Roses Are Finger Lickin’ Good
– At least this one is. Our first attempt at making a white chocolate rose. This was a lot of fun to photograph -it really shines inside this pink depression glass tea cup. A rose like this would add a delicious special touch to any cake, although I could eat it alone as is. Watch […]
Beet Red… I Mean Pink
Recently we baked up a batch of gingerbread cookies. (See Project Monday : Baby Shower Favors – Little Gingerbread boys for recipe) These were made as part of our birthday gift to Bear, my daughter’s friend—to go along with her felt tea bags and felt cookies. Bear’s mommy told me she couldn’t stop talking about […]
Slice of Pizza Pie
Hubby is our resident pizza maker. And he makes the best pizzas around! He has a few tricks up his sleeve that I’ll share with you here. He uses this whole wheat pizza dough recipe with a few slight changes as noted below. Hubby’s Ingredients 1 tablespoon honey 1 1/2 cups warm water (slightly more […]
Ice Cream Machine Adventures x3
I have owned a Cuisinart ice cream, sorbet and frozen yogurt machine for at least 8 years now, and it’s only been until recently that I’ve actually put it to good use, or shall we say even used it at all. I always felt intimidated by this gadget for some reason. It’s taken a little […]
Baby Shower Favors – Little Gingerbread boys
When my mom decided to throw us a baby shower for Mr. Happy Feet’s expected arrival, we immediately started brainstorming about favors. I saw many cute baby shower favors for sale over the internet but decided that we would not purchase online – mainly because of the cost. In the end, we came up with […]
Dough girl
Mrs. Sayuri loves to “help” us when we make what we call flatbread, basically flour tortillas without leaven. She is notorious for stealing bits of the dough and gobbling them up! I believe they’re actually called Chapatas Chapatis and that the recipe is from The Vegetarian Epicure. Chapatis/Indian Flatbread Ingredients 3 cups of flour 3 […]
