Now that there are several weeks worth of posts up at Persia Lou for the Handmade Holiday series, I thought I would share my contribution here. If you already saw this one, pop over to Persia Lou and check out the rest of the Handmade Holiday series. I’ve gotten some great ideas for holiday projectsRead more
These days it’s pretty rare for me to cook from a cookbook. There are tons of great food blogs out there and with more than 550 recipes pinned to my Treats board, baking from a book rarely enters my mind. I do use my Joy of Cooking and America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks on a regularRead more
Let’s try something new, shall we? Most of what I bake is sweet. Or rather, the things I bake that aren’t sweet don’t tend to be very interesting: basic wheat bread, cornbread, plain biscuits (or even biscuits with bacon and cheddar). I tend to assume that everyone knows how to make those things? Is thatRead more
Last Friday, Doug had the day off so we hopped in the car and drove into downtown Washington, DC to have lunch and stop in at an art gallery. After wandering up and down 8th Street, we settled on Ted’s Bulletin as a likely-looking place, primarily for the all day breakfast and homemade pop tartsRead more
I needed to make something to take to a BBQ this weekend. Since I’d made a whole passel of cookies last weekend, I didn’t want to make cookies again so I pulled out an old standby recipe from Smitten Kitchen. Deb’s recipes are always well-tested and well-written and this one for Chocolate Stout Cake isRead more
We’ve all had kind of a week, haven’t we? National news as well as personal news has mostly been bad this week. I feel very badly for the families of all those involved in the Boston Marathon bombing and the explosion in West, Texas and for everyone who has been scared and hurt by theseRead more
As you might have noticed, I bake a lot. And I mean a lot. Between my business baking dog treats and all my little personal projects, I bake something nearly every day. So when my stupid cheapo rolling pin started to leak water on my dough (probably from being immersed, which granted you’re not supposedRead more
Tonight I went to my first ever cookie exchange. I know, how have I never never been to a cookie exchange? Anyway, a crafting group I belong to decided to host one and so I felt some pressure to step up my packaging game a little. I figured a crafting group would expect better than just aRead more
I was cruising Pinterest a few weeks ago while Doug was sitting next to me on the sofa. When I came to this Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake, he said, “Um, could that be my birthday cake?” Why of course, darling! So last week I acquired some delicious semi-sweet Scharffenberger chocolate, a whole heck of aRead more
I wasn’t even going to blog this recipe for pumpkin cookies with brown butter frosting. I’d seen it repeated over and over by different bloggers on my blog feeds and on Pinterest and so I was just going to make the cookies I needed for a church function tonight and go on about my day. ThenRead more