Breakfast

  • Breakfast,  Sweet

    B’s Coffee and Molasses Baked Vegan Doughnuts

    This recipe came about around five years ago, on my dear friend Bryanna’s birthday. Now usually, I would bake a cake using a recipe I had already developed, but B (that’s what I call her) is vegan, so none of my recipes at the time would work. So I adapted a recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum, who is basically the queen of cake. I wanted to make B something unique, like her. We lived together in Boston for three years in college, where we bonded pretty fast. One of the first things we bonded over was coffee and sweets. Our dorm was in an old brownstone that had a Whole…

  • Breakfast,  Sweet

    Blueberry Scones using frozen Maine blueberries

    Maine blueberries are the freaking best. They are small and sweet and just overall, the champion of berries. Don’t tell cranberries I said that.  This past year my grandparents, my mother and I went to a field on the island where I grew up. Turns out, it’s pretty easy to socially distance in a blueberry field. We got to spend time together, which is always nice, but more importantly, we were on a mission. We went armed with baskets that my grandmother made, colanders, a blueberry rake and other assorted bowls. By the time we were done, the containers were full, and so were our bellies. The reason we pick…