Just Baking

When I returned to a dairy-free lifestyle, I scoured the Internet for recipes and ideas, as I am certain many people do.  Yet, there was one cookbook that seemed to appear with almost every search, The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook.  While intrigued by the title, I have never missed cheese much, so it was filed away […]

Small tokens made from the heart always get to me, especially when they’re of the edible sort. Being vegan, I know that any friend who makes me a special treat is really going out of their way to accommodate my needs and still give me something enjoyable. Dietary restrictions are certainly tough to […]

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I know that this is completely against all things good about the feminist movement, but I have always wanted to be like June Cleaver, or our modern day example, (minus all of […]

Looking back on my high school career on this graduation day, I can say with confidence that if nothing else, it has been one seriously rocky road to travel. With such a bitter taste left in my mouth after recounting all those horrific high school blunders that I hope to bury in the farthest […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]