By now I’m sure you’ve all heard the news regarding the demise of the Hostess Baking Co. If not, I’m sorry to be the bearer of this sad news, but, alas, it’s true. No more Hostess. No more Ding Dongs. No more Twinkies. No more fruit pies. Not that I’ve actually...
Avocados have been a mainstay of my culinary life for about as long as I can remember. Growing up in Southern California in the 60’s, avocados were locally grown, plentiful and part of just about every party and celebration, usually in the form of...
Well, folks, this is just about the easiest (and BEST) applesauce you will ever make. No peeling, no dicing, no slicing, no kidding. I just can’t decide what I like most about it, the fact that it’s so easy to make, or the awesome apple-pie flavor. So how easy is...
I have come to believe that there are marmalade people and then there is the rest of the world. I have always planted myself squarely with the rest of the world, but The husband is a marmalade person and I have therefore, slowly, come to admire its charms. It’s so...
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you already know that I am not one to spend overly much time in the kitchen first thing in the morning. Just not my thing. It takes at least 1 cup of coffee to start these engines and even into the second cup,...
I’m really not a big fan of the white cake. Maybe the bulk of my experience with white cakes has been those cloyingly sweet bakery confections that mostly taste of the shortening they put in the frosting. But I have held on to the idea that somewhere out there I...
I like to think of ourselves here at the Circle B Kitchen as sort of bread pudding aficionados. I mean, we’ve been making bread pudding on Christmas night for over 20 years now, so we’ve been pretty sure we had the whole bread pudding thing figured out. ...
I’m still working my way through all the apples we brought home from the orchard, so please bear with me; I’m planning on wearing you down and feeding you apples every which way for awhile. But I make no apologies for this one, people. I really love...
