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 [...]

I know, I know, in the food blogging world, whoopie pies are soooooo 2009 but, in the rest of the world, people are still in awe of creamy icing smooshed inside a cake-like cookie. For my departmental holiday party, employees are implored to make an ethnic dish representing their heritage.  You can imagine that this [...]