77 Healthy Crock-Pot Recipes Crazy schedules, long work hours, and tempting takeout menus make it tough to even think about cooking most nights during the week. Despite the inconvenience, firing up the stove or oven is almost always cheaper and healthier than ordering in or eating out. How about a compromise? Breakfast 1. Tart apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, and walnuts — what’s not to love? 2. Why not begin the day with a protein-rich superfood like quinoa? 3. This vegetarian burrito filling includes loads of vegetables, beans, and eggs. 4. Making yogurt from scratch is takes some time, but it’s hands-off with a slow cooker and it’s much cheaper than buying it at the supermarket. 5. This healthy treat is usually served after dinner, but it works just as well in the morning. 6. For the meat eaters out there, here’s an easy pork-based burrito filling that can be made overnight. 7. Forget the constant stirring and standing at the stove. 8. 9. 10. 11. Hosting a brunch party? 12. 13. 14. 15. Soups and Stews 16. 18. 19.
Moist Chocolate Cake There’s something to be said for a cake that you can whip up at 9 o’clock on a Friday night, after a serious doozy of a week, when you need some baking therapy that requires little to no brain power. By the time this past weekend hit, I think anything requiring technique or poise in the kitchen would have had induced some kind of cerebral short circuiting – I imagine there would have been sparks, probably some twitching and likely even drool. Okay fine, so there might have been drool anyway. Actually, when the cake emerged, there was probably drooling and clapping. I tell you that because I trust you won’t judge me. This cocoa-based cake is deeply chocolaty and incredibly moist. I have used this recipe to make sheet cakes, layer cakes, cupcakes, mini cupcakes… really, you can’t go wrong. ***Note: I have been asked dozens of times if you can taste the coffee, and the answer is no; it does not taste at all like coffee. P.S. Moist Chocolate Cake Author: Jennifer Hill Recipe type: Dessert
White Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookies What’s the difference between a sugar cookie and a snickerdoodle? Not too terribly much from what I can discern. Sugar cookies are only rolled in sugar whereas snickerdoodles are rolled in both cinnamon and sugar. There’s also some splitting hairs over the type of leavening agent used: baking powder or a combination of baking soda + cream of tartar. Some recipes call for shortening and butter rather than solely butter when making snickerdoodles. I did more research on the finer points of sugar cookies and snickerdoodle cookies than one should unless your name is Alton Brown. But I’m all about field research when it has to do with cookies. I wanted to add a little extra somethin’ somethin’ to these and decided to add white chocolate chips. Then again, I love white chocolate as evidence by stockpiling the TJ’s chocolate chips before they became seasonally unavailable which happens after Christmas in my area. I wish I could stockpile cookie butter but that’s currently a sad story. They’re not.
Pip & Ebby - Pip & Ebby - Crack brownies Have you ever tried crack? Yeah, me either. After eating these brownies, though, I feel like I would probably be less addicted to crack. I mean, how can that not be the case with brownies, peanuts, marshmallows, Reese's peanut butter cups, chocolate, peanut butter and Rice Krispies all present in a single bite?! This recipe comes from my very good Heather, and I am very grateful that she shared it! Prepare 1 package of brownie mix according to the package directions. While the brownies are baking, chop enough Reese's peanut butter cups (I used minis) to make 1 cup. Add on top of the baked brownies: 1/2 cup salted peanuts 1 cup Reese's peanut butter cups, chopped 2 cups miniature marshmallows Return to the oven and bake at 350 degrees F for an additional 5 minutes, or until the marshmallows begin to puff and brown and the chocolate begins to melt. In a medium bowl, combine: 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter Pour mixture evenly over the brownies.
Holiday Recipe: Easy 2-Ingredient Homemade Holiday Ham Marinade This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy here. In continuation of our last minute super easy last-minute Holiday recipes, here is our next emergency recipe. Many of you might have a holiday ham planned on your Christmas dinner menu for this week. You only need 2 ingredients! Here’s what you need: 2-parts of ginger ale and 1-part mustard! To make: Make your 2-ingredient marinadePrepare your ham by making diamond slices in the top (make cuts about 1/2 inch into the ham both length-wise and width-wise. We have made this for both small and large family gatherings and everyone loved it and no ham was left over. You could even cook pineapple slices and maraschino cherries with your ham for an even more exotic flavor! This ham is best served with either a butternut squash dish or sweet potato/yam dish! Thanks to the BaconBlogger.blogspot.com for the picture.
2-Minute Chocolate Chip Cookie For One « Recipe This is one of those ‘I-need-a-cookie-right-now-or-I-die’ recipes that can be prepared in almost no time.We all know that kind of situation, don’t we? I definitely do, I confess.And you know what? This impressive cookie not only takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, it tastes really delicious. Just like a good chocolate chip cookie.The preparation is beyond easy… just have a look… First you need this stuff. 1. 2. 3. 4. Save a few for the top, if you wish to.5. Ta-dah! 6.
Smoky Sweet Potato Burgers with Roasted Garlic Cream and Avocado Before we talk burgers, let me tell you what I’m doing. I’m eating some blueberry yogurt pretzels (which are oh-so awesome… but would be even awesomer if they were really coated in yogurt and not white chocolate disguised as yogurt) and drinking a san pellgrino aranciata that is spiked with um… vodka, malibu and tequila. With those pretty perfectly square ice cubes. I know. But what is up with all of these flavors? I mean, it was great, if you’re into that sort of thing that includes plastering yourself to the couch for so long that your body forms an identical indentation that’s semi-permanent, and ordering pizza Friday night which not only was dinner, but then also became lunch and then uh, dinner again on Saturday. I wish I could be all “ohmygosh, it was so rainy and cozy all day Saturday and I just got so caught up in my book that I read then entire thing while sitting in my plush velour chair in my special corner of the room that I have all to myself”… but no. Welcome to my life.
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How To Make Perfect M and M Cookies I’ve been teasing you with my Perfect M and M cookies for over a week now on Instagram. I had to re-test them to make sure they were just perfect for you! …..well they are, so I’m hoping it’ll be worth the wait. So, what defines a perfect cookie to you? It’s quite different for everyone I imagine. Wanna know the secret to creating the lovely texture and shape to these cookies?!! Here’s the secret. Let’s take a look at my recipe! Butter and sugars please! Egg and vanilla. Flour, salt and baking soda please Magical ingredient, the vanilla pudding mix. Give a nice stir and get ready to add the fun stuff. Oh yah! For the love of chocolate chips. Be still my mini M and M heart. Yes please! My kind of dough. Do not press the cookie dough before baking. This is how they’ll come out. How To Make Perfect M and M Cookies Ingredients Directions Makes 2 dozen cookies This post contains affiliate links. Other recipes you may enjoy... White Chocolate Gingersnap BlondiesPucker Up!
Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: Chinese Buffet at Home It is no secret that I have an obsession with Chinese cuisine. The place that started it all was a local Chinese buffet here in Michigan. After frequent visits to the buffet over the years, I finally decided to take a stab at cooking my own Chinese dishes at home. The majority of the dishes were delicious and I began cooking different Chinese meals every week, but I had always wanted more variety just like the buffet. In this article I will explain how to create your own Chinese buffet at home. The Menu:Main course- Sesame Chicken Orange Chicken Kung Pao Chicken Meat on a Stick (Chicken Skewers)Appetizers- Crab Rangoons Egg RollsSide Dishes- Garlic Green Beans Fried Rice Egg Drop SoupDessert- Buffet Style Doughnuts The Recipes: Sesame Chicken- Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Cut chicken breasts into 1” chunks and in a glass bowl combine all of the marinade ingredients and mix well. Orange Chicken- Step 1: Combine flour, salt, and pepper. Kung Pao Chicken- Meat on a Stick (Chicken Skewers)-
The Ultimate Steak Manual - Food The steak is the connoisseur’s meat dish; a subject of debate, delight and potential disappointment. To encourage the first two and avoid the last, we’ve consulted three prime-cut experts and one wine expert to produce a definitive instruction manual so that you, the antlerless man, can prevail in the battle of the beef. Rib-eye The rib-eye is the rising star of the steak world. “Our customers’ favourite cut,” says Richard Turner, head chef at London’s famous Hawksmoor steak restaurant. Fat is key to the rib-eye’s appeal. The wine: Wine trader and expert Jaspar Corbett (Jasparcorbett.com) suggests “something fruity with all that fat, such as Australian cabernet sauvignon from the Margaret River area”. Prime rib The language of cuts is a little vague, with variations in names being found from one butcher to the next (thankfully not the case with surgeons). “With prime rib, you’ll get a bigger cut than rib-eye,” says Turner, “often weighing 800-1,000g. Sirloin Fillet & Chateaubriand Rump