When I first saw a recipe for home-made marshmallows I was a little intimidated. It looked like it was going to be difficult, but I had to try it! Am I ever glad I did as these marshmallows are delicious and not that difficult after all. I have made them for quite a few times and each time I make them someone is always amazed that you can actually make marshmallows from scratch.
It is bread making season! Saturday morning, the cold October winds are blowing and it is raining…..time to put a pot of chicken and barley soup on. That is the definition of a dreary autumn day here in Northern Ontario. But the upside is that the house is going to smell wonderful. Now we need some fresh bread to go with that simmering pot of soup. Today’s bread is going to be hearty, stick to your ribs sort of bread. This bread is an old-fashioned bread made with oatmeal, molasses and some whole wheat flour. If you have only all-purpose flour you can use that as well.
This Apple Bundt cake recipe makes a cake that can go from breakfast to dinner and everywhere in between. There is a crumble topping made with oatmeal and brown sugar – that is breakfast right there. The crumble topping when baked gets nice and sticky so putting it on both the bottom and top of the cake will make you very happy. Then the actual cake is full of bites of apple so that makes it snack worthy. With a dusting of icing sugar or a drizzle of glaze it will look right at home on the dessert scene. For whatever time of day you decide to indulge in this apple cake I am sure you will enjoy every bite.
The cool days of autumn call for spices to warm up our food and drink. Cinnamon and ginger have hints of heat and they pair beautifully in baked goods. So why not add these spices to shortbread? Surely they could only make my favourite cookie even better. This basic shortbread is made with just a wooden spoon so there is even some exercise worked into recipe – which means the first 2 cookies are calorie-free.
Another oatmeal cookie recipe, really do I need to keep trying different ones? The answer – YES! Even when you think you have the perfect oatmeal cookie recipe you always wonder, what if…..So that question is what has brought us to this cookie recipe. After making the cookies with the ground pecans, I started to think about what other ingredients I could grind up to enhance the flavour. So why not grind up the oatmeal and make almost an oat flour. Out came the food processor again and sure enough, it worked!
Cookies….such wonderful little things…small packages with immense flavour. There are so many recipes for cookies how would it be possible to make them all in one lifetime. Sometimes you get lucky and try one of those combinations that seem like it might be a great idea and it turns out that is was an absolutely fantastic idea. That is what happened with this recipe. I was reading a recipe that used ground pecans as a coating on a cookie and thought hmmm what about in the cookie? So then the experimenting began. I started with my standard shortbread recipe and substituted part of the flour for ground pecans.
