Homemade Ranch Dressing Recipe More from $5 Dinners on Pinterest I love, love, love my homemade taco seasoning mix. It’s convenient, cheap and oh-so-tasty. And I’m mixing up a new homemade seasoning mix today…this time for ranch dressing! This past weekend I planted some lettuce and other cold weather veggies (more on that this weekend). I try to eat a salad for lunch everyday and usually mix up a quick vinaigrette (yeah for cheap olive oil this week!). I also love this because it costs a fraction of what you would pay for a packet at the store, and makes twice as much! Before we get to the recipe, how about a few homemade seasoning mixes to try out! Our new Favado grocery savings app is now available! Sign up for a free Favado account and then download for free in the iTunes store for iPhone or Google Play store for Android.
Homemade Auntie Annes Pretzels I'm sorry to be the bearer of another diet busting recipe... really I am! I'm not intentionally trying to sway you from your positive eating habits, but we all know the Superbowl is coming up and it's not a day to snack on fruits and vegetables. It's a day of indulgence- so enjoy it for what it is! Now I'm sure the title of this post intrigued most of you- many of you have probably had Auntie Annes Pretzels. Well, I decided to give it a try and see for myself how authentic it really is and let me tell you- this is the real deal! Whether you like the traditional salted pretzel dipped in mustard or the sinfully delicious cinnamon and sugar pretzel dipped in icing, you have the instructions here to make them. Quick side note- Stephanie at Steph's Bite By Bite is organizing an Online Bake Auction to raise money for her Team In Training efforts to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Recipe Tips I recommend serving your pretzels immediately. Then add your brown sugar: Salt: Directions
Sick Day Potato Soup Being sick stinks. This week my kids and I have all had strep throat. I wanted to make something for dinner tonight that would go down easy, but be filling for my boys. They're famished, I can tell. ;) Because I have been feeling terrible, I want this to be something I can do quickly without a lot of effort or mess. However, we still live on a student budget, so my mind still tries to make meals as inexpensive as I can. Crock Pot Potato Soup (Prices are approximate. Ingredients: 5 Large Potatoes ($.75-I buy the $1.29 bag of Idaho Potatoes) 1 Small onion ($.79) 4 Stalks of Celery ($.75) 4 Cups (1 Quart) of Milk ($1) Salt Pepper 1. 2. 3. 4. It costs about $4 to make, and it FILLS a regular sized crock pot.
Parotta Recipe - How to make Parotta - South Indian Breakfest Recipes » All Recipes Flour Recipes Indian Breakfast Recipes Indian Vegetarian Recipes Kerala Recipes Malabar Recipes South Indian Recipes Indian Food Recipes Parotta Recipe ~ South Indian style layered Parota Parotta with Vegetable Salna A loyal reader of my blog has requested Parotta recipe many weeks ago and I never got down to making it until this week. The soft and flaky Parotta, also known as Barotta or Porotta, is popular in the Southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It is a common sight to find crowds thronging the road side stalls where heaps of layered parottas hot off the stove are served with a curry both for breakfast and evening tiffin or dinner. This popular street food fare is usually served with salna or kurma. There are numerous avatars of Parotta where the shape and accompaniments vary from region to region. Parotta dough stretched into a thin sheet and pleated into a long strip Usually I do not make Parotta at home and it is only during our travels that I get to relish Parotta, Kothu Parotta and the likes. Rosettes & rolled out parottas ready to be fried ~ Hot off the stove Parotta with Salna Parotta Recipe Tips
Tips For Sewing With "Minkie" I love this fabric! It's called minky, and it is soooooo soft. I've used it in quite a few projects, from QUILTS to OWLS to SLIPPERS. But, there's no way around it, it is hard to work with. I thought I'd share what I've learned about sewing with minky in hopes that less people will make the same mistakes as me. Tip #1 Pin A LOT! Tip #2 Spray adhesive is fantastic. Jumbo Jalapeno Popper Stuffed Soft Pretzels - Cooking for Keeps Even though I just made a gigantic batch of homemade soft pretzels a few weeks back, I realized pretty early on that my craving wasn’t quite satisfied since I was still dying for more. I get like that, I’ll love something I make and then try to think of a thousand different ways for me to justify eating the same thing over and over again. So, after daydreaming a few hours of my life away, I knew I wanted to do some sort of spin on a jalapeno popper (what would football season be without a riff on the jalapeno popper?!) and I knew that I wanted the whole thing to be wrapped together in one pretty little package. I mean unless you’ve been living under a rock or just don’t read food blogs, you know who Tieghan is – a very talented food blogger that has infinite creative juices. The great thing about these is that there is no need for a sauce; since the cheese is inside the pretzel it tastes like you’ve already dipped the soft dough into a big fat bowl of spicy queso, and bonus?
Foodie Fridays: Fresh « Canadian Gift Guide Foodie Fridays: Fresh Posted by CGG on October 14, 2011 · 32 Comments If you’ve been lucky enough to visit one of the mini-chain of restaurants in Toronto known as Fresh, then you’ll be super excited for this post. As I spelled out above, Fresh is a small chain of Canadian-owned and operated restaurants, which originally started as a juice bar twenty years ago. Along with dozens of recipes in the usual categories of appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, entrees, brunches, sweets, and sauces, the cookbook also includes recipes for a bunch of their legendary juices. Generally speaking, I’d say this is a book for someone that’s relatively comfortable with cooking, particularly vegan cooking. To tantalize your taste buds, I’ve got the recipe here for Fresh’s famous Tangled Thai Salad – one of their MOST requested recipes, among several others featured in the book (like their Quinoa Onion Rings!). Tangled Thai Salad Serves 1 as a meal 1 cup chopped napa cabbage 3 slices cucumber, halved 1. 2.
German Style Soft Pretzels Maybe it is my German background… or maybe my love of all things salty, but I think nothing is better than a hot pretzel. Soft pretzels are great, but they are only good fresh. Luckily they are not too tough to make at home. The following recipe may look long, but it is easier than making bread. In order to give the pretzels a dunk in boiling water gives them their chewy skin. Ingredients:1 teaspoon instant yeast1 tablespoon malt powder or brown sugar2 to 3 cups all-purpose unbleached or bread flour1 teaspoon salt1 cup warm milk (approximately 110 degrees, which is 1 minute in my microwave)Directions:Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and mix together until it forms a ball.
saltines have never had it so good... ...and neither have I. Quick, easy, and undeniably drool-inducing--what could be better? Yep. *This post has been updated with the answers to many common questions (such as why the order in the picture is different from the order in the recipe...)! Terribly Terrific Toffee (printable recipe!) Preheat oven to 350ºF. GADZOOKS, Christmas is in one week! Curly Girl Kitchen: the Best Soft Pretzel I ever ate... and Making my own Pretzels In October during our vacation week, we had been out and about in Denver one day, and stopped at the Cherry Creek Mall since we were nearby. I wanted to look for something at Williams Sonoma but ended up discovering Sur la Table instead, which was just as fun. Those stores carry things that I didn't even know I needed! I managed to restrain myself, though. When we got to the mall, it was late afternoon, and we hadn't eaten since breakfast, but since we had dinner plans and didn't want to eat a big lunch lunch so late in the day, we were looking around for a snack to tide us over. And then I saw the soft pretzels. I got to thinking about trying to make them myself. So for my baking experiment a few weekends ago, instead of a dessert, I made pretzels. Since the recipe made 8 soft pretzels, I used just half the dough to make 4 soft pretzels - two salted, one with cinnamon and sugar, and one with cheddar and jalapenos. Homemade Hard and Soft Pretzels · 1 ½ cups very warm water
garlic noodles $1.68 recipe / $0.42 serving (updated 7-28-15) Today I made my first visit to our local Vietnamese grocery store where I picked up a couple basic sauces to add to my well stocked kitchen. One of the sauces I bought was an oyster sauce ($1.99 for 18 oz.) which is an excellent condiment for anything from noodles or rice to fish and meat. Oyster sauce gives these garlic noodles a little Asian flair and a lot of depth of flavor. Garlic Noodles Total Cost: $2.54 Cost Per Serving: $0.64 Serves: 4 Ingredients 8 oz. (1/2 lb.) angel hair pasta $0.54 4 cloves garlic $0.24 ½ bunch green onions $0.35 4 Tbsp butter $0.50 2 tsp soy sauce $0.20 2 Tbsp brown sugar $0.05 1 tsp sesame oil $0.40 2 Tbsp oyster sauce $0.26 Instructions Add the oyster sauce, brown sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil to a bowl and stir until combined. Garlic Noodles Step by Step Photos Mix the sauce before you begin. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook the pasta according to the package directions. Totally addictive… BEWARE. Related Videos
Soft Pretzels - Alton Brown Style I love soft pretzels - who doesn't? I just never seem to get them outside of fair settings. And then the other week, Alton Brown did a show on homemade pretzels - it was a sign! So I went to the food network's site and I grabbed the recipe. ( The Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups warm (110 to 115 degrees F) water 1 tablespoon sugar2 teaspoons kosher salt1 package active dry yeast22 ounces all-purpose flour, approximately 4 1/2 cups2 ounces unsalted butter, meltedVegetable oil, for pan10 cups water2/3 cup baking soda1 large egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon waterPretzel salt (note, I simply used Kosher salt) ALTON: Combine the water, sugar and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and sprinkle the yeast on top. So Alton's all into proofing the yeast - and I must say that I only do this because the instructions say so. Now it's all about letting the KitchenAid do the work. Rising time.
66 Things You Can Grow In Containers Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don't have to worry about the pesticides they might contain, and you definitely cut down on the miles they -- and you -- have to travel. As it turns out, with pretty minimal effort, anyone can be a gardener. My boyfriend and I are essentially first-timers this season and so far have the beginnings of strawberries peeking out, tomatoes are on their way, the basil's about ready for a big batch of pesto, and once the last frost hits, the peppers, kale, spinach, chard, and mesclun will be on their way, too. All on a tiiiny little terrace (with the help of a little DIY carpentry). If you're up to the challenge -- and it really isn't much of one -- growing your own food can be so rewarding. And so much cheaper! Here's a starter list of all the crazy things even urban gardeners, without space for a garden, can grow at home.Tree Fruits - Including Apples
Heavenly Pineapple Cake Heavenly Pineapple Cake The thing that makes this cake so heavenly isn't the fact that it's lightly sweet and full of crushed pineapple. It's not because it's deliciously cool and refreshing, especially if you keep it in the refrigerator. It's not even heavenly because it's quick and easy and fat free. Are you ready? Heavenly Pineapple Cake recipe from Rita Ingredients: 1 box Angel Food Cake mix 1 (20 oz.) can of crushed pineapple (in juice) Directions Mix together the dry cake mix and the whole can of pineapple with it's juice.