Baking and FPIES
Spring is here! Spring is fresh, new, bright, and just SO cheery! We are watching the trees budding in our yard in eager anticipation of the fresh green leaves and abundant white and pink flowers. The deep purple and blue of the crocuses are shimmering …
OH NUTS! The Super Bowl is this weekend, and I don’t have snacks! Obviously, my expectations for this event are eating yummy snacks and watching in anticipation for some good commercials – come on Doritos ad! Time to whip up some of my delicious Oven Candied Nuts, these are …
Marriage, I feel, is comprised largely of opportunities for compromise. Cotton or flannel sheets? Music or audiobooks? Hiking to a lake or to a mountain ridge? Chocolate and coffee desserts or fruit-based baked goods? Since I love my husband, I am happy to compromise – …
I love baking for others. Whether it is family or friends, I want to show you I care through a cookie or slice of cake. Eating was never just something that had to happen in our home growing up. Eating was something to be cherished …
Phenomenally Moist Carrot Cake I LOVE cake! If you give me a choice between a moist and flavorful cake and a cookie, I’m going to choose the cake. Then maybe follow it up with the cookie… Throw in some muffins and oh boy I’d have a …
Traditions! I am sure that just that one word brought some thought to your mind. (Even if it is the song from ‘Fiddler On the Roof’. Am I the only one?! Traditiooons!) At times traditions are created and carried through generations. Other times traditions are …
To celebrate the end of summer I want to share with you…. ICE CREAM! I am not late, you’re late. Fall? Now? Did I tell you it has a magic almond caramel-like swirl in it? This ice cream has a lot going on, dark …
Some foods are just like time machines. One bite and they take you back to cassette tapes and overalls with only one side buckled. On the shortlist for me are PB&Js with homemade jam, an ooey-gooey grilled cheese with tomato soup, little smokie pigs …
It’s the thought that counts, right? I uttered those words to family and friends several times over the years when a recipe I attempted didn’t quite turn out as anticipated. Most often it was a cooking calamity, not a baking blunder (not to say …
My mom was raised in the South – where fresh tomato sandwiches, biscuits and cornbread with every meal, and sweet tea reign supreme. Let me just tell you how happy I am to have been born into a southern woman’s kitchen. (Okay I wasn’t …
