When it comes to food, I'm a by-the-book person. I don't experiment with recipes much, if at all, but I decided to try that tonight and my daughter liked it so much, she finished her dinner before the rest of us! In fact, I didn't expect this to taste so much better than the usual recipe I go by ...
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Cookies This Week
While the pretzels I tried to do two weeks ago turned out to be far more work than I'd anticipated, this week's baking was a breeze. We tried these super easy Confetti Cake Batter Cookies. This is an easy recipe that you can knock out quickly. Since you're using a box of cake mix instead of flour, ...
Pretzel Fail
Since I've implemented this baking-every-Monday idea, I've had approximately one success and one failure. For fans of baseball in Boston in the mid-90s, this is about the time we'd accept that the Red Sox had hit that mid-season slump from which there was no return. In fact, when we went to games, ...
Pickles & Breadcrumbs
No, pickles and bread crumbs don't go together... unless you're making them! Last week, we did our first canning of the season. Year after year, we enjoy a bountiful cucumber harvest. The right ones go into pickles. Which cucumbers are best for pickles? You want the smaller cukes, the ones with ...