Mint Fudgcicles. On Sunday at the church nursery, my daughter somehow cut her gum right under her top lip. I recognized her cry before we got to the counter to pick her up, and when we spotted her, blood was starting to pool in her mouth. The cut was in a spot that made sucking a pacifier painful. No morning nap + busted up mouth + no pacifier = unhappy little girl. Her cut reopened during her afternoon nap, making an even fussier little girl. But, she did take a fudgcicle. This was an exception to our no-sweets rule, though. John likes fudgcicles a lot, probably because fudgcicles are essentially just frozen pudding. If you're restricting your sugar intake, try subbing out the sugar for Truvia. The second time I made these, I increased the chocolate just a tad and added mint extract to make mint fudgcicles. The beauty of these is that they are budget-friendly and simple.
You can find popsicle molds everywhere these days. Makes 4 standard popsicles Here's where I usually link up! Homemade Pop Tarts. I recently said, there are 3 things I never have enough of when baking. They are: 1) time, 2) space, and 3) flour. I ALWAYS feel like I’m baking under a time limit. And with so little space, I’m constantly tripping over myself. And with far too little flour, my dough sticks everywhere. And to be honest, most of the things I bake don’t come out fabulously on my first try. So when I saw Smitten Kitten’s recipe for homemade pop tarts, I was almost certain they would be a royal disaster on my first try. But I knew I had to start somewhere, so I gave myself plenty of time, space, and flour, and gave them a try. Because, really? Homemade Pop Tarts: Pastry: 2 C all-purpose flour1 T sugar1 t salt1 C (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold and cut into pats1 large egg2 T milk Brown Sugar/Cinnamon Filling: 1/2 C brown sugar1 to 1 1/2 t cinnamon4 t all-purpose flour1 large egg to brush on pastry before filling See?
First, whisk together the flour, sugar, and salt. Flour a surface. Make the filling! Dig in! Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes. Cupcakes are still quite the trend, aren't they? Well, I don't think this trend is ending anytime soon... especially when the sky's the limit for cupcake flavors! Take for instance Boston Cream Pie. It's not exactly a pie but rather a cake. When it comes to cupcakes, pretty much any cake can be adapted in cupcake form. These Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes are a delicious example. Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes recipe from Cook's Illustrated Pastry Cream: 1 1/2 cups heavy cream 3 large egg yolks 1/3 cup granulated sugar pinch of table salt 4 teaspoons conrnstarch 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold & cut into 2 pieces 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract Cupcakes: 1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoons table salt 1 cup granulated sugar 1 1/2 sticks (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened but slightly cool, cut into 12 pieces 3 large eggs 3/4 cups milk 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract.
Pizza Monkey Bread Recipe. Ok are you ready for Pizza Monkey Bread. It will kinda change your life. And maybe your waistline. But it’s 100% worth it and so freaking delicious! Imagine a pull apart pizza with herbs and cheese and a warm pizza dipping sauce. I’ve seen Monkey Bread made from scratch or with pre-made biscuit dough from the market. Stick these suckers in mini bundt pans and into the oven they go! Ingredients 2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast1 cup warm water1 tsp sugar2 cups Bread flour1 cup AP flour2 tsp salt1/2 cup Butter, melted2/3 cup Pecorino Romano cheese, grated3 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped5 Scallions, chopped10 Basil Leaves, chopped5 cloves garlic, mincedSalt and Pepper1 cup Marinara or Pizza sauce Instructions Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.In a medium bowl, combine the Bread flour, AP flour and salt.
Pupusas Recipe (Salvadoran stuffed masa flatbread) | El Salvador. (Salvadoran stuffed masa flatbread) Pupusas are similar to corn tortillas, only thicker and stuffed with cheese, beans or meat. The pupusa originated in El Salvador, but it is also popular in neighboring Honduras. Pupusas are traditionally made by slapping the dough back and forth between greased palms. A tortilla press is quicker and easier for beginners.
Image by Andrew® Makes 4 or 5 pupusas Ingredients Masa harina -- 2 cupsWarm water -- 1 cupFilling (see variations) -- 1 cup Method In a large bowl, mix together the masa harina and water and knead well. Variations This recipe uses masa harina, a special dried cornmeal flour used in making tortillas, tamales, etc. Notes The pupusa is so fundamental to the cuisine of El Salvador that the country has even declared November 13th "National Pupusa Day. " TWD – Coffee Break Muffins | The Whimsical Cupcake. These are THE best. There’s not much more I can say. There really isn’t much more that I HAVE to say. But I’ll pick a few of my favorite words and leave the rest up to you: Muffins.
Are you getting the picture? I have horrible luck with muffins. An espresso flavored dough studded with chocolate chips (my own addition) makes for the perfect breakfast treat or mid-afternoon snack with a wonderful cup of coffee. First thing in the morning I was greeted with two texts: one stating that this is the best thing I’ve ever made and another asking if the muffins were laced with crack, because they were addictive. Head on over to Rhiani of Chocoholic Anonymous‘ blog for the recipe (click here) or buy the book, I promise you’ll love it! Up next week: Tarte Fine. Like this: Like Loading... Wild Yeast. Vietnamese Fish Sauce Dip- Nuoc Cham. To take away fish sauce (Nước Mắm ) from the Vietnamese is like draining blood from a living soul, deflating a floating helium balloon or driving a nail into a tire.
Slowly but surely, all life would slowly cease. Extreme as this may sound, this is how vital this golden elixir reigns in Viet cuisine ( well, at least in my family’s Viet cooking). Like how olive oil is to the Italians, Red wine is to the French, and ketchup is to my french fries, fish sauce is to the Vietnamese. It’s a pure, pungent nectar sent from the fermented fish gods to grace our breaths and Viet inspired dishes. One of the very basic staples of fish sauce is the dipping sauce that can be used as a dip for spring rolls, as a dressing for noodles and rice or as a marinade for grilled meat. It’s like magic when you take fish sauce, mix it with a little lime, garlic and chili. Varying in so many degrees of sweet-ness, spicy-ness, garlicky-ness and lime-ness (sp?) Ingredients: Directions: Mix all ingredients together well. 500 - {Yeasted Doughnuts} "I'm Heather," she told me while swiftly turning a chair in my direction. After I introduced myself and sat down, she fastened a black smock around my neck, turned my chair toward the mirror and directed her eyes, now brimming with polite patience, into my own from over my left shoulder.
I quickly explained the cut I wanted to her, and she, understanding, nodded and lead me to another chair. Heather instructed me to lean back and caught my hair over the basin of a black sink with thin hands. I stared silently at my salt-stained shoes for a few seconds before asking how her day had been, fervently hoping that she would be up for conversation and receptive to the prompt. Fortunately for me, Heather was more than happy to chat. "Do you have any Valentine's Day plans? " Instead, to my surprise, Heather was suddenly drained of her bubbly-ness. I couldn't tell how she felt anymore. I nodded agreeably to the next words she shared, but I was surprised at where our exchange was going. Garlic Chili Hot Sauce Recipe | Sriracha Hot Sauce | White on Rice Couple. We’ve been quite unconventional over the last few years when it comes to gift giving.
When the holidays roll around, tis the season to fire up the ovens and gift out baked goods and sweets till everyone can’t eat another cookie. Granted, we have our traditional fudge that we’ll make for family who are out of state, but fudge is really the only sweet gift we pass on with a red bow attached. Our more unconventional holiday gift is giving our homemade hot sauce and kim chi. Chili and spice is everything nice for all our food friends. They always welcome our little spice packed jars with open arms and we’re always thrilled to be the different kids on the block, passing out something other than sweets. This year, we decided to make an extra garlicky chili hot sauce because we have a small contingent of food friends who crave flavor, heat and spice more than we do.
For a rougher chili texture with more bite, don’t blend the sauce after the blender for smother texture - Diane and Todd voila! Lemon Anise Snowflakes. As with the lemon that studs them, these loaves are one of those breads I thought would be one thing, but of its own accord (with maybe a little bit of gentle and experimental nudging from me) it turned out to be another thing. Sometimes it’s fun to just let things unfold and see where you end up. The thing I thought it would be was gibassier, a French olive oil brioche traditional during the Advent season, scented with oranges and anise seed, shaped in flat round loaves. It is an amazingly good bread, and ranks among favorite sweet breads for nearly everyone I know who has tasted it.
But thanks to my generous crop of lemons just now, my bread asked for candied lemon peel rather than orange. Because I had lots of lemon syrup as a byproduct of the candying of the lemon peels — and also because I was out of orange blossom water — the bread wanted the syrup to stand in for both the sugar and the orange water in a traditional gibassier recipe. I shaped these loaves in two ways.
Time: Method: 2010 October « Will Run for Food. What better way to spend a cool, autumn morning than baking up some delicious doughy treats? I have been on a major yeast kick lately as this is my third time pulling it out this week. I woke up this morning really in the mood for a cinnamon roll so I decided to try out this recipe for caramel rolls. The only difference is in the topping; rather than drizzle the rolls with an icing, you bake them with a gooey caramel mixture.
Need I say more? The changing leaves all ablaze in my backyard…so beautiful!! As with most recipes involving yeast, this recipe is really very simple but takes a couple of hours to make with all of the rises it needs. The end result is so worth it though!! Sticky Caramel Rolls Ingredients 1 package yeast (I used Rapid Rising)1/2 cup warm water1/2 cup lukewarm milk1/3 cup sugar1/3 cup butter, melted1 tsp. salt1 egg3 1/2-4 cups flour Filling 1/4 cup butter, melted1/4 cup brown sugar2 tsp. cinnamon Caramel Topping 1/4 cup butter1/2 cup brown sugar1 Tbsp. corn syrup Mmm…butter!
Waffles (of Insane Greatness) with Cinnamon Apples « Will Run for Food. Dinner last night was amazing, if I do say so myself! :) I was feeling rather ambitious and decided to try out two new recipes, one for waffles (they really are called ‘Waffles of Insane Greatness’ :)) and the other for cinnamon apples. I’ve made different waffle recipes before but decided to try this one out to see if they lived up to their name. These waffles are fantastic! I will admit to sometimes using a boxed waffle mix if I’m short on time and these just blow them out of the water. Everything you would expect in a waffle of “insane greatness”! The only cinnamon apples I’ve ever had were probably from a jar or something…they were always mixed with an overly-sweet syrup or goop (for lack of a better word). I highly recommend making your own! Waffles of Insane Greatness Ingredients In a medium mixing bowl, combine the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar.
Preheat a waffle iron. This recipe yielded four waffles (one square each). Source: Annie’s Eats Like this: Appetizer Recipes. Stuffed Tomatoes. Whisk: a food blog. Thai Crunch Salad. I’m a little sheepish about admitting that I spent hours working to recreate a salad that I ate at a massive, chain restaurant. Next time, I’ll let them do the work again. Some weeks ago, I took a half day off for an excursion to the Chicago suburbs. A good friend and I took our toddlers to the Picture People to get some portraits of the kids. In this digital age, I am finding that I never take the time to print photos of my daughter. I always loved flipping through the album my mom made of me that included an annual 8 x 10 inch photo starting from age 1 going through my decade of school pictures. So, we planned to hit the suburban mall for some photos, shopping and lunch.
The ninety degree day and the fun but busy photo sessions drove is straight through the doors of the first restaurant we could find – The California Pizza kitchen. I decided I would try to recreate the Thai Crunch Salad at home. Next time I have a hankering, I will head for the ‘burbs and let them do the work.