Recipes

COCONUT ICE + TOASTED COCONUT VANILLA LIMEADE

Coconut and summer are intertwined for me.  It’s mostly the smell, the scent of “Maui Babe” being lathered on my sister and cousins, and maybe the memory of those frozen coconut pops I used to devour as a kid.  “Maui Babe” looks and smells like coconut oil and brown sugar.  It’s golden, it’s heady, and it’s the opposite of my […]
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BROWN SUGAR SOUR CREAM BLUEBERRY COFFEE CAKE

I need to get better at naming recipes.  Usually, I just list the ingredients in a tasty sounding matter, but for this recipe…there’s too much tasty! Obviously I have to mention the blueberries, but what about the brown sugar, giving it a deeper, almost maple-y flavor? I should also bring up the sour cream, adding a tangy richness.  What about […]
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S’MEACHES // VIDEO

Fire is such a wonderful, transformative thing. At first glance, singeing something as perfect as a ripe summer peach seems sacrilege, but then you taste it, and then you add a marshmallow because why the hell not. The burnt sugar with a hint of spice, the acid of the yellow peach against the saccharine marshmallow, it all works somehow and […]
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CHOCOLATE BROWN BUTTER BREAD PUDDING // VIDEO

Let me repeat this just in case you didn’t get the picture: Chocolate with brown butter, made into bread pudding. Total deliciousness. What I love about brown butter, which is just butter melted until the milk solids turn golden brown, is that you get a very special flavor with very little effort.  In French cookery it’s referred to as Beurre noisette, […]
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