Critter Chronicles
Baking
Recipe: Sweet Northern-Style Cornbread
Before last week, my only experience with making cornbread involved opening a box of Jiffy and mixing in egg, milk, and a tablespoon of sugar, the way my grammy makes it. It never occurred to me that making it from scratch could be so… easy. Northern-style cornbread is typically sweeter and lighter in texture than … Continue reading
Recipe: Lemon Cranberry Bread
I don’t bake very often, the reason being that when I bake I have a tendency to eat what I’ve baked, and once I start eating what I’ve baked I don’t stop. Such was the case with this Lemon Cranberry Bread. The recipe (linked below) originally called for making muffins, and while I have muffin … Continue reading
Recipe: Hawaiian Dinner Rolls
I’m planning our Thanksgiving menu to serve seven adults and two kids, and the list includes the following: Turkey, with gravy and cranberry sauce Mashed Potatoes Sausage, Apple, and Cranberry Dressing Sweet Corn Pudding Green Bean Casserole Sweet Potato Casserole Romaine salad with cheddar and spiced pecans Apple pie Pumpkin Pie Love* *Bear’s addition to … Continue reading
Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Bagels
>Bagels. Yes, you read that right: I made bagels. At home. From scratch. Please wait a moment while I pat myself on the back. Right, sorry about that. It’s just that I never even considered that making bagels at home could be as easy as it actually was. I was thinking it was a thirty-step … Continue reading
Recipe: Honey Whole Wheat Oatmeal Sandwich Bread
>Now that I’ve gotten comfortable with baking our sandwich bread each week, I’ve reached a point where I’m ready to branch out to other recipes. While I still love the Honey Whole Wheat Bread recipe that I now bake start to finish without needing to look at a recipe, I’m getting a little bored eating … Continue reading
Recipe: Easy Homemade Naan (Indian Flatbread)
>Last week I had an intense craving for curry, and unfortunately I’d already used our Coco’s Curry quota five days earlier. I remembered being sent a recipe for homemade curry and thought this was the perfect opportunity to try it out. All it would be missing, I thought, was the hot naan bread that we … Continue reading
Recipe: Italian Bread Bowls
>I’d never do well on a low-carb diet. It’s not my thing; I like bread waaay too much. So even at the times when I’m making something decidedly not carb-loaded, I’m able to find a way to incorporate them. This recipe is one such example. I have this recipe for No Cream Creamy Broccoli Soup … Continue reading
Recipe: Homemade Honey Whole Wheat Bread
>I’ve been wanting to make my own bread for awhile now, because there are pretty much just two options in our grocery store that don’t contain high fructose corn syrup, which I’ve all but eliminated from our house. The loaves we’ve been buying lately are good, but still have quite a few ingredients. I’d all … Continue reading
Recipe: Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
>For reasons I don’t completely understand, imported bananas seem to ripen practically immediately in our house, while local bananas that were grown and picked here on Okinawa never seem to ripen at all. So on the occasions that I do buy bananas we have to eat them within two days, or else I have to … Continue reading
Recipe: Whole Wheat Strawberry Bread
>I had posted a recipe for Tony’s favorite strawberry bread earlier this year, but I’ve been hesitant to make it since. That recipe calls for using all-purpose white flour, lots of sugar, and a very large amount of vegetable oil. It’s not healthy, to say the least. Yummy, yes. Figure friendly? No. Today I was … Continue reading
