How to Bake Peanut Butter Banana Chai Drop Cookies
If you’re looking for that perfect recipe for an Autumn Day, then Peanut Butter Banana Chai Drop Cookies is the winner! It’s filled with spiced, peanutty flavor within the beauty of a perfectly delicious banana cookie. Banana cookies have hardly impressed me in the past, as they are usually quite heavy & chewy. This recipe creates a lovely, crispy cookie on the outside, with a light, fluffy inside. Plus, it’s a...
How to Bake Dark Brandied Christmas Fruitcake
In our house, we love Dark Brandied Christmas Fruitcake with warm spices and delicious dried fruits, always reminds me of the aromas of the Holidays. Even those, who say they don’t like fruitcake, rave about this Dark Brandied Christmas Fruitcake. It just isn’t Christmas, if our favorite fruitcake isn’t on our dessert platter of goodies. Note: This recipe calls for nuts, and since some people don’t eat nuts, I...
How to Cook Cream of Roasted Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato Soup + Video
Cream of Roasted Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato Soup is exactly what you want to cozy up with this time of year! A heavenly, creamy combination of autumn ingredients, perfect for the fall. It’s a soup everyone will love with hearty butternut squash & sweet potato, roasted & creamed to perfection. We are hauling gorgeous squashes out of our kitchen garden this time of year, and I’ve been harvesting our sweet...
How to Make Gluten-Free High Protein Snack Bars
It’s important to keep our metabolism up during the day, and high protein snack bars are just what your body needs to make it through to the next meal. Protein rich snacks will keep you feeling full longer, and sustain you until lunch or dinner. It seems to me that lately there is an increasing emphasis on eating gluten free. Even in your local supermarket, you will find a section dedicated to gluten free choices. What does...
How to Bake Cinnamon Sticky Buns: Mother’s Day Delights
Every home chef needs to know How to Bake Cinnamon Sticky Buns… The smells of cinnamon will fill your home, and the excitement of what’s coming out of the oven will make everyone’s taste buds wild! So decadently sticky and delicious, ooey & gooey – you will have requests to make them frequently. They are so pretty, your family will think you are a genius. How to Bake Cinnamon Sticky Buns: Perfect for...
How to Bake Spicy Gingerbread Men Cookies
What is Christmas without Spicy Gingerbread Men Cookies? My children always enjoyed decorating & icing these cute men. I would make a few with added flour & sugar, so they would stand up to handling, skewering a hole near the top, so they could be hung on the tree by a pretty ribbon. As well, they were delicious to nibble on. How to Bake Spicy Gingerbread Men: This recipe yields about 2 dozen 4-inch gingerbread men. If your...
How to Bake Bread Pudding
Bread Pudding is on the menu… The different varieties of puddings are extensive & make a lovely end to a meal or a snack. The most common ways to cook puddings are baking, steaming, or cooking on the stove top. Steaming is quite efficient, and cooking on the stove top is likely quicker. Baked puddings are always heartier. How to Bake Bread Pudding: My recipe for bread pudding involves baking the item. Type: Dessert Recipe...
How to Bake Gingerbread Cookies: Gingerbread Day
National Gingerbread Day is November 21st, and the most amazing aroma should be coming out of your kitchen with this Gingerbread Cookie recipe! The smell of gingerbread is so enticing, you can hardly wait to devour it, and what smells more like Christmas baking? Gingerbread Tips & Info: Gingerbread dough can get a little heavy & dense if too much flour is incorporated into the dough. So, only add as much flour as absolutely...
How to Cook Mincemeat for the Holidays
Not exactly sure what Mincemeat is? Not many people do, but it is a traditional dish made in those regions where the World was colonized British, in general. There are variations in Australia, Canada, USA, northern Europe, Ireland & South Africa. How to Cook Mincemeat: The recipe I’m sharing for my mincemeat is one which yields enough for 6 pies. Tip: If you’re going to go through all of this effort to make mincemeat,...
How to Bake Homemade Baklava: National Baklava Day
National Baklava Day can be so much more amazing with this Homemade Baklava. Baklava is made using phyllo sheets, which are paper-thin pastry used in much of the Middle East & Greece. The ingredients for this most delectable pastry are quite simple, using just flour & water, but it takes some skill to mix, knead & stretch this pastry to obtain that almost see-through result. Tips for Using Phyllo Dough: The store bought...
How to Bake Indian Pudding: National Indian Pudding Day
National Indian Pudding Day is upon us, and if you’ve never had this delicious, native American dessert, it’s something special. This is a warming, hearty dessert it flavors emulating those of pumpkin pie. Indian pudding is a baked dessert wit the baking dish sitting in water, keeping the pudding from drying out & losing its silky texture. How to Bake Indian Pudding: This recipe is definitely a keeper. It’s...
How to Make Pumpkin Pie: National Pumpkin Day
National Pumpkin Day is upon us, and if you have never made your own Pumpkin Pie from Scratch, you’re in for a treat of a recipe too. Technically, a pumpkin is part of the Winter squash group. Included in that family are acorn, pepper & others. We all know how delicious Pumpkin Pie is, and though tinned pumpkin puree is perfectly alright to create a good pie filling, making your own from fresh pumpkin is fantastic, and my...
How to Grill Pumpkin on the BBQ + Video
If you’ve never Grilled Pumpkin on the BBQ before, what a great change! Fall is here, and it’s time for some recipes worthy of the season. The grill is a great tool to impart hearty grilled flavors into foods that satiate you on a level that cannot be compared to other cooking methods. Pumpkin, often reserved for sweets, or in soups & stews, is much for versatile than most would think. Grilling vegetables is super...