Big Reds – Strawberry Muffins

While I was away from home for the strawberry harvest last year, my oldest, Arielle, was home, tending the garden.  As usual, we had a bumper crop of strawberries.  As one person with a lot of strawberries, she tried various uses for them.  She dried them, she made strawberry bread, and she decided to make…

Skyline Apple Muffins

With the family home for Thanksgiving break, it was time to make some treats to have for other meals.  The first were apple muffins to start off Thanksgiving Day.  These muffins come from a recipe I got from a bed and breakfast in Edenton, NC more years ago than I like to remember.  The B…

Cammy’s Honey Spiced Apple Muffins

For Cammy’s contribution to our Rosh Hashanah celebration, he made the apple cupcakes from Joan Nathan’s The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen.  We call them muffins because they seem better to us as a breakfast treat rather than as a dessert.  The warm spices evoke thoughts of the oncoming fall.  They are best drizzled with honey, but go…

Rosemary Mini-Donuts & Mini-Muffins

Time for an experiment… Flying to California this spring, I found a recipe for Rosemary ‘Fonuts’ in the airline magazine “Spirit”.  A savory donut…I was going to have to try it.  But as I was baking, Arielle tasted the batter and said “This would go well with a vanilla glaze”.  So our combo of savory…