Dessert Recipes

The woman at the farmers market watched me load my basket with apples for the third week in a row. She was arranging her cider … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple pumpkin bread. I had the canned pumpkin, the warm spices, the whole plan mapped out in my head. … Read more

There used to be a tiny restaurant called The Gilded Pear tucked into a converted garage in Portland’s Alberta Arts District that made a salted … Read more

I was at the hardware store, of all places, last October, picking up a new showerhead because the old one had finally given up the … Read more

My neighbor, a quiet woman named Clara who kept to herself most days, watched me wrestling a heavy bag of flour into my trunk at … Read more

My tenant asked why I couldn’t just pour apple cider donut batter into a cake pan instead of fussing with a donut cutter and a … Read more

My sister-in-law had claimed to hate pumpkin for as long as I’d known her. Fifteen years, give or take. She’d make this face—you know the … Read more

I was standing in the frozen foods aisle last Tuesday, staring at a pint of artisanal ice cream that cost more than my lunch for … Read more

Monday morning. The neighborhood fall bake-off was in three hours and I had absolutely nothing to show for it. I mean, I’d signed up weeks … Read more

My neighbor Jen wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a ladder—ours had mysteriously vanished after a garage sale—and the smell hit … Read more