Soapy Hollow

The store had bing cherries on sale, and we brought a couple pounds home, only to find that they needed to be used asap. So…what better use for cherries than cheesecake! Everyone loves a good cheesecake. Heck, folks love a bad cheesecake, but a good one is even better. When making cheesecake, I use a […]

Igor and I just finished making soft pretzels from a recipe that we adapted from Alton Brown. I only wish I could figure out how to make Vista work with my real camera, as this pocket camera doesn’t take great shots. But, the pretzels were fantastic, and the recipe was easy enough that Igor (who […]

intro – Quick Banana Bread from scratch Everyone has faced the problem of bringing home a bunch of green bananas and having them become over-ripe in what seems like minutes. While over ripe bananas are too mushy to carry around like a portable snack, there’s no reason to waste them when with just a little […]