Our passion is great bread!
The Bread Baking Babes are staying cool this month making an easy little bread. It’s been so hot, I haven’t felt like baking bread. I’ve been making jam and soups instead. I was starting to go through bread withdrawals. Sara of I Like to Cook came to the rescue with this easy little bread that doesn’t require much hands on time or heat up the
I don’t know about you, but I’m finding more and more reasons to put away the fruit of the harvest from my garden and from local farms. I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta and back then we weren’t into canning so much, but my mom did can some fruits and vegetables. These days, she’s into canning and freezing the bounty from her beautiful
I’ve been enjoying my cucumber harvest this year. I only have a few plants, but they’ve been producing wonderfully, and the bugs didn’t get to them like they did the squash. So as I mentioned previously, I’ve had to look for creative ways to use them besides making pickles – which I’ve done twice already this season. As I was looking around for different soups
This old-fashioned Blackberry Jam is made the traditional way with no pectin, just fresh fruit and sugar and a little lemon juice to assist in the gel setting. My taste tester and I visited one of my favorite farms on the 4th of July. I got a flat of blackberries and a peck of peaches. You know what that means? It’s time to jam! I
These Sourdough Poppy Seed Rolls are made with a mixture of all-purpose and white whole wheat flour and leavened with wild yeast. I made these light wheat rolls for an all-American luncheon. I thought about bringing dessert, but rolls are always in fashion and definitely all-American. The menu was Southern fare for sure. We had fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, potato salads, pasta salads, green
