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-
Traveling in Italy and Beyond: Spiral Vegetable Ricotta Pie The first time I saw a vegetable spiral pie, I got stuck to my computer screen for a full minute before I took my eyes off it. It was so beautiful! The next thing that came to my mind was: It should have been difficult to do seeing all those swirls of thinly-sliced vegetables all lined up like soldiers standing in attention. Then the next thought: It should take a lot of patience to do that. I don't have a problem with that because eversince I was a kid, I can be lost in my own world creating little artsy projects that sometimes I would forget about food & sleep. And the last thought: It's involves baking and it does look difficult. Until I was watching one of my favorite Italian chefs demonstrating some pie recipes. I based almost the same method the chef did but after I pulled out the pie from the oven, I would suggest some changes to make it better after my husband and I tried it. About the cooking time. About the nutmeg. Oiling the vegetables.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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: