All-natural recipes and baking tips for home bakers
If you do any baking or cooking at all, you will find recipes calling for “two tablespoons of fresh, snipped chives,” or “1/4 cup of fresh dill.” And so you go to the cupboard, find the 12-year-old tin of chives that fell behind the sugar bowl the last time you had baked potatoes, and you cross your fingers and sprinkle. Amirite? Of course I am. …
A bread machine is a useful tool, but it usually needs a little help to produce the best-quality loaf. Here are a number of things to look for when making adjustments to your bread machine recipes.
Do you have a list of kitchen tools or gadgets that you wish you had? Though I’ve stocked my kitchen with some great tools, there are gaps as well. Lately, I’ve been eyeing the new Instant Pots that are advertised everywhere. I have a standard pressure cooker, and it still works fine, but having all the automated features on an Instant Pot makes me pause …
Beautiful cakes don’t just happen. It takes the right recipe, the right technique, and the Best Baking Pans. And this ain’t it. Most likely, you either inherited a mismatched collection of baking pans from Mom, or you picked up some basics along the way – pans you’ve used since leaving the dorm room. I know I did, anyway. And over time I realized if I …
Is Aluminum Safe for Baking? You can find numerous articles on what type of pan you should use to bake cakes. I can tell you, I’ve used them all – old, new, black, silver, glass, cheap, expensive . . . and I’ve made nice cakes with all of them. But they’re all different, and if you find yourself switching back and forth between this type …
But I have a stand mixer, and other baking tools and equipment already – why would I need a hand mixer? I remember thinking that way, too. But when you’re in the middle of a recipe, and it calls for mixing 1 teaspoon of Magic Item X into your batter for two minutes, and your big mixer is still a mess from kneading the dough …
Spring has sprung here in Colorado! It’s an old adage that you avoid planting or moving plants outside until after Mother’s Day, so we’re in the process of preparing our plants to be moved back outside. My Indoor Herb Garden is ready for some real sun, but it’s been producing lots of herbs for me all winter long. It has easily paid for itself in …
This Beef and Barley soup would take a couple of hours on the stove, but in the Instant Pot, you can enjoy it in 30 minutes!