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Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagna with Goat Cheese, Bacon, and Fried Sage. Don’t hate me for saying this, but I don’t think it’s gotten over 70 degrees here for the past two weeks.

Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagna with Goat Cheese, Bacon, and Fried Sage

While 65 degree weather isn’t ideal for playing in the hose outside, it’s awfully better (to me) than 95 degrees. Especially since our home isn’t air-conditioned. Avocado Fries with Cilantro-Lime Ranch Dipping Sauce Recipe. Nutella Cinnamon Rolls. May 10, 2011 | Print | E-mail | Filed under bread, nutella.

Nutella Cinnamon Rolls

Kitchen Hack: One-Minute Bread. Oven-fresh bread is one of life’s simple joys.

Kitchen Hack: One-Minute Bread

Ciabatta, a crisp-crusted Italian bread with hints of sourdough and loads of crannies longing for butter, is one of the easiest breads to make at home. Why are we talking about baking bread on Lifehack? The Family Kitchen. Cherry Limeade While my family loves fresh homemade lemonade, we also like to change it up and make limeade too.

The Family Kitchen

Limeade is made exactly the same way as lemonade. There are some recipes floating around the web about putting the whole limes in a blender to make limeade. However, after experimenting with this method, I would not recommend it unless you love extremely bitter drinks. Simply using the freshly squeezed lime juice, as well as some pulp if you like, is the way to go if you want a limeade without the bitterness. Cherry Limeade Recipe Ingredients the juice of 4 limes, or 1/2 cup lime juice 3/4 cup sugar 1 cup water 1 cup 100% juice, no sugar added cherry juice 3 cups club soda water and ice maraschino cherries lime slices Method.

Homemade Tortillas. Making soft delicious tortillas at home is surprisingly easy.

Homemade Tortillas

In fact, once I started making my own suddenly all our dinners and lunches were rolled up in fresh tortillas. The dough is made from flour, shortening, water, and salt. I had all the ingredients on hand but the shortening.. which ended up only costing two dollars and has lasted through many many batches of tortillas. Considering how cheap the ingredients are and how delicious they taste it just doesn't make sense to pay for the much more expensive packaged ones. To make the dough you first work the shortening into the flour. Food Pyramid Submissions.

Recipe: Swiss Chard and Spinach Pasta. Interested in uplifting stories on the natural world, sustainable communities, simple food, and new thinking on how to live well?

Recipe: Swiss Chard and Spinach Pasta

Please enter a valid email address and try again! No thanks. Broccoli Cheese Soup. Double Broccoli Quinoa Recipe. This double broccoli quinoa bowl is a favorite of mine.

Double Broccoli Quinoa Recipe

I cook up lots of broccoli, then puree half of it into a pesto. The other half is cut into little florets. Tossed with some quinoa, sliced avocado, and a drizzle of feisty chile pepper oil, it makes a nice meal and I hope you like it as much as I do. If you don't have quinoa, you can certainly swap in a pasta or any number of other foundation ingredients. Farro would be nice, millet might work, barley, pearled barley, or even your favorite brown rice. Watermelon Limeade. Kitchy weekends: lemonade – DUJOUR MAGAZINE. Easter Cupcakes Baked in Real Egg Shells. I watched my Grandmother’s face when she realized that I hadn’t handed her a hard boiled egg but rather a cake baked inside a real egg shell. Her eyes were filled with wonder and I could envision what she must have looked like as a tyke the very first time she saw a red balloon float across the sky or the the trunk of a giant elephant spewing a stream of water.

“Crack it on the table,” I told her. Eggs were cracked, cupcakes were eaten, and I was perceived as a cupcake Houdini. Update 3/19/2012: For the basic instructions on these Easter cupcakes, keep reading. To see another example of them with dyed eggs and cream cheese “yolk” filling, see my latest version of these Easter cupcakes. I modeled my cupcakes in egg shells after Nicky’s egg shell cupcakes from Delicious Days. Yield: 10 large egg cupcakes.

A Tasty Recipe: Stuffed French Toast – Tasty Kitchen Blog. Since Ree is somewhere in D.C. right now with her gushing armpits (sorry for that visual on a cooking blog), we’ve invited a very special guest to host the Tasty Recipe post this week.

A Tasty Recipe: Stuffed French Toast – Tasty Kitchen Blog

Quite coincidentally, this lovely lady was also our very first member featured here in the Tasty Kitchen blog. Leprechaun Trap Cake. This may look like a perfectly innocent cake meant to lure a leprechaun to the top but it has a few secrets.

Leprechaun Trap Cake

Secret #1: Beneath the pile of gold coins are fragile bars, when the leprechaun approaches to grab the coins he’ll fall into the pit and be trapped. Secret #2: There is a rainbow hiding inside the cake. Peanut Butter Mousse in Tuile Cookie Spoons. Recently a friend asked me to bake for an upcoming party she's having, so I've been researching all kinds of bite-sized dessert canapés.

Peanut Butter Mousse in Tuile Cookie Spoons

One recipe that caught my attention is from BHG; a rich mousse that is served in the bowl of a teaspoon. The mousse sounds inviting, but I'm not sure I want to commit a good portion of flatware to the project (32 spoons!). The idea of a disposable plastic spoon came to mind, but for a single bite - well, that would be environmentally unsound and just too wasteful. Then, it came to me suddenly. Eat Well, Spend Less: Homemade Substitutes for Grocery Staples. Steak au Poivre - The Showstopper. I have a comment on this comment, then I have a comment for the OP. To Amy: Removing to foil is simply a way to keep the steaks warm whilst resting (FOR 5 MINUTES AT LEAST… ALWAYYYS!). When the OP says remove to foil, he/she doesn’t mean to wrap them tightly. How to Cook Summer Vegetables.

Step-by-Step: Amazing Spiced Chai Concentrate – Tasty Kitchen Blog. Warm spices, strong tea and steamed milk swirling around in my tummy make chai lattes a favorite during the winter months. It warms me from the inside out in a way that puts coffee and tea to shame. Unfortunately, the chai concentrate from certain coffee chains is too sweet. Big Red Kitchen: More in the Freezer: Cheeseburgers. In an effort to health up my family’s lunches, I am steering away from those frozen prepackaged sandwiches that saved me back in my busy December, to homemade frozen sandwiches, and so far so good.

The Frozen Chicken Sandwich was a huge hit with my kids so I moved on to trying the Cheeseburger by simply increasing the size of my White Castle-like Sliders. Start by sprinkling a large 11×17 inch pan with dried minced onions and pressing 2.5 pounds of ground beef over top. Sprinkle with season salt (I use Penzey’s) and bake in a 375 degree oven for 18 minutes.

Remove from oven and cut into 15 equal sized patties. Buffalo Chicken Calzones. Buffalo Chicken Calzones. Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread.