Grandma’s Homemade Bread

My bread machine is one of my favorite kitchen tools, even though I use it mostly to make pizza dough.  Most often, I use the bread machine for the entire dough making process of whatever bread-type item I am making, then do the actual baking in the oven.  I have tried multiple bread recipes, different…Read more »

Sugar Cookies by the Princess

My daughter has very much enjoyed her first year in 4-H.  On a last-minute whim, she entered her elementary school’s baking competition earlier this year.  The Princess insisted the thing she must make was sugar cookies.  I had found (and personalized because I’m just me like that) this recipe years ago in an old cookbook. …Read more »

Making Biscuits, Baby!

We love flaky biscuits.  You know, the ones in the can?  Filled with all the ingredients that I’m convinced no one can pronounce?  Those are the ones!  My favorite three are quite vocal about their opinions of homemade biscuits, too.  It has taken over 10 years, but these are the closest I’ve been able to…Read more »