On the Back Burner #27

Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee cake.

ON THE BACK BURNER THIS WEEKEND:

I can’t say I love baking for a friend who is allergic to nuts, hates seafood and recently stopped eating dairy. Make me wash my hands after eating one peanut M&M, fine. Veto my shrimp cocktail appetizer order all you want! But to deny me milk and butter? Absolutely criminal. Not being able to use fat—the thing that makes…