TWD alternate recipe: Orange Berry Muffins

Tara from Smells Like Home chose this week’s recipe for TWD. As intrigued as I was to try my hand at madeleines, I knew our tiny kitchen could not hold yet another pan, so I took the offered out and made a recipe that had previously been made for TWD before I joined. [...]

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Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

Well I just couldn’t wait to try another Dorie recipe! The first one I bookmarked in my new cookbook was this recipe for lemon poppy seed muffins with a tasty looking icing. It didn’t take long at all to whip up a batch and they are SO GOOD. They are the perfect [...]

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My favorite meal

Oh how I love pizza.  I probably could eat it every single day.  We’ve played around with making it at home before, usually using the Boboli pre-made crusts or the Pillsbury crust in the can.  Neither make a very good crust.  Tyler’s dad told us about the great pizza crust recipe he’d found in The [...]

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Making bread for the very first time

Thanks to Amber for introducing me to this recipe, it was intimidating at first but I’m glad I took on the challenge! Kneading the bread and punching it down was good stress relief. It was an all day project but the bread turned out quite tasty though a little denser than I expected [...]

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Tart and sweet

Blueberry-Lemon Bread (made by Julia)We love blueberry bread (I usually just use blueberry muffin mix) but I’m trying to learn to bake more things from scratch. This was an easy recipe and very tasty! I got it on allrecipes.com where I get most of my recipes. I love reading reviews from other [...]

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