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Apple Crisp and More
Meanwhile, I’ve made a couple apple crisps. This is another recipe from More with Less Cookbook with just a little tweaking. This is so easy, quick and good! This apple crisp was especially good. I used mostly fuji apples. I … Continue reading
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hubby and I were heading out to a book discussion group Sunday and I thought it would be nice to take something to eat. And what better to eat while discussing The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle than chocolate chip … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Recipes
Tagged chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip cookies with chickpeas, cookies, homemade
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Blackberries are us
Our blackberries are coming on fast and furious now! What to do with all of this fruit? Well, the first thing I make is a cobbler. In case you are just joining us, here is my recipe. Then there are … Continue reading
HB in Five – Mixed Berry Muffins
One of our challenges this week was to make either bread or muffins from the Whole Wheat Mixed Berry Bread recipe in HB in Five. Even though we are knee deep in blackberries, I wanted to follow the directions and … Continue reading
It’s cherry pickin’ time
Yes, we have cherries! Yeah! I get so excited about these tart cherries. They’re pretty and so yummy! So now that we have these cherries, what do we do? Make a cobbler, of course. I use the same recipe for … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Cooking, gardening, Photography, Recipes
Tagged cherries, cherry trees, gardening, Recipes
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Moving On To Cherries
Well, asparagus harvesting is now just a memory. Today I got out early before the heat and weeded about a third of the asparagus patch. Won’t be long and the whole patch will be a mass of ferns. I just … Continue reading
HB in Five: Turkish-Style Pita Bread
This week one of our challenges was making Turkish-Style Pita Bread. This uses the master recipe dough from this book. I didn’t have black sesame seeds so I used regular sesame and poppy seeds. Here is a closer look at … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Cooking, HBinFive
Tagged english muffins, HBinFive, healthy breads, pitas
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HB in Five: Chocolate Espresso WW Cupcakes
This week, one of the baking challenges involved the Chocolate Espresso Whole Wheat Brioche dough. I just couldn’t resist making cupcakes! I didn’t have bittersweet chocolate so I substituted semisweet chocolate chips. Well, I asked my expert taste tester and … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, HBinFive
Tagged chocolate, chocolate cupcakes, HBinFive, healthy breads
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HB in Five – Olive Spelt and Carrot Bread
This week our HB in Five Bread Challenge included two great recipes: Olive Spelt Bread and Carrot Bread. The first bread I tackled was the Olive Spelt, which I made into buns. This recipe calls for twice the amount of … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, HBinFive, Recipes, tutorials
Tagged carrot bread, HBinFive, healthy breads, homemade, olive spelt bread, Recipes, spelt flour
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HB in Five Mid-March Buns
This week for our HB in Five Bread Challenge we made two great breads – Avocado-Guacamole Bread and Pesto Pine Nut Bread. Both of these were great breads – easy and fun to make. Unlike the others in the group, … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, HBinFive
Tagged avocado, guacamole, HBinFive, healthy breads, homemade, Pesto, Pesto Pine Nut Bread, Pine nuts
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