Adventures of a Home Cook
Question: what to do with all of the applies I just picked? Answer: Apple pie of course. Question: What if I have already made several apple pies and I still have apples left over because I insist on picking bushels of apples every year and …
People generally fall into two breakfast categories: sweet or savory. While I generally like to enjoy the best of both worlds, in my mind nothing beats homemade cinnamon buns in the morning. The smell alone is best thing in the world to wake up to. Like …
Everyone needs to have a reliable, ‘go-to’ muffin recipe in their repertoire. A perfect muffin recipe can be altered depending on what fruit is in season, will work well with both fresh and frozen fruit, and is not so sweet that it can’t be served …
There are a lot of reasons to make things from scratch- its usually cheaper, its always tastier, there is a certain pride of ownership, using up mass quantities of *insert random fruit, veggie, etc here* and in some cases you are too darn lazy to …
Every year when I was a little girl, my mother and great-grandmother would take me strawberry picking. I remember the joy of spending an afternoon under the warm sun, eating berries with their red juice dripping down my chin and sticking to my arms and …
Cookies that is! When I first heard of Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies I thought: these can never live up to their legendary reputation. Originally created by Pierre Hermé, a Parisian pastry chef, Dorie Greenspan included this cookie recipe in an earlier cookbook under the …
I have spent the majority of my life believing that carrot cake is a highly overrated quote-on-quote dessert. This is probably due to the fact that it is usually store-bought and makes an appearance at the most boring life events- bridal showers, baby showers…[Why do …
If there is one recipe that is evocative of my childhood it is banana bread. My mother was very busy with three children, a career, and her insistence that she be ever present and involved in the many activities we participated in. Despite this, my …
