Just Baking

A few years ago, a Supper Club member brought Pepperoni Biscotti to one of our monthly dinners … and I was hooked.  I took the recipe home and it sat in my file, beckoning me ever since.  Although I did love them, I kept putting off making them because the recipe seemed rather time consuming, […]

This week was my father’s birthday, and of course I felt the duty and delight to bake something for him!  However, like myself, he isn’t a big cake fan.  With limited time on my hands, a pie sounded like a large endeavor.  Then I remembered one of his favorite desserts, oatmeal raisin cookies.  While in […]

Summer finds me wanting to buy every sort of seasonal fruit I can get my hands on. I’m always overwhelmed (and really overjoyed) by the gorgeous mounds of ripe fruits at the local farmer’s market. I’ve had a pile of plums sitting in my kitchen for the past few days, because there are […]

Mooncakes are thin shelled pastries with a thick layer of dense fillings that are traditionally associated with the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Fillings can include duck egg yolks, red bean paste, and lotus seed paste, all of which are traditional, but additional mooncake fillings have been introduced reflecting modern tastes and health concerns.
The overall process […]

I have been drooling over The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook for ages. It’s a bit hard to justify buying a new cookbook when I have stacks of them with recipes tagged that I’ve not gotten around to trying yet. Recently, though, I found it at a very good […]

When I returned to a dairy-free lifestyle, I scoured the Internet for recipes and ideas, as I am certain many people do.  Yet, there was one cookbook that seemed to appear with almost every search, The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook.  While intrigued by the title, I have never missed cheese much, so it was filed away […]

Do you use your oven in the middle of summer and not think twice about it? Do you look at cake covered in white fondant as an empty canvas? Do you watch Top Chef and snicker when they attempt to make pastry? Do you have random strangers stopping at your desk at […]

Do you want to do something about childhood hunger in America? Join with the over 1 million people who have been baking, selling, or buying baked goods as part of Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale. So far this campaign has raised over $3 million since 2003.
“The Great American Bake Sale campaign […]

Small tokens made from the heart always get to me, especially when they’re of the edible sort. Being vegan, I know that any friend who makes me a special treat is really going out of their way to accommodate my needs and still give me something enjoyable. Dietary restrictions are certainly tough to […]

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I know that this is completely against all things good about the feminist movement, but I have always wanted to be like June Cleaver, or our modern day example, (minus all of […]