How to Roast Smoked Paprika Potato Bites + Video
Roasted Potato Bites are a super easy side dish for so many main dishes, not to mention delicious & very inexpensive. They are not fried, so they are much healthier than fries, and with less fat than mashed potatoes with butter & cream. The smoked paprika on these potato bites makes you crave them over & over. A perfect combination, and a wonderful addition to your cooking repertoire. How to Roast Smoked Paprika Potato...
How to Cook Scrapple: National Scrapple Day
National Scrapple Day has arrived, and you may not even know what the heck it is… What is Scrapple? It is a type of pork sausage using cornmeal as the binder and stored in loaf pan. The same sausage, but using oats as the binder, is called goetta. Fresh, raw sausage is great pan fried, grilled, broiled or baked. In the case of frankfurter types, these can be poached in hot water. It’s best not to prick before or during, as...
How to Make Honey Dipped Donuts: Doughnut Appreciation Day
Doughnut Appreciation Day will be fun because we’ve made Honey Dipped Doughnuts! Quick Donut-Making Tips: When you mix doughnut doughs, have all your ingredients at room temperature. Stir dry ingredients into the wet quickly until barely blended. This avoids having gluten develop in the dough, which makes the donut dough tough. How to Make Honey Dipped Doughnuts: The last doughnuts I gave the recipe for were made without yeast,...
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 Roast Pulled Pork + Video
Living down South in the USA for much of my adult life, I had the opportunity to eat some amazing pulled pork! Although everyone has their own unique way of making their own pulled pork, I use a variety of methods, just depending upon my mood that day. This is not a quick recipe, but the flavor you develop by taking the time to brine, rub & slow roast will be appreciated by all who devour this dish. How to Roast Pulled Pork:...
How to Make a Dry Rub for Pork Loin + Video
Dry rubs are super easy to make yourself, and many are available in stores, but this is a simple Dry Rub for Pork you’ll be sure to love. It’s sweetness, smokiness & spiciness shine through and accentuate your pork in such a way that it will have you craving more. Personally, I think the brown sugar & smoked paprika are irreplaceable for this dry rub recipe. Now, you can either brine the pork loin prior to rubbing....
Web Chef Review: Drogheria Black Cyprus Flake Sea Salt
I want to share with you one of the coolest ingredients I’ve seen in a very longtime. In fact, I’d venture to say it’s the most exciting thing in my kitchen now! This salt is just as the name suggests…it’s black salt. This salt comes from Cyprus, and is created when it dries in the sun, making crystal pyramids. Then, the salt is enhanced with activated charcoal. Activated charcoal has added health...
How to Cook Pan Sauteed Spicy Caramelized Apples
I really don’t enjoy the cold weather that comes along with the season of Autumn, but I do enjoy the switch of seasonal foods. All of those yummy spices that make your house smell like a home at Christmas, root vegetables, soups & chowders, stews & chilies… Tonight, I made Pan Sauteed Caramelized Apples as a side dish to my Pork Sirloin Chops served with Boiled Potatoes & Carrots, and Grilled Corn. Killer...
Exciting Ideas on How to Crust Meat with Crumbs
I often get bored of using the same old bread crumbs. So, I simply don’t! I will often use different kinds of bread, toast it and pulverize it into crumbs. Try using rye bread, wheat breads, different grain breads. I also love using different kinds of chips and crackers for an exciting new crust on meats and special vegetables such as for Eggplant Parmesan. Try using potato chips, tortilla chips, or pulverized crackers like...
How to Cook Rhubarb Moos
This is Day Eight of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! It’s also SuperBowl today… So, we are still “cupboard cooking”. When I saw the beautiful lamb loin chops in the freezer, I also noticed our rhubarb we harvested in the summer, chopped & froze. Immediately, I thought of a great, hot dessert fit for this Canadian snow today. One of my favorite rhubarb recipes is our traditional Kasper Family Rhubarb...
How to Cook Mushroom Risotto: Upscale SuperBowl Treats
This is Day Eight of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! It’s also SuperBowl today… I am making a creamy mushroom risotto to go along with the Lavender Lamb Loin Chops with Blueberry Balsamic Reduction for Superbowl today. We are going all out with our upscale treats! Traditionally speaking, Parmesan cheese is added to risotto, but none of us are crazy about it – so we are omitting it in this recipe. Type: Rice Recipe Serve...
How to Cook a Balsamic Reduction Sauce: Upscale Superbowl Treats
This is Day Eight of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! It’s also SuperBowl today… In my earlier post, I outlined my Lavender Lamb Loin Chops I’ll be grilling today. To accompany the chops, I have made a Blueberry Balsamic Reduction Sauce – simply because lamb isn’t my favorite meat and it will go beautifully with it and cover up the flavor I am not crazy about in lamb. To make a basic balsamic reduction sauce,...
One Month Grocery Shopping Strike: Day 8 – SuperBowl XLV
This is Day Eight of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! It’s also SuperBowl! That’s right! We love football and we especially love the tailgating food we get to create and eat for this special game. We are still doing well and eating deliciously on day 8 of our grocery shopping strike. We are doing “upscale” SuperBowl treats. For brunch we had creamed scrambled eggs on top of toasted Italian flax seed bread...
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