When the bunch of bananas you bought for breakfast and healthy snacking have passed their natural prime, fear not! It just means the bananas are now perfect for use in delicious baked goods like breads, muffins, and cakes. I took things a step further by digging out my vintage mini-Bundt cake pan, and the results, […]

Far too often I buy fresh fruit with every intention of eating it as a snack or on my cereal, but then I see that same fruit in the bowl a week later – soft, brown and sad. In most cases this means a silent curse and a trip to the trash for the mealy […]

At used book stores I always make a beeline for the cookbooks, and once I find them, I zero in on any with those terrible plastic toothed spiral spines.  The ones that inevitably fail to do their job of keeping the pages together.  To me that spine means the book was compiled by a school, church, charity, etc. […]

Bundt pans are the 1950 Nordic Ware creation designed to pay homage to traditional ceramic molded baking pans of Germany, Austria, and Hungary.  The traditional style is a fluted ring shape and works well for pound cakes and coffee cakes.  In 1966 a Bundt pan was used in a Pillsbury baking contest, and the cake (the famous “Tunnel […]