Adventures in cooking and baking.
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.
These stir-fried udon noodles with chicken and vegetables is so easy to prepare and is ready in less than 20 minutes.
Yaki udon is a Japanese stir-fry that includes udon noodles, a protein, veggies, and a simple sauce made with soy sauce (either light or dark depending on the region), plus mirin or sake.
This pull-apart brioch bread is soft, light, flaky, buttery, and rich, all at the same time.
Brioche bread is made with an enriched dough that is high in butter and and eggs. It can be sweet or savory, or somewhere in between. It's a tricky bread to make, and can either turn out light and delicate, or heavy and dense.
These twice-baked potato pirogies are wonderful little filled dumplings - potatoes, cheese, bacon - pure comfort food.
These pierogies are a take on the Polish pierogi, which is typically filled with potatoes, cheese, cabbage, meat, or sweet fillings. As someone who loves anything potato and cheese, I had to try these, with a twist!
