Or…how to turn a lovely vegetable into a butter and salt soaked bowl of tastiness. Steam one pound of sugar snap peas until crisp tender. Combine 5 tsp. melted butter, 1 T. low-sodium soy sauce, 1 tsp lemon juice and a couple of twists from the pepper mill. Drizzle over peas. TADA! –From Cooking Light.
1 1/2 c. flour 1/2 c. sugar 2 T. margarine, softened 1/2 c. whole wheat flour 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 – 2/3 c. milk Preheat oven to 325. In large bowl or food processor combine the flours; sugar and salt. Cut the margarine into the flour until mixture looks like coarse meal. Blend in milk [...]
3 cups each of Corn Chex, Rice Chex, and Wheat Chex (Don’t they sell these all mixed together yet?) 1 c. sliced almonds 1/4 c. margarine or butter, melted (do not use spread or tub products) 1/4 c. packed brown sugar 1/4 c. frozen (thawed) orange juice concentrate 1/2 c. dried cranberries Heat oven to [...]
Simple. Brilliant. I took these to a potluck and you would have thought I spent six hours hunched over a stove cooking something incredibly complex. 40 tater tots, slightly thawed. 20 slices of bacon, any sort. (I use my husband’s homemade bacon, which is really lean.) Cut the bacon in half and wrap each piece [...]
3/4 c. ricotta cheese 1/4 c. freshly grated Parmesan cheese 1 ball pizza dough, or 1 lb loaf of frozen bread dough any other “toppings” you want. I usually dice up sliced pepperoni, black olives, and mushrooms. You can add anything that floats your boat. Dice items fairly small. 2 T. milk spaghetti sauce of [...]
I am a sucker for artichoke dip. It has all my favorite food groups in it, and it allows me to eat Tricuits wantonly. I just made this artichoke dip for Orphan’s Thanksgiving, and of course I had to try it before I served it to starving orphans, and I think I am going to [...]
Tis the season where I sit around with my handy dandy Doane paper notebook and plan and re-plan the Orphan’s Thanksgiving Party I host every year. I make a ton of food and invite all my family-less friends over to my house the night before Thanksgiving for appetizers and movies. There is much booze and [...]
Who does not love tapenade? This was also on the side of the craptastic Triscuit Thin Crisp Quattro Formaggio box. (You know you are going to go out and buy them just to see if they are as underwhelming as I say.) 1 8 oz can pitted black olives 1/4 c. sun-dried tomatoes 2 T. [...]
Taken straight off the side of a very disappointing box of Triscuit Thin Crisps in the Quattro Formaggio flavor. There was not Quattro Formaggios. There was one Formaggio and it’s name is “Unnatural MSG Formaggio” 1 T. butter (they actually say margarine, but that word does not exist in our house) 1 large sweet onion, [...]
Every winter I throw a big ole weekend long party, and this year I decided it would be smart for me to make appetizers ahead of time, so that when it was two am and we were all drunk and hungry, I could just pop some frozen appetizers in the oven and everyone would think [...]
