Baked Bree

When I was in high school, I worked in a cute little ice cream shop that made these Irish Potato Candies around St. Patrick’s Day.  We would roll these little treats for hours and sell out every day.  People would start to ask us around the middle of February when we would start making...

Every now and again a recipe intrigues me even though it is not the kind of thing that I would usually make.  This one starts with a cake mix and a package of pudding.  I know, I know, chemicals and preservatives and stuff, but sometimes there is nothing more delicious than a cake made...

As soon as the weather starts to warm up in the least bit, all I want to eat is fresh and crispy salads.  We got teased a few weeks ago with spring like weather and this is the first of the salads that will be making many appearances at my dinner table.  As much...

This is my favorite kind of dessert.  Easy, complex, flavorful, easy, fresh, delicious, easy.  Do you sense a theme with desserts that I like?  I want something easy to make.  It may surprise you, but people expect me to bring food to things.  There are times when I really have it together and plan...

A little history about King Cake.  King Cake is a traditional cake made to honor the three kings that visited Baby Jesus on the Epiphany.  King Cake is eaten from the 12th Day of Christmas until Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.   It is a rich pastry that is similar to a brioche...

What can I say about red velvet cupcakes that has not already been said?  Everywhere you go you see two things.  Cupcakes and red velvet cupcakes.  I hesitated to share the these with you for that reason, but then something happened.  William asked me to make these for class Valentine’s Day party.  I tried...

I am sitting here writing this post watching the Oscars.  They just started and I am already bored.  I guess they are not hitting the new demographic they are going for.  But can I just say that I have a girl crush on Gwyneth Paltrow?  Moving on… My mom makes the best chicken curry...

I have a Nonnie, but this is not her meat sauce.  It is my son’s best friend’s Nonnie’s meat sauce.  Sort of.  I have to be honest with you, I am becoming a bore.  If you sit next to me at, say for instance, a Saturday basketball game, I am going to hound you...

Sometimes, you want a fancy dessert.  Sometimes, you want something comforting and homey.  This rice pudding recipe is both things rolled into one.  A comforting and homey rice pudding, fancied up with a lemon-vanilla caramel sauce.  The dessert looks very complicated, but it was really easy to make and the rice pudding and caramel...

A few weeks ago I bought a new cookbook, called Deliciously Organic and I love it.  I have made a few recipes out of this book and they all were delicious, (as the title states) healthy, and organic.  I have bought organic products for many years.  Long before the cool kids did; my friends...