All-natural recipes and baking tips for home bakers
This St. Patrick’s Day staple has suffered greatly at the hands of the crock pot. Boiling the meat for hours may make it tender, but crock pot corned beef can also turn to mush. This recipe uses the oven for a gentler braise, retaining the basic texture of the meat, while tenderizing it, too.
Living at high-altitude? Then you know how difficult it can be to adjust your baking. This quick, concise article will help.
Ah – comfort food. Hot, filling, and made up of flavors you remember from childhood. That’s the secret behind this Oven Baked Macaroni and Cheese. And it’s even better when it’s homemade and free of all the preservatives and artificial colors that are routinely added to our usual comfort foods. Take the Kraft version of “Easy Mac and Cheese”: Whey, Maltodextrin, Corn Syrup Solids, Palm …
Packed with fruit and nuts, this Fruit and Nut Breakfast bread is perfect to start your day! Add a schmear of cream cheese and you’ll be satisfied until lunch.
This silky White Velvet Cake is perfect with an all-natural strawberry buttercream made with fresh strawberries. Reg. and High Altitude.
If you want high-rising, soft fluffy whole wheat bread from your bread machine, don’t follow the instructions. Use these instead.
If you’ve got an egg and some hefty bread, you can whip up a quick, delicious breakfast in your toaster oven with a minimum of fuss and mess. This Baked French Toast recipe is perfect for your toaster oven, producing four slices of crispy, not soggy, French toast in about 15 minutes. This technique can also be used in your regular oven when you need …
If you’ve never had a bierock (we pronounce it BEER-OCK in Kansas where I grew up), you are really missing a treat. This authentic Kansas Bierocks Recipe using ground beef comes from Ellis, Kansas, center of the Germans-from-Russia (Volga-Deutsch) settlements that sprung up all over Kansas and Nebraska in the 1870s. The Volga-Deutsch Heritage I am very proud of my Volga-Deutsch heritage. Frankly, it distresses …
Regular and High-Altitude Recipes Included. When a recipe is practically perfect, I don’t mess with it, and this one is. The only thing I added is a high-altitude Boston Cream Pie version for my mountain friends. Otherwise, this is the tried-and-true Wicked Good Boston Cream Pie recipe tested by Cook’s Illustrated (a fine publication, and highly recommended.) Read the Best Cooking Magazine Ever – Cook’s …
Three elements combine to keep your cakes from falling. Find out how to adjust your recipe to produce perfect, domed layers.