Cranberry Chocolate Cream Tart « Go Bold with Butter.
Here’s another delicious looking dessert! The recipe looks pretty simple, but I would probably skip making my own crust and just go with a store bought one.
Do that and it looks REALLY quick and easy. I like cranberries, but it looks like it would be just as good using a can of cherry pie filling (which would make it even easier).
I could have fun experimenting with this one. The filling sounds perfect the way it is. 🙂
Cheesy Chicken Alfredo Skillet Recipe – Kraft Recipes.
Well this looks quick and easy and it sounds like it would taste pretty good too.
I have to admit I haven’t tried this one yet. I’ve never bought that particular dinner ‘kit’ before tho I have used other ones like the hamburger helper.
This one looks even easier than the way I usually make chicken lately (which is pretty easy). I like to start by saute-ing a bunch of onions and mushrooms in a big cast iron skillet (with REAL butter- I don’t like the fake stuff!).
Get the onions to where they’re turning clear, then throw in the sliced up chicken with the mushrooms. I’ll add some cream cheese (if I have it) and sour cream. If it gets too thick, I’ll thin it out with some heavy cream.
Boil up some pasta (whatever kind you prefer), I usually use plain spaghetti and mix it around in the pan when the chicken is done cooking. Sometimes I just skip the pasta (it’ll save a FEW calories) and just have the chicken like a thick creamy stew in a bowl.
Season it up with my usual stuff (Mrs Dash, onion salt, garlic powder) and then top it off with some Italian style cheese to melt all gooey on top. Sometimes, depending on how I feel, I might mix in some lime juice, or tequila (or both). It adds a little kick. 😉
Good stuff!
I don’t know if the mix will be as good as my recipe (I doubt it), but since it’s so quick and easy I guess it’s worth a try. I can probably find ways to fix it up some. 🙂
Give mine a try too, I think you’ll like it. You can use the ‘light’ alternatives and make it much healthier if you prefer. 😉
Cheers!
I’ve put a few recipes on here before. Things I saw online and thought they were worth sharing. So far, I haven’t personally made or eaten any of those. This is my first recipe post that I actually HAVE made (and eaten) myself. 🙂
I actually do like to cook. When I have the time and I’m not in a rush. I haven’t been able to do much lately. It seems I’m always too busy.
I did have a little time this time home so I decided to make this pie. It’s one of my all time favorite desserts. It’s so fast and easy, and it’s SO good! 🙂
Sweet and creamy, with just the right amount of tangy lemon and raspberries.
It only takes a few minutes to make and it only has a few ingredients. It’s not my original recipe. I got it out of a magazine a long time ago. I think it might have been Womens Day.
Doesn’t this look delicious?
Lemon-Raspberry Whipped Cream Pie
Here’s the recipe I use…
1 tub (12 oz) frozen whipped topping (thawed)
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1 can (6 oz) frozen lemonade concentrate (thawed)
12 oz fresh raspberries (about 3 cups)
1 6-oz ready to fill graham cracker pie crust
options: 1/4 tsp liquid yellow food color, lemon twist and mint leaves for garnish
All that’s easy enough. I never wait to add the garnish. I just put the berries and whipped cream on top as soon as I put it in the pie crust. I think next time I’ll make it even easier (and save a few calories too). Skip the pie crust altogether. I usually have a little extra and put it in any old lidded container. It might not look as pretty, but it tastes just as good. 🙂
I’m pretty sure it would be just as good with some other ingredients, like trade the raspberries for blueberries? or maybe use limeade instead of lemonade with the berries? I think it would be easy and fun to experiment with this one. I have noticed that it is very forgiving (I have made it a few times without following the recipe exactly).
White Chocolate-Candy Cane Cheesecake Recipe – Kraft Recipes.
Yum! I love cheesecakes! Any kind of cheesecake! This one sounds perfect for the holidays. The way it’s decorated even reminds me of firecrackers! If you’re good, make one for a present for friends or family. 🙂 If you’re baaaddd then eat it all up yourself! 😉
Lots of people tell me they have a hard time with cheesecakes. I’m not sure why. They’re usually pretty simple to make. I don’t usually even bother with making my own crust. I just use a store bought crust and that makes it even easier to make the cake.
The trick is to beat it enough, that will make it nice and fluffy like the picture here. The other big thing is to use the proper (‘springform’) pan. You need to use the springform pan and make your own crust if you’re making one that is going to be thick!
I have a whole cookbook just for cheesecakes. I love to make them. Now I can find tons more on the internet like this one. 🙂 I only wish I had the time at home to make them (and eat them). Last time I made something like this, I had to throw the whole thing out, I never even got to eat any of it. 🙁
The Grinch Stole Christmas Cookies | Sugar Dish Me.
I don’t usually bake much but this recipe meets my requirements of
1. easy to make and
2. tastes great. 😉
I’m going back offshore in just a couple of days so I actually cooked my Christmas dinner tonight. I only just found this recipe so didn’t try it. Instead I made a few of those cookies that you just break off the huge bar and bake for a few minutes.
Next time I get some time, I might try this recipe. I like the whole green grinch thing. 😉
Melting Snowmen Cookie Balls Recipe – Kraft Recipes.
These were just so cute, I had to look up the recipe. Looks pretty simple. If I wasn’t going back offshore in just a couple of days, I’d make a bunch of these. 🙂
Mom packs kids homemade lunch; school fines her and feeds kids Ritz Crackers | Grist.
Here’s another post to go with the earlier one I posted about school lunches ( http://captjillsjourneys.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/the-saddest-sc…weve-ever-seen ). I’m really starting to think there’s something pretty fishy going on. Looks like from this article, it might be a world wide problem. This article is actually referring to an incident that happened in Canada. I thought this kind of craziness was only happening in the USA, I guess I was wrong.
The article is a little sarcastic 😉 but I think it makes some good points. Like WHY should a good lunch consist of things with preservatives, artificial colorings/flavorings, or GMOs? Personally, I would be asking just what business is it of the schools, the government or anybody else what I choose to feed my kids for lunch (or breakfast, or dinner)?
WTF has gotten into people? That they think they have ANY business to tell anybody else what they can or can’t eat? I have my thoughts on this and of course I am going to tie it all into government health care (and other forms of government control). I know Canada has had socialized health care for years. So, no big surprise they are doing this sort of thing. I’m more surprised they haven’t already been doing it for years.
I AM surprised that WE have started it. After all, Obamacare isn’t even fully in effect here yet. If I was going to get into it, I might say I think it might have something to do with the UNs Codex Alimentarius (http://www.codexalimentarius.org/).
Of course, most people think it’s time for me to get out my tin hat when I bring up things like that. Wacky conspiracy theories and all that. Is it really all that important if it’s a conspiracy theory or not if it’s really happening? What does it matter if it’s a conspiracy or not?
Check it out. There’s the link. Yeah, it all looks so wonderful, just like everything the UN comes up with. It knows what’s best for all of us, riiiiiiigggght…..
These are the saddest school lunches we’ve ever seen | Grist.
My curiosity got the better of me and I had to take a look at this. Especially after reading all the stories in the news lately about how parents are being fined and even arrested for trying to feed their kids healthy lunches instead of the kind of SH*T (to put it nicely) they get at school. Don’t try to pawn off your leftover turkey sandwiches on the kids anymore, who knows what may happen. 🙂
Don’t you wonder WHY??? Why is it all the sudden such a big deal that the ‘authorities’ would resort to FORCING these kids to eat their crap food? Why is it so wrong for kids to bring lunch from home like we all did since the beginning of public schools???
Are the schools going broke because so many kids aren’t buying school (free) lunch (no, they’re broke because they spend too much money on things other than teaching)- Or are they in cahoots with big agriculture (through FDA and other big government programs)- Or are they buying into Obamacares premise that they can FORCE even our bodies into their mold?
I don’t know what to think about all this yet, but a couple of things I DO know. They are NOT doing this from the goodness of their hearts and they are NOT doing it for the kids benefit! Time to take another look at your kids schools, check out the report at FedUp (www.fedup.dosomething.org/fedup).
Your Thanksgiving Turkey in 6 Eye-Popping Charts | Mother Jones.
In honor of todays holiday here in America, I’m passing on this post of interesting information about your Thanksgiving turkey.
Enjoy. 🙂
Communities Grow Stronger with Fruit Tree Projects – Community – Utne Reader.
I think this is a great idea and hope it spreads even further. I’d like to see it ‘go viral’, spread world wide, everybody getting involved! It has already spread from Santa Cruz, California all the way to Vancouver, to Australia, and even Fiji! 🙂
I have always hated to waste anything. Especially food. Maybe it has something to do with growing up where my parents always insisted I clean my plate. They warned about the ‘starving children in Africa’. I never figured out how my clean plate would help those starving children, but had to play along anyway.
I’m still a member in good standing of the ‘Clean Plate Club’. I’m sure I’m fatter then I should be because of it. I am working towards creating less waste in my kitchen and everywhere else.
I’ve tried to grow a garden in the past, but because I spend so much time at sea, I have not had much success. I do have a lime tree that is making plenty of fruit. Way more than I could ever use. I hate to see them just rotting in the driveway, so I already told my neighbors to just take whatever they want.
I think it would be a great idea if more people could do the same sort of thing. Like the article mentions, these fruit tree projects not only provide much needed and appreciated fresh fruits, but they build community in the process. They also teach useful skills and promote sustainability. I think they are probably fun too!
I’m not sure what the heck is going on in the US lately with the local vendetta on gardening. We used to encourage everyone to grow a garden. Now, we are allowing localities to force people to tear them up?!? WTF???
I remember a few years ago, my town forced my neighbors across the street to tear out the garden they had in their back yard. Supposedly it was illegal! Illegal to grow a garden? Behind a fence? On your OWN land???? In America, the land of the FREE??? I would have sued the SH*T out of them for a HUGE violation of my property rights!
If you want to tell me what I can do with MY land, then YOU can pay the mortgage and the taxes and every other expense. Then, and ONLY then, will it be your land. That’s when YOU get to decide what to do with it. After all, ownership implies being able to USE the thing you own. If you can’t use it, then you don’t really own it.
Apparently, this abuse of local tyrants citing ‘loss of property values’ as some kind of holy grail is spreading like wildfire around the nation. Here’s a link to an article from just the other day…http://www.care2.com/causes/why-are-cities-attacking-home-gardeners.html.
I really hope enough people are outraged by this kind of thing and will get out and raise holy hell with their city councils and homeowners associations and put a stop to this kind of thing.
Help out by signing the petition, Miami Shores: Let Couple Keep Their Vegetable Garden! – The Petition Site, watch the video and give a hand to the Institute for Justices’ Food Freedom Initiative (www.ij.org/foodfreedom) which is trying to help the couple involved in this latest outrage and by extension all the rest of us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=avHrPbONTzE
Property values are NOT the be all and end all of the value of a neighborhood. In fact, they are probably far down the list for many people. Friendliness and community spirit are probably up there pretty high. I know they are for me. 🙂
Now that we’ve had appetizers, drinks and dinner… it’s time for some dessert! Ice cream! Yummy! 🙂
chocolate ice cream with fancy chocolate and berries
More ice cream, YES!!
more ice cream (gelato really)
Checking out the bakery….OMG!!!
such delights at the local bakery
Cooookiiiesss…. where’s Cookie Monster, he’d have a blast! 🙂
I do LOVE my sweets. 🙂
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/daily-prompt-food/
Yeah! Margaritas!! Great way to start a meal.
Start off with a round of drinks…a little appetizer to go with…
chips and dip Mexican style
bacon burger with onion rings
This is one of my favorite meals, I love cheeseburgers!! 🙂
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/daily-prompt-food/
Caramel Apple Mini “Cheesecakes” Recipe – Kraft Recipes.
Here’s another sweet and simple ‘cheesecake’ recipe. It looks easy enough and you can change around the toppings a little bit for variety. The fact that they are already separate makes it even better, easy to pack a few up for snacks at work or wherever. 🙂
Peanut Butter Cup Pie Recipe – Kraft Recipes.
Ok, I have to admit, I got this from the same place I got the recipe for the peanut butter-banana monkey bread in my earlier post a while back.
http://captjillsjourneys.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/peanut-butter-…y-bread-recipe
I was looking at the pictures and practically drooling over them and found this other peanutty recipe. One more I’ll have to try when I get home.
I can see I’m going to have to invite some friends over. Oh yeah, peanut butter party! I don’t think I’ll have too much trouble with that one. 😉
4 Foods That Could Disappear If New Food Safety Rules Pass | Mother Jones.
Here’s an article from Mother Jones about the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Obama signed it into law in 2011 and I suppose nobody read this one either. If they did, they had to have been paid off by the usual suspects in favor of large scale factory farming.
Obviously, no one wants our food supply to be full of dangerous ingredients. We would all like to be able to buy safe, fresh, affordable, wholesome food. The problem with this law is the same as with every law like this, the ‘law of unintended consequences’. In addition to that problem, some others are already popping up.
For one, this is just one example of how BIG companies use the law to their advantage. They are much more easily able to comply with it, even if it DOES cost them big bucks. They can still manage to get by, especially when it wipes out their competition.
This sort of thing happens all the time in this country and is just one example of how we do NOT have a free market at all. No free market would permit companies to grow as large as we have here. They can only get that way because the laws allow it through special favors and manipulation of the market and the laws themselves. 🙁
Regardless of the name of this law (seems they’re always named the opposite of what they’re REALLY about), it will wind up hurting small farmers, organic farmers, food co-ops, and consumers concerned about healthy, safe food.
The article mentions just a couple of ways this will happen. Again, remember the law of unintended consequences! Those things they mentioned will probably just be the bare minimum of the problems that will develop.
Why do we always insist on the worst possible agency (the government) to take care of our problems? We always seem to think “there ought to be a law”! One size does NOT fit all and we really ought to be able to figure out ways to deal realistically with these things WITHOUT the use of FORCE. It’s especially galling when the use of force (government aid) is applied to the side that is hurting the people in favor of giant corporations.
Food safety is a pretty important subject, even if it’s not one we usually think about much. I hope some of you will think about it a bit. As they mention in the article, the FDA is still accepting comments until November 15. If this is important to you, you still have a chance to at least get the word out and hopefully your comments will be taken into account with the same weighting as someone from Monsanto or Kraft Foods would (yeah riiiiight). I said ‘hopefully’.
Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Tart Recipe | Epicurious.com.
Here’s another yummy looking recipe! To add to its rating on my scale, it’s easy to make. To top it off, it’s CHOCOLATE!
Yummy!! 🙂
Franken Berry, the Beloved Halloween Cereal, Was Once Medically Found to Cause Pink Poop | Food & Think| Smithsonian.
Another interesting Halloween story from Smithsonian. I dimly remember something about this growing up. I thought it was kind-of cool. I mean really? Pink poop? Sounds pretty cool to most kids I think. Parents panic, but what the heck. Maybe that was part of the fun of the whole experience?
PS- they even managed to find videos of the original commercials 😉
Junk Food As Addictive As Illicit Drugs : Personal Liberty™.
Oh yeah, they’re definitely working on it. Soon enough, they’ll be making all those fattening foods illegal too. Mayor Bloominidiot already tried it in NYC. 🙁
We are turning into a nanny state. No doubt about it. ‘Do what we tell you or we WILL find a way to punish you.’ Nanny knows best. 🙁
Yes, sugar is bad for you. Yes, it will make you fat. We’ve all known that forever. We REALLY don’t need anybody coming up with more stupid laws to keep us from eating it. We WILL find a way! Just like the idiotic war against (some) drugs, when people want something, they WILL get it. It’s not the ‘thing’ (whatever it may be) that causes problems, its the prohibition of it that does.
Just like with the war on (some) drugs, a war on sugar will turn into another expensive, destructive war on US. STOP trying to FORCE everybody to live the way YOU think is best!!! Leave us the hell alone! (NO, you should NOT have to pay for my health care when I get sick from eating fattening foods, just like you should NOT have to pay for me if I get cancer from smoking. The problem there is health INSURANCE, NOT my choices of how to live MY life!)
The only thing that would help this situation would be for the producers to label their products CORRECTLY instead of the way they do now (which is borderline fraud). Label foods containing HFCS as poison and maybe people will actually get to know what is in the food they’re buying. Label GMOs as just simply GMOs so people will know what they’re buying. What’s wrong with that??? Why don’t they already have to do that????
Peanut Butter-Banana Monkey Bread Recipe – Kraft Recipes.
This one just looks yummy. And really easy to make. Monkey bread is so simple and so good. 😉
The peanut butter-banana is a good combination (especially when they say -add bacon), but they also have one that uses apples instead of bananas which sounds pretty good too.
Another delicious looking recipe I have to wait to get home to try. 🙂
Hugs & CookiesXOXO: TRIPLE LAYER CHOCOLATE DIPPED STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE.
This just looks SO good. Oooey- gooey good. I’m just going to have to try this when I get home. It’s even gluten free! Not that I really care, but I have a friend who recently went on a gluten free diet and she’s already lost a TON of weight! 🙂
If you can have stuff like this on a gluten free diet, I just might get around to trying it myself. 😉
Chinese cockroach farmers are making a bundle selling pulverized bugs for $89 per lb. – Quartz.
OK, I have to admit, I REALLY don’t like cockroaches. Especially these big ones. Or the ones we get down South near the water where I live. We call ’em Palmetto bugs. I’ll never forget the night I was just falling asleep. It was a hot muggy night (so no covers) and one of those huge suckers flew across the room and started crawling up my leg. I must have woken up half the block with my screams!
So, the idea of people actually FARMING these things just gives me the creeps. Maybe its just me? The Chinese people seem to think there’s some real good medicine in these things. I just remembered this exhibit I saw at the Chinatown Heritage Center in Singapore last year.
Sign at the Chinatown Heritage Center, Singapore
I guess if you grind it up and add enough other stuff to it, you might not even notice it going down? I do try and taste different foods when I’m off traveling, but so far, the only bugs I’ve managed to try were some ants -chocolate covered- that helps 😉 – and some kind of grub they had at the ‘tasting kitchen’ at the New Orleans Insectarium (http://www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/insectarium). Those tasted almost exactly like that Honey Nut Crunch cereal. They did have other flavors, but I was OK with just trying that one 🙂
Tasting room at the Insectarium in New Orleans
Trying out some of the taste ‘treats’ at the New Orleans Insectarium
I do see plenty of people in Thailand and Indonesia snacking on grasshoppers, water beetles, grubs, etc at the bars I go to. I always figured they must just be drunk. I never managed to work up the nerve to try any of those larger samples. Maybe next time…
Learn how to prepare your pests for tasty treats!
Or maybe not. I did read something recently where the scientists were recommending that we should ALL start eating insects. It would go a long way towards helping to feed all the starving people around the planet. Yeah, they are a great source of protein. Yeah, they cost a lot less to produce, they don’t cause as much damage as cattle, they’re easy to raise… yada, yada, yada. Personally, I would prefer people start using birth control before we’re all reduced to eating bugs for breakfast 😉
Mounds Brownies Recipe – In Katrina’s Kitchen.
Alright! I finally got it to work 🙂 Here’s that mounds brownie recipe. It looks a LOT better than that potato soup now doesn’t it? Oh well, you can make the soup for dinner and since its ‘lite’ you can have the brownie for dessert guilt-free 🙂
Ziplist Sous Chef Recipe Clipper – Baked Potato Soup.
I was actually trying to find a postable (?) recipe for those delicious looking mounds brownies that showed up on my facebook page from www.inkatrinaskitchen.com .
I couldn’t find a way to get the recipe on here and got sidetracked with this one instead. It looked pretty good too so… here it is! I know its not any kind of substitute for BROWNIES, but its the best I could do for tonight. Maybe I can figure out the brownie one later, or you can look it up yourself, they’re called Mounds Brownies. In the meantime, the soup looks worth a try on a cold night. Not sure if it’ll measure up since its a ‘lite’ version but sometimes they come out alright despite having less of the bad stuff 😉
Hugs & CookiesXOXO: MILKYWAY BROWNIES….4 LAYERS OF YUM!.
Someone posted this on my facebook page tonight. I haven’t had time to try them but the pictures make them look fantastic. Someone make them and let me know if they taste as good as they look 😉
Tom’s Kitchen: Ratatouille, the Classic Summer Veggie Stew | Mother Jones.
This sounds like it might actually be good. Sounds simple enough to make it.
Eating Rich, Living Poor – Mind & Body – Utne Reader
I can really relate to this writer. I have had food issues almost my entire life. I can hardly imagine what it would be like if I had to go through the same thing. I do really appreciate the whole idea of becoming more attentive to GOOD food. Growing your own if possible, learning how to preserve and prepare it. I’d like to be able to grow a garden again, but it doesn’t work while I’m still sailing and gone for so long.