“Don’t spit on my cupcake and tell me it’s frosting!”

I recently approached my good mate Jessica “Mimsie” George about contributing all things cupcake to the Kraftworkin’ blog, because, well, she makes loads of ‘em, and they’re not just the standard chocolate and vanilla variety. Oh no. They involve complex emulsions and flavored frostings and kitschy decorating techniques, like brain wave frosting and mustachioed madness. [...]

I am the muffin man…here I am and you know I can, love you, if you let me have a muffin now and then you won’t forget me?

Today I had a hankering to bake, and deciding to save any bread baking for later in the day (for time scheduling dough rising sorts of mumbo), I hit the muffin train, and with at least one type, came out on er, (muffin)top!
About the best thing that came of the blueberry muffins was the initial [...]

“I live on good soup…not on fine words.”

Today is a gorgeous, clear, albeit pretty warm fall day. Despite that, I had a serious hankering for some sort of soup–and my favorite happens to be the above veggie.
It’s obvious that every now and again we all desire a seriously hearty soup–thick and creamy and absolutely rich. But, let’s face it. Talk about fat [...]

“Nose, Nose, Nose Nose! And who have thee that jolly red nose? Cinnamon and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves, And that, gave me my jolly red nose”

Yesterday, my cohort and I had an afternoon of craft-up and flick watching, and while finishing off some cabled fingerless mitts I’ve been neglecting for some time, I also decided to whip up a loaf of my by now famous Cinnamon Toast for Laura’s roommate Ashley, whose birthday is today.
It made my entire apartment smell [...]

“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore”

Amore, it is. The pizza, I mean. Not the moon.
Yesterday was a perfect fall Sunday for a homemade pizza extravaganza and post birthday eat-a-thon in the Wolf household–and so began a collaborative effort which began with my Mum making up her famous bread dough.

My sister was in charge of all things thoughtful–rolling out the dough [...]

The roots of bread baking…

Birthdays can be such wonderful things; thanks to my latest obsession with bread baking, my sister Nicki-Cha gifted me the brilliantly large New Complete Book of Breads by Bernard Clayton, which I highly recommend for any bread baker who wants whites, ryes, sour doughs, brans, oatmeals, sweet breads, corn breads, and everything in betwixt (never [...]

When Loretta Lynn felt like a pie, she told you so…

As Loretta Lynn once so brilliantly noted, “Sometimes it’s like you’re a bit pie settin’ on the table, and everybody runs up to gets their piece of you. When it’s over…the plate’s empty.”
And the other night, while hunkering down on the couch to consume more of Loretta Lynn’s (auto)biography The Coal Miner’s Daughter, I thought [...]