All-natural recipes and baking tips for home bakers
Looking for a way to use up some leftover berries? Or perhaps you have some frozen berries and you need a good recipe for them. Try this Easy Raspberry Crumble. Ready in an hour, and made with ingredients you probably have on hand right now. We grow our own berries and I usually have a whole shelf full of frozen berries to use at any …
“Flour, salt, baking soda, buttermilk – anything else is tea cake.” I visited Ireland a few years ago and I remember a bread baker telling me this as we toured his shop. And while you can find a thousand recipes for Traditional Irish Soda Bread – the American ones really like to add raisins – if it varies from these 4 basic ingredients, it’s not …
Ham and Cheese Strata is a great leftover ham recipe – perfect for using up that leftover ham on Easter Sunday. Tasty and filling, it can feed the entire family. It’s a simple cheese strata, a layered dish of bread and cheese, with an egg mixture to bind it together. The addition of leftover ham adds protein and more texture to the eggs and cheese. …
Rich chocolate, filled with chocolate mousse and topped with chocolate buttercream – this cake will satisfy all your cravings! In regular and high altitude.
How to Substitute Baking Soda for Baking Powder: The long and short of it is this: Yes, you can substitute baking soda for baking powder in most recipes. No, you cannot substitute baking powder for baking soda in most recipes. What is baking soda? Baking soda is a compound that can be naturally mined from the ground, but is most often created through a …
Potato and Leek Soup with Sausage. Growing up in Kansas, we were poor. But Mom would figure out ways to stretch her dollar to feed a family of five, and one way was with soup. Chicken soup, dumplings, galushkies, vegetable beef . . . and good old potato! Potato soup has a million variations, of course, simply because it’s so versatile that you can add …
Looking for a really easy, healthy dessert recipe that you can whip up with the kids? Try these Whole Wheat Raspberry Bars. Dwaine and I make our own raspberry jam from raspberry bushes we have planted in our yard here in Denver. Black raspberries are our favorite, but we also have red. We take an afternoon every so often and make a batch of jam, following …
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 …
A while ago, I needed a dish to take to a gathering. Potatoes seemed to fit with the overall plan, so I started researching and came across Hasselback Potatoes. But I wanted the Best Hasselback Potatoes. So I started to improvise. I liked the idea of the Hasselback method – making thin slices in each potato so that the edges get crispy while the inside …