Loafing around? No, it's not what you think. I baked a loaf of bread today. And I finally got smart and tried out my old mixer to see if it would knead bread dough. It's definitely not a KitchenAid, but it worked well enough for the amount of dough I had. (Thanks, Toni and Kate [...]
WFMW: My Recipe Binder
I own dozens of cookbooks. But they're rarely used. It's just so inconvenient to have to search through all of them every time I want to find a recipe (and yes, I realize that's a really lame excuse). But now that I've been working on planning meals and baking from scratch, I've started collecting all [...]
Hail Jenny, Giver of Scrumptious Biscuit Recipes!
I successfully baked another winner-of-a-recipe this morning. This time the recipe was from Jenny over at Runningamuck which she called "Big Daddy Biscuits." I put this biscuit recipe on my list of 13 Blogger-tested Recipes, but I hadn't made them as of that post. But now that I've made them, I think I'm in love! [...]
Hail Kate, Giver of Delicious Cinnamon Roll Recipes!
I made cinnamon rolls this morning using a recipe Kate at A Simple Walk emailed me, and they turned out soooooo good! If you missed the cinnamon roll recipe in my post earlier this week, I've posted it here again for your palate's pleasure. Thank you, Kate! I'd like to say that these cinnamon rolls [...]

















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