Hello friends!  I hope this finds you properly reclined and sipping on something Sunday.  I’m been back in New Orleans for a week of waaaay too much[...]

Six years in and I feel like throwing confetti (on my cookies)!  Thank you for your patience this weekend as my site was down to launch this new look.  That[...]

It’s only been two years in the making.  It’s only been roughly 1,459 pounds of butter (exaggeration), 78 quarts of heavy cream, a many many[...]

It’s about time we get down to it, wouldn’t you say?  Time to roast all of the vegetables, carve all of the pumpkins, peel all of the apples,[...]

You know my tricks.  You know the games I play around here.  The more browned butter, sea salt, and chopped pistachios, the better! It’s just[...]

Hi friends! New York City has lots of views of walls and windows.  It feels like a mirror with strangers on the other side. At this weekend’s book[...]

Consider me an occasional fan of tofu. My parents were early adopters of tofu.  Remember back when health food had as much cheese and potatoes as tofu?[...]

Hello friends! Thank you so much for coming out to celebrate Homemade Decadence with me in New Orleans + New York + Philadelphia.  After working on this[...]

Good morning, friends!  This might be too many sprinkles for a Sunday morning.  A little aggressive.  I’m in Vermont this weekend teaching people how[...]

I‘m back in my kitchen this week… back from making pies with you up and down the east coast… back from gently and not so gently asking you[...]

It’s time for a new go-to cocktail.  This summer’s negroni and sangria indulgences are long past me.  I’m looking for an Autumn cocktail[...]

Apparently one is not allowed to have a pity party upon returning from vacation.  Such pathetic events are extravagant, really… and one should just buck[...]

Soup is my restart button. Once I get started with the powdered sugar and beignets, it’s a slipper slippery slope that only leads to handfuls of caramel[...]

Just so you know… we’re allowed to doodle around here.  Doodle with our hands, and doodle with our minds (whoa, that’s deep).  It’s[...]

This is an exercise in restraint.  I made Blueberry Scones without bacon, without lemon zest, without goat cheese, without toasted coconut flakes, without[...]