No need to get flour all over the place, or dirty a bunch of dishes. Scoop some ready-made pancake mix into a bowl, crack an egg, add some milk, and you’re ready to start cooking! What’s in This Mix? DIY Pancake mix is like using Bisquick, only more affordable! All you’re doing is creating a bulk mix of the dry ingredients—flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. The best part is it will stay fresh for up to six months!...
This recipe is anything but simple. My father, the same dad who has never met a dessert recipe he didn’t want to try, discovered it recently in the New York Times. When we recalled that my brother Eddie’s birthday was coming up, any resistance there may have been to attempting this dessert was dashed. Never mind that on the day of, Ed couldn’t make it for dinner. The die was cast, Le Talleyrand was to be made, birthday boy or no birthday boy....
Unfortunately, with all the heat we’ve been having around here lately, my experiments took a hiatus for a couple of weeks. Who wants to turn on the oven when the AC is struggling to keep the house below 80°F? In California we’ve finally had a break in the hot weather (my apologies to those of you on the East Coast who are getting it now) and I got up early this morning to bake these muffins....
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How To Make Risotto It takes about 25 minutes of careful stirring, and every few minutes adding a half cup of hot stock to the rice, as the rice slowly absorbs the liquid it’s in. For this mushroom risotto, mushrooms are sautéed first, then cooked in brandy (or vermouth). Arborio (or any other kind of risotto rice) is cooked slowly with stock and when done, you stir in some freshly grated Parmesan cheese....
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Southern Fried Chicken Sandwich This Southern Fried Chicken Sandwich is a play on an unforgettable sandwich I had years ago. My sister took me to restaurant in Boise called “Donnie Mac’s Trailer Park Cuisine”. This place was featured on the Food Network show, Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives. I ordered this chicken sandwich and I LOVED it. I told myself I would have to go home and duplicate it (which was easy, because they basically tell you how to do it on the episode on the Food Network)....
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This is a trick my mother taught me. Apparently 40 years ago or so, about the time this blender pictured was bought, manufacturers used to include a mason jar in the box with the blender. Mom recalls even a booklet that listed the many things one could make with the mason jar blender, including ground spices, whipped cream, and peanut butter. We use this trick most often to make whipped cream....
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The Inspiration for Buffalo Chicken Meatballs While the inspiration here is 100% Buffalo chicken wings, the ingredients are much like your typical Italian-style meatball: ground meat, breadcrumbs, seasonings, and an egg. The main difference is that instead of Italian herbs and Parmesan for flavor, this recipe leans on bottled Buffalo sauce, both in the meatball mixture and on the baked meatballs. Also, because these are based on traditional hot wings, the meatballs are made with ground chicken instead of beef or pork....
Spicy, filling, and doesn’t break the bank. The recipe is slightly adapted from a recipe by my friend Ann Martin Rolke, who, with a young child underfoot, is always looking for easy-to-make nutritional meals that taste great. Enjoy! Serve the curry in bowls over rice. Great accompanied with plain yogurt. Related Video
Pair them with your favorite dipping sauce and they’re surprisingly kid-friendly, too—that extra crispy coating from the addition of panko breadcrumbs keeps them delightfully crunchy and fun for kids and adults alike. Cremini or Button Mushrooms Are Best for Frying This recipe calls for cremini or button mushrooms, but the sky’s the limit in terms of which mushrooms you can use. Cremini mushrooms are preferred for their small-to-medium size—which makes the perfect, poppable, bite-sized appetizer—but just about any variety of mushroom will work here....
How that woman could eat as many jelly-filled donuts as she did and still live to 97, I’ll never know! A Simple (and Simplified) Grasshopper Pie One of her favorite pies to make for us was grasshopper pie, a chilled minty green pie with an Oreo cookie crust. I haven’t found her recipe, but my father patched one together from many he found online that turns out a pie just like the one she used to make....
I have tried to like them, truly I have, but I think it’s a texture thing. They just taste squishy to me. If squishy is a taste. So this last week, Hank and I have been experimenting with globe eggplants, trying to see what we could come up with that we truly liked, given the challenges of this ingredient. We’ve had a couple in-the-trash-it-goes experiments, and a couple of hits as well....
Ready to tackle your spaghetti squash? Here’s what to know. What to Know About Cooking Spaghetti Squash Spaghetti squash tastes like the slightly sweet nuttiness of summer squash with a hint of the winter squash flavor you’d expect from a pumpkin. The long treads almost pop when you bite into them and maintain an al dente quality when roasted. Spaghetti squash easily takes on the flavors of the recipe you are using it in, which means that sauces, seasonings, and dressings all work well....
