Maple Cranberry Cornbread
Fresh, hot cornbread is just the best, isn’t it?? The problem with cornbread so often (and why I don’t make it much) is that leftover cornbread is bad. Like dry, get-stuck...
View ArticleGiovanna’s Family Secret Tiramisu Recipe
Tiramisu is possibly the best food in the world. Sweet, cold, creamy, with the bite of coffee and liquor. But I rarely have it, and almost never make it. I’ve found that restaurants in the U.S. get...
View ArticleBrown Butter Scones with Roasted Pear & Dark Chocolate
As we’ve established, I love pears, and one of the flavor combinations I love best is pear with dark chocolate. A couple months ago I made a delightful brown butter cake with pear and bittersweet...
View ArticleSnickerdoodle Biscotti
Hmm…I’m seeing kind of a theme here. First it was actual snickerdoodles, then snickerdoodle bread, and now snickerdoodle biscotti? I guess I just don’t know how to resist a great cinnamon-sugar...
View ArticleAmish Country Bread
It’s that time of the year when I’m trying to use up all my yeast, baking powder, and baking soda before Passover so I don’t have to throw much out. I hate waste. So I’m officially back on my...
View ArticleWhole Wheat Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sea Salt
Finally! This recipe has been a bit of a tough nut to crack. I rarely have to make a recipe multiple times to be happy with it. And only a few times have I had a recipe just completely not work when I...
View ArticleUnleavened Treats: Cottage Cheese Rolls
Since I was such a tease with the leavened cake the other day, here’s a real unleavened treat. Though we’re close to the end of the Days of Unleavened Bread, there are still a couple days left to make...
View ArticleHealthy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
First, while we’re on the subject of “healthy”, don’t forget that the healthy living challenge and sweet slow cooker giveaway is available through next Monday (April 8th), so go here to enter to...
View ArticleBrown Soda Oatmeal Bread
Last summer I tried making bread for the first time, and was shocked by how well it turned out (I’d been scared of baking with yeast for forever). That kicked off a veritable bread-baking spree, where...
View ArticleQuick No-Knead Bread
One of these days I’m going to put together a whole list of bread recipes and how long they take from start to finish—that way, when you want to make bread but only have, say, two hours, you’ll know...
View ArticleCinnamon Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
This one’s for you banana bread lovers out there… …of which I am not one. It’s one of my shameful foodie secrets. I’ve tried loving banana bread, I really have. And I don’t hate it. I just don’t LOVE...
View ArticleNovember Cakes a.k.a. Gooey Delicious Orange Buns
Have you ever read a piece of fiction that describes some kind of food in such rich, real detail that the food becomes real to you? It’s a talent, writing about completely made-up food in a way that’s...
View ArticleSoft, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’m on a hunt for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. This is probably not it, but it IS good, so I wanted to share. This particular recipe’s claim to fame is cornstarch, which gives the cookies...
View ArticleGrandma’s Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
I don’t like banana bread. There—I said it. Cue the shock and hand-wringing and exclamations of my lack of humanity. I’ve heard it all. But I still don’t like banana bread. THIS banana bread, however,...
View ArticleChocolate Chip Oatmeal Flaxseed Muffins
Last weekend I decided to make a few changes. Little changes. Healthy changes. By and large I lead a fairly healthy life—I eat well, exercise a lot, take care of myself (except the working too much and...
View ArticleUnleavened Almond Bread
I apparently don’t read directions well, which is why my stash of unleavened bread ended up molding with a few days to go (fridge, schmridge). So Sabbath morning I needed to make something to take me...
View ArticleCinnamon Swirl Bread
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while. Why, you ask? It’s cinnamon swirl bread, which is a total no-brainer. Gooey, cinnamony goodness spiraling through a tender, crumby loaf. And it is. But...
View ArticleHealthy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
First, while we’re on the subject of “healthy”, don’t forget that the healthy living challenge and sweet slow cooker giveaway is available through next Monday (April 8th), so go here to enter to...
View ArticleBrown Soda Oatmeal Bread
Last summer I tried making bread for the first time, and was shocked by how well it turned out (I’d been scared of baking with yeast for forever). That kicked off a veritable bread-baking spree, where...
View ArticleQuick No-Knead Bread
One of these days I’m going to put together a whole list of bread recipes and how long they take from start to finish—that way, when you want to make bread but only have, say, two hours, you’ll know...
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