BethNH's Profile

From: , NH USA

Joined: December 16th, 2010

About me: I've been cooking and baking since I was a child and collecting cookbooks almost that long. Years ago, I lost my entire collection in a flood and I've been slowly building it back up. I cook for my husband and three sons who are not very adventurous eaters. We're on the go a lot with sports and school schedules. I love to bake and my boys and their friends appreciate all manner of baked goods.

Favorite cookbook: King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion

Ginger Pork Meatballs with Cilantro and Fish Sauce from Dinner: Changing the Game

These meatballs and the dipping sauce were to die for delicious. Although there was a lot of chopping the recipe was easy to follow. Everyone loved it and we will definitely make this again. read more >

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The Quick Recipe (The Best Recipe Series)

By Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Cook's Illustrated - 2003

A super quick recipe that uses only common household panty ingredients. I substituted sour milk for buttermilk and added a dollop of molasses to the brown sugar to substitute for dark brown sugar.

The batter is looser than most other muffins and the muffins don't rise quite as high but they are delicious and have a nice spicy taste that reminds me of fall.

These were baked as muffin tops and mini muffins and made 12 muffin tops and 11 mini muffins.

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I love the idea of coffee cakes bakes as muffins. Almost all of the work is done in a food processor and the batter comes together quickly.

I followed the recipe and added two tablespoons of batter to each muffin cup and then put on the streusel and finally added more batter. The only problem was that I ran out of batter to add to the top of the last three muffins.

The muffins were delicious - even the ones without the added batter on the top. Next time I'd add less batter to the first layer so as not to run out for the the top layer. I loved the taste of the struesel in the middle of the muffins - it stayed nice and moist.

I'd definitely make these again.

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This is an exceedingly simple recipe for refried beans.

Canned beans are pureed in the food processor. They are then added to a pan in which diced slab bacon has been rendered. In addition to the bacon there are onions, garlic and spices. The beans thickened in the pan while the rest of dinner was cooked.

The beans had a very pronounced bacon flavor and, while they were quite good, I was the only person in the family who liked them. It would have been good to know ahead of time that no one cares for refried beans.

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