How to Make Lemonade from Scratch + Video: Cooking like Alpha Beta Pie
To me, there is no better refresher than homemade lemonade and this recipe for How to Make Lemonade from Scratch will demonstrate just how easy and quick it is to make this delicious beverage. Ice cold on a hot summer day, it absolutely hits the spot as a tasty cooler. Being citrus, lemons provide all kinds of essential nutrients beneficial to good health as well as being good for your immune system. My mom would sometimes make hot...
How to Cook Lemon Pie Filling
It is a pleasure to use this recipe for How to Make Lemon Pie Filling with it’s sweet & tangy nature. With an almost creamy texture that bursts with fresh lemon flavor, this pie filling is also great for tarts, and fillings for cakes or jelly rolls. How to Make Lemon Pie Filling: It is so quick and easy, as well as decadently tasty, that we even use it as lemon pudding. Just the perfect ending to a Holiday meal or any day of...
How to Bake Turkey Pot Pie + Video
Do you have leftover turkey after a beautiful celebration? Make a Turkey Pot Pie! When I carve the turkey, I usually remove the most of the meat from the bones, and leave a little bit on, to save them for making a flavorful stock in the future. The leftover meat is reserved & frozen until I want to make a pot pie. Whenever I bake a pie, I make extra pie crust for future pot pies. So, yesterday, we were a bit busy &...
How to Make Pierogi Dough
Pierogi Dough is a necessity when making these Central & Eastern European filled tidbits. There are many varied recipes for pierogi, pyrohy or varenyky dough, as varied as the spellings for perogies. Making perogies is a food-of-love thing, as they can be time intensive and a bit fiddly, but they are worth it. Show your family the love you put into these. My Mom’s recipe for this dough is quite simple and can be used for...
How to Make Lemon Meringue Pie
A lemony, tangy Lemon Meringue Pie is just the perfect dessert after a hearty turkey or roast beef dinner. Oh, how we do enjoy that pie at Thanksgiving, Christmas, even Easter in our household. Although purchased pie filling preparation is quicker, and quite tasty as well, nothing surpasses the flavor of “prepared from scratch” pie filling where we use freshly squeezed lemon juice & fresh lemon zest. It takes a bit...
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...
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....
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...
What the Heck is Mincemeat?: National Mincemeat Pie Day
Mincemeat Pie. Now, what is that really? Does it have meat in it? Well, yes & no. It’s not actually meat that is added, but suet – the fat cut from the meat – and added to the fruit that comprises mincemeat, with some lean beef. When sugar, raisins, currants, citron, orange peel, lemon peel, lemon juice, apple cider, cloves, sour cherries, cherry juice, coriander, nuts, cinnamon & mace are added, it is cooked...
How to Bake Sponge Cake: National Boston Cream Pie Day
National Boston Cream Pie Day is October 23rd, and this wonderful Sponge Cake recipe will provide you with the cake layers you need for BCP! Boston Cream Pie is such an impressive, decadent dessert, and it’s so lovely to look at, especially presented on a footed cake stand. Your guests will comment forever and-a-day as to the flavor of this rich, fluffy cake, and the chocolate topping makes it appealing to one & all. How to...
How to Make Cottage Cheese Perogies: National Pierogi Day
National Pierogi Day is October 8th, and these tasty, filled dumplings of Central & Eastern European origin are something our family traditionally makes, and these Cottage Cheese Perogies are my favorite. Pierogi can be filled with a number of delicious fillings. Savory or sweet, such as cheese & potatoes, cottage cheese, sauerkraut, plums, sour cherries or berries. Fillings can be made well in advance & refrigerated. How...
National Strawberry Cream Pie Day: Thriller Recipe
National Strawberry Cream Pie Day will prove to be thrilling if you want to celebrate in proper style! Sounds fabulous, doesn’t it…? Strawberries & custard cream, I mean, all inside of a pie. What could be more decadently delicious than something that sounds like that?! How to Make Strawberry Cream Pie: Type: Pie Recipe Serve with: topped with homemade whipped cream Prep Time: 10 min Bake Time: 8 – 10 min Cool Time: 4...
How to Cook Chicken Pot Pie in Stoneware Ramekins + Video
Mmm, Chicken Pot Pie…a perfect recipe for the cooler season coming up. This recipe is inspired by today’s cookware, and you’ll find out why… Ever since I got these great Vyatka Ceramics Stoneware Ramekins from FromRussia.com, I have been so excited to get some cool recipes out to you made in them. These come from Russia, and well, in a round about way, they are a part of my heritage with an Eastern European...
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