Well poor Ivonne is out of a oven for a month so she told me to bake for her....so I am. When I think of Fall foods I think of apples and pumpkin. I think it is a tad to early for pumpkin(though I have already been enjoying pumpkin lattes at Starbucks). I was inspired to do something caramel apple after reading/drooling over the caramel apple cupcakes made over at the Cupcake Bake Shop. These are so no where cute as the cup cakes but darn tasty none the less. I had to get my baking done today for Thursday we leave for a little vacation to see my parents. It is a nice break for me, because even though I love to cook and bake it is nice every once and a while to have someone else do it for a bit. And who better to cook for me than my mom.... my real culinary trainer(I learned far more from her than I ever did in any of my culinary classes). I ran across a recipe for apple cake on the Food Network site while looking for something else(I am not a fan of how they organize recipes on … [Read more...]
Welcome September
Though it is not officially Fall yet, September is the month that starts to say Fall to me. School is back in full swing, the days are getting shorter(bad for taking photos though) and the produce that I like is starting to show up at the market. Now I don't know where you live but here in Washington state early September brings the best strawberries. Until I moved here I had no idea how wonderful strawberries could be. All that was ever really offered in Phoenix were the giant strawberries that when you bit into them they were a little red and a whole lot of white...but with enough sugar sprinkled on them they were good. So imagine my surprise when we moved up here and I discovered that strawberries could be red all the way through! They could be sweet enough not to need sugar. And so with that I have become a strawberry purist. Oh I still like them in strawberry shortcakes but tonight I will simply have them cut up with a little bit of cream poured over the top. I … [Read more...]
