For Fourth of July this year I made lemon thyme shortbread cookies to go along with our fresh berry salad and homemade whipped cream. I've wanted to learn to make shortbread for a long time and lemon is one of my favorite summer ingredients for baking. These are not high in sugar, although they are…
4th of July weekend
So what did we do for the 4th? Well a week with L's parents we were ready for a weekend in. We spent most of the weekend working on the house, . We also got some quiet time to just regroup together. On the 4th we celebrated with burgers, local hard cider, and dessert. For…
Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
A long title for a very delicious cookie. For Valentine's this year I decided to put a twist on the traditional Peanut Butter Kiss Cookie. Instead of buying plain chocolate kisses I bought caramel filled kisses, this time of year they come in a pink bag and are wrapped in pink swirled foil. I adapted a basic…
White Chocolate Ginger Snap Cookies
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.…
Lemon Cream Scones
Since this was my first time making scones I thought I'd use a recipe to get me started. It didn't hurt that it was for lemon scones. Also, not so surprising I made a few changes. The original recipe called for putting a little cinnamon sugar on top of the scones. I opted for…
Gluten Free Cereal Treats
Did you know that store bought rice cereal treats have malt or barley in the them? Which is a problem for me. Rice cereals should be gluten free but many unfortunately are not. So I decided to make healthier gluten free cereal treats at home. A local grocery store recently made new gluten free cereals so…
Bread of the Month: Pan Dulce
Last Monday was Cinco de Mayo which isn't a huge holiday here in New York but is pretty well celebrated in my home state of California. I usually do not celebrate it myself other than choosing to eat Mexican food for dinner that night. So I was somewhat surprised we were invited to a Cinco…
Bread of the Month: Irish Cinnamon Rolls
It has been a very long and full week. Luke left for a conference this past Tuesday (his birthday my first day teaching at a new job) and came home yesterday afternoon. Friday evening we celebrated with presents and a night of catching up at home (more on our busy week to come.) Because he…
Autumn Apple recipes
On Tuesday I said I'd share what we'd do with all the apple fest apples. Here's everything apple made with those crispy northern spy's: 1. Apple Chips First thing when we got back last Saturday I got out my new hand-dandy apple slicer and peeler and cut up 3-4 apples. Seperating them into rings I stuck…
A.Greene's Adventures 