This time of year has always been known to be the best time of year to bake. The weather has a chill in the air and heating up the house with the oven is not a concern. Plus the aroma of banana bread baking fills your home. You just know the bread is going to be great, especially when you have chosen the perfectly ripe bananas for your bread. Tonight was that night. I knew from my little taste test of the raw batter this was going to turn out delicious.
I love Roast and potatoes! It is also very easy to make. Plop all the ingredients into the slow cooker and turn it on high. 4 - 6 hours later you have a delicious meal to serve a family!
I wanted to make a birthday cake for my daughter but wanted it to go quickly and easily so I decided to go with a Strawberry cake mix and store bought Frosting. It went well. I think next time it would be a good idea to refrigerate the icing before trying to pipe with it, it was too thin and fell flat. Other than that I did the cake tester method from Pampered Chef. Which is a metal cake tester to test the done ness. Yeah.. never doing that again. The middle of the cake was not even cooked all the way through. Trust the butter knife or toothpick method, why change something that is not broken.
That is right! Prosciutto! Yum! You hammer those chick filets about 1/2 inch thick and insert the goodies, dried cherries, bread crumbs, etc. then roll it up and wrap it with the Prosciutto. Bake in oven and it comes out delicious!
I know, I know , one would think Oatmeal Raisin cookies would have been enough. But I have a large bag of Dried Cherries a friend gave me, and my hubby thinks I need more chocolate on these hips and bought me a bag of mixed Hershey Nuggets. I used the nuggets with the toffee chips in them for this recipe, he ate all the ones with almonds, and they never put enough of the plain milk chocolate that I like in those bags.
Back to the recipe, I blended the Hershey Nuggets with Toffee Chios up into chunks the best I could, they may have been over blended but there were some chunks and added them to my cookie dough. :)
They turned out so good! I mean I like these cookies better than Oatmeal Raisin, by far! Oh so good!
https://www.food.com/recipe/toffee-oatmeal-dried-cherry-cookies-308071
Hello Valentines!
Yes, you can be my valentine today since you are taking the time to read this. I thank you for your time.
Tonight’s Valentines dinner prepared by me for my valentine of 27 years is Pork Chops with Cherry Apple Stuffing, Green Beans with Bacon & Sautéed Onions, topped off with a piece of delicious sweet corn bread.
What a refreshing meal this was, the apples and cherries in the stuffing gave this a sweet flavor, and the pork chop was so juicy and one of the best chops I think I have ever had. I found this recipe at Allrecipes.com after a friend gave me a bag of yellow apples and dried cherries. I had to find recipes to use them with so they didn’t go to waste, and this one was a great choice!
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/233840/pork-loin-chops-with-cherry-apple-stuffing/
Hello bakers, fryers, my dear friends and followers! It has been a few months since I posted. I have cooked many meals, believe me. Homemade meat balls and spaghetti, Swedish nut cake, steaks, and even made two pumpkin pies just yesterday! I know I haven’t even posted about them yet. Maybe I will back post after telling you about how delicious my house smells again today! It is frigidly cold outside, and this is my first week to stay home in months! I am delighted and trying to squeeze in a little of almost every hobby I have into as many days as possible. The best time to bake is in the winter months, most every one knows that. If you want to get a warm oven going to help warm the home and give it a nice home baked goods smell, bake a batch of cookies! It works! Many realtors do this trick to make a home they are trying to sell smell like home. And nothing does it like something cooking in the oven.
A dear friend of mine stopped by the cabinet shop we are closing and we loaded her truck down with as much scrap wood and cabinets as she could fit in her vehicle, in exchange she gave me a few boxes of food that she cannot eat due to her diet. One of the many items I am trying to use were raisins. I don’t eat raisins a whole lot by them selves, if they are covered in chocolate, heck yeah they will be eaten right up with not one to spare!
I had just enough of the small boxes of Sun Maid Raisins to equal the 1 cup worth I needed for my Oatmeal Raisin cookie recipe I found at AllRecipes.com one of my go to sites for recipes. My favorite is Chef John’s recipes, but there are a lot of great cooks out there so I am saving all their recipes. This recipe had 5 stars and about 2,000 voted so I gave it shot. I mean how hard can it be? It was not hard at all. I did sift my dry ingredients, and substituted the brown sugar I lacked with white sugar. Didn’t make a difference as far as I can tell, they turned out great!
