Bringing "back in the day" back to today
How did I end up making such a wonderful homemade strawberry tart? Let’s start with a little backstory. Last year we planted some strawberry plants in our garden. I think we got about 3 strawberries before the birds discovered them and despite the elaborate fence-like contraption that I built to cover the strawberries, we did …
We really love our chocolate chip cookie recipe, but sometimes you are looking for something more. This is where this mint chocolate chip cookie recipe comes in. We like to bake a fresh batch of cookies each week to add to the kids’ lunches and maybe to steal a quick snack at night. Don’t judge, …
Do you crave homemade cinnamon rolls but don’t want to get up at the crack of dawn to pull it off? Plan ahead and make the dough for this pull apart bread the night before and you can enjoy all of the sticky, sweet goodness of cinnamon rolls in a warm, gooey mound that will …
Our youngest daughter has a new, unhealthy obsession with donuts. For the last few weeks, she starts begging for donuts as soon as she wakes up. While we do have a Dunkin’ Donuts within walking distance of our house, their donuts are typically stale and leave me a with tummy ache. So while my child was …
Last week I made chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips and they were disappointing. So in hopes of turning that frown upside down, I decided to make the inverse cookie this weekend. These easy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies disappeared off the counter top faster than I could remove them from the trays! Check out …
This recipe is one that really brings back a part of my childhood. When I was young my grandmother would always make lemon meringue pie. When I was old enough to help out, she taught me the tricks to making a great pie. There are three main components to making a great lemon meringue pie: …
Sometimes inspiration comes in the strangest ways. For example, tonight we were going to have pizza for dinner. The plan was to use our standard homemade pizza dough recipe one with some homemade sauce that I had in the freezer and one garlic pizza. The dough was made at lunchtime and left to rise …
It is Memorial Day weekend and in addition to honoring our fallen heroes, we often have a cookout with the family to remember family members that we have lost. Since we started this project to live without store-bought breads, the bun situation has been pretty spotty. We have made these buns in the past and …
Is there a restaurant out there that you have been to a bunch of times, but not frequently? One example of this is the Ohana restaurant at the Polynesian Resort in Disney World. Our first experience with Ohana was during our honeymoon and have gone back every chance we could get. It’s the Disney take …
I am officially old. I asked for silicone bread pans for Christmas and I squealed like a little girl when I opened them. These babies needed a test run, so imagine my delight when I spied three past-their-prime bananas that desperately needed to be dealt with. Bread pans + Bananas = Delicious banana nut bread!