A Celebration of Food and my Culinary Adventures
The holidays are over. The tree has been taken down. The decorations have been carefully packed and stored away for the next Christmas season. This holiday season was filled with memories of friends […]
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Fruit Crumble Coffee Cake; with its moist, rich, and buttery crumb, bursting with fresh fruit flavor, and crowned with a rich, crunchy cinnamon streusel that then is topped with a light dusting of powder sugar […]
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The Brownie. A true American baked good. Did you know the first recipe developed in 1896 as Brownies didn’t have any chocolate? Most people couldn’t imagine a brownie without the ubiquitous chocolate. But, by 1904, chocolate found its […]
Read More…What if there was a yeasted sweet dough that could be made ahead, frozen, thawed, filled, shaped into sweet or savory baked goods, and then freshly baked off. All, without […]
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‘Easy as Pie!’ A saying that we all have heard before, but for many home bakers why does making a tender, flaky, crisp, and oh so rich and buttery pie dough remain […]
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The fields behind my home were glazed with frost as the sun came up this morning. Triggering memories of visiting apple orchards around Marshall, Michigan in the fall when […]
Read More…Even though I didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas. I still made these cookies…learning to bend the rules at a early age…using non-Christmas cutters. This is from the Rolled Cookies section […]
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I know we’ve all been there. You look in your pantry and refrigerator trying to decide, “What’s for dinner?” This was my predicament last night. It was 7:00 pm and I was […]
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Here’s a favorite of mine….Spritz Cookies. German for “press,” these delicate but rich and buttery cookies are delectable all year long. The flavor combinations are endless with just butter and […]
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