Conversation Heart Cake Tutorial. By Kelly on Feb 6, 2013 I have been dying to make conversation heart cakes for months. Finally Valentine’s Day decided to roll around and BAM! My DIY craving was realized! These cakes are so easy peasy, the letters are made from Airheads! As long as you can use a cake pan and a cookie cutter, you can do this! I want to make a bazillion of these and give them to everyone I know. Giant sized conversation hearts are SO much better than those teeny tiny ones, right!? Cherry Flavored AirheadsMini Alphabet Cookie Cutters Rolling Pin Heart Shaped Cakes (You can find heart cake pans at craft stores, specialty food supply stores and online. Microwave your Airheads for a few seconds to soften.
If you have trouble getting your letters out of the cookie cutters, I found carefully using the flat end of a bamboo skewer helped pop them out quite easily! Spell out your lovey-dovey words and phrases on your pastel frosted cakes by simply slightly pressing the Airhead letters ontop of the icing! Angel Food Cake Churro Bites. {This giveaway is now closed.} Happy National Angel Food Cake Day!! You may not have known about this great holiday, and in case you didn’t I want to make sure you knew about it as well learned about Sara Lee’s new line of Angel Food Cakes that is making its way into stores now and will be available nationwide later this year. Sara Lee sent me some of their new Angel Food Cake to try out, and I’m happy to say that it was super delicious! The best thing about it is it’s thaw-and-serve and allows for quick and easy customization. With it, I decided to try a new recipe and came up with some Angel Food Cake Churro Bites.
Before I say anything more I just have to tell you my hubby’s response after trying them… He tasted it and said “Oh my heavens, these taste just like Churros!” My response, “That’s what they’re suppose to be!” His reply, “I mean, like real churros… from Disneyland!” I was happy that we had found another quick and delicious treat to have on Sunday mornings! Ingredients Instructions. Garlic Parmesan Fries on Foodie. Berry Popover Pancakes on Foodie. Hot Fudge Peanut Butter Swirl Brownie Sundae on Foodie. Greek Style Chicken Wraps Recipe on Foodie. Garlic-Parsley Fries on Foodie. Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Chips with Strawberry-Kiwi Fruit Salsa on Foodie. Peanut Butter, Banana & White Chocolate Breakfast Cookies on Foodie.
Cucumber Boats on Foodie. How to make the perfect onion bhajis. The onion bhaji was probably my first introduction to the joys of Indian food back in the late 80s, so I feel I owe this simple snack a considerable debt of thanks. The word "bhajia" means fritter – in fact, they're just one small part of the wider pakora family, which encompasses all manner of good things (goat brain pakora stands out in my memory) fried in chickpea batter, but in Britain, a land never known for its subtle taste, the pungent onion variety rules supreme. Usually served as a snack in its homeland, generally with a nice cup of chai, bhajis are the stalwart of the starter selection here: a deep-fried appetite whetter for the myriad joys to come. At their best, they're almost ethereally light and addictively crisp. At their worst, they're stodgy and bland – as chef Cyrus Todiwala observes in his new book, Mr Todiwala's Bombay: "What you see in stores and supermarkets does not always represent the bhajia we Indians know.
" Onion Batter Spices Cooking The perfect onion bhajis. Homemade Baked Smoked Paprika Potato Chips with Triple Onion Dip. Football season is upon us, and not a moment too soon. With an NHL lockout looming and the Red Sox in shambles, I couldn’t be more excited to get things going this fall! Last year I joined a fantasy football league with some fellow food bloggers (Tracy from Sugarcrafter, Dara from Cookin’ Canuck, Michelle from Brown Eyed Baker, Elle from Elle’s New England Kitchen, Jen from My Kitchen Addiction, and Marie from Meandering Eats), which wound up being ridiculously fun even though I had no clue what I was doing until about week 8 I’m thrilled that we’re back at it for a second year, we just finished our draft last night so we’re good to go!
Having a fantasy team really keeps me invested in all the games, not just the Patriots. Snacks aren’t optional when it comes to football games, they’re very much a necessity in my book. Last year I became shamelessly obsessed with french onion dip and not the fancy from scratch kind. The chips were an even bigger surprise for me. Preheat oven to 400 F. Spinach Basil Pesto | Nut Free Pesto Recipe. Spinach Basil Pesto {Nut-Free} Today we are sharing a super simple recipe for Spinach Basil Pesto.
You all need to add it to your must make list. This pesto can be made in 5 minutes and goes well with just about everything-pasta, vegetables, chicken, fish, potatoes, soups, and it’s so good on sandwiches. And if you are hesitant about the spinach, don’t be. Embrace the spinach. You really can’t taste it and it gives the pesto a vibrant green color, which makes me very happy. The ingredients couldn’t be any simpler-spinach, basil, garlic, parmesan cheese, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and olive oil. Place the ingredients in a food processor or blender, let the machine work it’s magic and voila-you have a smooth and flavorful pesto!
We keep a jar of Spinach Basil Pesto in our fridge at all times. In the summer, when our basil is growing like weeds, we make a huge batch of Spinach Basil Pesto and put it in the freezer. Make a batch of Spinach Basil Pesto today! Sauced: Homemade Ketchup. Basic Potato Tots Recipe. Make Your Own Potato Tots - Project. Homemade Spicy Mustard. I don’t know why it’s never occurred to me, before now, to try making mustard. A friend of mine suggested that we make some homemade mustard for a recent dinner party, and boy, am I glad we did! As it turns out, mustard is surprisingly easy to make. In fact, it’s pretty difficult to mess it up! Feel free to experiment with this basic recipe until you find the perfect flavor combination to fit your tastes. Since it’s so easy to prepare, you could easily make a few different flavors to keep on hand in the fridge! Homemade Spicy Mustard makes about 6 ounces Adapted from this recipe Ingredients: 2 tablespoons yellow mustard seeds (also called white mustard seeds) 2 tablespoons brown mustard seeds 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, or coconut vinegar 2 tablespoons water 1 teaspoon fine sea salt Directions: To get started, you’ll need to grind the mustard seeds.
You can grind them by hand the old-fashioned way, using a mortar and pestle, for a bit of an arm workout! A few notes: Homemade Spicy Mustard. How To Make Bagels At Home. Homemade Crushed Red Pepper Recipe. One of the biggest pains in the garden this year, besides fire ants and weeds, has been the Serrano plant. It’s a hold over from last year’s garden and the only reason it got a reprieve was because I got it mixed up with the jalapeno plant.
Serrano peppers are hot. Really hot. Too hot to eat as casually as we eat jalapenos and they’re not really meaty enough to candy. You ignore them. More than once this summer, we decided that we were just going to rip out the serrano plant but I’m really glad that I was too lazy to pull the trigger. Crushed red pepper is one of those things that, once you make at home, you’ll never want to buy again. Your jar of homemade red pepper flakes will be a vibrant shade of red, hinting at the life in each bite. A coarser grind (done by hand, blender, or food processor) will give you a crispy, crunchy bite when sprinkled on top of a bowl of honey sesame chicken and couscous. We cut the stems off the peppers and cut them in half down the length of the pepper.
Homemade Corn Flakes Cereal. I can't even explain to you how excited I am about this recipe! I made cereal from scratch. CEREAL. Not granola, which is cool and all (especially when it tastes like s'mores), but actual proper breakfast cereal! The same stuff I used to eat when I was a kid and totally cool with eating a bowl of sugar-topped carbs for breakfast. Yesterday morning I was wandering around my kitchen trying to figure out what to eat for breakfast. I haven't had a bowl of corn flakes and milk in at least 12 years, but right then at that moment, it's what I wanted.
And then...wait... can I make corn flakes? So I started looking online and found a few recipes for homemade corn flakes made on the stovetop. After some playing around with the proportions, I found that I preferred the oven method as it produced the crispiest cereal with the least amount of effort (total win!). I was surprised with how good this ended up being. Homemade Sriracha recipe on Food52. Author Notes: I began experimenting with homemade Sriracha two summers ago after discovering Joshua Bousel's recipe on Serious Eats ( The first batch, while tasty in its own right, was bright and in-your-face hot, and missing the earthiness of the beloved Huy Fong version.
I spent the rest of my summer on a quest for an earthier, more complex sauce. By fall, I’d found it. The keys to this much improved homemade Sriracha were the following: A longer fermentation, achieved by increasing the amount of sugar. Using smoked sea salt in addition to regular kosher salt. Thickening with xanthan gum instead of reducing the sauce over heat. And the change that made the biggest difference: mixing in some green jalapeños and serranos. The result is a sauce that is a bit hotter than the Huy Fong version, but with all the earthy complexities that make it so darn tasty.
Makes about 2 cups This recipe is a Community Pick!