TWD: Better late than never

 
 
 
Technically I am not fulfilling the TWD rules this week, so it will not count towards my participation this month (which means I will do next weeks recipe as well), but I had all the ingredients and had wanted to make this one anyway.  And so I did.  At least it is still summer, and [...]

Baking with Children: Favorite Recipe

 
We are home again!  And while when I am here too long I can only think about traveling, when I am away too long, I can only think about home.   Our full trip was almost two weeks and it was nice to come home, check on my garden (still growing), my to do list [...]

On Vacation: Reading List

I’ll be camping and traveling to see friends, but I don’t go far without a book in my hand (that’s my daughter above reading at our quick beach trip in June. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree).  Here’s a list of books I’m hoping to get through while I’m gone.  This [...]

Baking with Children: Double Chocolate Muffins

I love baking.  I love sharing things I love with my children.  Not too far a leap to loving baking with my children.  One recent afternoon my son had a friend over and we headed to the kitchen to do those things I love.  My son loves chocolate.  That lead us to this recipe from [...]

How does my garden grow? Hollyhocks Again!

As I started last year with some pics from my garden I thought I should head out there again.  First off you can see from my pic above that my hollyhocks are back– I can’t remember if the doubles bloomed last year or not, but the singles are back too!  They bloomed again with no [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie (TWD): Chocolate Pudding

This is my first week doing TWD and I am very excited.  I’ve had Dorie Greenspan’s Baking cookbook up on my shelf for over a year now and have baked some out of it, but as with many of my cookbooks in the last year, it has not been put through the paces as much [...]

Drawstring Backpack: Instructions

 
I think that my reference to Martha Stewart projects as sources of “inspiration” was spot on.  I’m glad I saw their “Easy Beach Bag” project, but it really only served as inspiration for the final project as the directions did not end with the type of finished bag I wanted.  If you followed their [...]

Summer Breakfast: Peach Cobbler

First off I really must warn you– this is not a typical southern recipe.  This is more of the Northern California 70’s pseduo-hippy mom recipe.  The actual description should be Honey-Whole Wheat-Peach Cobbler– but it’s what I grew up on so I knew no differently and love it best.  This is something that my mom [...]

Buttermilk Cookies

I mentioned in my previous post that I’d come across some recipes to use up any buttermilk I might have in my fridge.  I tend to buy a carton for a recipe and then never use the rest of it– not sure why really, but thought I should add a few buttermilk dedicated recipes to [...]

Muffin Accomplished!

Well, I’ve done it.  I made those muffins mentioned on Sunday and we finished off the last of them today.  My final verdict– good, but a bit too sweet.  I added sunflower seeds and raisins to them and that helped, but considering that I don’t normally have buttermilk around my house, I’m not sure this [...]