Let me paint you a scenario. You are out to breakfast, you sit down among the bustling morning crowd, coffee wafts around you and the morning feels light. You sit down at your table and read the menu. Classics. From the Griddle. Benedicts. On the Lighter Side. Eggs look good. But so does the french…
Author: Anna Padilla
Ginger Sables with Blood Orange Glaze
Bonjour! Je m’applle Anna et je parle très mal Française. Mais! Je pense que je cuit très bien les biscuits français. Non ? These cookies are, at their base, quintessentially French. Butter, butter, butter. Simple, versatile, and perfect next to an espresso while you sit at a little spindly table on cobblestones surrounded by beds…
Cream Scones with Dried Fruit
Scones smell like when you used to be excited to wake up on Saturday morning at 7 a.m. They smell like “Poached or scrambled?”. They smell like tiptoeing next door to my Aunt’s house, peeking in, my feet cold on her frosty door stoop- hoping she was awake with her coffee brewing and the oven…
Asparagus Galette with Whole Wheat Crust
Crust. My true love. It is a chicken or the egg thing for me. Do I love crust because I’m rather good at making it? Or am I rather good at making it because I love it? Also, can someone be a natural a crust maker? The butter, the elusive flakiness. It has to be…
The Lemon Bundt Cake
I’m in Ohio now, right? So I might as well start putting ‘the’ before any phrase I feel is worthy of being distinguished to the utmost. I can’t think of any other recipe than this Lemon Bundt Cake. Or should I say The Lemon Bundt Cake. As I was on the phone with my mom…
Ode to Winter
I can not tell a lie- snow makes me giddy. The tepid winters in central Ohio have left me disappointed and wishing for crisp polar vortex air, frosted apartment windows and ice crystals on my eyelashes. I was so, and excuse what may sound very hyperbolic, fulfilled this week when my phone said it was…
Blueberry Muffins
When I head to the store and have a craving for something sweet I usually linger over the muffins, perfectly lined up in their plastic tins. But then I think, “Not worth the calories.” When you go to the coffee shop and eat a muffin that has been baked hours ahead there is such a…
Peanut Butter Blondie Sundae
Do you ever eat peanut butter right from the jar? Do you love it? Of course you do. And I think the state of Ohio does too. If you are ever driving through the geographical center of Ohio, Centerburg, keep your eye out for a tiny drive through off the highway. The Twist n’ Shake…
World Peace Cookies
….or as I think of them, Air-Conditioning-Peace Cookies. We were sitting on our couch with as little clothing on as possible but still appropriate with all the windows open, the one fan we had just bought at Walmart on high, when my boyfriends boss knocked on our door. Slightly embarrassed but way too hot to…
Sour Cherry Galette
The color! The tartness! The excitement! I have now lived in six different states and two countries. And for the first time my crazy life has led me somewhere that has sour cherries sold by the bucketful at roadside farm stands. Growing up in Colorado, it is nearly impossible to find fresh sour cherries for…
flour dusted 