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Cinnamon Raisin Bagels are homemade bagels that are loaded with plump raisins and just the right amount of cinnamon spice. The perfectly dense and chewy bagels are delicious with lots of butter or cream cheese. For another bread with a touch of cinnamon, try my Cinnamon Sugar Banana Bread. Cinnamon Raisin Bagel Bagels have been around for centuries and are still popular, even after the New York Times described them as “an unsweetened donut with rigor Morris” back in 1960. Bagels are not going anywhere, especially with the variety of bagels being made, including my Everything Bagel and Salt Bagel....

For our family, summer means cookouts, and cookouts often mean burgers. We load our burgers up with lots of fun toppings so I don’t have the patience for wimpy burger buns! They need to hold up to a juicy burger with all the fixings. To me, store-bought burger buns just don’t cut it. They get soggy with the first gush of burger juice and squish flat on your first bite. Not to mention, they often don’t taste like anything at all, and they’re typically full of preservatives and other unnecessary ingredients. Bread should be hearty, nourishing, flavorful, and supportive. Not...

Sourdough Pretzels are homemade pretzels made with your sourdough starter and sprinkled with your choice of sweet or savory toppings. For another delicious recipe using your starter, try my  Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls! Sourdough Pretzels Soft pretzels are one of my favorite snacks to order at a ballgame. Well, there are no ballgames going on right now, so of course, I am craving what I can’t have. Then, I noticed the sourdough starter I had finally mastered and had an idea to make a sourdough pretzel. They took a little time because you have to let the dough rise for a...

Whenever something breaks or wears out, people love to claim that “they just don’t make things like they used to!” And while that may be true about some things, anyone who owns a KitchenAid stand mixer will tell you otherwise! I’ve gone through a couple of different stand mixers over the past two decades, and the only reason I bought my current mixer was because I needed a bigger size, not because the old one had stopped working! These machines are truly built to last, and I couldn’t imagine my kitchen without one! And since I know that a lot...

It’s a knish. My husband has a theory: When you decide to buy a new car, everywhere you look, you see that particular model. I don’t know if that’s true, but I can say with confidence that once you make a few hundred pies, everything begins to look like a pie. And that is how I came to define a knish as a kinda-pie, a pastry wrapped around filling. In fact, I put empanadas, calzones and samosas in the same category. It’s all pie to me. And every iteration is delicious. The deeper my dive into pie – using this...