Recipes

Easy French Bread makes 1 loaf 2 1/2-2 3/4 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar 1 pkg(2 1/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast 1 …

This is a very altered version of a Cook’s recipe for whole wheat bread. Theirs has wheat germ and rye in it because they were …

This is a much-used recipe of mine…it’s my go-to recipe when I need to make a birthday cake.   It turns out a nice, basic chocolate …

(Want to jump straight to the recipe? Here’s a printable, picture-less PDF.) My deep-dish pizza skills are all thanks to Cook’s Illustrated…without them, I’d have …

Deep Dish Pizza Ingredients 1 medium baking potato (about 9 ounces), peeled and quartered 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast 3 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose …

To wrap up breakfast week, I have some breakfast accessory recipes, if you will. 😉 I don’t always make these two items when we have …

If you’ve never tried making waffles at home, well, let this be the day that things change! Waffles aren’t at all complicated to make at …

Pancakes are a very inexpensive food if they are made from scratch. And this recipe is so easy, I can’t really think of a reason …

As promised, I’ve got a very straightforward yeast dough recipe for you today! Rolls are a great beginner yeast recipe because they are really forgiving. …

Basic Rolls A picture filled version with more text is here. Ingredients 1 cup milk 1/3 cup sugar 5 tablespoons butter, cut into chunks 1 …

Kneading bread dough is one of those things that is best taught in person. Unfortunately, most of you don’t live near me, and so I …

I was going to start the Wednesday baking series with something simpler, but there were so many requests for the monkey bread recipe, I decided …

If you read my menu plans often, you know I don’t put tons of effort into my fruit and vegetable side dishes. I like sides …

This is perhaps not the healthiest of granola bar recipes, but if you like orange and coconut, you will find them to be very delicious …

Some of you who have been reading my blogs from the very beginning(alllll the way back in March of this year! lol) will recognize this …