Tag: baking
Perfecting the “Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie”
Throwing together a batch of chocolate chip cookies is second nature to me. However, whipping up a batch of “healthy” chocolate chip cookies seems to require a bachelor’s degree in culinary science. Unfortunately, that is not what I went to school for. Luckily I do spend majority of my free time in the kitchen baking. […]
Read more about Perfecting the “Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie”Summer Berry Love
We just finished the last of the season’s strawberry crop from the Nordic Ware community garden. Eating a fresh home grown strawberry just picked and still warm from the sun reminds me that’s what a strawberry is meant to taste like. Grocery stores offers gigantic, perfectly shaped strawberries that are beautiful to look at but […]
Read more about Summer Berry LoveReminiscing about Rhubarb
It always makes me so happy after a long winter to see little green nubbins of rhubarb leaves poking up through the soil in my garden. My hardy little rhubarb plant can always be counted on to spring to life before any other plants or bulbs have sprouted. I’ve learned that rhubarb is one of […]
Read more about Reminiscing about RhubarbA New Take on Wedding Cake
My daughter is being married this September and she has her heart set on a multi-tiered, multi-flavored, gluten-free, Bundt-shaped cake. There are a lot of challenges and hyphens in that request. I first reacted by trying to talk her into something else, but she was persistent so I finally gave in and said, “Okay, […]
Read more about A New Take on Wedding CakeCookies to warm the heart and the home!
As a sales person for Nordic Ware, I get to meet with people from different parts of the country. Inevitably, and especially in winter, they have lots of questions about Minnesota. Especially THIS winter. Today its -40 degrees with the wind chill factor. Which brings up questions number 1 – what is the wind chill factor? (Answer: […]
Read more about Cookies to warm the heart and the home!Bring a touch of summer to your breakfast with Lemons
Everyone loves the scent of freshly cut lemons. Great on salads, zested over pasta, or squeezed over vegetables prior to serving, lemons are a versatile culinary ingredient. With the cold weather still upon us, I woke up Sunday morning wanting to make something that would brighten up my breakfast table. I decided I would use the lemons […]
Read more about Bring a touch of summer to your breakfast with LemonsS is for Snickerdoodle
It’s the time of year where I start to plan what I’m going to bake for the holidays. I always put way too much on the agenda, usually accomplished in a rush. Even though I stress myself out trying to tackle it all, I enjoy every minute of it. Caramel Puff Corn, Scrabble (our family […]
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