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 Braise Napa Valley Bordeaux Cherry Balsamic Pork Breast Bones + Video
I am very excited to show you How to Braise Napa Valley Bordeaux Cherry Balsamic Pork Breast Bones. Just think of succulent & flavorful pork meat falling off the bone with a caramelized Bordeaux cherry balsamic glaze, and you have a match made in heaven… This pork does very well with braising, and it needs to be falling-off-of-the-bone cooked, just the way we like it. The meat comes out moist, super tender & outrageously...
How to Cook Honey Glazed Spiral Sliced Ham + Video
Honey Glazed Spiral Sliced Ham makes a great Christmas dinner entrée that is fantastic as a main dish, or served along with your Christmas turkey. This is a sweet and delicious ham that is very simple to prepare and, best of all, the slicing is already done. These fabulously flavored ham slices, will enhance your holiday table. This spiral sliced ham comes with a packet containing the already prepared honey glaze and cooking...
How to Cook Jalapeño Haskap Glazed Pork Side Ribs + Video
This recipe for How to Cook Jalapeño Haskap Glazed Pork Side Ribs is amazingly delicious and really brings out the full and hearty flavors of the ribs. A delightful spicy element from the jalapeño, combined with sweet, tangy haskap & apple cider – it’s the perfect glaze for perfectly tender pork side ribs, begging to soak up this tasty sauce. Since becoming acquainted with the wonderful qualities of the haskap berry, I...
How to Make Haskapa Glaze for Poultry + Video
This delicious Haskapa Glaze for Poultry not only adds amazing flavor to your poultry, but imparts a lovely, dark, glossy sheen to the crispy poultry skin. The glaze, applied near the end of roasting your bird, yields a crisp finish on the skin with the taste of haskap, a gorgeous surprise. Perfect used for Thanksgiving or Christmas, this impressive recipe will wow everyone. I have prepared this glaze for turkey, chicken and other...
How to Make Portabello Mushroom Pita Burgers: School Lunch Ideas
Portabello Mushroom Burgers are a tasty surprise in any lunch box. This is an absolutely amazingly delightful combination. School lunches can be meatless, yet still tasty & nutritious. A gorgeously roasted mushroom with fresh toppings & flavorful seasoning inside of a pita pocket, and you have a great lunchtime treat. I know it doesn’t taste like a meat burger, but when it’s all put together, it is full of flavor,...
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 Make Chocolate Turtles
This is an easy & tasty recipe for Homemade Chocolate Turtles! If we have one chocolate to choose for the Holidays, like Christmas or Easter, it would be Turtles, hands down. With their ooey-gooey caramel centers cloaking pecans & coated with chocolate, these are quick to disappear around our house. How to Make Chocolate Turtles: 2 lbs of chocolate will yield roughly 38 pieces of chocolate turtles. Type: Candy Recipe Serve...
How to Make Caramel Corn: National Popcorn Poppin’ Month
October is National Popcorn Poppin’ Month, and I suppose we should be watching movies, cuddled up inside from the cold, rainy weather. Isn’t it a wonderful aroma when corn is being popped and suddenly, it feels like you just have to have some? Corn has been popped in the Central American Region for nearly 7000 years. Sweetened popcorn is a fairly new treat, such as caramel corn. I remember the days when people would make...
How to Cook Tomato, Ham & Cheese Quesadillas
The other day, I was looking for a quick meal that I could create with the limited ingredients I had before going grocery shopping. I had ham, but no bread, and then noticed my handy tortillas and it clicked… A Tex-Mex/All-American fusion lunch quesadilla. What is more “All-American” than ham & cheese, right? Well, add a tomato, just to kick it up, make it more moist and give you more of a health benefit. Now,...
How to Roast Turkey Legs
One of my favorite things to enjoy when I lived down in Texas was turkey legs. They always had turkey legs at Trader’s Village in Grand Prairie just outside of Dallas, which is an enormous flea market, and they must have sold hundreds of these turkey legs on any given day on the weekends. These turkey legs were smokey and barbecued to perfection. We are not BBQ’ing tonight. Instead, we are roasting these gorgeous legs and...
How to Cook Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli
Today is Day 4 of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike. For dinner tonight, I’m making Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli with Tomato Sauce from scratch…except for the won-ton wrappers I’m using from our freezer as the ravioli pasta dough. This squash recipe is a little involved, but well worth the work – it is absolutely amazing, healthy & even vegetarian…Probably my family’s favorite meal of...
How to Bake Buckwheat Sour Cherry Muffins with Honey Glaze
We had a marvelous dinner tonight and I wanted to make a dessert that wouldn’t overwhelm us with sweetness. In fact, no one really felt like anything sweet tonight. I came up with this recipe on a whim and it was the perfect end to our meal – Just sweet enough and still somewhat healthy! Try my recipe for Buckwheat Sour Cherry Muffins with Honey Glaze…They were really delicious! Type: Muffin Recipe Serve With: Honey...
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