Bake or Break

Corn Bread Bites

View a printable recipe or more photos One of our fall-back dinners, especially in cooler weather, is a very simple bowl of chili. Usually, we have corn bread with our chili, provided we have the time and energy to make it. My go-to recipe for corn bread is a nice, just-sweet-enough version that I’ve been [...]

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Cinnamon Swirl Rolls

View a printable recipe and more photos 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 be [...]

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Jalapeno Focaccia

View a printable recipe or more photographs 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. So, [...]

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Cream Cheese Biscuits & Chocolate Gravy

See the recipe Yes, that’s right. Chocolate gravy. Quinn had never heard of chocolate gravy when we met, but I quickly introduced him and he’s been much happier ever since. Basically, imagine chocolate with the consistency of gravy. I am quick to tell you that I don’t like gravy at all. Not even a little. [...]

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Paula Deen’s Basic Biscuits

See the recipe This morning I woke up to hear the sounds of the kitchen. Instantly, I knew that Quinn was making breakfast. I got up to investigate and found him rolling out homemade biscuits. I had been saying for days that I wanted biscuits. Today, I got my wish. Quinn admitted that he didn’t [...]

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Gorilla Bread

Not much to add to this recipe from Paula Deen. Just make it. Yum!!! That woman has a way with a can of biscuits, doesn’t she? I only made half of the recipe because, well, 2 people can’t/shouldn’t eat 20 of these. If you’re making half, you can still use a Bundt pan. I used [...]

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