LoveTheJourney

Folks must have been feeling mighty feisty last night, since I got several emails complaining that I left out the recipe for the fruit sauce. Oh, ye of little faith. Would I ever forget a thing like that? Don’t answer, it was a rhetorical question.
Fruit sauces can be easy or hard. I prefer easy, [...]

I know what you’re thinking, “Really, Deb? Tarts again?” And I realize that it might seem that I’m in a tart rut, what with those rustic rhubarb tarts and the distinctly tart-looking strawberry brown butter bettys and now these strawberry ricotta tarts. But you see, they’re all very different animals parading under the guise of [...]

Let me get this out of the way from the get-go: I cannot believe I’m discussing scrambled eggs today. I like to think of myself as somewhat particular in vetting out what I think is worthy or not worthy of your humble click over here, and I can’t say that scrambled eggs would normally make [...]

The strawberry is one of those (faux) fruits that humans in the northern hemisphere have been eating for a long, long time. It makes sense since it’s indigenous to just about everywhere north of the equator and south of the arctic circle, from eastern China all the way around to the California coast. Some linguists [...]

Imagine how betrayed I felt when I finally discovered that the strawberries I’d known and cherished for so long weren’t really berries at all. They weren’t even technically fruit. Alright! I cried out one rainy afternoon in the produce aisle, choking back tears, what ELSE have you been hiding from me all these years???
A strawberry [...]

That’s not an easy question to answer in a historical sense. So many things have gone by the name “shortcake” over the centuries that it’s become impossible to trace the word to a single point of origin. The term famously appears in Shakespeare, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, however since the Bard failed to [...]

Some of you may have noticed that I don’t pay much attention to seasonality here on joepastry.com. I’m just as likely to make pumpkin bars in April as in October. Blueberry muffins in January are fine by me. However this past weekend it was impossible to miss the explosion of strawberries at our local farmer’s [...]

On Monday, I went foraging. Well, urban foraging, that is, at the Greenmarket. I set out to find these mythical local provisions that many of you have assured me now exist in New York City, things like ramps and aspargus and even strawberries and I’m now convinced that someone is playing a mighty joke on [...]

From what I read, those of you on the opposite side of the country are reveling in the season’s first artichokes, asparagus and favas. You’re gushing over rhubarb and your new favorite way to cook it. You’re rejoicing over how good in-season strawberries taste when you’ve been deprived of them for the better part of [...]