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As a kid, there were few things I loved more than getting to run errands with my dad. While I was bored to tears traveling around the larger-than-life aisles of Home Depot, errands usually meant early morning trips to the donut shop. This donut shop was old even when the world was new. From the […]

I am not ready for summer to be over. I mean, I’m ready to be less sweaty and REAL ready to pull out my sweater collection, but I am desperately holding onto every last piece of summer fruit I can get my hands on. Which can be a detriment to my refrigerator space. If you, […]

Is this a buckle? Maybe it’s buckle adjacent. It’s buckle-ish. Technically, buckles are cakes with fruit and a streusel topping—and this is a skillet full of fruit and topped with cake, sans streusel. But it isn’t a crisp, crumble, or cobbler, and I don’t know what other categories there are. A skillet cake? I don’t […]

A few years ago, I worked at a startup in a very trendy neighborhood. Right across the street from the office was a coffee shop where I spent way too much time and money. Their internet was fast, their coffee was delicious, and they had a massive breakfast pastry menu—clearly a weakness of mine. One […]

Can I tell you a secret? I have a weird complex about my hands. Far from dainty and dextrous, my hands are basically sausages attached to hot palms. I’m talking sweaty-when-held, melt-every-piece-of gumpaste-I-come-across, hot. I’ve come to learn that this is neither a normal nor a welcomed phenomenon in the baking world. There are so […]