When I was a little girl we always had a bottle of molasses in our kitchen cupboard. It is my very first memory of seeing a food product. To the right of our stove in the upper cabinets the little glass bottle with the rabbit on it seemed like it was always there. I even […]
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Pumpkin, Port & Gingerbread
I know I’ve mentioned that back in college I belonged to a cookbook club. One of those scams you could easily join by pulling out a card from a food magazine (probably Gourmet because if we really go back that far there were only two…) and pick ten cookbooks for free….so long as you paid […]
Zucchini Bread with Pecans and Yogurt
There is nothing we love more in the summertime than a really good piece of zucchini bread. Last year my cousin made an incredible zucchini bread which we told the kids was cake just to get them to try it…clever, eh? They are now somewhat addicted so today when it was fresh out of the […]
Baghdad Bakery West Springfield, Massachusetts
A few weeks ago we were set up selling our oh so yummy small batch food products at The Alchemy Fair in Holyoke. To us, the best part of actually bringing our small batch selections out into the community and away from the vagueness of the internet, is meeting the people who buy them. We […]
Hop Pickle & Prosciutto Sourdough Bread
So disappointed with the amount of sugar in breads from the market, we often opt to make our own sourdough bread but don’t often change up the flavor of it. This time we wanted something different. We began with 400 grams of unbleached flour. To that we added in 300 grams of sourdough starter. Add […]
Spitfire Beer Sourdough Bread
When your “weekends” fall on Mondays & Tuesdays it isn’t quite the same as a luxurious Saturday or Sunday. Mondays and Tuesdays are full of regular chores that just happen to have to get done on your days off. There is no sleeping in (the kids need to get to school) or thick Sunday editions […]
Sour Dough Baguette
Bread is an amazing food that comes in so many shapes and types. We find the spongy white bread so common here ins the United States lacking in flavor and structure, what is more we are convinced that its high sugar and yeast content needed for its fast mass production leads to a product that is not good for our diet. So we […]
Lemon Tarragon Bread…or is it Cake?
We have had a very busy few months lately and have not done nearly as much baking (or blogging) as we had hoped. With Christmas almost here, the one thing I wanted to be sure to bake was my grandmother’s lemon bread. Growing up it was always one of our favorites and brings back […]