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 […]

It’s that time of year!  The days are short, presents are being wrapped (or have been wrapped and opened if you celebrated Hanukkah), and the weather is…well not quite normal.  It was 60 degrees yesterday and I went grocery shopping wearing shorts and flip-flops!  Not your typical December weather, though I’m sure it will get there. […]

Last week the weather signaled that it was fall and this week the produce available at the farmer’s market followed suit.  In a few days the calendar will finally get with the program and make it official.  Instead of seeing produce stacks at the market piled high with zucchini and summer squash there were a […]

In recent years Jake Long and Taylor Lewan have worn #77 and led distinguished careers as Michigan offensive tackles.  Each was following the strong example of Jon Jansen who was a staple of Michigan’s offensive line beginning in the mid 1990s.  Jansen started an impressive 50 career games at right tackle for the Wolverines and was a part […]

Have you ever had Amish friendship bread?  It’s the chain email of bread.  You create or are gifted a starter from a friend and after 10 days give some starter to friends and use the rest to bake the bread.  The bread is loaded with cinnamon and sugar and while it is a nice loaf, this […]

The calendar says it is spring in Ann Arbor but it hasn’t quite warmed up yet.  I’m eagerly awaiting the warmer weather but in the meantime the cool temperature means there is still a few more weeks to enjoy huge bowls of delicious broth.  Is there anything more comforting, especially in the winter?  Several years ago […]

While I haven’t taken a break from blogging recently today is my first day back at work in about two weeks.  Working at a university I sometimes forget that the overwhelming majority of people don’t get so much time off at the end of each year.  When I was a student my parents would ask […]

Two weeks ago I shared a recipe for pumpkin cornbread that you could make for your Thanksgiving table.  The pumpkin I roasted for that was about twice as big as others I had bought this year and I was left with several cups of pumpkin puree.  I made two batches of pumpkin waffles and still had […]

Sometimes I have a hard time starting posts because I don’t have a story to tell about the recipe.  Normally I might just stumble upon a recipe a thought it looked good or wanted to experiment with a new bread.  Well, that isn’t the case today.  These chocolate cigars were inspired by one of my […]

Need to get the awful taste of that Michigan-Penn State game out of your mouth?  This apple crisp will do the trick!  A few weeks ago we went apple picking at Wasem Farm in Milan and picked half a bushel (about 60) of tasty apples.  Over two weeks we ate about 1/3 of them, turned […]