It should be savory, salty, spicy, and hot but not so hot that you absolutely can’t taste the other spices and the juicy deep-fried meat. And yes, it should be served with pickle chips on a white bun or bread. If you want to make your chicken less spicy (we all have our personal limits on what we consider hot and spicy) that’s totally fine, but try not to get too fancy pants with this chicken sandwich....
Neighborly Sharing Means Canning The benefit of having fruit trees is that when they produce, they really produce. One day you’ll be looking longingly at the tree, the next day you can’t keep up with the box loads of fruit coming off of it. So what you do is share. I’ll give you a big bag of Granny Smiths if you give me a big bag of fuyus. We sent Hank home the other day with some pomegranates and he showed up a few days later with a bag of Bartlett pears from his tree....
Roasted Red Pepper Bruschetta You can literally whip this Roasted Red Pepper Bruschetta up in a matter of minutes with only a few easy ingredients. My kids love to help prepare bruschetta because they can “paint” the olive oil on each of the slices and then they can carefully top each one with the ingredients. We served this with our easy lemon spaghetti the other day and the entire meal was ready in less than 20 minutes, start-to-finish....
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Biscuits (American not English) typically aren’t sweet, muffins typically are. These are as sweet as you want them to be, they look like biscuits, you can eat them like biscuits, but you make them in a muffin tin. I’ve been struggling with this question for days. It’s been a good excuse to continue taste testing my way through the FIVE DOZEN I’ve made in order to perfect the recipe. What I can tell you is that they are very good, and that the recipe is wonderfully flexible....
If you asked me at dinner tonight, I would have to say, spicy corn fritters. Yep, the corn fritter diet. (Haven’t you heard of it?) Just pile ’em on. One bite of freshly made fritters made with farm fresh corn, dipped in a sweet chili sauce, and nothing else seems even remotely appealing. Of course, a few weeks of nothing but corn fritters and you’re on the road to pellagra, but one can dream, can’t one?...
You can make fajitas with steak or chicken, or even make it plain vegetarian. Here’s a quick and easy recipe for steak fajitas. Juice of 1 lime (about 2 tablespoons) 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 jalapeño pepper, seeded, ribs removed, finely chopped 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro, including stems For the fajitas 1 pound flank steak, skirt steak, or carne asada...
In fact, it’s a personal secret mission of mine to teach anyone and everyone who’s remotely interested how to cook and eat artichokes. But I have to tell you, as much as we Californians love our ‘chokes, we have nothing on the Italians! Hit any farmers market in Italy in spring and you’ll find bushels of “carciofi” for sale, at a price of 10 for 1 euro! For comparison, our globe artichokes usually run $3 each around here....
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READ THIS: Important Safety Announcement! The most important step in this recipe happens before you even open your pack of bacon. Air frying bacon is very easy, but it can also be dangerous if you skip a simple yet important step. As the bacon air fries, it will render lots of fat. Without a buffer in the bottom of the basket, this fat will smoke as soon as it hits the hot base of the air fryer....
I do love to use apple cider in the fall, though! It’s great in sweet desserts like donut holes, but is also delicious in savory dishes like glazed salmon and slow cooker pulled pork, as well as today’s main event: Apple Cider Chicken Thighs! These chicken thighs are a perfect all-in-one skillet dish, full of fall’s best flavors. Adults will love it even if they don’t love chicken thighs (my wife attests to this), and kids should eat it, too....
It’s packed with potpourri of berries, speckled with banana slices, and held together with a grape-juice based gelatin. Think Jello, but a grown-up, sophisticated version, with all natural ingredients and much less sugar. I first got the idea from a Martha Stewart recipe in her (now defunct) Every Day Food magazine from years ago. Since then we’ve made versions with rhubarb, nectarines, cherries, and pluots. Basically any easily slice-able fruit will do....
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What’s the Best Way to Assemble This Cake? While ice cream cake might seem like an ambitious project, it’s really just an assembly job. I baked a from-scratch brownie for this, but a boxed brownie will do the job just as well. Assembly starts with the brownie base that’s been baked and cooled. Then comes the ice cream! We add one layer of ice cream, followed by a layer of chunky crushed cookies, and top that with another layer of ice cream....
When I lived in Japan I used to eat buckwheat soba noodles all the time, and a few years ago I started making buckwheat pancakes which have become a favorite. The taste is a little bit like whole wheat or whole grain versus white flour, but not wheat-y. Buckwheat, Naturally Gluten-Free Buckwheat isn’t actually grain—it isn’t a grass, but a plant that produces seeds that are used like wheat, hence the name....
The combination of walnuts, thyme, ginger, vanilla, and squash may seem weird, but oddly it works. You can either boil the cubed butternut squash with some bay leaves, or roast them until you get a little browning – in which case omit the bay leaves. Roasting will caramelize the squash a bit, giving a little more flavor, and the squash cubes will hold their shape better. Boiling the squash will yield softer squash and a little flavor from the bay leaves....
Lasagna is never a last-minute quick supper, but with a few tricks up your sleeve, you’ll pull it off without a hitch. Make all the components, line them up on the counter, and assemble the casserole. Keeping things neat and organized is your ticket to success without burn-out! Save Time and Use a Rotisserie Bird To streamline things, instead of poaching your own chicken, buy already cooked chicken breasts or a rotisserie chicken....
