It’s no secret that I love small batch baking. Being able to whip up a small batch of tasty baked goods has saved the day on more than one occasion. Just a couple of weeks ago, we invited a couple of friends over for dinner on a weekday evening. My husband was in charge of […]
Baking is my happy place. Especially during the pandemic, precisely measuring ingredients and creating a finished product gave me comfort. It made my feet feel firmly planted on the ground when not much else did. When we were in full, solitary lockdown mode, though, it wasn’t great to have sixty cookies sitting in the house […]
There’s always money in the banana stand, and there’s always a bunch of old bananas in my house. Why can’t we ever go through an entire bunch before they go brown? Fortunately, we use bananas enough in baking that I look forward to them getting brown spots. We have Meu’s Guilt Free, All-Natural, Healthy Banana […]
There’s a lovely quote from Walden by Henry David Thoreau that reads, “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” For me, it’s more like, how many new eras in my life have been dated by the eating of a donut: There’s the life changing […]
Step one: Close your eyes and take a deep breath in. Can you smell the pumpkin spice? Do you feel the chill in the air? Can you hear the leaves crunching? That’s right, it’s October, the most magical month of the year (in my humble opinion). I think L.M. Montgomery wrote it best in Anne of […]