Last week a big storm with strong wind and rain blew through the area. This large limb found its way to the ground in my brother-in-law’s yard. We became the lucky recipients of a 5 gallon bucket of pecans! My Chief gardener (and love of my life) will dry ’em, shell ’em, and bring to … Read more
NOTE to self: Read the entire recipe before making promises to family and friends there will be homemade bread for dinner. This week’s Tuesdays With Dorie recipe is an absolutely perfect bread to make in the fall. Pumpkin, not only flavors this yeast bread, but adds a beautiful orange-y fall color too! The raisins and … Read more
If you have been with me very long you will know I LOVE baking bread! You will also know that every-other-Tuesday I join about 400+ bakers around the world as we are baking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking With Julia. So when Whole Wheat Loaves came up as our next Tuesdays With Dorie … Read more
PSSSSST…Please don’t tell my sous-chef dish-washing mom, but the Chief gardener just brought in MORE tomatoes. Yikes! I’m pretty sure I told her last week that we are done with tomatoes for this year …. Lucky for us we have fallen in love with tomato galette. Galette is a term used in the French cuisine … Read more
I love fall and it is quickly finding its way across the country. In my neck of the woods the temperatures are falling at night into the low 60’s. How glorious for the inner child in me, who continues to regularly play with matches 🙂 And while my menopausal mind longs for the coolness of … Read more
It’s Tuesdays With Dorie and today’s recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking With Julia, is (drum roll, please) … POPOVERS! I don’t know why but I cannot write or say POPOVERS! without putting an exclamation point at the end. I think it is just how the word sounds. I’ve never made a POPOVER! before. I … Read more