I think this was a success. Lainey seemed super happy to receive it; it was probably one of the very rare times I’ve seen her speechless!
The entire quilt is sashed in a 4″ kona white, and I love the way it made the colors pop! The binding was a vibrant orange that was used [...]
Oh my – was I excited about this one. Here’s the next installment of SOB starring Charity of Sweet Charity Pie and myself It was my pick this time, and although we both already did a creme brulee for Tuesdays with Dorie, and although we had just done a vanilla sauce for the [...]
Like most things I attempt for the first (or second) time, the results are mediocre. Sometimes I get lucky, and sometimes I get persistent. The latter was the case with the truffles. You see, Charity and I had chosen truffles to kick off our SOB baking bonanza. I did the first batch exactly according to [...]
My experience with biscotti is limited at best. I was never turned on by the whole idea of biscotti because to me it appeared to have the same texture as (very) stale bread sticks. That and they’re not overly sweet and not overly savory, so their function seemed rather limited as well. <enter complete and [...]
Its time again for the monthly Bread Baking Day bake-off! Zorra, the founder of BBD is hosting the one year anniversary edition – and the theme for this exciting occasion is Bread with Sprouts! For my bread I decided to do a variety of sprouted grains – an equal mix of Hard Red Wheat, [...]
I’ve been so eager to try this bread, and I’m so glad I finally did! The reason I had put it off for so long is that the high extraction do-it-yourself-part had intimidated me. I don’t know why – it ended up being so easy to do, and so worth this 4 extra minutes that [...]
When Holly of Phemomenon asked for participants in her one-off foodie event, “Blogging for Babies – An Invitation for Little Wonders” I didn’t hesitate to say yes. This is an event to promote the March For Babies, which does amazing work in the way of improving the life quality of infants, both full term [...]
The difficultly level of this bread is marked as “advanced” in Maggie Glezer’s book. I took one look at that and thought, what the heck. I’ve got a bread class under my belt, and I just won’t take pictures of it if its inedible .
I adapted the recipe from her book Baking [...]
I’d been daydreaming about trying my luck at English muffins ever since I saw Susan’s post at Wild Yeast. They just looked so tasty, and so much better than what you get out of a package! I’m so glad that I tried them – they are every bit as good as she promised. I didn’t [...]
It’s that time again! Except this time I feel like a fool. Somehow I had it in my head that this month’s posting was to be done on the 31th (last day of the month, just like last month, which was my first time participating). But my assumption was wrong, and I just [...]
