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Sep 29, 2025

Coconut Bran Muffins

Start your day with a super moist and tasty coconut bran muffin with a hint of cinnamon, vanilla, and brown sugar. 



These muffins are filled with wheat bran, which is the outer layer of the wheat kernel. These muffins are loaded with fiber yet are pretty light, likely because they contain actual wheat bran instead of bran cereal, which can also include other ingredients. 

Sep 28, 2025

Potato, Cheddar, and Chive Torpedo Bread Loaves

This potato, cheddar, and chive torpedo bread is a "mixed method" loaf, in that it includes both a sourdough starter and instant yeast. You can enjoy the sourdough flavor without the uncertainty! 

Potato, Cheddar, and Chive Torpedo Bread, one sliced and one whole.


Between the cooked potatoes and the cheddar cheese, this bread is super soft and totally cheesy. Add some fresh chives and you have a bread that is completely flavorful on its own. 

Michelada Recipe

A michelada is a refreshing Mexican beer cocktail. It's great for brunch or hanging out on a warm day. 

Michelada cocktail with ingredients in the background.


It's also great for celebrating National Drink a Beer Day, which is September 28. It's made with a light Mexican beer and Clamato or tomato juice, as well as salty, sour, spicy, and umami flavors. 

Sep 24, 2025

Tangerine Ricotta Cookies

These tangerine ricotta cookies are soft, tender, and cake-like. Finish them with a sweet glaze, tangerine zest, and your favorite sprinkles or nonpareils. 

Tangerine Ricotta Cookies on a white platter.


These Italian-inspired cookies are like little bites of soft cake. They are super moist from the ricotta in the dough. They also make wonderful Christmas cookies. Just change the colors of the sprinkles! 

Sep 20, 2025

Iced Apple Drop Cookies

These apple cookies are super soft and full of apple flavor. 

Iced Apple Drop Cookies on a blue plate.


These cookies contain five versions of apple, including chopped fresh apples, dried apples, apple jelly, apple juice, and boiled apple cider. The flavor of apples truly shines in these cookies. 

Sep 14, 2025

Roasted Tricolor Carrots with Coconut Orange Glaze

These roasted tricolor carrots with a coconut orange glaze are a wonderful side dish for fall and the holidays. They might just emerge as one of your favorite vegetable recipes. 

Roasted Tricolor Carrots in a white bowl.


Roasting carrots really brings out the flavor and sweetness in this vegetable, and using multicolored heirloom carrots adds so much to the appeal of this dish. Plus, the variety of carrots adds a more complex depth of flavor that is beyond what you expect, from earthy, to savory, to sweet. You can even roast the carrots, let them cool, and combine them in a pasta salad with kale. 

Sep 10, 2025

Sourdough Focaccia

This sourdough focaccia is light and airy, and loaded with flavor. You can top it simply with some olive oil, herbs, and sea salt for a delicious dipping bread to go with your meal. 

Pile of Sourdough Focaccia on a white platter.


You can split squares of this bread through the middle to make sandwiches like you might find in an Italian American deli and load it up with deli meats, cheeses, pesto, and veggies. You'll have the perfect sandwich for a picnic. 

Sep 9, 2025

Sourdough Seeded Bread with Tangzhong

This sourdough seeded bread with tangzhong is loaded with whole grains and fiber. Plus, it's surprisingly soft enough for making your favorite sandwiches. 

Sourdough Seeded Bread slice with butter.


This bread may be filled with fiber and nutritious whole grains, but the flavor and the texture of the crumb appeal to any bread lover because.... after all, it's a soft and tender bread! 

Sep 7, 2025

Peanut Butter Chip Brownies

These brownies may look like standard chocolate chip brownies, but there's a surprise inside, peanut butter chips along with the chocolate chips. 

Peanut Butter Chip Brownies on small plates in front of a cake plate.

 


These peanut butter chip brownies are super moist and fudgy. Pack these into a lunchbox (yours or someone else's) for a sweet treat in the middle of the day. These brownies are perfect for both kids and grown-ups alike. Who doesn't love chocolate and peanut butter?

Sep 5, 2025

Crispy Molasses Cookies

These crispy molasses cookies, spiced with ginger and cinnnamon, will satisfy any cravings you may have for the flavors of fall and the upcoming holidays. 

Crispy Molasses Cookies on a serving platter.


These cookies are so tasty. They will be calling your name to return to the cookie jar in the kitchen and have "just one more." I sure couldn't resist. 

Sep 3, 2025

Apple Oatmeal Bread

This apple oatmeal bread, with a hint of cinnamon and brown sugar, brings the flavors of fall to your favorite sandwiches. Pair it with your favorite artisan cheese for a leveled up grilled cheese sandwich. 

Apple Oatmeal Bread with apples and and oatmeal box in the background.


This bread also includes the crunch of chopped walnuts for a savory and sweet bread that is amazingly versatile. Use if for making your favorite turkey or chicken sandwiches, French toast, cinnamon toast, and even PB & J.

Sep 1, 2025

Caramel Pear Pudding Cake

This caramel pear pudding cake is loaded with fresh pears and crunchy pecans. It is easy to assemble and creates its own sauce, or "pudding," while it bakes. 

Caramel Pear Pudding Cake with vanilla ice cream.


You can make this cake in one larger pan and then scoop out servings onto everyone's plates, or you can bake servings in individual eight ounce ramekins.