May 06 2026
Sourdough Bagels that are Easy and Delicious!
If you’ve ever wanted to try making sourdough bagels, I have the recipe for you! This recipe is easy to make and consistently yields beautiful, delicious, perfect bagels. It’s based...
Tag: Bread
Apr 23 2025
Homemade Pan Pizza with Special Sauce You’ll Love!
Homemade pizza is a Friday night tradition at our house. I have a recipe that I’ve used for years and I wrote about it here. Recently I was trying out...
Sep 29 2024
Freezing Bananas and Stale Bread: Simple Ways to Reduce Waste
There are a few staple foods that always seem to go bad really quickly. At my house two of those are bananas and bread. My kids either eat all the...
Apr 06 2024
Homemade Pancake Mix; Simple, Frugal, and Delicious!
The title of this post lists three very important values of mine that apply to homemaking and especially to feeding my family of eight. I need our food to be...
Mar 29 2024
Chocolate Hot Cross Buns; Double Chocolate Can Never Be Wrong!
If you are either a bread nerd or a fan of British baking then you know about hot cross buns. These buns are traditionally made on Good Friday for Easter...
Mar 23 2024
My Best Muffin Recipe, Choose Your Adventure Muffins
There’s a series of books called Tightwad Gazette that have had a place of honor on my bookshelves for years. Based on a newsletter written throughout the 90s, these books...
Dec 04 2023
Cranberry Pecan Sourdough Bread, a Beautiful Sourdough Loaf
Once you are comfortable with the Basic Sourdough Bread it’s time to try out some fun variations. This perfect Cranberry Pecan Sourdough Bread is just the place to start. This...
Nov 17 2023
Best Soft Sourdough Rolls; Simple and Buttery!
Sometimes there’s nothing quite like soft buttery rolls with your dinner. If you’re having soup on a cold winter night or hosting a big dinner, a basket of hot rolls...
Nov 03 2023
Make Your Own Delicious Sourdough Bread Crumbs
Once you start baking bread there will come a day when a loaf of bread goes stale. When this happens you can repurpose that bread into bread crumbs. Recently I...
Oct 23 2023
Cornmeal Oat Sourdough Bread; Simple and Wholesome
One of the first cookbooks I ever owned was called Great Breads. It introduced me to the world of sourdough baking and it was love at first sight! I’ve baked...