We have a winner! Thanks again to Equal Exchange for sponsoring the chocolate giveaway hosted here on Bake This Day. We champion creativity on this blog, we like to do things a little differently— Izzy let us know she was mad the contest wasn’t open to dog entrants, so we let her choose the winner. […]
Category: Scones
Meini or Cornbread Scones
“He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.” The last sentence in The Giver, by Lois Lowry. After watching the movie a second time, it occurs to me that Lowry meant […]
Pumpkin Scones
Exhaustion, I think, is a masterful teacher of surrender. So is the ground. I was in a yoga class this week and it wasn’t until shevasana (the end of class, when they let you lay on your back, palms up, eyes closed) that I came to fully appreciate the ground beneath me. So much of […]
Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Scones
It is a big day. Prince turns 55. I can’t find any of his old stuff on Youtube because he’s paranoid—just try to find a Prince video on Youtube, I dare you—if you can, you win a special prize. Also, it’s National Donut Day! AND, KP and I are going to start our summer road […]
Maple Glazed Oatmeal Scones
A bit of philosophizing if I may. In my narrative medicine session at Mayo yesterday, we read from an excerpt of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, a novel about a family living in rural Idaho by a glacial lake, and on the sly, a re-imagining of Moby Dick. I recommend this book more highly than most the […]
Lemon Blueberry Cream Scones
Also made these scones before we left on our weekend Iowa adventure to bring along. We dropped off a few for our favorite new baby, Ethan Treat (aptly named), to eat via vertical transmission. Hope his parents Aaron and Lauren enjoyed them! Lemon Blueberry Scones Baking Illustrated Yield – 8 scones 2 cups flour 1 […]
Glazed Cream Scones with Ginger
Thank you Thank you Thank you to all for the texts and phone calls and emails and cards you sent for my birthday! I feel loved and older and wiser and impossibly more full of joy! It was a wonderful day, the highlight came after dinner—we had made an appointment at the hotel bowling alley […]