Hummingbird Cupcakes from Kraft Foods

image credit: www.bakeorbreak.com

image credit: www.bakeorbreak.com

Hummingbird Cake was featured in Southern Living magazine in 1978 and is, according to their website, the most requested Southern Living recipe of all time. Where the recipe came from originally, however, is up for some debate. Mrs. L.H. Wiggins, a Jamaican émigré who had moved to the South, submitted it [...]

Very Cherry Mixed Fruit Crisp

This recipe from Del Monte uses Very Cherry Mixed Fruit, a combination of peaches, pears, and an extra dose of cherries. No need to pop over to the store to get peaches AND pears AND cherries that aren’t even in season and have the price markup to show for it. Keep it cheap, healthy, and [...]

Book Review: Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day

Cover via Amazon

This book was sent to me for my personal review. All opinions are mine. Recipe reprinted by permission.

Two years ago, Jeff Hertzberg M.D. and Zoe Francois published “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day”, a revolutionary way to prepare high quality bread dough with no proofing the yeast, no rising/punching [...]

How to substitute Canola Oil for Solid Fat in Holiday Baking

Indulge your sweet tooth while baking holiday treats with less guilt! Use canola oil in recipes that call for oil or solid fat in baked goods such as breads, loaves and muffins, says Shirley Corriher, author of the “Bake-Wise” cookbook and winner of the James Beard Award for Excellence. “Canola oil not only makes baked [...]

Menu Monday plus a Cookbook Giveaway

How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? We had a slight mishap with our turkey – it sort of cooked way too long and dried out – but I discovered that turkey breast meat steamed in a covered container with a little water in the microwave tastes just fine covered with turkey gravy :)   Even after having leftovers [...]

Pumpkin Agave Bread with Cinnamon Butter

Pumpkin Bread

Yields 2 medium loaves

Oven 350°

INGREDIENTS:

3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 15-ounce can pumpkin (unsweetened) 1 1/2 cups light agave 3/4 cup vegetable oil 3 eggs 1 [...]

Coming Soon- The Baking Answer Book

What do bakers do when they have the wrong size pan for a cake? What is the difference between baking soda and baking powder? Confusion in the kitchen is cleared up in Storey’s newest addition to the popular Answer Book series. Baking is an exact science and The Baking Answer Book ensures that cookies, cakes, [...]

Hungry Girl EZ Tomato Basil Chicken

The link for this recipe was in today’s Hungry Girl newsletter. Three ingredients? I’m SO making this!

EZ Tomato Basil Chicken PER SERVING (1/4th of recipe): 175 calories, 1.5g fat, 251mg sodium, 11g carbs, 2g fiber, 6g sugars, 28g protein — POINTS® value 3*

Toss leftovers on top of lettuce for a [...]

Bread Baking- A Guest Post

Tips for baking bread and loving the process

By guest writer Tracy Falbe

Many cooks are usually enthusiastic about baking bread until they read the recipe directions and get intimidated by the time involved. The kneading, rising, punching down, shaping, and rising again take hours. I realize few people, including myself, have time to [...]

Pillsbury Thin Crust Pizza Dough Breadsticks

I subscribe to the Hungry Girl newsletter, and in a recent mailing, she mentioned that Pillsbury’s Thin Crust Pizza Dough was the same dough as their Reduced Fat Crescent Rolls. Which makes me wonder how many different kinds of dough they really make, you know?

So anyway, I had a can of the Thin Crust [...]