Carrot cake is a quintessential dessert of spring. This recipe is moist slightly sweet, and perfectly spiced. It is paired with a rich and velvety cream cheese frosting.
Asparagus is so beautiful this time of year, so I wanted to create a recipe around it. I made some basil and pumpkin seed pesto, and drizzled it on toasted bread with asparagus, avocado, and shaved Parmesan.
Because his family is a true-to-the-bone pancake family, I really wanted him to share with me the secrets to making a good pancake, thin and delicate, perfectly browned on the outside, soft on the inside. He gave me a recipe, one that he has memorized. A set of very specific instructions, the right temp, the right amount of time for frying. I followed it to a tee, and sure enough, the pancakes came out the way I had always dreamed they would.
I could sit down and slurp up a just a bowl of this broth on its own, but the addition of beans, potato, pasta, and kale are equally as great because the flavors soak up into each piece, each grain, each bite.
This salad is fresh, bright, crisp, colorful, and screams 'eat me' as soon as you lay your eyes on it. Not the kind of delicious that you can smell - cinnamon and yeast baking, caramelized onions frying.