As you may know, February 5 was World Nutella Day. I submitted my entry, a fried Nutella and banana sandwich with cinnamon sugar crust, but a comment on that entry inspired me to make a Nutella fruit dip. It’s basically a variation of this peanut butter dip, which I have made before and absolutely loved. [...]
When was the first time you heard of Nutella and tasted it for yourself? For me, it was 1995. My foreign language class was planning a “field trip” to Spain and France for spring break of that year. I was one of the lucky few whose parents allowed me to go. A friend of mine [...]
Cheesecakes are not one of my favorite dessert foods. It’s the cream cheese that I don’t like. I like cream cheese when it’s sweetened, like in frosting, or when mixed into muffins, but I don’t like it on its own or when the flavor of the cream cheese is too prominent.
This month’s Taste Of Home [...]
One of my all-time favorite breakfast foods is the cinnamon roll. Paired with a steaming cup of coffee or hot cocoa, it is perfect for when you’re feeling all warm and cozy on a chilly morning.
Unfortunately, I’ve noticed a lot of people are scared, or reluctant, to bake cinnamon rolls from scratch because of the [...]
In Parke County, Indiana there is an annual event known as the Covered Bridge Festival that runs for a week in early October (it actually starts today, too bad it is rainy and dreary!).
Parke County is famous for its 32 covered bridges, and has festivals throughout the entire county each year to celebrate their bridges. [...]
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll know that I’m really keen on matcha. My love for green tea started in 1999 when I visited Australia to see my then-boyfriend (now husband!). He took me to a lovely Japanese restaurant where he convinced me to try a bowl of green tea ice [...]
I’m not too fond of hard candy, but I’ve been determined to make my own toffee for a few months now. I kept putting it off because, like a lot of others, I was scared of using the candy thermometer! In my search for an easy toffee recipe, I came across Paula Deen’s, which looked [...]
I just love banana breads and muffins and have a collection of many different recipes for these. Earlier this week I chose to use a recipe from my Taste of Home cookbook, called Special Banana Nut Bread. As the name would imply, it is a recipe for banana bread, but I went out and bought [...]
Zucchini bread is something that’s always been on my to-bake list, but it was at the bottom of the list. I had never eaten zucchini bread before, and I admit I was a little scared of what it might taste like!
A friend of mine recently baked a loaf of zucchini bread which did not turn [...]
Jello is a very strange food, in my opinion. Its obscenely bright color, its jiggly wiggly consistency and the fact that it’s made from animal fat should put anyone off eating it! However, kids (and adults) have loved Jello for years. My grandmother used to serve it to the kids in our family for dessert [...]
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