Today I had the privilege to guest post on another great blog – Merry Gourmet! Since Merry-Jennifer gave me the freedom to write about whatever I wanted, I decided to do a bit of baking.  You know that I love to take traditional recipes and jazz them up a bit with whole wheat flour and [...]

Some days I hate to think about how much sugar I have consumed. I don’t sit around snacking on sugar packets and candy all day, but I definitely get my fair share. From a sweet bread for breakfast (often topped with Nutella) to a glass (or two) of lemonade in the afternoon and an ice cream [...]

Since I will be wrapping up the Kitchen Bootcamp challenge on Friday, I thought I’d share another yeast bread recipe with you this week. It is a bit last minute, but I’m still trying to recover from a few busy weeks and rediscover what a “normal week” feels like! This time around, I thought I’d [...]

This summer, I thought it would be fun to mix things up a bit. Summer is a great time for traveling, spending time with friends, and enjoying great food, so I thought I would bring a little bit of that here to the blog. Throughout the summer I will be giving you the opportunity to travel with [...]

I had hoped to post this video last week, but I chose relaxation over video editing. Even though this is my third video, it still takes me quite a while to edit and prepare the videos before I get them up here on the blog. So, since we were on vacation in Cape Cod last [...]

We’ve been eating a lot of salads lately because our CSA has been providing us with lots of greens and giant heads of lettuce.  I don’t mind eating salads for dinner, but I need something to go with them – bread, muffins, quesadillas, etc. So, this week when salad night rolled around, I decided to [...]

Now that we all have one Kitchen Bootcamp challenge under our belts, it’s time to talk about the chapter for the June challenge.  I gave this one some serious thought, and I decided to take on something a bit different than the last challenge.  We’ll come back to more sauces and stocks later, but this [...]

I still haven’t gotten over my muffins for breakfast mood… So last week I decided to use up the overly ripe bananas on the counter to make some banana muffins. When I started mixing up the batter, I intended to make my standard whole wheat banana bread based on a recipe from my mom. But, [...]

I go through breakfast stages. For a few weeks, I’ll be really into smoothies or yogurt or cereal, and then I get bored and move onto something else. Lately I’ve been in a muffin mood. I can’t really afford to have sugar-loaded cupcakes disguised as breakfast food every day for breakfast, though… Not if I [...]

I love to make burgers – especially this time of year. I have tried making my own hamburger rolls a few times in the past, but I haven’t been too happy with the results. Usually, the rolls just aren’t quite soft enough and I’m not happy with the texture. A few weeks ago, when I [...]