Bread
New House, New Adventures
You may have noticed that I haven’t written a post since winter time. Life has been crazy for the past several months and unfortunately, until a few weeks ago, cooking has been on the back burner. The most exciting thing that has happened in our lives is that my husband and I purchased our first [...]
Flourless Chili Cornbread
This recipe was born thanks to a friend of mine, who told me this week that she was recently diagnosed as wheat intolerant. She has since been amazed to discover just how many of the foods she loves have wheat in them. One of her biggest disappointments came when she learned that cornbread contains wheat [...]
Skinny Banana Bread with Apple Filling
I have always considered myself more of a cook than a baker. In fact, I’ve only learned to enjoy baking within the past couple of years. I always felt more comfortable cooking because I didn’t have to measure anything, I could just throw in a little of this and a big handful of that. I [...]
Raspberry White Chocolate Swirl Bread
This is one of those ‘making shit up as I go along’ recipes. I love combining white chocolate and raspberries, they suit each other so well. I have tons of raspberries in my fridge right now because I am planning to make a big batch of raspberry cordial for the holidays and it needs to [...]
Cherry Coconut Scones
I whipped these babies up to bring to a pre-Harry Potter brunch with some of my good friends from work. These scones are light, buttery, and oozing with the flavor of fresh cherries. Cherry Coconut Scones Makes 8 3 cups AP Flour 1 cup Sugar 1 Tbs Baking Powder 12 Tbs Unsalted Butter(cold) 1/2 tsp [...]
Blueberry and Thyme Peach Pie
So…apparently the Cherry Sour Cream Pie I made a few days ago did not cure my pie cravings, despite its deliciousness. Visions of plump and juicy fruit pies still plague my dreams, their buttery crust beckoning me. Once again, giving into temptation, I went to the store in search of the perfect ingredients. The peaches [...]
Perfect Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
I have been experimenting with whole wheat pizza dough for quite some time now. As I’m sure many of you have encountered, it always seemed to lack a certain fluffy, chewy factor that any good hand-tossed crust requires. It was dense, lifeless, and couldn’t stand up to the weight of the toppings. Tonight I think [...]
May Day Pesto Extravaganza
Happy May Day everyone! I love May. It’s my favorite month. It is the month of my birth and this May brings about my Golden Birthday. It also happens to be the month in which a large portion of my friends were born, including my lovely husband. Things are finally starting to turn green here [...]
Easter Breads, Turkish Coffee, and Awards
Easter Breads This is a really funny shaped loaf with mozzarella and chives stuffed inside. It is coming with me to my family’s big Italian Easter feast. This is a traditional Italian Easter Bread and it is coming with me to a friend’s going away party later tonight. I am resisting the urge to eat [...]
Sweet Challah Easter Birds
I found a picture of these sweet little bird rolls in a senior home cookbook. I thought that they would make the perfect accompaniment for an Easter Brunch. The original recipe was for a regular sweet roll, but I love challah and figured it would be an easy swap. These birds are so simple to [...]
