This week for our HB in Five Bread Challenge we made two great breads – Avocado-Guacamole Bread and Pesto Pine Nut Bread. Both of these were great breads – easy and fun to make. Unlike the others in the group, I have just been making buns because that’s what we like to eat with soup,…
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Blackberry Cobbler
[donotprint] Well, it’s been pretty busy here at Happy Acres. One of my projects is to get the asparagus patch ready. I’m mulching between the rows this year in hopes that will keep down some of the weeds, including the poison ivy I’m so allergic to. However, since the weather has turned cooler, I’m back…
Read MoreWhole Wheat & Olive Oil Rolls
I’ve not been keeping up with the Healthy Breads in Five group. It seems like I just haven’t taken the time to make the dough which is so easy to do. Anyway, today I finally completed one of the breads for March. This is the 100% Whole Wheat Bread with Olive Oil. For the recipe…
Read MoreIt’s about the right gadgets
Last week I was working on the first baking challenge in the Healthy Breads in Five Minutes (HBin Five) – Spicy Whole Grain Snack Crackers. I emailed the group about my failure – my crackers were pillows of bread instead of crispy crackers. Michelle, our fearless leader, suggested that I needed to just practice rolling…
Read MoreBiscotti Baking Round Three
Well, it’s another round of biscotti baking this morning. Today I tried a couple different variations on my original recipe. In the front is Black and White biscotti. Behind left is Walnut biscotti and on the right is Chocolate Chip. For the Black and White, I divided the dough in half. I formed the one…
Read MoreBiscotti Baking Marathon
Well, it’s starting! The biscotti (or cantuccini) baking marathon has begun! Yesterday I made three batches – one chocolate chocolate chips and two basic almond biscotti. Here they are in the oven in various stages of cooking: the chocolate is on it’s last bake, an almond is on the second bake, and the whole loaves…
Read MoreWhiskey for my pie, beer for my horses
I don’t know if Toby Keith would have liked my lyrics, but I think he’d like my pie. I was raised on pumpkin pie with whiskey. My grandma, Mayo, baked it for as long as I can remember. When she was too old to bake, mom took over the task. After mom died, I carried…
Read MoreIt’s Cantuccini (Biscotti) Baking Time Again
I’ve been baking biscotti every Christmas for at least the last ten years. I started baking this cookie after getting tired of paying an arm and leg for one little slice at the local coffee shop. In 2006, when we toured Italy I couldn’t wait to try real biscotti. I found out quickly that what…
Read MoreIt’s Not Momma’s Cornbread
When Hubby and I aren’t quite feeling up to snuff, we opt for our comfort foods, some of which include soups. Our meal last night included 8 or 12 or who knows how many bean soup. The variety of beans come from a bin at Bloomingfoods in Bloomington, Indiana. I’m sure there was a name…
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