Slow-roasted Fresh strawberries, sprinkled generously with sugar and lightly with salt and pepper, are baked slowly until they release their juices and slightly caramelize. SIMPLE ROASTED FRESH STRAWBERRIES These roasted strawberries go brilliantly in all kinds of desserts. Don't leave out the pepper. You will taste the magic the pepper gives to balance the tartness with the sweetness of the strawberries. One of my favorite things about summer is all the fresh fruit in the grocery stores. I almost always tend to buy more than we can eat, including fresh strawberries, and I wait until the last minute to use them up before they spoil. This summer, I started slow roasting half of the strawberries when I buy them. I like to roast them whole instead of slicing them. The berries hold their shape well while roasting, coming out plump and luscious. The juices released from the fruit while roasting reduces to a thick sauc...
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Slow Roasted Strawberry No Churn Ice Cream
Slow Roasted Strawberry No Churn Ice Cream, an intense, bold strawberry flavor created by roasting fresh strawberries and incorporating them into a no churn ice cream recipe. To celebrate the last few days of summer, we are planning our Labor Day weekend with an America theme potluck, including a backyard BBQ, spectacular pasta salads, easy side dishes that require little cooking time, and for dessert no churn ice cream. It took me a while to get on the no churn ice cream wagon. I wish I had joined in on the fun way to make ice cream a long time ago.
Southern Fresh Cherry Cake
Southern Fresh Cherry Cake is a quick, easy, deliciously moist cake made with self-rising flour, cornmeal, buttermilk, eggs, and butter. Serve it plain with a dollop of whipped cream or as we did with a dusting of powdered sugar. FRESH CHERRY COFFEE CAKE Southern Fresh Cherry Cake is perfect on its own with a cup of tea or coffee in the morning for breakfast or, like us Southerners, in the afternoon as a snack. It is dense yet tender, with the ideal amount of cherries peeking through the cake and deliciously moist. The cherries are so plentiful in the grocery stores right now, and what better way to showcase them than to make a Southern Fresh Cherry Cake. I actually had to buy a couple of bags of cherries to have enough to make the cake. My grandsons are huge fans of these little jewels. Like most fruits, fresh cherries have the pros and cons. Fresh Cherries do not have a lot of nutritional value, but they are h...
No Churn Peach Cobbler Ice Cream
No Churn Peach Cobbler Ice Cream, fresh peach cobbler pieces folded into a leftover homemade creamy vanilla ice cream recipe, one irresistible frozen dessert. Do you like Homemade Peach Cobbler with a Double Crust? How about Peach Ice Cream? It gets even better, how about No Churn Peach Cobbler Ice Cream? We are especially fond of a big scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream over a warm bowl of homemade peach cobbler. This is how it goes, while the peach cobbler is baking, we are making a freezer of homemade vanilla ice cream, epic! Depending on how many are at our house when we make it, I will freeze any leftovers. The same goes for the peach cobbler. If it is just Jim and me, we always have peach cobbler leftover.
American Flag Pie with Homemade Pie Crust
American Flag Pie is made with a homemade pie crust that brings this pie to a rich balance of buttery flakiness as well as a luscious, sweet-tart taste of homemade pie filling. Easy Flag Pie This easy flag pie is the most wonderful patriotic pie to come out of my kitchen. It is festive and a fantastic addition to my Memorial Day and July 4th celebrations. My Mother taught me long ago that a pie is only as good as its crust. While there is some high-quality, ready-made pie crust in the stores today, that was not the case when I was growing up. I learned to make pie dough from my Mother and perfected it in my Home Economics class in high school. I recommend making a homemade pie crust if at all possible. For the American Flag Pie recipe, I use one of my favorite pie crust recipes. My Homemade Pie Crust recipe combines butter and shortening, lending a flaky, buttery crust every time. I have a few secrets to share that will he...
Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #6 Hobo Dinners
The Weeknight Family Supper Meal is an inspiration for a meal that can be enjoyed any night of the week, offering ideas on how to prepare part of the meal ahead, how to freeze leftovers, and how to repurpose them into a new meal. Hobo Dinners are the perfect meal to make on a busy weeknight. The hamburger, potatoes, carrots, celery, and onions are all cooked in a foil packet, making clean up virtually nonexistent. To change things up, sometimes I add a wedge of cabbage. Season each layer of vegetables to keep the whole meal flavorful. The Hobo Dinner can be made the night before and placed in the refrigerator. Set it out an hour before cooking. The Hobo Dinners are a meal all by themselves, but I like to serve them alongside crusty bread or perhaps some Red Pepper Flake Seasoned Crackers. These Red Pepper Flake Seasoned Crackers add a spicy flair and help enhance the flavor of all the food on your fork. The crackers can be made a day or two ahea...
Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #4 Salmon Croquettes
Weeknight Family Supper Meal is an inspiration for a meal one night of the week, offering ideas on how to prepare part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers, or how to repurpose leftovers into a new meal. Most people don't know how easy it is to make salmon croquettes. Mix up a few ingredients, mince the onions, egg, and seasoning in a bowl. Roll them into small balls, then roll them in saltine cracker crumbs and fry in oil. Voila, salmon croquettes. See how easy, and oh! so delicious. Perfect for a weeknight meal.
Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #3 Chicken Terrific
Weeknight Family Supper Meal is an inspiration for a meal one night of the week, offering ideas on how to prepare part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers, or how to repurpose leftovers into a new meal. Casseroles are a favorite at our house, especially those that can be made ahead, stored in the fridge, and then popped in the oven when it's time to cook supper. If a buttery topping is sprinkled on top, as this casserole has, leave it to sprinkle just before baking. Look out for the leftovers. We love this casserole almost better the next day. It is scrumptious. Did I say it is not like your typical casseroles? The ingredients may surprise you.
Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #2 Leftover Ham with Bowtie Pasta and English Peas
Weeknight Family Supper Meal , an inspiration for a meal one night of the week that may include ideas how to make part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers or how to make leftovers into a makeover for another meal. After Christmas, we always have plenty of ham leftover. This Christmas was no different. I usually buy a whole ham for Thanksgiving and a spiral ham for Christmas. I love to dice leftover spiral ham. The cuts are all uniform and the perfect thickness. They look pretty in ham salad or a pasta dish like Leftover Ham and Bowtie Pasta.
Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #1 Smothered Burritos Casserole Using Store Bought Frozen Burritos
Weeknight Family Supper Meal , an inspiration for a meal one night of the week that may include ideas how to make part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers or how to make leftovers into makeovers for another meal. The main dish is Smothered Burrito Casserole using premade frozen burritos. For the perfect accompaniment, a tasty recipe for Mexican Salad that goes all the way back to the 1960's. Sometimes we add a side dish of whole kernel corn, Mexican Rice, and chips and hot sauce. Dessert is a simple layer of crescent rolls blanketed around a fluf fy cream cheese mixture known as Sopopia Cheesecake.
Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake
Cranberry Orange Bundt Cake , a beautiful festive dessert with the flavor combo of cranberry and orange. Perfect for any holiday occasion, but especially around Christmas time. Tis the season for cranberry and orange, right? I love the combination and look forward to it every year. I watch for the cranberries to be stocked in the stores. The sweetness of the orange and the tartness of the cranberries trigger a beautiful burst of flavor everytime they come together. This is cake can be a breakfast cake or a dessert cake and why not include it in the snack category too. Oh! And don't forget about afternoon tea. haha!
Hot Crispy Apple Pies
A dessert pastry, just like the ones you get at a drive-through fast food restaurant, is only better. And the best part of the "better" is the recipe calls for only two ingredients, yes, only two! McDonald's Copycat Hot Apple Pies If you love the apple pies from McDonald's, you will like this copycat recipe that you can make at home. They are super flaky and crispy. These hot, crispy apple pies are similar to a turnover, except they are smaller and fried. The perfect portable little dessert. The fruit filling is a premade apple filling I bought from a little Amish Pantry Store, not too far from where we live. The apples are diced into little chunks, which works great for these little pies. I could have stayed there all day in their little food pantry. I ended up buying three fruit fillings, apple, apricot, and peach. The dough for this recipe is straightforward. Are you ready? I used wont...
Homemade Individual Serve Applesauce
Homemade Individual-Serve Applesauce is a tasty, healthy applesauce with an option for no added sugar. Homemade Applesauce My homemade applesauce recipe is so simple to make, and it creates an incredible aroma in the kitchen, and tastes much better than any you buy in the store. With apple season in full swing, I wanted to make a batch of applesauce. But not just any applesauce. An applesauce that is wholesome and delicious at the same time, made with only four ingredients, served in individual portion-control containers. In the past, I have made applesauce with loads of sugar, but not this time. When making applesauce, it's important to use a variety of apples. I like to use sweet and tart apples, too, to better balance flavor and texture. The sweet apples will break down more, whereas the tart apples will not. I used a variety of apples, including Granny Smith and Gala, in this recipe. I cooked the applesauce on the s...
