Creamy Thai Peanut Dressing Creamy Thai Peanut Dressing is your salad’s new best friend. It is a delicious and tangy dressing that tastes amazing on green salads, cold pasta salads, or for just dipping in veggies one at a time. I am in love with Thai flavors, especially peanut sauce! Our family used a similar dressing for a long time that we found at Trader Joe’s but I wanted to find a way to make my own with ingredients in my own kitchen....
Easy Cake Mix Cornbread This delicious and easy cornbread recipe is in regular rotation at our house. The bread is moist and light. I’m not a huge fan of corn breads that are really grainy with cornmeal and are dense, or corn breads with vegetable surprises inside. That is why I love this easy homemade cornbread recipe so much. It is a perfect cross between a yellow cake and cornbread, and there are no surprises....
Buy it: Marcato Atlas 150 Pasta Maker, $79.95 from Crate & Barrel If you don’t want a separate pasta machine (or don’t want to crank that pasta out by hand), just let your stand mixer do all the work for you. KitchenAid’s stand mixer pasta attachments include a pasta roller, a spaghetti cutter, and a fettuccine cutter. Summer says: “A pizza cutter makes quick work and rustic squares of ravioli....
One quick and easy recipe that I played around with this week is to simply grill the tomatoes, cut side down, and season with olive oil, salt, pepper, and sliced basil. It’s so good! When you are working with garden-fresh tomatoes, sometimes doing less is more, because the produce is so good to begin with. Do you have a garden that is full of tomatoes? What are your ways of using up the bounty?...
I turn to this Grilled Summer Vegetable Nachos recipe when I need a creative way to tackle the squash from my backyard garden (who doesn’t end up with too much summer squash?) or to utilize an extra bundle of chard and zucchini in my CSA box. A mix of summery vegetables, lightly charred on the grill, makes a flavorful topping for these crowd-pleasing nachos. The Best Tortilla Chips for Nachos To make really good nachos, you’ll need to get thick, sturdy tortilla chips....
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins Add bright, fresh lemon to any meal with some of our favorite tangy lemon recipes. For breakfast, try these Lemon Blueberry Scones, for lunch serve up this Chicken Pizza with Lemon, cozy up to a big bowl of Lemon Spaghetti for supper and finish off the day with a slice of Lemon Bundt Cake. YUM! Lemon poppy seed muffins are the perfect muffin to complement Easter or Sunday brunch....
I have a great love of bourbon, which, I think, grew out of my love for Kentucky where my family and I spent many summers visiting my godmother. I was too young to drink bourbon then, but a tall glass of dark sweet tea with handfuls of mint muddled at the bottom was always at hand. It was a refreshing way to stave off smothering humidity and it made the fun times more enjoyable....
Enter the piña colada pie. I took all of my favorite things about coconut cream pie and added all of my favorite things about the tropical cocktail to make one truly memorable dessert. The easy cookie crust is made using vanilla wafer crumbs and coconut for a crunchy base. The filling is a classic coconut custard, made primarily with coconut milk and spiked with a little coconut rum, and a small mountain of coconut-infused whipped cream adorns the top....
Roast cubes of butternut squash so they get tasty caramelized edges. While roasting the squash, prep the onions and kale and then sauté them with balsamic vinegar, adding the squash, pecans, and cranberries at the end. Simple. Beautiful. Packed with flavor and color. The balsamic vinegar? It’s what makes all the difference. The sweet tartness just intensifies the flavors of the onions, squash and kale. Oh yeah, it’s also vegan....
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I love biting into the soft, chewy cookie and having those vanilla notes hit my tongue. It’s a little bite of nostalgic satisfaction that you can’t get anywhere else. Ordinary Ingredients, Extraordinary Cookie Sugar cookies come in all sorts of textures and sizes, but my favorite are the kind that are soft and chewy. This is the type of cookie that you roll into balls between your hands and then press flat with a glass before baking....
Sweet Sauteed Asparagus This Sweet Sauteed Asparagus is by far my favorite way to prepare asparagus. With only three ingredients, it’s so easy to make and everyone will be asking for more! I have mentioned several times throughout this site that any recipe coming from my Aunt Lana is a winner. This is one of them! I LOVE the sweetness to this asparagus and it always turns out perfect. You don’t get your soggy, overdone asparagus doing it this way....
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In practice, it’s a bit tricky as the corn cob can slip from its position, and the kernels can go flying all over the place! I don’t know where I first heard of this trick of using a bundt pan, but it’s great for helping to steady the corn cob and to catch the kernels as they come off the cob. Bundt pan Many bundt pans have a stick-free interior....
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So as we gathered dinner roll recipes for you and thought of ways to use store-bought crescent rolls (because sometimes it’s easier to lean on pre-made) in fun and delicious ways, we asked you what you make with them. Not surprisingly, you delivered so many brilliant ideas. Here are 12 responses that have me reaching for a can of crescent rolls. Inspiring Ways To Cook With Store-Bought Crescent Rolls “Take the rolls apart into individual pieces....
Long before I had any idea what those words meant, or what an herb even was, I was singing those syllables at the top of my lungs, as a kid in the ’60s playing the vinyl record I bought with allowance money. What these fine herbs were doing in the lyrics of an old English ballad, a lover’s duet no less, I haven’t a clue. But the result was, at least for this kid, a lifelong curiosity about them....
