Red Velvet with Preserves
This is what they looked like before I put the icing on them. I forgot about the final picture. Makes 36 cupcakes Ingredients: 3 3/4 cups cake flour 3 tablespoons cocoa powder 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 2 1/4 cups sugar…
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No Sifting: A Baking Shortcut
Source Confession Time: I don’t sift ingredients together when baking! Not even when the recipe calls for you to sift the ingredients together. I do try and follow {most} recipes as directed but was never sold on the extra step…
Monday, Monday + Tartar Sauce Recipe
View Full Album It’s 1:15pm. I have just put my littles down to bed. I breathe {a small sigh} and contemplate what to do next. A nap, a bath, bible time, tackle that kitchen then laundry then ironing? I rolled…
Cookie Tips by a Cookie Monster
John is still working on the whole concept of on the tray, then bake, then eat; priceless! A tip that works for me? Double or triple the recipe for shortbread or sugar cookies. Roll the extra dough into…
Feeling Munchy? Home Made Potato Chips
View Full Album It’s Friday night. We just put the littles to bed. We’re going to watch a movie but we’re feeling munchy. We don’t have anything snacky; then DH said, “Let’s make chips”. We (DH) sliced the potatoes super…
Amazing Marbled Coffee Cake
It’s an Austrian yummy marble coffee cake in a bundt pan. It is amazingly delicious! Ingredients: 1 ¾ cups flour 1 cup softened butter 3 oz semisweet chocolate roughly chopped Splash of imitation rum extract (optional; original recipe called for…
Good Food, Great Memories: Home Made Pizza Crust
View Full Album Growing up in a small town in Northern Ontario where a pizza cost a fortune, we made our own. I loved it because it was so fun “decorating” the pizza and mom always let us drink the…
Chicken Journey: Roast Breast with Scrumptious Winter Veggies
So far we have learned How to Break Down a Chicken and we’ve roasted the backs, collected back meat for a future meal, saved drippings for gravy and saved the fat for some unknown use! Today we roasted a couple…
Chicken Journey: Roast the Backs!
Last week we talked about How to Break Down a Chicken. After breaking it down, we froze the thighs, wings and breasts but the chicken backs and wingtips we roasted right away. A little salt and pepper and onto…
The Chicken Journey: How to Break Down a Chicken
We have been trying to utilize as much of anything we buy as possible. I once heard someone say, in reference to kitchen scraps, that anything you throw away was something you paid for. Our first step in making…