Summer time. When the air is warm and suddenly food just tastes better when you eat it outside. What is it about food cooked on a grill? Don’t look at me, I certainly don’t have the definitive answer! I just know that like millions of […]

Last year we made the decision to plant fruit trees including two cherry trees. While they won’t give us as much fruit as we usually put up each year we hope to get enough to make a cherry pie. For the rest of our winter […]

This week’s challenge for the Great British Bake Off Bakealong hosted by Laura from Little House Big Alaska was to bake flatbreads. We could choose any kind we wanted but there had to be 12 of them so that kind of eliminated making focaccia. Although […]

I had a friend call and ask me about making scones. She was having a virtual tea party and wanted to have some to eat since she couldn’t go to her favorite bakery.  Baking is not something she does very often and I told her […]

I am a big fan of a filled pastry as you all know by now. This being Mardi Gras season it is time for that famous pastry of the season, the King Cake. The origins of this treat are found back 300 years in history […]