Back in the Christmas post, I made a brief mention of wine cakes, and I showed the recipe in my little slideshow. Well, if you looked at the recipe, you might have noticed that it was a little… well, cryptic. After a few calls to my mom and a little bit of trial and error,
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We’ve covered Diwali, Hanukkah, and Christmas in our holiday food and story features. Now, it’s time to go way back to a celebration that may seem familiar in some ways, though it is often forgotten as a niche practice in the shadow of the flashier, more popular holidays. I’m talking about the Pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice
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“Christmas” means something slightly different to everyone. For some, it’s a time of community traditions and religious celebration. For others, it’s a family time, where loved ones gather around their own traditions. For others still, like myself, we really don’t have much in the way of tradition, or we did at one point, but as
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I love lemon baked goods at any time of year, though my biggest struggle is making baked goods “healthy” (although those guilt-free “fudge” brownies I made are probably the best example to date). I love sweets, but as I’m getting older, they’ve started sticking to me a bit and more and more of my friends
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One of my friend-Skylers (the local one) mentioned the idea of banana pumpkin bread to me, and I had to say, I was intrigued. I enjoyed banana bread and I happened to have a surplus of pumpkin puree in the cupboard due to a sale at the local grocery store. 3 for 1. Great deal,
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This is another recipe we found in Nana’s stash of recipe cards. According to Poppa, it came from his sister, Dorothy, who used to make it for him all the time and later passed the recipe on to Nana. I added a couple of spices to it to make the dough a little more interesting,
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Trying to get an answer out of the Boyfriend is sometimes like pulling teeth. Asking him what he wants for his birthday, for example. He said “a job,” to everyone who asked (joke’s on him; he got a job offer on his birthday). When it came down to what baked good he wanted for his birthday,
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One of my close girl friends has been teaching me about Indian cuisine, and one thing I’ve learned (other than how to say various foods) is that there are many different types of bread. Rawa dosa is the first one I’ve had the privilege of trying . While I don’t think it’s traditionally served with Tostito’s chunky
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Friendship bread is something I first learned about in middle school as part of a science project. Making it takes a long time, if you do it the traditional way, as you have to grow and feed the yeast for about a few weeks before it’s ready. You need to feed it, burp it, keep
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