molding?!” you might ask yourself in disbelief. “My pickles?!” It hasn’t sunk in just yet. “Ooh.. I have a…
Southern Eggs Benedict with Biscuits, Bacon, and Gravy
These Southern eggs Benedict sort of sprung themselves on us on a Sunday morning. I’d decided I’d been spoiling O for too long, cooking for him every single night, and I felt it was time to reignite his self-sufficiency in the kitchen. What if I got hit by a speeding moped on my walk to…
Drunken Fig Jam
Not so long ago, right after we moved into our new house, I started harassing a friend of mine who has a prolific fig tree in her back yard. “Let me know,” I’d post on her wall, “WHEN THE FIGS COME IN.” I’m pretty sure I used caps, because it was a truly serious matter….
