How to Bake: Easy Sourdough Bread (27 Jun 2006) A customer emailed us and said that her mother loved sourdough bread but had trouble making it work right. We shared the following recipe with her, which is our easiest, most foolproof recipe for sourdough bread.
How to Bake Quick Bread: Apricot-Orange Nut (27 Jun 2006) We love moist, fruity quick breads--and this is one of our favorites. It's nutty, flavorful, and full of wholesome ingredients. We would like to share this recipe with you and demonstrate the baking principles for wonderful quick breads.
Making Pancake Batter the Night Before (with Recipe) (27 Jun 2006) Mornings are hectic. If you make your pancake batter the night before, that will save you precious minutes. Some pancake batter can be made the night before and stored in the refrigerator and some cannot. Here's how to tell the difference:
Fancy Up Your Muffins (27 Jun 2006) We introduced muffins to you last week and many of you bought our new Apple Oat Muffin Mix. Now we're going to tell you how to "fancy up" your muffins. We'll show you how to add a touch of orange to your muffins, put a fancy graham crumb topping on them, or top them with cream cheese. You can do this with your Apple Oat Muffins or a recipe of your choice.
Steamed Bread: Apricot-Date Nut Bread with Caramel Sauce (27 Jun 2006) Steamed breads are so versatile. We love the outdoors and are always looking for interesting and different foods that we can cook while camping and steamed breads can be cooked as you lounge around the campfire. They make wonderful treats at home. And they make great emergency fare since you don't need an oven or even a range to cook these breads.
Easy Summer Salads, Lighter Foods For A Brighter Summer (27 Jun 2006) Easy summer salads do not need dozens of hard to get ingredients or heavy bottled sauces. Go light and use a few good quality vegetables, well combined with a little well-chosen meat, fish, or dairy, (quality over quantity) and a simple but delicious homemade dressing. For quick tasty summer salad, make it quick, make it light but make it taste sublime!
African Bean Soup (27 Jun 2006) The Bean Soup can be served hot as starters or as a compliment with the main menu as done by the Yoruba ethnic group of Southwetsern Nigeria in Africa who take it with rice, foofoo, or eba - both made from cassava processed flour.
All About Strawberry Shortcakes (27 Jun 2006) Today strawberry shortcakes are made from every recipe from biscuits to white cake and even angel food cakes but the original recipes always called for biscuits. Usually these biscuits are made richer with dairy products and sugar. This is an original biscuit-like shortcake. It is rich and tender and flaky and very, very good. What follows are a strawberry shortcake recipe, a blueberry cream cheese shortcake recipe, and a chocolate caramel raspberry shortcake recipe.
Chicken Mushroom Marsala – Easy and Elegant for the Amateur Gourmet (27 Jun 2006) If you are having company and want to make something easy but really flavorful, try this chicken Marsala recipe. I love the way the flavors mix, and it is quick so you will have time to eat it hot and ejoy your evening.
Tantalizing Turkey (27 Jun 2006) You too can make a spectacular turkey dinner! TT has what you need to help you at every step. You even get carving directions with graphics, guidance about the best way to thaw, stuff and roast your...
The Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Experience (27 Jun 2006) Just about everyone loves freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Many of us have fond memories from our childhoods of the aroma of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies filling up the house. Our eager ...
Shake Things Up With Fun Milkshakes (27 Jun 2006) Milkshakes have been around since the old days of drugstore soda fountains. Now days we tend to drink milkshakes mainly when we go out for a bite to eat at a fast food restaurant. Milkshakes are heal...
No Bake Cookies Are Easy to Make and Fun to Eat (27 Jun 2006) Got an urge for a homemade cookie snack but don't feel like mixing up a bunch of ingredients and baking? No problem. Whip up a batch of no bake cookies to satisfy your hunger craving. No bake coo...
Frugal and Easy Thanksgiving Recipes (27 Jun 2006) Here it is - that time of year when everyone's thoughts turn to food! I'm thankful that at our house, we have plenty of food, but sometimes I am not so grateful that I am the one who usually gets to...
How I Made Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies In Simple, Super Easy Steps (27 Jun 2006) I was sitting there watching one of my favorite tv shows when a cookie craving hit me. As I watched one of the main characters take her chocolate chip cookies off the baking sheet, I drooled at the p...
Sicilys Great Eggplant - Tomato Stew (27 Jun 2006) I ran into a friend yesterday, who tells me that he should be harvesting eggplants from his garden any day now. Of course, this got me thinking about Caponata, the famous Sicilian eggplant and tomato...
How to Make a Delicious German Crumble Cake in 4 Simple Steps (27 Jun 2006) In high school, learning a new recipe (especially dessert recipes) was always my favorite part of a foreign language and culture class. One day during German in my sophomore year, I teamed up with tw...
How to Easily Make Sourdough French Toast Like Cracker Barrel (27 Jun 2006) I got an idea one day when I was in a Cracker Barrel restaurant eating breakfast. They had sourdough French toast and it was the best French toast I'd had, so I wanted to re-create the recipe at home...
How to Make Beer (27 Jun 2006) Making beer is easy, inexpensive, and most of all, fun. With the rise in popularity of homebrewing, there are a wide variety of top quality ingredients available. You can literally make hundreds of ...