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…
Cheesy Pickle Beer Bread
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…
Lemon Poppyseed Muffins
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…
White Chocolate Berry Beer Bread
I’m in my Beer Bread Era, as the kids’ say. I’m experimenting with different kinds of beer in preparation for the State Fair, and this time, I used a triple berry sour. Naturally, I mixed in dried blueberries and white chocolate (sort of like those old Milk Bar cookies). White Chocolate Berry Beer Bread is…
Chocolate Beer Bread
I have been sort of… bored recently. There’s lots of things coming up on my calendar to do, but at the moment I don’t have any big projects or anything. Not a lot of going on but the doldrums of the day to day. It can wear on you. Or, at least, it wears on…
Pepperoni Bagel Bombs
When I was in college, I lived in an apartment with three other girls. It was an incredibly run-down apartment, and it was near impossible to keep clean. And I don’t mean that in a lazy way. I think if you spent a day cleaning it, with no furniture or items in it, it would…
Blueberry Crumb Cinnamon Rolls
I have not been baking much this month! I prepped a lot of cookie dough for our classic Christmas cookies, and so with my family in town we’ve been having lots of cookie plates, and the recipes were not new. So it’s been a slow month on the blog front. Which is fine! I hit…
Chocolate Gingerbread Banana Bread Muffins
When my family goes on a vacation that requires grocery shopping to stock up our place for a week or two, it seems my role is to be the one to take home the leftovers. Which is fine, I elect to take this role most of the time. But it also means I have to…