My mother always grows pumpkins in her yard every year. Mixed in among her flowers and plants are big globes of orange scattered here and there, looking like the remnants of a basketball game. I swear my mother can plant a Pepsi can and grow a whole field of Pepsi with no effort at all. …
I am from an unusual family, we were not content with the status quo and fiddled with everything we made, we have some unusual recipes for pumpkin pie. Walnut Pumpkin Pie with Walnut Crust 1 cup flour ¼ tsp salt 1/3 cup ground walnuts (see note) ¼ cup cold sweet butter ¼ cup shortening 2-3 …
Sea salt is a favorite of chefs and ‘foodies’, who appreciate the large, crunchy crystals, and softer, more complex saltiness. But it isn’t a good choice for substitution for table salt in every recipe. Once it dissolves, most of the differences disappear, and you’d have been smarter to have used the more economical every-day salt. …
For those of us with celiac disease, gluten intolerance, or grain allergies, soy flour is a wonderfully useful baking ingredient. Like other bean-and pea flours, such as chick-pea flour, it has a consistency that lends itself to quick breads. Unlike chick-pea flour, however, it has a mild non-obtrusive taste that blends beautifully into baking recipes. …
Last year, I started baking again. It’d been years since I baked, even then it was mostly with cake mixes. But over the holidays, I decided to try my hand at baking from scratch. Baking is an exact science, one that requires every ingredient measured exactly as the recipe calls for it. Otherwise you’ll have …