Delightful Crumb

05/05/2019

NEW POST | This gorgeous sunflower seed scone via the Sister Pie cookbook, plus all my thoughts on my beloved category of SLEEPER PASTRIES! This one's perfect for your weekend baking needs.

24/12/2018

NEW POST | Merry Christmas Eve Eve! Here, some thoughts on tradition & Alison Roman's delicious savory granola—which would make an excellent last-minute gift.

30/11/2018

NEW POST | Six things to do with a tray of roasted sweet potatoes—for some belly-warming ease in this busy season!

It’s snowing in the Midwest and raining (finally, blessed be!) in California. Thanksgiving is behind us and December just around the corner. It’s old hat to say that the year has flown, but—it really did this time! Finding such truisms flying out of my mouth is a real sign of adulthood, I thin...

03/10/2018

NEW POST | Thoughts on those places with particular, personal resonance, and one of mine - Denia, Spain. Plus, a recipe for ensalada valenciana.

I’ve been thinking lately about the places that most matter to us—those that are not just objectively special, but also subjectively so. Some places we can all agree are extraordinary: famed vacation destinations, the national parks, hip new restaurants, the long-lived classics. Most people can ...

01/09/2018

NEW POST | Chocolate Fig Cake & some thoughts on this most glorious fruit

This week, the market was overflowing with figs. It was an abundance I can’t recall seeing before—big crates packed with fat figs at multiple stalls, ripe and bursting, water balloon skins no longer able to hold in the jammy centers. My favorite fig purveyor let me assemble my own boxes, a prett...

11/08/2018

NEW POST | A formula for watermelon & feta salad—a summer staple in my house, as easy as it gets!

It is summer, which means it’s time for another simple salad! This is basically how I cook from June through September—it’s hot, the produce is perfect and the evenings are long. Why spend the night cooking when you can assemble something equally delicious in minutes? Our trip to Paris in June...

11/08/2018

NEW POST | My go-to frittata & a bid for embracing the good

I come today with the most straightforward of recipes, for a moment in which things feel to me both immensely complicated and desperately simple. Politics, immigration and our nation’s ongoing inability to communicate across disagreement loom large. Yet it is summer, and for me, that conjures memo...

03/06/2018

NEW POST | Rustic rhubarb tarts + wisdom from Rilke

Recently, a friend and I were discussing a common theme in our lives, one that I return to again and again with friends these days—what’s next, and when? And how, exactly, do we answer those questions? My friend referenced a quote, something Krista Tippett had talked about on her podcast or in h...

04/05/2018

NEW POST | Asparagus four ways, to welcome spring!

Spring, for me, is when food feels most profound. The produce that emerges at this time of year is vibrant and bright, a burst of freshness, perfectly reflective of the emotional state that we find ourselves in after a cold, rainy and/or snowy winter. The idea of life emerging from the earth is p**n...

04/05/2018

NEW POST | Talking time & toast in my latest on the blog

This year has been moving quickly over here in my corner, but I’ve struggled to put my finger on why. I often mark seasons with trips, visitors and big events, and I’ve had few of these so far. The weather has been strange, slipping into warm spring temperatures for a day or two, then back to cl...

03/03/2018

NEW POST | German Marble Cake, with thoughts on the importance of cake—particularly in the afternoon.

I am here today to talk about cake. Because cake, if you ask me, is essential. Life is hard and busy and often confusing; the pockets of calm and perfect clarity are rare and short lived. Though the temptation is persistent, I’m determined not to wait for vacations and date nights and holidays and...

01/02/2018

NEW POST | Avocado, Citrus & Fennel Salad, a favorite combination, perfect for winter

Winter in California will always feel like spring to me, because it feels like spring in the Midwest—my home, the place whose rhythms beat in my chest no matter where I go. It’s not just because we go back to Michigan for the holidays and this is the very welcome weather we return to in January....