the recipe.

here's the recipe i made for the bake sale on saturday. it's absolutely adapted from ina garten's and is one of the best scone recipes i have ever made. please enjoy. 
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Maple-Oatmeal Scones

The Dough

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup whole wheat flour, plus a bunch extra for the rolling pin

1 cup oats, plus additional for sprinkling

2 tbsp baking powder

2 tbsp granulated sugar

1 tsp salt

1 lb unsalted butter, cut into small pieces

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup pure maple syrup

4 large eggs

The Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar

1/3 cup pure maple syrup

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle attachment, combine the flours, oats, baking powder, sugar, and salt. (Do this on a slow speed or your counter will end up covered in flour.) Blend in the chopped butter (Sometimes I stop the mixer and reach in and break up the butter bits into smaller pieces with my hands.) Whisk the milk, maple syrup, and eggs and then add to the flour/butter mixture. Mix until just blended. The dough will be stupid sticky.

Dump the dough out onto a really well-floured surface. Flour your rolling pin (I used whole wheat, but you can use all-purpose as well) and roll the dough to about 1 inch thick. (You might have to keep adding more flour to the surface and that’s ok.) Like most scone dough, lumps of butter will still be visible. Cut into rounds using a cookie cutter or the rim of a glass and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 20 minutes, until the tops are just starting to brown.  Use a fork to make sure the insides are done, too.

While they are baking, combine the powdered sugar, maple syrup, and vanilla for the glaze.

When the scones are done, cool for about 10 minutes on the counter and brush each scone enough glaze to cover the scone’s top and sprinkle few oats on top.  Remember, if the scones are too hot, the glaze will thin. 

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in which

 

i eat breakfast and watch nova: secrets beneath the ice. there's nothing like a little climate change and end-of-world discussion to start my day in fear.

mustard greens (my least favorite greens, but they came in the CSA and therefore i have to eat them) with garlic and pepper, a salad of spicy radishes, tomatoes, and israeli cucumber with olive oil and sea salt, scrambled egg whites* and spring onions with gouda on sourdough. 

*why egg whites? i made gelato yesterday and used up the yolks. so now i have to find ways to eat the whites. today, i hid them in a sandwich. there are more. ugh.

**also, i took this photo on my new iphone. i am trying to figure out if that's going to be a more efficient way to do this blogging. i am a slow phone typist so it's doubtful it will ever all be done from the miraculous iphone.

just the beginning.

it's corn season! casey and i had our first ears of it last night. seriously, i love this time of year.

yes. yes. yes.

maple-oat scones for the bake sale tomorrow. ready.

but, ma.

i just wanna eat tacos all the time. they are delicious.

thankfully, i've got bon appetit and the CSA keeping me out of a food rut. today, we picked up 2 kinds of lettuce, rapini (which is some kind of broccoli rabe), spring onions, beets, kohlrabi, and peas. a short bike ride to the farmers' market yielded radishes, cucumbers, and tomatoes. the refrigerator is packed with goodness.

and tonight, a variation on this recipe.

yeah, the grape leaves.

it looks like there are a lot of them. there are A LOT of them. maybe 40 or so. 2 layers of grape leaves!

but, i had to make them. as soon as i saw the recipe in the april bon appetit magazine, i just had to do it. and they took a decent amount of time. while they are certainly not difficult to make, there are a lot of steps and the rolling takes a bit to get down. luckily, i had alex to sit here and laugh at me as i attempted to roll them taco-sized, to no avail.

in the end, absolutely delicious. better than the ones you buy at the store, in the cooperative, wherever. WAY better.

that's me.

a food blogger baker. i am making scones for this event.

pretty awesome, huh? i bake things and childhood hunger is eradicated. done and done.