Espresso Tahini Granola
Here’s how I know if I need to buy a cookbook or if I can put it safely back on the shelf: I open to three random recipes and if those three recipes look really, really good — like ones I’ll actually be excited to make — it’s a keeper. And that’s how it was when I saw Rachel Simons’ Sesame on the shelves of my local book store. I fell in love with the cover design (so chic), I fell in love with the voice, and I fell in love with the granola.
Sour Cream Pancakes with a Concord Grape Compote
If you’ve never had a Concord grape, imagine the flavor from a purple lollipop or purple gum, then imagine nature producing that flavor instead of a factory, and you’ll get the idea. A Concord grape tastes like the cartoon version of a grape; the flavor of a grape that we all have in our head when we think “grape flavor.”
