Category: Baked Goods

I was off from work the entire week of Thanksgiving. As a result, I decided to do a bunch of baking and make different treats. I have a bunch of butternut squash from my CSA box that needs to be used. So I thought perhaps chocolate squash brownies might be a good option. After all […]

This year was not my turn to cook Thanksgiving dinner. So I agreed to bring rolls and an appetizer to the gathering. Initially I was thinking about making yeast rolls because I really like them and have had some success making them in the past. However, I realized that I had a lot of sweet […]

I’ve been doing some type of baking almost every weekend this fall. Many times I’ve made cookies. My son really enjoys making cookies because he is able to help by adding the ingredients, turning on the mixer, and dropping cookies on the pans. I thought a little about making no-bake cookies this weekend so my […]

Yesterday, I had a bunch of spinach that I needed to use up. I decided that the best way to use it was to use it to make bread. I did a bunch of internet searching for a quick bread recipe because yeast bread isn’t really my forte. I ended up deciding to make a […]

Growing up peanut butter cookies were one of my favorite cookies my grandmother would make. My brother and grandfather liked them too. So it was pretty common for them to be the cookie found in jars on the top shelf in my gram’s kitchen next to the fridge. Besides cookies, I’m not the biggest fan […]

I’ve been trying to use up different things in my pantry that I bought when I was feeling kind of adventurous in my food choices. Many of these things are alternative grains like farro, black rice, and quinoa. I like granola bars a lot and thought it would be cool to use some of these […]

Cornbread is something that I had growing up but cornbread in New England and cornbread in the South are really not the same thing at all. Part of that is that southern cornbread is often prepared incredibly simply with lard and buttermilk and cooked, if possible, in a cast iron pan. Note the fact there […]

When holiday candy went on sale I bought a package of candy cane (aka peppermint) Hershey’s kisses. My idea was to riff on peanut butter blossoms and make a cookie with a chocolate base and put the kiss on top. I’m making cookies for my colleagues in Ohio and decided this would be a good […]

It seems like over the holidays I’ve been on a scone kick. I made Herb Cheese Scones for Xmas day. Then this weekend I decided I’d make cranberry scones. This in part came about because when I went grocery shopping cranberries were on super sale. .40 for a bag. So it seemed like buying a […]

I can’t help it. Savory scones are pretty much one of my most favorite breakfast things. So much so that I’m willing to make and entire batch for just myself. This batch was my holiday morning treat to myself. Half of them I’ve stashed away in the freezer while the other half I’m splitting and […]