When we were little, our parents used to take us to weekend brunch at a fabulous place called The Nut Tree in Vacaville, California. If you have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, or parts east of the bay, you probably know about it. …
If you are ever in St. Helena, a quaint town in the heart of the Napa Valley, you must visit The Model Bakery . It is hands down our favorite bakery. They not only make excellent Almond Macaroons , as we previously shared with you, …
Have you gotten on the sourdough starter bandwagon this year? We have and are loving baking all the breads. Truth be told, we don’t like to throw away our discard sourdough starter and have been looking for ways to use it up. Our Sourdough Discard …
Our original idea for Cornbread with Bacon was inspired from a visit to a brewery in Bend, Oregon several summers ago. We cannot for the life of us remember the name of the brewery, but the cornbread was utterly unforgettable. It came to the table …
Mother’s Day is this weekend! Many of us will probably be using Face Time or Skype to celebrate with mom – or our mom figures – this year. We usually celebrate with an all-out-brunch, as that’s our favorite meal of the weekend. Even if you …
It’s been almost two years since we posted our Soft Pretzel Bite recipe. Today we have a riff on them that’s fun and easy…Pretzel Hot Dogs! They are easy to make and keep really well so you can make a batch and freeze them for …
Do you ever feel like you belong to a culture or a community but you don’t think you have much of factual basis for feeling that way? We both recently did the 23 and Me ancestry DNA testing. Much to our surprise, we both came …
Okay you guys…it’s almost St. Patrick’s Day and, in our world, that means corned beef and rye bread! We love our bread around here and we have tried many, many rye bread recipes. We finally found the secret ingredient that makes our New York Rye …
