Category: How-To
Not my Choice, now my Passion!
Gluten free baking always comes with its challenges. Living with Celiac disease for the past twelve years, I have grown to love experimenting in the kitchen with gluten free recipes and overcoming some of these challenges of using different flour combinations, texture issues, and dry, crumbly end products. I will admit that gluten free cooking […]
Read more about Not my Choice, now my Passion!Hello Fall!
September is upon us and summer is officially coming to a close as the last summer barbecues and outdoor gatherings are wrapping up in Minnesota. For many, this is a sad reality as the dreaded weather change is developing and just around the corner. For others, the excitement for Fall is here, which is one […]
Read more about Hello Fall!Creative Dishes you can make in the New Cookies & Cream Baking Pan
Ah, the classic chocolate cookie with milk. Combined as a cookies and cream dessert? Even better! Don’t like cookies? (That’s silly) Then try cake! Or Jello! That is what I thought when I saw this pan, but it didn’t stop there. Oh no. The possibilities are nearly endless. I made it a goal, more like […]
Read more about Creative Dishes you can make in the New Cookies & Cream Baking PanChocolate Blobka
If you were a fan of Seinfeld you will never forget one of the classic episodes called The Dinner Party but if you’re like me you still refer to it as the Chocolate Babka story. It all happens around a trip to Schnitzer’s Bakery to pick up dessert for a dinner party which ultimately is […]
Read more about Chocolate BlobkaPopovers are easier than you think
For some quick drama at the dinner table, you can’t beat popovers. When these puffy, golden, odd-shaped orbs emerge from the oven you look like a genius in the kitchen! And they’re really very easy to make, once you have the right recipe, the right technique and the right pan from Nordic Ware. When I […]
Read more about Popovers are easier than you thinkCranberry Bean Believer
When we moved into our house the first project we invested in that gave me joy was working on the garden. While replacing the water heater was indeed an investment I found it extremely unsatisfying. You don’t invite dinner guests to an unfinished basement with a glass of wine to chat and relax amongst the beauty […]
Read more about Cranberry Bean BelieverSummer Berry Love
We just finished the last of the season’s strawberry crop from the Nordic Ware community garden. Eating a fresh home grown strawberry just picked and still warm from the sun reminds me that’s what a strawberry is meant to taste like. Grocery stores offers gigantic, perfectly shaped strawberries that are beautiful to look at but […]
Read more about Summer Berry LoveDutch Oven Baked Bread
A few years ago I (and most of the country) discovered the book “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. I love the recipes in the book and I think their stored dough technique works well. You store the raw dough in your refrigerator and make a loaf as […]
Read more about Dutch Oven Baked BreadCookies to warm the heart and the home!
As a sales person for Nordic Ware, I get to meet with people from different parts of the country. Inevitably, and especially in winter, they have lots of questions about Minnesota. Especially THIS winter. Today its -40 degrees with the wind chill factor. Which brings up questions number 1 – what is the wind chill factor? (Answer: […]
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