From Scratch To Skill

Welcome to From Scratch to Skill! This blog is where I’ll be documenting my journey as I learn to bake—starting as a beginner and working my way toward building real skills in the kitchen.

To start, I’ll be focusing on recipes I’ve made before. In the past, I usually baked while doing other things, which meant I never really paid attention to the details that could have affected the final result. This time, the bake and its process will be my only focus. I’ll be taking careful notes that I can look back on, to see how even familiar recipes can improve when I give them my full attention.

Some posts will be about a recipe on the first try, while others will follow me through a second or third attempt—sharing the adjustments I make and how those changes affect the outcome. My goal is not just to collect recipes, but to track my progress, highlight lessons learned, and hopefully offer something useful to anyone else learning as well.

You can expect one new post each week to start, and over time I’ll be building a collection of recipes, notes, and reflections that follow this journey step by step.

If you have baking tips, favorite recipes you think I should try, or ideas for tweaks I could experiment with, I’d love to hear from you in the comments. Your suggestions might even inspire the next post!

See you next time, on the journey from scratch to skill.

First recipe is chocolate chips muffins I make for my kids to eat before heading to school and will be up this weekend!