Brown loaf of banana bread with a cracked, swirled top resting in a white baking dish.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Coconut Milk-Chocolate Marble Cake from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Coconut-Milk-Chocolate Marble Cake is one of our last cakes left to bake in this book (we’re done in October!!!) and to be honest, i hadn’t noticed this particular recipe until it was chosen! I’ve not had much success making pretty marble cakes in the … Read more

Book cover of Our Last Vineyard Summer by Brooke Lea Foster.

Summer Reads: Our Last Vineyard Summer

This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be sharing book recommendations –  a series of “not just cookbooks”. This summer, I’m excited to join Book Sparks Summer Reading Challenge – “The Book Odyssey” and over the course of the summer I will be receiving and reviewing a few books selected by Book … Read more

Cover image of What you are looking for is in the library - a book by Michiko Aoyama featuring a window sill with a stack of books and a black cat.

Summer Reads: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be sharing book recommendations –  a series of “not just cookbooks”. This week’s Summer Reads pick is a delightful “read it in one day” kind of book that someone recommended to me a few months ago that I couldn’t put down – the perfect #summerreads … Read more

close up of Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Mary Dodd’s Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Mary Dodd’s Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies have a lot going on! These cookies are fairly easy to whip up – you need to have cooked bacon and also bacon fat – I cooked my bacon strips and used the fat that rendered from there … Read more