This strawberry pie was made in about 15 minutes using a strawberry pie kit. When the Strawberries are This Good, Use Them Everywhere! In the last few days, I’ve used […]
Category: Fruit
The best part about these cheesecake bars is that you can do them your way. What flavors do you think your family will love the most? Mix and match flavors […]
Scrumptious Cheesecake Bars
We’ve made many versions of streusel cake or streuselkuchen. This is one of the best. Like most, this one has a layer of fruit filling tucked under the streusel top. […]
Pennsylvania Dutch Streusel Cake with a Fruit Filling
The Perfect Summer Fare Pannekoeken and German pancakes are perfect for summer. It’s a great way to take advantage of the seasonal harvest from berries through apples—even though putting syrup […]
A Guide to German Pancakes and Pannekoeken
I’ve often referred to pannekoeken as a Dutch version of a German pancake. That is, until some nice man said, “There is nothing German” about a pannekoeken! But you can […]
Pannekoeken, German Pancakes, and Fruit
One of the hottest trends in food right now is the new sea salts. Salts bring flavors alive. The new salts are purer but have trace minerals that our bodies […]
How to Use the New Sea Salts in Your Cooking
Syrups are easy to make. They’re a mixture of water, sugar, a flavor, and maybe a thickener. Juice can be substituted for the water. You can use the syrup on your pancakes. We have often used […]
What Can You Make with a Syrup?
Image by VisitIdaho.org Last weekend we took our first trip into the mountains of the spring. It wasn’t long, a three hour loop up to Mesa Falls, through Island Park, […]
How to Pack for the First Road Trip of the ...
I have a valued cookbook in my library by Marcy Goldman, in which she claims that the best thing we can do for our baking is to use really good […]
How to Get the Most from Cinnamon in Your Baking
10 Easy Ideas for Breakfast 1. Raspberry Sour Cream Pancakes and other fruit pancakes. You can add almost any fruit to your pancakes—like raspberries, blueberries, sliced bananas, or chunks of fresh pineapple. Or you can macerate the fruit in […]
Ten Easy Ideas for Breakfast
We’re serving crunch cake in our store this week: blueberry lemon, caramel peach, raspberry chocolate, mixed berry. The crunch comes from a layer of toasted, sliced almonds on top of […]
Crunchy Almond Topped Cakes and Muffins
We’re serving crunch cake in our store this week: blueberry lemon, caramel peach, raspberry chocolate, mixed berry. The crunch comes from a layer of toasted, sliced almonds on top of […]
How to Make Crunchy Almond Topped Cakes and Muffins
I may have the most fun job on the planet! I’m a food explorer. I have an office just down the hall from the test kitchen. I don’t do all […]
Seven Kitchen Breakthroughs I Love
Ingredients Cookies are wonderful concoctions of flour, sugar, and a fat—usually butter and eggs. To these basic ingredients, we add fruit, nuts, and flavors. If we start out with compromised […]
A Baker’s Cookie Guide
By: Casey Archibald I remember my grandmother; she always smelled like a perfume called Beautiful. She spent hours trimming her rose bushes on hot summer weekends, she had a big, […]
Chicken Pot Pie: A Timeless Comfort Food Classic
We answer hundreds of questions. That’s what happens when you teach classes, have a store, and answer emails. Over and over, we see questions that are related to these three […]
Three Problems with Your Baking and How to Fix Them
Dennis Weaver & Debbie Frantzen Chiffon pies are ethereal–light and dreamy, refreshing, melt-in-your-mouth affairs. They are perfect for summertime as well as anytime a light, less-filling dessert is desired. We […]
The Search for the Best Chiffon Pies
Dennis Weaver With the exception of the picture of the Tetons, the landscape images were taken in Eastern Idaho by Debbie Frantzen. This is our favorite time of year for […]
How to Have Great Picnics in the Fall
Plus “How a Burger Press Works” 1. Use the right beef. Use the best meat you can buy. Make sure it is fresh and use it within 48 hours. […]
Four Steps to Incredible Burgers
I look forward to the peach season all year. There is not anything much better than a chilled, luscious peach. While they’re in season, enjoy them every way you can. […]