2-1/4 cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or allspice 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup light brown cane sugar 3/4 cup cane sugar 3 egg equivalent in Ener-G egg substitute 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup vegetable oil** 2 cups finely grated carrots [...]

1-1/2 cups sugar 1 cup vegetable oil 3 eggs 2 cups grated zucchini 3 tsp. vanilla 3 cups flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. baking powder 3 tsp. cinnamon pinch of salt 1 cup chopped nuts (optional) Preheat oven to 325F. Combine the first 5 ingredients (wet) in a mixing bowl.  Sift together the [...]

I found this recipe a few years ago – before I started really baking bread much – and it is one of the ones that got me hooked!  It is from King Arthur Flours, but I have never followed it exactly… mainly in the fruit selections… It is a wonderful holiday bread with the jewel-toned [...]

This recipe comes down from my husband’s Grandmother – each year she would make a Christmas tree out of rolls, complete with green frosting.  She passed away, and no one had a cinnamon roll tree this year.  I knew I had the recipe somewhere, and I just found it, so I’m sharing it with you. [...]

If you aren’t Norwegian – or know someone who is – you may have never heard of lefse, but if you have, you know that this is a tasty treat that goes with both sweet and savory. Lefse can best be described as a Norwegian flat bread, not unlike tortillas. It is often made with [...]

I was thinking about using my sourdough starter to make dinner rolls last night, but I didn’t get it started in time – isn’t that the usual problem with starter bread? While I was looking at recipes though, cinnamon rolls kept showing up alongside the dinner rolls in google. I love google, it is where [...]

The end of Summer is here, and if you planted it in your garden – and the slugs didn’t eat it all – you may just have a plethora of zucchini lying around waiting to go bad.  What to do? Make muffins. Well, you can make bread if you want to, but the muffins seem [...]

I tried a new breakfast side dish today… and it met with mixed reviews. The adults liked it, the kids… didn’t. I think it was more a texture thing in their case. We had it with bacon, eggs and applesauce (and tea, of course!) and it was a very filling meal! Oats are one of [...]

This makes a great bread for thick-cut toast with jam in the mornings, or try it open face with cream cheese and sliced cucumbers! Or, knead in some herbs for a delicious herbed or garlic bread – yum… 1-1/2 cups warm water (around 105-115 degrees – NOT above 120 degrees!) 1-3/4 Tbsp. yeast 1 Tbsp. [...]

1-1/2 cups warm water (around 105-115 degrees) 1-3/4 Tbsp. yeast 1 Tbsp. sugar 2 Tbsp. ground flax seed 1-1/2 cups unbleached white flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup wheat germ 1/2 cup barley flour 1/2 cup millet flour 1/2 Tbsp. salt 1/8 cup olive oil 1/4 cup honey (warmed for easy pouring) +/- [...]