BethNH's Reviews
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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: 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: Smitten Kitchen
These did not end my search for the perfect brownie. I'm not ashamed to admit I'm looking for brownies with that nice shiny top that crackles and a fudgy interior - basically brownies just like those from a box.
These brownies did not satisfy. They are much too thin - about 3/4 inch. They are not nearly chocolatey enough. They just don't have the right taste.
They are decent tasting but they don't end my search and they're not even close to the best cocoa brownies I've ever made.
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Website: Smitten Kitchen
Mother's Day breakfast (a day early) made by my 14 year old son.
I found this version of baked french toast better than others we've tried. The toasting of the bread meant that there were nice crisp edges and a custardy under layer. Most of the work can be done the night before which makes breakfast come together very quickly the next morning. In the time it takes to bake the french toast, one can fry up an entire pound of bacon.
Served with a side of crispy bacon, this was a wonderful Mother's Day breakfast.
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Website: Smitten Kitchen
My middle son won a trail race this week and was awarded a large bag of kale as a prize. Not knowing what to do with kale, I turned to the one recipe I had heard about over and over on the internet - kale chips.
They came out thin, crisp and salty and ... absolutely disgusting. My mother and I both agreed these are inedible. Ugh! Nasty!
My son, however, who won the kale (seriously, who wins kale???) rather likes the kale chips and my youngest son, who likes very little, thought the kale chips weren't bad at all.
I just hope that if he wins the race next week that something else is ripe from the garden.
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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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I may have to bake these again to give a fair rating.
The cookies have minimal ingredients and are leavened by only one egg. I added a few drops of lemon oil for added lemon flavor. I expected flat "snap" cookies but the cookies I got were small mounds with crystallized sugar surrounding them.
I used a small cookie scoop to measure them out but the cookies were hit or miss in size. Some just completely melted into piles of brown sugary goo.
The cookies that didn't dissolve (most) are quite good. Perfect for when you want a fruity cookie.
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I made these for someone whose favorite flavors are chocolate and ginger. Sadly, these cookies don't taste strongly of either flavor. I suppose that was to be expected as there is only 1 oz of unsweetened chocolate in the batter but I was hoping for more.
Nonetheless, the cookies do have a nice flavor and I liked them. I just don't think they live up to their name.
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Top Secret Restaurant Recipes
By Todd Wilbur
GuildAmerica Books - 1997
A very nice fettucini alfredo! Alfredo is a simple recipe that I've managed to mess up more than once.
The sauce didn't thicken quite as much as I would have liked but I probably could have let it simmer longer. I also added twice as much parmesan cheese because the amount called for seemed skimpy. In the end, however it had a very nice flavor with no grit (which has been my problem in the past).
Served over a pound of linguine, this served our family of five nicely. The recipe claims that this serves 2 to 3 as an entree which would be WAY too much food.
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The Ultimate Muffin Book: More Than 600 Recipes for Sweet and Savory Muffins
By Bruce Weinstein, Mark Scarbrough
William Morrow Cookbooks - 2004
A 2 hour delay due to snow meant I had time to bake muffins for my son before he headed off to school. I took a quick look through this new to me book and settled on this recipe because my son LOVES coffee and I had all the necessary ingredients. Flavored with instant espresso powder these muffins are a nice tan color and have great coffee flavor. They are wonderful muffins that I'll be sure to make again.
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Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook
By Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero
Da Capo Press - 2007
This is the first time I've ever made homemade baked beans.
I doubled the recipe because I'm bringing it to a large gathering. I followed the directions and cooked the onions and garlic on the stove and started the sauce there as well. I then added the sauce to the beans in a crockpot.
I cooked the beans in the crockpot on low for 6 hours before turning it down to warm. All the flavors came together perfectly - they're not too sweet nor do they taste of molasses. They're just right.
This recipe adapts perfectly to the crockpot and I'd recommend cooking them this way during the summer to avoid turning on the oven. They make the house smell wonderful.
EDIT: I have since made these in the crockpot again. This time I did not precook the onions and garlic on the stove - just tossed them raw into the crockpot - and the beans were still just as good.
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I used canned beans and my food processor and got a nice creamy hummus.
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The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two
By Anna Thomas
Knopf - 1978
With 1 1/2 cups of heavy cream, 1/2 cup of butter and 1 1/2 cups of parmesan cheese, this dish should have been much better. For some reason, this sauce turned gritty on me and clung to the pasta in a not so attractive manner.
We love Alfredo but won't make this particular recipe again. The recipe I usually use has no additional butter in it (making in lower in fat) and we like it much better.
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Weight Watchers One Pot Cookbook
By Weight Watchers
Wiley - 2011
Every boy in my family gave this recipe 5 stars and were looking for more at the end of the meal.
This is a very simple recipe which uses the same glaze for both the roast and the green beans. The glaze is nice and spicy made with plenty of grated ginger, hoisin sauce, sesame oil and chili-garlic sauce.
The pork and green beans roast in the same pan in the oven for about 25 minutes. Served with a side of rice this makes a complete meal in about 30 minutes.
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