Everyday Style & Recipes. Est. 2010
I had never tried making bark before but this recipe was very easy to follow. The second layer is made of melted white chocolate that I dyed green with a little food coloring. If you want to make it even more minty add a drop of mint extract to one of the chocolate layers. This bark looks very pretty for the holidays!
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I have been wanting to do some holiday themed cookies for a while and I figured this week I could to do a bit of a cookie marathon. These cookies are great–they taste exactly like eggnog. They are also a great way of getting rid of the leftover eggnog. For the spiced flour, I threw in heaping teaspoons of nutmeg and cinnamon so the cookies had a lot of flavor. You can easily cut out the 1/4 cup sugar since the icing is so sweet. I quickly learned not to ice the cookies right after they come out of the oven–I ended up icing the cookie sheet instead. If you’re someone like me who does not own an electric mixer, this recipe can easily be done by hand.
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It took some convincing for my Italian, east-coast born, boyfriend to go along with a pizza recipe that requires barbeque sauce, not tomato sauce. After he tasted it though I didn’t have to do anymore convincing. The flavors of this recipe were very good. The tangy barbeque sauce was a nice compliment to the sweet onions. I used Fontina cheese, but you can make it with blue, gouda, feta or mozzarella cheese as well.
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Barbeque sauce is one of my favorite sauces because it brings together sweet, spicy and tangy ingredients. It was easy to make and turned out great. The chipotle chili powder and smoked paprika gave it the necessary bite while the dijon and apple cider vinegar gave it the proper tanginess for a good BBQ sauce.
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This is a very basic pizza crust recipe. It’s pretty much impossible for me to form pizza dough into perfect circles so I just cut any extra dough hanging off the pan with a clean scissors. I like to get the dough really thin by holding it up with 2 hands and rotating it vertically in the air.
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I have been sort of obsessed with my crock pot for the last few months. All I can say is get one (crock pot companies should be paying me for this advertising!) This soup is great for the slow cooker–the ham cooks nicely and flavors the broth without being too salty. I threw in the ham bone for added flavor. I liked how the lentils got really soft and almost dissolved in the broth. This soup turned out great and I will definitely make it again sometime.
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I had an older post with this same recipe but as with the nature of almost every recipe I have used it has turned out a little bit differently this time around. I had some fresh mozzarella and parmesan leftover in the fridge so I added those in. I didn’t have any capers this time which was too bad. They are very nice on this pizza.
I like the thin crust style of this pizza and the flavor of the roasted orange and yellow peppers. Roasting the peppers beforehand intensifies their flavor. Instead of leaving the skins on I removed them. I think I like this version better–some of the bitterness of the blackened pepper was removed when I took away the skin. The fontina and parmesan with the addition of fresh mozzarella gave the toppings a melty softness that was very tasty. I went the lazy route and used a pre-made dough from the grocery again. I like to use the whole wheat dough sold in a package (not a can). One of these days I will try a pizza crust from scratch.
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It’s cold and raining outside and I thought a hot sandwich would be nice for this weather. You can use a lot of different breads for tuna melts, but I like sourdough the best. The melted sharp cheddar gives this sandwich a flavorful kick. I used a foreman grill which is great for making sandwiches but you can always melt them in a pan or with a panini grill.
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After Thanksgiving, it is a tradition in my family to take the carcass of the turkey and boil all the leftovers down to make a soup. The flavors of this soup were very good and the broth was excellent because it simmers for a few hours. I had some leftover brown rice so I threw that in with the wild rice. You can always make it with thick egg noodles instead. It’s sad to throw out the picked over chicken or turkey and not use it for anything–with this recipe there is no waste. This recipe also works very well with the leftovers of a whole roasted chicken.
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Bright orange sweet potatoes are a great table decorator for Thanksgiving. I had these over the holiday and they were so delicious! They were nicely browned, not too sweet, and very tender.
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