Silicon Valley food
fromBon Appetit
1 hour agoIt's Time for the Cupcake Comeback
Cupcakes are experiencing a revival, with new recipes and modern twists appealing to contemporary tastes.
Crown Maple's introduction of Brown Butter-flavored maple syrup demonstrates that sometimes the most powerful moves are those grounded in consumer insight and strategic restraint.
Dessert trolleys were banished to storerooms during Covid due to rigorous health guidelines, but many restaurants have since retrieved them, allowing them to glide between tables once more.
Bakers Square's roots extend back to 1970 when a restaurant charmingly named 'Mrs. C's' opened in Des Moines, Iowa. The restaurant served your standard sandwiches and soups but quickly became known for its cream and double-crusted fruit pies.
Apple wedges, shallots, cider, vinegar, bone broth, garlic, and woody herbs tie everything together, creating a simple yet spectacular one-pan meal. The stewed apples and salty pork practically beg for the refreshing, spicy kick that freshly grated horseradish provides as a finishing touch. (Prepared horseradish works here too, but it's worth seeking out fresh.) I recommend having lots of crusty sourdough bread ready on the table for mopping up all the shalloty gravy.
Let's talk about holiday baking that goes beyond cookies! These are the festive winter bakes to try. The list includes an ultra fragrant gingerbread cake, a bright citrus loaf, and the perfect flourless chocolate cake. Few people love baking holiday cookies more than me, but a good amount of my favorite December baking happens outside the cookie platter. Think fragrant spice cakes, all things citrus, buttery, and bright - or deep, melty chocolate on the frostiest nights.
This can touts that it's made without artificial flavors, and per our reviewer, it showed. It was cloyingly sweet, and there was a disappointingly high ratio of gel to mushy fruit, making it a product you're better off skipping.
In this cursed timeline of one alarming headline after another, I dream-on a daily basis-of shutting my laptop, plugging in some earphones, and diving headfirst into a steaming container of rotisserie chicken. (I have a whole rotisserie routine of arranging various sauce cups around the bird, which usually includes honey mustard, buffalo sauce, and ahem, Jezebel sauce.) But, alas, a new report by the Wall Street Journal has killed my high.
A few nights ago I pulled a block of pie-crust dough left over from the holidays out of the freezer, and it immediately made me feel triumphant. I envisioned pot pie - just in time for a cold snap in Los Angeles - filled with a creamy mixture of gently poached chicken, herbs and classic winter vegetables such as fennel and leeks. With pie dough at hand, I was nearly halfway there.
When it comes to homemade pumpkin pies, George shares her experience from a self-instigated baking extravaganza. "I put myself to the test myself by baking 12 different pumpkin pie recipes (mostly from food bloggers, with a couple from cookbooks)," she explains. Only one of the recipes required puréeing fresh pumpkin, so it was easy to distinguish the results compared to the other 11 pies. In her opinion, all the extra work didn't justify the time, mess, and effort.
At the risk of editorializing, few things in life are better than peanut butter and the rich, comforting, gooey pleasure it brings, which needs so little in order to be enjoyed - two slices of bread will do, or if you're feeling particularly indulgent and lazy, sometimes just a spoon. This uncomplicated charm is well demonstrated by the fact that perhaps the best peanut butter cookies you will ever taste require only three ingredients, all of which you probably already have in your kitchen.