Homemade Cat Treat for Mickey

Bread Recipes, Food Trends & Gadgets

As you may have noticed I have been absent from the food blogging world for over a week now. Blogging and cooking have not been a priority lately. I received some very bad news following a vet visit for one of my 2 cats, 10-year-old Mickey. I have been planning to...

Trading Aprons: a guest post exchange with Foodiva’s Kitchen

Bread Recipes, Dessert Recipes

I am just so delighted to welcome Maya from Foodiva’s Kitchen today with a very special post. I became a fan of her blog very quickly. Not only are her recipes wonderful but Maya has a beautiful and fun personality that shines through her words and absolutely...

Thursday’s Thingamajig: Bread is Pain, or is it?

Bread Recipes, Cookbooks, Food Trends & Gadgets, Instructions 101, Traditions

So what where those 2 mystery pictures? First was, as many guessed, risen bread dough. My container was too small and the dough mushroomed out, pretty funny. So when I tossed half out I got that stringy air filled dough. Second pic is a close up of the VIP dinner...

Hush Puppies Sanitary Style

Bread Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

One more recipe down from my public self-made promise to cook certain foods I ate during my trip. Hush Puppies was my pet project this time around. I never in my life ate these before this trip to the South. I had then 4 times and it turns out my favorite ones were...

Daring Cooks: Pâtés and Bread

Appetizer Recipes, Bread Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

Our hostesses this month, Evelyne of Cheap Ethnic Eatz, and Valerie of a The Chocolate Bunny, chose delicious pate with freshly baked bread as their June Daring Cook’s challenge! They’ve provided us with 4 different pate recipes to choose from and are...

Daring Cooks Mezze

Bread Recipes, Appetizer Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

The 2010 February Daring COOKs challenge was hosted by Michele of Veggie Num Nums. Michele chose to challenge everyone to make mezze based on various recipes from Claudia Roden, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugid. The February 2010 cooks’...