Recipe: Braided Lemon Bread
Recipe: Scones
Recipe: Inside-out Pumpkin Muffins
If a plain scone is the little black dress of the breakfast baking closet, then specialty sugars are the Chanel, Hermès and Cartier. Waiting in the wings, they swoop in at the last moment and sprinkle on that special little sparkle that takes your baking from drab to fab.
I adore my small-town Vermont life, I really do. Every week, every season has some special occasion or event that reminds me of how nice it is to live where just like that famous fictional Boston bar, “everybody knows your name.”
Recipe: Florentiners à la Mama
I’m sure each of us in our own time have experienced serendipitous events where something fine and good and true arises from a sad or stressful situation. Sometimes it’s a small thing, like…
Recipe: Jam Blossoms
Simple things are often the best.
Think of the first yellow crocus that pushes its way up through the soggy mulch covering your garden. In a late-winter landscape of browns and grays, that bright splash of gold is probably the loveliest sight you’ve seen in months.
And your toddler learning to walk: the memory of that first simple step will live in your heart forever. (more…)
