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Cheddar Quick Bread with Cherries

February 27, 2012 By 42 Comments

Baking from scratch really can be quick and easy!!!  Easy you say?  Absolutely!  Boring?  Not a chance!

The Daring Bakers‘ February 2012 host was – Lis!  Lisa stepped in last minute and challenged us to create a quick bread we could call our own.  She supplied us with a base recipe and shared some recipes she loves from various websites and encouraged us to build upon them and make new flavor profiles. 

The only rules for this Daring Bakers challenge is that the bread would contain no yeast and take no longer than an hour and a half to prepare.  While Lisa offered a great base recipe and some wonderful suggestions, this time we were allowed to make any quick bread that we wanted.  So I decided to share one of my favorites….. [Read more...]

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Life is Yummly!

December 24, 2011 By 24 Comments

“RIVERS KNOW THIS:  THERE IS NO HURRY.  WE SHALL GET THERE SOME DAY.”  Winnie the Pooh

I have always loved the word yummly and use it a lot to describe anything that I taste that is insanely delicious!  And before I became acquainted with Yummly, the recipe search site, I had always associated this term with Winnie the Pooh somehow.  I think I was getting confused with ‘rumbly in my tumbly’, which Pooh says often, and which happens to me quite a bit, too!

Yesterday, I had the good fortune to come home to an email, in which I was alerted that Yummly had used my recipe for Cranberry Cherry Ribbon Cookies in an article called ‘10 Christmas Cookies that Will Put You in a Cookie Coma’! How very awesome!

Yummly is the world’s largest and most powerful recipe search site.  They have been featured by The Today Show, Reuters, Fox, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, About.com and more.  And they have millions of viewers and subscribers.  So you can imagine my surprise when they wrote to tell me that I would be added to their list of other hand picked blogs that are featured by them and that my recipes were “Certified Yummly”.  I am proud to be associated with such a wonderful site, and one that I use so often in my own recipe searches!  And I am in great company with so many other wonderful blogs!

Baking is a passion that really teaches patience.  But sometimes….. when you are patient enough….. life is not only good…..it is Yummly!

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Cranberry Cherry Ribbons

December 13, 2011 By 31 Comments

“A GUEST NEVER FORGETS THE HOST WHO HAD TREATED HIM KINDLY.”  Homer

I never bake (or eat!) so many cookies as I do around Christmas time!  And every season I always try something new.  So I was thrilled when Jen at The Three Little Piglets invited me to do a guest post for her Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies series!  Jen’s been featuring great tips on baking, wrapping and cookie making, along with some fabulous giveaways!  I really feel honored to be in such great company with Jen and her other guests as they present some awesome cookie recipes.  Please head on over to The Three Little Piglets to wish Jen a Merry Christmas, and to get the recipe………… [Read more...]

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Cherry Cheesecake with Chocolate Almond Crust

April 18, 2011 By 4 Comments

“LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES, DON’T TAKE IT SERIOUS, IT’S MYSTERIOUS.  LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES, SO LIVE AND LAUGH AND LAUGH AT LOVE, LOVE A LAUGH, LAUGH AND LOVE.”  Bob Fosse

So I am keeping with the very cherry weekend theme.  CHEESECAKE!!!  It is actually the favorite dessert of Lena, the woman who designed the really pretty template for this blog.  She told me that she likes traditional cherry cheesecake.  But I decided to try and jazz it up a bit.  I decided to use a chocolate almond crust.  And while the recipe called for cherry juice in the body of the cheesecake, I decided to try and swirl it in.  I was a bit reserved with the swirling process this time and the swirl remained mostly on the top of the cake.  But not bad for my first try!  And more importantly, I wanted to give a wink and a nod in gratitude to Lena. [Read more...]

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