Hosting a Super Bowl viewing party should be easy. They’re unpretentious, casual parties where (it might be the only time) you can serve a bevy of not so healthy appetizers--from Buffalo wings to cheese balls--relatively guilt-free. This party isn’t about cooking up the latest culinary trends on your best china. Rather, it’s a night overflowing with plain and simple portable dishes since it’s assumed that the television (not the food) is the focal point of the evening.Cooking a dish in a slow cooker for your Super Bowl party is wise way to … [Read more...]
Honey Bran Bread
January 29, 2014 By 2 Comments
I'm on a bread roll since baking the Cinnamon Raisin Bread this past weekend. I was looking for one of Mom's recipes that could utilize some of the honey we have piled up in our cabinet. We love honey in my household and it definitely helps that these products have been used and endorsed by two of the world's most popular chefs: Bobby Flay and Tom Colicchio. Tom has said the honey is one of his "personal pantry essentials" and "favorite gifts." He also admits he keeps a "jar of the stuff at my desk at all times." Mom's Honey Bran Bread … [Read more...]
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
January 27, 2014 By 15 Comments
It’s the Secret Recipe Club reveal day today. I was assigned the blog Lynsey Lou’s, written by twenty-something Lynsey who’s recently married and uses her blog to explore and share recipes for her husband. Her blog represents a wide variety of foods from simple cakes and meat dishes to other recipes categorized as “ for daring bakers.” While many of Lynsey's recipes are tempting, I decided to take a crack at her Cinnamon Raisin Bread. Actually, for me, it was a huge challenge to attempt to make bread (that has to rise twice) in my own … [Read more...]
Roast Chicken Soup with Vegetables
January 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Of course Mom made her own chicken stock. She’d use leftover bones and skin from a cooked or raw chicken carcass and add in celery, carrots, onions, parsley, salt and pepper to the old worn out stock pot. The back freezers always had Tupperware “stocked” with her homemade soup base. I still haven’t mustered up the nerve to to make my own stock (yes, I know it looks and sounds easy). However, I did make the most wonderful Chicken Soup with Roasted Vegetables yesterday to try to ward off another frigid day of sub-freezing temperatures. This … [Read more...]
