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 a lot to talk about, photos to share, video to taunt you with, various topics like recipes, kid friendly adaptations of more traditional recipes, and a walk...

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 some classes they are running for us, and generally take a peek into a company that has been a part of American Food Lore™ for a...

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 (and then...

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 site...

(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...