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 [...]

I love love love holiday “bark”.  You know, chocolate slathered out on a flat surface with bits of whatever dropped in and cut into random shards.  It’s rustic and unfussy but really hits a spot that can’t be satisfied by typical Christmas candy or cookies. The last time I tried bark, I used M&Ms as [...]

Nutella used to make me unjustifiably angry.  It is clearly full of sugar and fat yet was lauded and advertised as being healthy.  Like eating sugary Nutella on bread was supposed to be an easy, nutrient-packed breakfast or after-school snack.  I don’t think so. Then, I realized something like Nutella could have a place, not [...]