I love combing through all the end of the year lists and reviews that come out in December and for the third straight year I’m polluting the internet with my own (see here for the 2013 and 2014 editions)!  2015 was a banner year for Bakers & Best with 109 published posts, a redesign of the […]

Three weeks after moving in I finally got around to using our oven!  A very busy summer is transitioning into a very busy fall so I went with a quick and simple recipe this weekend.  I would have liked to cross a few other things off my ‘to-make’ list but was sick most of the […]

With sourdough loaves while there is little hands on time from start to finish it might take a day and a half to make a loaf of bread.  Friday night I’ll feed my sourdough starter and Saturday morning I’ll make the dough.  After a slow rise Saturday morning and afternoon (spent this weekend by finishing House […]

I’m sure I’ll jinx it by saying this, but it seems that spring has finally made its way to Ann Arbor.  Of course for us that means 40 degrees and rainy, but it beats 5 degrees and snowing!  And of course nothing signals spring more than pumpkin beer!  Wait, what?  Perhaps you remember the pumpkin beer […]

This week the pumpkin recipe train keeps rolling along!  A few weeks ago we got one of those Trader Joe’s inserts in the mail advertising all things pumpkin that they were currently selling.  Well, it worked, and two weeks ago we made a very successful trip to Trader Joe’s and came back with pumpkin ale […]