Posts tagged with: pecans

I’ve really been missing Baked Sunday Mornings lately. I would usually take a break from the group each year over the holidays because of other baking plans, and then would re-join with renewed passion and commitment every January. Because we wrapped up our journey back in May, this was the first January in 10 years......
Even though I declared last year that my Champagne & Cookies party had come to an end, I found myself missing it this year. I guess that’s the difference between making a decision yourself versus having a global pandemic make it for you. Normally I would have spent the month of November in cookie brainstorming......
No one in my family likes pumpkin pie except my Mom and Dad, and since it was just the three of us for Thanksgiving this year, I decided to make it for them. But not just any pumpkin pie! I reverse engineered this creation from Cake & Loaf‘s Thanksgiving menu that I kept seeing on......
Homemade granola is a joy and staple in my life, but it wasn’t always this way.  I remember way back in university my friend’s roommate made her own granola and kept it in the freezer, and I thought she was so weird and such a little hippie. Fast forward *cough* 20 years *cough* and I......
The anticipation of rhubarb season just didn’t bring the usual amount of joy to my life as it has for every other year for the past 10 years or so. I usually spend all Spring waiting for it to pop up, and getting excited for the things I want to make. This year I kind......
How have I owned the first Baked Cookbook for over 10 years without ever making this recipe? S’mores are one of my favourite things on earth, so I’m not quite sure how this oversight occurred. Well, maybe two small reasons: 1) there’s no photo of these in the book 2) it calls for peanuts, which......
One of my personal rules at work is to never schedule meetings before 9am or after 4pm unless absolutely necessary. I just feel that before and after those hours you’re never getting people’s full attention, and I personally like that time to prepare for/wrap up my day, so I like to keep it free if......
I have to be totally honest this week; I wasn’t feeling these brownies. I don’t even really feel like we can call these brownies, because they were more on the cakey side of things. In my opinion, brownies must be fudgey and super chocolatey, and these were neither. Obviously this did not stop my co-workers from......
The Kentucky Derby has pretty much zero significance in my life. I think I watched it once, but it didn’t involve a big floppy hat or a mint julep which, in my opinion, are the two most appealing parts of this holiday. For Baked Sunday Mornings this week, the Baked Boys are running with the bourbon......
For a long time I have had a very real, very negative reaction to strawberries and goat cheese in salad. This stems, no doubt, from my aversion to Milestone’s, which I have explained at length in the past. They had* a salad with this combination on the menu in the early-mid aughts, when I ate......
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