The original recipe I’m adapting from GimmeSomeOven has the flour measure in cups and grams. And I’m cutting the recipe by eight. So the original recipe called for 4.5 cups of flour. And that becomes 9/16 cups when divided by 8. Which would be a bit more than 1/2 cup. But the grams, 639, we’ll…

I think that I’ve finally got this. It’s taken a few experiments. I invite you to try it. The tricky part was getting the right amount of flour. Like all recipes, the smaller you make the quantities, the more exact you have to be when you measure. I was using the back of a knife…

I wanted new sheet pans. My old ones have accumulated a patina that baking soda and vinegar has not been able to remove. That was the whole reason for going to The Chef’s Store. I’d looked elsewhere but wasn’t satisfied with the quality, style or price. Sometimes the simpler you want something to be, the…

Last year, I ran into a strange bargain that I just couldn’t pass up. I found these tiny, one-serving, cake-in-a-mug mixes from Duncan Hines in an economy-sized box. The store had them on sale for a dollar. That was for ten envelopes. The interesting part was that on the cake aisle the 4-pack was still…

When we first saw this house three and a half years ago, we made fun of the ostentatious faucet in the front bathroom. The cut-crystal ball handles and the filigree were over-the-top to our minimalist decor senses. “That’s going to be one of the first things to go.” we said. The thing is, although it…

Well. That title just about says it all.  I got the recipe for the Cream-of-Wheat muffins from the Once-A-Month Meals blog. I got the idea to add apricots from having two bags of dried apricots in the cabinet. No doubt my fault. But too much is a better problem than not enough. I’ve also always…