We had the weekend to ourselves (I would have preferred being in Seattle, but alas those vacation plans were utterly crushed by the weather) so I didn’t bake at all this weekend.
Luckily, I had some pictures from previous weeks on hand, so I still have something delicious (which is good, because I’ve been slacking recently).
I [...]
I’ve been baking a lot recently, but I haven’t been very good about photographing what I’ve been baking. This weekend, however, I took the camera into the kitchen, and had Michael help me get pictures.
For some reason, bread always felt intimidating to me. Sure, I could make quick breads and cookies, but I never [...]
So, all the baking I did over the holidays? I pretty much took no pictures. At all.
You’ll just have to take my word for it that things were delicious.
As usual, I made a lot of cookies. Although I tried some new recipes, I also made some favorites from last year, including cranberry oatmeal cookies and [...]
I was looking for a new cookies recipe to try, and when I ran across this one, I remembered that I’d frozen some blueberries this summer, so that meant I had to make the recipe, right?
The recipe was straightforward, however, the cookies took longer than expected to bake, and although they are delicious, they’re [...]
I love this recipe. It’s from one of my favorite books, no longer in publication. Which is really too bad.
I usually substitute peanut butter chips, because Michael loves peanut butter.
She suggests refrigerating this dough before baking, but I can never wait that long, because once I make these cookies I want to eat them NOW!
Double [...]
Since I have this new stove to try out, I need to make lots of different thing. Just to test it out of course. Since Grandmom can eat oatmeal cookies, I decided to riff on one of the recipes I’ve used before.
I’m not sure how I feel about the spices. I might drop the [...]
The first time I made this recipe I screwed it up. I didn’t allow the toasted coconut and pecans to cool before adding them to the batter. The chocolate chunks ended up melting into the batter so I had more of a chocolate cookie than a chocolate chunk cookie.
This time I made sure to allow [...]
I love cinnamon rolls. Of course, I love them with walnuts and cream cheese icing, which are Right Out for Grandmom, so we I made plain ones.
Which are still really good.
Cinnamon Rolls
Dough:
3 1/2 cups white wheat flour
2 tsp yeast
3 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp dry milk
1 1/4 tsp salt
1 large egg plus water to make one cup [...]
We’ve got apples, but I just didn’t feel up to making a pie or a crumble or anything like that, so I looked up a recipe for apple cookies. I had to make several adjustments, some for Grandmom’s diet and some for what ingredients I had available, but all in all, they turned out pretty [...]
Weather has been nice and cool, so I decided that not only did I need to use up the last of the summer zucchini, I wanted bread as well.
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Got some apples from the farmer’s market, but just didn’t feel up to making a pie. Or more accurately, didn’t feel up to making a pie crust. I have got to start freezing pie dough for situations such as these.
So I browsed some recipes and found an apple crumble recipe that looked pretty good.
Apple Crumble
Filling:
3 [...]
Since my last foray went so badly, this time I went to my recipe file to find a zucchini bread recipe I’d used before.
Of course things couldn’t go smoothly: I discovered that aside from the 1/2 cup in the flour bin, I was out of white flour. I have whole wheat flour, I have bread [...]
The Farmer’s Market had zucchini this week, so I decided to make zucchini bread. I tried the recipe in the King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking book.
What was interesting was that the loaf with nuts turned out much paler than the loaf without nuts. Considering that the recipe called for nuts (and raisins which I [...]
Saturday I wanted chocolate cookies for myself–preferably with nuts–so I needed to make something else Grandmom could eat. (She complains that she eats too many sweets if I make cookies for her, but complains that she makes sweets she can’t eat if I don’t. So I err on the side of making cookies.)
Earlier this year [...]
While Grandmom was gone, Michael and I enjoyed the foods that Grandmom can’t eat. One of our favorites is chicken wraps.
This recipe came as a modification of one my my favorite lunches at the hospital: Wrap day. Unfortunately, they use fried chicken breast nuggets, which are not particularly healthy. These get more of their heat [...]
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