Boy, has it been a LONG week … For the second time in three weeks I have gone AWOL, and I am sorry for that. I was hoping that after my last bout of family related drama things would quiet down, but it was not to be. Last week my father was feeling a little [...]
Monday, March 21, 2011
I’m a bad baker. Over the weekend I discovered, much to my shock and horror, that I had run out of butter. It does not happen often and I actually buy two or three pounds at a time as to have plenty on hand at all times. When I do run out I usually [...]
Friday, January 29, 2010
Growing up in Texas, cornbread was something we ate almost weekly. Mom would almost always make her cornbread in a well-seasoned cast iron skillet. That skillet gave the the cornbread a lovely crust on the bottom and I would always pick off the crusty bottom before eating the tender center. We never got fancy with [...]
Monday, December 7, 2009
Wait! Before you hit the back button just hear me out. I know fruit cake gets a bad rap, and most of the time it is well deserved. Be it the candied citron, the fluorescent cherries, or insipidly sweet cake, most fruit cake is in fact very bad. Terrible even. I’m still asking you to [...]
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
It is that time of year. Fruit is starting to come into the market that looks fresh and ripe, the weather is warmer, and my thoughts turn to baking. I was at the market a few days ago and tucked behind a box of huge strawberries were these really beautiful blueberries. They were on [...]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
When I was in England last Fall I fell in love. Not with a person, or even the land or the culture, however fantastic they all are. No, I fell in love with the bacon. In England they serve, almost exclusively, back bacon. If you have never had this kind of bacon before it is a [...]
Monday, June 27, 2011
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