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Category Archives: baked goods

Chocolate Cherry Muffins

It’s the first day of the new year. I should be posting something wholesome and healthy, but one of my boys asked me to make scones for breakfast. Our butter supply has been completely depleted by Christmas cookie baking, so we opted for muffins instead. The fact that muffins are simpler to make than scones […]

Posted 01 January 2014 | baked goods   bread   breakfast   cherries   comfort food   dessert   kid snacks   lunchbox   vegetarian | Comments Off on Chocolate Cherry Muffins Tagged: , , , ,

10 Tips for Baking Holiday Cookies

http://tallgrasskitchen.com/chocolate-peppermint-thumbprints We are well into the holiday baking season over here. Any time between Thanksgiving and January 1 I don’t need any excuses to grab some butter and dust the kitchen floor with flour. The smell of spicy gingerbread, the silky softness of melted chocolate, the pleasant bite of peppermint–it’s all wonderful and the season gives us […]

Posted 13 December 2013 | baked goods   candy   cookies | Comments (1) Tagged: , , , , , ,

Honey Oatmeal Cookies and Easy School Lunches

I only cried a little bit. I dropped my baby off at kindergarten last week. I wasn’t feeling sad until I wrote this column for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. There are a lot of giant kindergartners out there. Mine is small for his age anyway, plus he’s a fresh five. So many parents seem to […]

Posted 11 September 2013 | baked goods   cookies   kid stuff   lunchbox   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article | Comments (1) Tagged: , , , ,

Rhubarb Oatmeal Cakes

I try to make it a habit not to complain about the weather. It seems like a cop out–we must have something better to talk about. There is absolutely NOTHING we can do about it. Let’s just deal with it and get on with things. We’ve had about seven inches of rain over the past […]

Posted 23 April 2013 | baked goods   breakfast   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article   rhubarb   snacks | Comments Off on Rhubarb Oatmeal Cakes Tagged: , , , , , ,

Banana Bread

My four-year-old has a bee in his bonnet about banana bread. He has been asking me daily if we could make some. Well finally, on this snowy March Sunday, we had the right combination of spare time and brown-freckled bananas. In the March issue of Bon Appetit, I remembered seeing a recipe for banana bread. […]

Posted 03 March 2013 | baked goods   bread   breakfast   dessert   kid snacks | Comments (2) Tagged: , , , , , , ,