(Freshly ground sprouted wheat flour in a Vita Mix blender container) I grew up eating rather dense loaves of homemade whole wheat bread that my mom made for us with love. It was the 1970s after all! I NEVER feed my family white bread (pure sugar bombs, straight into the blood) and always brown bread,...

There is nothing like fresh baked bread to make your house seem like a home. It is also the best to be able to make bread that completely lacks all preservatives and especially toxic high fructose corn syrup. Making bread by hand can be therapeutic and, with a bit of practice, most of us can...

(Don’t forget to enter Lou Manna’s “Best Looking Food of 2009 contest” to win everything you could possibly need for food photography! See my previous post for details. Contest ends February 16th, 2009) We made the usual sugar cookies this year but I do not have any photos, was so dark at the time and, well,...

(I originally posted this back on July 11, 2006. I wanted to pull it out from under that digital dust pile and share this awesome Joan Nathan recipe for challah and also the fun we had that day. I think we need to do something like this again but with Baby Oh too) (Many more...

The slideshow above will take you through the process of making homemade Buttermilk Saltines. You might ask WHY one would want to make saltines when they are so cheap at the store. I guess I am the sort that can not leave well enough alone. I also can’t help being a scientist, even though...

[This post first aired on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network] [I have included a small glossary of terms at the bottom of this post for some of the words that we may have heard a 100 times but never really took the time to look up.] I recently had the pleasure...

Nicole over at Pinch My Salt is participating in “Pay It Forward“, an internet meme that is really appropriate for this time of year. This idea is based on the movie “Pay It Forward” that made me cry buckets. I am going to play along too! The essential idea is: When someone does you a...

Things were going ok and then pow, time contracted and chaos ruled the house! I hope you all had an excellent Thanksgiving. We had an excellent time. Today I am going to step through a few more shots. Food photography in our kitchen is tough so you will have to forgive the somewhat scary images,...

No disrespect to Martha and those who aspire to her homemaking pinnacles I just have to be honest about this – my act doesn’t include perfect house cleanliness nor coordinated napkin rings. Our table is more likely to be set with Ball canning jars and mis-matched plastic plates (antique ones marked on the back from...

Yummmm, sugar cookies. I know its only November but the holidays are really just around the corner. Once Halloween is gone, it seems like its a full-on sprint into the winter holidays. If you have the time, one nice way to open the season is to make a batch of beautiful sugar...