Chicken-and-Sausage Gumbo Recipe. Desserts. Cobbler baked in jars. I made these for the Seattle Bake Sale for Share Our Strength organized by Frantic Foodie (thanks Keren!). I had so much fun making pies in jars that I figured this was the perfect opportunity to bake something else in jars. This time I used half-pint wide mouth jars, a nice size for a bake sale.
(Half pint jars washed and drying.) I used the blueberry cobbler recipe from Baking Illustrated. I was making 24 portions so the first time I tried to divide each recipe between 8 jars (making three total recipes worth). It was just enough that the blueberry mixture bubbled over each jar. Pretty, yes, but too sticky for a bake sale. (Look! These are great for bake sales because the packing is an eye catcher. The recipe, with notes on actually making it in jars, is below. Seriously, the cornmeal added to the biscuit batter makes all the difference here. I call this mise en jars, I used the washed jars from the overflowing and sticky (but sooo worth it) test batch.
Blueberry Cobbler in Jars 1. 2. 3. Sea Glass Candy. On nice days--nice being a relative term in Seattle--the little Humble and I make the short trip down to the beach. It is one of her favorite activities outside of the house. She could spend the better part of the day beach combing at the shoreline, looking for interesting shells, rocks, sea glass and little dead crabs. She really likes those smelly little crabs. Hopefully she grows out of that particular obsession soon.
Yes, this is a "nice" day... I felt like doing some Northwest beach theme treats this week, since the little Humble and I will be resuming our beach trips soon. I know that other parts of the U.S. are up to their armpits in snow but in Seattle, the weather has been rather nice. For all you snowed in folks, the ones boggling at my choice of theme given the time of year, hopefully a little sea glass will remind you of warmer times to come.
I made four different colors/flavors this morning: Blueberry/Cobalt, Lemon/Clear, Key-Lime/Green, and my favorite Rootbeer/Brown. Enjoy! How to Make Homemade Candy Bars (Resolution Breaker) If you’re like most people, you probably started off the year with a whole list of resolutions: more sleep! Less coffee! More exercise! Less television! More vegetables! Less sugar! I call them “Resolution Breaker Candy Bars,” and if you’re absolutely wedded to your healthy eating habits, stop reading now before it’s too late… Still here? Resolution Breaker Candy Barsyield: about 20 bars Ingredients 24 ounces chocolate candy coating1/2 stick (2 oz) butter1 cup granulated sugar1/4 cup evaporated milk1 jar (7 oz) marshmallow creme or fluff1 tsp vanilla extract1/3 cup peanut butter, creamy or chunky14 oz soft caramels, unwrapped1.5 cups roasted, salted peanuts To make it easier to remove and cut the bars, line a 9×13 pan with aluminum foil.
Most nougat recipes are pretty complicated and involve whipping egg whites into a meringue and using a candy thermometer to boil a sugar syrup. Scrape the peanut nougat on top of the chocolate layer in the pan, and spread it into a smooth, even layer. Baked Apple Chips! Sausage and Mash Cupcakes. Homemade Nutella. Homemade Gummies. Lavender Blueberry Semifreddo. For this purple dessert I've combined two purple powerhouses: lavender and blueberry. In spite of the name, blueberries are distinctly purple once they are cooked. Those pesky, unstable fruit pigments are so fickle. But the combination of blueberries and lavender is not just for color, the floral notes of lavender compliment blueberries' robust character magnificently. Semifreddos (transl: semi-frozen) are a wonderful dessert, and an especially wonderful way to make a frozen treat without an ice cream machine.
Cream (and sometimes egg whites) are whipped, folded into a sweet, flavored base and then frozen. You can shape a semifreddo with just about anything you want-- ,muffin tins, a loaf pan, paper coffee cups. For those interested in further reading, I've been inspired to play along with the rainbow contest, and I've been cooking up a whole bunch of colorful dishes. Lavender Blueberry Semifreddo Ingredients: Yield: 6 servings. Homemade Oatmeal Creme Pies. Oatmeal creme pies will always be one of my favorite junk foods. My family did not keep sweets and soda on hand, but they were a really amazing treat every once in a while. But the ingredients label is scary*. And I have to admit Debbie's version is a little too syrupy-sweet for me. So here's my version. :) So go make your own oatmeal creme pies!
*Ingredients. Traditional baguettes by hand. Nana's Peanut Butter Bangles. Sauces and Condiments Recipes, Flavored Butter Recipes, Condiment Recipes, Salad Dressing Recipes, Sauce Recipes, Relish Recipes, Jelly Recipes, Dessert Sauce Recipes. Girlmeetsbug.com. Classic Corn Dogs and Cheese-on-a-Stick. For the second State Fair recipe, I whipped up some hot dogs and cheese-on-a-stick reminiscent not just of state fairs and carnivals…but also of shopping malls in the eighties: this is said to be the same batter recipe used by the famous Corn Dog 7 chain of stores, and if you don’t remember Corn Dog 7, you’re way too young and probably don’t have slack abdominal muscles or jowls yet.
I feel very sorry for you! Corn Dog 7 had fabulous hot dogs, of course…but their Cheese-on-a-Stick was what I loved the most as I traipsed through the mall with my best friend Jenn, buying things like neon pink fingerless gloves and Soloflex posters and Duran Duran tapes. I miss the Eighties so much it hurts. I’m going to go text Jenn right now.
One thing about this blessed, glorious batter: if you have any left over, it makes perfect pancakes the next day. And for that matter, you can use the batter to coat and fry cooked breakfast sausage links, then serve them with pancake syrup for “dipping.” Seriously. Healthy. Happy. Life. | Vegan Blog | Vegan Recipes. Fleur de Sel Caramels. You guys. We made homemade caramels!!! We're feeling pretty chuffed. It all started last week when the foodie blogosphere exploded with Fall treats, many of which included some element of caramel deliciousness. And, ever fearless bakers, we're all "we could totes make our own caramels, boo-yah! " And, we thought back, where did we last have the most divine caramels ever made?
Duh. She brings her secret-family-recipe homemade caramels to Christmas dinner every year and every year we polish the lot off in, oh, about 1 day. And then we feel sick. But not because of the caramels, it's just that no human should ever consume more than 22 caramels in one day or they risk going into a severe sugar coma. We've done research. So, we emailed Betsy and we followed her recipe exactly (her words are transcribed below...you get why we love her), with the minor addition of fleur del sel at the end...you know, because we're fancy. Um, they are pretty freaking awesome. Boo-yah, indeed. Print Recipe Add the vanilla. Hokey Pokey. Who wants to make something delicious? Easy? Delicious AND easy? You there! Yes you!
Yes the name is ridiculous. Really easy. That's all you need. Ok good because we are. You must make this ridiculously named stuff now. It's crunchy. Oooh and plus, there's this marvelously satisfying part of the "recipe" when you get to shatter this lovely, glossy pancake of sugar into a million little pieces. Maybe it was a rough day. Hokey PokeyAdapted from Nigella Lawson Print Recipe 1/2 cup sugar1/4 cup dark corn syrup1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda In a small saucepan off the heat, combine the sugar and corn syrup and stir together.
Remove the pan from the heat and immediately whisk in the baking soda. Allow to cool for at least 30 minutes, then break up into shards and enjoy. Cinnamon Roll Pancakes. Updated 9/22/11 to Add: If you’re coming here to sample these delicious Cinnamon Roll Pancakes, you just might like the latest recipe that I’ve posted for Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Pancakes too. And Gingerbread- Cinnamon Roll Pancakes too. Enjoy! Here’s a short video sharing how to make these delicious pancakes: If you’ve ever thought you needed a reason to eat pancakes, today is the day: National Pancake Day! Eat a short stack for breakfast, enjoy them for lunch, or make a dinner out a manhole-sized pancake… guilt free… because you’re merely celebrating their existence. How do you like your pancakes? Buttermilk? But recently I started dreaming about mixing cinnamon rolls and pancakes together… and this is what I came up with- my new favorite pancake: Cinnamon Roll Pancakes.
I have a wonderfully fluffy pancake batter that I like to use (recipe below) so I swirled a bit of cinnamon roll filling into the pancake. See, just like a cinnamon roll. Oh yeah. Yield: Eight 4-inch pancakes Ingredients:
Not cake, but not food. Cake. Peppermint Patties. Cookies, do we have a treat for you. Er well, yes, we do always have treats for you, (this being a baking blog and all) but today’s treat is an extra special treat. Yup, we made you candy. Homemade candy! You know, boiling sugar, tempering chocolate, hours and hours of back breaking labor. All to make you lovelies these delectable homemade peppermint patties. Ok fine. And the chocolate tempering was more like placing the chocolate in a glass bowl and then microwaving. And yes, ok, fine, the hours and hours of back breaking labor was more like minutes and minutes of labor. Thank goodness for the all important candy quality control which required taste tests at the beginning, middle and end of the candy making process.
Actually, it was easier than a walk in the park. Just a quick mix, roll, slice and dunk. And since nothing is more holiday-ish-y than chocolate and mint, wrap a few up and give them away so everyone knows about your candy making prowess. Peppermint PattiesMakes 16 patties. Berlin's Whimsy - Help for a Monday Morning... These Ginger Cookies are the best. I say this in all honesty. I cannot claim the creation of the recipe as my very own but I can claim my variation of it. I watched, baked, mixed, pulled out of the oven, 'checked' so many times at the bakery where I worked that their creation is something innate to me... Their smell is etched on my memory of early mornings and the hum of a busy bakery.
Or the embarrassed confessions of customers, "I'm simply addicted to them! " The cookies were my salvation at 1 AM (yes, one o'clock in the morning!!!) Upon my arrival at work for a long day of baking breads (usually six different kinds). So, I share this prized recipe with you here to help you on those difficult early mornings (they're absolutely 'da bomb' with vanilla icecream)! Ginger Cookies 1 C. butter, softened 2 2/3 C. 1/2 C. 2 eggs 4 C. flour 1 T., 1 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. cinnamon 2 tsp. cloves 2 tsp. ground ginger 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 C. sugar, for dipping Method: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Just Peachy Fruit Leather. When we went apple picking recently, we also came home with a big box of juicy peaches. They were given priority this past week as they quickly became soft. Besides the Peach-Caramel Grunt from the cookbook, Rustic Fruit Desserts (fabtabulous!)
, I made peach sauce, peach sorbet, and peach smoothies. But one of my favorite projects was peach fruit leather. I remember my Mom making fruit leather when I was a child. I remember sheets of it sitting out to dry in the summer sun. I also recall the anticipation----it couldn't dry soon enough for me! My memories recall making fruit leather as much more of a project than it is now.
Because I was worried about flies and other unsavory and unappetizing critters getting into the fruit leather outside, I skipped the hassle and used my oven on its lowest setting. Just Peachy Fruit Leather 10 large Peaches, washed, pitted, and cut in half (I don't peel them) 1/3 C. sugar Meanwhile, prepare your pans.