Who's ready for a simple no knead bread recipe? You can easily make artisan white bread with a little time and very little effort. It is delicious and has a nice pleasant taste thanks to the long fermentation process. Let's get started right away! I'm trying to make sourdough and it isn't going...
You can't grow up around Ohio or Herd country without getting buckeyes shoved in your face. They were created by a graduate of Marshall University in 1964 named Gail Tabor Lucas. You can read her son's blog about it here. The long story short, her mother sent her a recipe for peanut butter balls...
If you want to learn how to make pizza dough by hand without the need of a stand mixer, you are in luck. A relatively quick and easy pizza dough is something we love to make regularly. It's a close tie between this and pasta bakes. If you are looking for pizza fixed faster than many delivery...
I have had bad tasting soda or quick breads. Too much baking soda, cheap wheat flour and a heavy hand at mixing. It's lead to bitter, metallic, dense and claggy loaves of blobs. I'm not sure why there are so many bad recipes out there for what is basically a giant biscuit. After all, learning how...
Fluffy whole wheat dinner rolls are my favorite bread, currently. They are just as delicious as the farmhouse dinner rolls I've made for years. However, I've started using whole wheat flour more in my diet for the added benefits of whole grains. Within months, my health drastically improved for...
Let's make some spiced pumpkin bread this afternoon, shall we? It was in February that I had an idea. I had just finished making banana bread and it occurred to me: What if I just simply replace the bananas with pumpkin? Let me tell you, this was ingenious. I have since found you can take this...
Fat-Free Rice Krispie Treats Recipe without butter is an easy modification. Since there is no butter in this recipe, this is also a dairy-free rice krispie treat recipe. Kellogg® brand puffed rice cereal and high quality marshmallows are recommended, but you can also use generic and they turn out...
Chocolate macarons are amazing simply because they combine the flavors of meringue, almonds and cocoa. They remind you of brownies, chocolate silk pie and almond candy bars all at once. They are the perfect treat for chocolate lovers. We are all crazy about chocolate macarons. This recipe is...
Using brown sugar and honey with wheat flour is one of my favorite flavor combinations. I decided to modify the traditional soda bread recipe for a quick bread that didn't require buttermilk. The addition of honey and brown sugar to whole grains makes it a great way to introduce picky individuals...
Farmhouse dinner rolls are my favorite bread. In fact, I can easily chow down 1/2 dozen without even blinking an eye. I will pass up the most delicious sweets for one of these soft buttery rolls every time. They are so wonderful that guests now request I make giant batches during the holidays in...
Classic Hungarian goulash is often called Hungarian Stew in the United States. When Americans typically think of goulash, they imagine a macaroni ground beef stew similar to Hamburger Helper. Hungarian goulash, however is a rich, yet simple beef stew made with onions and paprika without a lot of...
Quick and easy homemade egg noodles are fast to make and have on the table within 1/2 hour. I reckon these noodles came about when a tired mother decided she wasn't up to rolling out dough thin enough to read a newspaper through. One day, she got to about 1/8" thick making spaghetti noodles and...
What is difference between a pastry cream recipe versus American pudding? The truth is, not much. As long as we are talking about the cooked version and not the box kind. It took a long time for me to figure out how to make Crème Pâtissière (fancy way of saying pastry cream.) Until I began to...
Learn how to make classic sugar cookies today! These are the one of the easiest cookies to make. By learning how to make a sugar cookie, you are learning the basics of cookie making. Once you master this simple, sweet dessert, it's easy to move onto other cookies like the classic chocolate chip....
Learning how to make simple blueberry jam in an afternoon is entirely possible. And you don't have to make a large batch, either. This makes just around 1/2 cup of jam depending on the size of your berries. Making fresh jam is much easier than you'd think. Just like fresh fruit, there is nothing...