Our Share of the Harvest

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 [...]

It was my turn to host What’s Baking and, wouldn’t you know it, my month happened to be July, a huge harvest month and the month of the Maryland Buy Local Challenge (going on now!) so of course I chose the theme “Bake Local”.  Aside from just eating fresh fruit, one of the hardest meals [...]

Aside from zucchini bread and a handful of creative recipes, vegetables are not conducive to dessert making, particularly baking.  And damn do I love baking.  But fruits, well, fruits can be adapted well to baking, so ever since strawberries came into season, I’ve been throwing around ideas for how to get them into something cake-like.  [...]