Arnold Grains & More Breads

Arnold Bakeries has introduced four new varieties of breads packed with whole grains and other heart and body-healthy ingredients while keeping the breads low in calories and high in taste. Of the four, I received Grains & More Double Fiber Bread and Grains & More Double Protein Bread for review.

The Double Protein Bread [...]

Baking terms defined: “Fold” and “Marble”

Lisa messaged me today to ask if I knew what the cookie recipe she was making was asking her to do, the instructions said to “fold” the doughs together until they began to “marble”. She was looking at a cookbook recipe and didn’t understand what those instructions were telling her to do.

The recipe she [...]

Four Foods on Friday #40, the Candy Edition!

#1. Candy. Do you prefer sweet or sour candy? #2. Gum. Love it? Hate it? What kind is your favorite? #3. What is your favorite candy? #4. Share a recipe for anything that you can include a piece of candy in.

#1. I prefer CHOCOLATEY Candy! But if we are talking hard candy, definitely sweet. [...]

Four Foods on Friday #38

This week’s questions have to do with fruit, veggies, and, um, smells.

#1. Fruits and veggies. Do you prefer them peeled or not? #2. What’s your favorite fresh fruit or vegetable smell? #3. What’s the worst food smell you’ve ever smelled? #4. Share the recipe for the dish that you love to smell cooking [...]

Four Foods on Friday #37

This week’s questions for Four Foods on Friday all have to do with parties.

#1. Cake. Buttercream, whipped cream or ice cream? #2. When entertaining do you use real, paper, plastic or styrofoam dishes? #3. When hosting a party do you cook, have it catered or go to a restaurant? #4. Share a recipe [...]

Very Chocolatey Cookie Recipes

This past Monday, the Second Annual AirBake Extreme Cookie Challenge took place, it’s a cookie recipe contest sponsored by Wearever. The Grand Prize was one by the recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough “Ice Cream Cones”, and I have the recipe!!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough “Ice Cream Cones” by Heather & Alexa Cohen [...]

What’s For Dinner, Mom? 02/07/08

Tonight’s dinner is an easy one, good plain food that everybody in my family likes.

*Tyson Heat-and-Eat Roasted Chicken *Sour Cream Pan Biscuits *Extra-long green beans (frozen) cooked in boiling salted water

I don’t make biscuits from scratch, I use baking mix. In a pinch I’ll make them with just the baking mix and milk, [...]

Honey Granola Brittle

In the February issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray, you can find new ways to use granola, including using crushed granola to coat the bread for French Toast, and this yummy sounding twist on Peanut Brittle:

Honey Granola Brittle

Makes 24 Candies

Prep Time: 25 minutes (plus cooling)

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

1 [...]

Better-for-you Red Velvet Cupcakes

I found this recipe on Hungry Girl, and I haven’t made it yet, but I love cupcakes, so I’m sure I’ll make it soon!

These cupcakes are so moist, so delicious, so RED, and so completely guilt-free, that writing extra words to introduce this recipe would be a complete and total waste of everyone’s time. [...]

Are you “Crust Worthy”?

I will admit, the one baking challenge I have been afraid to even attempt is from-scratch pie crust. I don’t know what it is, it just intimidates me. Well, Rachael Ray to the rescue! Make HOME-MADE crust this season with Every Day with Rachael Ray.

Making a piecrust is as easy as it looks; follow [...]