All-natural recipes and baking tips for home bakers
If you’ve never attempted fish at home, you really should try this Easy Oven Baked Salmon Recipe. Five ingredients, including the fish, and 15 to 20 minutes of baking time make it perfect for an impressive meal. What’s even better is that it’s basically foolproof! It’s baked uncovered in the oven, and with a few pointers, you can easily tell just when it’s perfectly done. …
All-natural lemon blueberry cake. No cake mix. No artificial ingredients. Just the perfect blend of fresh blueberries and tangy citrus.
The Best All-Time Cookbooks. For Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, International Home Cooking Day and Christmas – these cookbooks are (or soon will be) classics for the home cook and baker. Yes, you really can learn to cook well by following in the footsteps of the masters. Check them out! The Best All-Time Cookbooks Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle On …
Mandarin Orange Cake is an unusual treat to serve with coffee, or as a fresh after-dinner dessert. Normally, you see Mandarin Orange Cake made with artificial whipped topping and a box cake mix, but this version is entirely from scratch, and comes in both regular and high-altitude versions.
Don’s Double Chocolate Cupcakes with White Chocolate Buttercream Dwaine was talking with a neighbor who mentioned that she was craving some chocolate cupcakes. As luck would have it, Dwaine had managed to snag a bagful of baking chocolate bars at the store in the markdown bin! So I needed to do some research on cupcakes made with baking bars, rather than cocoa. I came up …
Roasted Turkey Breast 3 Ways. Simple ingredients in these no-fuss recipes deliver delicious, juicy results every time. These days, a trip to the store is always a crapshoot. You never know what you’re going to find, and you’d better be ready to snap it up if it’s available. This week it was bone-in turkey breast, so we bought two – one for the freezer and …
(Original cake recipe from a tattered magazine page stuck in an old church cookbook. I finally found the origin online here. ) This is the original Swan’s Down high altitude white cake recipe. It’s been in use since around 1894, so I’d guess it’s pretty solid. And Swan’s Down is still around today, which is pretty remarkable as well. I use their cake flour and …
One of the most intimidating things about cooking an international dish like this Santa Fe Style Carne Adovada is recognizing the variations in ingredients. Dwaine and I will often walk around a grocery in Puerto Vallarta and marvel at the enormous variety in vegetables they have compared to our paltry selection here in Denver. Dozens of chilies, all shapes, sizes and colors, as well as …
Here’s an old-fashioned homemade lemon pound cake recipe that is not at all difficult and the results are spectacular! With all the butter, fluffy egg whites and sweet natural sugar, no one can resist a homemade lemon pound cake. Why “Pound Cake”? “Pound Cake” originated with early American colonists. The recipe calls for a pound of all the important stuff – butter, flour, eggs and …
No “cream-of-Something”, no artificial flavors, no preservatives – just creamy, tasty chicken goodness! Chicken Divan from Scratch is not difficult, and the results are far superior. I checked my freezer and had 4 nice chicken breasts, so a Chicken Divan from Scratch sounded perfect. It bakes in the oven without a lot of fuss, so I can enjoy the guests while the oven does all …