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How to Make a Cupcake Bouquet. Oh, how I love Pinterest.

How to Make a Cupcake Bouquet

It’s such a fun source for inspiration and new ideas. Someone pinned a cupcake bouquet and I knew right away that I had to create one myself. I couldn’t find any good guides on making them, so I put together a step by step photo tutorial for you so you can make one too. It’s really not that hard – pipe roses onto cupcakes (there’s an animated gif below to show you how), put them on some toothpicks into a styrofoam ball. Radishes and Rhubarb: Cherry Marshmallows. In my article about the incredible Hot Chocolate Cake, I mentioned that I had decorated it with homemade Cherry Marshmallows.

Radishes and Rhubarb: Cherry Marshmallows

At the time I said that I would post the recipe soon. Edible Gift Recipe: Chocolate Balsamic Vinegar. On a recent oil and vinegar tasting, my sister went wild for a chocolate balsamic vinegar.

Edible Gift Recipe: Chocolate Balsamic Vinegar

It had a sweet, tangy, and slightly bitter taste. Tomato and sardine crostini Recipe. Cheeky chocolate and banana jam recipe. Easy pumpkin chutney recipe. Spicy blackberry chutney recipe. Rhubarb & date chutney recipe. The Test Kitchen of Melissa Fallis: Freezer Cooking- Slow Cooker Meals! Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes. Whole wheat pastry flour is seasoned with cinnamon, vanilla extract and sugar before being cooked on the stove.

Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes

These whole wheat pancakes are punctuated with sweet tart blueberries, but try these flexible flapjacks with any of your favorite fruit baked in. This recipe comes to us from Sadie of Sweet Smart Vegan. Serves 2 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour2 teaspoons baking powder1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1/4 cup sugar2/3 cup nonfat milkor2/3 cup nondairy milk alternative1 teaspoon vanilla1 cup blueberriesa little nonstick cooking spray, for preparing the skillet Place the pastry flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar together in a large bowl. Place the milk and vanilla together in a separate medium bowl. Seven soups every Saturday: blended soup recipes. If you're trying to convert vegetable haters to vegetable lovers, purée those carrots and broccoli and cauliflower and potatoes until they metamorphose into something altogether new.

Seven soups every Saturday: blended soup recipes

That technique just happens to make the very best soups, too. All kinds of soups benefit from a brief encounter with an immersion blender or standing blender, so don't limit your blended soups to vegetable-based creations. Creamy Herbed Cauliflower Soup. Organic. Vegan. My Creamy Herbed Cauliflower Soup is a warming way to get your cruciferous veggie intake.

Creamy Herbed Cauliflower Soup. Organic. Vegan

All you need is a big head of organic cauliflower, one big potato, a sweet onion, a few pantry items and a creative does of herbs and spices like saffron, chives, garlic and thyme. This soup can be in your bowl in under 30 minutes. How to Make Bacon Jam. By JulieVR | Here it is, a recipe for bacon jam.

How to Make Bacon Jam

Bacon jam! It is exactly what it sounds like – sticky-sweet bacon (with finely chopped onions and garlic) cooked down until it’s concentrated, thick and jam-like. There is nothing better than bacon jam on a burger, in a grilled cheese sandwich, or eaten straight-up by the spoonful.nggallery id=’119524′ Blackberry-Gin Fizz. Southern-Style Pickled Shrimp Recipes from The Kitchn. Tartelette. The first days of the Summer here in the South always bring back memories of my youth spent in Provence and Les Grandes Vacances (Summer vacations) spent in the Alps.

Tartelette

The scent of lavender, rosemary, thyme. Juicy cut cantaloupe and proscuito salad. Fresh sardines and trouts over a makeshift barbecue pit dug in the earth. Scrumptious fingerling potatoes cooked in the ashes afterwards. That smoky taste was unbelievable. Summers then and Summer now, wherever I find myself, are synonymous with the same scents and flavors. The anticipation of going back to the same summer vacation spot and see who was coming that year again. The beauty of being in the present is that I can look up from my work table, cut open a peach and be transported right where I need to be. I did not want to let the season pass by without making some time for peaches and ice cream. Stone fruits always make me reach for a complimentary fragrance.

This ice cream is really the best of all worlds right now. Little Space: Roasted Garlic Pizza. I had originally un-published this post as part of the purge but after repeated emails asking where the post went, I decided to re publish.

Little Space: Roasted Garlic Pizza

Ever since I tried kickpleat's pizza dough recipe, we've had different pizzas probably once a week. Our favorite, however, is the roasted garlic. It's incredibly simple, very tasty, and deliciously inexpensive. You probably have all of the ingredients in your kitchen right now. The Bramble. Mediterranean fish stew with garlic toasts recipe. Jam Jars, Kilner Jars, Glass Storage Jars, Swing Top Bottles, Glass Bottles, Preserving Jars.

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Biscuits, treats and sweets. Deserts. No Knead Bread: so easy a 4-yr old can make it! Monday, September 10, 2007 No Knead Bread: so easy a 4-yr old can make it!

No Knead Bread: so easy a 4-yr old can make it!

It’s been almost a year since NY Times unveiled the secret to the revolutionary No-Knead Bread. And while fads come and go, this certainly is a recipe that has transcended the fickleness of foodies. It’s time to revisit the bread…. as many of us have been brainwashed by this summer’s ice cream! We’ve made close to 60 loaves since last November and I’ve got to tell you, it is still one of our family’s favorite things to eat. Quick carrot & walnut bread recipe.