When it gets cold outside, I want to be cozy inside my house baking up a storm. One of my favorite comfort foods is pumpkin cheesecake bread. The last time I made this I used gluten-free cake & pastry flour from Cooqi and the texture was wonderful.
Enjoy!
PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE BREAD
Queens may be a secret gem of ethnic foods, but it’s sadly lacking in coffeeshops with character. That’s all over with the opening of Queens Kickshaw!
Doughnut Plant donuts blew my mind when I discovered them a few years ago, and i was happy to have them on the LES where it was terribly inconvenient for me to get to.
Well my safety buffer is gone. Doughnut Plant just opened up next to the Chelsea Hotel on 23rd st & 7th. [...]
If you are friends with me you know that if a dinner or birthday party occurs, I am the designated dessert-bringer. I have many treats in my repertoire, but most of them involve chocolate. Oddly enough I’ve never entered any contests, but one day on my Facebook page BAKED (awesome bakery out [...]
These cookies were a big hit when I sold them at the Greenpoint Food Market this spring. I can’t take credit for the recipe though, it was given to me by my friend Meg many years ago (though I changed the name)!
Chocolate Kick Cookies
1/2 cup currants
2 T Kahlua
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I remember watching Sex and the City before I lived in NYC and they would joke how “you’d better go to this restaurant before the Times writes it up and ruins it.” I had no idea how literally that is true.
I didn’t have many deep thoughts last week so how about a roundup of some cool stuff I discovered?
Cool Neighborhood Stuff Little Soap Shop in Astoria
On Saturday I hung out with my good friend Meg (of weheartastoria.com and harmoniousbelly.com) and we puttered around Astoria. She took me to her [...]
I’ve been making treats for years, and I’ve even sold them casually through retail, but this is the first time I’ve sold them at a booth at a food market. Here are some of the things I learned from being a vendor at the Greenpoint Food Market.
Before [...]
Hitting a “taste of” event is much like going to a craft bazaar, you have to careful not to blow your wad on the first few tables inside the door – and I was up to the challenge when I attended the fourth annual Taste of Long Island City last night at the Gantry State [...]
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