by Helen Kain | Jan 13, 2021 | Breakfast, Cookies & Bars, Desserts, Fall Recipes, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Winter Recipes
Our virtual baking session just before Christmas produced more than Orange Chocolate Cake. My friend Leanne had assured me her recipe for biscotti was quick and easy, and she was right. We whipped it up in no time. Biscotti means “twice-baked” in Italian;...
by Helen Kain | Oct 11, 2020 | Bread & Scones, Breakfast
Like many people, I’ve been making bread these past few months. Not so much sourdough; tending a sourdough starter is like raising another child, and I feel like I have enough humans and livestock to care for as it is. As well, sourdough is a bit too...
by Helen Kain | Aug 30, 2020 | Breakfast, Desserts, Fall Recipes, Summer Recipes
Six luscious peaches beckoned from the kitchen counter early one morning, on a day that threatened imminent rain. After a quick cup of coffee, we snapped leashes on Clementine and Churchill, the youngest of our wriggling golden retrievers, and headed out before the...
by Helen Kain | Jun 3, 2020 | Bread & Scones, Breakfast, Desserts, Fall Recipes, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Tea, Winter Recipes
I”m a glutton for slightly sweet bread. Not the super-sweet-sticky stuff like iced cinnamon rolls, but scones, date loaf and Portuguese King’s Bread, also called Bolo Rei, a marvellous concoction that Isabel, our cleaning lady, brings every Christmas....
by Helen Kain | Apr 12, 2020 | Bread & Scones, Breakfast, Desserts, Fall Recipes, Recipes By Season, Spring Recipes, Summer Recipes, Winter Recipes
Baking is a very soothing activity. Baking bread with scads of butter, sugar, cinnamon, and nuts is the epitome of soothing. Baklava Pull-Apart Bread came to me along a somewhat circuitous path, as frequently happens with my food inspiration. During this strange time...
by Helen Kain | Aug 26, 2019 | Bread & Scones, Breakfast, Desserts, Fall Recipes, Winter Recipes
When I was planning the table setting Monkeying Around, I discovered Monkey Bread. Where has it been all my life? It’s absolutely delicious and a really fun thing to make with small kids. Those sticky little hands can be put to such good use! The little sugar...