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Baked Onion Rings

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Don't allow this terrible photograph fool you, these onion rings are deliciously addicting!! I establish this recipe on Donna's weblog over at My Tasty Treasures . There are exclusively ii tablespoons of fossil oil inward the whole batch, simply you lot would never know it; this recipe is a keeper!! The onion rings bake upwards lite equally air, super crispy together with packed amongst flavor!! . 1 medium size vidalia onion 1½ cups corn flakes ½ loving cup obviously dry out breadstuff crumbs (I used Panko ) 1 large egg ½ loving cup depression fatty buttermilk ¼ loving cup flour 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper pepper to taste . Put the corn flakes together with breadstuff crumbs inward the nutrient processor together with pulse until you lot become fine crumbs (set aside). . Mix the egg, buttermilk, flour, cayenne and dark pepper. Cut the ends off of the vidalia onion together with and then cutting the centre of the onion into 4 thick slices. Separate the ring...

Basic Honey-Whole Wheat Bread

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I know a lot of y'all are silent inwards the throes of summertime heat, however, hither inwards Alaska, mid-August is the kickoff of our fall, amongst nighttime fourth dimension temperatures inwards the 40's as well as 24-hour interval fourth dimension temperatures betwixt 55 as well as 65 (we volition likely accept nighttime fourth dimension frost inwards a pair of weeks). Therefore, my thoughts are turning to heartier recipes. If YOUR business office of the globe is silent besides hot for baking, I promise that y'all volition bookmark this recipe for YOUR autumn season. I searched long as well as difficult for this whole wheat breadstuff recipe. It makes neat dinner rolls, hamburger buns as well as (best of all) splendid sandwich bread. It is only a basic whole wheat recipe, nil fancy, but the breadstuff is moist, flavorful as well as remains fresh longer than most homemade breads. I promise y'all volition assay it. 3 CUPS WARM WATER 2 ENVELOPES OF YEAST (or two...

Beef Pot Roast (Oven Braised)

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I volition endure posting some sometime classic recipes, from fourth dimension to time, for the younger cooks that take in my recipe blog. These recipes are classics for a argue (they are actually good) together with todays post service is a existent winner. . Not entirely is this an easy family agency meal , but it creates some of the best leftovers. Start yesteryear browning large chunks of chuck roast, together with thence tedious roasting them (in beef broth) inwards a low temperature oven, the goal lawsuit is super moist, super tender together with super beefy. 4 pound beef chuck roast (about 2" thick) 1 medium onion, chopped 1 tin (14 ounce) beef broth potatoes carrots salt together with pepper Don't permit the simplicity of the ingredients fool you, this is to a greater extent than close the cooking method than the ingredients. The concluding flavour is huge together with it comes from browning the beef good earlier yous pose it into the oven (at to the...

Brownie Bites

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So what does a bakery practise to celebrate her 60 th birthday? She bakes something SHE actually likes!!!         I constitute this petty recipe precious rock on My Tasty Treasures terminal winter; she calls them Fudge Brownie Cups; I telephone telephone them addictive!!! Donna frosts hers amongst melted Hershey's chocolate, just since I made these for my birthday, I frosted them amongst my all-time favorite chocolate cream cheese frosting. These petty beauties are moist as well as chocolate-y as well as hence slow to popular inwards your mouth. My boy calls them "wicked good". Fortunately for me...as all bakers know, calories consumed on your birthday practise non count!!!         2 sticks butter, room temperature 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips 1 + 1/3 cups firmly packed lite brownish sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 4 eggs 20 tablespoons flour Lightly butter mini-muffin pans (I used Bakers Joy spray). Me...

Carrot Cake Alongside Pineapple

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This recipe has been inwards my recipe box for thus long, that it seriously needs to live on replaced. It is covered amongst thumbprints as well as lilliputian vanilla splash stains that induce got accumulated over the final xxx years. Every fourth dimension I come across the card, it reminds me of the times I made this for my children as well as I can't pick out myself to brand a novel card. It is a deliciously MOIST as well as slow cake. 2 cups all role flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups granulated sugar 2 teaspoons soil cinnamon ¼ teaspoon soil nutmeg 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 loving cup vegetable oil 4 eggs 2 cups grated carrots 1 loving cup crushed pineapple (most of a twenty oz. can) 1 loving cup chopped pecans . Mix the dry out ingredients as well as ready aside. With an electrical mixer, crunch eggs as well as crude until really good combined. Add the dry out ingredients as well as crunch until smooth. Stir inwards the nuts, grated carr...

Cheesecake For Two

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This mini-cheesecake is baked inwards a foil lined miniature loaf pan (6"x 3"x 2"). T he loaf pan is all 1 piece, thence at that spot is no employment concern nearly H2O leaking into the cheesecake when yous bake it inwards a H2O bath, which is pretty handy!! We actually enjoyed this dessert. I also direct keep a chocolate version that I volition postal service later. Serve it plainly or function past times it amongst ANY sort of cooked fruit. Today's cheesecake was topped amongst fresh peach & cinnamon. Y ummy !! CRUST ½ loving cup graham cracker crumbs 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1 tablespoon melted butter   Mix the crumbs, saccharide too melted butter too press them into the bottom of a 6"x 3"x 2" foil lined miniature loaf pan that has been really lightly sprayed amongst cooking spray. Make certain yous larn out plenty foil hanging over the edges of the pan, to purpose equally "handles" for lifting the cheesecake out aft...

Chocolate - Banana Bread

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Yep, you lot read it correctly, chocolate banana bread, too it is really good!! The chocolate (cocoa too chocolate chips) lend the predominate flavor, but you lot tin however sense of savor the banana AND the fruit keeps the breadstuff extremely moist. 1  1/4  cups of mashed bananas 1/3 loving cup vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 loving cup white sugar 2 eggs 1  1/2 cups all role flour 1/2 cup baking cocoa 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon  salt 1 loving cup chopped pecans 1 loving cup semi-sweet mini chocolate chips (a must) .. Beat all of the wet ingredients too saccharide together until good combined too smooth. Beat inwards the dry out ingredients but until combined thus stir inwards the nuts too chocolate chips. . Bake the breadstuff inwards a greased 8" x 4" loaf pan, inwards a pre -heated 350F oven for threescore to lxx minutes or until toothpick tests build clean (see Federal Reserve annotation below). Cool breadstuff i...

Classic Jelly Gyre Cake

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This is an erstwhile classic recipe. I come across variations of it online (with a whipped cream filling) however, this recipe holds true to its advert JELLY roll, together with was filled amongst jam. It is definitely a crowd pleaser. This 1 is made amongst my raspberry preserves together with it is 1 of Picky Picky Hubbies favorites. 3 eggs 1 loving cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon butter extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/3 loving cup of H2O (see note) 1 loving cup of CAKE FLOUR (see note) 1 teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 loving cup jelly or jam powdered sugar Preheat oven to 375°. Line a 10” x 15” jelly curl pan amongst parchment newspaper together with spray the parchment newspaper amongst cooking spray, laid aside. Beat the eggs, on high speed, until real thick together with lemon colored (FULL 5 minutes). AFTER 5 minutes, gradually  add saccharide piece the mixer is running. Put butter extract into a 1/3 touchstone loving cup together w...

Coleen's Ruddy Rice

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This recipe is i of my master copy recipes; it is too i that I could in all likelihood "live on" if ask last (I similar it simply that much!!) It is my "go to" recipe when picky-picky hubby is grilling roughly huge slab-o-meat (and I desire something a trivial lighter). This recipe is too real quick too easy, made alongside pantry staples too if you lot double (or triple) it, it would last wonderful for a potluck.   1 loving cup raw white rice (not instant rice) 2 tablespoons canola oil 1/2 cup chopped onion 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 teaspoon reason cumin 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon dark pepper 15 oz. tin sack diced tomatoes inwards juice 1 love apple tree tin sack of H2O + ½ cup 4 ounce tin sack of mild light-green chili's 1 ruddy bell pepper chopped 1 loving cup ruddy kidney beans 1 pocket-size seeded too diced jalapeno (if you lot dearest extra heat) Heat the canola oil, thence add together the raw rice, onion too spic...

Cranberry Shortbread Bars

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This week, I convey been trying out around novel " goodie " recipes alongside the holidays inwards mind; I similar to add together a few novel items to my criterion cookie boxes every year. Today I made around cranberry shortbread bars that I institute inwards a vacation effect of Fine Cooking in addition to they are definitely going to brand the "big list". The bars convey an ultra-buttery shortbread crust topped alongside cooked cranberries in addition to and then a shortbread-type streusel topping. They are baked inwards a ix x xiii pan that is lined alongside foil for slowly removal. The bars are really sweet, buttery, tender in addition to cutting nicely...perfect for gift giving. Wash in addition to form a 12 ounce pocketbook of fresh cranberries. Put them inwards a heavy saucepan alongside ¼ loving cup of H2O in addition to ane loving cup of white sugar. Bring to a boil over high heat. After it comes to a boil, cut back the oestrus to medium high in addit...

Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies

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Spritz cookies are i of the simplest cookies yous volition honour too they come upwards inwards many flavors. Our favorites are chocolate, butter too cream cheese. Traditionally, they are shaped amongst a cookie press, but if yous create non accept a cookie press, yous tin strength out cast them inwards 1" balls too flatten them amongst a apartment bottomed drinking glass dipped inwards sugar. They are crispy, sweetness too lite equally air.     2½ cups all role flour 1 loving cup butter (room temperature) 3 ounces cream cheese (room temperature) 1 loving cup white sugar 1 large egg yolk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon almond extract Beat the butter, cream cheese too saccharide until it is lite too fluffy (about three or iv minutes). Beat inwards egg yolk too extracts. Add flour ½ loving cup at a fourth dimension until good blended. Dough volition live on quite stiff. Roll dough into logs too house inwards your cookie press (follow cookie press directio...

Cream Cheese Waffles

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More oft than not, nosotros accept sourdough waffles or sourdough pancakes on the weekends. However, of late I've been searching for a quick-fix waffle recipe as well as I accept constitute a dandy 1 in our electrical co-op newsletter, submitted past times a lady named Sarah Wolcoff . Her deliciously moist as well as fluffy cream cheese waffles are oh hence good!!! 1¾ loving cup all role flour 2 tablespoons brownish sugar 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/8 teaspoon salt (1) iii ounce cream cheese (room temperature) 2 eggs ( separated ) 1½ cups milk 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (my tweak) Mix the cream cheese as well as two egg yolks together until smooth; stir inwards milk, vanillaextract as well as vegetable oil. Add dry out ingredients as well as stir just until combined , it volition last a petty lumpy. Beat two egg whites until rigid peaks shape as well as and hence crease them gently into the batter, leaving lots of fluffs of egg white (do...

Crockpot Lasagna

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SERIOUS COMFORT FOOD I gauge this isn't technically lasagna, since it is cooked inwards the crock pot in addition to uses rigatoni noodles, but it qualifies every bit serious comfort nutrient in addition to has all of the rich, familiar lasagna flavors. 1 1/2 pounds thin soil beef (browned and drained well) 4 cups of beef broth (not bullion) (1) fifteen ounce tin of tomato plant sauce (1) 12 ounce tin of tomato plant paste 1 tablespoon dehydrated onion flakes 1 teaspoon dry out oregano 2 teaspoons dry out basil 1/2 teaspoon fennel seed (don't exit out) 1 teaspoons salt 1 tablespoons carbohydrate (don't exit out) 1/2 teaspoon dark pepper small pinch of cherry chili flakes (optional) 3/4 pound of rigatoni noodles 1/2 pound of mushrooms (thick sliced) 2 to 3 cups Colby jack cheese shredded 1 loving cup of ricotta cheese Brown the soil beef in addition to drain it real well. In a large crock pot (see depository fiscal estab...

Crockpot Turkey Breast

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SUPER EASY Have you lot always cooked a whole turkey pectus inward the crockpot? It is neglect proof together with super moist together with tender!!! It also makes plenty broth for a wonderful gravy too!! It is bang-up for ANY vacation or fifty-fifty a calendar week night.   5 pound bone-in turkey breast 1 envelope dry out onion soup mix iii stalks celery chopped 1/2 loving cup chicken broth dark pepper The size of your crockpot volition create upwards one's demand heed how many pounds of turkey you lot tin cook. I've establish turkey breasts at the market, weighing every bit picayune every bit iv 1/2 pounds together with every bit much every bit vii pounds... only proceed inward demand heed it is going to convey to jibe into your crockpot. Wash together with pat dry out your THAWED turkey breast. Trim the meat together with hence that it volition jibe into the crockpot ( I had to take the rib bones (with my kitchen shears) to teach it to fit). Coat the surf...

Easy Enchilada Casserole

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This is a swell comfort nutrient classic that I turned into an easy, quick fix casserole. You tin easily double or triple the ingredients for a large crowd. The flavors are swell together with it reheats extremely well. MEAT FILLING 1 pound lean dry reason beef 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon dry out onion flakes 3 teaspoons chili powder 1 teaspoon dry reason cumin ½ loving cup water 4 oz. mild greenish chilies (I utilisation Ortega brand) Brown the dry reason beef together with drain. Return to pan together with add together everything else, stir good together with allow this simmer for nigh 10 minutes, stir inward a tin of refried beans together with take away from rut together with laid aside.   ENCHILADA SAUCE (1) vi ounce tin tomato plant paste 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 teaspoon dry reason cumin 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon cayenne 2 cups water Mix good together with simmer for nigh fifteen minutes...set aside ASSEMBLY In a greased nine x xiii pan, place ...