every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Let's Bake, recipes on Oct 4th, 2008
I am standing at my in-laws’ dining room table, using a short serrated knife to hack through an apple-almond dessert, and my heavy bracelet keeps slipping down my wrist. I lean in to cut, bracelet whomp. Push it up, falls back down. Up, down, back, clonk. It keeps whacking the pastry [...]
Posted in Cleo, Let's Bake on Oct 1st, 2008
Can it be Wednesday already? I’ve been so darn busy here at the McCain compound for like days now, learning to pronounce funny names and cramming for my debate. I tell you, there’s no time for blogging at all!
Oops - someone else’s diary. My excuse is the Jewish holidays - a different kind [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, recipes on Sep 23rd, 2008
You’re having nice people to dinner and you need a nice dessert. You’d like something easy but brilliant, sweet but sophisticated, deceptively simple – you know, a plated version of our ideal selves. Here’s what you don’t want: a labor-intensive tower of dubious taste. You’ve already cooked three courses, and though [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, recipes on Aug 27th, 2008
Mandelbread – or mandelbrodt, literally, almond bread – was my first solo cookie. Eight years old and alone with cousin Dana’s 3 x 5 card, the mess should have meant disaster. But they came out well, happy and fragrant, a miracle. I kept baking.
Mandelbread are the Jewish biscotti - maybe a little sweeter, crisp but [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, My So-Called Life, recipes on Aug 21st, 2008
Once upon a time my daughter was not a big-shot junior high kid in the know. She was just a toddling moppet - keen on alphabet games, wild for all things A to Z, and this was handy in grocery lines and waiting rooms and 600-mile drives. We played color alphabet (azure), [...]
