Category: Breadmaking
Banana-Zucchini Muffins with Blueberries
| November 21, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Breakfast, Make-ahead |
Back when it was still summer, and we still were struggling with what to do with copious zucchini (not to mention the over-ripe bananas I always seem to have lying around) I came up with this recipe for Banana-Zucchini Muffins. Alas, it is not summer anymore. Where did the time go? Oh, yes, that’s…
Jalapeno-Cheddar Corn Muffins
| May 12, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Appetizers, Breadmaking, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
Corn bread, corn bread, wherefore art thou, corn bread? If you celebrated Easter with my family, you were awash in a sea of chili and cornbread – a chili cookoff, to be exact, with no fewer than three cornbread recipes to go alongside. You see, tired of the same old ham and cheddar potato casserole…
Irish Soda Bread
| April 22, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Holidays, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
Happy (four weeks) post-St. Patrick’s Day! We un-Irish Chicagoans celebrated St. Practice Day, the Saturday before the 17th each year when we dye our river green – or greener than usual. We celebrated St. Patrick’s day with a pint in a pub, a nice way to observe this somewhat meaningless holiday, but one that also…
Mediterranean Calzone
| April 11, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Main Course, snacks, Vegetarian |
Another variation on pizza – who is surprised? Me, this blogger who has posted entry after entry on pizza, extolling the virtues and universal appeal of this cheesy dish, who has written rants, diatribes, and lectures on pizza styles, thickness, variations, and toppings. Me, the Superbowl of hyperbole… So that was the thought in my…
White Pizza with Spinach and Garlic
| March 16, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Junk food, Main Course, Vegetarian |
Oh, old friend, how I’ve missed you so. First “discovered” during a dinner at Piece, our favorite brewery and pizzaria in this fair city, the amazing combination of garlic oil, spinach and sauteed mushrooms on crisp, airy dough has become a mythological goddess to us, guiding me through the hallowed woods of pizza making and,…
Mustard-Parmesan Drop Biscuits
| February 17, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Freezer food, Recipe, Side Dishes, Vegetarian |
Just a quick variation on my super easy drop biscuit recipe. And isn’t that one of the beautiful aspects of these drop biscuits, the ability to change them up at will (along with not having to roll them, cut them, chill them, etc.) Although I firmly believe that garlic-cheddar biscuits drenched in butter cannot be…
Sicilian Pizza, AKA the BEST Pizza Ever
| January 30, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Junk food, Main Course, Recipe, Vegetarian |
I’ve never heard of Sicilian Pizza. Being from MI and now living in Chicago, I’m thoroghly aware that regional pizza styles even between these two close localities vary wildly. Growing up, pizza was a round, thin, soft-in-the-middle, crisp-and-chewy-on-the-edges, cut-into-eight-triangles circle of dough, then sauce, then cheese, then toppings. Probably what most people from middle America…
Apple-Cinnamon Banana Bread
| January 5, 2011 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Breakfast, Freezer food |
We like bananas. We like them a lot, enough so that we always have bunches on hand. Even our dog gets into the banana-frenzy, getting his twice-daily meds via a small piece of banana. What can I say, the dog’s a freak, and we’re all a bunch of monkeys. Wow. Look how quickly I digress…
Claire’s Dad’s Muffins
| December 6, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Breakfast, Recipe |
Yet another weekend has passed us by, and yet another Monday morning finds me reluctant to leave the warm confines of my nighttime oasis to begin another week of work. Good thing that I had a personal day I had to use in the next 3 weeks, because playing hooky never feels better than on…
Early Thanksgiving Bonus Recipe – Banana-Cranberry Muffins with Streusel
| November 24, 2010 | Posted by Cheeks under Breadmaking, Breakfast, Vegetarian |
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, my dear friends. I am only cooking small contributions to the big meal this year, having shuffled off hosting duty to my wonderful parents-in-law AND gotten my own parents to come down, too. Two families’ worth of food traditions? This Thanksgiving will be, as Swarles Barkley says, LEGENDARY. So…
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