Setting the banana bread on the ledge to cool, I listened to the birds singing and sipped fresh buttermilk—the lagniappe from making butter yesterday (recipe). As it keeps, new butter weeps into the parchment paper wrapper—throwing off milk droplets—and it melts gracefully into warm bread with a crispy crust. Steadying food for a morning after [...]

My friend Pilar has just opened an empanada shop with her husband Juan on Washington Avenue (right next to Lincoln Road) in Miami’s South Beach called Half Moon Empanadas. The food is as satisfying as the great typefaces in the logo, and Pilar tells me everything is made in the restaurant: My favorite is the [...]