As you all know, there’s a pandemic on, which means I am baking even more than usual. Yes, comfort baking is a thing! What have I baked recently? These Healthy Carrot Muffins with a Blood Orange Marmalade Filling! Perfect to serve with some iced tea for virtual brunch, and make all of your friends jelly…
Waste Not Want Not
Preservative-Free Garden Veggie Spread, and My Childhood Dream
When I was a child, I used to loooooove eating raw red peppers. My mother would cut them into sticks and give them to us for lunches and snacks and I would gobble them up. I always said that when I was grown up, I would eat nothing but red peppers for a whole day….
Pastry-Wrapped Cranberry Baked Brie, Or How to Repurpose Leftovers!
This year we hosted my family for both Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, and put out yummy things to nosh on each time. One of the items was a lovely cheese and crackers tray. I love cheese and crackers as an appy, so I made one for each get-together. But after New Year’s was…
Using Up Leftovers & How to Make Whoopie (Pies)
Whoopie pies. Ever made them? Ever eaten them? Ever even heard of them? I’ve always read about whoopee pies (usually in novels set in Amish country) but never actually tasted one. They’re basically two super-puffy, cake-like cookies sandwiched together with some buttercream/marshmallow-y/fluffy icing-type filling. It’s always sounded rather unhealthy to me. Surely one cookie, sans…
Candy Cane Redux Cookies & What Happens When My Baking Cred is Challenged
Hello dear blog readers! You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been blogging (or baking) as much over the last few weeks. Between some health issues (now resolved, whoot!) and trying to cut down on my baking so that the DH could lose some weight (it’s hard to watch your weight when your wife is always…