Lemon Ginger Muffins

Pear and Goat Cheese Pizza

School has been quite hectic lately (hence the lack of posts).  Anyway, I used pizza dough from Trader Joe's and topped it with tomato sauce, sliced pears, goat cheese, mozzarella, oregano, and parsley.

-Lisa

Goat Cheese

So if you know me, you would know that I love love love goat cheese. For Christmas I received a nice little goat cheese making kit that I was very eager to try. I had to hunt down some goat's milk but once I did, I immediately wanted to try making my own goat cheese!

 The process was fairly simple: heat the milk to 190 degrees, add some citric acid, strain milk in a cheesecloth, put in molds, and wait. It took about 24 hours for the cheese to harden to the consistency I wanted and to develop the tangy, sweet favor.

  

All in all, it was a fun experiment and I definitely recommend it! It tasted great (although I may be biased..)

Pumpkin Spice Cake

One of my roommates celebrated her 22nd birthday this past week so of course I had to bake a cake!  Her sister, who also lives with us, secretly informed me that she had wanted to try a spice cake.  I found this recipe online and made a two layer cake.*  Nothing goes better with a spice cake than cream cheese frosting, some drizzled caramel, and crushed Almond Roca.  Oh, and a cup of hot chocolate of course. 

-Lisa

*Cake baked at 350 F for 30 minutes.

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Pear Bread

For some reason, I bought a huge bag of pears last week.  They weren't on sale and I didn't have a recipe in mind that called for pears.  I don't know what led me to believe that I could finish fifteen pears by myself before they all would spoil.  Anyway, I quickly began to search the Internet for pear recipes and I landed on this one.  I halved the recipe because I didn't have a bundt pan.  Big mistake.  This stuff is delicious.  In fact, it may be my favorite fruit bread recipe ever.

-Lisa