Baking

Baking has a bad rep for being tricky, but I guarantee you won’t have a problem with any of these recipes. I think baking is a great place to start if you want to get kids involved in the kitchen. No knives! Baking: it’s safe. (Except for the oven; watch out for that.)

Corn Tortilla Recipe

Making corn tortillas in many ways is easier than homemade flour tortillas. The traditional corn tortilla recipe is only three ingredients: masa harina, salt, and water. Masa harina is a dry flour made from masa, which is a dough made from dried corn that’s been treated with a strong alkalizing compound (usually lime — calcium [...]

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Grandma’s Gingerbread Recipe

Grandma used to pick me and little brother up from school every day for years — all through elementary school. (Actually, Grandma also used to drop us off at school lots of mornings, too. She drove one of those cars that’s really long and solid with lots of hard angles. I think it was blue. [...]

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Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrot cake is one of those wholesome desserts that reminds me of farmers’ wives and sweaty milkmaids and healthy brown-skinned farmboys. The sight of a big round carrot cake takes my mind’s eye to the bright kitchen of a big white house in the middle of a sorghum field with a blue sky out the [...]

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Apple Gingerbread Pancakes

I modified this from my grandma’s gingerbread muffin recipe. The most awesome part is that they taste exactly like gingerbread muffins, but they cook a whole lot faster. And, to me, while muffins are awesome and rad, they don’t really say “breakfast”; they say more like, “tea time” or “stoner munchie time”, know what I [...]

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Cranberry Nut Bread

Cranberry Bread

This is my great-grandmother’c cranberry bread recipe. She was quite the cook, indeed. I’d had these Meyer lemons sitting in my fruit bowl for a couple of weeks, a gift from a friend’s yard. In years past, I’d have already turned them into limoncello or salted and preserved lemons, but this year — specifically the [...]

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Blueberry Tart

We had the pleasure of visiting Santa Monica, California last week and while we were there, finally got to shoot a video collaboration with charming Chef Anna from LovelyLadyCakes. She had this wonderful fresh blueberry tart recipe to share and, dudes, I am not kidding you. I’ve been thinking about it ever since! Once slice [...]

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Homemade Twinkie Recipe

Homemade Twinkie Recipe

Instead of crying, try trying this homemade Twinkie recipe! I’m sure you’ve all heard the news by now, and hopefully have had time to mourn, deny, cry, scream, tantrum, and finally shower. Hostess is closing its doors forever. That means no more Twinkies, no more Wonder Bread, no more DingDongs and maybe even the end [...]

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Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie

I am so so happy to finally be able to provide for my gluten-free viewers with the help of my friend Kate at hipgirlshome.com! Kate is a specialist in the home arts – things like pickling, preserving, and coming up with neat-o tricks that make life easier around the house. She is the author of [...]

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