My favorite part of attending pro sports games is the pretzels. Well, the sport, too, but seriously - those pretzels! Pretzels are the perfect sport or party food because they're delicious and super easy to eat one handed, so you can still cheer for the good guys while you enjoy a snack. I had the house to myself for a few hours yesterday, so I ( Read more... )

My boyfriend and I have a guilty pleasure: cinnamon buns. Alas, over the last 8 years, cinnamon buns haven't quite reciprocated the love. More times than not, our "let's have cinnamon buns!" turns into "well that was disappointing". Usually, it's because they get burned, even when we follow the instructions on the Pillsbury tube TO.THE.LETTER. ( Read more... )

Chanukah started on Saturday night. Observed for 8 days, Chanukah celebrates the triumph of light over dark. After the Macabees defeated the Greeks and reclaimed the Holy Temple, they went to light the menorah (7 branched candelabra) and found that there was only enough oil to last for one day. The miracle of Chanukah is that the oil lasted for ( Read more... )

Today I decided to use some of our local veggies and wanted to make soup and bread. So I decided on chicken barley soup because that's simple enough and I can just put whatever I want in it. And I wanted fresh bread, so I used a simple french bread bread machine recipe and made the dough in the bread machine, then did the last rise and the baking ( Read more... )

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I love fresh bread. Many years ago, my boyfriend at the time gave me a bread machine for Christmas. I was still in college at the time and after dinner, my roommates and I would throw ingredients into the bread machine and turn it on. Then a few hours later, we'd have fresh hot bread for our study break. It was magic! I tended to make this ( Read more... )