Cast Iron Skillet Cookie Cake

I need this cookie cake  like I need a hole in my head.  Nevertheless, when I ran across it (thanks to Aparthemt Therapy's The Kitchn)  in my google reader feed I decided pretty quickly that we were going to make it anyway.  We had almost everything we needed to make this cookie happen, so when we bought groceries the other night we made sure to get the only missing ingredients: chocolate chips and butter.  While Ms. Dianne and I were working on the muslin slipcover I posted about recently, Kyle whipped up this cookie cake and...

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Homemade Fig Newtons

As I mentioned last week, I recently came into possession of a lot of figs.  We turned a lot of them in to jam and preserves, but I was still left with at least a gallon of fresh, beautiful figs.  They're great to eat whole, but one of my favorite incarnations of figs has always been fig newtons.  I made a huge batch of these and within a couple of days they were gone, so I guess I'm not the only one who loves fig newtons!  This recipe is definitely going into my recipe book to be made again. For Filling: 5-6...

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This week has been full of:

I've had my eye on this spooky-looking plant in my parents' front yard for a while. It finally bloomed! The pear trees out front have been weighed down with these tiny, sweet pears for the last couple of weeks.  The limbs were almost at the breaking point when I finally got out there to pick them. Thanks to my Nana and our neighbor, Granny, I've recently come into a lot of apples.  There's no way I could eat or bake them all into something, so I decided to can them.  Come October when the four of us are 500 miles away...

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Dawn’s Famous Muffin Recipe

Dawn, my younger sister and health and beauty blogger over at Turby and John, is visiting today to share her famous (at least among our circle of friends and family) muffin recipe. I've eaten more of these than I'd like to admit, so I can testify to their deliciousness. Welcome, Dawn! I truly am crazy about muffins. I can easily think of ten reasons why I should not eat them, but sometimes I throw caution to the wind (not entirely, though, since I tend to bake with organic unbleached flour and sugar...which makes me feel better than it...

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Apple Brown Bessie

The best and worst thing about being home is that I'm surrounded by good food all the time.  For example, today for lunch I had a wonderful salad with lots of spinach, baby greens, cherry tomatoes, and a sprinkling of almonds and goat cheese.  I was feeling really proud of myself until my Nana walked in the back door with something hot, cinnamon-y, and wrapped in foil.  It smelled so good, I knew I was going to eat way too much of it before I even tasted it.  My grandmother calls this an apple cobbler.  She got the recipe from...

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Hershey’s Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Overall, yesterday was a pretty lazy day.  We went to my grandparents' house for a while, scored some discount plants at Lowes (more on that later), swam a little, and watched a movie.  In other words, we did absolutely nothing to warrant making five dozen chocolate chip cookies.  Yet we did.  It started out innocently enough: we had salads for lunch and wanted a sweet treat (terrible logic, I know) but didn't want to eat something from a package (at least we had that going for us?).  I decided to make chocolate chip cookies from the recipe on the back...

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Vanilla Pound Cake Recipe

Since we're moving within the next month, we're currently trying to clean out our cabinets.  The only thing worse than moving food is throwing it away.  I recently came into a large quantity of eggs (two and a half dozen!) from my grandmother, so I've been trying to use them up before they go bad.  One of my favorite things to make that uses a ton of eggs is pound cake.  We don't have a variety of ingredients, so I picked out this simple Vanilla Pound Cake recipe from Buttered Up, and still ended up having to substitute...

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Italian Love Cake

I've been working on homework all day, but I'm taking a break to stretch my brain and eat some cake. I had big plans of making a heart-shaped red velvet cake with cream cheese icing (from scratch!) last night as part of Kyle's Valentine's Day gift. When I got home from work yesterday, however, I was greeted by the smell of something warm and chocolatey. Kyle, who to my knowledge has never baked before, made me this lovely Italian Love Cake for Valentine's Day. It was great fresh out of the oven last night,...

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Meyer Lemon Pound Cake Recipe

I've been struggling to figure out what to do with those beautiful Meyer lemons I picked up at Johnny Becnel's while in New Orleans last weekend. I wanted to make something that didn't require too much work (we made Chickpea Cutlets from Veganomicon for dinner last night, which are fairly time-consuming by themselves) that would still be delicious and good with coffee for breakfast today, so I chose pound cake. There are several reasons I love pound cake more than bread or cake. First of all, I'm not a big fan of icing pound cake has none. Secondly,...

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Homemade Holidays: Cookie Mix in a Jar

When I first heard of cookie mix in a jar, I thought it was the most brilliant idea ever.  Admittedly, I am pretty idealistic when it comes to things like this, and I didn't take into consideration a lot of things.  First and foremost, I didn't think about whether the recipes offered up in these projects were any good.  I quickly rushed out to buy flour, sugar, cranberries, and chocolate chips, assuming I could use all the mason jars I've been refusing to throw away over the past few years (in some sort of crisis I might need to can...

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