Category: Baked Goods

I’m decidedly NOT a morning person. While I like tasty things for breakfast, the morning doesn’t bring out my best kitchen skills. So I REALLY don’t like to have to prepare anything in the mornings. PC (pre-covid) I’d often just go to Starbucks, Panera, or the grocery store and grabs something. That option is no […]

Early during the coronageddon, I bought a bunch of different alternative flours because regular white flour wasn’t available. This include a health bunch of semolina flour which could be used for pasta or bread products. This weekend I decided it would be a good time to do some baking with the semolina flour. I’ve had […]

One of my favorite things about living in Texas is the fact that we get fresh peaches in the summertime. While we sometimes go to pick them ourselves, most of the time I get them from the farmer’s market. My favorite trick it to go at the end of the market and ask the peach […]

One of the things I got for my birthday back in January was the America’s Test Kitchen Bread Illustrated cookbook. I really needed a good cookbook for bread because I haven’t been having a lot of success making bread. The cookbook contains lots of different kinds bread recipes – from simple to very complex. It […]

In my last post I wrote about my struggles with making bread. Proving (aka letting it rise) is my nemesis. It seems like I’m always a bit to anxious to stop the prove and do the next step. So I decided I would use every last minute of proving time the recipe said was POSSIBLE […]

I consider myself to be a fairly good cook and baker but I have a couple of Achilles heels. One is pie crust. I can only make “short crust” aka crust that is made with butter not crisco or lard. Even doing this requires a tremendous effort on my part to get it right. My […]

One holiday no long after my sister in-law joined the family she made the BEST treats and brought them to the Christmas Eve party. I asked her what they were and she shared her recipe for Almond Toffee Bars. I’ve been making them as part of my holiday treat box pretty much every since. The […]

When I got married spritzes became a holiday tradition at my house. My husband got me a “cookie gun” early on and I’ve been using it every year since. A couple of years ago I expanded the number of plates/shapes from the original ones to include some new Xmas specific ones such as Santa, Reindeer, […]

I’ve been doing a ton of holiday baking the last three weeks in order to be able to send out treat boxes this week. I have lots of recipes for cookies and there are several that I typically make every year. However, most years I try a couple new recipes. This year I decided I […]

One of my favorite things about the holidays is making treats for family and friends, most of whom live far away. In order to get treats done and sent to arrive on time I typically have to start my baking the weekend after Thanksgiving. This is because I make a dozen different treats. This year […]