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Make Decorative Lattice Top & Pie Edges: {How-To & Tips} Feed your eyes. Common Ingredient Substitutions Article. Homepage. Watermelon Lime Sorbet Slices. A sweet and tangy watermelon lime sorbet is a great way to cool off in the summer.

Watermelon Lime Sorbet Slices

As a bonus, this recipe is frozen back in the watermelon rind and cut off into slices. It’s hot. The type of heat where when you step outside the door and your skin is wet before the door swings shut behind you. It’s a hot that hangs in the air, letting you breathe it in, that is cured only by two things: being completely immersed in water or hiding indoors, the air conditioning cranked as far as it will go.I find that the heat makes me very unmotivated to do things like take a walk, water and weed the garden (though I have forced that one on myself) and prepare food and eat it.

However, when the promise of cooking provides ice cold watermelon sorbet, I just may be convinced. When your simple syrup is cool and watermelon chunked, blend them together in a food processor or blender until smooth. Cool the liquid completely in the refrigerator for a few hours. Oven-Baked Caramel French Toast. This Mother’s Day, treat your mom to a special brunch… Make her this delicious french toast!

Oven-Baked Caramel French Toast

Personally, this is a very special Mother’s Day for me, since I am now the proud mother of both a son and a daughter. My little girl will be 3 weeks old this Saturday, the 7th. She is quite precious, and I am loving every second of being a mother of two! I made this for my mom when she recently visited a few weeks ago after the birth of my daughter. It’s such a special way to say “I love you” and “thank you”! Begin by making the caramel layer… It’s simple: sugar and butter. Next, slice up your french bread. How long can you freeze food?

Twix Cheesecakes – Gingerbread Bagels. The Pastry Affair - Home - Butterbeer. This is part III in a mini-series of Harry Potter snacks from the books brought to life (part I is on Honeydukes treats, part II is all about the cauldron cakes, and part IV showcases decadent butterbeer cupcakes).

The Pastry Affair - Home - Butterbeer

Last August, my family made the two thousand mile journey to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios. Orlando has always been one of my family's favorite vacation destinations. Spice Advice. Salt River&Bars. Pizza Braid.

A pizza braid is very kid-friendly, easy on the wallet and extremely simple to make.

Pizza Braid

My aunt and cousin first introduced me to them and I’ve been hooked ever since. The possibilities are endless of the varieties you could make (check out the Apple Dessert Braid!) , but the recipe below is for a very basic hamburger and pepperoni braid. You could make your own dough, but I prefer the shortcut of using Rhodes rise and bake dough. Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe. Quick Guide to Every Herb and Spice in the Cupboard. The Brownie Project.

The Ultimate Strawberry Lemonade. One of the first times I ever realized that – HEY!

The Ultimate Strawberry Lemonade

I can cook for myself! Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites. Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites On Fridays, I teach cooking classes to two kids in our neighborhood.

Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites

They are pretty knowledgeable-so my job is easy:) I think it is fantastic that they want to learn how to cook at such a young age-they are in the 3rd and 4th grade. Since we don’t have any kiddos yet, I am glad I get to work with these kids. We have a great time in the kitchen. On Friday we made homemade soft pretzels,the traditional salty ones and cinnamon and sugar pretzels. For fun, we also made pretzel bites. everyone loved these.

Is everyone ready for the big game? Bacon, Egg, and Toast Cups. 25 Vintage Baking Tips: Timeless Wisdom. I’ve collected these snippets of baking tips from vintage cookbooks and magazines dating from the 1940′s through the 1950′s…the Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where I organize and share all kinds of tips from the past.

25 Vintage Baking Tips: Timeless Wisdom

Vintage Rolling Pin, Eggs & Flour Butter and sugar can be creamed easily when butter is hard by warming the sugar slightly.Light-colored molasses can be darkened to make dark gingerbread by adding a teaspoonful of melted chocolate to each cup of molasses.Cream which is hard to whip will whip quickly by adding a few drops of lemon juice.Molasses can be prevented from sticking to the measuring cup if the cup is first greased with butter or lard.Shortening can be measured exactly.

Smores Coffee and Fudge Ice Cream Cake Recipe at Epicurious.com. Photo by David Bishop yield Makes 10 to 12 servings.

Smores Coffee and Fudge Ice Cream Cake Recipe at Epicurious.com

Baked Eggs in Bread Bowls. This was our breakfast Sunday morning.

Baked Eggs in Bread Bowls

Aren’t they cute? They were very, very good. It’s the whole egg and the toast combo all together in one nice package. 42968098_dfPdIkJ3_c.jpg from cloudfront.net. Eat Well, Spend Less: Homemade Substitutes for Grocery Staples. French Fries: The No-Guilt Version. There’s nothing like a french fried potato.

French Fries: The No-Guilt Version

The taste, the texture, the dip-ability; it’s probably one of my favorite go-to comfort foods. However, I don’t need the fat of an actual deep fried potato, and I certainly do not favor processed french fries that come from the frozen food section of the grocery store. Enter: Healthy French Fries* Mingmakescupcakes.yolasite.com from yolasite.com. Account Suspended. Don’t you think pregnancy is such an amazing and beautiful time? I seriously loved being pregnant.

Colorful swirled cupcakes. With as many ways as there are to decorate cupcakes, they can be really boring if you just slap some plain icing on them. I like to make them fun and interesting, and one of my favorite ways to do that is with colorful, swirled icing. Rather than mix food coloring into the icing, I use it to paint the decorator bag, creating a result so crazy and cool that you won’t believe you got it from such a simple technique. Let me show you how! Forkable & Bio-hazard! Dexter Blood Slide Suckers: Eat With Caution! Bio-hazard! Dexter Blood Slide Suckers: Eat With Caution! You know what’s really scary? Ghosts and vampires? Not really; they don’t exist.

What really freaks me out is plagues, pestilence, serial killers, bio-hazards! I spent the last week thinking about the Martha Stewart lollipops, and how they could be made more scary. For any of you who aren’t familiar with the show, Dexter is about a serial killer of the same name, who works by day as a forensic analyst for the Miami police department, and by night, cleansing the city of the evil criminals who slip through the cracks of our faulty judicial system. Cookies 'N Cream Oreo Fudge Brownies. Petite Lasagnas. Recipe slightly adapted from Hungry Girl (makes 12) 12 oz raw ground turkey ¼ tsp salt, divided ¼ tsp pepper 1 cup chopped onion ½ cup chopped mushrooms. Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread. Easy Soft Pretzels. ... snacks on the trail - imaginechildhood.com. Visual Recipes - Free Recipes with Step-by-Step Pictures.

Watermelon Limeade. Pizza Monkey Bread Recipe. Most gawked all-time - page 20. Refreshing Raspberry Mojito. Fresh mint is super abundant this time of year. Cinnamon Toast&Rolls. The Pastry Affair - Home - Garlic Parmesan Pull-Apart&Bread.