I am freezing! The sun is just waking up…and there is a dim glow to the trees. The goats and chickens have not started clamoring for their breakfasts yet, and no one is up except Marc and I. He left for work a few minutes ago..Why am I freezing? The fan in the window is blowing in chilled air!  It is a cool morning more reminiscent of August in Michigan than August in Texas.
I am starting to feel frustrated with being out of my kitchen. I think today I will try to get in there and maintain enough momentum to …read more

Better late than never right?

Don’t forget to keep an eye on the BakingDelights Flickr group. Some awesome stuff there. Ben of What’s Cooking added images from his Food Buzz 24-24-24. Sarah from What Smells SO Good has some images of biscotti…and on and on!
Cookie Madness- Sour CreamFilled Chocolate Cookies with Dried Cherries. Yum
Linette from She Knows Parties has an entire party based on lemons. Lemons!
Rhubarb has always been a pie ingredient to me but Dorie Greenspan roasts it and then plops it atop ice cream. Yum. Personally I am thinking of what it would be like over cherry and white …read more

 
Yeah..I just could not get to it yesterday.
So…let’s see what’s out there for Thanksgiving weeks shall we?

 
So, how was your fourth of July? Ours was somewhat quiet…Great food, great friends…you know..the usual.
I think that I need to be more aware of my time and how I spend it. Sometimes I seem to just be focused on writing and researching for writing and I forget that there is an entire summer passing me by.  I mean, yes we do need to be able to eat but I think I just need to take a day and head out to Waxahachie to go antiquing, or to the Brazos to float on an innertube…or even to Canton to pick …read more

Here it is, the round up for , What to do with Leftover……
This month it is eggs. Whether you make a pound cake, or an angel food cake or even a fritter batter you can end up with leftover egg whites or leftover egg yolks. If you have chickens, like we do, sometimes leftover eggs means that the chickens laid more than usual and there are 5 or 6 dozen in the fridge!
Being eco-friendly, taking care of the environment also means not being wasteful. Frugality is cool! Besides, those chickens work HARD to give you those …read more

Well, now that we have those silly wedding cakes out of the way we can get on to some serious surfing.

 Image:Marye Audet     Frozen Music
Hey look! My spinach is up!!
Today is an awesome day for surfing here at Baking Delights…The very first blog I read was A Cracking Good Egg and what did I find?