LoveTheJourney

Is there an unsaid rule that bar cookies have to be heavy and gooey? Two weeks ago, we picked up a cup of coffee on our way to the park so that the little monkey could continue his path of destruction outside our apartment, and I fell for something in the bakery case called peach [...]

Look around a little and you can find recipes for full-sized tomato tartes tatin, however I think the original mini-tarts still work the best. The New York Times’ large version from 2008 calls for a pound of cherry or grape tomatoes, but I think that’s still too watery, and I don’t much care for the [...]

Do you have a favorite pie? I always think of pies falling in two categories, the prom queens, the blue ribbon prize winners, the ones that the president can’t keep out of his thoughts, and the rest of them. In the latter category there are the soggy bottoms, the overly-gelled fillings, the mortarboard crusts, the [...]

Reader Brian sent me this image, showing me just how cool joepastry.com looks fed into the nifty news aggregator, Pulse.

The New York Times may not approve of Pulse, but I certainly do. I mean, what better addition to your day than a steady stream of Joe Pastry posts? Oh sure, you’ll have to endure [...]

As if on cue after my post on MSG, the New York Times published this very interesting piece of work yesterday, about how most food allergies are actually imagined. Why, after all the grief I’ve received over my MSG post (which has included threats of violence, legal action and electronic subterfuge) would I put this [...]

I spend a ridiculous amount of time falling in love with recipes from the title alone and then talking myself out of making them. Take this Pecan Cornmeal Butter Cake recipe run alongside a New York Times article about Durham, North Carolina, where hundreds of acres that were once used to grow tobacco have been [...]

I feel like I have been sitting on this leek bread pudding recipe forever, though it has technically only been six months — the New York Times ran this recipe from Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home last October, when leeks were decidedly out of season and apparently, I’m really becoming someone who really digs [...]

I’ve got a mad case of wanderlust. You’d think that after taking in vistas like this two weekends ago and this just yesterday, I’d be happy just to be here. But even New York City on the stunning brink between a snow-blanketed February and a shiny, breezy March aren’t enough to keep me from dreaming [...]