Adventures in cooking and baking.
This sourdough discard cracker recipe is an easy and tasty way to use any sourdough discard you have. Just try to restrain yourself from grabbing and snacking on one or two each time you walk by. They're pretty irresistible.
These homemade sourdough crackers are made with your sourdough discard. There's no rolling pin required.
This dulce de leche pumpkin cheesecake is the perfect dessert to add to your Thanksgiving table.
This dulce de leche pumpkin cheesecake is a fabulous make-ahead dessert. In fact, it's better when it's prepared about 12 hours in advance and allowed to chill. Plus, you can make the dulce de leche topping in advance, refrigerate it, and bring it back to room temperature before pouring it over the cheesecake right before serving.
These severed hand pies are a fun and easy to make Halloween dessert. Fill them with a red-colored fruit (cherry, raspberry, strawberry, or cactus pear) pie filling for a creepy and delicious treat.
All you need to make these little severed hand pies is ready-made pie dough, cherry pie filling, and an egg wash. You can garnish the hand pies with some of the juices in your pie filling or with some raspberry or strawberry dessert topping.
These mini pizza skulls are tasty little treats to serve at your next Halloween party.
These pizza bites are so easy to make. You can use your favorite pre-made pizza dough, such as Pillsbury, or you can use your own favorite pizza dough recipe and then stuff them with everything you love on a pizza.
This white wheat and spelt bread has a crispy chewy crust and a moist and airy crumb.
This white and spelt bread begins with an attempt to make yeast water as a leavener. Years ago, I tried making yeast water, but failed. This time, our Bread Baking Babes (an every-other-month group of bread baking enthusiasts) host Judy of Judy's Gross Eats challenged us to make a loaf of bread, any bread, using a yeast water starter.
These spiced skull cakelets are cute little tasty bites flavored with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove, and cayenne. They are a sweet dessert with a bit of a kick!
These little cake bites are such a fun and tasty treat to make for Halloween. The cakes are moist and spicy, and so reminiscent of the fall season.
This bread is made with a delicious mix of different grains, including wheat, corn meal, oats, bran, and brown rice.
This multigrain bread, called "struan," was created by my favorite bread baking author and teacher, Peter Reinhart.
