Last week WM texted me a recipe. It’s for No-Bake Margarita Cheesecake Bites via If You Give a Blonde a Kitchen. Which is a fantastic name for a recipe blog if you can commit to having the same hair color…
Friday 5: 2good2b4gotten
Happy Friday, which is also National Vietnam War Veterans Day (hi, Dad!), National Pita Day (not PITA), and Good Friday if you observe. And as of Wednesday, I am Covid negative! Woohoo! This time was much easier than last time,…
Friday 5: The other shoe
Happy Friday, which is also National Date Nut Bread Day and Forefathers Day. And that’s it. Usually there are 6-8 “National Days” each Friday and I have to narrow it down to two for the blog. I guess no PR…
Cowboy Cookies
My second baking endeavor from B. Dylan Hollis’s book Baking Yesteryear was the 1960s Cowboy Cookies! It’s an oatmeal cookie recipe but instead of raisins, swap in chocolate chips, pecans, and toasted coconut. The recipe has you toast the pecans,…
TikTok made me do it: two songs and a cake
Yes, I have a TikTok account. My TikTok content is 85% based on who I follow and the content that I like (Disney, nerdery, happy dancing, humor) and 15% completely random content. For example, I’m currently watching the entirety of…
German Chocolate Cake
Did you know that German Chocolate Cake isn’t actually German? It was created here in the US, but the chocolate used for it was a sweet baking chocolate created for the Baker’s chocolate company by a man named Samuel German….
Easter Baking
Despite my griping on Friday the Easter baking went well. Three ham pies and three Easter breads were baked and (hopefully) will be enjoyed this week. The Easter breads I did at home, with an assist from my beloved Kitchen-Aid…
Monday, Monday
It was a pretty good weekend! On Saturday I spent some time with Nephews A & B. A is 8 now (whaaaat?) and very much into Youtube and video games. B is 4 now (whaaaaaaaat?) and is very much into…
We Made a Yule Log Cake!
But first, happy 18th birthday to my blog! Eighteen years ago today I moved from a flat HTML site with monthly updates to updating daily/a few times a day on Blogger. Most of the archives are online and navigable by…
Sourdough Bread!
I have always loved sourdough bread. And while I’m a decent baker, making my own sourdough was never within reach. Sourdough differs from regular bread because it doesn’t use conventional yeast. Instead, you grow your own yeast within your own…
Baking in the time of..
Yeah, I’m tired of the coronavirus references too. But they’re so easy! With no place to go on the weekends (and really no desire to ever leave my house again) I’ve taken to baking. To try and keep things under…
Christmas Roundup!
December was a sugar-coated whirlwind of activities that didn’t let up until the 26th, which begins WM and I lovingly call … Sloth Week. Schools are closed and TNP is closed until January 2. That leaves us here in the…
