A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
As I’ve said before, there is an art to buying bananas to make sure you don’t have too many that go brown. There is also an art to buying food in the week leading up to a vacation, so you don’t have a bunch of food go bad. I sort of bungled it before my…
I’m scheduling this to post while I’m overseas on a multi-country international vacation. I plan to be enjoying myself fully. But at the end of a long trip… there’s also nothing like coming home! And there’s no better way to feel American than to go to a foreign country. So scheduling this post for my…
When I was at Cub a few weeks ago, I was perusing their extensive extract collection. As one does. I found some strawberry extract, and I was immediately intrigued. Ordinarily, I would say that a fruit extract is a terrible idea, especially for something like strawberry. I think orange and lemon extracts are horrific. But…
I’ve said before that this is more a baking journal than a baking blog, and that means detailing some of the boring bakes. The flops, if you will. In my journey to discover more exciting beer breads, I decided to try a savory one. When I saw pickle beer in the store, I figured it…
I don’t typically retool recipes so quickly, as I’ve got other things on my baking agenda, but the idea for these bars really stuck in my head. I want to submit them for the State Fair, and so I want to get the recipe ready and perfect before I lock them in. So even though…
This past weekend was Mother’s Day, and that of course meant a Mother’s Day brunch! Which of course means a brunch baked good! My mom got to request the treat, of course, and she brought up how Amelia’s Bread in Indianapolis makes croissant cinnamon rolls. I accepted the challenge very gladly. I haven’t had one…
Banana Brown Butter Baby Bundt… say that five times fast! I am pretty good about getting through my weekly bananas – five or six for the week, for before all my runs. But sometimes, the bananas are not on the same schedule as me, and I wind up with one that gets too brown. And…
I’ve said it many times before, but one thing about me is that I am not going to let any ingredient or food go to waste. So when I had a scant 1/2 cup of ricotta left in the fridge, I knew I had to do something with it. And you know what that no-waste…