Dessert Recipes

I was elbow-deep in a pile of tax receipts last April, a truly soul-sucking activity, when my phone buzzed. It was a text from my … Read more

My aunt had sworn off challah for over a decade. “Too dry,” she’d say every year when I’d mention braiding one for Rosh Hashanah. “The … Read more

I was standing in the middle of a grocery store aisle last July, staring at a can of peaches like it held the secrets to … Read more

Hand me that bowl, my neighbor said, not even looking up from her garden. She was knee-deep in soil, pulling weeds with the kind of … Read more

There used to be a little diner off Highway 78 in northern Alabama called Thelma’s that made banana bread so good it made you forget … Read more

I was standing in the baking aisle of my local grocery store last Tuesday when the smell hit me — that nutty, almost caramel-like scent … Read more

My neighbor Karen wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder on a random Tuesday afternoon in early December, and this … Read more

My neighbor Carol watched me wrestling with a too-soft pie crust one November afternoon, flour dusted across my sweater like I’d lost a fight with … Read more

There used to be a tiny bake shop tucked between a vintage store and a laundromat in my old neighborhood that made what they called … Read more

Halloween was in twelve hours and I’d completely forgotten about the class party. My daughter reminded me at 8 PM while I was scrolling through … Read more