Zesting

Last week there was a sale on oranges at the grocery store.   So I bought a few and made orange bread.  The recipe calls for orange zest.
In talking with people I’m always surprised at how many people don’t have zesters.  They’ll use a potato peeler or a cheese grater and it’s not an easy process.
For [...]

Happy New Year!

We started out the new year with a treat from the mother of the Man of the House.  She’s Dutch and sent us a box of  hagelslag (dark chocolate sprinkles).  In Holland people put these on buttered toast.   We used them on sandwich bread.  Delicious!   It was a fun way to start out 2010.

Thanksgiving Update and Free eBook

For Thanksgiving dinner I served apricot dinner rolls based on my apricot bread recipe.   The rolls ended up fine, but were a little too brown on the bottom.   I’m going to play around with the recipe a little bit and then I’ll pass it on to you.
In the meantime I’ve been enjoying the free eBook, How [...]

Bread Mix Review – Classic Hearth Hawaiian Bread

As I gazed at this box of bread mix in Walmart, I realized that  I’d never purchased bread mixes for my machine.  Once we were given a few by a friend, but that had been years ago.  I couldn’t even remember how the bread turned out.
Were mixes any good?  Would I like them?  Would I [...]

Dealing With an Old Oven

We really like our new location and the rental house.   One of the few problems is the stove.  It’s about 25 years old.  The burners have a mystery substance melted on them.  The timer knob is missing.  The clock no longer works.  Most annoying of all, the oven seems to run hot.
It was time for [...]

Fresh Bread

Sorry that posting has been so spotty the last few months.  We’ve been in the middle of a move.  It’s not a typical move either.  We moved from our house located in a city of 120,000 people.  Now we live outside a town of 9,000.  It used to be that a grocery store was in [...]

Cheeseburger Cupcakes

To be honest, cheeseburger cupcakes aren’t related to bread machines.  But KateDW’s flickr page showing how to make these adorable cupcakes is too cute to pass up.

Hot Weather Menu

I don’t know about the weather where you are, but we’re having a heat wave here!  The temperatures are going to be in the 90s this week.  Yikes!
For dinner this week we’re planning lots of sandwiches.  I’ll run the bread machine in the morning when it’s cooler.  Then for dinner we’ll slice up the bread [...]

Julia Child and Bread Machines

I’m reading Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.  I’m suddenly filled with the desire to cook lobster and make butter-filled sauces.  I’ve even paged through our copy of Mastering The Art of French Cooking.
All of this made me wonder what Julia Child thought of bread machines.  Much to my surprise and delight, Julia [...]

Five Great Cooking Related Sites

Recipezaar – I visit this site several times a week.   Usually I’m trying to use up some sort of leftover or trying to find a recipe for whatever is on sale at the grocery store.  At Recipezaar you can sort by ingredients, category (main dish, occasion, preparation, etc.) or by nutrition.  Additionally, the recipe rating [...]