Tag: baking

  • I’ve been here so long, I think that it’s time to move

    Yesterday, I tried to make a loaf of banana nut bread.  It didn’t turn out so well.  (I ended up throwing out the ceramic dish along with the half-baked batter… because I dropped it and it shattered. D’oh.)  So I decided to prove to myself that I am not a completely incompetent baker so I […]

  • There’s plenty of space out in space!

    Sometimes, when I can’t find anything good to eat for breakfast, I make muffins! The best muffins I’ve ever made were orange cranberry muffins that I adapted from Noelle Miles Griggs’s Lemon Cranberry Muffins recipe on Allrecipes. Here’s what I use: Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup whole wheat flour ¾ cup sugar 3 […]

  • Paint your face with what you like

    I’ve always loved the pumpkin muffins offered year-round at Panera. Now that it’s autumn, I’m also enjoying the Starbucks’ take on this seasonal goody. However, I’m too lazy to go to Starbucks or Panera and too cheap to pay for muffins… so I’m baking my own batch. The following is based on Julie’s Pumpkin Muffins […]