MaeNot Favorite Recipes

I began my quest for the perfect blueberry muffin when Justin and I moved into an apartment in Larkspur in 2016, his last semester of high school. Actually, that’s when I began cooking again, after decades of relying mostly on food delivery apps and Christina’s cooking. Neither Justin nor I knew what to expect, and … Continue reading Blueberry Muffins

A number of years ago, I was served a scone at Home Plate—a small and really excellent breakfast cafe on Lombard Street in San Francisco—that changed my entire conception of this breakfast treat. The scone was lumpy in shape, flaky on the inside, crunchy on the outside, with a distinctive cream/butter flavor, and it was … Continue reading Scones

I will, eventually, move on from carbs. But not before posting my mother’s incredibly simple, but heavenly spaetzle recipe.You won’t find spaetzle from a box, or in a restaurant, at all similar to your grandmother’s in shape, texture or taste. Her spaetzle were small, moist dumplings—boiled and never fried, unless for lunch the day after … Continue reading Spaetzle

It begins, as it must, with Sofht. My mother’s kitchen filled with the sweet, yeasty scent of this German (perhaps more specifically, Bavarian) holiday bread at Christmas every year. “Sofht” is what she called it, and how she spelled it; but spelling was never her strong suit and converting German words to English spelling even … Continue reading Ingrid’s Sofht