This is the way the year ends
This is the way the year ends
This is the way the year ends
Not with a bang
But a marshmallow.
2012, TS Eliot, Dating & Chocolate Truffle Stout Marshmallows
December 31, 2012 · By · 12 Comments
intentional words, as told through donuts.
August 18, 2012 · By · 5 Comments
The other day, I made a batch of yogurt cardamom donuts with strawberry glaze. I had tried to make them several times, but thanks to a lack of cake flour and a bad encounter with a shower of broken lightbulb shards, it didn’t happen. I adapted the Top Pot old-fashioned sour cream donut recipe to make them, but the finished product wasn’t what I was hoping for… [Read more...]
hot mess tres leches cake & why it’s ok to delete your facebook
August 7, 2012 · By · 8 Comments
Last week my friend Don invited me to a surprise birthday party for his partner, Benjamin. When I asked what I could bring, he coyly asked, “Do you remember that tres leches cake you made that one time? Could you make that?!” Of course by ‘that one time,’ he meant a dinner party two and a half years ago. I had to take a minute to think back to it and, as I did, I found myself wondering, if Don remembered the cake two years later, was it really that good? [Read more...]
Big Summer Potluck: a gift on being present.
August 4, 2012 · By · 19 Comments
“If it’s meant to be, I’ll go.”
When I uttered those words to a friend who offered to buy my ticket for Big Summer Potluck back in February, I had no idea how true they’d be months later. By all accounts the cards were stacked against me to go. I had my debit card info stolen the day before tickets went on sale (hence the very generous offer to buy me a ticket until things were straightened out) and when the event sold out within minutes, I thought the universe was sending me a message and doubtfully put myself on the waiting list.
I was right about the universe, though it wasn’t sending the message I thought… [Read more...]
