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Creamy Pesto Pasta Recipe

Creamy Pesto Pasta Recipe

Individual Seven-Layer Dips These Individual Seven-Layer Dips are individually portioned dips perfect for parties and get togethers. No double dipping here! We keep it pretty minimal when it comes to toys for our kids on Christmas but yet somehow I feel like there’s STUFF everywhere! Anyone else feel this way? We’re swimming in Legos over here and just when I think I’ve cleaned up the last of them, I’ll step on one or one of my boys will drop their ships and Lego pieces go flying everywhere. I think my husband spent 6 straight hours on Christmas helping them build Legos. Seven layer dip is one of my favorites. All the pretty layers turn into an unidentifiable, unappetizing pile. My sister told me about the idea of individual seven layer dips as a party idea. The great thing about seven layer dip is that you can adjust it to your personal tastes. Now, you could make these in glass tumblers too, but we are pretty casual over here so plastic tumblers are the way we roll. Garnish with one tortilla chip. Print Ingredients

Broccoli Cheese Soup: Panera Bread Copycat Recipe On Wednesday my sister and I volunteered to make the soup supper to go with the Advent service at church. Before you go thinking I'm some kind of charitable, goodhearted soul, I must tell you that the only reason that I do it is because I LOVE COOKING. In case you hadn't figured that out yet. Okay, so I was like, "Whadaya think, Nemo? Will two huge pots of soup, a crockpot full of barbequed meatballs, five trillion chicken salad sandwiches, fifty thousand and two loaves of bread, and a couple bazillion desserts cover it?" Well, it would have, except everybody had to try a huge bowl of BOTH kinds of soup AND meatballs. Barbequed meatballs in broccoli soup. I had to leave the room. Anyways, we ran out of soup after about ten minutes of serving. So during church I had a sudden inspiration (um, Pastor, if you're reading this, that was a typo. Anways, I burst out of church and ran up to my friend screaming, "Hey guess what!! Yeah. I mean it would be like getting paid to have fun. Okay.

Bake or Break |  Recipe Index <div class="no-js-alert"> Please enable JavaScript to view this website. </div> Subscribe Search Recipe Index Stay connected Thanks for visiting Bake or Break! Subscribe for free today to keep up with the latest recipes and my monthly newsletter. And you can keep up with BoB through your favorite social media: Download my first cookbook today! Bake or Break Volume 1: Cookies, Brownies, and Bars contains more than 30 original recipes with a full-page, color photograph for each. A few of my favorite blogs BakerellaBakers RoyaleBaking BitesCookie MadnessDessert FirstGo Bold with ButterJoe Pastry Joy the BakerPinch My SaltTarteletteThe Baker ChickThe National Baking SocietyVanilla Sugar Hide Your Beer In This Soda Koozie In some social situations, cracking open a brewski is unacceptable. Like, at the doctor’s office, a PTA meeting, or baby christening. Who knew that drinking in a church is looked down upon in some most all cultures? I learned that lesson the hard way — I got spanked by a nun! Via: foodbeast.com

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe This peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe represents one of my Mom’s most frequently requested treats. As an avid peanut butter cookie fan myself, I put in a request for a batch as often as I can get away with it. In fact, these cookies have shown up in one iteration or another throughout my entire life. In elementary school, each student was permitted to bring in some kind of confection to share with the class on their birthday. This cookie dough is an adaptation of a recipe that calls for the cookies to be made much smaller and then sandwiched around jelly or jam for a “peanut butter and jelly sandwich” effect. 1/2 cup granulated sugar1/2 cup packed brown sugar1/2 cup butter or shortening1/2 cup peanut butter1 egg1 1/4 cups all-purpose or whole wheat flour3/4 teaspoon baking soda1/2 teaspoon baking powder1/4 teaspoon table salt1 cup chocolate chips1 cup chopped peanuts or cashews

The Cook Abides. Nov 13 So, Boing Boing asked me to do a recipe for them. The only caveat is that it involve caffeine. Done and Done. pita bread Oh, am I so happy to finally have a great pita recipe. You see, pitas themselves aren’t hard to make. Most recipes very closely, or even exactly, resemble a standard pizza dough and they’re not much more difficult to assemble. No, the trouble comes when you pop them in the oven and pray for the kind of puffiness you can pop some falafel into and end up with flatbread. Delicious, warm, toasty flatbread, but definitely not a pita. But this works! This may also be the perfect starter bread, for those of you intimidating by the bread-making process. One year ago: Almond Biscotti Deb went on vacation and all I got were these lousy pita breads! Pita Bread Adapted from The Bread Bible 3 cups plus a scant 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour (16 oz./454 grams) 2 teaspoons salt (1/2 oz./13.2 grams) 2 teaspoons instant yeast (6.4 grams) 2 tablespoons olive oil (1 oz./27 grams) 1 1/4 cups water, at room temperature (10.4 oz./295 grams) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Kitchen Helpers I found these helpful charts last week and just had to share! Both of these beauties are from Chasing Delicious (aka one of the most fab foodie blogs out there)! Aren’t they faaaaabulous?! Buy them here. (Note: There are lots of little charts like this online, but these are my favorites). I love tea, but I’m no expert. For people of the UK, have this one with you while you’re meal planning or grocery shopping! I’ve fond some other helpful charts that I’ll share in another post! Yay charts!

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