baking – Grey Sea & Sky

Review: Yossy Arefi’s Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings

I first read Yossy Arefi’s cookbook Snacking Cakes while our family was camping out at my mother-in-law’s house so that the furnace at our house could be replaced. It was winter, and very cold outside, and inside we were cozy, but we were all thrown for a loop by the displacement. I was reading theContinue reading “Review: Yossy Arefi’s Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings”

In praise of peanut butter

November is Peanut Butter Lovers Month. I want to say that peanut butter is like a religion in my family. That we are die-hard devotees of a particular brand and style of peanut butter, that there have been arguments over the merits of crunchy versus creamy, and that our first protests were over palm oil.Continue reading “In praise of peanut butter”