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Summer crawled along this year, dimmed by our lengthy pandemic status and an early wildfire season. By the time my birthday — as well as that of my blog’s — rolled around, celebrating — as it has felt for much of the last year — seemed a bit ridiculous. The year has been . . . → Read More: Taking the cake(s)
 Comments are closed  GUEST KITCHEN, PANTRY, RECIPE BOX, Uncategorized  birthday cake, cake, celebration cake, cheesecake, cherries, cherry limeade cheesecake, chocolate, coffee, lime, opera cake 
Fusion baking has become popular — taking two favorite baked goods and making one new hybrid, aka, the “scuffin,†cro-puff,†“cronut,†“pretzel challah.†Cookies have been turned into pizzas, and pies have been enlarged into sheet cake-sized “slabs.†Versatile and sturdy scones lend themselves very easily to some hybridized new version of . . . → Read More: Scone of the Month: Introducing babka to scones
I’ve been pretty obsessed with slice-and-bake cookies for…awhile. Like many things I become obsessed with, I spend most of my time obsessing and not enough time doing. Every Christmas cookie season, it has been my aim to have a catalog of cookie logs in my freezer, ready to go, so that I would have . . . → Read More: Slicing and baking through the holidays
I can’t remember which cooking maven (it was either Ina or Nigella) I first saw make affogato. But I never forgot this dessert — as simple as they come — where piping hot coffee or freshly brewed espresso is poured over a creamy mound of freezing cold ice cream. The version I saw used vanilla . . . → Read More: Baked Sunday Mornings: ‘Drowning’ in a coffee dessert
Sometimes, when you do a baking blog, it’s nice to make something a little easier, sans oven. In an arena of lengthy ingredient lists and stages of processes (creaming butter, sifting flour, proofing yeast, zesting citrus, chopping nuts, rolling dough, frosting layers, etc.), a simple cup of hot, warm comfort is just the ticket during . . . → Read More: Baked Sunday Mornings: Brewing a Cinnamon Mocha
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.†— Jennie Paddleford to her daughter, Clementine How is it possible that, in the four years I attended Kansas State University, majoring in journalism, spending two years working on the school’s daily newspaper, The Collegian, and even planning and putting together a weekly . . . → Read More: Remembering a ‘forgotten’ food writer
Comments are closed BOOKSHELF, PANTRY, RECIPE BOX, Uncategorized applesauce, buttermilk, cake, chocolate, coffee, herbs, pie, salad dressing, travel 
Say what you will — or say nothing at all to remain nutritionally chaste — but fried dough is a thing unmatched. Looking beyond any wickedness, how can one say that a hot doughnut, a hushpuppy, a fritter — all warm from the fryer — is anything but a good thing? If you refuse . . . → Read More: Bread of the Month: Frying puffy beignets
Comments are closed PANTRY, RECIPE BOX, Uncategorized beignets, bread, coffee, doughnuts, travel, yeast 
I recently had what was – without a doubt – the strongest coffee I have ever had. This is not a mild statement, as I have come to be known as one who likes her coffee notoriously brutish (like her men – just kidding). I have a reputation for making coffee so strong that my . . . → Read More: Field Trip: Widening the senses with Turkish coffee
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