The end of October and beginning of November mark three birthdays in the household. Both of my in-laws have birthdays just a few days apart, and it’s also our dog’s birthday a few days before that. Last weekend we celebrated all three, and I also had to bake a chocolate babka for my GBBO bake […]
I LOVE mooncakes. Every autumn (until this one) I track them down from my favorite Chinese bakery in New York City (Fay Da). Well, this year with.. everything.. I’m not making unnecessary trips to track down baked goods, so I figured I’d give them a try myself. For the distinctive shape of the mooncakes, I
Great British Bake Off is back!! I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but the last 6 months have really sucked. They’ve sucked for the whole world. They’ve especially sucked for the United States, and on a personal level, they have been pretty crappy personally and professionally. Baking is basically the thing that’s kept me
Strawberry Rhubarb Tartlets for the 4th of July. Let me start with a mea culpa – I don’t really have a recipe for this because it just sort of developed. It’s a crying shame because this was crowned “probably the best thing you’ve made” by my family. Tartlets. Tartlets. Tartlets. The word has lost all
Pain de Savoie is a delicious bacon and cheese bread. To explain why I made this loaf, I need to work backwards. On a Costco trip for lockdown supplies, my wife and I ended up buying an absurd amount of bacon. Not super absurd, but we only really use bacon as an ingredient and never