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Thinking Outside the Kashi Box


Kashi, the purveyor of the healthiest-sounding foods on the planet, have made their mark on the breakfast table. But who knew they would hold up after dinner, too? My friend found their online collection of recipes and has been baking sinless sweets for weeks now. I’m sorry I didn’t discover it sooner–I […]

Home Baking Association


The Home Baking Association is a non-profit corporation formed with the intent to promote year-round baking at home. Its membership is comprised of well-known baking related corporations, non-profit groups, and individuals representing the various common baking ingredients such as flour, yeast, sugar, baking powder, salt, cocoa/chocolate, eggs, dairy, and common baking mixes. While […]

Back to Basics


I love to try new recipes. I love finding things that I have not tried before and branching out to taste new flavors. I would say that on an average week, I make a given 5 new recipes…sometimes more, rarely less. The internet recipe sites, all of the published cookbooks and magazines out there and […]

King Arthur Flour Online Baking Classes


King Arthur Flour is known for their flour and their books (I’ve made no secret of my love for these books). Well, beyond those things, they also have an entire section of their website dedicated to baking education.
Not only do they offer classes at their Norwich, VT headquarters, they also travel the country giving […]

Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: A Healthy Baker’s Indulgence


Who wouldn’t love to merge health and dessert?  Recently I had the luck to stumble across a well known pastry chef, Fran Costigan, who specializes in this very concept.  In fact, Fran’s extensive culinary experience combined with her desire to have her cake and eat it too, has resulted in too many ‘healthy’ dessert recipes […]

The Pie Crust Secret


One of my favorite amateur food photographers and Recipezaar Chefs, Marg, turned me on to the most wonderful little “gadget” the other day. Marg is always posting photos on Recipezaar of gorgeous pies that she has made. The crusts always look flaky, delicious and professional. I finally sent her an e-mail to see if she […]

Puff, the Magic Pastry


As shows like Semi Home-Made Cooking and 30 Minute Meals rise in popularity, it would appear that the average American is very easily swayed by attractive people that flaunt “easier” ways to make presumably labor-intensive dishes, but in reality their cooking skills don’t go much further than the ability to work an oven. Beyond that, […]

American Chocolate Week


Leave it to America to come up with the most random times to declare food-centric holidays, and then tell no one about it. A brief search of google revealed that we do indeed have numerous dates designated to specific edible items, be them baked goods, sweets, savory dishes, individual spices… You name it, I’ll […]

Help for the beginning baker (and cook)


Let’s say you’re just starting out baking from scratch for the very first time. You need a tray of cupcakes to bring to work tomorrow and it’s 7 o’clock in the evening. You bought the ingredients and they’re all ready for you to use, you just need to take them out of the […]

Beginning Baker - European Hearth Bread


This past weekend, I finally got back to trying my hand at artisan style breads instead of regular white bread.  I hadn’t really looked before, but King Arthur Flour, one of my favorite sites, has a slew of online recipes, too.  I have a few books, but thought I’d try their European hearth bread recipe.  […]