quick breads

  • You Need to Make These Savory Crumpets

    You Need to Make These Savory Crumpets

    Eggs and toast tend to be my breakfast of choice. Any number of food companions can join the party, but that savoury, protein-carb partnership is always holding court. That being said, the toast in this union changes daily depending on what’s in my freezer, and lately, that’s been crumpets. Most people think of crumpets as…


  • You Should Bake the Biscuit Scraps With Your Biscuits

    You Should Bake the Biscuit Scraps With Your Biscuits

    Southern cooks — or, more accurately, Southern eaters — have a lot of opinions about a lot of foods. Even if you don’t make the grits, fish, or beans, you probably have thoughts about how they should be prepared. Biscuits are particularly good at generating debate — even something as simple as the shape can…


  • Kick Off St. Patrick’s Day With a Guinness Dutch Baby

    Kick Off St. Patrick’s Day With a Guinness Dutch Baby

    March brings plenty of things to celebrate — more daylight, warming weather, Women’s History Month, Pi Day, apparently college basketball is a thing? For many of us, it’s the month we can again start to imagine weekend getaways and rooftop cocktails. March 17 — St. Patrick’s Day — is one of the first true party…


  • You Should Make Your Dog Their Very Own Pumpkin Loaf

    You Should Make Your Dog Their Very Own Pumpkin Loaf

    Starbucks pumpkin loaf is a street drug for dogs. At least, it is if you’re my dog — so much so that when my last girl, Lucy, stopped eating in her last days with cancer, I ran around town desperately trying to track it down, doing my best Shirley MacClaine while careening, “she needs her…