Is there any aroma more comforting than the smell of homemade bread baking? This recipe was originally posted in the December 2001 issue of “Real Simple” magazine, and after making it twice, I have tweaked it just a tad to suit my own taste. The first time I made it, it …
Years ago, I ran a pancake breakfast with my friends at a small town club to raise money for various charities. Every month, I would come up with a different “Flavor of the Month” pancake to entice the people to come to ours! (Every club in town did them and the competition was …
Fancy doughnuts for breakfast will always remind me of being at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house down in Champaign, Illinois! We’d get up before the sun from under the handmade quilts she made, leap out of the big canopy bed swinging from the posts like little monkeys, and run down the hall …
It’s clean out the freezer time! Time to make sure all of this past year’s berries that have been frozen get used up to make room for this year’s fruit. Two different kinds of blueberries went in this time, and it was one of the best loaves I’ve ever made! Enormous, plump, …