Roasted Buddha Bowl It’s now March and after a few months of winter it appears I’m going crazy. Why? Well, you can now add roasted cauliflower to my list of strange-but-true late winter food cravings. Weird, I know. Cauliflower has never been high on my list of comfort food vegetables, but for some reason I just couldn’t get the idea of a creamy roasted cauliflower recipe out of my mind. I may have just lost half of you, but hear me out; if you’ve never been a fan of cauliflower (or broccoli) this just might be the recipe that changes your mind. To make this simple dish a meal, I roasted some chickpeas to go along with it. The temperature is slowly climbing here in Southern Ontario and like many of you, we’re anxiously awaiting spring’s arrival. Roasted Buddha Bowl Email, text, or print this recipe Yield: 3 servings For roasting and serving: For the dressing: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. For nutritional info see: Buddha Bowl (without dressing) and Cashew Lemon Tahini Dressing.
Dark Chocolate Mousse Bars Many of my friends have seen my baking cupboard…that spot where I keep extracts, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder and stacks of Ghirardelli chocolate bars. We go through A LOT of those chocolate bars. But I hadn’t baked with Ghirardelli’s 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips till I tested out these scrumptious Dark Chocolate Mousse Bars. This recipe was a cinch to whip up…with a phenomenal pay off. The hubby got the first taste and gave them exuberant praise. Dark Chocolate Mousse Bars Ingredients 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/3 cup sugar 6 tablespoons butter, melted 1 10-ounce bag Ghirardelli Bittersweet Chocolate Chips (60% Cacao) 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature 11/2 cups whipping cream, divided 1/4 cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Instructions Preheat oven to 350º.
DailyBuzz Food Mushroom, Bacon and Spinach Gratin This spur of the moment gratin turned out much better than I thought it would. In fact, in was delicious! I had a pound of mushrooms in the fridge that were starting to go feral and wanted something quick and easy to do with them. Bacon and spinach go with everything, so I made a saute and included the mushrooms. After that I made a white sauce and stirred in some cheddar cheese. Mushroom, Bacon and Spinach Gratin 1 tbsp butter 1/2 cup lardon 3 shallots, thinly sliced vertically 1 lb mushrooms, rinsed and quartered 3 cups baby spinach Salt and pepper 3 tbsp butter 3 tbsp flour 2 1/2 cups milk 4 ounces cheddar cheese, grated Bread crumbs Melt the butter in a frying pan and saute the lardon until it begins to brown. Make a white sauce with the butter, flour and milk, cooking until the sauce is thick and bubbly. Like this: Like Loading... An American living in Burgundy, France
Take Out Fake Out: Lemon Blueberry Crunch Muffins Hey, y’all. I don’t know about you, but I am a major sucker for coffee shop treat cases. Especially at Starbucks, it just seems like everything looks amazing! It must be the lighting or something. Hint: It’s a lot. I know the easiest thing in the morning is grabbing a muffin and coffee at your local coffee shop and hitting the road, but if you just set aside 30 minutes once every couple weeks, you can easily have a yummy homemade muffin every morning for breakfast. I love cupcakes in disguise, ’cause you know what? Lemon Blueberry Crunch Muffins: Makes 12 Muffins Total time: 35 minutes Total time where you’re actually doing things: 15 minutes 2 cups cake flour1/2 tsp baking soda1/2 tsp saltZest of one lemon3/4 cup milk1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp lemon juice1/3 cup oil (I used olive oil because I’m weird and not organized)3/4 cup plus 1/2 cup sugar1 egg1 tsp vanilla extract2 cups blueberries1/2 cup melted butter Preheat oven to 375 degrees and prepare a muffin tin with 12 large/jumbo muffin liners.
cumin seed roasted cauliflower with yogurt I do this dreary thing every October where I decide on the first day that requires a scarf and a hustle in your step to keep warm that the long, gloomy descent into winter has begun and soon the world will be brown, gray and frozen and this will continue until April or beyond and I might as well stock up on some farro and root vegetables and climb into my igloo because that’s all there will be for a long time. I am clearly no fun at all, and also a little blind as I declare this while stepping over crinkly flame-throwers of leaves, while the sky is still fantastically blue and generally, without even have stepped through a farmers market. Because the markets? Are actually as pretty as they get all year, tables overflowing with everything from carrots to late summer squash, hearty greens, tiny pumpkins, marble-sized potatoes and great big globes of broccoli and cauliflower. It’s now or never to haul it home. The recipe is from Melissa Clark’s new cookbook, Cook This Now.
Cookie Dough Dip recipe Got a hankering for spooning into a bowl of Chocolate Chip Cookie dough? Yeah, we get those, too. Like, weekly. So here's what we're going to do about it. Yep. To start, you'll need just a few basic ingredients. It's seriously that simple! To really enjoy the flavor of the dip, serve it up with Cookie Crunch cereal, sliced apples, strawberries, and a twinkle in your eye. Brooke blogs at Cheeky Kitchen where she shares fun family recipes. More Cookie Dough Inspiration...
Top 10 Popular Shot & Shooter Recipes | The Intoxicologist - Aurora Today, September 22, marks the day for the fastest drinking record; Dustin Phillips of the United States consumed a 14 ounce bottle of Ketchup through a 1/4” straw in 33 seconds flat ten years ago. Ketchup seems a nasty ‘beverage’ to guzzle willingly, yet many enthusiastic participants flock to bars weekly to start (or end) the evening with the downing of a shot that none would eagerly sip slowly enough to take in the flavor or texture for a lingering moment on the tongue. Admittedly there are many shot recipes that make the conversion to cocktail easily. The Oatmeal Cookie shot is an outstanding example. However, many prefer shots and shooters too horrid to down without holding the nose or throwing them back feverishly with a beer chaser or *gasp* water back. I know…I mentioned the word ‘water’ in a cocktail post. Buttery Nipple 1 ounce Butterscotch Schnapps 1/2 ounce Irish Cream Pour Butterscotch Schnapps in bottom of a shot glass. Tweaked Buttery Nipple – adapted by Cheri Loughlin
Buffalo Chicken Macaroni and Cheese Pizza The title says it all. I was recently came off a weekend of making a handful of pretty awesome pizzas. My guess is that I am hooked on Jim Lahey’s ‘My Bread’ book, and after trying his pizza dough recipe, I was hooked. As his recipe is similar to mine, I was liking his as it was just a smidgin easier to throw together, and it had less of a rising time. I thought of this recipe only because I know people who get excited about the basic macaroni and cheese pizza. Let’s get started. Ingredients for the Pizza Dough: 3 3/4 cup of bread flour2 1/2 tsp active dry yeast3/4 tsp table salt3/4 plus a pinch of sugar1 1/3 cups of room temperature water Ingredients for the Buffalo Chicken: 1 1/2 cups of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into cubes1/4 cup of corn starchpinch of saltpinch of cracked black pepper2 cups of canola oilFrank’s RedHot sauce, to your liking Ingredients for the Macaroni and Cheese: Ingredients for the Pizza: Make the dough by adding the flour, yeast, salt, and sugar. Serves: 8
Spicy Mini Meatball Grilled Cheese It’s Friday and we’re eating cheese. And balls of meat. !!! What does that sound so much more terrible than meatballs? Anytime I hear the words “meat” and “cheese” together, my head automatically starts playing Melissa McCarthy’s scene in Bridesmaids that runs during the credits. This is not that. If I even told you how many times we ate meatballs last week, you’d die. Four. As you can imagine, meatballs are not my thang since I don’t love tomato sauce. Last week, I was craving them. We did just that. Then. To say we were meatballed out would be an understatement. SO. At first I was afraid it would be too similar to a meatball sub or even these meatball sliders. This grilled cheese was focused on the CHEESE. One of the only things in life we should really focus on, in my opinion. I mean, right? Print Save Spicy Mini Meatball Grilled Cheese Yield: serves 2 appropriately, 1 obnoxiously Total Time: 45 minutes Ingredients: Directions: I think that’s just the cutest.