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By rahoward, on December 14th, 2022
I’ve mentioned before that one cornerstone food from my childhood was peanut butter. And what goes better with peanut butter than a good old reliable saltine cracker, another touchstone food of youth. In my early childhood, when our house was free of junk food like chips, Cheetos and Doritos, saltine crackers (a box . . . → Read More: Cracking up over a salty candy recipe
By rahoward, on November 11th, 2022
This year I got the jump on holiday cookie baking in November. This wasn’t just me working early for cookie’s sake. I had a deadline in mid-November for a column I was writing on slice-and-bake cookies for Kansas Country Living, so by late October/early November, I was making cookie doughs and freezing them . . . → Read More: Cookie of the month: Slicing a coconut cookie
By rahoward, on October 31st, 2022
Despite my misgivings about all things pumpkin spice (which is mainly due to its too-earliness, if anything), I know that a little pumpkin — and its accompanying spice — can conjure up something delicious.
Sometimes, on the way to one thing, another is discovered. This was the case for my recent Kansas Country Living . . . → Read More: Cookie of the Month: Prioritizing pumpkin for ‘brownies’
By rahoward, on August 30th, 2022
By August, after a long summer, I’m beginning to crave a taste of fall. Not in the pumpkin spice sort of way (did those PSL’s come out even earlier this year?), but more in the direction of an apple kind of craving.
I saw a recipe for an apple cider loaf cake that . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Falling for a cider-flavored loaf
By rahoward, on August 29th, 2022
My idea of blondies (bar cookies, not actual blondes) was that they were simply chocolate chip cookie dough, spread into a pan and baked. Not necessarily so, as I discovered when I checked into recipes for them. Had I ever really made an actual blondie? I realized I had not.
My recipe came . . . → Read More: Cookie of the Month: Having more fun with blondies
By rahoward, on July 30th, 2022
I started seeing peach cobbler recipes everywhere not long ago, even in my dreams. While a true peach cobbler is definitely on my horizon (it ranks at the top of all cobblers for me), I settled on a little twist — in the form of a muffin — to tide me over.
We are . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Picking peaches for ‘cobbler’ muffins
By rahoward, on May 31st, 2022
I’ve written before about how peanut butter was the nutritional foundation of my youth. For a time, early on, it’s all I would eat. My mother, concerned about my gaunt frame and lack of interest in other foods, took me to the doctor. “All she wants to eat is peanut butter,” she told him, . . . → Read More: Cookie of the Month: Winning with four ingredients
By rahoward, on May 15th, 2022
I would wager that, in the spring, when grocery shoppers across this country get a hankering for strawberry shortcake, strawberry pie, strawberry…anything, that don’t give a moment’s thought to the fact that most of the strawberries they’re buying come from the productive fields of California, from Oxnard to Watsonville.
My mom, Salinas-born, but Kansas-bound, . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Celebrating strawberries, streusel in a scone
By rahoward, on April 15th, 2022
Of all the unrest in recent years, the war in Ukraine has unsettled me significantly. Perhaps it is the timing. As we just seemed to be stepping forward, out of the shadow of a horrifying and destructive pandemic, we began to witness new horrors waged on a particular people, who unnecessarily have been put . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Weaving a wish for peace
By rahoward, on April 10th, 2022
Bunny butts have weighed “heavily” on my mind for the last year or so.
Having re-entered rabbit parenting after some time away from it (adopting a colorful, fluffy, lively fellow named Zydeco), I’ve become more aware of the popularity of rabbits from their humans who post about them on social media.
One particular “ass-pect” . . . → Read More: Cookie of the Month: ‘Butting’ in for Easter cookies
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