Dad doesn’t get enough credit here on the blog or in real life.  Mom gets all the glory and attention being

I’m pretty obsessed with wild salmon.  Whether Sockeye, Coho, or King, I can’t get enough of it.  Farmed

As I’ve mentioned before, my all-time favorite pie is Bobby Flay’s Peach Blackberry Pie.  I still remembe

Garlic is probably my favorite savory food.  I’ve eaten it pretty much every night with dinner for the past

  There are several important components to a baking blog.  A desire to want to do it is a really good s

As you probably know by now, I am totally muffin obsessed.  I eat some kind of muffin pretty much every day f

My favorite fruit hands down are peaches.  As soon as May hits, I troll the grocery stores searching for the

I have never baked with whole wheat flour of any kind until now.  I have been working with King Arthur Flour

While I spend a great deal of my day typing on my laptop or smartphone, I still don’t think there’s anythi

Sometimes people surprise you in the best way possible.  It’s even better when you least expect it.  My bl

You probably know about my love of TV shows about food by now.  Whether they feature recipes, a competition,

In this, the age of the Internet, it’s easy to stop buying cookbooks and just print recipe after recipe from

I started this blog because I love to bake and I love to write.  It was putting my passions to use together w

I have a few hundred recipes bookmarked and about fifty more printed that I want to try.  Some were added to

Salt isn’t my thing.  It’s just not.  I add it to almost nothing, and when I do add it, I add very littl

Baking isn’t an exact science.  For some reason, people love to say that, but it just isn’t true.  Addin

Sometimes my chocolateless world gets a little empty.  Gooey, chocolate desserts look good on TV, at restaura

I don’t make cookies a lot, mostly because in the past I haven’t had a lot of luck with them.  For some r

I used to eat Pop Tarts for breakfast.  That’s right.  Pop Tarts.  And I liked them.  But as I grew up,

I love grocery stores.  It’s a phenomenon I can’t explain, but there are few things in life I look forwar

The first food show I watched was Emeril Live.  I’m not sure what got me started on it, but from the first

I’m not a big bread eater.  Most of the time it doesn’t fall far enough into dessert for me to justify sp

If you’ve been following along on my blog, you know when it comes to dessert I don’t hold back.  Butter,

I eat dessert every night.  Yes, every single night.  Sometimes it’s just a couple of store bought cookies

When I think of coffee cake, I think of the Entenmann’s ones of my youth.  They satisfied my sugar cravings

Before my mom took an early retirement, she would bring home the most amazing cookies from work.  Whether pea

It’s time I share with you the showstopper recipe my mom and I love to make and crave along with all the peo

When there’s a birthday at my dad’s place of employment, it has become my job to bake a treat for a celebr

  Growing up, I was one of those people that ate all of the filling out of a piece of pie and left the cr