Baking

I love bread pudding. It is a simple dessert but it makes me super happy. I first discovered it in New Orleans and have been noshing on it ever since. Recently, my sister brought over some lemon blueberry swirl bread when I was feeling miserable from some nutty European super germ. It was tasty…but I …

On Saturday my sister hosted a family dinner. I volunteered to bring dessert and suggested Bread Pudding (because I had some stale bread and because I adore bread pudding). While enthusiastic for that, she reminded me that one of our cousins is diabetic. Not a problem. I did some googling and stumbled on a ‘Nice …

From time to time my sweet Mavis gets an upset stomach. She looks at me pitifully with her big brown eyes and I fall apart, feeling like the worst mom ever. Inevitably what happens next is a trip to the vet and an expensive bill to tell me to feed her a bland diet and …

I bought a couple of bananas in the hopes that I would eat them as part of a new healthy regimen. Unfortunately for me, they ripened too quickly for me. So…I had to make banana bread. I thought I had my mom’s recipe, but wasn’t able to locate it, so this is a combo of …