Sometimes I make bread by hand, just to feel the experience of dough stretching and changing under my hands. It doesn't take much more time than doing it in the bread machine. When I was young though, I hated kneading bread. I was impatient and just wanted to be done with it. Maybe I have… Continue reading Basic Handcrafted White Bread
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Winter Strawberry Crisp
Nothing like a good wind storm to remind one who really is the boss 😉 Kirk and I got to spend our weekend learning all about fence posts 101 and fixing an awful job (the posts of our fence were horribly put in, come spring we now plan to replace all the posts!!). The post… Continue reading Winter Strawberry Crisp
Holiday Dishes: Cranberry Cherry Sauce
Before you read the long dissertation below, have you checked out the giveaway this week yet? I'll be first to admit I can be a very, very, very, verrrrryyyy petty person and hold grudges. Years ago, when I was first blogging on my Trail Cooking website (so long ago it had a different name!), I… Continue reading Holiday Dishes: Cranberry Cherry Sauce
Pumpkin Chocolate Cake
It can be a "snack cake" or decorated with a favorite buttercream frosting for a more elegant cake. Whichever way, it is a moist cake that was teenager approved. Pumpkin Chocolate Cake Ingredients: 1 cup pastry flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking soda ¼ tsp… Continue reading Pumpkin Chocolate Cake