Tag: flour

  • Your Friends Will Love These Treats – Dog Biscuits

    Your Friends Will Love These Treats – Dog Biscuits

    Sonic. Finley. Sven. Carlton. Lola. Jax. Gracie. Riley. Happy. Party. Nuna. Professor. Bubbles. What do all these names have in common?

  • Pro-tip Tuesday: Repurpose Used Spice Containers for Baking

    Pro-tip Tuesday:
    Repurpose Used Spice Containers for Baking

    Ever get to the middle of a baking project and find your hands all sticky but out of flour in your bowl for dusting? Did you finally use up one of those expensive little containers of spices from the store, and it’s got a little sifter cover thingy? Repurpose it to help you dust surfaces…

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Tea Infuser + Dessert Dusting

    Pro-Tip Tuesday: Tea Infuser + Dessert Dusting

    How can you dust powdered sugar on your holiday desserts without making a mess, AND conserve the left over for the next round? Try a tea infuser! Here’s the shortest video I’ve ever intentionally made, lol. I’m pretty sure even if you don’t have one with an easy handle and all, it’ll still work neater…

  • No Knead Artisan Bread with Dried Fruit

    I wanted to give my friends a housewarming gift that would not add to the giant pile of things they just had to move into their new home, so I tried my hand at some rustic, thick crusty bread. I doubled the portions but the bread was a tiny bit wetter than I’d like so…

  • Raspberry Chocolate Camp Cake in a Dutch Oven, by Fire!

    Raspberry Chocolate Camp Cake
    in a Dutch Oven, by Fire!

    I found this gluten-free chocolate cherry cake recipe and used it to make a raspberry chocolate cake in a dutch oven by campfire. Below are the basic steps re-written the way I did them. This was a good one to prep and fire up before dinner, and let sit and finish cooking while you eat…

  • Guest Blog: General Tso’s Chicken!

    I was inspired by a documentary and couldn’t shake my need to visit the General. Fairly quick, kinda tasty, really fried, and sweet. Je suis Tso. -Kris J. The General Ingredients: 1 pound of chicken (I prefer thighs) Some mayonnaise for coating chicken* Dry Coating (inspired/copied from Serious Eats): ½ cup of flour ½ cup…

  • Guest Blog:
    Parm-Crusted Chicken, Asparagus & 3 Bonus Recipes!

    So first I must say I first had this from my sis Y_________. It was so good when she made it twice for me. So I had to ask her for the recipe because I needed a good main dish for a dinner/date I was making. Need something good to impress lol. The Parmesan Crusted…

  • Sunday Recipe: Chicken Pot Pie

    Sunday Recipe: Chicken Pot Pie

    Update note from the author: as you shop for Thanksgiving, grab some puff pastry for this delicious recipe for your leftover turkey! Make sure to read to the end for the full wait time and pro-tips on cooling steps. As a child growing up in the Midwest with home-cooked Chinese food for dinner, microwave dinners…

  • Vanilla Pound Cake

    Vanilla Pound Cake, in honor of my father’s visit: the man who fed me Sara Lee Pound Cake for breakfast as a kid (with a side of hot chocolate), yet somehow avoided giving me diabetes.

  • Cheese Gougeres

    Cheese Gougeres I’ve been meaning to try making these for a while and finally got around to it (and editing the photos, and writing a post). Since I didn’t change a thing besides halving the recipe, I won’t list the steps here but just link to the kitchn’s recipe here. Ingredients 1 cup (8 ounces)…