These delicious muffins are quick and easy to prepare and are great as a snack or breakfast! You can easily top these muffins with a frosting to turn it into a delectable cupcake for dessert! The word “muffin” is derived from different European languages like moufflet from the French or muffe from the Germans, which…
Welcome to the Gardening Season – May 2024
Happy May!! Welcome to the 2024 Gardening season. I am looking forward to gardening — that’s one of the things I love most about summertime! This year, we opted to not garden at the community garden (it feels a little weird to not return to the community garden after three years), and instead turn our…
Dill Pickle Pasta Salad
We love salads, especially pasta salads! There’s so many combinations of ingredients and different types of pasta that work so well for an array of hearty pasta salads that are delicious and great for summer barbecues or to enjoy with your meal any time of the year! Let’s get started! Once pasta of your choice…
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
The best part of my day today was baking banana bread (a family favorite) with my daughter! We had ripe bananas that needed to get used up, so what’s better on a cool windy day than fresh banana bread!?! We added chocolate chips to today’s loaf – a lot of them – making this a…
Raspberry-Blueberry White Chocolate Scones
These delicious scones are soft and flaky and filled with raspberries, blueberries and white chocolate. They make a great breakfast, snack or dessert or an accompaniment to a tea party, and go great with a cup of tea or coffee. It is thought that scones (derived from Scottish “bannock”), originated in Scotland in the early…
Sourdough Cheese Biscuits
Our sourdough starter is doing exceptionally well! This morning when I took the cloth off, the starter grew wonderfully! It was half way up the bowl, fluffy looking and oh so bubbly. I gave it a stir and you could just watch all the bubbles rising to the surface, popping, which makes this a very…
Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough English Muffins
I have a lot of sourdough starter, and we love homemade english muffins, so what better way to use up the excess starter (or discard), than to make delicious cinnamon raisin sourdough english muffins!! These cinnamon raisin sourdough english muffins have a light cinnamon flavor, crisp outside and fluffy middle, and are dotted with raisins…
