Start with this recipe from Two Peas and Their Pod. If you have chocolate chips and brown bananas, then you probably have all the ingredients for this banana bread. Follow all their instructions, especially the room temperature eggs, cooled melted butter, and kosher salt. I used light brown sugar because it’s what I had. Dark […]
Category: Breakfast
Forgotten French Toast
Dear Readers,Anjali finally wrote this recipe for her dreamy french toast. Enjoy.RSW I made French toast, and started writing this recipe about 14 years ago, back at the start of quarantine. And, back when the dark humor mixed with New Jersey sarcasm didn’t seem all that mean. Alas, it took me until today to finish […]
Buttermilk Biscuits
Did you try the delicious, fluffy buttermilk pancakes? Are you annoyed because you bought too much buttermilk and don’t know what else to do with it? Look no further than this buttermilk biscuit recipe. These were *good* but not *great.* It’s probably my fault. The butter wasn’t super cold. The honey butter glaze was magnifique. […]
Pancake Saturday
Saturday started with fluffy, delicious buttermilk pancakes. It ended in fire. More on that later. The only acceptable recipe comes from The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer. Do not be fooled by any other recipes. They will tell you that there should be more flour and less butter. They are wrong. Once, in a […]
Croissomlet
We previously noted that once a week, we are patronizing a local business to keep some cash flowing in their direction. Today, Anjali went to the dirt store (what I’m calling Funke’s Greenhouse) and then stopped by the College Hill Coffee Company to pick up coffee and baked goods. Anjali didn’t know it at the […]
Apple Cinnamon Scones
Well, given the enormous backlash against my intentionally divisive social media posts about apples, I thought I would demonstrate that the apple is indeed a more useful fruit than just a peanut butter delivery device and the shining star of pies. Here’s the twitter version (the facebook version got very ugly, very quickly): Apples are […]