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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 [...]
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 [...]
Guilt-Free Coconut Banana Bread
I had some bananas in my fruit bowl that were past their prime this morning and I had some company coming over for lunch, so I thought it was time to bake some banana bread. This loaf contains very little fat or extra sugar, which is good because I ate almost half the loaf [...]
Baking and Scrabble
Notice anything funny about this Scrabble game? My hubby’s sister and grandma are still visiting. We decided to break out the board games this afternoon, while I had some things in the oven. At some point we all realized that the game wasn’t going very well, so we abandoned the rules…all of the rules. It [...]
Elise’s Favorite Pot Roast
This weekend my husband’s sister and grandma are visiting from Philo, IL. They spent all day in the car traveling, so I thought that a nice home-cooked meal was in order. Now, technically every meal I make is “home-cooked”, but I think what I really mean is a meal that contains butter, lots of butter. [...]
