I love when improvising in the kitchen leads to the discovery of a great recipe. And I love it even more when it isn't even me doing the improvising but I still get to enjoy the great recipe that resulted from it. This recipe comes from our friend Ben, who is a wonderful cook. He had made a batch of some English muffin bread and only had one loaf pan available to cook it in. He decided to cook the second half of the bread in an 8" springform pan. That happy accident made the perfect base for a brie boat, which is basically a hollowed out bread bowl with melted brie inside. If any of you have had melted brie before, you know it's up...
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Strawberry Rhubarb Dump Cake From Scratch
Lovely name, isn't it? Dump cake. It goes up there between mud pie and monkey bread on the unfortunately unappetizing food names list. Despite the name, the idea behind a dump cake is very appealing. You layer some kind of fruit in a baking pan, dump everything else on top of it, bake it and you're done. It ends up being some kind of cross between a cake and a fruit cobbler that is juicy and delicious. And as far as cakes go, that's about as...
Thursday Thoughts - June 13, 2012
Some random thoughts for your Thursday:1. Our house looks a lot like this lately. And it seems to get to that state a lot quicker than it used to. 2. Amelia is working on standing while holding on to things. If you plop her by the toy chest, she'll entertain herself by pulling out toys one by one. She reminds me a little bit of the crane toy at the arcade. Except a lot cuter.3. As you can probably see in #2, sometimes Amelia gets dressed up...
7UP Cake
When it comes to a 7UP cake, there seem to be two classes of people - those who love it, and those who haven't heard about it yet. If you have tried a 7UP cake you will probably nod your head when I describe this cake as one of the best pound cakes you can make. It is moist, buttery and perfectly sweet with just a touch of lemon flavor from the 7UP and lemon zest. It is easy to make and beautiful in presentation. I forget who in my family made...
Thursday Thoughts - June 6, 2013
Random thoughts for your Thursday:1. Amelia turned one! She thoroughly enjoyed opening presents and eating cake. I baked both a chocolate cake and a pound cake and the pound cake won hands down. Looks like Amelia has her mom's love of butter. I'll be sharing the recipe for the pound cake later this week. It's one of my favorites.2. Know those tire shreds you sometimes see on the freeway? My car tried to play PacMan with a nearly full one. It...
Cilantro-Lime Pasta Salad
One of my favorite things about summer is all the fresh food and salads. Whether they are at a barbeque with friends or just a simple light dinner at home, the salads are one thing I look forward to when the weather starts to warm up. I have my favorites, but I always like to try new kinds to mix things up a bit, and this cilantro-lime salad is one of the best I've tried in a long time. A really long time. It has already cemented itself in the...
Thursday Thoughts - May 30, 2013
Random thoughts for your Thursday:1. Refinishing furniture is hard. Just thought I'd put that out there. Hopefully there will be before and after pictures of the project from H-E-DoubleHockeySticks next week. If however, there is an abrupt stop to all posting in the near future, know that it was a mid century hutch that killed me. 2. These refillable squeezy packets are awesome. We've tried a couple and these are the best. They less...
Vermont Burgers
It's officially grilling season, folks. While some folks grill year round (my brother and dad, to name two) I generally put the grill away once the leaves start to fall and pull it out again around Memorial Day. That long winter without grilled burgers, chicken legs and steaks makes them taste all the better the next summer. This year when I pulled out the grill, the first thing I tried were these Vermont burgers. I ran across the recipe...
Thursday Thoughts - May 23, 2013
Some random musings for your Thursday - 1. The car situation mentioned here is still not resolved. Husband and I went to a dealer the other weekend and we learned two things - that 0% financing will still not make a new car free, (sad, I know) and that according to the sales manager, my current vehicle will depreciate by $1600 in about 500 miles when it rolls over from 94,500 to 95,000 miles. This is according to a little book of car...
Taco Rice
Do yourself a favor and make this dinner before you even try to describe what it is to your family. If you are anything like me, you just won't do it justice and your family will flatly refuse it before you even get to your stovetop. Later, of course, when you are eating the bowl of taco rice that was rejected earlier by said family members, they will look at you like you tricked them and demand a do-over. "I didn't understand what you were...
Southwestern Chicken Foil Dinner
Camping - fan or hater? While it is something I think I romanticize between the times that I'm NOT laying on some hard ground, freezing/sweating, trying to sleep despite it being completely bright out at 6 AM, I would still say I'm a fan. There is something about being outside, making do with what you brought, and being among nature that is invigorating, even if it requires me to to take a long nap once I get home. Before I start the long...
