Tag: baking
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Gingerbread Recipe
Gingerbread This is an annual treat for me, and I think every year I say I will make it more than once, and then there are other ideas and I forget. This time! This time I shall do it again… perhaps with apricot preserves instead of the applesauce, but I must remember to reduce the…
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Antelope Horns: A Cookie
These are not Gazelle Horns, the North African cookie/pastry. I wanted to make something a little different, and use up some dates and tahini I had on hand. So! these are the Texas variation on those delicacies, created for a friend with a nut allergy to be able to enjoy them. They aren’t a sweet…
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First Bake
Testing out the oven at the new house. Making dinner for the North Texas Troublemakers and enjoying the heck out of it. The kitchen is nowhere near fully operational, but it’s close enough to mix up a feast! Made a lovely discovery last night during the livestream. There is a cardinal nesting in the vines…
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Russian Black Bread
As requested on my Friday livestream here’s the recipe and a video of the making of my Russian Black Bread. This was also an experiment in videography and production by my Little Man. He came up with the idea, as we were preparing to do this, of making it into a school project: he is…
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Sweet Potato Pie
I yam what I yam. Sorry, couldn’t pass up the old chestnut. Really, this started when I had a can of yams in the pantry, and I was talking to my Mom about some of the oddball foods that made the move to TX with us. It wasn’t supposed to be this way… but that’s…
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A Temporary Sacrifice
The First Reader this morning suggested I blog about baking. As I was pre-coffee, I wasn’t sure what he was thinking, but then he read something to me. A post he’d made a year ago today on social media, referencing the hardships and trials of living with a baker, and having to sample her…
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The Answer
Yesterday I turned the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything! years old. Today, I was in the mood to bake, so I was thinking while I shipped up a couple of pies and some quick bread. I have been craving pumpkin pie – as my readers will recall from my last post – and…
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Second Breakfast Bread
I’m a huge Tolkein fan. I’ve always identified most with the hobbits, and specifically with Rosie Cotton – the girl Samwise Gamgee came home too. Of all those who were cursed to foray forth on that eventful journey, he is the one with the happiest ending. So it tickles me to realize that this bread…
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Kilo Cake
So I mentioned at work that I was thinking about baking this weekend. After two weeks of working straight through, I was in the mood to bake, it’s how I relax. Everyone’s tired and stressed. So they perked up, and somehow pound cake was mentioned. I can make that! I said, thinking that it was…
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Musing on Gifts
I’ve been getting ready for a flying visit from friends, and as I was preparing the house for eyes other than family, and baking because my love language is ‘have you eaten? Here, have a cookie.’ I was also thinking about gifts, and their impact on our lives. It’s not easy to give meaningful gifts…
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Vintage Kitchen: Lemon Pie
My grandmother posted a photo of a lemon pie she’d made, and I saw it and thought ‘that looks good! I should get the recipe.’ And then this morning while I was standing in the kitchen talking about the menu planning with the First Reader, I picked up one of the antique cookbooks and looked…
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Vintage Kitchen: Blackberry Flummery
A while back, my mother-in-law, the remarkable woman who bore and raised my First Reader, gave me a precious gift. We had been talking about this series, where I’m cooking from old cookbooks, some of which were originally my great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and mom’s books. She got up and marched into her kitchen, pulled this book…