
Yeast-raised cinnamon scones
This recipe started, oddly enough, as an enthusiastic suggestion from a coworker for yeast-raised chocolate chip cookies. They turned out, well, strange. I don’t easily dismiss homemade baked goods studded with dark chocolate, but the texture just didn’t really work….

Fluffy biscuits and sausage gravy
We’re still on the biscuit train, and I make no apologies. This week’s recipe has the exact same list of ingredients as last week, but both the inside and the outside tell a completely different story from one to the…

Whole wheat banana muffins
My mom sent me Nutella. What was I supposed to do? You can’t have Nutella without bananas. And peanut butter. Preferably all together–so I gave in to the inevitable and made some banana muffins. The resulting trifecta of all that…

Orange pancakes with caramel sauce and pistachios
I’ve settled into a lovely and only partly intentional routine of spending one weekend day out exploring my new city and the other almost entirely in the kitchen. (Boston friends–I love sharing! Of course, the three courses on the dinner…

Egg and hashbrown nests
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Six geese-a-laying Five golden rings Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree. For a pretty simple idea–bake hashbrowns and an…