Basic Caramel Sauce

I decided I needed a post on caramel sauce before I misplace my recipe!  This sauce could be used as an ice cream topping.  Or straight out of the jar.  But I’ve explored other ways, such as a center for chocolate molded bon bons and in caramel frosting for cakes and cupcakes.  It’s on the […]

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Basics: Sour Dough Starter

Several years ago, I made a few attempts at making a sour dough starter.  Each attempt failed miserably.  Mold would grow on the starter and that was the end of that.  After reading several articles on the health benefits of natural yeast and sour dough bread, I grew more determined to master this very basic […]

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Country-Style Bread (No-Knead)

Bread, the staff of life.  When growing up, there always had to be bread in the house.  Bread accessible to most families at that time was more like cotton balls formed into loaves.  Simply put, good bread was hard to find.  Coming from Poland where bad bread was hard to find, the absence of good […]

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