Chocolate strawberry shortcake cupcakes. Cheap quick & easy - recipes. Rotisserie Chicken Recipe Ideas | Quick & Easy Recipes. Pantry Recipes | Quick & Easy Recipes. 20 Minute Recipes | Quick & Easy Recipes. 20 Slow Cooker Recipes. Zucchini Pasta Carbonara Recipe. This recipe uses thinly sliced prosciutto, which works well with the more delicate flavor of the summer squash. But you could also use pancetta (diced), bacon (thin strips), or even thinly sliced ham. Ingredients Salt3/4 pound egg noodles2 Tbsp olive oil1 teaspoon butter1/4 pound prosciutto, thinly sliced1 yellow onion, chopped3 cloves garlic, minced3-4 summer squash, yielding 4 cups chopped squashSalt and pepper4 eggs1 cup grated Parmesan cheese (plus more for topping)1 teaspoon lemon zest1/2 cup basil leaves, sliced thin* * To slice the basil leaves, chiffonade them by stacking basil leaves on top of each other, roll them up into a cigar shape, starting at one end and working your way down the "cigar" take thin slices from the end.
Method 1 To cook the pasta, bring a large pot of water to a boil. 2 As the water for the pasta is heating, prep your vegetables and heat olive oil and butter on medium high in a large sauté pan. 3 Add pasta to boiling salted water. Homemade Hot Pockets. Homemade hot pockets! There’s nothing they can package up and sell at the grocery store that you can’t make better at home. My kids love store-bought hot pockets, so I came up with my own homemade version that I can feel good about.
Printer-FriendlyHow to make Homemade Hot Pockets: Start with the basic one-loaf Grandmother Bread recipe adjusted with add-ins of milk, egg, and oil. 1 1/2 cups warm milk 1 teaspoon yeast 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 egg 4 cups all-purpose flour In a large bowl, combine warm milk with yeast and sugar. Now it’s time to make hot pockets! Punch down dough and divide in two.
Place condiment, meat, and cheese on each part and pull dough around to seal. It looks a little messy. But that’s okay! Bake at 350-degrees for about 25 minutes, or until browned. Try anything! Devoir immediately, store in the fridge for a few days, or place in the freezer to grab whenever you need one. They’re so good. See all my Grandmother Bread recipes. Vanilla Extract Recipe, How to Make Vanilla Extract. Commercial vanilla extract usually has simple syrup (sugar water) added to the extract to give it a sweet aftertaste.
You can do this if you want, but if you are using the vanilla for baking, there really is no need. Method 1 Use kitchen scissors or a sharp paring knife to cut lengthwise down each vanilla bean, splitting them in half, leaving an inch at the end connected. 2 Put vanilla beans in a glass jar or bottle with a tight fitting lid (mason jars work well). Cover completely with the vodka. 3 Give the bottle a good shake every once in a while. Store in a dark, cool place for 2 months or longer. Lasts for years. You can also make vanilla sugar by putting a split vanilla bean into a jar of white, granulated sugar. Homemade Vanilla: The Big Bottle Method. I know, I know, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet and Christmas is too scary to think about, but I want to post about Homemade Vanilla Extract while you still have time to make it!
Since I started making my own vanilla in the past year, I never use anything else. I love it! How many things can you do that are easy and involve alcohol without ending up in jail? (Don’t answer that question!) In my original post about making vanilla, I demonstrated the recipe for one small bottle. Read here for the 2-ounce bottle method. Printer-FriendlyHow to make Homemade Vanilla Extract: The Big Bottle Method 750 ml bottle of vodka 12 whole vanilla beans dark rum (optional) Using kitchen scissors, cut vanilla beans in half lengthwise, leaving about an inch connected (not cut) at one end, as shown here.
Now simply push the beans into the bottle. Screw lid on tightly and store in a cool, dry location. Use a small funnel to transfer the extract to smaller bottles. So you can…. ….make lots of cookies. The Ultimate Breakfast Casserole. I’ve got your breakfast ready! Shoot. Those darn teenagers. You’ll have to make your own. But! It’s easy, and you probably have the ingredients sitting in your kitchen right now. Printer-FriendlyHow to make the Ultimate Breakfast Casserole: 12 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled* 4 cups cubed bread** 1/2 cup butter, melted*** 2 cups cheese, grated 8 eggs 1 1/2 cups milk 1/2 cup sour cream**** salt and pepper to taste additions, to taste***** *You can substitute 3/4 pound (or 1 1/2 cups) sausage or ham or ground beef or…….
**I use Grandmother Bread. ***You can get away with 1/4 cup butter. ****If you don’t have any sour cream, you can use 2 cups milk instead. *****Add 1 cup chopped sauteed onions, peppers, mushrooms, or other vegetables, if you like. This is, as you can see, like so many of my recipes, a standard that you can rely on to then change to suit your own family. Cook and crumble bacon; set aside.
As you can see, 4 cups of cubed bread–to me–is 4 overflowing cups. Cover with foil. Fall Farmers Market Quiche. In the fall I love to make delicious quiches with my farmer's market wares. It is a great way to use vegetables in new ways and make sure nothing goes to waste. I love to enjoy a great quiche for an easy dinner or brunch. A lot of times I make different quiches for baby showers or wedding showers, too, and it is always fun to fill them up with great ingredients from the market that morning.
Here is my standard farmer's market quiche recipe, add in whatever vegetables and cheeses you would like! — Vegetable Quiche with Spinach, Onions and Pine Nuts Ingredients: For the crust: 1 stick unsalted butter, softened 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour ¼ cup ice water pinch of kosher salt For the filling: 3 eggs 1 cup whole milk 1 cup Parmesan cheese 2 handfuls fresh baby spinach ½ yellow onion, finely chopped ½ cup pine nuts, toasted salt & pepper to taste Preparation: 1. 1. Cookin' Fool. A sampling of just some of the things I’ve baked in the past week for Ross.
Banana Bread Pudding. Fudge Brownies. Pepperoni Lasagna. French Bread. Fried Bologna Sandwiches. Grandmother Bread. Biscuit Twists. Homemade Hot Pockets. Drunken Rum Cookie Logs. Georgia’s Easy Lunch Rolls. Buttermilk Pancakes. Old-Fashioned Strawberry Pie. Remember when he was signed and sealed but not yet delivered? Chocolate Croissants. Make chocolate croissants! This is an quick, easy, and fun breakfast treat whether you go homemade all the way or take a short cut.
I first came across the idea in a forum post here and immediately started thinking about homemade croissants instead of canned crescent rolls. To go homemade all the way, make up a batch of croissant dough. This is NOT as difficult as it sounds! Making croissants from scratch is actually really easy. It looks difficult because there are lots of steps–it’s all the rolling out, chilling, and re-rolling of the butter-packed dough that makes croissants so flaky-delicious.
But you can divide up those steps over several days, devoting just a few minutes of effort at a time to the dough–most of the time spent making croissants is in chilling the dough. See my homemade croissants recipe here. OR just grab a can of store-bought crescent rolls. Printer-FriendlyHow to make Chocolate Croissants: Whisk egg white with water. Let rolls rise till doubled, about an hour. White Cake with Seven-Minute Frosting. White cake! It’s so pretty and…..pure and angelic! A recent study showed that 99.2 percent of Heavenly residents prefer white cake over any other kind. And the other .8 percent got into Heaven on a fake pass. I wouldn’t be hangin’ with them if I were you. You better make this cake! Printer-FriendlyHow to make White Cake: 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 1/3 cups milk 1/2 cup shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 egg whites Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Add egg whites; beat 2 more minutes (on high). Seven-Minute Frosting makes a really shiny, pretty icing that hardens almost like divinity. Seven-Minute Frosting: 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/3 cup cold water 2 egg whites 2 teaspoons light corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla In a double boiler, combine sugar, water, egg whites, and corn syrup. Here’s my tip for using cake plates. Set the first cake round on top and start frosting. See All My Recipes. Making Lemon Curd. Lemon curd is an old-time treat that was traditionally served with biscuits or toast. It also finds its way into tarts (and other small pastries), pies, and even cakes. Lemon meringue pie is basically lemon curd in a pie shell. Lemon curd is a very simple concoction of sugar, lemon juice, eggs (sometimes just the yolks, sometimes yolks and whites both), sometimes lemon zest, and often butter. Cream is sometimes also folded in to make a lighter curd. In making lemon curd, I searched high and low to examine lemon curd recipes, determined to make it the old-fashioned way.
I eliminated cornstarch, which crops up in some lemon curd recipes, as a “quick fix” thickener. Though if our great-grandmas had had some cornstarch in their pantries, they probably would have used it. I don’t have to beat anything on the washboard, so I went for the no cornstarch method so I could feel the sisterhood with our great-grandmas. Printer-FriendlyHow to make Lemon Curd: Add butter, whisking to blend. Chill. Easy Truffles. Chocolate, whipped cream, and graham crackers. Can anything made with these three ingredients not be delicious? And these truffles are so easy, they are ridiculous.
Make some little balls of chocolate happiness today! Printer-FriendlyHow to make Easy Truffles: 2 12-ounce packages semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips 1 8-ounce container whipped cream graham crackers Melt the chocolate chips over low heat in a pan. I think you need to look at it up close. Stir the whipped cream and chocolate together. I have no idea what happened to this spoon. Now scoop out spoonfuls of the chocolate-whipped cream mixture and place them on sheets of waxed paper. Put the sheets in the freezer for about two hours. As you pick up each ball, shape it a bit to make it more circular and roll in the crumbs! To vary the flavors and textures, add two teaspoons of orange, raspberry, or coffee liquer (Kahlua!)
You could totally put a dozen of these in a pretty box, tie it with a bow, and call it a present! Cherry Chocolate Kisses. Me: “Aren’t these cookies pretty?” Morgan: “They’re pretty…………” Me: “They’re PRETTY!!! EAT ONE!!!” Morgan, in the voice of doom: “There are cherries in them.” Me: “You eat cherries! Morgan: “These cherries are in cookies.” Me: They’re cherries! Morgan: “I said they’re pretty…….” So, like, if you don’t have a 13-year-old in your house? Ross came in. But by then my strapping high school senior had four cookies in his mouth so it was a moot question. Wait. And so are these cookies. Printer-FriendlyHow to make Cherry Chocolate Kisses: 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup powdered sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons maraschino cherry liquid 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup chopped maraschino cherries 1/4 cup sugar milk chocolate kisses (approx. 32)* *How many cookies this makes depends on the size of cookie dough balls you make.
In a large mixing bowl, whip up the butter. Add the powdered sugar and salt. And beat it up some more. Add the cherry liquid and almond extract. Hard Candy Lollipops. This idea started out as an ornament. My cousin’s wife, Sheryl, told me about some cute little hard candy ornaments she saw at a party this past weekend. Hard candies melted together into shapes like wreaths, trees, snowflakes, and so on. She inquired as to how they were made and was told to put the candies–touching–in whatever shape you like on wax paper and bake them in a 250-degree oven for 5 minutes. Then you can hang them on the tree or whatever. I decided I had to try this. Don’t blame Sheryl because she was just reporting, but that didn’t work for me. None of it. After much experimentation and many failures, I did finally end up with one ornament that I scraped off the wax paper the best I could and hung on the tree. That’s okay, but I wasn’t too impressed.
Then I had a brainstorm. Oh yes, yes it would! But I had to solve the wax paper sticking problem. And the lollipop stick poked right in. At first I was making them using 7 peppermints in a circle, as a wreath. See All My Recipes. Breakfast Scramble. How to Make Homemade Hamburger Helper. As an avid cook, this is almost embarrassing, but my kids love Hamburger Helper. I don’t love Hamburger Helper. It tastes like cardboard and the ingredients list on the side of the box is enough to make you run away screaming. Who knows what that stuff is. A lot of preservatives, for one thing. But! Using actual packages of Hamburger Helper and cookbook comparisons for the types of varieties offered along with my own cooking common sense and experience, I’ve broken down some of the most popular Hamburger Helper varieties.
Hamburger Helper Basics: When creating your own helpers, keep in mind that most packages of Hamburger Helper include about 1 1/2 cups of pasta plus a packet of sauce seasonings, sometimes dried tomatoes, and sometimes a packet of dried cheese, depending on the variety. You can also freeze milk, but you can keep far more milk onhand if you make dry milk a basic pantry item. To the store-bought helper, you add a pound of ground beef, water, and milk. Add hot water…. My Best 10-Minute Chicken. Sometimes, you need dinner in a hurry. Not a 30-minute hurry. Or even a 20-minute hurry. Sometimes, only a 10-minute meal can save you from take out. That’s when you need this Lemon Caper Butter Chicken. This recipe is so easy that I almost didn’t provide measurements. On nights when you have extra minutes, serve this with your favorite sides, whatever they are, however long they take to cook.
Ingredients 1 lb chicken cutlets (breasts will take longer to cook) salt & pepper 3 tablespoons butter juice of 1 lemon 1 tablespoon white wine (optional) capers parsley (optional) Directions 1. 2. 3. 4. Quick Tomato Soup. Quick and Easy Breakfast Quesadillas. Homemade Mayo, Mustard & Potato Salad. Buttermilk Roasted Chicken. Fresh Fruit Strawberry Kiwi Smoothie Recipe. Rosemary Chicken and Potato Pizza. Making Homemade Ice Cream. Breakfast Egg Tostada. Meyer Lemon Ricotta Spaghetti. Vegetable-Chicken Rice Noodles with Peanut Sauce.