Category: Baked Goods

One of my favorite weekend activities is going to the local farmer’s market to get ingredients to make food for the week. I’m a big fan of farm fresh chicken eggs and typically try to get them at the market. Unfortunately the last two weeks none of the vendors has had them. I was really […]

It is holiday baking time again and I’ve been tweaking recipes or riffing on old recipes in order to come up with things for this year’s holiday bakery box. One recipe I decided needed a new spin were the double chocolate cookies. This started out as a Mrs Fields recipe but over the years has […]

Thanks to being overrun with lemons, I’ve been pinboarding and trying lemon recipes left and right this fall. One I decided to make a couple weeks ago was Lemon Biscotti. Biscotti are Italian type of cookie. Their name comes from the Italian for biscuit, which is what most Europeans call “cookies”. They are different from […]

Last night I decided I was in the mood for scones Saturday morning for breakfast. I typically make savory scones such as herb cheese scones because I think they are better than sweet scones when you toast them to reheat them. Given the fact I have a surplus of lemons and a nice rosemary bush […]

Almost every fall the local Farmer’s Market and CSA have fresh pie pumpkins available. Because my son and husband really like pumpkin pie I typically get one to roast and make pumpkin puree. I really prefer freshly roasted pumpkin puree to store bought. The flavor is a bit richer and when one uses pie pumpkin […]

I typically am not a cake baker because and entire cake really isn’t something I can easily make sure gets eaten at my house. I make cakes for birthdays but otherwise only for events with a large number of people. However, as I mentioned a previous post, I have more kumquats from my neighbor than […]

I have a lemon bush in my backyard and it typically produces a lot of lemons. However, this past fall it only had three lemons. I was really sad because I like to make lemon flavored things. Biscotti, tarts and lemon meringue pie are some of my favorite things to make. So I decided to […]

The last two weeks my CSA box has had lots of spring onions in it. I use some of these in my stir fried or quiche but I was still left with quite a few that I needed to use. I thought that made I should make an onion cheese bread with them. Given that […]

Every week I find myself buying bread and/or rolls and not really using them all. Things mold, end up getting thrown out, or tossed into the freezer and lost. It seems kind of a waste. I thought maybe a better solution might be to try to make some bread for the family every other week […]

Thanksgiving week was a big cooking and experimentation week for me. The last night my parents were in town I decided to make chocolate cream pie for dessert. I’d seen a recipe from Smitten Kitchen that I thought looked good. The only issue was it had a pastry crust and I’m terrible at making pie […]