How cute is this little cheddar cheese bread? This is a quick bread so when I say “bread” I mean a savory cake. This is really the only kind of bread I make because yeast scares me (and I’ve got a wonderful and talented husband who makes all sorts of it, so I don’t really need to). If you like cheese and bread then this is your dream. It’s loaded with cheddar and Parmesan cheese. It’s the kind of bread that will go well with almost anything, like salads, soups, chili… you get the idea. Look at those wonderful pockets …

I’ve been in a food rut lately, but this little banana bread brought me out of it. By now I’m sure most of us have baked some kind of banana bread, but have you made a little itty bitty one? I could not resist trying it when I found this recipe. It’s so cute. I included a butter knife in the photos so you can get a sense of the scale of the actual size of it. To make this mini-treat requires a bit of tiny additional hardware. So you either need to own or buy a 5.5 x 3 …

How do you like your carrot cake?  This is an ongoing debate that my husband and I have this time every year. I prefer a carrot cake that is loaded with pineapple chunks, raisins, and nuts.  I made a carrot cake like that years ago and my family still raves about it.  That was before I had my blog and I haven’t made it again since because quite frankly it’s a labor of love.  (And one that may cost more in skinned knuckles on the grater than it’s worth.)  One of these days I need to make it again and …