a tasty little blog about southern baking
Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Cooking, Desserts on Nov 21st, 2011
Since I started writing this blog, I have been making a wish list of bakeries I want to visit. Red Truck Bakery (www.redtruckbakery.com) in Old Town Warrenton, VA is definitely at the top of the list. First off, I really love that they turned an old Esso Station into a bakery. Second, I really love the [...]
Posted in Desserts on Aug 25th, 2011
I read the book, “The Help” when it first came out and absolutely loved it! I have not had a chance to see the movie, but it is on the long long to do list. However, I have had a chance to sample the actual Caramel Cake that was featured in the movie which is [...]
Posted in Desserts on Aug 21st, 2011
This past week was the first week of third grade for my 8 year old son, Walker. As a, “yay school is back in session” celebration, I decided to try a new recipe I was sent by The 1861 Farmhouse Restaurant in Valle Crusis, NC. They just added this cake to the menu and were [...]
Posted in Desserts on Aug 15th, 2011
We used to have blueberry bushes on the hill at my grandmother’s mountain house, and it was so marvelous to have blueberry pie, blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins etc. all from blueberries that we had picked that morning. The bushes have unfortunately gone away, but I still have kept my love for blueberry treats. I came [...]
Posted in Desserts on Jun 21st, 2010
I feel lucky to have randomly found Tender Crumb, a well-named baking blog with recipes and photos so compelling it makes one want to rush to the kitchen to preheat the oven. The mistress of Tender Crumb, Linda, is involved in a wonderful mass-baking-hysteria called The Cake Slice. This month’s installment of The Cake Slice [...]
Posted in Desserts on Jun 2nd, 2010
Chrysta Wilson, chef-owner of the West Hollywood bakery Kiss My Bundt may not be a southern baker, but her inspiration came straight from the south… All I know is no matter where these cakes come from, I want one HERE right now!
From a graceful little blog called A Southern Grace, comes a tasty recipe for Crumb Cake. This is the kind of cake you have for breakfast when you’re feeling like cake for breakfast is exactly the perfect thing (and we think it often is.) Crumby Crumb Cake (based on this recipe, which is based on [...]
Posted in Desserts on Apr 24th, 2010
Pecan-Cornmeal Butter Cakes The New York Times April 20 Dining section has a great story about the flowering of restaurants in Durham, North Carolina (Durham, a Tobacco Town, Turns to Local Food). When I lived there in the 1970s, the food was great, but the range of cookery was nowhere as bountiful as it is [...]
