Posts tagged butter

Best Spinach and Artichoke Dip

This spinach and artichoke recipe is my “go to” recipe when I need to bring something to a party or a dinner. It is simple to make and only takes about 30 minutes to finish. Plus it is filled with all kinds of splurge things like butter, cream cheese and sour cream. This particular batch [...]

Mashed Yukon Gold Potatoes with Horseradish Butter

Wow, that’s a mouthful. Literally and figuratively. This is another recipe from the December 2009 issue of Cooking Light, prepared for our New Year’s Eve feast.
The potatoes get boiled with a bay leaf, which adds flavor without adding sodium.

The butter and the potatoes were easy to prepare, but I made the butter the day before, [...]

Pound Cake

If you are looking for the opposite of a healthy food, then this cake is for you. Apparently the pound in “pound cake” refers to the butter. I think I knew that but it is still surprising when you actually make it. This cake is far better than any pound cake you can buy in [...]

Brownies

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 [...]

Shrimp Fettucini Alfredo

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 [...]