Just Baking

Have you ever been browsing through a magazine, only to come across a picture and a recipe that completely takes hold of you? You cannot stop thinking about it and the power of suggestion is screaming for you to make it. This happened to me this past week when I was looking through the June/July […]

I finally got my oven fixed, so I’ll actually be baking some stuff soon. However, I’ve been swamped, so my bread baking hasn’t picked up yet.
My wife and I did make something that just about anyone with an oven can make, though. It fits very well with summer fare and almost can’t be […]

I love baking from scratch.  There is something so fun and rewarding about transforming ordinary ingredients into a delicious dessert.  But lets face it; sometimes we have a sweet tooth with no time or energy to play Rachael Ray.  In our household, the cravings come most often from my husband.  Sudden bursts of “I need […]

Today we have how-to videos from Epicurious. They have many “technique” videos, from which we’re showing you the first and last in a series of 7 about baking a pie. You can see the full series here plus other videos covering more than just baking.

We all have them…those favorite recipes that we brag about being “the best”. The best salad dressing recipe, the best brownie recipe, the best potato salad recipe, etc. We are all full of recipes that we believe are the best of their kind. I have a recipe for chocolate chip cookies that I believe is […]

Kashi, the purveyor of the healthiest-sounding foods on the planet, have made their mark on the breakfast table. But who knew they would hold up after dinner, too? My friend found their online collection of recipes and has been baking sinless sweets for weeks now. I’m sorry I didn’t discover it sooner–I […]

Sugar Crusted Breton Butter Cake (traditional name Kouign Amann or “bread and butter”). Every time I pick up the book Butter Sugar Flour Eggs by Gale Gand, Rick Tramonto and Julia Moskin, I am drawn to the same photograph and recipe. My book actually falls open to the page this recipe is on, and I […]

So, I’ve got a new food crush. See, the other day Steph came home from the library with a copy of Nigella Lawson’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking and it was love at first read. See, I’m about as anti Rachael Ray as you can get…I’m not […]

There are likely to be more unique places to get a recipe, but off the top of my head I can’t think of any. I admit it. I watch E!’s The Girls Next Door. It’s a guilty pleasure. So are gossip magazines. In a recent issue of OK! magazine, Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends shared a few […]

Emmer and Einkorn are wheat varieties that are among the oldest cultivated grains. Evidence points to both grains being first domesticated in what is known as the Fertile Crescent, a curve shaped area that centers on the Middle East. Einkorn domestication traces to the Karacadag Mountains in Turkey about 11,000 years ago and […]