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I’ve had milk bread on my list to bake for quite some time and I’m thrilled to be sharing this recipe with you today in partnership with Red Star Yeast. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Now, more than ever, is the time to make memories in the kitchen with those you love. Red Star Yeast is featuring recipes to make Platinum Moments this year. PIN IT TO PINTEREST NOW! First up is this incredibly delicious Milk Bread Honey Buns recipe from Gesine Prado. It’s the perfect addition to any meal and delicious enough for holiday dinners and celebrations. ...

Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. For four years, I was the chef of a farm-to-table restaurant that primarily served pizza and pasta. It was a lot of work, but we made our pasta dough from-scratch every day. Working with fresh pasta made me realize how much better it is than the dried stuff. Unlike dried pasta (which can take 8 to 12 minutes to boil), homemade pasta only requires a few minutes to cook and it results in a light, springy noodle with a texture that can't be beaten. When I left the restaurant,...

My father: my savior, my best friend, my confidante. Funder from afar of gymnastics lessons, giver of “kissies” over the phone, called me Princess, called me Peter Pan, photos of infant me sleeping on his chest, love of mine, I love you, dad. I call him with my good news, I call him with my bad. Picture him this way first, eyes squinting to nothing when he smiles. See his Vietnam photo with his hand raised like a wave or maybe saying stop, baby-man in combat, up all night forevermore drinking it away. Understand our lineage: newspaper clip from the...

It’s the soggy kind of wind that undoes all the hair-dos on the west coast of Ireland; that makes broken tents of nice new outfits, and shouting matches of good wishes: I’ll love you and leave you. What love? Love me and leave me. I’ll let you go. Have a good life! Indeed it is. Fine a day as any for blowing off cobwebs. A northerly with wet spells. Where has the day gone? We lost track of ourselves. It’ll be quiet in the shop today. What harm. Marjorie finds the work involved in customers to be quite annoying. She...

Munkki – Finnish doughnuts Our lovely friend Maija was so kind as to share her excellent family recipe for Finnish Munkki doughnuts that we printed in our book ‘Fika & Hygge’ a few years ago. Both Maija and her husband Rob work in nursing for the NHS here in London and we wanted to give them a shout-out today to say thank you for all that they and their colleagues do at the moment during these difficult times Did the Finns invent the doughnut? Perhaps not, but the Finnish version of doughnuts – known as munkki – are absolutely delicious....