Category Archives: sugar

Big and Beautiful Puffy Fatty Sugary Doughy Bread. At A Diner. Free.

By allison | Published: August 19, 2009
You don’t know Jersey diners until you’ve had cheese & cinnamon bread to begin your meal. Mastoris Diner is the diner to beat all diners. While it was the scene of my second to last serious boyfriend breakup, it will always have a place in my heart as the place to go when I need [...]
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Red Beans: From Can, To City, To Mouth

By allison | Published: July 2, 2009
Ah, the red bean cake, the kind of pastry I never thought I’d eat growing up Sicilian and German. Outside of sweet Asian pastries, I’ve tended to stay far away from the red beans: kidney beans don’t really do it for me. I’m more of a black, cannellini, or garbanzo kind of gal. They’re always [...]
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Sugar, Brown Sugar, Butter, Cinnamon, Flour: At 5, and at 25

By allison | Published: June 30, 2009
Crumb cake. My mom always used to have this crumbly, powdered sugar or drizzled sugar covered pastry fresh from the local bakery. I used to analyze the layers, cake, swirls of cinnamon, topped with tiny knobs of brown sugar rolled in butter. The soft cake and the crunch of the oh-so-bad-for-you mixture. I would always [...]
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On How To Treat Yourself Special, And Why You Should Never Not Be Doing That

By allison | Published: June 13, 2009
My mom finished an email to me this week with “try and do something special for yourself.” She doesn’t know I’m usually doing relatively special things for myself. Getting up fifteen minutes early to solidify a pleasant and calm morning. Dressing myself up pretty to lift my spirits. Eating a container of Greek yogurt with [...]
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Cookware inspirations and a week without sugar.

By Allison | Published: February 1, 2009
Lately I’ve been staring at my 3 1/2 quart Le Creuset dutch oven lovingly, awaiting inspiration, simplicity—oh hell I basically just want the dutch oven to make something for me. Do I really have to sit around and wait for it to caramelize those onions or simmer those lentils? My impatience gets the [...]
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