If you are like most of us, we grew up dipping slices of bread in an egg and milk mixture, maybe with a little cinnamon, and then frying them on griddle as we would pancakes. But you can be more adventuresome… Read More »How to Make Baked and Stuffed French Toast
You can make hash browns at home just like at the diners. They are really quite quick and simple—or they wouldn’t be standard dining fare wherever you go. The best hash browns are fried until they are golden and crispy… Read More »How to Make Hash Browns
There are five important factors that make the difference between light, airy bread and a dense flop. None is difficult to manage—in fact, yeast is quite forgiving—but you’ll be a better bread baker if you understand these factors. Yeast… Read More »Five Factors to Get Your Bread to Rise
We love seafood and so really enjoy this quiche. It’s a simple affair and you can use the seafood of your choice—cook shrimp, crab, or fish. Ingredients 4 large eggs 1 cup cooked seafood, like shrimp or crab, cut into… Read More »My Favorite Seafood Quiche
Sourdough simply uses wild yeast in place of commercial yeast to leaven the bread. It relies on the wild yeasts that are in the air all around us and cultures those yeasts in a warm, wet environment created with water,… Read More »How to Make Easy Sourdough Bread
With only four ingredients and three steps, this is an easy flourless cake. And it’s perfect to make for your sweetheart. As with other flourless chocolate cakes, this is dense and chocolatey. A simple dusting of powdered sugar makes this… Read More »Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake
We especially love this pie in the summer time; we don’t have to bake it. It goes together quickly and easily and is so scrumptious—ripe bananas, a smooth vanilla custard, and vanilla wafer crumb crust. Mmm . . .… Read More »Banana Cream Pie in a Vanilla Wafer Crust
A baked Alaska is a simple concept—a block of ice cream set on a layer of cake and then all covered with meringue. The meringue acts as insulation allowing you to stick the whole concoction in the oven to brown… Read More »Easy Baked Alaska
As far as baking a graham cracker crust before filling it with a cream filling, that is a matter of preference. Either chill the pie shell to set the crust so that it is firm or bake the crust… Read More »Do I need to bake my graham cracker crumb crusts?
1. We love toast topped with fruit butters and spreads. Both make up quickly, can be made ahead, and store well in the refrigerator. Try a whole grain bread with strawberry butter or cinnamon raisin bread with peanut butter-cream cheese.… Read More »20 Toast Topping Ideas