Nigel Slater's spinach pie and apple focaccia recipes A spot of baking. It is rare that a week goes by without a bit of baking going on in my kitchen. A pie. A loaf. A cake, perhaps. I associate this time of year with the sweeter side of baking. If ever there was time to eat a piece of baking straight from the oven this is it: all the warm, yeasty bonhomie of homemade bread plus the sweet note of baked apple and slightly charred nuts made this as much a cake as a loaf. Focaccia doesn't need hard kneading – in fact it slightly resents rough handling. On a savoury note, I made a vast vegetable pie this week, thick with green vegetables and the salty tang of feta cheese. You could easily take the idea on with other fillings – chard and mushroom, spinach and blue cheese, cabbage and bacon – or you could introduce a sauce of some kind, such as feta, dill and yogurt. Broad bean, feta and spinach pie Serves 4-6broad beans 250g, shelled weightspinach 500gfeta 400gfilo pastry 6 sheets, about 270gmelted butter for brushingsesame seeds 1 tsp
Fresh Food Friday: 100 Healthy Snack Ideas Join our page on Facebook for our latest recipes and projects! Happy Friday! I did pretty well this week . . . I have only caved on one day to a sugary treat (I will be posting the treats later- they were so good! Totally worth losing points over.)! Snacks right around 3 pm each afternoon are my downfall. I am trying to train myself to reach for healthier snacks, but I just forget. So, I have complied this list that I am printing out and putting on my fridge. Here is my list: 1. If you would like to print this list out, you can either click on the "Print Friendly" button on the bottom of this post, or for a printer friendly version that will fit all 100 snack ideas on one page. *Please note that these are just ideas . . . my opinion of a healthy snack! I know that some are not the healthiest options out there, but there are definitely a lot worse things that you could eat! If you are trying to be Healthier...Try using Spark Natural Essential Oils!
Super Bowl Recipe | Cheesy Bacon Tater Tot Bites #HFExtendedFamily Super Bowl Sunday is a day usually spent at home with our family so we tend to make a lot of kid-friendly appetizers and side dishes. If that’s something you’re looking for then your kids will love these cheesy bacon tater tots. The ingredients are simple and can be thrown together in less than 30 minutes. Just preheat your oven to 425 degrees F and fill a cupcake pan with liners. Pull the tots out of the oven and drizzle them with some shredded cheese. Next, top them with a few sprinkles of Hormel REAL Crumbled Bacon. Put them back in the oven for an additional 10 – 15 minutes until all that cheese is melted and the tots are nice and crispy. WIN $500 for your Super Bowl Party! Hormel Foods wants you to GO BIG for the BIG GAME with a sweepstakes where one (1) lucky winner will receive a $500 gift card to throw the ultimate Big Game party for friends and family!
Chocolate Turtle Cookies I hope you’ve saved room for one last cookie recipe, because these were my favorites of the season! When Steph, the social media manager from America’s Test Kitchen, sent me a copy of I had a hard time deciding which cookies to make. I asked Joseph if he could help me narrow down the options and when I opened the cover he saw these chocolate turtle cookies and said, “Those. Make those.” I told him he couldn’t take the easy way out; he had to look at all 64 recipes and tell me which one he wanted. But even after going through the entire special issue, he stuck with his original answer: the chocolate turtle cookies. And frankly, it’s just further proof that I picked out the perfect guy because he was so right. I know, it’s a new year, and eating healthier is on nearly everyone’s list of resolutions. Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, softened 2/3 cup sugar 1 large egg, separated, plus 1 egg white 2 tablespoons milk
The Best Broccoli of Your Life You know you’ve done something right with broccoli when the person you made it for describes it to someone else the next day as “better than biting into a steak.” Those were Craig’s words and they were a marked change from the first words he uttered about the broccoli, before he bit in: “You made broccoli for dinner? Broccoli and sweet potatoes?” Then he did bite in and his eyes lit up. So what did I do to the broccoli to make it taste so good? I can’t take any credit. I’m going to have a hard time this week not posting all of the recipes from her new book, Back To Basics. Specifically, she loves roasting vegetables at a high temperature until they caramelize. Normally, broccoli gets squishy when you cook it. Seriously, this recipe is so easy I can recite it without looking at the book. You preheat the oven to 425. Take 4 to 5 pounds of broccoli (I just got two large bunches), cut into florets (but relatively big ones.) Now, it’s easy. Related Posts: Roasted Shrimp and Broccoli Save Save
Mixed vegetables and yoghurt with green chilli oil recipe, plus beef pie | Yotam Ottolenghi Yotam Ottolenghi's mixed vegetables and yoghurt: A real scene-stealer of a dish. Photograph: Colin Campbell for the Guardian Mixed veg and yoghurt with green chilli oil (V) A few years ago, I had a terrific meal at Hamdi in Istanbul. 2 courgettes, cut into 2cm dice1 large aubergine, cut into 2cm dice3 large plum tomatoesSunflower oil, for frying2 red peppers, cut into 2cm pieces150g Greek yoghurt1 big garlic clove, peeled and crushed2 tbsp fresh mint, shredded1½ tsp dried mint1½ tsp lemon juiceSalt and black pepper For the chilli and herb oil1 green chilli, chopped roughly20g parsley5g mint1 tsp ground cumin4 tbsp olive oil Heat the oven to 150C/300F/gas mark 2. Cut each tomato into six wedges, place on a baking tray and sprinkle with a quarter-teaspoon of salt. Put all the herb oil ingredients in a food processor with a pinch of salt and process to a smooth, thick sauce. Pour sunflower oil into a medium saucepan to come 5cm up the sides and place on a medium-high flame. Beef pie
Homemade Goldfish Crackers There are amazing recipes all over the internets—impressive cakes and cookies, pies galore, delicious pasta dishes, fantastic dinner ideas, and so much more. But what has had me a little stumped were homemade crackers. Homemade crackers? Who in the world has time to make homemade crackers? They looked like they’d be difficult and totally something I wouldn’t be able to pull off. But when these Homemade Goldfish Crackers from Erin popped up here on Tasty Kitchen, I decided to try my hand at them. Let me tell ya, they were pretty darn easy. Wanna see how? Before getting started, decide on what shapes you’ll be cutting out. I had so much fun I couldn’t stop, and made a Pac-Man and a football. You’ll need just a few simple ingredients: shredded cheese, butter, flour, salt and cold water. Begin combining everything, except the water, in a food processor until the dough looks like sand. Next, pulse in the water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until combined. Once chilled, roll out the dough. Look!
Loaded Baked Potato Dip My Chief Culinary Consultant and I have been on a pretty substantial baked potato kick over the last few months. Up until recently the only way I ever made a baked potato was in the microwave. Sometimes you just can’t argue with quick and easy, right? While it takes a little bit of patience to wait for a baked potato in the oven, this dip definitely satisfies my quick and easy soft spot for microwave baked potatoes. One year ago: Seven Layer DipTwo years ago: How to Stock and Organize Your Freezer Yield: About 4 cupsPrep Time: 10 minutesTotal Time: 10 minutes Ingredients:16 ounces sour cream 16 slices (12-ounce package) bacon, cooked and crumbled 8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, shredded (about 2 cups) 1/3 cup thinly sliced scallions or chivesDirections:Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and refrigerate for at least one hour before serving to allow flavors to meld together.
Peanut Butter Caramel Twix Bars Peanut Butter Caramel Twix Bars I’ve been wanting to make three different bars for awhile, but they were all so similar, and I couldn’t decide which one to make. So I rolled them into one. Nothing beats a layered combination bar. Original Twix are a shortbread base, caramel middle, chocolate coating. Peanut Butter Twix are a shortbread base, peanut butter middle, chocolate coating. Millionaire’s Shortbread Bars are a shortbread base, caramel middle, and chocolate topping, similar to Original Twix. Tagalongs Girl Scout Cookies are a shortbread base, peanut butter middle, and chocolate topping, similar to Peanut Butter Twix. Trying to choose between peanut butter and caramel, and which to keep and which to skip, is like trying to choose a favorite child. My bars are a shortbread base, peanut butter layer, salted caramel layer, and chocolate topping. The nice thing about the bars is that they’re almost no-bake, with only about 12 minutes of bake time for the crust. My husband remarked, “Wow.
Recipe for Roasted Green Beans with Mushrooms, Balsamic, and Parmesan (Todays pick for A Month of Daily Phase One Recipes is these delicious Roasted Green Beans with Mushrooms, Balsamic, and Parmesan. You might think of green beans as a summertime vegetable, but I first made these in January 2009, and since then this has become the most-pinned recipe from my blog on Pinterest. Apparently a lot of people like green beans! And these beans are so delicious, you won't even think about Phase One while you're eating them.) Back in the days when most of my exposure to green beans meant the ones that came from a can, I wasn't too much of a green bean fan. I do think that roasting vegetables is the greatest trick to add to your cooking repertoire, because nothing concentrates and sweetens the flavor of vegetables more than roasting. Cut mushrooms into slices that are about 1/2 inch thick. These are the beloved Costco beans that I love so much. to seal the bag and keep the rest fresh. Instructions: Preheat oven to 450F/230C. Printer Friendly Recipe Blogger Disclosure: