Blueberry Buttermilk Bundt Cake

I've gone back to this recipe again and again. It makes a beautiful cake, even when my bundt pan doesn't quite cooperate and I end up missing a chunk:

The recipe itself is simple. Creamed butter and sugar, eggs, flour and leavening alternated with buttermilk. Frozen berries are used as they have less tendency to sink to the bottom of a cake pan. The berries I used were harvested locally and stayed in my freezer for a late spring treat:

The finished cake, before it was turned out:

Bread I Like: Gourdough's

I visited Austin, TX recently and was introduced to their favorite form of street food, dispensed from Airstream Trailers. This particular trailer, Gourdough's, makes doughnuts to order from a menu filled with delights.

You can order doughnuts with maple and bacon, or peanut butter and jelly, like we did, or even get one with fried chicken. It's called a "Motherclucker."
(pardon the red tinge - red umbrella and a sunny day in Texas.)

Dinner: Biscuit Dogs

Last week, we had a few days of 90 degree heat, and I had some buttermilk in the fridge. As soon as it broke and I could turn on the oven, I used that buttermilk to make buttermilk biscuit dogs:

Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies

I love chocolate chip cookies. Who doesn't?

This recipe is even better: only 6 cookies fit on my giant cookie sheet. I use about 1/3 cup dough for each cookie, and 1/2 butter, 1/2 shortening in the recipe so they remain nice and soft:

Irish Soda Bread Muffins

I didn't just make Irish Soda Bread this year:

I made some in muffin form for breakfast. Win!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

It should come as no shock to see peanut butter waiting to be mixed into the soft butter in my mixing bowl:

Once that was creamed nicely with the sugars, eggs were added, followed by flour and leavening:

A few chocolate chips were needed and I scooped them on to my cookie sheets:

Yum.

Irish Soda Bread

I love Irish Soda Bread any time of year, although come spring, I always make some for St. Patrick's day(and neglect to write about it in a timely fashion):

Soda Bread is leavened chemically, and American style has raisins and fennel or caraway seeds. This particular version called for fennel:

I used yogurt for some tang as the liquid once I mixed my dry ingredients:

The thick batter that resulted made a chewy, tasty bread: