I’ve been making pumpkin pie for as long as I can remember. I used a pie pumpkin from the store years ago and it was awful. When Hubby decided to grow Long Neck Pumpkins for the pies, I wondered if I’d have the same experience. But I was pleasantly surprised! So to get started, Hubby…
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Apple Crisp and More
[donotprint]A couple weeks ago, we again headed over to Reid’s Orchard and picked up three more different bags of apples: Fuji, Golden Delicious and Winesap. Of course we had to have a taste test after they were dried. After tasting all three, we agreed that both Fuji and Winesap tasted better than Golden Delicious. However,…
Read MoreHealthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hubby and I were heading out to a book discussion group Sunday and I thought it would be nice to take something to eat. And what better to eat while discussing The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle than chocolate chip cookies? These chocolate chip cookies come from the Deceptively Delicious Cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld. I…
Read MoreBlackberries are us
Our blackberries are coming on fast and furious now! What to do with all of this fruit? Well, the first thing I make is a cobbler. In case you are just joining us, here is my recipe. Then there are blackberry smoothies. Recipe here. Then there is Blackberry Syrup. Recipe Here. And tomorrow a new…
Read MoreHB in Five – Mixed Berry Muffins
One of our challenges this week was to make either bread or muffins from the Whole Wheat Mixed Berry Bread recipe in HB in Five. Even though we are knee deep in blackberries, I wanted to follow the directions and use frozen berries. I used some of our blackberries from last year’s crop. Some might…
Read MoreIt’s cherry pickin’ time
Yes, we have cherries! Yeah! I get so excited about these tart cherries. They’re pretty and so yummy! So now that we have these cherries, what do we do? Make a cobbler, of course. I use the same recipe for the cherries as I do with my blackberries except I add a little vanilla. This…
Read MoreMoving On To Cherries
Well, asparagus harvesting is now just a memory. Today I got out early before the heat and weeded about a third of the asparagus patch. Won’t be long and the whole patch will be a mass of ferns. I just love that look. However, right now, it’s just a little bare and not really much…
Read MoreHB in Five: Turkish-Style Pita Bread
This week one of our challenges was making Turkish-Style Pita Bread. This uses the master recipe dough from this book. I didn’t have black sesame seeds so I used regular sesame and poppy seeds. Here is a closer look at the crumb. I was expecting a pita which is much thinner. This turned out with…
Read MoreHB in Five: Chocolate Espresso WW Cupcakes
This week, one of the baking challenges involved the Chocolate Espresso Whole Wheat Brioche dough. I just couldn’t resist making cupcakes! I didn’t have bittersweet chocolate so I substituted semisweet chocolate chips. Well, I asked my expert taste tester and head chef Dave what he thought about this recipe. He agreed with me that this…
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