If you’re into food novelties, these are for you. Also, if you like convenient party food, these are for you. I can’t remember when I first spotted pictures of bagel bombs floating around the web…maybe it was during my intensive research on social-media-cult foods (and we very well may have…
This was a recipe I definitely did not mind testing. But though I tested (with LOTS of tasting), there’s still just a lot of wiggle room in the recipe. When you have a treat like chocolate peanut butter, it might as well be just to your taste. So please don’t…
Have you made pita bread? You should. It is wonderfully easy. Plus, it can be filled with a whole array of things to make a meal (falafel, veggies & rice, meat, bananas & peanut butter, fried eggs & quinoa, etc…). Or, simply have it on the side to enjoy! Toasted…
For the past several years, my sister-in-law and I have been making the bulk of our Easter candies. Both of us love to bake, and it is fun to pick out different recipes to try out, opt for new challenges, and try again to nail a previous favorite. Lots of…
If you can’t have too many muffin recipes, neither can you have too many scone recipes. My favorite will always be the impossibly easy cream scones, but I don’t mind a little change up now and then. These scones are lightly orange-scented and studded with tangy cranberries. Cream scones are…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Just over a year ago I came across a recipe for a parsley cake while visiting Maria and flipping through her copy of Food52’s Genius Desserts cookbook. It was love at first sight…a crazy vibrant green herb-loaded cake. For months now this concept has been pinging…
Ever since writing this post our first year up and running, I’ve begun to bake Irish soda bread beyond the annual St. Patrick’s day. It is too good not to enjoy more times of the year! Plus, it is so quick and easy. We are a bread with every meal…
So as a mom of two with a third on the way I got to this point of being fed up with buying granola bars. Sure, they are convenient. But do they have any real nutritional value? Not to mention the packaging waste, and the often unnecessary added sugars. As…
Ok, so Joy of Cooking just calls these Basic Muffins with Milk, but since you can use whole milk or non-fat, or cream, or sour cream or yogurt or buttermilk, or add any kind of fruit – dried or fresh – or nuts or spices or any variation thereof, I…