I’m sorry for being absent lately. I had surgery last week, and I’ve been consumed with the details of packing up life in one country and coordinating its migration to another. There are just so many logistics to deal with! Anyway, we all know that food brings comfort. Having lost 45 lbs. and kept it… Continue Reading
Crumb Cake Recipe
Fall is my favorite cooking season. I love cooking with apples, cranberries, pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves, and many other seasonal treasures that I’ve missed over the past year. I love the warm vibe of the kitchen, and the delicious scents that drift through the house as something’s baking or simmering. This cake feels very homey to… Continue Reading
Gingersnaps
One bite of a semi-stale gingersnap while en route to Copenhagen was all I needed to rekindle my love of these delightfully spicy cookies :) Gingersnaps Recipe 3/4 cup shortening 1 cup dark brown sugar 1/4 cup molasses 1 egg 2 1/4 cups unbleached flour 2 t baking soda 1/2 t cloves 1 t cinnamon… Continue Reading
Homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe
I never buy premade cookies anymore. I can even walk past the Girl Scout cookie table outside the grocery store without a second thought! Why buy something along the lines of hockey pucks at worst, or filled with ingredients I don’t recognize at best when I can bake a batch of delicious homemade cookies from… Continue Reading
Homemade Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
The chocolate cream pie of my childhood consisted of milk chocolate pudding mix dumped into a premade pie shell and topped with Cool Whip. That’s no way to live! Here’s the real deal…a flaky homemade crust with a filling of sugar, cocoa, milk, butter, eggs, flour, and vanilla, topped with real whipped cream, and finished… Continue Reading
Yankee Cornbread Recipe
I love cornbread, but it was coming out too dry and crumbly. So, I decided to master it, and came up with this moist, honey-kissed, almost cake-like version that uses a 1:3 cornmeal to flour ratio. I think it’s just perfect, though I’m not sure my Southern friends will agree ;-) Yankee Cornbread Recipe 1… Continue Reading
Mother’s Day Muffin Basket
I spent Saturday afternoon listening to Joni Mitchell and baking Mother’s Day muffins for my mother in law. I made my jumbo blueberry muffins, individual coffeecakes, and mini loaves of cornbread. The coffeecakes were a bust because the streusel didn’t set properly. Still, it was a nice little basket of homemade goodies :)(I wish I’d… Continue Reading