Just Baking

 
I’m a huge fan of Fall. I love the changing colors of the leaves. I love the musky smell of piles of leaves wet on the ground. I love the cooler nights and shorter days. I love using it as an excuse to bake lots of things with pumpkin in them. So today I present […]

My very best friend is moving out of state on Friday. Ami and I have known each other for 13 years… we met during my Freshman year of college and have been great friends ever since. She has been there for me through a lot and has always been one of the constants in my […]

Baking French breads can be complex at times, making poolishes and starters, proofing, watching humidity and temperatures, etc. I love all that stuff, though.

Every once in a while, however, I want something simpler. Some things call for simple. I don’t think I’d care for sausage gravy on a baguette. No, that needs […]

As much as I love my trustworthy chocolate cake recipes, I decided it’s time to try my hands at making chiffon cake last week. But which recipe should I entrust my first chiffon cake experiment? In the end, I decided to go with Espresso Chiffon Cake with Caramel Glaze from Carole Broom’s Essential […]

Prune plums are still in season here in Michigan, but only for one more week. Now when it comes to plums, I am a very picky person. That said, the only plums that were worth eating and staining my white marine dress with were when I was six or seven at my mother’s aunt. […]

They had an awesome sale on bananas this past weekend at a Grand Opening Albertson’s sale, just 25 cents per pound, so it was time to stock up!  Bananas are a mainstay in my smoothies, which gives me an excuse to buy … oh … about eight pounds of them.  I sliced them up, flash […]

Considering how many people talk about the dreaded “freshman 15,” you would have to assume that there’s actually good food to be found in college, right? Well, maybe on some campuses, but that’s certainly not the issue here. No matter the time of day, trips to the dining hall prove futile, yielding a […]

I love my range, with its capacious workhorse of an oven, but there are times when I just don’t need almost four cubic feet of heat. And my pop-up toaster is okay, but now and then it would be really great to be able to toast more than two slices at once.
So I convinced myself […]

With the beginning of a new school season comes the realization that summer is almost finished and the abundance of autumn is on its way. There is a coolness in the morning breeze signaling the coming of this beautiful season and orchards are beckoning us to come ‘pick your own’. In order to enjoy the […]

It is not very often that I get to punch the air with my little fists and perform a dance. Therefore, it might have been a strange spectacle, for any onlooker, a few days ago to see me  doing so in the middle of the kitchen singing to word: tarte, tarte, tarte.
Of course the puzzled spectators did not have the script and could […]