Category: Baking

Dilly Onion Casserole Bread

1/14/2020

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A few different things inspired this bread. First of all, I was watching a BBC show called Britain's Best Bakery, and there are some amazingly beautiful loaves of bread on that show. One particular loaf was made by a British Bakery called Thankful Bakery, and they used nettles and chives in their bread. They put a nettle leaf on the top to make it pretty. It was so simple and I loved it. I have no idea what nettles are, but I started thinking about that idea for an herb filled savory bread. Then, I remembered that my mother used to make a Dilly Bread, only rather than fresh herbs, she used dried. But, I figured I could adapt that idea to fresh. Also, I remembered that her recipe used cottage cheese. I had some ricotta cheese in my fridge and I wondered if I could make that work instead. Guess what! You can!

I started with some green onions, parsley and dill.

The beauty of this recipe is that it only takes 2 cups of flour to make a nice loaf to go with a soup or a stew, or just to eat all by itself! Also, It is almost like a batter bread because there is no kneading and you bake it in a 2 quart Pyrex dish! It is a super simple loaf to whip up.

You just mix it up, put the ball of dough into a well greased bowl and let it rise.

After it had risen, I spread some butter on it, dusted it with a little flour and couldn't resist decorating it with a leaf of parsley and a sprig of dill.

I was pleased with the pretty results!

After 40 minutes of baking it came out nice and brown on the bottom and soft and tender on the inside.

Trust me, you are going to want to give this simple, savory bread a try!
Below the recipe you will see tools and utensils similar to what I have used. Not exactly, my bread board was handmade for me, but I found one similar for you to see.
Happy Baking!

Dilly Onion Casserole Bread

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Lighter Blueberry Banana Muffins-Starting the Year off Light!

1/7/2020

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When the girl's and I got together to discuss blog business over the holidays, one of the things we all agreed on is that we all want to be more healthy this year! Personally, I feel very motivated and I feel like if we all encourage each other throughout the year, we can achieve our health goals. Many times we have heard people say that if they just start to live in a more healthy way, weight comes off and they see progress. But, I know that in my case, I need specific goals set that I can work on and change about my eating habits and exercise plan or nothing will ever happen.
Many of us want to lose weight, some of us want to strengthen our core or our upper body strength. Maddy is training for a 1/2 marathon. So, to achieve these goals we each are making plans that will help us reach them. One part of my plan is to cut back on sugar intake and to avoid mindless eating. You know, when you walk by some cookies, pick it up, eat it and THEN remember that you were going to avoid eating sweets and your weren't even hungry anyway?
In 2020 we will be trying to show you a lot of healthier posts when it comes to food, more activities that encourage a healthy lifestyle as well as our DIY posts that you have let us know that you enjoy.
I am going to start this year with these Lighter Blueberry Banana Muffins. The original recipe came from A Sprinkle of Joy, but I tweaked it a bit to lighten it up and give it more banana punch. I replaced the sugar in the muffin with agave nectar, but there is still sugar in the topping. The sweetness of the fruit doesn't let you miss the sugar in these muffins. They were really good!

Lighter Blueberry Banana Muffins

BTW, how do you like my muffin photos? I received a light box for Christmas, so you will see me doing lots of experimenting with it! So much fun!

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Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecake

11/19/2019

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Do you enjoying adding a new delicious dish or two to your Thanksgiving Dinner? The traditional food is so good and we look forward to it each year when Thanksgiving rolls around, but it's always fun to have a new dish to talk about when the meal is over and people will only have good things to say about this Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecake!
This recipe for Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecake is a twist on an old recipe that I have had hanging around in my recipe box for years. The old recipe had a cracker crust and walnuts. I decided that pecans are more of a favorite at our house and of course a gingersnap crust would go so well with pumpkin! So I decided to give it a try and guess what! I was right!
The ginger flavor and crunch of the gingersnaps make a crust that I may start using in loads of other applications! It is so easy to make in a food processor! It takes a little finesse to smooth it across the bottom and up the sides of the spring-form pan. (I used a fork and then my fingers.)

I mixed the filling in myKitchen Aid. I learned that it is very important to stop and scrap the bowl frequently or you may end up with some leftover lumps of cream cheese. (You may notice a couple in my slice of cheesecake, I'm glad this was my test cake. Although, they didn't detract from the deliciousness of the cake at all!)

Do you see that candied pecan topping? There is no need to cook on the stove top. You just mix the ingredients in a bowl and then spoon on top of the almost completely baked cheesecake and bake it for 10 minutes longer. The topping comes out perfectly crunchy and gives a beautiful texture that offsets the creaminess of the pumpkin cheesecake itself! Lindsey, my pumpkin loving daughter is going to love this dessert!

This Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecake came together so much easier than I expected that it would for the impact I know it will make on Thanksgiving! I hope you enjoy it! Let me know!

Pumpkin Pecan Cheesecake

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