Today is the reveal day for the Surprise Recipe Swap. Each month, Jutta from Hungry Little Girl, assigns a blog to each participant. We are to choose a recipe from their blog and then we all post on the same day! This month, I was given Carol, from No Reason Needed. While Carol has a great deal of …
Recently I tried my hand at making homemade granola, so I thought the next step should be granola bars. Right? You can either nod your head or roll your eyes. Go ahead- I’ll wait!!! These granola bars are no bake and are really easy to put together. I made 2 different batches and changed up the flavors …
Here is recipe number 2 that uses your homemade apple butter! I have mixed feelings about pound cake. I like it and yet, I don’t. Maybe saying I don’t like it is a little unfair. I mean, it’s not the pound cake’s fault that it is harder for me to eat. See, I don’t produce enough …
I love caramel. I don’t love how most commercial caramel sticks to my teeth. So what’s a girl to do? MAKE HER OWN! Yeah! Ok, can you tell I’m excited here? Making your own homemade caramel is easy- you just dump all the ingredients in a large saucepan, and away we go! HOWEVER- it is time …
It’s hard for me to believe it is already April 1st! We have lots of family and friends’ birthdays, and also “other” special occasions to celebrate this month! That means April will be busy and I am sure it will seem to pass by all too quickly. I’m not very inventive when it comes to …
May 31st is National Macaron/Macaroon Day! Macaron “is a sweet meringue-based confectionery made with egg whites, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond powder or ground almond, and food coloring. The macaron is commonly filled with ganache, buttercream or jam filling sandwiched between two cookies. Its name is derived from the Italian word maccarone or maccherone.” Source A macaroon “is a type of light, baked confection, described as either small cakes or meringue-like cookies depending on their consistency. The …
I seem to be all about the baking challenges this month! Lindsay, from Love and Olive Oil, is doing a Kitchen Challenge. This is her way of tackling recipes that are intimidating, and she is starting with homemade croissants. Croissants are made from a laminated yeast dough. The dough is rolled out and a thin block of …
Mardi Gras is fast approaching (February 12th), so in order to celebrate, I made a King Cake! “In the United States, Carnival is traditionally observed in the Southeastern region of the country, particularly in New Orleans, Mobile, AL, other towns and cities of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, on the southeast Texas island of Galveston, and Louisiana. In this region, the king …
Last month I made candied orange peels for the first time, and I used some of them in my Orange Chocolate Panettone. The rest of the orange peels, I dipped in dark chocolate (you know, because everything tastes better with chocolate!). I mentioned the other day that I am trying to clean out my pantry by …
There seems to be a phrase that I keep repeating on this blog. “I have never had…”!!! I like repeating myself! I have never had biscotti. I don’t drink coffee or tea, so maybe that’s why I have never tried biscotti. Regardless, it comes in about as many flavor combinations as cookies, so I thought …