When I saw this Cardamom Coffee Cake on the Red Star Yeast website, I was excited for two reasons. First, I loved that the recipe used yeast to leaven the cake, but required no kneading. I certainly don’t mind kneading dough, but I was eager to try a no knead recipe. And the second reason? I adore…
The holidays just aren’t complete without some cookies. Don’t you agree? Anyone who reads my blog regularly knows that I love to bake… And, I especially love cookies. So, when I saw some tweets about the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap hosted by Julie from The Little Kitchen and Lindsay from Love and Olive Oil,…
Love to give homemade gifts, but don’t have time for a lot of last-minute baking? Well, that’s where canning can come in really handy! Over the past few years, I’ve started doing a lot of canning and preserving throughout the summer. One reason is that I love to save the best of each season to…
Every year around this time I start to regret planting a jalapeño pepper plant in my garden. You see, I seem to have quite the knack for growing jalapeño peppers in my garden. In the spring, I think, “Oh, it will be so great to have fresh jalapeños from the garden!” And, when those first…
I have professed my love of the Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte many times. I love all things about autumn, and I wait all summer for the first cool day when I need to wear a jacket. So, when the first pumpkin spice lattes grace the menu at my local Starbucks, I’m there. As much as I…
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 comes….
