COCONUT SWEET ROLLS

September 8, 2020 Posie Brien

Let’s talk about birthdays. Are you the gung-ho sort when it comes to celebrating your own? The kind of person who proclaims an entire birthday week? When you were little, did you demand to be treated royally for the entire day, loudly stating “it’s my birthday!” to anyone within earshot? Or do you shy away from the whole ordeal, feeling sheepish about being feted for the mere fact of being born?

You might fall somewhere in between—increasingly indifferent to the showiness of it all, but fully willing to blow out some candles and request a special dessert.

Which brings us to the question at hand: what would your ideal birthday dessert be? Are you a classic traditionalist, preferring a golden yellow cake with a sturdy crumb swathed in rich chocolate buttercream? Maybe you like cake, but you’d indulge your inner 5-year-old and opt for funfetti with a fluffy vanilla frosting coated in sprinkles. Maybe you’d go with red velvet with cream cheese frosting or lemon layers with lemon curd and piles of seven-minute meringue frosting.

TWO-BANANA BROWN BUTTER BANANA BREAD

September 4, 2020 Posie Brien

Wait a second, you’re thinking. She just posted a rye banana bread recipe. This girl is either floundering under the waves of early parenthood and actually losing her mind OR she is strangely fixated on banana bread.

And I’d ask you: can’t it be both? Just kidding! Not floundering! I promise. But to be honest, some days I do arrive at 5 PM and look back with wonder at the morning, thinking it must have been weeks ago that I woke up, not mere hours. There is a lot more occupying my mind—and my hands—these days, in the nicest way possible, and it is not inconceivable that I would forget about having just posted a similar recipe. Just as I might forget to switch the wet laundry to the dryer, or be unable to remember where I put the stamps, or completely lose track of my phone for the one millionth time.

RYE BANANA BREAD

August 31, 2020 Posie Brien

Today, I offer a list of good things for you. In no particular order and having nothing in particular in common, beyond the fact that I like them all.

Fresh mint (mint limeade kombucha / fresh berries tossed with chopped mint and lime zest
Mayonnaise (controversial opinion, but just try eating a BLT without it)
Walking barefoot on warm pavement
Words that sound like what they mean: elision, lithe, disheveled
Nice glassware (I have these Burgundy ones and these for sparkling and these for juice and espresso)

BLUEBERRY YOGURT MUFFINS

August 14, 2020 Posie Brien

Is there something particular about sea air that makes baked goods taste better? It could be the salty scent of ocean water, or the appetite brought on by a day at the beach, or the specific pleasure of eating while watching boats bob gently at a marina. Or it could be something else entirely—some other secret phenomenon that brings excellent bakers in droves to beach towns.

CHEESY HERBED ZUCCHINI WAFFLES

August 13, 2020 Posie Brien

I'm sitting on the front stoop of my house, my feet resting on the third brick step and my back leaning against the glass-paned front door, which is slightly ajar. On either side of the door are two oversized slate pots filled with basil plants: an unconventional choice over flowers but a welcome scent to come home to. A woman passes slowly on her bike, stopping a few feet beyond the house and resting one slim Converse-clad foot on the pavement. She's wearing a fitted white t-shirt with a French phrase (one I can't translate) across the front in a pretty block font, and crispy navy Bermuda shorts. Her graying hair is beautifully layered and brushed behind her ears. She waves and calls out tentatively, asking if this is the baby she hears often from her back porch.

Eating and adventuring.

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