When I had family at home I baked once a week on Saturdays. I would bake 5 loves of bread, a cake and at least one kind of cookie. Now that I am alone, I bake only for special occations(sp?). Ie. Christmas. msmarymac2
It's just me and DH and I have a huge sweet tooth, but I try not to bake as often as I used to. I usually only bake cakes when we are having company. When the grandchildren spend the night we always bake cookies and then watch a movie before bed. Occasionally I'll make a small batch of brownies when I can't satisfy that need for chocolate.
Posts: 672 | Location: KY | Registered: Jun 26, 2005
I don't buy much junkfood, so I try to bake something once a week. I had the whole family home for Mother's Day and I baked a pound cake, a double batch of gourmet chocolate chip pecan cookies, peanut butter cookies and a mississippi mud cake. There are a few peanut butter cookies left.
I bake a special dessert each week and I make cookies for the gang to have... I've been on a bread making jag for a couple of months.. so I'v been doing this a couple times a week.
With all the talk of Key Lime Pies.. I just had to do that too... You know there are just way too many ideas here...
Becky.. I was just thinking about chocolate chunk cookies.. Neal's used to make them here. they were a big deal in the early 80's...
DD wants that giant cupcake mold .. gotto go check on that this week too..
Posts: 3286 | Location: Texas | Registered: Mar 29, 2007
Used to bake treats about 3 times a week when the kids were younger plus always bread in the machine. DD says her favorite smell after school was pine sol and brownies. Now I bake 1-2 times a week, mainly to share with a small group that meets in my home. I work out 4-6 times a week but still can't burn off the treats (or any other food) like I used to.
Posts: 265 | Location: Oregon | Registered: Dec 29, 2007
buckwheat rye bread..two times a week flaxseed wheat pizza[power pizza] once every week or two occasional dessert...chocolate slant cake hawiian north shore pineapple cake!
Posts: 63 | Location: michigan | Registered: Feb 05, 2008
Biscuits and cornbread often. I rarely bake cakes or pies anymore.
I love experimenting with bread and DH says that I never make the same biscuit twice.
He said that because I was aiming for yeast biscuits one morning and they wound up being rolls. He called them "exceptional". He wanted them again but I had forgotten the ingredient amounts and he didn't like the next batch as much. Good but not exceptional. I love to work with dough. Arian
I usually bake every day and put half in the freezer or take some to neighbors since it is just the two of us. My husband will not eat leftovers the next day. During ball season I only cook 2 days a week so we eat out of the freezer a lot. He is a chocoholic and I am allergic to chocolate so I bake full recipes of chocolate cake and freeze one layer to pull out during ball season. I consider bread machine anything baking. I make bread, pizza dough, pretzel dough, and rolls in my bread machine.
Posts: 96 | Location: Alabama | Registered: May 06, 2008
i bake every chance i get. in the winter i back atleast 7 times aweek to keep it warm ok no more excuses i love to bake. summer i bake alot but not as much as i do in the winter. i bake any thing bake able.
this week was beans, brownies calzones, meatballs, roast, and brownies again.
Posts: 719 | Location: WNY | Registered: Nov 19, 2006
from my other post: hey katie just so u know i had brownies again tonight at a bs meeting i had to eat 1/2 of it just to come back and tell u i had one. and no sloppy joes tonight i forgot its ball night so it's fend for yourself so there is left overs in frig after u do the dishes. but there might be a frozen dinner in the freezer that u can bake. so u don't dirty your clean dishes.
Posts: 719 | Location: WNY | Registered: Nov 19, 2006
That's OK about me missing out on your brownies, Sierra. I'm making fudge today...my weekly baking, which right now is usually fudge or mississippi mud cake, thanks to me buying the 50+ jars of clearance marshmellow creme.
(Baked bean thread) about us getting together for the sloppy joes & baked bean recipe; I'll fix them Saturday night. Get here Saturday morning with your rubber gloves so you can start washing my dishes. I was going to buy a dishwasher with the ec. stim. check from George w, but I had to pay doctor bills instead. So, if you don't mind washing dishes, I'll cook and the kids can go outside and jump on the trampoline. How does that sound?
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I bake sourdough rolls and cinnimon rolls every other day. I bake cookies a couple time a week
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Posts: 1875 | Location: KY | Registered: Dec 29, 2002
hey mad can i have your cinamin roll recipe unless its made in a bread machine i don't use one of them yet got 1 given to be but just haven't tried it yet.
katie - um sorry sat is planned one kid will be at splash lagoon and the other at his dads. and btw i don't do dishes y u think i called u lol and i don't do windows, mop, dust ok anything to do with work so guess i'll be saving all for u.
Posts: 719 | Location: WNY | Registered: Nov 19, 2006
MadTartin, I'd sure appreciate the cinnamon roll recipe, especially if it's bread machine.
Sierra, you're sure being difficult with the dish washing. So, you'll just enjoy your day Saturday with no kids, no cooking, and no dish washing? I'm so jealous.
I used to bake (desserts- pie, cake, cookies, etc) once a week, usually on Saturday. Since Hubby is now diabetic and doesn't need it, and I don't need it for the calories, I only bake very occasionally, maybe once every couple of months. I miss it.
yeh mad, please poast your recipe for sour dough rolls too.
and seriously, do you make cookies two times a week all year? wow, you are dedicated!! what kind of cookies do you make? do you have a big recipes selection or do you tend to make the same ones often?
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glump Posted May 12, 2008 11:17 AM Hide Post buckwheat rye bread..two times a week flaxseed wheat pizza[power pizza] once every week or two occasional dessert...chocolate slant cake hawiian north shore pineapple cake!
Only on holidays and only when I HAVE to. I LOVE to cook, hate to bake. My sister is the opposite- we joke that we are the perfect chef- TOGETHER! We try and join forces at all holidays/events- she bakes and I cook.
yeh mad, please poast your recipe for sour dough rolls too.
and seriously, do you make cookies two times a week all year? wow, you are dedicated!! what kind of cookies do you make? do you have a big recipes selection or do you tend to make the same ones often?
It was a recipe that MiGirl posted several months ago. She posted the recipe and also directed me to this website which gives step-by-step instructions and also has pictures (which I love!) I half this recipe...and I use the same recipe for dinner rolls and/or bread.
As for the cookies...I typically make chocolate chip, sugar, or peanut butter...occassionally I make peanut butter cups which is just the standard PNB dough, baked in muffin tins and with a mini peanut butter cup (mini reese cup) inserted in the middle just before cooled.
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