How to Make White Chocolate Mousse with Toasted Almonds
Creamy, dreamy, decadent White Chocolate Mousse is a perfect romantic dessert. Chocolatey, light & airy…what could be better? Plus, chocolate has an aphrodisiac effect too…don’t forget! How to Make White Chocolate Mousse: If you wish to fill Chocolate Cups with this mousse, prepare cups first & fill cups before serving, topping with a Raspberry Sauce. Type: Dessert Recipe Serve with: a romantic dinner for...
How to Bake Marshmallow Squares
Marshmallow Squares are a tasty dessert I love to make & enjoy around the Holiday Season. These pretty squares have a lovely texture & flavor, with a marshmallow layer like a cloud. Believe me, they’ll disappear quickly! Perfect for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, baby & wedding showers. Try making green ones for St. Patrick’s Day. 😉 How to Bake Christmas Marshmallow Squares: This recipe yields about...
How to Make Bavarian Cream Pie: National Bavarian Cream Pie Day
November 27th is National Bavarian Cream Pie Day, and it’s gonna be sweet with this Bavarian Cream Pie recipe. Bavarian cream can be used as a pie filling, as a soufflé or a Charlotte Russe, which is lined with lady fingers. Chef Marie-Antoine Carême is often credited with inventing this dessert, named in the early 19th century. photo right: Chef Marie-Antoine Carême This recipe is for a plain Bavarian cream pie, using a...
About the Bundt Pan: National Bundt Day
November 15th is National Bundt Day, and these are really fun baked goods to make. About the Bundt Pan: Almost any cake or coffee cake can possibly be baked in a bundt pan. However, there are recipes published & mixes available under the “bundt” name. These mixes & recipes are specially created by “Bundt” to be baked in their “Bundt” pan. The bundt fluted pan is beautifully scalloped,...
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 Bake Pecan Pie: Georgia Pecan Month
Georgia Pecan Month has arrived and it’s time to bake a Pecan Pie. Pecans are a Native American nut, primarily cultivated today in Georgia from a native variety of hickory tree. A high fat, in fact one of the nuts, which is heaviest in fats — sometimes as high as 75% fat. The downside of high fat content is that they tend to become rancid quickly, so it’s best to store them in the freezer to keep them fresh tasting....
Comfort Food Recipe at Its Best: Chicken Soup for the Soul Week
It’s Chicken Soup for the Soul Week! Every ethnicity has their own version of chicken soup – a most comforting & homey, satisfying & healing food. My Mom’s chicken soup version had all of those qualities and always makes me feel happy & loved. How to Cook Mother Kasper’s Chicken Soup: The basic chicken soup I use follows my Mom’s soup as closely as I can remember. Type: Soup Recipe Serve with:...
How to Make White Chocolate Mousse
White chocolate mousse is something of a “Calgon, take me away…” kind-of-moment. It’s light, creamy, French flair for the delicious, mousse is easy, as long as you know what to do. You can make this dessert at home in under 25 minutes – plus, a few hours to chill out in your refrigerator, and you are subject to compliments from your family likened to that of a French chef. Type: Dessert Recipe...
National White Chocolate Day: Decadent Mousse Recipe
It’s a sweet one because it’s National White Chocolate Day! Now, it doesn’t have to be Easter time to enjoy some white chocolate, and no, white chocolate doesn’t just come in bunny form… 😉 White chocolate is very much like milk chocolate, except it doesn’t contain the chocolate liquor. This is why it is off white in color, instead of brown. Being high in cocoa butter, it has a very mild milk...
National Cholesterol Awareness Month: A Refresher Course
National Cholesterol Awareness Month is here, and with it, some sad truths and necessary actions need to be made. The world seems to be suffering from a national high cholesterol and fat epidemic. The fact is that our bodies require cholesterol & fat. The main source of energy is fat, and certain types of fats protect the heart. Cholesterol helps in making the skin around cells and the acids required to digest food, the material...
Stimorol Sensations Gum Commercial is Hilarious
What happens to you when you unwrap a piece of gum and start chewing it? Find out what happens to this guy…lol Who wouldn’t want a gum to transplant them to a tropical island getaway…? …To an river of fruit juice, tropical fruit chunks raining down, parrots flying… You’re probably wondering what the HECK I’m talking about, aren’t you? lol Check out the commercial ad below for Stimorol...
Is Basil King of Herbs?
Basil, or known by its Latin name, Ocimum basilicum, is maybe the most “common” of herbs that grows all over the world. In fact, that may be why it is referred to as the “King” of herbs in its own right. Photo right: My very own Basil plant in my garden. Historically speaking, being so named the king of herbs came from St. Constantine along with his mother, St. Helen. They discovered the Holy Cross, and as...
One Month Grocery Shopping Strike: Day 5
This is Day Five of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! Today was kind of a bust for me since I ran around all day doing errands, but for dinner I made the most amazing Crusted Pork Loin with Pre-Spring Salad. The pork was in our big freezer, crust from ingredients in our pantry and we had lettuce and fresh vegetables in the fridge! Recipe to follow. The family had 2 cans of Chunky Chicken & Corn Chowder Soup for lunch,...
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