Slow Cooker Scalloped Potatoes
If you are tired of mashed or scalloped potatoes from a box, then this recipe is for YOU! For those of you who have been following Family Fresh Meals for a bit, know that my husband Darryl LOVES cheese. His second favorite thing is potatoes covered in cheese.
Creamy Mac & Cheese and Better than Brownie Cookies! › shutterbean
This weeks girls night (plus 1 boy) was all about comfort food. I made a New York Times recipe for Creamy Macaroni & Cheese (found via Smitten Kitchen). Thank you Deb! Did I ever tell you how much I love the crunchy bits of Mac & Cheese?? I used to fight with my two older brothers over the crunchy parts when we were growing up.
White chocolate truffles
Before you correct me and tell me that I’ve accidentally posted a photo of a tray of potatoes: no, these really are white chocolate truffles. My original plan was to drizzle them in melted chocolate, but then our microwave decided it didn’t feel like working that day, or any day since (it looks like it’s cooking things, it sounds like it’s cooking things, but it’s just not cooking anything). I could have melted the chocolate in a bowl over some hot water instead, but I have a habit of splitting it when I do it that way, and I didn’t want to waste any more precious chocolate, so I decided to go for cocoa powder instead. Hence why I ended up with what are, at first glance, small, round potatoes. If you can get past the fact that it feels like you’re eating a vegetable, these white chocolate truffles are gorgeous. They’re seriously fudgey (in fact, if you wanted to, you could even skip the rolling and just cut it into slabs instead) and they’re seriously rich.
Gingerbread Whoopie Pies with Eggnog Filling
Gingerbread Whoopie Pies with Eggnog Filling Have I got a wonderful treat to put on Santa’s cookie tray this year! These delicious gingerbread whoopie pies with eggnog filling are overflowing with christmas cheer.
Homemade Sun-Dried Tomatoes
People have accused me of having a love affair with salt. My retort (which I usually keep inside my head) is that I just like things with flavor. A preference for food with, you know, lots of flavor, has led me to seek out dishes that have the absolute most taste per square millimeter, and that search has led to making sun-dried tomatoes — concentrated little morsels of tomatoes’ sweet-and-savory-ness — at home. Summer’s abundant tomato harvest begs to be preserved, and once you’ve exhausted tomato sauce, salsa, and ketchup, sun-dried tomatoes are a brilliant solution. I took a longing look through White on Rice’s post about actually sun-drying tomatoes with sun over the course of a couple of days.
World’s Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies - The Strategic Retreat
I don’t often cook, in fact I only really know how to make about a dozen things. That’s ok though since the foods I do make are top notch. At the apex of my culinary treasures are my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, they’re delicious, they’re soft, they’re chewy. In short, they are the best cookies in the world. If I were a shrewder man I’d keep the recipe to myself, open up a shop in the mall and put Mrs. Fields out of business.
Chocolate Chocolate Peanut Doughnuts » The Little Epicurean
Over the course of this year, you will witness how much I love doughnuts. Now that I am no longer afraid of frying, watch out for doughnut mania. While I love, love, love doughnuts; give me simple sugar glazed yeast doughnuts, day old crumb doughnuts, or powdered sugar crusted doughnut holes, I’ll devour them all…except one doughnut. Chocolate Chocolate Peanut Doughnuts, also called Double Chocolate Peanut Doughnuts. Don’t get me wrong. I can’t live without chocolate.
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies Red Velvet Whoopie Pies with cream cheese frosting are perfect for Valentines day! Valentines day is fast approaching and if you plan on making a special meal for your sweetie add these to the menu! These red velvet cake cookies have a mild chocolate flavor and a heavenly cream cheese filling layered in between. One of my favorite cake flavors is red velvet, so I was very excited to make these delicious whoopie pies. If you haven’t jumped on the whole whoopie pie band wagon, I suggest you get on-whoopie pies are fabulous!
Cheesy Cauliflower Pancakes
A couple weeks ago Giz over at Equal Opportunity Kitchen posted a recipe for Cauliflower Pancakes. They sounded & looked wonderful to me so the head of yellow cauliflower in our fridge was quickly marked for pancakes. When I mentioned them in my weekly menu Dawn at Vanilla Sugar said she hoped there would be cheese in them. Well that was like a light bulb going on over my head.
