The holidays mean two very comforting things to me – Sienipiirakka and Iz. I couldn’t just be A Normal Person and have my favorite holiday traditions be a christmas tree and Burl Ives singing “Silver Bells,” oh no. Too easy. Granted, when I was a little girl, those two things were huge for me, along [...]
Let me tell you my feelings about cake. Cake is basically a medium for frosting. I am so all about the frosting. Any sort – buttercream, cream cheese, chocolate, vanilla… anything that isn’t full of Crisco. The cake is a mechanism for easily delivering the frosting to my mouth, because, let’s face it, not many [...]
This probably isn’t true of many quilters, but so many people haven’t ever made a loaf of bread. I hadn’t, at least not since I was terribly young, until I was 35 years old and started taking more of an interest in making my own healthier food. The recipe that really kicked me over was [...]
(Chiefly because I ate pretty much the whole thing, by myself, in under 48 hours.) Best Pecan Pie I’ve Ever Made It’s good stuff, people. Posts Like This One, In One Way or Another:Finnish Mushroom Pie RecipeA Highly Political DebateBasic Bread RecipesChunky, Healthy, Deeeelicious Applesauce RecipeSlow Day
This stuff is good, and holy wow, it’s not loaded up with refined sugar and other nastiness. When I first saw “olive oil” on the list of ingredients for the recipe I used as a base, I was a bit taken aback; however, you won’t even notice the taste of the olive oil, other than [...]