Our first full day in LA, we set out for the Farmers Market for breakfast. What started out as a true farmers’ market over 70 years ago is now a conglomeration of food vendors, with a few produce stands thrown in. We wound our way to the back and discovered Bob’s Coffee and Doughnuts. A [...]
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LA Farmers Market
Posted in baked treat, california, tagged farmers' market, los angeles on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Driving Highway One
Posted in baked treat, california, tagged olallieberry, swanton berry farm on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After two days in San Francisco, we set out for Los Angeles, driving scenic Highway One and stopping for three nights along the way, in Monterey, Morro Bay, and Santa Barbara. Our first leg, from SF to Monterey, was riddled with signs for farms stands selling strawberries and cherries. We got sucked into a few. [...]
Birthday cupcakes
Posted in baked treat, biweekly photo, tagged cupcakes on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dave’s friend Tim turned 30, so I made him 30 chocolate cupcakes. Dave referred to them as, “Ridiculously good tasting.” We took them to a BBQ Tim hosted last night. They didn’t have a big rectangular plate, but I made it work… (The “AA” above was continued onto the green plate you can see in [...]
A tale of two tart pans
Posted in baked treat, brunch, tagged apricot brioche tart, summer squash and mozzarella quiche on August 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I decided to make a nice weekday brunch for my parents. I knew I wanted to use up some of my CSA produce, mainly apricots and summer squash. After some digging around the Internet, I settled on two recipes, one sweet, one savory (I can never choose between the two at brunch so I tend [...]
LA Farmers Market
Posted in baked treat, california, tagged farmers' market, los angeles on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our first full day in LA, we set out for breakfast at the Farmers Market. What started out as a true farmers’ market over 70 years ago is now a conglomeration of food vendors, with a few produce stands thrown in. We wound our way to the back and discovered Bob’s Coffee and Doughnuts. A [...]
Blueberry muffins
Posted in baked treat, biweekly photo, tagged blueberry muffins on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My mom swam the Hudson last weekend and I made these muffins for her as well as for those of us who woke up early in the morning to cheer her on. I used Nigella Lawson’s recipe from How to Be a Domestic Goddess which I think needs some tweaking (less blueberries, more batter overall), [...]
Peach coffee cake
Posted in baked treat, tagged peach coffee cake on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Baking with fruit seems to be the theme of the moment. I received one luscious pound of the season’s first peaches in my CSA share this week. They were still a little hard when I got them so I was letting them sit for a bit but, before I knew it, it was Thursday night [...]
Red currant muffins
Posted in baked treat, tagged red currant muffins on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dave’s mother just returned from a trip to Michigan to visit family. She usually brings back delicious dried cherries (this time I had requested a larger batch as I seem to be using them a lot for baking) when she goes. There was an extra special treat in additon to the cherries: red currants, freshly [...]
Pies, sweet and savory
Posted in baked treat, lunch out, tricks of the trade, tagged cherry pie, Ithaca pie on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the picnic last weekend, I made and brought the food. The two most popular dishes–sweet and savory, respectively–were pies. In the savory department it was an Ithaca pie that I made using beautiful rainbow chard from my CSA. As for sweet, the crowd favorite was sour cherry pie. A note on cutting chard. When [...]
Blueberries!
Posted in baked treat, tagged blueberry upside-down ginger cake on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first blueberries of the season made an appearance at the Union Square farmers’ market and I had to have them. I bought two pints, one to eat raw (with yogurt) and the other to use for baking. Since we have house guests right now, I wanted to make something a bit nice, so I [...]
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