background preloader

Recipes

Facebook Twitter

Sponge Candy Recipe: With or Without Chocolate, this Sponge Candy is Da Bomb! Posted on December 15, 2009 by Christina Me and my sweet tooth!

Sponge Candy Recipe: With or Without Chocolate, this Sponge Candy is Da Bomb!

This time I’m offering up a killer sponge candy recipe that you can use for making your wedding favors! Homemade Snickers Bars. Insanity.

Homemade Snickers Bars

That’s what this is. Pure In.San.It.TEEEEE. You know those days when you’re in desperate need of sugar and you’ve already downed more gummy vitamins than recommended while seriously considering how many more you can ingest without causing severe harm to your internal organs? They’re just so gooooood. Well… in that case you should make some homemade snickers bars. Perfect Potato Pancakes: A Latke Tutorial.

Now come on, don’t be shy, raise your hand if you have never attempted to make your own latkes.

Perfect Potato Pancakes: A Latke Tutorial

That’s better. It feels good to share, doesn’t it. Or more likely, you have made latkes, and year after year you wonder why they are not turning out crispy outside and melt in your mouth creamy inside. Desserts from Around the World - Dishin' With Rebelle. Goat Cheese & Herb Gougères & eggs on sunday. When we lived in Boston, I used to occasionally take cooking classes at the Cambridge Culinary Institute.

Goat Cheese & Herb Gougères & eggs on sunday

Korean-Style Steamed Eggs Recipes from The Kitchn. You've had eggs boiled, fried, poached, and scrambled ... but how about steamed?

Korean-Style Steamed Eggs Recipes from The Kitchn

Silky, savory Asian-style steamed eggs are a real treat at any meal. Best challah (egg bread) I only know one Yiddish phrase (well, two, if you can count farshikkert, which is a pretty awesome way to say someone is three sheets to the wind), but conveniently, it is my favorite.

best challah (egg bread)

A shonda for the goyim means, roughly, that someone of the Jewish faith is not only doing something shameful (shonda), but doing it in front of non-Jews, which of course is an entirely worse offense. Shakshuka. There are a lot of reasons to make shakshuka, an Israeli Tunisian dish of eggs poached in a spicy tomato sauce: It sounds like the name of a comic book hero.

shakshuka

Or some kind of fierce, long-forgotten martial art. Or perhaps something that said comic book hero would yell as they practiced this elaborate martial art, mid-leap with their fist in the air. Shaved Fennel Salad Recipe. I have a couple regrets related to Super Natural Every Day.

Shaved Fennel Salad Recipe

Nothing too major, but one is related to photography. Magic Sauce Recipe. I call this the magic sauce recipe.

Magic Sauce Recipe

Desserts

15 Basic Stir Fry Sauce Recipes (Food and Whine) I love a good stir fry and they are a great way to use up odds and ends of meat, vegetable and noodles.

15 Basic Stir Fry Sauce Recipes (Food and Whine)

And let’s face it, they are a quick and easy dinner solution. Simply cook up some rice or throw in some noodles and it’s a family-pleasing meal. I rarely start with a recipe – just a pile of odds and ends. So it occurred to me recently that what I really needed was a stir-fry sauce “cheat sheet” – a handy reference for the combination of sauce ingredients I need to make different kinds of stir fry to combine with my collection of ingredients. Here I’ve collected 15 great stir-fry sauce recipes that can be printed to keep handy in the kitchen (or bookmarked, if you prefer). Instructions for all of these recipes … just combine the ingredients in a small bowl, stir well to combine, then add to your stir fry. Lemon Stir-Fry Sauce – Great with seafood stir fries, such as shrimp and/or scallops, as well as chicken. Lemon Stir-Fry Sauce II – nice with chicken and seafood. Tips: Tips: Chicken Adobo. Chicken Adobo May 30, 2012 | By Adam Roberts | 71 Comments This is it, kids. This has to be the last recipe I share from April Bloomfield’s new book, A Girl and Her Pig, or pretty soon I’ll look like that pig slung over her shoulder on the book’s cover (slaughtered for divulging too many cookbook recipes).

Chez Us. Baked Egg Boat recipe. Avocado Fries. Oh dear. I never should have done this. This may be one of my biggest mistakes all year. Can’t take it back now. So we’re totally enjoying our grilled avocados, but my husband innocently asks “What else can you do with avocados?” And so my daughter tweets this recipe, and I'm laying all the blame on them.

Sigh…. At a buck fifty a pop (at least around here), avocados can easily run up quite a tab on the grocery bill. So, consider yourself warned. Avocado Fries Printable RecipeRecipe Adapted from Sunset Magazine Canola oil for frying1/4 cup flour1 tsp kosher salt2 large eggs, beaten to blend 1 1/4 cups panko (Japanese bread crumbs) 2 firm-ripe medium avocados, pitted, peeled, and sliced into 1/2-in. wedges Grated parmesan for serving (optional) 1. 2. Cauliflower Crust Pizza & Stick a Fork in It. I came across this cauliflower crust pizza on Pinterest, and was instantly intrigued. A low-carb pizza? Sign me up! I was skeptical, of course, but curious enough to try it and see how it tasted. I was pleasantly surprised by the results.