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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. I had always wondered, “what if I could create a Chinese buffet at home?” 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- Kung Pao Chicken-

25 Vintage Baking Tips: Timeless Wisdom I’ve collected these snippets of baking tips from vintage cookbooks and magazines dating from the 1940′s through the 1950′s…the Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where I organize and share all kinds of tips from the past. Vintage Rolling Pin, Eggs & Flour Butter and sugar can be creamed easily when butter is hard by warming the sugar slightly.Light-colored molasses can be darkened to make dark gingerbread by adding a teaspoonful of melted chocolate to each cup of molasses.Cream which is hard to whip will whip quickly by adding a few drops of lemon juice.Molasses can be prevented from sticking to the measuring cup if the cup is first greased with butter or lard.Shortening can be measured exactly.

Mango Sorbet / Six Sisters' Stuff I have a really bad sweet tooth. I am pretty sure it's incurable! When I was in high school, my friends and I would buy a pint or two of our favorite treat every weekend - Mango Sorbet. It was gone within minutes, and it always left me craving more! There's just something about that delicious sweetness that I can't get enough of. Mango Sorbet: Ingredients:12 oz bag frozen mango pieces 1 1/2 tablespoons lime juice 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup sugar Directions:In a sauce pan, bring water and sugar to a boil. Recipe adapted from: All Recipes Looking for other fruit recipes? Be sure to check out our new Six Sisters' Store where you can find all our favorite kitchen and baking supplies, plus our cookbooks!

Top 25 Skinny Recipes 2012 As we come to the year's end, I can't help but reflect on the highs and lows of 2012, and try to imagine what 2013 will bring. Today is a gift we should grasp with both hands, and remember that our faith, family, health, our home sweet homes, and the food on our table are all we really need; everything else in life is a bonus! But looking back, there were lots of Skinnytaste highlights this year, the top of the list was a book deal with Clarkson Potter – woohoo!!! I've been really busy testing new recipes for the cookbook, then comes the photography, book design, cover designs, lots of fun stuff ahead! I promise to keep you posted as I go through the process. I can't express how grateful and thankful I am for all of your support. Some other great Skinnytaste highlights from 2012: Fitness Magazine Best Healthy Eating Blog WinnerBabble's Top 100 Mom Food BlogsHuffington Post Living 35 Diet and Nutrition Experts to FollowThe Daily Meal Top 25 Food Blogs 2012

Baked Eggs with Bacon and Spinach Do y’all remember the scene in Runaway Bride (that’s an Oscar contender if I’ve ever seen one…) where Julia Roberts realizes that she doesn’t know how she likes her eggs? You know, because she’s always turning herself into the girl that the guy she’s marrying wants to be with? Yeah. That’s not me. I know how I like my eggs, although I will say that it depends on the day. If it’s a scrambled kind of day then I want them scrambled with NO MILK, a tab of butter, and salt and pepper. Hey, I’m an independent woman…throw your hands up at me. Now that we’ve established my egg-eating habits, though, I have to say – baked eggs are kind of amazing, an unexpected new love in my egg-eating life. Serves 2, but this can be split in half easily to make them in small individual ramekins. 4 whole eggs3-4 slices thick-cut bacon, cooked and chopped1/2 cup loosely packed spinach2 Tbsp cream2 Tbsp butter, meltedsalt and pepper to taste1/4 tsp thyme Preheat oven to 375. So now it’s your turn – egg fan?

10 strange pineapple facts – John on food Pineapples are really very strange things. It would probably be reasonably easy to write a whole book, albeit a small one, containing things that most people don’t know about the spiky topped fruit. Partially because I’m not sure that anyone would buy the book, but mostly because I just can’t be bothered, I am instead going to just keep it down to these 10 interesting (I think) facts. There are a lot of foods that affect the taste of your seminal or vaginal fluids, but pineapple is one of the strongest. Eating a lot of pineapple makes you taste sweeter, and less ‘fishy’.When you cut up a pineapple at home, you normally chuck the skin, core and ends in the bin. The pineapple canning industry doesn’t though, these bits are used for making alcohol, vinegar and animal feed.Each pineapple plant only produces just one pineapple per year.Unripe pineapples don’t just taste vile, but can actually be quite poisonous.

Blueberry, Brie and Lemon Curd Grilled Cheese Recipe Blueberry, Brie and Lemon Curd Grilled Cheese Blueberry, Brie and Lemon Curd Grilled Cheese-a sweet and decadent grilled cheese sandwich that is perfect for dessert! It’s no secret that grilled cheese sandwiches have been my ultimate pregnancy craving this time around. I love a good savory grilled cheese, but my new favorite is a sweet grilled cheese sandwich, Blueberry, Brie and Lemon Curd Grilled Cheese. The other day we were out running errands and got home later than we anticipated. I looked in the fridge and spotted a wedge of President Cheese Brie. Josh agreed, but I started to feel like a bad mother, so I got out some veggies, crackers, fruit and spreadable President Gourmet Cheese for us to snack on while we made our dessert grilled cheese sandwiches. Josh cut slices of crusty bread while I sliced the brie. Josh buttered the outside slices of bread and layered the brie, lemon curd, and blueberry sauce inside the pieces of bread.

Best Food Bloggers: The Top 10 Of January If your New Year's Resolution was to start reading new food blogs, you're in luck because we've got 10 stellar ones you should start following stat. (And if that wasn't your resolution, it really should be and it's not too late to change.) The food blogging world is rich with creativity. If we know anything, it's food blogs (we spend our days reading them -- not a bad gig, we know). Want to read more from HuffPost Taste? Loading Slideshow Hungry Girl Por Vida<a href=" If you're looking for great recipes and beautiful food photography that'll convince you to make them, you should be visiting this blog.What Should I Eat For Breakfast Today<a href=" For over a year and a half, Marta has been helping us find more interesting dishes to eat for breakfast. Top 10 Bloggers Of January 5 of 11 Hide Thumbnails Related on HuffPost:

Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Marshmallow Cream Filling Oh Whoopie Pies, you've been on my husbands mind.... for the last 6 months. Remember a couple of weeks ago when I made the Pecan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies and I said I would be devoting the week to those recipe requests my husband has asked for countless times that have fallen to the bottom of my list? Well, these whoopie pies have been craved by my husband far longer than those cookies and should have been at the top of my list. I started hearing about whoopie pies around the holidays when our friend, Corinne, brought them over for dinner. I should have. So when I told him the week of the Pecan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies that I was finally going to bake him his long awaited whoopie pies he said, "I'll believe it when I see it". If you're dad is anything like mine and enjoys eating devil dogs as his guilty pleasure snack food, he'll love these whoopie pies for Father's Day. Begin with sifting your flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together into a large mixing bowl:

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