If you're going to break all those New Year's resolutions for Valentine's day, you should definitely do it while eating Nutella Peanut Bars. Last week we celebrated National Nutella Day all week long. We remade our favorite homemade nutella, ate nutella and challah for breakfast, enjoyed nutella and strawberries for snacks, and we earmarked this amazing nutella-based sweet from Country Momma Cooks to bake for Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day was the only holiday for which Mom didn't seem to feel the need to bake or cook. Like most everyone … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2012
Slow Cooked Chicken Enchiladas
February 8, 2012 By 6 Comments
Growing up, Mom very rarely cooked Mexican food save for the highly-anticipated "taco nights" or "chicken fajita dinners." Then, off to college in the Midwest-forget about good authentic Mexican food. My only Mexican stint was at the drive through of the local Taco Bell to satiate those late night cravings. Now that I'm living in New York City I have easy access to many legitimate and not-so-legitimate Mexican groceries and restaurants. But, what do you do when you don't feel like ordering in (we all know Mexican food does not travel … [Read more...]
Fun with Maple Syrup
February 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
Spending summers at a camp located in the back woods of Maine over-exposed me to maple syrup. On our drives up the east coast, we'd often stop somewhere in Vermont and load up on pure maple syrup. It became as welcomed at the table as ketchup or salt and pepper. So, you can imagine the excitement as I opened up a nice care package from Mohawk Valley Trading Company filled with their homemade Raw Maple Syrup. Getting ready to make the candies using pure maple syrup I couldn't wait to come up with some more test recipes using the new sweet … [Read more...]
Smoky Tomato Soup with Maple-Candied Bacon
February 3, 2012 By 4 Comments
I bet the majority of people polled would raise their hands when asked if they had a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup in their pantry somewhere. And I bet when asked how long that can of soup has been sitting in the pantry, most people would say probably more than a couple months. What's amazing to me (and hey, I had not one but three cans collecting dust) is that it doesn't take much longer to throw together a homemade batch of tomato soup than it does to watch the watery, canned soup cook on a stove top. Part of the challenge is just … [Read more...]
