Breads, Cakes, and Sweet Treats
Lemon-Apricot Sticky Buns
Lemon-Apricot Sticky Buns are sweet, tart, and gooey. But they aren't low-calorie or diabetic-friendly! A perfect once-per-year treat, maybe for Easter? Who doesn't love sticky buns? Their delicious gooeyness (is that a word?) brings out the child in all of us. But...
Norwegian Apple Pie
More like a cake than a traditional pie, this Norwegian Apple Pie recipe can be made quickly with items you already have in the cupboard. My first food related job (many, many years ago) was working in the kitchen of a high-end seasonal restaurant. For most of the...
Zucchini Ricotta Chive Bread
Excess zucchini combined with leftover lasagna filling and chives from the garden turn into a tangy, moist yeast bread. Do you still have too much zucchini? Yeah, me too. The other night I had grand plans to make grilled zucchini lasagna roll-ups. But first I went...
Zucchini Cake Brownies
When life gives you zucchini overload, make brownies! As I mentioned in an earlier post, the zucchini patch is prolific as usual this year. We've been harvesting green, black, and yellow zucchini for weeks now. We've grilled it, stir-fried it, stuffed it, and stewed...
Chocolate Hazelnut Fruitcake
It might be a little late (the story of my life), but I received a request for this yummy fruitcake recipe and thought I would share with everyone. Although fruitcake improves with age, a little known secret is that fruitcake is also delicious the day it is made. And...
Homemade Herb Crackers
Chives are one of the easiest herbs to grow. Seems like you just plop them in the ground, forget about them, and they come back year after year just the same. In fact, sometimes they are just a little too enthusiastic and spill out into the whole garden. Even so, I...
Make Your Own Frozen Pizza Crust
Who doesn't love pizza? It is one of America's favorite foods. Like most of you, I've had some memorable pizzas - those made by The Red Onion in Rangeley, Maine and the California Style from Pizza Harbor in Seaside, Oregon come to mind - and way too many greasy,...
Orange-Blueberry Muffins
For fruit lovers, this is the saddest time of the year. The grocery store selection is pretty slim once you get past the end of the apples and various forms of citrus. I love oranges, and have been on a bit of a blood orange bandwagon this week, but I also like...
