There are few dessert recipes that seem quite as traditional as old-fashioned gingerbread cake. Next to fruitcake and plum pudding, gingerbread is one of the quintessential old-fashioned desserts for the holiday season, but it’s also delicious at any time of the year. Even though we usually tend to think of gingerbread as a holiday dessert,… Continue reading Grandmother’s Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Cake Recipe
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How to Make A Backup Sourdough Starter
If you like baking with a sourdough starter, the best thing you can do to make sure you can continue using it for a long time is to make a backup sourdough starter. Even though sourdough starters are usually pretty resilient and hard to kill, if you neglect feeding it for too long, or if… Continue reading How to Make A Backup Sourdough Starter
Healthy Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe
Pizza is usually one of those foods that we think of as being in the junk food category rather than in the healthy foods category, but when you make your own pizza from scratch using good quality ingredients, it can actually be a pretty healthy food. When you think about it, pizza is basically just… Continue reading Healthy Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe
Maple-Glazed Overwintered Parsnips
These maple-glazed parsnips are so sweet that they actually seem more like eating a dessert than eating a vegetable. And, believe me, I love dessert and I’ve always had a serious sweet tooth, so that’s not something I say lightly! I know, it sounds pretty crazy to say that you can make a buttery, caramelized,… Continue reading Maple-Glazed Overwintered Parsnips
Molten Lava Chocolate Fudge Pie
A few weeks ago, a group at my church had a pie baking social, and I was searching for something a little different to bake besides the standard autumn apple and pumpkin recipes. I’ve always been a huge chocoholic, so when I found a recipe for a chocolate fudge pie on pinterest, I knew… Continue reading Molten Lava Chocolate Fudge Pie
Easy Homemade Sourdough Bread Recipe from 1869
If you’re not used to baking homemade bread, making sourdough bread might sound a bit intimidating at first, but once you get used to it, this bread is really much easier than “regular” yeasted bread. This easy homemade sourdough bread only needs to be kneaded once, and after that you can just put it… Continue reading Easy Homemade Sourdough Bread Recipe from 1869
Homemade Cornbread Stuffing with Chestnuts and Dried Cranberries
I had originally planned on posting this recipe back during the holiday season, but as I’ve mentioned before, I’m a habitual procrastinator, so I’m just getting around to it now. Better late than never, right? 🙂 I’ve made this stuffing for Thanksgiving dinner for the past couple of years, but this year I finally… Continue reading Homemade Cornbread Stuffing with Chestnuts and Dried Cranberries