Crispy, crunchy, slightly tangy| kateray.substack.com
And a recipe for trail bite cookies| kateray.substack.com
What does it mean to bake in my corner of the world?| kateray.substack.com
"I've had to explore ingredients in such a deep way that it feels like the ingredients guide things"| kateray.substack.com
Texture is all-important in banana bread — it can so easily be dry or crumbly, or too wet inside, or too heavy and fall in the center.| soft leaves
I’m out at the Rosendale Farmer’s Market today from 10-2pm — I’ve got the cookies, brownies, and granola bars that I usually sell, plus new stuff like buckwheat-millet banana bread, seedy gluten-free wholegrain bread, porridge muffins, and a pesto swirl roll.| soft leaves
Hey Hudson Valley, come out Sunday to the Basilica Farm & Flea Festival in Hudson! I’ll be selling a special menu of treats along with other Asian-diaspora vendors curated by Enoki — I'll have black sesame twix with soy sauce caramel, málà peanut butter cookies, brownies with Chinese sesame paste swirl, shiitake chocolate cookies, and sesame scallion rolls, whose recipe I’m sharing below.| soft leaves
This cake is my version of an olive oil citrus cake with all the flavors switched around.| soft leaves
If you live in the Hudson Valley, come sell me out at the High Falls Food Co-op! I just did a drop of some of my RAY BAKE products — chocolate chip cookies, sourdough granola bars, and sunflower brownies, all vegan and local wholegrain. The brownies feature the seeds and sunflower flour that I write about below. My cookies will also be for sale at| soft leaves
"Cooking or baking are themselves fundamentally acts of translation"| kateray.substack.com
Lukas Volger on dates and recipe development| kateray.substack.com
A conversation with Alicia Kennedy| kateray.substack.com
Nimbleness is the dance of precarity.| kateray.substack.com
Plus a version with a secret scoop of marmalade| kateray.substack.com
With a focus on indigenous ingredients, plus gluten-free and easy to make vegan| kateray.substack.com
Life is changing every day (in every possible way)| kateray.substack.com
High protein, low sugar granola| kateray.substack.com
Telling the kids at my last cooking class at Hudson Table that I wouldn’t be coming back was one of the hardest parts of moving.| kateray.substack.com
A cool snack that fills you up with healthy stuff| kateray.substack.com
FYI: I’ll be starting a new online No Recipe workshop series on May 1st, in collaboration with a store I love, Seed and Oil. We’ll be practicing the kind of cooking I describe in this post. Sign up here!| kateray.substack.com