Roasted Chicken with Lemon Curd
Monday, November 9, 2009
Roasted Chicken with Lemon Curd
Roasted Chicken with Lemon Curd
Banana Muffins
Monday, October 5, 2009
Barbecue Chicken with Mustard Glaze
Monday, September 14, 2009
Peach Raspberry Crisp
Friday, July 17, 2009
I'm Published!
4th of July Ice Cream Cake
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Peanut Butter Brownies
Your favorite brownie mix (for 9x13 brownies)
1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
1 cup honey
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
4 T butter
Prepare brownie batter. Mix peanut butter and honey together. Grease 9x13 pan. Pour half of batter in pan. Using 1/2 cup of pb mixture, drop teaspoonfuls evenly over the brownie batter. Spread remaining batter in pan. Bake according to box directions (I baked mine for about 30 minutes at 350). Let cool completely. Spread remaining peanut butter mixture over cooled brownies. Melt chocolate chips and butter together in microwave. Mix and spread over peanut butter. Let cool completely. Delish!
Barbeque Apricot Chicken
Roasted Broccoli
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Fry Bread Recipe
1 cup flour
1/4 t salt
1 t baking powder
1/2 cup milk
Mix dry ingredients. Pour milk over dry ingredients and stir with fork until clumps. Flour hands and mix (don't knead) into a ball. Separate dought into 4 pieces. Flour hands and shape into discs (thin). Cook 3-4 minutes per side in 350 oil .
This is easy and good, though not close to authentic, and much better than the original recipe I posted.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Baby Shower Treats
These darling onesie-shaped sugar cookies frosted with royal icing were the shower favors. Too cute! Here are instructions from Martha Stewart. Taryn's trick for icing the cookies is to put the royal icing in squeeze bottles. Make your edge, then fill and spread. It works so well!While I'm drooling over desserts, here's a recipe for Strawberry Shortcake Cookies my friend Erin sent to me. Thank you Erin! These are delicious and different. They taste like mini strawberry scones. For added sweetness I topped them with a powdered sugar glaze. Erin also had the great idea of topping them with whipped cream. Yum! A fun summer dessert.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Lately . . .
* Chicken Katsu
* Cafe Rio Chicken Salads
* Steak Sandwiches (I used a london broil steak that was on sale and while it was still partially frozen sliced it very thinly. I added slices of provolone cheese when the steak and peppers and onion were still in the pan. It melted and was gooey and delicious!)
* Rice & Beans with Avocado (we never get sick of this)
* Chicken Tostadas
* Chicken Souvlaki with yogurt dipping sauce
* BBQ Chicken Pizza (with pineapple!) and Spinach Salad
* Orecchiette with mini meatballs
* Eggplant Tomato pasta
* Chicken Sandwiches with grilled pineapple (add honey mustard for more flavor!)
* Brown's Black Bean Salsa (this was especially requested for a Memorial Day BBQ)
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Breakfast at Market Lunch at DC's Eastern Market
Ina Garten Potato Salad
Lemon Meringe Cupcakes
Lemon Meringue Cupcakes
1 package lemon cake mix, plus ingredients to prepare
3/4 cup prepared lemon curd
4 egg whites, at room temp
6 Tablespoons sugar
- Preheat oven to 350. Line 9 jumbo muffin cups with paper baking cups.
- Prepare cake mix according to package directions. spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling two-thirds full. Bake 23 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean. Cool cupcakes in pans 10 minutes. Remove from pans; cool on wire racks. Increase oven temp to 375.
- Use serrate knife to cut off tops of cupcakes even with tops of baking cups (Do not remove paper baking cups). Scoop out small hole in center of each cupcake with teaspoon; fill hole with generous tablespoon lemon curd. Replace cupcake tops.
- Beat egg whites in medium bowl with electric mixer at high speed until soft peaks form. Continue beating while gradually adding sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Pipe meringue onto top of each cupcake, or spread meringue over cupcakes and use small spatula to create peaks.
- Place cupcakes on baking sheet. Bake 5 to 6 minutes or until peaks of meringue are golden.
Variation: This recipe also makes 24 standard cupcakes. Line muffin pans with paper baking cups; prepare and bake cake mix according to package directions. Scoop out teaspoon-size hole in each cupcake and fill with generous teaspoon lemon curd. Pipe or sread about 1/3 cup meringue over each cupcake; bake as directed above.
Lemon Fusilli with Arugula
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Chicken Souvlaki with Yogurt Dipping Sauce
Monday, March 30, 2009
Strawberry Shortcake
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Alligator Cupcake Cake
Spanish Chicken Cutlets with Olive Rice
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Pasta Carbonara
1/2 pound linguine
2 T olive oil
2 T butter
4-6 slices bacon, chopped
1/2 onion, diced
2-4 cloves garlic, minced
1/3 cup grated parmesan
2 T cream
2 eggs, beaten
Fill pasta pot with water and bring to boil and cook pasta according to directions. You want the linguine to be done cooking right about when you are ready to add it to the sauce. Meanwhile, heat oil and butter in large saute pan. Add bacon and onion and cook until bacon is crisp and onions are soft and translucent. Add garlic and cook additional 1-2 minutes. Mix parmesan, cream and eggs in a bowl. Drain linguine but reserve some (about 1/2 cup) of the pasta water. Turn saute pan heat to low and add pasta to pan. Once all pasta is added, slowly pour in egg mixture, tossing pasta as you do so. Continue tossing pasta and sauce, adding as much pasta water as needed to attain desired consistency. Toss until pasta is completely coated. Traditionally, the pasta and bacon mixture is removed from heat before adding the egg mixture so the egg doesn't curdle, which leaves the egg a little under-cooked. I wanted to ensure the egg was cooked thoroughly so I left the pan on low heat and once the pasta was completely coated, I put a lid on the pan and left the heat on low for an additional five minutes. This is a delicious indulgent meal.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day!
Your favorite sugar cookie dough, well chilled
Heart cookie cutters
Seedless Raspberry Jam
Powdered Sugar
Water
Roll dough to about 1/8 inch thickness. Cut equal number large hearts and large hearts with smallest heart cut from center. Bake according to dough recipe. Slightly warm jam in microwave and mix well with spoon. To make glaze, mix powdered sugar and water and spread a thin layer on cut-out cookies (after cooled). Brush whole cookes with a small amount of jam. Add cut out cookies to top. Spoon a small amount of extra jam into center of cookies. Eat and love!
Tortilla Soup
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tortellini Soup
Sweet Potato Wedges
Pear, Cranberry Salad
One bag Spring Mix salad
Three very ripe pears, sliced into thin wedges
Candied Pecans or Walnuts
Dried Cranberries (I like using Trader Joe's Orange Flavored dried cranberries)
Goat Cheese
Balsamic Vinegar
Olive Oil
Combine vinegar and olive oil to make dressing. Toss other ingredients in bowl. Drizzle with dressing just before serving.