Tag Archive for 'baking'

Vegan cornbread muffins

I decided to make a batch of cornbread the other week. I had a bag of Indian Head old fashion stone ground yellow cornmeal in my pantry. The recipe for cornbread was conveniently posted on the back of the packaging. I looked through the ingredients: yellow corn meal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, shortening, milk, and egg. I realized I didn’t have any shortening, milk, or eggs. I decided to make a few substitutes in the ingredients and make a dairy-free, egg-free cornbread.


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Wheat snack cracker recipe

Here is a recipe for some awesome snack crackers – kind of like wheat thins, but homemade from scratch and baked in a hot oven. These snack crackers goes well by itself or with some tasty dip.


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Blueberry Pesto Popovers

While I was in Boston the other week, I received two containers of Banging Blueberry Pestos from Lauren. Previously, I used her Fabulous fig and gorgonzola pesto to make pesto pasta. It was very tasty!

This time, I decided to make Blueberry Pesto Popovers. I don’t have a popover pan, and so I used my XL muffin pan instead. These popovers looks more like huge muffins with a dome and inflated points on top, but they smelled wonderful. They were very tasty as well. They were slightly crisp on the outside, and soft and airy in the inside. These popovers are very light and the blueberry pesto adds a very nice flavor to it. Next time I’ll use a baking pan with a smaller cup, so that there will be more of a popping effect.


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