Daring Bakers Challenge: Filbert Gateau

Unfortunately I had to sit out on this month’s Daring Bakers Challenge due to spending most of the month traveling. Please check out the Daring Bakers’ blogroll for great photos and read out the experience of making this month’s cake.

An Iowa Dinner

I love summer in Iowa because we have Farmer’s Markets that are full of fresh fruit, vegetables, baked goods, local meats and eggs, beautiful flowers and various homemade sewn goods. On Saturday morning I headed with the girls to our Farmer’s Market. Each week there are more and more vegetables and fruits to choose from.  [...]

Brussels Sprouts

STOP! Please don’t turn away, just not yet. If you’ve had a bad brussel sprouts experience, you MUST give them another try. Let me guess, if you’ve had brussel sprouts before they were probably boiled into a unrecognizable greenish sluge. These are not your mom’s brussel sprouts. Cook them this way and your family will [...]