Visit my new page with a Ghirardelli chocolate wonderland and chance to win a $100 Visa gift card here -> LINK I will also be sharing a recipe for chocolate chip cheesecake and for these delicious caramel chocolate covered apples you see below. Make the...

[Details on the Pillsbury pie crust prize pack giveaway pack at the bottom of this post. This giveaway closed as of 10/26/10 at 9:00 pm EDT] I live in apple country here in the Northeastern part of the US (central Massachusetts) so I am situated in the middle of many thousands of acres of apple...

Betty Crocker related posts: Going on a blogger outing to Betty Crocker Marta Darby, Brownie Goody Bars and Betty Crocker To Die For Lemon Cream Crepes My two amazingly action packed days at General Mills and the Betty Crocker kitchens still boggle me – we got so much done! From the moment we arrived at...

Betty Crocker related posts: Going on a blogger outing to Betty Crocker Marta Darby, Brownie Goody Bars and Betty Crocker To Die For Lemon Cream Crepes As you know, I got a chance to go visit the Betty Crocker test kitchens at General Mills this week and I had such fantastic fun! There is quite...

Betty Crocker related posts: Going on a blogger outing to Betty Crocker Marta Darby, Brownie Goody Bars and Betty Crocker To Die For Lemon Cream Crepes The very friendly people at General Mills and particularly Betty Crocker have invited me to come out to their test kitchens to take a stroll about, sit in on...

Sometimes a recipe inspires me to jump up, spend way more energy than I have, to make it immediately. This recipe today was that for me. I watched Mark Bittman’s video on making these non-kosher matzoh which seemed quite easy to make and they look fantastic. There are several things which make a matzoh kosher...

I am part Irish so I have always felt an affinity to St Patricks day. I like it as a mom because its a holiday in early cold spring when you really need it BUT its not all about candy!! I adapted a traditional recipe from this European Cuisines site, it is quite delicious. This...

(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,...