Just Baking

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 […]

Alrighty…I confess, though I’ve been really digging making whole grain bread from The Laurel’s Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking, there is a fundamental problem. The bread that I’ve been making has been a bit more dense than what I really dig. This changed however when I found an inspired recipe for Whole […]

This past weekend we were invited over to my Sister’s house to have dinner. When thinking about what to bring I offered for us to bring over some dessert. I thought it’d be a nice challenge for Steph as she is almost finished with her second cake decorating class. On Saturday morning we were kicking […]

Is there nothing more fun than being able to replicate a recipe that your Mom made when you were growing up? Given that I now make bread on a weekly basis I wanted to get my Mom’s recipe for bread that she made for us when we were young. To date, all the bread I […]

So, with Parents coming over on Saturday I thought I was pretty much all set in the prep department as I grabbed a rootbeer and walked over to the couch to settle in and play Nofriendo for a while.  From out of the back room, Steph walked in to find me monkeying around. “Do you […]