Our Share of the Harvest

In case you haven’t seen the zillions of commercials telling you to buy flowers and candy or taken a stroll through a card aisle that has been swathed in pink or red, Valentine’s Day is upon us.  As such, the theme for this month’s What’s Baking is baking with V-day colors. I had those leftover [...]

We got snow in October.  OCTOBER!  And, since then, we’ve had just a small dusting.  Lucky for me, I happened to bake for this month’s challenge–a “snow day treat”–on the day we got that dusting.  It was cold and icy and even though I wasn’t the one who had to walk the dog, I wanted [...]

In honor of National Brownie Month (who knew!), Nicole from 7 Ate 9 Bakes gave us the What’s Baking Theme of Brownies.  Which is awesome because I haven’t made brownies in forever.  You’d think brownies wouldn’t fit in very well on a local food blog but, well, you’d be wrong.  Brownies call for a larger [...]

Jey, from The Jey of Cooking, put out the call for Savory Baking as our What’s Baking theme for November which, to me, meant I had a reason to face one of my long-time struggles–baking yeast breads. I’ve done several yeast breads before but I’ve known, every time, that they weren’t the best they could [...]

This is one of those recipes that passed like wildfire through my family–first, my great aunt brought these bars to a family event where my mom and aunt tasted them.  They each got the recipe and prepared them for two more family events.  And, knowing that my What’s Baking entry for “fall flavors” was due [...]