Easy Recipes For Those Who Like To Cook and Bake
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Ling Ling Yakatori Chicken Fried Rice delivers superior flavor for an easy weeknight meal.
Now that it is fall, we have been super busy with traveling, reunions and work projects. I don’t even know where the time goes!
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Tortellini Caprese Salad: Pesto Tortellini Pasta Salad with tomatoes, Mozzarella and fresh basil tossed in a Vinaigrette! This will be a hit at your next picnic or potluck!
Since the weather has been super warm out, we are grilling and BBQ’ing every weekend. I am so crazy about Caprese pasta salad, I found the Pesto Tortellini family pack and thought that a Caprese Pasta Salad would be wonderful with it. The flavors were so delicious! Everybody loved it, I’ll double the recipe next time! It disappeared quickly!
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Biscuits are such a comfort food…can any food remind us quite so much of home? They’re perfect any way you want them: served with your egg breakfast, with a delicious bowl of soup, or smothered with butter and jam. These fat, flaky mounds are just begging to be drowned in gravy, jam, lemon curd, or honey! Hungry for something heavier? They are wonderful layered with ham and cheese or smothered in sausage gravy alongside eggs and grits. The options are endless! Scroll down and don’t miss a single one of these biscuit recipes!
No kneading or rolling – just drop the dough by the spoonful into a greased or buttered pan. Recipe Moore or Less Cooking
Only 4 ingredients! Recipe Recipes For My Boys
Enjoy a batch of these milk biscuits with a big pot of your favorite soup. Recipe Chin Deep
Zippy cheesy biscuits! Recipe Moore or Less Cooking
Make your own biscuit mix for fluffy biscuits. Recipe Recipes For My Boys
These biscuits are so perfect and easy to make right at home. Recipe CincyShopper
Their slight sweetness makes them taste a lot like drop scones, so of course they’re good with butter or jam!Recipe ChinDeep
Light, fluffy, and full of flavor. Recipe Cooking With Mary and Friends
A delicious breakfast indulgence that is perfect for a cozy weekend meal. Recipe ChinDeep
A simple herb biscuit recipe. These biscuits also make amazing breakfast sandwiches! Just split them and fill with eggs, bacon, and cheese. Recipe ChinDeepThis post originally aired on Parade, Community Table. Written by Nettie Moore.
Nettie Moore is the cook, baker, photographer and designer behind Moore or Less Cooking Food Blog. Nettie is a self-trained cook and baker. She loves creating easy recipes that don’t call for a lot of unknown ingredients. Nettie’s Blueberry Skillet Cake has been featured in Taste Of Home Magazine and her Peach Raspberry Pie has won awards! She was born and raised in Southern California and now calls New England her home, where she lives with her husband and two children. Follow her on her blog Moore Or Less Cooking,Facebook, and Pinterest.
Baked cheesy rice with three types of cheese and moist brown rice makes a perfect side dish.
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When we lived in New Jersey, our dear friend and neighbor would make us Corn Souffle for Christmas Eve. I have been looking for her recipe for years and finally found it. It’s also called Sweet Corn Spoonbread in the south. Being from the west coast, I just know that it tastes amazing!
If you love cornbread, you are going to go bonkers over this Easy Sweet Corn Spoonbread! I made it for Christmas Eve supper and when I tasted it, I wanted it all to myself! Too bad my family smelled it and they all wanted to know what I was cooking. It was gone in a matter of minutes! I heard a lot of “mmmmmmm so delicious Mom”! It’s super easy to make and it is now my favorite side dish. Although I could eat it just as my main meal! It’s like a corn souffle but so much better!
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I have a double whammy, hubs is Irish and loves a bargain! So when 70 pounds of potatoes go on sale for $7.00, he can’t resist buying a couple bags. Even with hundreds of potatoes growing in my garden! Yes he is a meat and potato kind of guy. Potatoes go with everything!
So I love coming up with new potato recipes. Potato salad, twice baked potatoes, Hasselback potatoes, potato au gratin, smashed potatoes, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes….you get the idea! You say potato, I say potato, let’s have a potato party!!
Scroll down to view the BEST Potato Side Dishes! Pure comfort food, your family and guests will be going back for seconds or Threeconds…is that even a word? It will be when you serve these delicious potato sides!
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This is my favorite summer side salad, I am actually very happy to have it as a meal! It is so delicious with fresh picked Broccoli, crispy Hardwood Bacon, Crispy Gala Apples, Chopped Hazelnuts, Slivered Almonds, Cabot White Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Zippy Red Onion and Dried Cranberries.
It’s like a Cobb salad but instead of lettuce, broccoli is the main star.
Our friend Jenny picked this HUGE Broccoli from her Veggie Garden and left it on our kitchen table! Lucky me, so immediately I thought of making a delicious salad with it! Thank you Jenny and Carol!!
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If you need a biscuit in a snap, these are my go to recipe, I have been making them for many years and they are difficult to mess up! No kneading or rolling, just drop the dough by the spoonful into a greased or buttered pan.
When I prepare a Slow Roasted Pot Roast or Soup or Stew, hubs requests my Baking Powder Drop Biscuits to accompany them. They are light and fluffy and easy to whip it together. Light-gold and crusty outside, moist and fine-textured inside. Serve with butter!
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I love everything about summer, especially seeing what is growing my vegetable garden. My kale, basil, and tomatoes are explosive. We have had huge thunder showers, so I haven’t had to water much lately. My zucchini and squash blossoms are just coming out.
When my neighbor told me that he has lots of butternut squash blossoms and zucchini blossoms and would I like some, I couldn’t get my sandals on fast enough!
I decided to stuff them with Mozzarella, Parmesan Reggiano and Basil. You can actually stuff blossoms with any kind of cheese that you like, ricotta, goat, gruyere, or with meat or rice. I have had them many ways, all so delicious.
For 7 Blossoms, I grated about 1 cup of Mozzarella Cheese and added about a 1/4 cup of Parmesan Reggiano Cheese, I ripped up freshly picked basil leaves and stuffed the blossoms.
Twist the ends closed and try to pinch the blossoms closed so that the cheese doesn’t fall out. 
Dip stuffed blossoms in flour, then in egg, then again in flour
Fill skillet pan with about an inch of vegetable oil, carefully place stuffed blossoms in pan on medium high heat, saute until golden brown.
These are a delicious summer treat, a perfect appetizer with a cold glass of Chardonnay!
Stuffed Squash Blossoms
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Wash squash blossoms. Take the stamen out from inside the blossom. Pat dry. In a small bowl, combine Mozzarella , Parmesan, and basil. Carefully fill the blossoms with the cheese mixture. Twist the top of the blossoms to close off, repeat with remaining blossoms.
Place the flour in a shallow bowl and add the pepper and salt, mix. Beat the eggs in a bowl and place next to the flour. Cover the squash blossoms in flour mixture, then in the egg wash and back in the flour, until very well coated. Repeat with remaining blossoms.
Pour oil into a rimmed frying pan, filling about 2-3 inches. Heat until hot but not smoking, about 350-380 degrees. Carefully fry blossoms in batches, until a nice golden brown color. Serve warm.
Recipe adapted from Epicurean Mom
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| One of my first jobs was working in an Israeli Restaurant in the Valley. I learned a lot that summer. Not only did I waitress, but I cooked and learned how to prepare so many amazing Israeli dishes. This was a Mom and Pop restaurant and Mom and Pop didn’t speak very much English. So we did a lot of communicating through our love of food. One of my favorite dishes that I ate every day was Israeli Salad. It is such an easy delicious addition to any meal. All you need are tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, preferably red, lemon juice, Olive Oil and I added grilled corn for fun. I am so lucky to have so many nice friends who are growing abundant amounts of veggies in their garden, I am able to make my favorite Israeli Salad. |
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Israeli Salad
