Yup, I whipped up some muffins made from raisin bran cereal, of which we had much, and of the mostly stale variety! I love finding a new use for things I’d otherwise have to throw away, and as often as we found ourselves with a partial box of stale raisin… Continue reading
Our first homemade ice cream of the season – seriously chocolate ice cream with crumbled up chocolate-covered mint cookies! (You know, the kind sold by that national group of girls every spring? Yeah, them.) This is just our usual chocolate ice cream recipe with the cookies added, so I’m not… Continue reading
It’s 85 degrees with 100 percent humidity. You happen to have a nice bunch of fresh kiwi fruits in the refrigerator. Do you just cut them up and eat them? Well, you could. And it would be delicious. But even better because of the high temperature, make kiwi sorbet! Here’s… Continue reading
This Crumb Top Apple Pie recipe is just the thing if you don’t have enough apples to make a regular apple pie; the recipe originally called for three cups of sliced apples instead of the usual six cups. Of course, this recipe requires a lot more butter for the topping… Continue reading
The other day I had just the right amount of the right ingredients to toss together a homemade chocolate cream pie – graham crackers and butter for the crust, instant pudding and milk for the filling, a cup of heavy cream for the whipped cream (with a bit of sugar),… Continue reading
This design began with a really weird conversational tangent, became an Out of Context Quote, and then ended up on a t-shirt! I think most kids would choose “Organic Marshmallow Farmer” as their desired career path if they were aware of their existence – they are a small, but growing… Continue reading
Four+ days of hot, humid weather did not shine kindly upon the three bananas we had in the kitchen, but I didn’t realize that until I was half done making the batter for banana bread. The peels had only the usual amount of black and spots for ‘just’ overripe bananas,… Continue reading
Contrary to some beliefs, ice cream DOES taste just as good in winter as it does in summer – you just have to put on a sweater when you’re eating it. 😉 That’s the justification for the impulse I had to make some malted milk ball ice cream – it’s… Continue reading
I had a bunch of cranberries sitting in the fridge, and didn’t want to make just another cranberry-orange bread, as delicious as those are. Luckily, we got the baking book from the Magnolia Bakery as a thoughtful holiday gift, so I looked up ‘cranberries’ in the index and found this… Continue reading
Upstate New York is having a great blueberry season, and having picked up a lovely pint of local blueberries, I decided to make some blueberry swirl ice cream! First, I washed all the blueberries and tossed them into the blender. I added about a 1/2 cup of sugar and a… Continue reading
