Baking Delights: Baking breads and treats for your family

June 12th, 2008

Easy, Perfect Homemade Hamburger or Hot Dog Buns

Summer is the time for cook-outs for sure. When you can make homemade, delicious (soft!) hot dog and hamburger buns in less than an hour why in the world would you buy them?
Did I say less than an hour? Yep!
These freeze well so you can make them ahead of time. If you […]

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June 11th, 2008

Pizza Baking Stone/Bread Stone: It’s the Only Way

The bread in the image above is Kalamata Black Olive Bread
In order to get those awesome artisan breads and pizza crusts you have to have a pizza baking stone of some type in your oven.
Why?
Simply because the baking stone makes for a far superior crust. It is the only way to get the […]

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May 21st, 2008

French Breakfast Puffs:Little Puffs of Yum

I have looked at these a number of times in one of my vintage cookbooks and just passed over them..They seemed too simple, too average, too mediocre. A little flour, a few eggs..some butter…yadda yadda yadda.
But something whispered to me the other morning and I thought that I would. I mean, why not? So what […]

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May 10th, 2008

Crumb Cakes are a Recipe for Old Fashioned Goodness

Crumbcake. A muffin but not. :)
Usually when you see a recipe for crumbcake it will be baked in a square pan. I like to make them in muffin cups; little individual bites of WOW. By doing it this way you can

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May 8th, 2008

Savory Romano & Herbed Monkey Bread

There are many kinds of monkey bread, bubble loaf, or pull-apart bread as it is often called. Most of them start with canned biscuit dough and are a sweet treat for breakfast.
This is a little different in that the recipe starts with homemade roll dough and then is dipped in melted butter and […]

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May 2nd, 2008

Butterscotch Muffins Go with Tea or Coffee

Muffins have to be one of my favorite foods because they are versatile and quick, two things that I really like in a recipe. :)
You can have them for breakfast, or lunch, or even dinner. You can use them as a snack or with a relaxing cup of tea in the afternoon….and on..and on…

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April 25th, 2008

Cheese and Onion Biscuits

Cheese and onion biscuits are, to me, the perfect accompaniment to cream based soups. I especially like them with potato soup and clam chowder.
Marc, being from Massachusetts, is very keen on clam chowder. In fact, it is almost his number one comfort food. I do try to make it often. My recipe […]

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April 22nd, 2008

Old Fashioned Whole Wheat & Oatmeal Bread

 
Of all of the types of bread that I have made over the years there are a few that are classic. A few that i make over and over and over just because they are perfect. This is one of them.
Oatmeal bread makes a hearty and filling bread that is full of […]

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April 16th, 2008

Think Spring: Key Lime & Rose Muffins

I had some leftover key lime juice from the key lime and strawberry pie that I made and I wanted to use it up. It is not cheap stuff, and besides that, it is too good to let it go bad. Sounds like a country song title, doesn’t it?
Anyway…made these for breakfast the […]

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April 9th, 2008

Swedish Limpa:Rye Bread with Style

 Image: Marye Audet, Apron Strings and Simmering Things
Baking with rye flour is challenging because of the lack of gluten  in the flour. It is never going to rise and be light the way that white flour does, but really, isn’t that part of the charm?
The texture of this bread is really good, and […]

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