holidays | Piks Clicks & Fabulous Funtography

First, I’d like to start by talking about blogs. I have a sister who says she hates blogs. She just wants to get to the recipe and get on with it. Doesn’t need to read a lot of inconsequential fluff. I do agree with how she feels, I find myself scrolling down to find the “meat and potatoes” of the blog and what I am looking for. That being said, I’m blogging and jabbering. Feel free to scroll down to the “meat and potatoes” but I must warn you…unlike most recipe bloggers, I rarely have the actual recipe in one convenient spot. If I do, you found the prize in the Cracker Jack box! This may or may not lead me to lose 3 out of my 5 readers. So on with the droppings. Back when the internet was fairly young and Facebook wasn’t even a gleam in Zuckerbergs eyes, I found a site called “Iwon” and well along with trying...

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” ― James Beard The bread shown in the above picture is not actually Cranberry Wildrice Loaf, my bad. Actually, it is my good! Earlier this fall, I started playing with Wildrice Cranberry bread and figured it was such a GREAT recipe, I’d like to see what it does with blueberries instead of the cranberries. I remembered to grab the camera and I’d been promising to blog about that recipe so here it is………this time with blueberries in place of the cranberries. They both work equally well, the cranberries have a little bit more of a tang than the blueberries but both serve a great purpose in our cooking! It all begins with the gathering of the ingredients. Most recipes call for bread flour but I’m not holding anyone to that. I’ve...

Armadillo Droppings…. a Ryan Holiday Tradition

Wildrice Cranberry YUM YUM Bread