A moist sour cream coffee cake loaded with fresh blueberries, brightened with lemon zest, and topped with a buttery crumble topping. Every cookbook I own has one recipe that is more stained than the others. In my copy of Williams-Sonoma Breakfast Comforts, it is this one. The page is warped from years of sour cream…
Buttery, bright, and studded with juicy raspberries Raspberries are my favorite summer berry. There is just something about them, that sweet-tart bite that makes them perfect in almost every dessert and every morning yogurt bowl. Unlike strawberries and blueberries, it is hard to find North Carolina raspberries because, just like me, heat and humidity are…
A summer berry salad worth making all season long. I don’t know about you, but I lose all common sense near a summer berry display. It has been this way since I was a girl, picking blackberries and eating half of them before they made it to the bucket. Some things do not change. Lately…
Three ingredients, no machine, and a childhood memory in every scoop. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. I have been saying that since I was a child, and I mean it with all my heart every single summer. There is something about the heat that makes me single-minded. Ice cream. That…
Ina Garten’s most loved coffee cake, made with sour cream and the best blueberries of the season. There is a moment in early summer when the blueberries at the farmers’ market are so fat and so blue they almost feel like a gift. That is the moment I think of this cake. And, if I…
Fresh strawberry compote swirled into creamy no-churn ice cream. No machine, no churning, pure summer. My first job was in a strawberry field. My sister and I worked alongside our cousins at a local farmstead, early mornings, dew still on the leaves, before the heat of the day set in. I wrote about it recently…
A crunchy graham cracker crust, a silky cheesecake filling, and a fresh strawberry swirl — one pan, no water bath I was maybe fourteen the first summer my sister and I picked strawberries. We went out every morning with our cousins before the heat of the day set in — because in a strawberry patch,…
The Classic Pound Cake That Tastes Like Early Summer There is a moment every spring when the strawberries finally taste like strawberries again. Not the pale, sorry ones that show up in January — and yes, I know, if we were truly seasonal eaters we would not be buying them in January, and yet. The…
Fifteen years and nearly 600 recipes. Here is how I cook, how I entertain, and where to find what you are looking for. I never set out to write nearly 600 recipes. Fifteen years ago I was simply writing about the life I was living — and food has always been at the center of…
Fudgy homemade brownies loaded with Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs and Reese’s Pieces — the best Easter brownie recipe and one you will make every year. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying…
The Sweet-Salty Easter Treat Everyone Will Ask You to Make Again I start looking for Cadbury Mini Eggs in February, right after Valentine’s Day. The Easter display is barely up at the grocery stores and I am already checking for my favorite treats. If you don’t get them early they are all gone by the…
The classic French carrot salad I have been eating in Paris for thirty years — a bistro staple that takes minutes to make and tastes like somewhere else entirely. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate…
