Just Baking

Okay, I’ll admit it: I don’t love whole wheat! But I do love experimenting with recipes that use whole wheat in a way that camouflages the rather strong (to me, anyway) flavor of it. To that end, I’ve made countless batches of muffins, cookies, pancakes, and quick breads with a variety of ingredients and ratios of […]

Chocolate in our household is a staple, not a luxury.  It seems like my husband needs hourly fixes of bite-sized dark chocolate, or simply a handful of chocolate chips.  In the past I have purchased him an assortment of chocolate for special occasions, but it really isn’t met with much enthusiasm, to him, chocolate is […]

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 […]

This recipe is from the Cooking with Jack cookbook that I picked up while in Lynchburg, TN last year. My brother-in-law and competition cooking partner, Randy, I took a road trip last April to Mike and Debbie Davis’ Lotta Bull BBQ class. It was the first time either of us had been to Lynchburg, TN. […]

When we think about comfort foods, we tend to give in a bit more towards chocolate or desserts, but for some of us, savoury dishes go more towards comforting our palates than sweet ones. I am one of those with a huge sweet tooth, and almost always give in to my dessert temptations, but lately, […]

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 […]

My husband and I spent the holidays in British Columbia with his family.  Every day of the visit we would make our pilgrimage to the Whole Foods (a whopping ¼ mile from his parents house) for a jumbo muffin with tea.  Now, the muffins in Vancouver are quite unlike those we see at Whole Foods […]

A few years ago, Quinn came up with this recipe as a special treat for me. I love, love, love all things cream cheese. Somehow, the recipe got buried among the countless recipes I’ve collected. Then, the other morning, I woke up to find that Quinn had not only unearthed the recipe […]

Don’t let the chocolate bars in the picture fool you, there is no chocolate in these muffins.  Don’t let that dissuade you from making them though, they’re honey bran muffins with blueberries and they complete any breakfast.  The reason for the chocolate bars is that they’re what I found while making these muffins.  I reached […]

When I was little I didn’t like bananas.  The only logical way that I can explain this is that I mustn’t have been the brightest crayon in the box.  There’s no other reason not to like bananas, they even come with their own carrying case!  Maybe my tastebuds were late bloomers.  But eventually they came […]