My 10-year-old baked these banana chocolate chip muffins the other day while I was running errands. It makes me happy to see her experimenting in the kitchen and she is getting pretty good. The muffins turned out great, with a hefty amount of chocolate chips (of course!). I … [Read more...]
Baking
“Canned biscuits caused our ruination!”…Homemade buttermilk biscuits.
I wanted to talk about homemade buttermilk biscuits, and share my thoughts. It's only timely that the latest issue of Real Simple has a recipe for "golden and flaky" biscuits, you'll see mine at the bottom of the page. But before we get to the recipe, some … [Read more...]
Classic roll-out sugar cookies
As I mentioned before, baking sugar cookies is one of our Valentine's traditions. We don't have many Valentine's traditions , but we never skip cookies. We have tried several different recipes over the years, and always come back to these-- they are addictive! Oldie but goodie … [Read more...]
Healthy snacks: Peanut butter oat bars with chocolate chips
This is another recipe from Ann who blogs at On Sutton Place. I have shared her recipe for oatmeal cake before (and here is another great version of this cake). I like Ann's simple homey recipes. They are delicious, easy to make, and flexible. I talked before about our … [Read more...]
Rye bread (bread machine recipe)
This post has been a long time coming. I have been baking this bread (an other kinds of bread, as well as making pizza dough) for over a year now. It always disappears before having a chance to go stale. Bread in general is not a staple in our house, but when we do eat it, we … [Read more...]
