Skinny Fettuccine Alfredo A rich and creamy lightened up alfredo sauce that’s so easy to make, and it tastes just as good as the original! Fettuccine alfredo is one of favorite kind of comfort foods. It was always my go-to dish as a kid each time we went out to an Italian restaurant, particularly Olive Garden. With a couple of lightened up options, you’ll have this comforting fettuccine on your dinner table in less than 30 minutes. Skinny Fettuccine Alfredo A rich and creamy lightened up alfredo sauce that's so easy to make, and it tastes just as good as the original! Ingredients 8 ounces fettuccine 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 1/4 cups 2% milk 2 tablespoons heavy cream 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 2 ounces Neufchatel cheese, cubed 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, plus more, for serving 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves, for serving Instructions Notes
~Apple Pie Cookies! | Oh Bite It You know when you bake an Apple Pie, or any fruit pie for that matter, and you get those oozy baked sugar, chewy-ish bits of leaked fruit that gets all caramelized to the crust? They’re kind of hard to explain..I think they need a name, I’m open to suggestions! Watch them being made right >>HERE! Anyway, that’s my absolute favorite part of a fruit pie! Now I can maintain a pretense of manners, since I have my very own caramelly, fruity, chewy & sticky Apple Pie Cookie all to myself! These Apple Pie-like Cookies are made of real Pie Crust layered with sticky Caramel, and a slathering of Apple Pie Filling, topped with a flaky and adorable Cinnamon & Nutmeg lattice crust..HELLO Fall! Each and every bite offers the very best part of an actual Apple Pie, with all of the convenience of a Cookie! Seriously the best cookie I’ve ever had! To. What you’ll need for 6-8 good sized Pie Cookies: 1 Box of frozen Pillsbury Pie Crust (2 sheets per box) 1 Egg..for egg-wash 2 tbsp. 1 tbsp. Directions:
vegan pasta salad recipe | Live. Learn. Love. Eat. I am not a huge fan of raw vegetables. You could probably tell that by now from all the baking that I do. I love to eat fruit and I love vegetables in soup, casseroles, stir-fry’s or any other dish that I can load them into. Eating salads or sitting and munching on raw vegetables is not something that I would consider a favorite past time of mine. Luckily Kesa and Autumn love raw vegetables with Catalina dressing. For lunch today I was going to make a soup and bread, but I decided to make something different for a change. Rainbow Vegetable Pasta Salad A great way to get in a few servings of vegetables and eat all the colors of the rainbow! Ingredients 1 (300 g) box whole wheat bow tie pastaRED – 1 large tomato, choppedORANGE -1 small orange pepper, dicedYELLOW – 1 small yellow pepper, dicedGREEN – 1/2 long English cucumber, diced (1 cup)BLUE/GREEN – 1 head broccoli, chopped (1 1/2 cups)PURPLE – 1 small red onion, sliced (1/2 cup) Red Wine Vinaigrette - Directions
38 Best DIY Food Gifts Strawberry Heart Pie » It was Father’s Day this past Sunday and it’s my dad’s birthday today so I wanted to make something special for him. I had this pear-raspberry heart pie bookmarked for a while and I thought it was the perfect occasion to finally make it. I used the same heart design but I made it into a strawberry pie and I used ready made pie crusts to save time. I know you’re not going to believe me but it was really easy to make. It just looks fancy but that’s the point! It was so delicious. Ingredients 3 – 4 cups of strawberries (cut into chunks)Frozen pie crustPillsbury pie crusts1/2 cup granulated sugar1/2 cup water3 tablespoon cornstarch1 egg yolkSanding sugar In a bowl, coat the cut strawberries with sugar. I used both pie crusts just in case. Let the strawberry filling cool and then pour into the pie shell. Brush one side of the hearts with the egg wash and firmly place them on the crust. This is the first row. Brush the entire pie with egg wash and dust with sanding sugar. The perfect sweet treat!
Apple Lavender Muffins Apple Lavender Muffins We planted two apple trees on our property here in Umbria a couple of years ago, and last year one tree yielded a few apples while the other tree didn’t produce any. This year they switched places, and the tree that didn’t yield any apples last year produced so many this year that I worried the poor little tree wouldn’t be able to stand upright for too long. We also trimmed our 50 lavender bushes this past week so I decided to combine the two flavors in these rustic apple muffins I made for our farmhouse guests. Buon Appetito! Apple Lavender Muffins Yield: Makes 12 MuffinsPrep Time: 20 minsCook Time: 25 minss Moist apple muffins with just a hint of lavender.
Kit Kat Cake Kit Kat Birthday Cake & a RecipeGirl Cookbook Deal! I have some fun news today! It’s my birthday! Yay! And I’m super happy to be able to share with you that I’ve signed a deal with Wiley to write The Recipe Girl Cookbook! Let’s celebrate with cake! I saw this idea on the internet somewhere… surrounding a cake with Kit Kats, presenting it with a bow and topping it with M&M’s. It’s really very simple to make. I think you’ll be surprised just how incredibly easy it is to pull this off. I love how the “sea” of M&M’s makes this cake look so pretty. Wrap your brightest, cutest bow around the Kit Kat’s. It makes a fun birthday cake. And it’s delicious too! When I quit teaching and debuted my recipe website back in 2006 and then added the blog in 2008, I never imagined that my life would take such a positive turn… that I would end up with a career that I love so much!
Honeyed Pears in Puff Pastry Poaching fruit is one of my favorite things to do when cold weather arrives. It's so warming to stand over a boiling pot of fragrant spices and lose yourself in thought. When I made these, I couldn't help but daydream as I stirred; if I were a pear... I wouldn't want to spend my days on the shelf of a cold produce department. That sounds a little silly, but that's what I'd want... if I were a pear. The idea for these came from the Pepperidge Farm website. On a personal note, our Christmas tree is already up courtesy of Mr. Since poaching is a relatively easy task, I'll skip to some helpful tips for wrapping the pears in puff pastry. The poaching liquid has a high concentration of sugar, so your pears will be sticky. When you reach the top, tuck in the end piece of pastry behind the last spiral. 4 small pears 1 sheet of ready made puff pastry dough, thawed 4 cups water 2 cups sugar 1 cup honey 1/2 lemon 1 vanilla bean, seeded with hull reserved 3 sticks of cinnamon 6-8 whole cloves
Nutella & Marshmellow French Toast Nutella /... | Go Cook Yourself Nutella & Marshmellow French Toast Nutella / Marshmallows / Loaf of Bread / 2 Eggs / Double Cream / Caster Sugar / Cinnamon / Butter / Oil (1) STOP drooling and pay attention CUT bread into thick slices SPREAD Nutella onto bread TOP with halved marshmallows (2) CLOSE sandwich with another Nutella loaded slice CUT sandwich in half diagonally CRACK two eggs into bowl POUR in 200ml double cream (3) HEAT drop of oil and knob of butter in frying pan DIP halved sandwiches in egg mix on both sides (4) FRY for 2-3 mins on either side REMOVE and sprinkle over sugar and cinnamon DESTROY that delicious bitch (5) GET the book on Amazon
Caramel Stuffed Apple Cider Cookies In a small bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon. Set aside. With your mixer, cream together butter, sugar, salt and all 10 packages of apple cider drink mix powder, until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla and mix well. Gradually add flour mixture into the butter/egg mixture, continuing to mix as you go. Refrigerate dough for about an hour. When you are ready to bake, unwrap your caramels, and preheat oven to 350° F. Scoop out cookie dough balls that are about the size of a walnut. Bake 12-14 minutes, or until very lightly browned around the edges. Makes roughly 4 dozen.
Brooklyn Blackout Semifreddo Cake recipe on Food52.com Cooking is more fun with friends. Find your friends who are already on Food52, and invite others who aren't to join. Let's GoLearn more Join Our Community Follow amazing home cooks. Sign Up ♥ 485 + Save ▴ If you like it, save it! Save and organize all of the stuff you love in one place. Got it! If you like something… Click the heart, it's called favoriting. Author Notes: Who doesn't love a Brooklyn Blackout Cake? Food52 Review: If you like chocolate, you are going to LOVE this Brooklyn Blackout Semifreddo Cake! Makes 1 large (10-inch) loaf cake Cake and Semifreddo 1/4 cup milk 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 8 large eggs at room temperature 2 cups sugar 3/4 cup flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt For the semifreddo: 1 teaspoon vanilla 7 ounces dark chocolate 2 teaspoons espresso powder 1 1/3 cups heavy cream 2 tablespoons softened cream cheese 2 large eggs 1/2 cup sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Slow Roasted Tomato Bacon Jam With all of the filed ripened tomatoes around right now it is the perfect time for making sauces but I was thinking about something a little different, a tomato jam and with bacon day coming I was thinking that a tomato jam / bacon jam hybrid would be perfect! As nice as the field ripened tomatoes are they can be made even better by roasting them to caramelize them and bring out their flavour so I threw them into the oven and slow roasted them until they were starting to shrivel up and caramelize but still juicy on the inside. (Roasting the tomatoes also allows you to use those dull and drab winter hot house tomatoes to good effect!) Up next of course was the bacon followed by some of the usual jam suspects including brown sugar and maple syrup as sweeteners, a bit of vinegar for some tang and I threw in some chipotle chilies in adobo for a touch of heat. Once everything has simmered for a while on the stove all that is left is to puree to the jam desired consistency. ingredients
Homemade Apple Cider Donuts By food contributor Brittany Although I’m sad to say goodbye to summer, September is here and fall is just around the corner! Each year we start out the season with a family trip out to the apple orchard. We come home with buckets of apples and barrels of cider and are ever so anxious to make a treat with the fresh apples picked straight from the tree! These donuts are the most apple-y treat I have ever tasted and the sweetest way to celebrate the arrival of fall. Keep reading for the recipe! Even though donuts seem like a lot of work, these are something great to make a day before to cut up the work and save for a fun family night with the kids the next day.
Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Cookies An Oreo cookie stuffed right inside of a triple chocolate cookie, surrounded with many chocolate morsels. Makes for an already delicious cookie within another scrumptious cookie! Time is ticking away until the witching hour is almost over. Halloween will be here very shortly …then poof, gone. There’s still some candy left in the store isles. And, let’s not forget about the Halloween themed sandwich cookies! AND, the baking morsels still lurking around just waiting to be used for a fun Halloween {last minute} treat! These easy Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Cookies are fun to hand out as gifts! Or even for yourself! I love a really good ooey, gooey chocolate cookie. I used the Triple Dark Chocolate Cookies recipe to create these for a fun Halloween cookie. As you probably already figured out, you could use any kind of sandwich cookie… And any kind of chocolate morsels to create this cookie any way that you want. When you make the cookie dough, use a large cookie scoop. And, bake! So easy!