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California Raisin Bread Contest: Live and Learn

This is my second year as a finalist in the California Raisin Bread Contest and I’m still just as nervous going into the baking round as I was the first year. This is the fourth year the contest has been held and it is STILL growing. 100 entries and 37 finalists. Next year, the CA Raisin Board is looking for YOUR entry. They are really pushing the marketing. They want professional, commercial, artisan, student, retail, and bakers from all over to submit their creative ideas for using raisins in tasty, tempting raisin concoctions. Mark your calendars. Save the date. Make [...]

By Joanne|2011-10-14T23:27:07-04:00October 14, 2011|Bread|3 Comments

AIB: Kansas Day 2

Morning Activities: Pre - AIB The bed in our room is a perfect bed. It’s firm with a great big fluffy down mattress cover. In all that feathery comfort, my body still insisted on waking up at it’s usual time, which is an hour earlier in Manhattan, Kansas and too early to even “catch the worm”. By 4:45, I gave up the struggle and got up. Our room is one door down from the fitness room (Talk About Convenience!) which made it easy to toss on a few clothes, take a few steps and hop on the treadmill for a [...]