Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook
Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook
Spinach and Ritz Cracker Stuffed Mushrooms are ideal for appetizers, snacks, or party food. The butteriness, tenderness, and cheesiness make them irresistible! They are vegetation making them crowd-friendly and perfect for parties! I like stuffed mushrooms of all kinds—with crab, sausage, cream cheese, and bread stuffing—you name it. But my favorite is with Ritz crackers. The first time I made it, I used this recipe …
This creamy Spinach and Bacon Dip is full of chopped spinach and scrumptious bacon. With reduced fat and calorie ingredients, it’s a good balance of indulgence and going light. It’s a crowd-pleasing appetizer that always disappears quickly. This post has been updated with new images and added content since its original publication in May 2013. Good news! I have a date with Michael Bublé in …
These Easy Fish Dogs are simple yet satisfying. Haddock is lightly battered and cooked until golden brown. Serve on a hot dog bun with lettuce, tomato, and tartar sauce. You can use haddock, cod, or your favorite white fish. I don’t know about you, but once in a while, I would wake up to love notes from the men in my life. The last one …
Cavacas is a popover-style Portuguese pastry. It is light and airy, and the glaze has a hint of lemon. Delicious! My friend Ria brought Cavacas to my house when she and her husband visited one day. I have never had it before, and it was love at first bite! It was crusty and sweet on the outside, soft, eggy, and air-pocket-filled on the inside. With …
Cocoa powder and chocolate chips morsels flavor this moist and dense Double Chocolate Bread in a Can. The cake is baked in a can for a fun, rustic, and simple presentation. The inspiration for this bread came from Trisha Yearwood of the Food Network. She baked raisin bread in cans to give away as gifts on one of her shows. I loved the simplicity and …
These Glazed Funfetti Cookies are shortbread style cookies with a funfetti glaze scream springtime. They are perfect for the Easter dessert table. Happy Spring!! Or, is it? Not here. Looking outdoors, it seems to be a distant dream. The four foot wall of snow created by my husband’s snow blowing, the predicted high temps in the 40s, the seemingly lifeless brown trees swaying in the …
This Bacon Egg and Sweet Sausage Fried Rice has sweet and salty notes. Bacon, egg, and sweet Chinese sausage provides great flavor. So much better than takeout! As you can see by the name, this is going to be an indulgent meal for the health conscious. Some things are not worth the calories and fat, but others are, like this fried rice. Sometimes you have …
Eggless Cornbread is slightly sweet, tender, and has little kernels of tender corn. It’s so easy to put together and makes a great side dish or snack. Well, we got a little snow again a few days ago. Little? Right! That’s my deck, and that’s a yardstick at the bottom of the first picture. It measured a mere 18 inches of freshly fallen snow. All …
This Buffalo Chicken Quiche is great for brunch, dinner, or a potluck. It has a bit of heat and a lot of cheesy goodness from mozzarella and blue cheese. Before we talk about food, could we address the age-old question of the differences between little boys and girls? I want to point out a few: There is a definite biological factor that influences the way …
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