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- The Best Things In Life Are Wee
Psst–I have a confession to make.
Beneath my cranky and occasionally grim exterior beats the tender, kooky heart of a miniatures collector.
My boyfriend and I have just signed the lease on our very first apartment together. I have yet to buy a piece of furniture, but I’ve already begun accumulating the teeny pastries that I plan […]
- Fleur du Mal Cherry-Chocolate Cake
I was going to name this cake after Becky Sharp, the social-climbing heroine of Vanity Fair. It’s Betty Crocker Devil’s Food made good with stiff-peaked egg whites and a slug of kirsch in the batter. Pillows of chantilly-lightened cherry curd, a necklace of sugar pearls and a tiara of red cherries complete the upgrade.
If the […]
- Green Tea Rice Krispie Treats
There is a Chinese snack I grew up eating called sachima. It’s similar to a Rice Krispie treat, but lacks the bracing sweetness of melted marshmallows; it gets its sugar from much mellower rock candy, which has toasty notes of burnt caramel. The doughy bits are larger and airier than Rice Krispie grains, and sesame […]
- Cauliflower And Bresaola “Carpaccio” With Parsley Oil
I’m sure I am opening myself up to many additional pieces of hatemail and accusations of “zenophobia” [sic], but I’m laying bare last weekend’s Iowa City food diaries anyway, with the ground-breaking observation that Midwesterners eat not-so-great food, and too much of it. (To be fair, I started eating trash on the morning of my […]
