Recipes
I love me some Cake Pops! What’s a cake pop you say? Have you been living under a rock for the past 3-4 years? Cake pops are a national phenomenon and there are more blog posts, books, magazine articles, flickr photos and facebook posts on them each and every day. There is even now a cake pop baking mold! Bakerella turned some ordinary cake into an internet sensation! Bakerella has an amazing book out about them. Her book is a huge hit! She turns cake into something magnificent! For the past 3 Halloweens, we’ve been making spooky cake balls, and...
This one is a no-brainer recipe. Super easy, quick and tasty! A kid friendly favorite. Can be made gluten free if you use corn tortillas. Recipe: Easy Taco Casserole Ingredients 1 lb ground beef (or turkey) 1 small onion, chopped 1 can Rotel Taco Seasoning 1/2 cup water 1 pkg (12) hard taco shells, yellow or white corn, broken, divided in 2 halves 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese (or a mexican blend) Garnish suggestions – green onions chopped, sour cream, jalapenos, avacado Instructions Preheat oven to 375, grease a 13×9 baking dish Brown the meat and add the onion, cook...
I’m kind of addicted to edamame right now, can you tell? At least the kids love it too, so it’s an easy way to pack in nutrition to a meal. Recipe: Shrimp and Snow Pea Stir-fry Ingredients 3/4 cup chicken broth 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 tablespoons mirin (rice wine) or sherry 1/2 tablespoon sesame oil 1 tablespoon soy sauce (low sodium) 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 pound large shrimp, peeled & deveined 4 green onions , sliced 2 cups frozen edamame, thawed 3 cups snow peas 1 cup jasmine rice, uncooked Instructions [1] Cook rice according to...
Papa Knitschmidt has quite the sweet tooth and likes to bake. He has made some amazingly yummy treats! When Chalupa Boy was a baby I worked for Papa for a while. There was always some kind of mini candy bar or chocolate nugget of one variety or another in the jar on his desk. But my favorite days were the ones when Papa had been baking and there was something wrapped up waiting for me....
I’ve dug deep into my dads recipes again! This time for his famous Drunken Chicken! Enjoy! (P.S. – I didn’t take a pic of my meal and then searching for a photo of one like this recipe was like trying to find a needle in a haystack, so enjoy this pic of a passed out chicken instead. ) Recipe: Jack Straw’s Drunken Chicken Ingredients 3 Tbsp Canola Oil 1.5 lbs Chicken Breasts 1 1/2 tsp Chili Powder sald 1/2 lb Chorizo 1 med onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 c orange juice 1/3 c gold tequila 2 Tbsp capers...
This is Amazing! I made it last week and the kids gobbled it up! Recipe: 3 Cheese Chicken Penne Ingredients 1-1/2 cups multi-grain penne pasta, uncooked 1 pkg. (9 oz.) fresh spinach leaves 1 lb. Boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces 1 tsp. Dried basil leaves 1 jar (14-1/2 oz.) spaghetti sauce 1 can (14-1/2 oz.) diced tomatoes, drained 2 oz. (1/4 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese, cubed 1 cup KRAFT 2% Milk Shredded Mozzarella Cheese, divided 2 Tbsp. KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese Instructions HEAT oven to 375ºF. COOK pasta as directed on package, omitting salt and...
I’m ready for fall to arrive, how about you?! I was searching for a great pumpkin recipe to get me in the autumn mood and came accross this AWESOME one from Family Fun Magazine! I’m making them now! Hope they turn out just as tasty as they look! Recipe: Pumpkin Cupcakes Ingredients CUPCAKES: 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ginger 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1 1/4 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup canned pumpkin CREAM CHEESE FROSTING: 3 cups confectioners’ sugar 1 8-ounce...
Tired of pasta and don’t feel like making a risotto? This is my go-to for pasta night here. My kids LOVE Gnocchi! Gnocchi (pronounced nee-okkee) are an excellent alternative: They’re fantastic with all sorts of sauces, from a simple summer tomato sauce to the richest winter meat sauce. Florentines call them topini (field mice), because the home made ones vaguely resemble mice in size and shape. This can produce a certain amount of confusion outside of Tuscany; one of my wife’s aunts once caused a stir in a restaurant in Rome when she saw someone else eating gnocchi and asked...
My kids go bananas for mac-n-cheese and I feel better making it from scratch so I know what they are getting nutrition wise. Here is our favorite Mac & Cheese recipe! Recipe: Comfort Food – Mac & Cheese Ingredients 1 (8 ounce) package elbow macaroni 1 (8 ounce) package shredded sharp Cheddar cheese 1 (12 ounce) container small curd cottage cheese 1 (8 ounce) container sour cream 1/2 c milk 1/4 c grated Parmesan cheese salt and pepper to taste 1/4 c dry bread crumbs 1/4 c butter, melted Instructions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bring...
My youngest is allergic to everything. I mean EVERYTHING! Milk, Soy, Gluten, Nuts, Citric Acid, Squash, just to name a few. Feeding him is hard these days, but getting easier as more products that are allergy friendly come into the market. I still find myself making the majority of his foods from scratch and often have to heavily modify recipes. One thing that I couldn’t figure out was how to sub butter. Since Chewy is allergic to both milk and soy, there wasn’t anything I knew of that could replace both and still act as butter in recipes. Tropical Traditions...
