So my second new cookie experiment this year was a white chocolate dipped ginger cookie. I've always wanted to learn how to make ginger snaps. The cookies themselves ended up taking a long time to bake, I'm guessing because of the molasses. White chocolate can be hard to work with it can burn easily or harden quickly.…
Holiday Velvet Cookies
So if you follow my blog at all you know I love to bake and most of all to bake cookies. And Christmas is the perfect time of year to experiment with new recipes. This year I did two new experiments. In the past I have worked with several different cake mixes to make cookies.…
Maple Season
When we moved to our house in October. My sister in law who was helping us move said she thought most of the trees behind our house were maple. By the time we moved their bright yellow leaves covered the ground. We had seen signs along roads with a tree tapped with a bucket next…
Bread of the Month: Swedish Rye
With most of my bread making experiments so far I have stayed safely close to the normal flours and grains so I decided this month it was finally time to branch out to the more hearty and interesting grains starting with rye flour. Rye flour on it's own can be extremely dense and so it is…
Bread of the Month: English Muffins
This year I decided I am picking one new bread item per month to home-bake. If you have followed my blog for any length of time you will know that I love to bake but my baking had been mostly limited to desserts. It's only within this past year I began to feel comfortable making…
Busy: an update
First and foremost I want to say: No I have not forgotten about all of you! Second: I have been busy!! I am not telling you this to apologize from my blogging absence. Instead I am actually sharing with excitement that life is finally getting full. We have been busy with social outings, holiday events, small…
Fall Recipe Round-up and Competition
Today we are in Syracuse for the first time on a business trip. Luke will be attending a state wide nursing teaching day and since I am still waiting to hear back on the job interview last week (see a teacher without a classroom), I figured I'd come along and explore the area. I am…
6 months =100 posts
Hard to believe I started blogging A.Greene’s Adventures 6 months ago. 100 posts later, I have shared with you the ways I have transformed, transitioned, and transcended, into married life in Corning NY. Looking back, since January we: Survived our first NY winter (See: A lesson in Independence, 2300 degrees, my new hometown) Settled into our home, state,…
Cinnamon Roll Bunt B-day Cake
My husband's b-day was this past Monday and I wanted to make him a cake. He's not big on traditional b-day cake but loves cinnamon rolls. I thought: can I make cinnamon rolls into a cake? The answer is yes! I am not the first one to think up this idea the credit for the…
Valentine’s Pie: A new tradition
My husband has a bit of an obsession with pie. And understandably so: pie-making is a bit of a Greene family tradition. I discovered this the first time I went to visit the Greene’s in Oregon. One day we strapped empty plastic milk gallons with their tops cut off to our belts and filled several…
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