What do I think is the best part of a grilled cheese sandwich, a cheese quesadilla, or a pizza?  It’s the cheese that has escaped from the edges and browned into crispy cooked bits.  One day I’m going to just bake some cheese to a crisp so I can have all the crispy bits I [...]

One of our dogs loves to ‘counter-cruise’.  When no one is looking, she puts her paws up on the kitchen counter and grabs whatever has been carelessly left too close to the edge.  Once we opened a Krispy Kreme doughnut box and found it empty.  Somehow she had lifted up the top and eaten the [...]

Here it is!  The grand finale in my quest for the perfect buttermilk biscuit recipe.  I have finally, through many trials and tests – three of which I wrote about here, here, and here, found the recipe that I will be passing down to my children and their children.  That’s how much I love them [...]

There’s something very addictive about bread baking.  When the bread starts rising and getting all yeasty smelling it’s like magic.  And the flavor…well nothing compares to the flavor of just baked bread.  After succeeding in baking a loaf or two, you just can’t stop. And the more bread you bake, the better you get at [...]

Peter Reinhart’s book The Bread Baker’s Apprentice has been around for a while and has certainly made the rounds in the food blogging world.  After seeing a few of the recipes on various blogs my interest was piqued, but being a little bit of a skeptic, I told myself this book couldn’t be all that.  [...]

I really like knowing exactly what’s in my food.  I’m like one of those kids in the Breyer’s ice cream commercial where they’re reading the ingredients on the carton of the ‘other brand’ saying “polyphenolari-wha?”.  Whenever I can make something myself that is just as good or better than store-bought, I’m all for it. Lately [...]