Look what I got from Lorraine today! It's not a TEDDY bear, but a BREADY Bear! I love it.
They own the two Great Harvest Bread Company stores in Austin and she's treated us to Apple Scrapple bread, pumpkin bread, pumpkin roll. It's all so tasty. But this cute little Bready Bear just brought a big smile to my face. I love it! I just ate one of his arms, so I had to take a picture first. Thank you, Lorraine! My kids, my husband and I greatly appreciate it!
There are little raisins as eyes and buttons. Julie, you could totally make these, miss bread baking queen! UPDATE on the Bready Bear the following day: He doesn't quite look the same and is missing his arms, legs, and ears--poor guy. He's going to be cut open for scientific research today. There's a taste test involved.
I considered myself to be a decent cook and baker. However, candy making had been unchartered territory until I recently cracked the code of a favorite—chewy Texas Pecan Pralines. This culinary epiphany came only days before I left my home sweet home in Austin, Texas, to return to CU Boulder after an epic hiatus to wrap up my bachelor’s degree in journalism. When I was a little girl, I remember tasting heavenly, creamy homemade pralines, bursting with pecans, handcrafted with love by my mom. She only whipped them up a few times, but I just couldn’t get the memory of those buttery, sugary treats out of my head. They were that good. I asked her if she still had the recipe, but I knew it would be hopeless since my mom wasn’t one for keeping track of her down-home style cooking. I married my college sweetheart, a guy with the same first name as me, and began teaching myself to cook. Becoming “Kelly Times Two” was amazing, and I had ...
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