Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies | Gooey Butter Cake meets cookie meets red velvet. You won’t be able to stop eating these super soft, gooey red velvet cookies! If you’ve been reading Taste and Tell for awhile, you will remember that last year, I did a week full of red velvet recipes around this time. It turned out so well, and it was so much fun, that I told myself that I would make it an annual event. So here we are – the 2nd annual Red Velvet Week! It’s time to start thinking about Valentine’s Day, if you haven’t been thinking about it already. I think that cake mix cookies are making a comeback. This cake mix cookie is a little different than those cookies I posted many years ago. If you are a fan of crisp cookies, you’ll want to turn away now, because these cookies are nothing close to crisp. Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies Gooey Butter Cake meets cookie meets red velvet. Ingredients Instructions In the bowl of a mixer, cream together the cream cheese and the butter.
Recipe from www.tasteandtellblog.com. Super Moist Banana Bread | GreatGrub. At 12, when I was old enough to graduate from making jello desserts, banana bread was the first oven prepared dessert I attempted. Since then I have tried dozens of recipes, some cakey, some drier and more bread-like but this one is my favourite. This is also the biggest crowd pleaser on three continents. I give credit to Martha Stewart for the secret ingredient. The rest I have adapted along the road of discovery. Ready ¼ pound (1 stick) butter, unsalted and at room temperature2 eggs1 cup organic Sucanat sugar, or brown sugar of choice1 ½ cups organic unbleached flour1 teaspoon salt1 teaspoon baking soda1 cup mashed banana, super ripe1 teaspoon Tahitian vanilla extract½ cup sour cream (SECRET INGREDIENT) Set Electric mixerSieveSpatula9x5x3 bread loaf panParchment paperCooling rackPreheat oven to 350°F Go What you should know Remember to never over work your batter. Simple Supper Recipe: Savory Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with White Beans and Kale Recipes from The Kitchn.
The sweet potatoes take about an hour to bake, but they're hands-off so you can use the time to write holiday cards or spend time with family or simply catch your breath. If you like, bake the sweet potatoes ahead, store them in the refrigerator for 3-5 days, and reheat. If you're cooking the beans from scratch, you might simmer them with a bay leaf, a sprig of rosemary, and a sprig of sage. Of course, you can also use canned beans, which are quick and easy. Although we cooked with Great Northern beans and curly kale in these pictures, we encourage you to think of this recipe as a template and experiment with other varieties of beans and greens, from Tuscan kale to chard, cannellini beans to chickpeas. Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Beans and Greens Serves 4 Preheat oven to 400°F.
Scrub the sweet potatoes and prick them in a few places with a fork. Start the beans and greens about 15 to 20 minutes before the sweet potatoes are done. Sweet & Salty Brownies. "An opaque, gentle, vulnerable day,as if it had been making love all night,a day when the past has no bitter taste,when the future retreats without a fight…" ~Vera Pavlova, If There Is Something To Desire I used to loathe mid-January - with it's stark, almost-industrial ambiance and icy fingers that reach through every exposed crack in my drafty house. Now, little by little, we are starting to develop a mutual respect for each other. It's a tentative relationship- we're still both tiptoeing on egg shells during my chilly morning showers and windy three blanket nights- but I think we are ready to sit down and have a cup of bittersweet snow tea.
January ignites my love for cosy comfort food- all things laden with butter, and cream, and salt, and yes, even chocolate. I have made a lot brownies in my lifetime, including salty turtle brownies and salty fudge brownies- both were spectacular, and worth revisiting. sNLWeQq.jpg (JPEG Image, 500 × 500 pixels) ‘Population Bomb’ scientist: ‘Nobody’ has the right to ‘as many children as they want’ By Kay SteigerTuesday, January 22, 2013 9:35 EDT A Stanford professor and author of The Population Bomb recently published a paper in a scientific journal re-emphasizing climate change and population growth pose existential threats to humanity and in an interview with Raw Story said that giving people the right to have as many children as they want is “a bad idea.”
“The only criticism we’ve had on the paper is that it’s too optimistic,” said Paul Ehrlich, Bing professor of population studies at Stanford University and president of the Center for Conservation Biology. “You can’t negotiate with nature.” The study, published the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal earlier this month says that climate change is “driven by overpopulation, overconsumption of natural resources and the use of unnecessarily environmentally damaging technologies and socio-economic-political arrangements to service Homo sapiens‘ aggregate consumption.”
[Crowd via Shutterstock] Kay Steiger. 41 Heart-Shaped DIYs To Actually Get You Excited For Valentine's Day. Strawberry Nutella Poptarts. Friday, February 10, 2012 Strawberry Nutella Poptarts* In almost 24 hours I am going to be on live television. Seriously. I have no idea what I am going to wear or say….and I’m pretty sure the producer over at Good Morning Jacksonville has no idea what she has gotten herself into. Sure, I’m great on the blog…but give me a big camera sending out a live feed, a sharp knife and my foot in mouth tendencies… well I am sure it’s going to go splendidly. While I may not have it all figured out just yet, I have decided that I will talk like Julia Child and only refer to myself in third person. First, take some store bought pie dough. Roll out the pie dough till it’s pretty thin. On one pie dough rectangle, spread a layer of Nutella. Cut a strawberry slice into the shape of a heart (slice a strawberry lengthwise into slices and then curve out the stop with a paring knife to create the heart shape).
Using the strawberry heart as a pattern, cut out a heart shaped hole in the second piece of dough. Strawberry Heart Poptarts. So, my wife crocheted Christmas presents this year.. Isaac's Live Lip-Dub Proposal. 31 Insanely Easy And Clever DIY Projects. Seawater Greenhouses Produce Tomatoes in the Desert - Water Matters - State of the Planet. According to the World Health Organization, about 20 percent of the world’s people live in regions that don’t have enough water for their needs. With the global population increasing by 80 million each year, a third of the planet will likely face water shortages by 2025. This looming water crisis is inextricably linked to food production because agriculture accounts for 70 percent of all fresh water used, and obtaining irrigation water in arid regions has serious environmental impacts.
Drilling wells can deplete groundwater, and desalination is energy-intensive and leaves behind concentrated brine. The Seawater Greenhouse, however, provides what may be an economical and sustainable way of producing fresh water and crops in hot, dry regions near the ocean. Photo credit: World Bank Photo Collection A seawater greenhouse produces crops year-round in hot dry areas using only seawater and sunlight. Photo credit: Seawater Greenhouse Ltd. Dream in the Doorway. When I can’t figure out which student is talking… (Source: methedras, via imabloodymartian) The Guy on YouTube Singing with His Daughter | Father & Daughter Cover 'Home' By Edward Sharpe" February 01, 2011, By Craig J. Heimbuch On the surface, it's a story about fame. Not Elvis fame. Not Paul Newman or Eddie Murphy fame. And then Andy Warhol happened. This new kind of fame seems plastic, a hollow facsimile of the way fame used to be, the way it was meant to be. But then there comes the outlier.
In case you haven't seen it, you really should. "Every single thing I do is for them," he says. A little more than three weeks. Jorge's story is maybe a little familiar. For a guy like Jorge, the first in his family to finish high school let alone dream of becoming a professor, dreams are important. It's easy to assume superficiality.
Jorge will probably never be the old kind of famous, but I get the sense talking to him that he never wanted to be. Photo courtesy of Jorge Narvaez's YouTube Channel. Craig J.