BethNH's Reviews
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The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes to Prepare at Home
By Diana Kuan
Ballantine Books - 2012
A very yummy fried rice which is hearty enough to serve as a main course. In addition to the rice there is both ham (or Chinese barbecued pork) and shrimp.
I made a few adjustments to the recipe. I used one medium onion instead of scallions and I used honey ham from the deli. I doubled everything except the peas. It was odd that there was no flavoring added to this rice so I added the flavoring for the rice recipe on the next page - soy sauce and sesame oil.
If you have cold rice on hand this whole dinner comes together in no time.
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Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats--A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (A 30-Minute Meal Cookbook)
By Rachael Ray
Clarkson Potter - 2005
My 18 year old son picked out this recipe to cook. It's basically ground chicken with spices rolled up in phyllo dough and baked.
We found using the phyllo dough very fiddly and, in the end, it didn't hold up very well to the filling. More layers of phyllo were definitely required. The taste was quite good but too much bother.
We made it again a couple of weeks later using a can of Pillsbury pizza dough. We divided the dough in half and divided the mixture between them. This made for a super simple meal which we all enjoyed even more.
It's certainly not fine dining but it was surprisingly tasty and we all enjoyed it.
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The Cook's Country Cookbook: Regional and Heirloom Favorites Tested and Reimagined for Today's Home Cooks
By The Editors of Cook's Country Magazine, Cook's Country Magazine
Boston Common Press - 2008
Giant whoopie pies for an 18th birthday!
Having already made a cake for his party, I wasn't in the mood to make another one for the family dinner. After paging through a few cookbooks, I decided to make whoopie pies.
Normally, I'm not a big fan of whoopie pies because they have this nasty grainy filling made with shortening and sugar. Who the heck wants to eat shortening? These whoopie pies have a marshmallow fluff filling which is smooth and silky.
Beautiful dark chocolate cake and marshmallow fluff filling combine to make very large delicious whoopie pies.
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Website: All Recipes
Finding a bag of Trader Joe's white chocolate chips in my pantry, I searched for a recipe to use them in. This cookie recipe had great reviews at allrecipes.com so it seemed like a good one to try.
I altered the recipe slightly by lessening the sugar from 2 cups to 1.5 cups. I used white and brown sugar instead of all white. Otherwise I followed the recipe exactly.
The cookies came out of the oven looking very nice. They held their shape and didn't flatten even though I used all butter which had really gotten too soft on the counter.
They have a nice chocolate flavor and a balanced sweetness. They'll never be a favorite because I don't really care for white chocolate (and really don't know why I had a bag of it in the pantry) but they are quite good. Kind of like a fudgy brownie with white chocolate chips.
If you're a fan of white chocolate, I'd highly recommend these. Even if you're not, they're worth a try.
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Website: Let's Dish
These enchiladas are all the rage on Pinterest right now.
Yummy chicken and cheese enchiladas topped with a sour cream sauce. I had to make a couple of substitutions when I realized I was missing a couple of ingredients. I didn't have any green chilis but I did have some very nice pepper jack cheese that I grated to put on top.
The enchiladas were creamy and melty and delicious. Even though my boys claim not to like sour cream, they didn't notice that the sauce was made with it. Everyone in the family liked these a lot.
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The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
By Alice Waters
Clarkson Potter - 2007
I suppose it's rather silly to review a recipe for whipped cream unless, of course, one does not know how to make it.
I substituted confectioners sugar for granulated sugar because I don't like the grit that granulated sugar can give to whipped cream. Otherwise, a few minutes in the KitchenAid and three simple ingredients makes wonderful whipped cream to put on top of our Easter sundaes.
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King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking: Delicious Recipes Using Nutritious Whole Grains
By King Arthur Flour
Countryman - 2006
My go to recipe for whole wheat dinner rolls. This recipe uses 2/3 whole wheat flour and produces 16 wonderfully soft yeasty dinner rolls.
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The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition
By America's Test Kitchen, Daniel J. Van Ackere, Carl Tremblay
America's Test Kitchen - 2006
These are exactly the same recipe as the chicken fajitas from the same cookbook (though not listed together). Although my boys prefer beef, we didn't love these. I usually have great luck with flank steak but this was just too chewy.
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The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
By Alice Waters
Clarkson Potter - 2007
Just starting to make my own salad dressings and this recipe couldn't be easier. Red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt pepper and Italian seasoning. Comes together in under a minute.
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Best Loved Hershey's Recipes
By Publications International
Publications International - 2007
When plans fell through for my 14 year old, I offered to bake with him. This is one of his favorite cookbooks - probably because of the pictures - and he picked out this torte.
The cake portion is baked in a jelly roll pan and later cut in three parts horizontally. Simple enough and takes almost no time.
One is supposed to spread raspberry preserves between the layers but none of my boys like preserves of any kind so I used Nutella. Cake, nutella, whipped cream, cake, nutella, whipped cream, cake, cocoa glaze.
There was nothing difficult about this torte though making everything used a number of bowls, pans and utensils. It comes together pretty quickly and looks impressive to those who don't bake.
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Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys
By Lucinda Scala Quinn
Artisan - 2009
I made this one night when I had a terrible craving for chocolate pudding. It looked so beautiful in the little ramekins - all dark and smooth and chocolatey.
Sadly, the first spoonful left me wishing I had gone with instant pudding. This was disgusting and inedible. It left a terrible aftertaste.
Sad.
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Joy the Baker Cookbook: 100 Simple and Comforting Recipes
By Joy Wilson
Hyperion - 2012
Snickerdoodles are hard to mess with. Joy gives these a special touch with some added vanilla beans.
These are not our favorite snickerdoodles. We prefer ours with a distinctive crunch. These are crunchy on the perimeter but the center remains soft and chewy. I'm not sure if this center would have hardened if they had been left in the oven longer and I also know that some prefer their snickerdoodles this way.
The cookies are very good - they're just not our personal favorite.
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America's Test Kitchen
(, 2013)
The latest in my attempt to find the perfect brownie recipe.
This recipe uses three kinds of chocolate - unsweetened, bittersweet and cocoa. These are melted together in the microwave with butter before being added to eggs, sugar, and finally, flour.
The brownies come together quickly using only two bowls and a few utensils.
Alas, although my husband thought they were very good, and my youngest son said they were good, they are still not what I'm looking for.
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Website: Dinner With Julie
You know those little brownie bites that you see in the stores? These are just like those only without a shelf life of many months.
Tiny little brownie bites, baked in mini muffin tins. They are low fat - calling for only half a stick of butter for 24 brownies. They use simple pantry ingredients and come together in no time at all. I used a Tablespoon cookie scoop to measure them out and they came out great with exactly enough batter for the 24 brownies.
Unlike brownies baked in bar form, these don't require hours to cool before you can eat them. You can bake, cool for just a bit, and pop them in your mouth.
Yum!
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Website: King Arthur Flour
My youngest son has been clamoring for scones for months now and when this recipe popped up on my Facebook page I figured it was a good one to start with.
We actually went with double chocolate scones - cocoa and chocolate chips - and skipped the chocolate glaze. The dough was kind of difficult to get to come together and was fairly moist.
This recipe makes two 6 inch circles of dough which are divided into 6 wedges each. The scones had a very nice chocolate flavor and were very light. Definitely not an everyday breakfast item but they were quite good.
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The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook (King Arthur Flour Cookbooks)
By Brinna Sands, King Arthur Flour
Countryman Press - 1992
Excellent baked pancake!
Each pancake is baked in a cake pan and rises nicely up the sides. These pancakes come out thin with crispy sides and a softer bottom. They are less eggy than other baked pancakes I've tried.
While the pancakes baked, I sauteed apples and bananas to serve on top. YUM!
Be sure to double this recipe if you're feeding more than two or have hearty appetites.
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The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook
By King Arthur Flour
Countryman Press - 2004
The classic peanut butter cookie. It's quite good but every time I make it the dough seems just a tad too dry. I might add just one tablespoon of shortening.
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Following the baking instructions goes a long way in making these come out well. I misread the temperature for the oven - these bake at a low temperature of 325 - so I burned the first batch.
These are a lovely oatmeal cookie on the thick side - they don't thin out much during baking. They are crunchy but not brittle.
Delicious with chocolate chips added!
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I was looking for a cookie recipe that would only use ingredients that I had on hand. Although we generally prefer chocolate in our cookies, I thought a nice sugar cookie would fit the bill tonight.
These cookies are indeed chewy like the title suggests. They are puffy and moist rather than thin and chewy. I'd have liked more chewy and less moist.
The cookies are good. Fine. Definitely not essential.
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Website: All Recipes
Delicious marinade! Used it for steak tips which were grilled and they were tasty and tender. Made with common pantry ingredients it's easy to pull together in a two cup measuring cup.
I used red winer vinegar in place of the balsamic as I didn't have any good quality balsamic and other reviews stated the vinegar flavor was pronounced.
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Joy the Baker Cookbook: 100 Simple and Comforting Recipes
By Joy Wilson
Hyperion - 2012
Cake really doesn't get much easier than this. As soon as the batter goes in the oven, the icing is started. Once the cake is pulled from the oven the hot icing is poured on top where it very quickly firms up.
The frosting becomes melded with the cake and there's a nice mix of cake and frosting in every bite. It's moist and chocolatey with crunch provided by the walnuts.
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The Cook's Country Cookbook: Regional and Heirloom Favorites Tested and Reimagined for Today's Home Cooks
By The Editors of Cook's Country Magazine, Cook's Country Magazine
Boston Common Press - 2008
A delicious marinade/sauce is made with whiskey, apple cider, cider vinegar and seasonings. After a couple of hours marinating the chops are briefly fried before the reserved sauce is added to the pan. The sauce decreases to a glossy, sticky substance that coats the chops nicely when they are added back to the pan.
I'd cook the chops just a bit longer next time before removing them from the pan but otherwise the recipe was wonderful. The sauce had lots of flavor and the chops were very moist.
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The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook
By King Arthur Flour
Countryman Press - 2004
A very rich brownie like cookie with toffee bits.
These cookies are quite rich and very delicious. Without fail, adults love them. Kids, on the other hand, seem to find them a bit too "adult" tasting.
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Still Life with Menu Cookbook
By Mollie Katzen
Ten Speed Press - 2004
Very simple, very wonderful recipe!
Essentially a green bean stir fry with garlic and red pepper flakes. Everyone in my family loved them and we'll eat green beans this way again very soon.
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Still Life with Menu Cookbook
By Mollie Katzen
Ten Speed Press - 1988
Very simple, very wonderful recipe!
Essentially a green bean stir fry with garlic and red pepper flakes. Everyone in my family loved them and we'll eat green beans this way again very soon.
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Website: All Recipes
I saw this recipe in the All Recipes magazine while waiting for the doctor. I saved it in my phone to try someday and today was that day.
Although there were a number of flavors - honey, brown sugar, Thai garlic ginger sauce - we didn't find any of them contributed to making the chicken sweet, spicy or sticky. I even added some cornstarch to thicken up the sauce and it still didn't cling to the chicken.
This didn't taste bad in any way but it was under whelming and I wouldn't make it again.
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Website: Simply Recipes
Just like the recipe says - super easy, super moist. These are made with common pantry ingredients and require no eggs and no butter (except that used in the frosting). It uses only two bowls and no mixer. The cupcakes are leavened with baking soda and vinegar.
Wonderful moist cupcakes that can be pulled together - including baking time - in under 30 minutes.
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Website: cooks.com
www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1745,159186-246195,00.html
Very simple recipe that requires only almonds, water, sugar, egg white and cinnamon. I've been making these for years to give away at Christmas and they are a huge hit.
Beware - they are quite addictive!
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Icebox Pies
By Lauren Chattman
Harvard Common Press - 2002
What a brilliant idea! A crust for an ice cream cake made out of pulverized ice cream cones. The sugar cones came out of the food processor looking just like graham cracker crumbs and when mixed with butter made a very nice crust.
Yum!
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The Cook's Illustrated Cookbook: 2,000 Recipes from 20 Years of America's Most Trusted Cooking Magazine
By Editors at Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Cook's Illustrated - 2011
A neighbor dropped off a beautiful basket of strawberries that she picked this morning so I decided to make strawberry shortcake.
This recipe has all three necessary parts of this quintessential summer dessert.
1. Strawberries - after being cut up, a portion is mashed while the rest are left sliced. They macerated on the counter while the rest of the dish came together.
2. Whipped Cream - I had some shelf stable cream from Trader Joe's. I put it in the freezer to cool it before whipping it. Sadly, I left it in there too long and it froze. I was able to thaw it AND keep it cool at the same time and it whipped up fine.
3. Biscuits - These biscuits are made with baking powder, half and half, and an egg. Eggs are an unusual addition to biscuits but they came together easily - even in the heat of a summer kitchen - and rose beautifully in the oven. The tops are nice and brown due to being brushed with cream and sprinkled with sugar. These are seriously the best dessert biscuits I have ever had. They are a bit sweet and a little crisp on the top but nice and flaky in the middle.
This recipe required many dishes but came together easily and relatively quickly.
Delicious!!
And, because my ridiculous boys don't like berries they ate the biscuits with whipped cream in the middle and homemade hot chocolate sauce on the top.
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The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes to Prepare at Home
By Diana Kuan
Ballantine Books - 2012
Another excellent meal from Ms. Kuan.
Marinated chicken is quickly stir fried with garlic and peas (we subbed pea pods) and then finished with a delicious sauce.
Very easy to put together. In the time it takes the rice cooker to make the rice, I was able to make the rest of the meal.
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The woman behind the fish counter offered me a free bag of mussels today while I was buying fish. Who could resist?
A quick search on EYB turned up this recipe from one of my most used cookbooks. I assembled everything only to realize I didn't have any five-spice powder.
It turns out it didn't matter. There was so much flavor from the aromatics, soy sauce and oyster sauce that we didn't miss the spice.
My boys have never had mussels before and both were willing to try them. The middle boy really enjoyed them and ate a bunch. The youngest liked them more once my husband suggested he could put sriracha on them.
I can't wait to have these again.
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The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century
By Amanda Hesser
W. W. Norton & Company - 2010
Perfect summer time meal.
Chicken is marinated in a delicious sauce made from cashews, cilantro, garlic, jalapenos (and a few other things). The sauce is put together quickly in the blender and then spread on the chicken.
I let my chicken sit for just about an hour before grilling. I was a little nervous about the spiciness before I put it on the chicken but after grilling it was perfect. The sauce has a nice kick to it but no burn.
All five members of my family gave this 5 stars.
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Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats--A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (A 30-Minute Meal Cookbook)
By Rachael Ray
Clarkson Potter - 2005
My 18 yo son asked if he could cook dinner and asked for suggestions. As he's not much of a cook, I pulled some easy cookbooks off the shelf. He chose this recipe despite it containing ingredients he had never eaten before.
Although he needed a little help - basically convincing him to get ingredients together before he started cooking - he was able to pull of this super simple recipe in a short amount of time.
The result was a tasty noodle bowl we all enjoyed and a proud son.
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Website: Pioneer Woman Cooks
This was very good. I halved the recipe but forgot to halve the amount of chipotles so it was pretty darn spicy. I think we'd like it better just a tad less hot. I look forward to trying it again.
Edit: I made this a second time with the correct proportion of ingredients and it was delicious. Everyone loved it.
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The Best Simple Recipes
By Editors at America's Test Kitchen
Boston Common Press - 2010
Filled with amazing flavors! This is a super simple weeknight dinner that tastes like you've spent a ton of time cooking.
Turkey tenderloins are browned and then simmered in a wonderful sauce of orange juice, lime juice, chipotle in adobo, brown sugar and molasses. After the turkey is cooked, the sauce is reduced to a syrupy consistency.
This was spicy and citrusy and delicious. It was great served over white rice - plenty of sauce.
There are numerous links to this recipe online but none to the official website so I won't link them. If you want to cook this recipe, however, it's easy to fine.
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The Complete Cooking For Two Cookbook
By Editors at America's Test Kitchen
Boston Common Press - 2014
Fresh swordfish needs so little to make it wonderful. This recipe has just a tiny bit of spice from chili powder and cayenne. We grilled it instead of broiling and it was wonderful. The avocado-grapefruit salsa was very good and went perfectly with the swordfish.
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The Bon Appetit Cookbook: Fast Easy Fresh
By Barbara Fairchild
Wiley - 2008
This recipe was a little more involved than I had bargained for but that was completely my own fault for not reading the recipe all the way through before starting.
First of all, the recipe calls for pumpkin pie spice which I refuse to buy on principle. This meant I had to look up a recipe for pumpkin pie spice so I'd get the ratios correct. Later, I realized that the recipe called for melted and cooled butter as well as separated eggs with beaten egg whites. None of these were problematic on their own but while trying to fry bacon and get the rest of the recipe together, they threw me for a loop.
After I made the first 12 pancakes and they were rather flat, I took another look at the recipe and realized I left out the baking powder. I then added half the amount called for to the rest of the recipe.
Even with all these little problems, the pancakes were delicious. They had a nice, moist fruity flavor. The pumpkin lovers loved them while the haters were not so fond. We added chocolate chips to the pancakes because pumpkin and chocolate go so well together.
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Wonderful pumpkin bread with typical pumpkin pie spices. Full of flavor and very moist. Makes 2 large loaves. Freezes well.
Also makes 24 very large muffins.
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Yummy!
This dinner came together in no time at all. The spice rub was made with ingredients I always have in my pantry. I also had a can of chipotles in the pantry and sour cream in the fridge.
I broiled the chicken instead of grilling because it was too cold and snowy outside. The spice rub was delicious! The chicken breasts were juicy and the chipotle cream was wonderful.
We all enjoyed this very simple dinner much more than we would have predicted.
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The Cook's Illustrated Cookbook: 2,000 Recipes from 20 Years of America's Most Trusted Cooking Magazine
By Editors at Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Cook's Illustrated - 2011
I've only ever had spice cake from a box so I found this recipe tempting when I found it.
This is a simple cake baked in a 9x13 pan. The spices for the cake were bloomed in browned butter before being added to the batter. In addition to the dried spices, there was a tablespoon of fresh ginger and some molasses added.
The top of the cake browned more than I thought was good and I was a bit worried. I needn't have worried a bit as the cake was quite moist with a very nice crumb. The spices were quite noticeable but not overwhelming.
The cake was frosted with a cream cheese frosting. Some of the spice mixture was supposed to be added to the frosting and I'm quite sure it would have been delicious but I forgot to add it.
Overall, a very good cake that was quite easy to make.
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Desperation Dinners
By Beverly Mills, Alicia Ross
Workman Publishing Company - 1997
Disappointing!
It's a very basic recipe but I figured it was worth a shot. In the end, the rice was just too crunchy (brown rice) and had very little flavor.
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Website: Simply Scratch
This is a simple but delicious marinade which we used on some lovely turkey tenderloins.
The marinade is made in a blender or small food processor and includes garlic, ginger, soy sauce, shallots and oil. After a 30 minute marinade the tenderloins were placed on the grill.
The turkey was truly moist and very flavorful. We all loved it and I would use it again for chicken or maybe even pork.
All that being said, DO NOT go to this blog unless you enjoy poor spelling, atrocious grammar, a bizarre attraction and misuse of the semi-colon, and ridiculous cutesy language. I have printed out this particular recipe so I never have to return again.
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Website: Recipe Girl
When asked what he wanted for his birthday cake, my husband quickly responded with Snickers Pie. Apparently he had this at our neighbor's Christmas Eve party and had been planning to request it for his birthday.
I did a quick Google search and then called my neighbor to confirm this was the same recipe that my husband had eaten. I must confess that this is not something I would have normally made. It is basically a mixture of peanut butter, confectioners sugar, Cool Whip and chopped up snickers bars poured into an Oreo cookie shell.
This may have been the first time in my life I've ever bought Cool Whip. The recipe was very easy to make. I let it sit in the fridge over night to cool. I wish that the filling had hardened some but I guess refrigerated Cool Whip stays pretty soft. Nevertheless, it cut easily.
The boys all LOVED the pie - including the birthday boy. I found it cloyingly sweet and didn't care for the too mushy texture. I feel the need to give it 4 stars as everyone but me seems to love this darn pie. In fact, the recipe makes enough for 2 pies so we have plenty for tomorrow as well. I don't need another piece.
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The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook
By King Arthur Flour
Countryman Press - 2004
This recipe makes the perfect Snickerdoodle. They're light, crispy and have great cinnamon flavor.
I know that traditional Snickerdoodle recipes call for cream of tartar but this one uses baking powder and makes a very crisp cookie.
My middle son's all time favorite cookie.
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The Cook's Country Cookbook: Regional and Heirloom Favorites Tested and Reimagined for Today's Home Cooks
By The Editors of Cook's Country Magazine, Cook's Country Magazine
Boston Common Press - 2008
Cooks Illustrated claims to have perfected the snickerdoodle recipe. Typically, I make the recipe from the King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion which I consider my cookie Bible. That recipe does not use cream of tartar which is common to most snickerdoodle recipes.
This recipe uses cream of tartar and baking powder as leaveners which is supposed to make the cookies rise in the oven and then fall leaving cracks on the top of the cookies. These cookies are also bigger than the ones I typically make - a Tablespoon scoop rather than a teaspoon scoop.
CI claims that these cookies will be chewy in the middle and crisp on the edges. I found them to be crisp throughout which is how I prefer snickerdoodles anyway.
In the end, I found this recipe produced very nice snickerdoodles which were identical to the ones I always make (though larger in size). The cookies were delicious but they weren't as described in the recipe.
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The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition
By America's Test Kitchen, Daniel J. Van Ackere, Carl Tremblay
America's Test Kitchen - 2006
Although this recipe keeps you in the kitchen near the stove for a bit, it's a simple week night dinner. It's easy enough to prepare the ingredients as other parts of the recipe are cooking.
I used boneless pork chops as that's what I had. Pork chops and onions are browned separately before going back in the pan with spices and chicken broth. Bacon is fried in the same pan and a gravy is made from the fat left over.
In the end, the reduced sauce is poured over the chops and the bacon is sprinkled on top.
I cooked the chops for about 15 rather than 30 minutes and they were cooked perfectly. There was an abundance of sauce which was very flavorful. I'd use less chicken broth next time. The bacon was good, of course, but it didn't really seem like a necessary part of the recipe and I'd probably omit it in the future.
The chops were moist and tender and everyone enjoyed this dinner.
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The Cook's Illustrated Cookbook: 2,000 Recipes from 20 Years of America's Most Trusted Cooking Magazine
By Editors at Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Cook's Illustrated - 2011
It's easy to make an expensive roast taste delicious. It's much more difficult to take a cheap roast and cook it so that it's moist and tender.
Eye of Round roasts are always marked down at my supermarket. I've never known quite how to cook them so they don't turn into leather. This method has you salt the roast for 24 hours prior to cooking (actual time was more like 19 hours). The roast is then cooked in a very low oven and finally finished in the oven with the residual heat after the oven is turned off.
At the end of the appointed time, I had a wonderfully cooked roast that was pink, juicy and tender.
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The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition
By America's Test Kitchen, Daniel J. Van Ackere, Carl Tremblay
America's Test Kitchen - 2006
A simple pulled pork crockpot recipe. I used store bought bbq sauce and it was still quite good. This recipe advises taking the pork roast out of the crockpot and then shredding by hand so the fat and gristle can be thrown away. The meat is then added back to the pot with some additional seasonings.
Even those in my family who are not big crockpot fans loved this meal. The pork was not shredded into tiny pieces nor was it mushy. It was delicious - especially served on the homemade hamburger buns that I made.
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The Cook's Country Cookbook: Regional and Heirloom Favorites Tested and Reimagined for Today's Home Cooks
By The Editors of Cook's Country Magazine, Cook's Country Magazine
Boston Common Press - 2008
I have no idea why I had a hankering for Sloppy Joes. I can't remember the last time I had them but decided it was time to make them from scratch.
This recipe is delicious. It's not overly sweet or tangy. It's delicious with a nice tomato flavor. It's got just a bit of a kick to it due to the Mexican chili powder I used and the teeny bit of hot sauce.
My husband liked it so much he ate the extra with chips as though it was dip.
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