Just Baking

As sorely tempted as I was to bake my heart out in the form of holiday cookies, time simply slipped away while I wasn’t looking, leaving me to watch on in green-eyed envy as everyone else I knew pull tray after tray of golden dough from their ovens. Besides the time commitment involved, I […]

Happy holidays from all of us at Just Baking and the Well Fed Network!

We hope you have a safe and joyous holiday season. We will be on vacation this week but we’ll be back on January 2nd with more recipes, tips, and gorgeous pictures of baked delights. We look forward to being part […]

Are you done with your Christmas cookies yet? I hope your answer is no. Because I’m not either. Although I have baked some cookies earlier to send to a special friend, and test baked a few batches of various recipes to see if they were good, I haven’t really made any progress on the […]

The US Postal Service is not as busy as it used to be.  With emails, UPS, DHL, and FedEx, the only items left in my mailbox these days are bills and junk mail.  I can even view my bills online.  It looks like I won’t be needing my mailbox anymore.  Or maybe I do.
My neighborhood typically […]

I love traditions. My husband cracks up at me because if we do something once, and enjoy it, then I make it a tradition to do that same thing every year! It seems like this time of year we have my made up traditions coming out of the woodwork. One tradition that got its start […]

Flipping through the pages of innumerable baking catalogs that all feature the same immaculately clean kitchens, state-of-the-art appliances, and flawlessly decorated cookies, even a five-year old could tell you that these images are all fake. Staged, meticulously constructed down to the very last crumb; Those cookies that look so incredible on the page could […]

The Christmas Pearl is a Christmas book with which to get you into the Holiday Spirit, complete with many family heirloom recipes, many of which the titles simply pique your curiosity. Among my most interested, were the recipe called Sands. A simple recipe (as most were, when a wooden spoon and your hands were the […]

The holiday season would not be complete without sugar cookies on the dessert menu. They’re one of the most versatile cookies out there - they can be shaped into anything you desire or simply rolled in sugar or decorated with icing.
The sugar cookie recipe I used is from BHG and I liked it because there […]

It’s that time of year when many of us find ourselves thinking about how to create festive dishes for our holiday gatherings. For bread bakers, creative shaping is one way to add that extra flair that can elevate a loaf from the everyday to the celebration-worthy.
This rosette looks complicated to make, but in fact it […]

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 […]