In the afterglow of Jim Harbaugh’s hiring last winter one question that hung over the Michigan football program was who would be quarterback come September.  That question was answered late in the spring when it was announced that 5th year QB Jake Rudock would transfer to Michigan from the University of Iowa (Mary Sue Coleman […]

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 case it seems to be otherwise these days, I promise this is still a bread blog.  Though I posted about spent grain rolls two weeks ago I feel like it has been forever since I shared a loaf of bread.  Really it has been just under a month but it has actually been a […]

My love for roasted red peppers truly knows no bounds.  Every few weeks red peppers will be on sale for $1 each at Meijer and I can’t help but buy at least a half a dozen of them.  I usually won’t have any specific plans for them either, I’ll just roast them and either blend them into […]

I made this bread a few weeks ago around the same time I baked up the Normandy apple bread.  While both are loaded with partially dried apples this loaf has a much stronger taste because of the addition of buckwheat flour and apple cider.  Cider is used both to make the starter and in the final […]

If there were a Bakers & Best recipe vault this soup would almost certainly be in it.  I made this about three months ago (it was the second week of a football season that has now mercifully ended) and every time I intended to post it some other recipe jumped in its place.  I got […]

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 […]

This week I’ve been posting a series of Thanksgiving recipes.  Get your holiday menu started with pumpkin cornbread, bread stuffing, a vegetable tart, and crispy Chinese duck. And so, one week after I decided on a whim to make a Thanksgiving dinner, we reach the end of the blog recap.  I suppose I could have […]

Is there a pancakes vs. waffles debate?  I love all my breakfast foods equally and I never really thought of the two being in opposition, just different.  However my wife has a clear preference for waffles and always highlights their qualities in relation to how pancakes are lacking in those areas (crispness being the chief […]

In addition to being the time of year where my wife and I stuff our faces with all things pumpkin, we are also in the midst of a huge apple kick.  A few weeks ago in September we made our annual trip to a nearby orchard to pick an obscene amount of apples.  This year […]