Baking

A galette is my answer to an impromptu dessert or for that matter even a light dinner option as they can be sweet or savory.  I love how simple and elegant a galette looks.  Did I mention how easy they come together?  I can literally be sitting at my desk, take a coffee break while …

Here we are a year into the new way of living.  For us, that journey has meant a lot of homemade bread.  When I do not have time to make sourdough, or I forgot to start the process of sourdough, I have a handful of faithful bread or bread-like recipes I can fall back on. …

I use to buy pita bread then the pandemic hit.  Once an item that was always available was suddenly sold out, everywhere.  I did the next best thing and started baking pita bread myself, at home.  It was a glorious thing.  Pillows and pockets of bread any time I wanted it.  Why had I waited …

I had a similar kumquat scone back in February at one of my favorite breakfast spots.  Kumquats are a love or hate type of citrus.  I am on the love camp but did not always feel that way.  It wasn’t until I tried kumquat marmalade that I decided to start using them more often at …

I cannot remember the first time I had a popover, but I vaguely have a feeling it was during a holiday meal.  My step-mom use to make a traditional roasted prime rib for Christmas and I think that is where the first popover popped into my life.  It really doesn’t matter, what does is that …

One of my favorite things to do each season is to create a new sweet roll recipe. We don’t eat sweet rolls or cinnamons often, so when we do I try to make it a little extra special. Besides I love creating new sweet recipes using seasonal fruit as the sweetener opposed to a lot …

This is one of those recipes which I intended on sharing a while ago, actually for Easter. Then life took over, and maybe I was a tad lazy too. It doesn’t matter when or why instead it is nice to share it for Mother’s Day. If I were going to see my mom or even …