It’s Tuesdays With Dorie and this week we baked Finnish Pulla from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking With Julia. From Wikipedia: Pulla (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpulːɑ]) is a mildly-sweet Finnish sweet roll or dessert bread flavored with crushed cardamom seeds and occasionally raisins or sliced almonds. Prior to last week if you asked me what I knew about … Read more
It’s Tuesdays With Dorie and this week we baked Gingerbread Baby Cakes from Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking With Julia. I’m excited about posting this recipe along with a my second book giveaway for Christmas! Read your way to the end of the post to find out how YOU can win Dorie Greenspan’s best seller, BAKING … Read more
Before you say “What? brownies the week of Thanksgiving and just before Christmas? How boring.” Oh, wait a minute, that is what I mumbled to myself as I began today’s project. Boy was I wrong! Twice a month a group of 400+ bakers join together, bake the same recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking With … Read more
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