Posted in Health, Hoilday food, Sweet breads, Yeast Breads, healthy cooking, low fat baking, tagged Add new tag, Yeast Breads, Fruit yeast beads, Halloween food, Samhain foods, Ancient Celtic bread, halloween foods, cinnamon bread on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The spirits of dead friends sought the warmth of the
Samhain fire and communion with their living kin.”
Janet Farrar
Halloween is one of the oldest holidays on our calendar. It dates all the way back to the ancient Celts, some 2000+ years ago, who called it Samhain, (pronounced, sow-in.) Samhain means summer’s end and it was a [...]
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We all know my great obsession to cure the world of all obesity by baking a lighter muffin. There has to be a way to eat as much as I love to eat and get skinny, doesn’t there? I will continue my quest and enjoy all the tasting I have to endure, for the good [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s face it, the world is pretty crazy right now. I have been doing damage control in my massage practice non-stop. People arrive in my room, eyes rolling about in their heads, gripping the chair with white knuckled fingers, and fear rolling off of them. It is hard to keep one’s sanity with all this [...]
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Posted in Dessert, Fruit, Pastries, healthy cooking, low fat baking, tagged Fruit galette, Healthy Pie Crust, Low fat pie crust, Peach galette, Tuesdays with Dorie on October 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do.” P. J. O’Rourke
There is no better way to highlight seasonal fruit than in a galette. There is something so divine about fruit wrapped in pie crust. I have a confession to [...]
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