Once you see how easy it is to make creme brulee, you will never order an overpriced one at a restaurant again! Eggs, heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla are all the ingredients in a basic creme brulee. This recipe is not as egg-y as some out there and makes a very creamy and smooth creme [...]

Oven pot roast is a standard in our family. I prepare three versions the exact same way. The only thing I vary is the meat: with chicken, I get coq au vin; beef chuck, boeuf bourgignon; and deer meat, uh, venison pot roast, no fancy french name for this one. Ingredients (I really don’t measure [...]

Many fortune cookie recipes call for baking only a couple of pieces at a time so that you have time to shape the cookie before it cools. Baking time varies and can take up to 10 minutes. This is very time consuming. There’s a better way. I make my fortune cookies over the stove top, [...]

Ricer cookers aren’t just for plain rice! Here’s a simple recipe for spanish rice: Ingredients: medium or long grain rice chicken broth diced, pureed, or blended tomatoes garlic powder Method using the rice cooker: Use the cup measurer included with the rice cooker to measure up to 3 cups of rice. Mix in desired amounts [...]

Why not? I’m not talking about the cheap sodas full of artificial ingredients. Nor am I suggesting buying your tots the expensive all-natural Italian sodas. Though not as easy as popping open a can, you can easily make all-natural soda simply by mixing club soda with natural syrups. It’s like fizzy watered down juice! That [...]

I’m signing out for a few days… Thought I’d share with you my favorite apple pie recipe first. Happy Thanksgiving!!! I used the recipe found on CooksRecipes.com, Apple Pie – Best Recipe by a Country Mile, with the following modifications: I only used 1 cup of granulated sugar in the filling. For the pie crust, [...]

When our kids were babies, I simply pureed a portion of our food for them. As toddlers, they eat what we eat, except the pieces were smaller and they often used hands over utensils. Now that my older son is a preschooler, we finally order him his own meal at restaurants but at home, he [...]