What do you do when you find yourself with over 50 donuts in the house? This past week, I've been working on a collab with a donut shop & bakery (can't wait to share more... soon!) and was left...
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Dear long-time desserts for breakfast friends, I hope that this missive finds you well, or at least, as well as can be in 2020. I know it's been a long time, that desserts for breakfast ...
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Happy Runeberg Day! I've moved, and taken up a new job, and now I'm back in a place with at least one Finnish colleague. A conversation we had made me reminisce about the days in graduate s...
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Dearest Annelies , Jars of Seville orange jam– or, if we’re fancy, call it “marmalade”– translucently shimmer in summer Scottish light. (Have I mentioned that I am obsesse...
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Back in November, two of my best friends got married (to each other!) in Hawai'i. It was this magical week of jumping off and diving under waterfalls, of eating-way-too-much poke and way-too-...
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I'm breaking my blogging silence to post these here, but I know that almost any words that I write to accompany these photos will be wrought with inadequacy. There is grief. anxiety. distraug...
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I had a friend over recently for dinner who travels every year to Spain, so being the glutton for punishment that I am, I decided to attempt my hand at a Spanish-inspired menu: seafood paella...
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What do you do when you're living at an AirBnB and having super foodies over for dinner? I was faced with this predicament when I was in Scotland for the summer (more on that later!), trying ...
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People often ask me what my favorite dessert is, and I get stumped. I mean, how does one choose?!? Victoria sponge cakes, though, are often at the tip top of the list. Especially in June, whe...
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We've gotten our first spell of 100 F weather in California this past week. School is winding down. Summer! is! coming! (Also, who's exciting about the Game of Thrones premiere this weekend...
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My best friend got married a few weeks ago! The entire day, I had this opening scene from My Best Friend's Wedding running through my head. My friend had a pro photographer and cake maker...
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I was in LA last week giving a work research talk, and afterwards, my colleagues and I took two very, very rare days off and did sightseeing for the weekend! I've been to LA a lot, but usuall...
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Did I never get around to telling you about this beet salad that I made last year? With smokey tea-pickled beets and kumquats and blue cheese and all things springtime? My apologies f...
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. I don't find myself with much time to make huge celebration cakes very often anymore these days, but I did put this one together for a friend's birthday over the summer. The only thing I k...
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It's amazing that I've been out here, near Yosemite for a year now. I recently took a few friends on trips into the park and realised that I'd seen every season this year around Yosemite Vall...
http://www.dessertsforbreakfast.com/2015/11/postcards-autumn-in-yosemite.html
For me, the best food happens when it's stripped of all the pretension of trying to be "good food." It's when "good food" is treated as an inalienable part of our everyday existence, rather t...
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On the morning of my birthday, my parents asked me, "What do you want for breakfast?" The answer is always cake. Specifically, cake from Masse's Pastries , which is my favorite local bakery...
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If, like me, you discover yourself at that point of the summer when deadlines are heaping upon you at a mad rate because it's almost the end of summer and everything that you planned to get d...
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A few weeks ago, I was in Chicago for a week-long work trip. My head was so far immersed in Linguistics! the whole time that I barely pulled out the big hunk of a camera I insist on lugging a...
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Happy belated Bastille Day! I meant to take advantage of Bastille Day celebrations to finally post about all of the food moments that I had in Paris in April, but of course work and travel go...
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This past weekend, I took some time off to head north to Sacramento and visit foodwriter Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic and Melt fame. Garrett's been trying to get me to visit, and final...
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When I went to Paris for the first time in April, I was much more excited by the prospect of desserts and museums than I was about actually seeing the big "sights". Like the Eiffel Tower. I...
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A quick update: if you're in San Francisco tomorrow night, come to the STEEPED book signing that Annelies Zijderveld is having at David's Tea ! There will be tea-inspired snacks, and you'll...
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(Above photo from STEEPED book shoot) When spring semester finals are done, and grades are turned in, and all the students move out of the dorms and go home, the real work starts. Sure,...
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I can't get enough of peonies right about now. Every time I walk by a peony, this song gets stuck in my head . One of my friends has peonies growing in her yard every year, and I'm so jealous...
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