Tag: baking

Baking, Desserts, Italian

Biscotti

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Biscotti are twice-baked cookies that will totally rock your world. I use Giada DeLaurentiis’ recipe, which features chocolate chips and anise seed. If you are using whole anise seed, be sure to grind it in a spice grinder or using a mortal and pestle. Ground anise is easily found in […]

Baking

Rosemary Focaccia

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A day at home with no plans is blissful for me. Now I can get up and go with the best of them, but seriously you can put me on house arrest for a good two weeks and I will be just fine. As long as I can cook, bake, […]

Baking, Bread

World Famous Pepperoni Bread

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My Pepperoni Bread is probably one of the easiest things you could ever make. Seriously. And yet, people will think you are a culinary mastermind if you bust this out at your next gathering. This recipe comes from my mom. She always made it for parties, so now I follow […]

Baking, Cake, Desserts

Aunt Dolly’s Blueberry Tea Cake

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Yeah. You read it right. I have an Aunt Dolly. Unfortunately, this awesome lady passed away many years ago. She was my Mommom Sacco’s sister. And, Aunt Dolly was known for her baking prowess. Each year around this time when the blueberries are in full effect in my parts of […]

Desserts

Easy Peasy Blueberry Muffins

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Muffins are one of the easiest of baking tasks, in my humble opinion. For one, you don’t need a mixer. You just whisk things and use a wooden spoon. You just need one mixing bowl. There’s no icing involved. And they often utilize fresh ingredients of the season. Which is […]