Just Baking

It is certainly no secret that I love cupcakes, and with a five-year-old son, any time I have a craving, we can make a batch and send the rest into school with him. Trust me, the sooner the temptation is out of the house, the better. Recently, the folks at AOL Food put together their […]

Gale Gand is one busy woman.  Besides being the pastry chef at Tramonto’s Steak & Seafood, Osteria di Tramonto, RT Lounge, Gale’s Coffee Bar and Tru (all luckily located in the same town of Wheeling, IL), she is also a popular cookbook author and host of Sweet Dreams on the Food Network.  To say she […]

Recently, our overly observant 5-year-old noticed that Mommy hadn’t made dessert in like forever. Kudos to him for even paying attention to such things, and since he cares, you know I had to rectify that asap. Luckily I had already planned to make homemade cupcakes for our recent New Years’ Eve festivities, so he didn’t have […]

Say THAT three times fast!  My five-year-old son and I now have a standing date to bake something at least once a week.  He loves to help out in the kitchen, and with the recent holidays and other general craziness, we haven’t been doing it as much lately.  Today I spied a recipe for Peanut […]

With the school year only half over, there are still plenty of bake sales in our not-too-distant future.  When baking something to contribute to a bake sale, I usually keep it simple and stick with favorites like cupcakes, cookies and brownies.  After all, kids gravitate towards what they know and recognize - this is not […]

The other day I was catching up on a few of the regular food blogs I read, Susan’s Farmgirl Fare being one of them. Truth be told, I don’t get to visit as many as I’d like to regularly, but the lure of the impossibly cute animals on Susan’s farm is nearly too much to […]

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Even though we all seem to only over-indulge in turkey during this time of year, by the third or fourth day, most of us don’t want to see it again, so we’re left to getting creative.
On a recent episode of Rachael Ray’s talk-show, she turned Thanksgiving Day leftovers into a Thanksgiving Stromboli. Of course with […]

While Just Baking tends to lean sharply towards sweet baking, there’s no reason we can’t include a savory one every now and again, and this is certainly a keeper. OMG, I had the best homemade stuffing e-v-e-r today. But first, I’ll backtrack. I was catching up on some of my backlogged Tivo shows this morning, […]

There are some nights, after a long crazy day at work, that making a recipe from scratch just ain’t gonna happen.  But on those nights, when you’re still craving something sweet from the oven, there is a new alternative … straight from Ina Garten.  It wasn’t until the recent Food Show in New York that […]