Our theme for the month of April was Family Favorites, chosen by previous winner Natalie at Oven Love. So I thought long and hard about it. Cheesecakes are my new favorite thing to make. God help me, I am a cheesecake addict. The sheer agony of having to wait 3 hours while one bakes and […]
Opinionated is an understatement. He judged every single dance routine.And no, they weren’t always the same high marks. Don’t ask me, I just live here.
Last summer, Seven was just starting to crawl around this time of year…so he really didn’t have much of a say in where we spent our time playing. This year? Completely different story! The past few weekends, Jon has spent time staining our huge front porch – so now Sev wants to hang out there […]
If you follow me on Twitter, you were kept updated via tweets on my first attempt at making homemade mozzarella. When I finished, some of you were surprised…but no one was as surprised as me! Last summer, Jayne, the Barefoot Kitchen Witch made mozzarella at home. Of course, she also makes bread from scratch, pasta […]
One year ago today I made my first DoughMessTic post. It was for Cream Cheese Brownies. The pictures suck…in fact, all of my early pictures sucked. One even has a box of baby wipes holding up a Lemon Meringue Pie. That I took at night. So sad. But I have come a long way since […]
Just in case you have been living in a cave the past few months and haven’t heard of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, well, here’s your wake up call. Buy the book. I’m not sure what took me so long to finally make the purchase. To be honest, I am not much of […]
Kim of Scrumptious Photography chose Dorie’s Chocolate Cream Tart for us to make this week. Great choice, but I almost didn’t make it. I didn’t have time, really, what with just having done Cookie Carnival and the Daring Baker’s Challenge. I needed a break. But I hate missing Tuesdays With Dorie. It’s the one thing […]
The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. However, she left us so much room to play around with flavors that I doubt you will find two cheesecakes alike today in our posts! (And let me tell you, there are over a thousand […]
Toasted Almond Lemon Bars have ground almonds to the crust, and a bit of almond extract in the filling, which results in out of this world Lemon Bars. How many times have you seen the entries for Cookie Carnival? Me? I have seen them too many times to count, and yet I never joined in […]
…they become Dreamsicle Macarons. Yep, you heard me right – Macarons. Because I had a bunch of left over eggwhites from last week’s TWD bread pudding, I figured I’d give the ol’ French Macaron another go. Last year, I tried making them for the first time, and after a few batches, I finally figured out […]
The other day, Seven & I were browsing the books in Target when I stumbled across Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. I choose books first by the cover. I know you aren’t suppose to do that, but seriously – for me, I have to be intrigued by the looks of it. Then comes the […]
Who doesn’t like pizza? I mean, what’s not to like? Bread, tomotoes, cheese. Anything that starts with those three things can only get better. So last week I sent out a tweet. Who has an easy, failproof pizza crust recipe? I got a couple of great responses. One from Two Peas & Their Pod, and […]