It’s Christmas eve, and I just finished baking two batches of scones. I had been eager to try these recipes, since they are for Cheese Board scones. The Cheese Board Collective is a venerable Berkeley bakery and cheese shop located across the street from Chez Panisse. It was at the Cheese Board that I tasted my first scone EVER. I was in college (yes, so I had a sheltered, sconeless childhood), and my favorite thing in the world was to walk to Peet’s with my mug, get a cup of coffee, then walk the block and a half to the Cheese Board for my scone. Good times, people.
So anyway, the Cheese Board came out with a cookbook recently. I do not yet own a copy, but thanks to the wonders of the world wide web, I did manage to find recipes for my two favorite kinds of scones: Currant Scones (the original and almighty Cheese Board scone) and Cherry Cornmeal Scones. I ended up kind of burning the Currant Scones because I had two sheets of them in the oven at the same time. Doh! They still taste pretty darn good, though.
Hope everyone has a happy holiday, however you spend it. Oh, and since Rachael already outed me, here’s a non-headless shot of me and my brother. As you can see, in addition to being kept in the dark about scones, I didn’t have much contact with big white guys with beards, either.
And there is bro, looking completely content and happy while his sister howls on Santa’s knee.. No wonder he gets underwear from his mothers jaunts abroad! 😉 Happiest of Holidays to your and yours, Amy
That is the best Santa photo EVER. May your Xmas be much happier this year, Mariko!
merry christmas! what a photo!
This photo has me laughing so hard- it’s adorable!
Happy Holidays!
merry christmas, mariko!
Merry Christmas Mariko! That slays me that your brother is happy as a clam while you’re howling your head off. Santa looks a little freaked out, too!
That is really the BEST photo ever! (Santa made me cry too…)
Don’t forget about the Cheeseboard pizza on Fridays…heaven.
Merry Christmas, Mariko! That photo had me in tears from laughing so hard! I never wanted anything to do with Santa either, and even as a teenager, I ran through the store to keep him from approaching me, haha! As I remember, he interupted me from looking at acrylic yarn in the discount store…..
That photo is hilarious. I’ve never seen a kid screaming so loudly in a very wordless medium. It almost hurt my ears just looking at it!
Check out the daily photo at dooce.com for a very similar one of her little girl on Santa’s knee. Very funny.
Yummy scones, too! I confess I never had one until college, either. That’s what college is for, right? “Well, there was that one time in college when I experimented with baked goods…”
The tired look on the santa’s face is just as priceless….
I had a scone or two before college, but I don’t think that the form really acheived perfection until the early-1990s muffin boom petered out. As I remember, the old-fashioned english cream scone (as made by my school friend’s mom) was a pretty sad affair. It needed lots of jam and tea.
I also say – best Santa photo ever…the combination of the three separate looks, awesome, LOL…
I love cute kid pics by other Asian Americans (I’m Chinese, btw). Happy Holidays!
That is the best, funniest Santa photo I have seen. Thank you — K