The more time I spend away from home, I find, the more time I spend thinking about my childhood, more specifically, the way my mother raised us. I see children in public…
Category: Cakes
Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake
It’s been awhile since I wrote anything literary on here, though it’s not for lack of reading. To say I’ve been reading a lot would be a gross understatement, though it’s not…
Beethoven and Brownies
I don’t usually play with the medium I’ve chosen to express myself. There’s something that seems so unromantic about the Internet, as though typing one’s words and sending a hyperlink into cyberspace…
Homesick
It’s four o’clock in the morning, and I’ve slept two hours. I don’t have my contact lenses in, but I can’t be bothered to find any. Instead, I just pad down the…
Peach Clafoutis
I speak slowly and carefully, even when I’m doing a million things at once. “Met les pâtes dans la casserole,” I say to one of the girls. She looks at the giant…
I’m a Writer
The conversation is inevitable: after a few minutes of talking to a new group of people, of asking “What can I get you to drink?” and “So, where are you from?” comes…
Apple-Cream Cheese Bread
“Is there anything you can’t make?” The Artist asks me as she sits in a chair in my kitchen watching me put the finishing touches on an Indian feast one of my…
Lime-Raspberry Quickbread (Lactose free!)
I think I should set up an office in a train. I can have a seemingly perfect setup at home: a desk, a bottomless cup of hot coffee, headphones, a blanket… and…
Mini Speculoos Cheesecakes
I swear I saw a stranger from a former life on my crosstown bus tonight. It was appropriate, I suppose, considering the rest of my evening. It’s always been important to me…
Gâteau Basque
I don’t know if the universe has a plan: I may be cocky at times, but I’m not nearly cocky enough to pretend I have any idea what the universe may or…