I have a vast collection of cookbooks. Some are new and some I have collected from yard sales and random book sales. I was looking through one random book on baking when a cutout of random paper fell into my lap. That cutout was from a July issue of Coastal Living, and described this brownie [...]
Over the past couple Months, Dana and I have been traveling a lot. We have found ourselves in a ton of airports. While we were waiting for one of our many delays, we stumbled upon one vendor selling Tres Leches cake. It was awesome! Ever since that day, I have been craving Tres Leches Cake. [...]
The main problem with making bread or rolls in general is that they take a long time to make. You need at least 6-8 hours of notice if you are going to make them. However, I was going through my old cookbooks and found an old Betty Crocker recipe for Double-Quick Dinner Rolls. So I [...]
It is that time of the year. Time for all of the Holiday cookies and candy. I decided that I should use the excess amount of peanuts that I have in a recipe. I thought about it for a while and came to the conclusion that peanut brittle would be the best. This was my [...]
The other night I had a craving for chocolate chip cookies. The only problem was that I did not have any brown sugar. So I looked around and I had molasses. I use about 1 tbs molasses for every cup of granulated sugar to make my brown sugar alternative. It works great. Having solved that [...]
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When I was a child my Mom would make us these amazing little bars as a treat. They were delicious and tasty. They have a sweet peanut buttery taste but a little crunch from the cereal. I just recently found out how easy they are to make. They are super simple. Just five ingredients and [...]
The other day, Dana and I were watching TV and it suddenly hit me. I have never made cheesecake on the website. I had to remedy the situation immediately. So I went to the store and picked up the ingredients. I then noticed that I did not have a spring form pan and was unable [...]
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Last week I made an impromptu dinner for Dana. I wanted to make pasta, but I did not have a bread side. So I looked through my fridge and found an extra pizza dough. I know, yes, I have pizza dough in the fridge. I decided to make it into a garlic bread-like swiss roll. [...]
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Without owning a hamburger bun pan, I have been unable to make perfectly round hamburger buns. The other day I accidentally figured out how to make perfect buns. Not only did they have perfectly round bottoms but they have perfect tops too. The process will work with almost any bread dough, but it worked great [...]
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So today is Dana’s Birthday! Happy Birthday Dana! I wanted to make her a super chocolaty cake, so I made a moist chocolate cake, layered with a fluffy chocolate filling and a chocolate butter cream frosting. It is rather intense with the amount of chocolate. As you can see from the pics, I need a [...]
I wanted to recreate the soft billowy store bought hamburger buns at home. I tried a few recipes and the only one that came close was the one from King Arthur Flour. The buns came out perfectly brown and had an amazing texture. The only thing that was disappointing was that the buns were a little hard [...]
The other day I wanted something sweet. So I poured through my cupboards and refrigerator and all I found were the components to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. On a good day this would be awesome, but I wanted the cookies right away. Needless to say, I had to wait. :( But as you can [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Linda a valued reader, requesting a good key lime pie recipe. I have never made a key lime pie before, but I was all over the challenge. So last weekend I made a bunch of key lime pies. Some were good, some were bad, and [...]
Posted in Fruit, Key Limes, Pies, Recipes Tags: best key lime pie, graham cracker crust, juice, key lime, key lime pie, ultimate pie, whipped cream, zest 4 Comments »
