I had one of the best kinds of surprises waiting for me when I got home today… brownies! Not your box brownies either, actual homemade ones!
4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate
3/4 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1 cup coarsely chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
2 ounces semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted (optional)
powdered sugar [...]
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This recipe comes from my mother-in-law. We had it once with them and I have been craving it ever since. The recipe is so much easier than I thought it would be. It only took about 30 minutes to make the entire meal. Perfect for a week night meal and best of all there are [...]
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I always used to feel like Sunday night meals should involve warming the whole house up with the oven or running the slow cooker all day. Probably not such a great idea in the summer but now that the fall weather has taken hold, it definitely felt like we needed to get the oven running.
In truth the oven [...]
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I get to write this up as I am waiting for the oven to warm up enough to bake the muffins. I knew I had made the right choice as soon as I opened the can of pumpkin. While pumpkin is probably more associated with Thanksgiving (at least in the US), I thought pumpkin muffins [...]
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The recipe was a necessity when I decided to make Crab Cakes. I wanted to try a sauce that I hadn’t used before. I have been fascinated with aioli for some time and this was my first attempt at it. I got out the food processor and the entire recipe took about two minutes to [...]
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Crab cakes were the first recipe that I found and made changes to in order to make the food better suited to me. That may not sound like a big thing but being able to taste a food and decide what is missing or what could be changed (other than salt) is a huge step [...]
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What could be a better combination than chicken and a rich sour cream sauce. This recipe is the basis for the sour cream and paprika chicken recipe that I made here. As always, anything that has onion in it will certainly taste better with a bit of garlic.
The recipe with my modifications is below:
4 skinless, [...]
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