My favorite recipes

Baking and serving treats in Palouse since last August, Mimi’s Bakery is the retirement avocation of Steve and Mary Martin. They purchased land near Tensed, Idaho, many years ago for a retirement home and later concluded that they needed something to do when he retired from teaching music history.

A native of Portland, Mary traveled a great deal while growing up. Her father was a plant pathologist.

Steve grew up in Philadelphia. He taught at Grinnell College in Iowa, the University of Washington, Yale University and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa before joining the staff at Portland S...