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Kneadless Seeds-A-Plenty Wheat Bread–When the Bakery is Bare, Bake Your Own

November 28, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 6 Comments

Lately, with a lot of show-and-tell book promotion activities for Simply Sensational Cookies on the agenda, I’ve been totally focused on cookie baking and ...

Great Advice for Aspiring Cookbook Writers: When Chronicle’s Bill LeBlond Speaks You Ought to Listen

November 17, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 13 Comments

When Bill LeBlond, former Editorial Director, Food and Wine at Chronicle Books, kicked off his International Association of Culinary Professionals' Webinar/ ...

The BEST (& Easiest) Way to Roll Out Cookie Dough, Plus Other Top Tips for Tastiest, Prettiest Cookies Ever

November 8, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 11 Comments

"Wow, I wish I’d known that technique thirty years ago,” an enthusiastic student in my cookie class at King Arthur Flour’s Baking Education Center told me last ...

Welcome to KitchenLane! It’s a comfortable place where I create, thoroughly test, and photograph recipes for my cookbooks and blog. All my recipes are original, not adaptations from others. I trained as a pastry chef, so many offerings are desserts and baked goods. Some are also healthful, savory dishes I contribute to healthy eating publications. My recipes are always free of artificial dyes, flavorings, and other iffy additives, which I won’t serve my family—or you! Instead, dishes feature naturally flavorful, colorful ingredients including fresh herbs, berries, edible flowers, and fruits, many from my own suburban garden or local farmers’ markets. Since lots of readers aspire to write cookbooks, I also blog on recipe writing and editing and other helpful publishing how-to info accumulated while authoring nearly 20 well-received cookbooks over many years.