How to Make Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Today, I made Peanut Butter Banana Muffins, and decided to accompany them with some amazing Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting on half of them. This is not super sweet either, so it’s edible for even those people who don’t enjoy really sweet treats. Type: Dessert Recipe Serve With: on brownies, cupcakes or muffin Prep Time: 5 mins Yield: enough for 2 dozen muffins Ingredients: 4 oz cream cheese – softened 1/4 cup...
Start Defrosting Your Turkey Tonight
This is a friendly reminder that if you have a large bird, oh say, 20 lbs or more, you will want to take it out of the freezer for Christmas on the night of the 22nd. Just put it in your roasting pan in the packaging it comes in, and place the roaster pan lid on top. Leave it somewhere cool, not overly warm, like a back hallway or something of the sort. It will slowly thaw through, and be ready for Christmas morning to start the...
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...
March Food Holidays & Events
Here are March Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here & there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Month Holidays: National Fresh Celery Month: Napa Jack’s Cajun Caesar Cocktails Browse Celery recipes, Celery shows Pancake Sandwiches with Fruit & Stuffed Celery: School Lunch Ideas Article: For the Love of Celery Review: Fee...
January Food Holidays & Events
Here are January Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here & there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Month Holidays: Bread Machine Baking Month: Rye & Cola Bread for the Bread Machine Browse Bread Machine recipes, Bread shows, Bread recipes, recipes with Bread Boxed Chocolate Bread for the Bread Machine Kimberly’s Yogurt...
How to Bake Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing
I don’t think I know anyone who does not like brownies, especially this recipe for Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing! It is just super delicious and everyone asks for more…and a few more. 😉 These goodies with their zebra striped deliciousness are a great treat anytime, but look especially wonderful on a Christmas dessert tray, or for a sweetheart for Valentine’s. How to Bake Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese...
November Food Holidays & Events
Here are November Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here and there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Georgia Pecan Month: How to Bake Pecan Pie: Georgia Pecan Month Browse Pecan recipes, Nut shows, Nut recipes Vegan Banana Pecan Muffins How to Bake Rose’s Pecan Cookies Cooking Shows: Nuts Recipes + Reviews Good Nutrition Month:...
How to Bake Black Bottom Cupcakes for National Chocolate Cupcake Day
It’s National Chocolate Cupcake Day, and did you know that almost any cake batter can be transformed into cupcakes? Just pour the batter into muffin tins lined with paper cupcake holders. How to Bake Black Bottom Cupcakes: You could bake cupcakes in flat bottomed ice cream cones. Cupcakes can take any kind of decorative & embellished frostings. These are generally baked at 350 degrees F for 18-20 min. It’s best to...
National Angel Food Cake Day: Enhancements with Filling
National Angel Food Cake Day, and it’s a spongy, sweet, delicious one! Angel food cake is my all time favorite cake – the most versatile too, in my opinion. One of the great things about angel cake is that the cake mixes are almost as good as making them from scratch & the already baked ones at your supermarket are a viable alternative as well. How to Enhance an Angel Food Cake: There are many interesting ways to...
How to Use This Liquor in Cooking: National Applejack Month
It’s National Applejack Month, and do you know what it is? Applejack is a made-in-America apple brandy. The brandy is distilled from apples & produces a result of light liquor. Of course, the longer the brandy is aged prior to bottling, the smoother it becomes. We pretty much adhere to the idea that brandies should be sipped on their own. Apple Jack is also nicely served drizzled over ice cream in a brandy snifter. Beautiful...
How to Bake Shepherd’s Pie from Scratch
One of my favorite “soul food” recipe is Shepherd’s Pie… …What’s not to love with this traditional, tasty combination? Mashed Potatoes and Ground Beef with tasty home-style spices. This recipe may be just how your grandmother made Shepherd’s Pie, but she may have even called it “Cottage Pie” from the more “English” translation. If it isn’t the same as...
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 Roast a Turkey Quarter + Video
Tonight, when I looked in my freezer and weighed my meal options, I decided to take out a turkey quarter that was staring back at me. I defrosted it and decided to share with you how I quickly prepare a turkey piece for roasting. Hopefully, this will take the fright out of roasting meat and help you on your way to becoming a stellar chef or an even more experienced chef in your own kitchen, baking and cooking from scratch. Roasted...
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