This recipe is from the early 1900s. It’s from my mom’s mom’s dad’s mom if that makes sense, or my Great-Great Grandma Streater. Her name was Florence. She had snow white hair, a lively personality, and a great talent for baking. My favorite picture of her is a black and white photo from her 50th …
I’m not sure how many people eat brown rice breakfast bowls for breakfast. Have you ever had one? You know those Dr. Pepper “/1” ads that show people doing one of a kind things? I feel like you could include a clip of someone quietly eating a brown rice breakfast bowl in between shots of …
So I went backpacking with my sister, Teva, last summer. When we reached the summit we met another backpacker, who told us he had found the source of a stream. He said, “The water is so fresh you don’t even have to filter it!” We did just to be safe. He went around telling everyone. …
I thought about posting my own rendition of the Cronut, you know the croissant + doughnut thing that has people lined up outside of Dominique Ansel’s bakery hours before it opens and has other bakers making knockoffs and calling them things like “Cro-nots” or “Fauxnuts.” If you’ve ever made croissants, you know (*spoiler alert*) there’s …
I realize you don’t brew oatmeal. I was going to call it “12 hr Cold-Soaked Oatmeal,” but that sounds kind of weird and I thought if I was going to convert any oatmeal haters, the last thing they want to hear is “longer cooking time” in the title. Like cold brew coffee, though, you get …
One time, like a couple days ago, I cooked a pack of bacon and ate it all in one sitting. And I do not regret that decision. It was delicious. I couldn’t stop eating it. Obviously. I make pancakes more at night than I do in the morning. My old roommate, Beth, and I used …
Oatmeal isn’t sexy. It’s dull and mushy, and no one every food dreams about oatmeal. And yet on a cold morning, a bowl of oatmeal is kind of nice. The great thing about oatmeal is it’s a good “blank canvas.” You can put anything in oatmeal and it’ll taste like whatever you put in it. …
The first time I made cinnamon rolls was also the first time I worked with yeast. I was 10 or 11. It was the summer. My mom, sister, and I decided on a baking project to keep us out of the 117° weather (I grew up in Phoenix). We had made cookies from scratch, banana …
When you make granola for the first time, you’ll realize just how stale the stuff is you buy at the store. And because it’s so simple, you might never buy packaged granola again. Granola is an easy formula to riff on. You can play around with different dried fruits, nuts, spices, and sweeteners. Try dried …
That’s the whole recipe in the glass on the left. It’s what smoothies looked like before blenders. I’ve always wondered what it would look like if you put all the ingredients that they list on the back of a Naked juice into a glass before mixing it, like 3 1/4 apples, 27 blueberries, 1 banana… …
