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As a newly appointed Chef Ambassador to the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, I’ve been working overtime incorporating a variety of Wisconsin cheeses into my menus. It’s been great to have this collection at my fingertips to go through and see what has already been created utilizing the wonderful flavors and […]

This recipe is one I adapted from King Arthur Flour. Granola bars are one of those mass-produced items that are really easy to make on your own, and immensely more satisfying because you can customize them to your liking. For example, the original recipe called for, or at least suggested coconut, which I abhor (texture […]

This recipe started, like all good recipes, as something else. That something else is Nigella Lawson’s Guinness Chocolate Cake, which comes from her cookbook Feast. We have two birthdays in the month of March in our house, and St. Patrick’s Day falls smack in the middle of them, so this cake turned into my husband’s […]

Scones are a perfect pastry for those who like their cakes rustic and not very sweet, but I find the idea of a scone to be much more pleasant than the peculiar hockey puck one often finds behind the bakery glass. Far too often, when I sink my maw into a typical scone, my heart […]

This dish is a variation of a classic Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board recipe, which has been tweaked to include the local apples. If you’ve canned your apples from the fall harvest they will work just as well as fresh, just be sure to drain the juice as you begin your mise en place.
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2 pounds of […]

I got this amazing book for Christmas. It’s called Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. It has changed my life.
Here’s the simple concept: A batch of high moisture doughs sit in the fridge in a lidded container so that all you need to do is rip off a grapefruit-sized hunk of it, shape it, […]

This is not a typical cookbook that you prop up or lay off to the side when scanning recipes or working your culinary magic in the kitchen. The weight and size alone lends itself readily as a club to kill a moose as well as a collection of recipes.
One reviewer wrote that they needed large […]

Yup, ’tis the season. The baking bonanza officially kicked off lastthis past weekend, and these Espresso Delights were the beauty of the bunch. As soon as I pulled them from the oven, the kitchen instantly smelled like espresso. Even though I don’t drink the stuff, I still love the rich, deep […]

When I first saw this recipe for Apple Pie Cookies on Baking Bites, I knew I had to make it pretty much immediately. And then I remembered the mountain of apples from a recent apple picking trip, which gave me further justification for heading into the kitchen. Conclusion: the cookies are excellent, and it really […]

A friend of mine recently moved to Chicago, and she’s feeling a little down about the transition. What makes you feel better when you’re in a new place? Care packages! So yesterday I pulled out a new recipe book that I hadn’t tried yet - Giada’s Kitchen by Giada De Laurentiis.
I decided to make her Chocolate […]