Category: Books

  • What I’m doing in my 9 to 5 is Project 529

    What I’m doing in my 9 to 5 is Project 529

    Well folks, it’s been so long since I’ve posted here that: A. My not-so-new laptop didn’t have my blog editor installed. B. It took quite a few times for me…

  • Put an Egg On It

    Put an Egg On It

    Should I start out by apologizing or explaining why it’s been oh, forever, since I was last here? We can skip all that right? You’ve been busy, I’ve been busy.…

  • An Abundance of Apples

    An Abundance of Apples

    If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend being friends with a farmer. Especially one that grows perfect heads of butterleaf lettuce like this: and brings you specialty crops like…

  • Busy as A Bee

    Busy as A Bee

    If you’ve been following my good friend and fellow doughnut cookbook author Jess Thomson’s fantastic blog, Hogwash, you’ll know that the past few months have found me all around Washington…

  • Fresh Cherry Cake Doughnuts

    Fresh Cherry Cake Doughnuts

    It’s National Doughnut Day! Celebrate with some homemade doughnuts, like these Cherry Cake Drop Doughnuts!

  • Baked Strawberry Doughnut Holes

    Baked Strawberry Doughnut Holes

    Almost Strawberry Baked Doughnut Holes. On a Stick.

  • Doughnut Tea Cake with Rhubarb Orange Compote

    Doughnut Tea Cake with Rhubarb Orange Compote

    What happens when you bake up my basic cake doughnut dough in little loaf pans? Amazingness.

  • Green Chile and Chicken Doughnuts

    Green Chile and Chicken Doughnuts

    Did someone say Savory Doughnuts?

  • Super Natural Every Day Pita Chips

    Super Natural Every Day Pita Chips

    It’s a good day when a package shows up in your mail delivery from Heidi Swanson. Particularly when it is a copy of her new book, Super Natural Every Day.

  • Crullers & Cameras

    Crullers & Cameras

    So one morning I woke up and thought, “Hey, how about a class where we make doughnuts and take pictures of them? What could be better than that?” And, what…

  • Beignets with Fudgy Chicory Coffee Sauce

    Beignets with Fudgy Chicory Coffee Sauce

    I have very fuzzy memories of Mardi Gras. That’s probably a pretty safe bet for most folks indulging in the celebration, but in my case it was less about the…

  • Raised Doughnuts, V3.0

    Raised Doughnuts, V3.0

    It seems that I can never quite be done with a recipe. A recent reader comment prompted me to dig deeper into why homemade doughnuts go stale so quickly, when…