This post is about what we did for fun during Christmas 2017. You can read about what we cooked and baked here, and how we decorated the house here. I am personally counting decorating and cooking/eating as fun, but I wanted to talk specifically about the "activities" that … [Read more...]
Baking
Christmas 2017, part 2 | The Food
This post is about what we baked and cooked during Christmas of 2017. You can read about our decor here and our crafts and other fun projects here. For whatever reason (kids are older? broken toes? more conscious about the weight?) we baked a lot less than in previous years … [Read more...]
The myth of naturally sweetened food.
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...]
“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...]