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 [...]

  When I was in middle school, I despised Valentine’s Day with the fire of a thousand Black Hole Suns (you like the grunge reference, teenagers of the 90′s??).  The whole day was the epitome of preteen/teenage awkwardness.  The guy you liked gave flowers to someone else, your best friend was embarrassed to the core [...]

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 [...]

  Each year, I try new Christmas cookie recipes, I rotate through some previous tries and I make 3 must-bake recipes: Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, Chocolate Mint Cookies and Molasses Cookies. The molasses cookie recipe is practically a family heirloom; I got it from my mom who credits her aunt with it–who knows where she [...]