I was awakened this morning to the industrious sounds of my husband and daughter making these for the rest of the family.  They are an amazing smell to wake up to, and I thought I’d share them.  Oh yeah, they taste pretty good too. The Dough: 1.5 cups unbleached white flour 1/2 cup whole wheat [...]

As we have been making kefir, there have been a few times that I let it sit just a little too long, and it fully separated into curds & whey. Not one to be wasteful, I have been looking for ways to use this whey in cooking. One way is to add it to the [...]

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 [...]

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so you need to make sure it’s a good one! The kids are heading back to school next week, so we are enjoying the last few days of having “weekend breakfast” during the week, and today was no exception! I came across a recipe for Mayan [...]

Ah, yes, I am talking about moist & delicious scones – not hard rocks. These are fluffy, moist, sweet & *almost* vegan. I have adapted the recipe from one I was given many years ago and I have almost got it to a vegan point… I just haven’t found a worthy replacement for the butter. [...]

Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder Ω teaspoon salt 1 æ cups milk 2 eggs 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1/3 cup packed brown sugar 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips Powder sugar for dusting 3 inch metal heart shaped cookie cutters Instructions: Combine flour, baking powder and salt in large bowl. Gently fold [...]

Based on a German Apple Pancake recipe, it is the perfect dish for brunch or for any special occasion. If you have an apple slicer/peeler/corer. by all means use it for this dish! We often freeze a bushel of sliced apples in the fall to use all year long for this and other recipes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [...]