Our Share of the Harvest

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 [...]

This month’s What’s Baking was hosted by Dani, of Cloud 8 1/2, who charged us with baking a family favorite.  I recently had a real awakening to the power of favorite family foods. My grandfather was an amazing man.  He helped me move into college, taught me steer to his boat and always had a [...]

For this edition of What’s Baking, Jade from The Mess Pot suggested the theme “Celebrate Summer” and encouraged us to bake something that reminded us of summertime or used a summer ingredient. Remember I told you we picked 25 pounds of peaches?  Yeah, I’d be using some of those for this challenge and I hadn’t [...]

This month I finally got my chance to host What’s Baking?, a group of food bloggers committing to baking around a theme once a month to change up our routines.  I know you aren’t shocked to hear that when I landed July, a prime harvest month, for my host month, I immediately thought of asking [...]