Just Baking

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 am sure many of you are familiar with Dale Carnegie’s best selling book How to Win Friends and Influence People. His book is one of those books that is a must read for business professionals. In this best selling book, Dale Carnegie lists six ways to make people like you. Those six things are:
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I’m constantly acquiring new cookbooks.  It’s become a bit of an obsession really.  I know I’ll never be able to make even a fraction of the recipes, but I still like to look at and buy new books.  I justify this because I read cookbooks cover to cover like other people read novels.  And how […]

I suppose I can think of odder places to get recipes, but for now, this will do. During the week, my almost-five-year-old son, Nicholas, will jockey for time on my computer to play games on Nick Jr.’s website. Forget the fact that he has his very own little computer, Mom’s is obviously way cooler.
The other […]

My friend Tonya sent this recipe to me ages ago, and I put it in my embarrassingly enormous and ever-growing “to try” collection. One obstacle that has detained me in making these muffins is finding spelt flour in my area. I finally resigned myself to ordering some from King Arthur. That usually gets me in […]

I was recently introduced to a new potential superfood, chia seeds.  Like most people, my first reaction was chia what?  Is that the same as a chia pet?  In a way, yes.  Chia pets are grown using the chia seeds, but as it turns out, these tiny little bits of food pack quite a bit […]

A couple of weeks ago, the question was posed to my girlfriend on what she would do if she couldn’t have wheat and would have to lead a gluten-free lifestyle. She loves bread and pasta and she thought it definitely would be very tough. I don’t think she was aware of all the resources available […]

My great-grandmother never made her blueberry muffins for me, but I found her recipe while looking through my mother’s recipe box a few years ago. I made the recipe and was an instant admirer of the muffins — delicate and moist, the sweet batter hugging each and every blueberry.
I decided to make the muffins […]

On a typical day my breakfast is a muffin from the cafeteria at work. Nothing too fancy, a bran muffin, maybe a cranberry one. A while back I was paging through my King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion cookbook, looking to see if was anything a little healthier to make when I stumbled on a recipe […]

They say that the quickest way to a person’s heart is through their stomach, so it’s only logical that the main fixture of a Valentine’s Day celebration seems to be something edible.  While chocolate candies tend to take center stage for obvious reasons, there are endless other possibilities for equally romantic treats, especially for those […]