Bake or Break

If you’ve not entered yet, time is a-wastin’! The deadline is November 1, so get those entries in. Also, if you’ve already sent me an entry and you don’t see it in the gallery, please let me know. I don’t want anyone to be a victim of spam-filtering. So far, we’re [...]

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For the latest edition of Waiter There’s Something In My, the theme is layer cakes. Not being a fan of making layer cakes, I decided that this was my motivation to make one and contribute. I scoured many a recipe looking for a good candidate that would [...]

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For the next installment in the continuing saga of my new bread machine, Quinn and I decided to make cinnamon rolls. We’ve been threatening for months to make Alton’s recipe, but we never quite seem to do it. With the bread machine, though, we thought it would [...]

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For the latest installment of Sugar High Friday, hosted this time around by Spittoon Extra the theme is Drunken Apples. I was intrigued by the possible combinations. My first thought was of Tuaca, a lovely citrus-vanilla liqueur, to which I was first introduced when Quinn & I had known each other [...]

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It seems that lately I’ve been inundating you lovely readers with an abundance of no-bake recipes. My only reasoning is that it has been yet another long, hot summer, and baking has not been high on my list of desired activities. I will get the oven turned [...]

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There are about two weeks left to get in your entries for this month’s Does My Blog Look Good in This? event. All the rules are spelled out here.
I’ve also made a web album of all the entries that I’ve received thus far. We’ve got everything from lobster to lemongrass. Check it [...]

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For years, I have been anti-bread-machine. From my knowledge of them, I thought they were a cop-out way of making bread. However, thanks to one of my culinary heroes, Alton Brown, I have come to realize that bread machines are quite handy for kneading and proofing dough. [...]

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I am thrilled to be hosting this month’s Does My Blog Look Good in This? event. For those of you unfamiliar, DMBLGIT gives all of us a chance to see the best food pictures from all those delicious food blogs. Last month’s round-up can be seen at Cook Sister.
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With the overwhelming love of peanut butter in my family, I consider it a wonderful challenge to find new peanut butter recipes for family to-dos. For my Daddy’s birthday, I started searching for a recipe and re-stumbled upon this recipe from Martha Stewart. It’s a lovely combination of graham cracker crust, [...]

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We recently visited our very good friends in Durham, North Carolina, which is quite a lovely place by the way. Tonya and I have been cooking together for years, and we did make dinner one night instead of eating at one of the Triangle’s wonderful restaurants. For [...]

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