fresh recipes from the heart...

My hubby has been asking for some of my banana chip muffins for breakfast lately.  So, I dug out some of the ripe bananas that I have stashed (or should I say stockpiled) in the freezer with full intentions of making some muffins.  When I got started, though, I realized that I wasn’t really in [...]

My husband and I really aren’t beer drinkers. It’s not that we haven’t tried, because we have. We just prefer wine (and I haven’t met a mojito I didn’t like). The thing is, we go through stages where we pick up a six-pack from a local brewery thinking that maybe we will discover [...]

You may think that pumpkin is only for the fall, but I could eat pumpkin all year long. I made lots of my own pumpkin puree with the fresh pumpkins from our CSA this fall, and stocked up on a few extra cans, too… Just in case!
I’ve been on a bit of a quest to [...]

I’m a control freak. Let me just put that out there…
No, this isn’t going to be a post about the many reasons that I should probably see a shrink and the fact that I have some serious OCD tendencies…  We can talk about that later.
This post is all about making homemade bread, which stems directly [...]

I’ve been gradually adding some new homemade bread recipes to my baking repertoire.  I’m definitely not the master bread baker that my mom is, but I have been getting better about making my own bread instead of buying it.  I find that it’s difficult to find good quality breads at my local grocery store (most [...]

Hopefully you’re not getting sick of pumpkin recipes yet! If you are, let me apologize now, because I’ll probably be cooking with pumpkin until Christmas (at least). I wait all year for the few precious months when I can bake and cook with pumpkin, and I take full advantage of it when the time [...]

I have recently made it my mission to learn to bake bread.  My mom is a fantastic baker, and I grew up eating homemade bread.  Until recently, though, I was terrified of anything that required kneading.  I made pizza dough from time to time, but I always used my Kitchen Aid mixer to do the [...]

Every once in a while, as I am working in my kitchen, I realize that I have what I consider to be a good kitchen tip to share… It’s not that I’m brilliant, not by a long shot.  It’s usually just that I stumble across something by accident, and I think to myself, “perhaps this is [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post, last night I made breakfast for dinner.  To accompany my ham and asparagus frittata, I made some whole wheat cinnamon rolls.  These cinnamon rolls are also adapted from a recipe from my Cooking Light cookbook.  The first time I made the rolls, I followed the recipe as it [...]