Recipe: Kolaches!
Jak se máš, y’all? Here, at long last, is my kolache recipe. This is more of a traditional Czech version like my grandmother made than the Texas-Czech...
How's the Book Going, Sarah? (part 3)
THE BOOK IS FINISHED!! Let’s Make Cocktails! is now AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER! I have an actual drawing table! For some reason I wanted to draw this book...
Let's Talk About Kolaches
My dad’s family immigrated to the U.S. from what was Czechoslovakia at the time. His father’s family came from Kolín originally, and his mother’s family came...
Recipe: Mixed Berry Crisp
After last week’s newsletter, I was seriously craving a delicious rustic baked fruit thing. I love all of the fruit bakes, but crisps are probably my...
Cobbler, Crumble, Buckle, Slump
Niles brought home a ridiculous amount of blueberries from the neighborhood farmer’s market. I was thinking about what to do with them, when I realized I...
Recipe: Vietnamese Cold Noodle Salad
Here’s a quick recipe for the cold rice noodle salad I mentioned in the last newsletter! You will win friends with this salad. I love the versions of this...
Some Very Nice Meals I Have Had Lately
Just some good tasty things I’ve eaten! I know “malort-pickled tomatoes” don’t sound good, but trust me, they are really amazing There’s so much good food in...
Recipe: No Churn Ice Cream!
It’s very hot in the American midwest right now. I’m constantly in a low-key state of Wanting Ice Cream, but I’ve never been able to justify buying myself an...
How's the Book Going, Sarah? (part 2)
The book is going!! I’m very tired! In a stroke of awfully bad timing, my pencils for the book were due a day or two after CAKE Chicago. I managed to finish...
A Little Half-Assed and a Little Late
I’m ok! Everything is fine! I have the comic about all the food we ate with Sam and Yoojin pencilled, so you’ll see it eventually. Ok, I’m a little stressed....
In Praise of the Mangonada
I had my first mangonada probably 8 or 9 years ago? My very dear friend Blanca introduced me to them. Blanca’s from San Antonio, and grew up with these...
Recipe: Coconut-Passion Fruit Popsicles!
My hatred of throwing away food is the mother of invention. (>_<) I really do have a lot of random ingredients that I don’t normally use now, all left over...
Recipe: Niles's Cioppino!
Here’s that cioppino recipe I promised! If you made the seafood stock from the last newsletter, you can use it as an ingredient in this recipe. This makes...
Recipe: Seafood Stock (for Cioppino)
Niles makes a killer cioppino. Cioppino is a hearty seafood and tomato base stew that originated in the Italian immigrant community in San Francisco around...
Lunch Salad, 2025
I work from home a lot, and it can be a struggle to take the time to make something good and tasty and healthy for lunch. It’s very tempting, when it’s just...
How's the Book Going, Sarah?
I’m at enough of a milestone with the new book that a progress update is in order! Full interior title spread and table of contents! The book is written! It...
The Naming Ceremony
The weather’s slowly warming up in Chicago, so I spent a week building a new levain culture. I used the technique we lay out in Let’s Make Bread! and built...
Shikaakwa
It’s ramps season!! ^_^ We found a lovely bunch of them at the Logan Square Farmers Market popup in Unity Park this weekend. I knew it was ramps season...
Recipe: The Universal Condiment
Niles used to make this delicious sauce regularly. I love it so much, and jokingly call it “The Baranowski Universal Condiment” because I put it on just...
C2E2 2025, and excavating some old artwork
My first time tabling at C2E2 was incredible. I talked to so many wonderful and amazing people! I sold many books and prints! I found countless new artists...
Magnolia's, St. Louis, 1999.
This is a little more personal than I usually write about, but this memory has been on my mind a lot in recent weeks. My first few years out of college,...