Bread
100 Percent Whole Wheat Bread
For Christmas, my sister-in-law got me Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Bread’s. Until now I have been too busy to even sit down and read it, let alone make anything out of it. I ...
3 Ingredient Pumpkin Spice Muffins
3 ingredient pumpkin spice muffins are a quick and easy way to kickstart pumpkin season. With the help of a cake mix, you are quickly on your way to warm delicious pumpkin muffi...
7 Tips For New Bread Bakers
Bread baking can be tricky sometimes but once you get the hang of it, it’s one of the most satisfying baking projects out there. Here are 7 tips for new bread bakers that I wish...
Apple Bread
So here is what I am supposed to be doing: packing, cleaning, sorting. Here is what I did: bake some bread. Made some honey cinnamon butter to go on top. Took some rather cru...
Bananna Nut Muffins
Like chocolate chip cookies, it seems like everybody has a favored banana bread recipe. But in case you don’t, or you are looking to switch it up a bit, I thought I would share...
Big Rock Sourdough
I know, I know, no one has ever heard of Big Rock Sourdough. It certainly won’t be sweeping the nation like San Francisco Sourdough, but it was a tasty creation in my kitchen th...
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
Cinnamon raisin bread is studded with plump raisins and swirls of cinnamon and sugar. It’s perfect slathered with salted butter for a quick breakfast! What I love about cinnamon...
Cinnamon Rolls
Homemade cinnamon rolls are hands down my favorite breakfast food. My mom used to only make them for special occasions, like Christmas, and I would anticipate them for weeks. ...
Cinnamon Swirl Yeasted Pumpkin Wheat Bread
This is a fall riff off of my cinnamon raisin bread. Because this is the time of year when you add pumpkin to everything. Just roll with it, you’ll be glad you did. I will b...
French Bread
When a wonderful reader (also known as my awesome cousin:) emailed me asking for a good homemade French bread recipe, I knew Peter Reinhart was where I had to turn. I have made...
Homemade Naan
For a time, my husband and I lived in the lovely but rainy city of Seattle. There, I worked at a humane society where, probably needless to say, most of my co-workers were at t...
Honey Cinnamon Butter
Honey cinnamon butter is the perfect way to add a little bit of fancy to the holiday table. All that’s required is 5 minutes and a mixer! For The Holiday Table: Honey cinnamon b...
Irish Soda Bread
A couple of years ago, I had the good fortune to get to visit Ireland for a week. It was my first trip to Europe and it couldn’t have been a better place to take my first ov...
Lighter Banana Bread
Just a little rework of my traditional banana bread recipe to make it a bit healthier without losing flavor. Banana Bread 2 very ripe bananas 2/3 cup honey or agave 1 cup nonfat...
Marti Gras-Cinnamon Roll King Cake
Happy Marti Gras! Here is a cinnamon roll variation of King Cake that I made this morning. All the recipes I have read for King Cake are cinnamon filled yeasted coffee cak...