Archive for the ‘Cooking and baking’ Category

These are all of the photos from the ‘Cooking and baking’ category.

 

  • Salsa from our kitchen

    While buying the ingredients for making homemade salsa is no where near as economical as purchasing the salsa, we wanted to see what we could make. I located a recipe that vaguely sparked my interest, and printed it up for us to try.
    We made some modifications to it and proceeded to tackle this exciting tastiness [...]

  • Strawberry Banana Muffins, with a kick.

    I made some yummy- tastic muffins tonight. Like the best muffins i thin i have ever made. These blow my blueberry muffins out of the water, hands down.
    I have adapted them from Crepes of Wrath’s recipie.
    While making these i thought it would be spectacular to add in some blueberries to make these extra kicky.
    Again, awesome.
    Prep:
    Mash [...]

  • Orange Cookies… and a variation

    So i was in a cookie baking mood after reading A Friend to Knit withs Orange cookie recipe.   It sounded so tasty to me.  So i made them.

    Orange Blossom Cookies

    2/3 cup unsalted butter ::
    3/4 cup sugar ::
    1 egg ::
    1/2 cup orange juice ::
    2 cups flour ::
    1/4 tsp baking soda ::
    1/2 tsp salt ::
    1 TBLS orange [...]

  • Welding, Applesauce and winter.

    Ill start with the girly stuff and end with the boy-e stuff.
    I decided that corn syrup sucks, unless its in my beloved Pepsi. I am trying to eliminate most of it from our diet. Nathan loves a good bowl of applesauce with lunch, and I am apt to buying Musslemans or motts lunch packs. Recently [...]

  • Wilton Cake Decorating.

    I have taken cake decorating classes before. In fact i took one from a brilliant teacher, Mary, when i lived in Beavercreek at a pretty well known shop called Cake Craft.  I have bought most of my cake supplies from here, and miss it greatly. The teacher was fantastic. She taught the REAL craft of [...]

  • Pasta Love

    I have two favorite loves..
    Cheese, and Pasta.. There for a am in love with Stuffed Pasta Shells.
    STUFFED JUMBO PASTA SHELLS
    CHEESE FILLING:
    2 lbs. ricotta or cottage cheese
    1/2 lb. Mozzarella cheese, grated
    1 lb Italian Zesty Sausage (bob evens works well, as does Jimmy Dean)
    1/2 pound of chopped baby leaf spinach
    2 eggs
    1/2 c. Parmesan, grated
    1 tsp. salt
    1 tsp [...]

  • Thanksgiving

    So this year, was my familys year for Thanksgiving. We headed to Dayton around 12 with all my food in tow. I made a few more of PioneerWomans recipies. I made her delectable and rich Carmel Pumpkin Cheesecake, and Easy Green Beans.
    Typically i follow her recipies to a T, but i don’t much care for [...]

  • Chicken Fingers with Spicy Avacado Sauce

    Thanks to Working Woman Food, i tried this recipie.
    Chicken Fingers with Spicy Avocado Sauce
    For the Chicken Fingers
    2/3 cup whole wheat bread crumbs*
    1 teaspoon garlic powder
    1 teaspoon onion powder
    1 teaspoon dried oregano
    1 teaspoon dried thyme
    1/2 teaspoon paprika
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
    1/4 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into thin strips

    Preheat the oven to [...]

  • The Pioneer Woman Dairy Contest Finalist Recipe: The Awesome-est Blueberry Muffins

     The Awesome-est Blueberry Muffins
    I made these muffins a few weeks ago.
    They were awesome. I sent them in with Nathan to work.
    Here are the pics i took of them.

  • Pioneer Woman

    Liz passed on this link to me.
    Great recipies, Photoshop Lessons, Giveaways and other worlds of information about the life of a cow-girl.
    www.PioneerWoman.com