(Disclosure: The cookbook links below are affiliate links and if you happen to make a purchase through them I’ll receive a small percentage of your purchase – and of course would be so grateful!) Apparently I’m on a Seattle bakery kick, because the next book up…
(Disclosure: The cookbook links below are affiliate links and if you happen to make a purchase through them I’ll receive a small percentage of your purchase – and of course would be so grateful!) If you’ve ever been to Seattle, there’s a good chance you’ve…
I’m a cookbook junkie. I love to look through them, I love to get them for gifts, and I can’t pass a thrift store or yard sale without checking out their cookbook selection. I’ve got a bookcase overflowing with books. What I don’t seem…
This is the same Amish Friendship Bread recipe that I last saw when my neighbor passed me a baggie of bread starter in 2007, and before that when I got it from a co-worker in 2003, and before that from a friend way…
Just in case you wanted to make up a batch of Amish Friendship Bread but none of your friends has any starter handy, here is the recipe to make up the starter from scratch. Now you can start the chain bread amongst your group!…
This is just a heads-up for my friends and family – Amish Friendship Bread is back in my house after a looonng hiatus. Get ready for ziplock bags of starter in about 6 days!
Apparently pound cake lends itself to endless variations: here is the third iteration of this recipe, and its also pretty dang good. I had a request to make Raspberry Lime Pound Cake for a birthday gathering this past weekend, but when I went to…
I LOVE granola – it’s so good with milk or yogurt, or on ice cream. The problem with granola is that it’s so crazy expensive for what it is that I don’t buy it too often, but it’s so simple to make that…
The man of the house had a birthday a few days ago, and I made one of his favorite all-time cakes – this berry cake I first made last summer. At the time I adapted the recipe from one I found on orangette.blogspot.com (who…
A few days ago we hit our secret blackberry spot again and picked a couple more pails of blackberries which have been in the fridge since then. I needed to use up at least some of them today and I wanted to try something…