Archive Category: 'Food'

• Make Your Own Apricot Brandy: Today’s feature is another good one from Kansas A with her Apricot Brandy Recipe. Always good stuff over on that fellow Canuck’s blog, and I know she has a few more “homemade spirits” recipes if you’re interested : I know I’ve blogged about this before but I think it deserves repeating, besides “’tis the season.” [...]
• Harry Potter Party Treat Recipes: Today’s feature is a fun one from Britta.com with an extensive list of party foods and snacks modeled after the treats mentioned throughout the Harry Potter series (using only tasty ingredients of course!). Visit Hogwarts Celebration Recipes. You’ll find recipes for: Treacle Tarts Pumpkin Pasties Chocolate Frogs Licorice Wands Peppermint Toads Cockroach Clusters Cauldron Cakes Acid Pops Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans “Official Hogwarts Brie in [...]
• Homemade Candy Making Tips: Prevent Crystals: First butter the sides of the saucepan before adding the ingredients. When the mixture starts boiling and bubbling up, the grains of sugar can’t cling. Saucepan Choice: Use a heavy saucepan that has high sides and the inside is smooth. Stir: Always stir until the sugar is dissolved. One sugar crystal can cause the whole [...]
• Video: Removing Pin Bones from Salmon: Today’s feature is a quick video showing how to remove bones from salmon:
• Quick & Easy Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe: You will need a hand blender for this recipe. Ingredients: 1 cup salad oil 1 egg (sit at room temperature until chill is taken off) 4 tsp lime juice (fresh) 1 tsp dry mustard 3/4 tsp salt Directions: Crack the egg into a blender cup or thick glass jar. Add lime juice, salt, dry mustard. Top with salad oil. Insert the blender into [...]
• Mock Oh Henry Bars Recipe: Ingredients: Part 1 1/2 cup Brown Sugar 1/2 cup Corn Syrup 1 TBS Butter *1/2 cup Peanut Butter Part 2 2 cups Rice Krispies (cereal) 1 cup Peanuts 1 tsp Vanilla Salt Chocolate Icing Directions: Mix all Part 1 ingredients in a bowl excluding the peanut butter. Microwave or heat until melted and is bubbling. Add the 1/2 cup peanut butter, mix well. Stir in Part 2 ingredients and [...]
• Cucumber Dip Recipe: Ingredients: Yogurt (plain, 1 container) 1 cucumber (large, peeled & grated) 1 garlic clove (minced) 1 tsp garlic powder Dill (optional – amount to taste) Directions: Mix all ingredients well. Chill. Serve with chunks of torn sour dough or french bread, crackers and veggies (dip & eat).
• How To Make Monster, Fluffy Omelets: Today’s feature is a video I found on Youtube detailing how to make enormous, fluffy omelets..these look fantastic! You can watch the video below… Quick Recipe Directions: Start slowly browning your favorite omelet toppings in butter (mushrooms, onions, peppers, etc.) Separate 4 eggs and beat the egg whites in 1/4 cup water until stiff In a separate bowl, beat [...]
• How To Tap Maple Trees And Make Maple Syrup: Today’s feature is a pdf report from the University of Maine How To Tap Maple Trees And Make Maple Syrup (pdf): A tree should be at least 10 inches in diameter, measured at 4 1/2 feet above the ground, before tapping. Trees between 10 and 20 inches in diameter should have no more than one tap [...]
• Newspaper Fish Recipe: Here’s another campfire favorite that can also be done on the BBQ. Doesn’t everything seem to taste better when cooked outdoors ? Here’s how to cook fish in wet newspaper: Newspaper Fish Recipe Ingredients & Items Needed: Fresh Fish Seasonings Newspaper – soaked in water Directions: Gut and clean the fish then season the inside (you can also brush a light [...]
• Campfire Banana Boat Recipe: Remember this childhood treat? Here’s how to make them: Peel back one strip of the banana peel (keep the peel attached on the other end). Slice the exposed banana in half lengthwise, but do not slice through to the peel on the other side. Fill the split banana with mini-marshmallows and Smarties (or chocolate chips or chocolate bar [...]
• Quick Tip: Salad Seasoning Shake Recipe: Mix together and keep in a single shaker to season up your salads: 1/4 cup Parsley flakes 2 TBS Oregano 2 TBS Basil 2 TBS Marjoram 1 TBS Dry mustard 1 1/2 tsp Pepper Makes approximately 3/4 cup. Use a shaker that has larger holes and preferably a cap to seal flavor. Store in a cool, dry spot.
• Quick Tip: Easy Jello Mold Release: Two easy ways to get a Jello mold to release itself cleanly from the mold: Cover the open side of the mold with a plate and then flip. Let it sit at room temperature until the Jello drops out itself (about 45 to 60 minutes before serving). Just cover with plastic wrap and re-chill if you [...]
• How To Make Rose Water: Recipes & Tips: Rose water (also spelled Rosewater) can be used in cooking as well as a rich beauty aid. Try some as a facial toner or astringent, in your bath water or as a facial splash (refresher). Notes on Preparation: Rose petals must be freshly picked and have no pesticides or chemicals used on them. Pick the roses just after the [...]
• Quick & Easy Pickled Peppers Recipe: Ingredients: Assorted peppers Garlic cloves Peppercorns Vinegar Water Pickling or Kosher Salt Directions: Thoroughly wash peppers and trim stems. Make a small slash in each pepper for vinegar absorption. For each hot and freshly sterilized jar: Pack with peppers (tight), 3 whole garlic cloves (halved), 4 to 6 peppercorns. Bring to a simmer enough vinegar and water (50/50) to fill jars. Stir in pickling salt [...]
• Watermelon Pickles Recipe: This recipe is from a well worn, loose page of an old cookbook. Unknown source. Ingredients: 16 cups watermelon pieces 8 cups granulated sugar 4 cups white vinegar 4 cups water 1 cup salt Cold water 2 TBS whole cloves 3 cinnamon sticks 2 pieces ginger root 1 lemon, thinly sliced Directions: Cut watermelon into 1″ pieces (use the firm light pink watermelon flesh). Dissolve salt thoroughly in [...]
• Homemade Potato Chips Recipe: Today’s feature is another great recipe from Elise.com with Oven-fried Potato Chips Recipe: These crispy thin potato slices are just divine. I call them potato chips because they taste like the best potato chips you will ever have. But I suspect that one might not classify them as a chip given their 1/8 inch thickness. The recipe [...]
• How To Choose A Good Watermelon: Picking a perfect watermelon to buy can be a little tricky. It may look fine to the untrained eye, but get it home and it’s tasteless or worse yet–has a rancid bite to it. Here are a few things to look for when choosing a good watermelon: Look for the tell-tale “ripe spot”. It will be on [...]
• Homemade Onion Soup Mix: Ingredients: 3/4 cup dried minced onion 1/3 cup beef bouillon (powdered) 4 tsp onion powder 1/4 tsp crushed celery seed 1/4 tsp sugar Directions: Mix ingredients together then store in an airtight container. Use 2 TBS per 1 cup boiling water. Recipe makes approximately 1 cup dried onion soup mix. 5 Tablespoons is equivalent to 1 package store bought mix.
• How To Crack A Coconut: Today’s feature is from Adventures in Thai Cooking & Travel with a page full of instructions for How To Crack a Coconut and more: Quick version: Hold coconut over a bowl in one hand such that the “midriff” rests in the middle of your palm, with the tip on one end and the eyes on the [...]
• Easiest Asian Baked Pork Ribs Recipe: I’ve tested this recipe and it’s a big hit with the Fussy Pants Household (my family). Not only is it really easy to put together–the ribs are d-elish! Today’s feature is from Sally’s Kitchen & Stuff with her recipe for Asian Baked Pork Ribs: This is by far the EASIEST ribs recipe I have on hand. [...]
• How To Use A Coffee Press Pot: Today’s feature is from Coffee Geek with loads of info on How to Use a Press Pot: The ubiquitous press pot. It’s everywhere. It’s seemingly easy to use, right? Well, yes, but a little understanding of the device, how it works, and maybe a bit about the history of the product will get you using yours [...]
• Mock Reeses Peanut Butter Cups Recipe: Caution: You may lose your mind and eat the whole pan in one sitting. I’ve done it and it’s not pretty! Mock Peanut Butter Cups Base ingredients: 1 3/4 cups icing sugar 1 1/2 cups graham wafer crumbs 1 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup melted margarine Topping ingredients: 1 cup chocolate chips 3/4 cup peanut butter Directions: Mix all the ingredients for the base and press [...]
• Quick Fixins: Boil Hamburger: Until a few years ago, I never knew that instead of frying up ground beef–you could boil it. And it took me a couple more years to actually try it, lol. Can you boil hamburger? You betcha, but boiled hamburger doesn’t sound that appealing does it . It’s actually good though (at least my [...]
• Homemade Eatmore Bars Recipe: Ingredients: 3/4 cup peanut butter 1 cup corn syrup 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 2 TBS molasses 1 tsp vanilla 1 3/4 cups chopped peanuts 2 1/4 cups Rice Krispies Directions: Melt together the first 4 ingredients in a large saucepan. Do not boil. Add remaining 3 ingredients and mix thoroughly. Spread out on buttered cookie sheet. Cool, then cut into squares. Line squares layered between [...]