Just Baking

This morning my six-year-old woke up and was moping around before school, claiming “my tummy hurts.” He wasn’t running a fever, he ate a good breakfast, and was feeling good enough to torment his sisters. We walked up to school, I kissed him good-bye, and all was well. All was well except for the small […]

Yes, there is a lot of butter involved.
Usually I find pound cake to be too dry, too crumbly. I’m embarrassed to admit that besides baking the occasional pound cake, Sara Lee was the only way I consumed the baked good. Finally, one day I decided to try a Paula Deen recipe for Sour Cream Pound […]

As we herald spring in most parts of the country, seasonal fruits and vegetables can be seen in all their glory, and a trip to the farmer’s market can turn out to be a visually delectable experience! Oranges, pears, and strawberries are flooding the markets in California, and what better way to binge on the […]

Miss Martha. I know I am not alone in experiencing the unreliability of her recipes. One minute you are celebrating a culinary success, and the next, you are cursing her name when a recipe (or two… or three) lets you down.
I turned to a recipe for Baby Bluebird Cupcakes for my nephew’s baby shower a […]

I make at least one bundt cake a week.  A great bundt will disappear from my cake stand within 24 hours.  This one was just such a cake.
I adapted it from a recipe in one of my favorite cookbooks The Foster’s Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes for Morning, Noon, and Night.  This was one of my […]

I don’t remember which one came first: cooking, or the words that came with the recipes.
My mother had a small collection of pocket size French Cookbooks that I loved reading. The cookbooks had no pictures and no stories, just recipes, words and may be some drawing here and there. Yet, these books played a major […]

Valentine’s Day is over, but the bonding of love is eternal. So it really doesn’t matter what time of the year it is for you to make sweet treats for your family! It also gives me a chance to practise my hand at a little culinary art, so this week I made my first edible […]

I have gone mad, as mad as a hatter, completely cracker-pot. I am not certain I have ever done this before, usually I am rather good, buying local(ish) food: fruits and vegetables in season, trying to minimise their carbon foot-prints. Until a few weeks ago, I was happy pushing my trolley in a supermarket, I […]

Did you ever find a recipe that you fell so in love with at first sight that you just had to make it, and then when it didn’t work out, you were determined to make it work?  I had this happen a couple of weeks ago.  I came across a recipe for Jam Crumb Cake […]

The second month of this New Year has kicked in, and we all know that February is the month to celebrate love, as people all around the world have begun to plan for the Valentine’s Day. Love and chocolate go hand in hand, so its natural that I decided to practise my hand at some […]