An Expatriate's Culinary Journey from the Argentine Pampas to the Minnesotan Prairie
Have you ever heard of Asian Milk Bread? It just might be the softest, fluffiest, most delicious bread ever! It’s like eating a pillowy cloud of bread because it’s so light and soft. It’s lighter than brioche, but it still has milk, egg, sugar, and butter to enrich it, which gives it a sweet and [...]
Välkommen! How are you all? The end of summer is approaching, and it dawned on me that I hadn’t made anything with cloudberries, which I normally do for Midsommer. You may be wondering “what are cloudberries?” or maybe have never heard of them, and if that’s the case, that’s totally OK. I hadn’t heard of cloudberries [...]
It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! And normally I don’t observe any of these new food holidays celebrated all over the Internet, but…chocolate chip cookies are actually my most favorite cookie of all time. The first time I baked something in the US, it was chocolate chip cookies. I had heard about this American classic [...]
Happy August! How are you all? The past month of July struck Minnesota with a steamy heat wave that set all kinds of new records, sometimes with as many as seven consecutive days with a temperature of 90° or more, and that has prompted my kitchen to be strangely dormant. This weather is so unusual [...]
I don’t know about you, but breakfast at home during the working week is a very hurried affair. A lot of times, it means a cup of coffee or tea on the go, and maybe a yogurt parfait packed the night before. I know breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the [...]
Carol's Baking adventures 