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Post includes Weight Watchers points. Lovely Crunch…… The little sharp pickles give this comforting pasta salad a nice crunch. And the creamy dressing gets a nice kick from the combination of whole grain mustard, dill pickle juice and apple cider vinegar. Delish! Because Dill Pickle Pasta Salad is so rich and creamy, it is a super kid-friendly side dish. Like my Taco Pasta Salad, I find it to be just the thing for packing in lunchboxes....

🤔 Why This Recipe? Simple ingredients make a bread that tastes better than anything I have had at any restaurant. We’re always amazed at how that works out sometimes. Well, this focaccia bread is just that. Nothing eating out has come close to this. We have an awesome sourdough that, quite simply, is my favorite bread. We make it weekly. But this focaccia bread has a good chance of taking out the sourdough....

In recent months I’ve realized just how much this blog affects our eating habits. This blog has become my virtual cookbook, my food diary, where we can revisit our past through our palettes (can you remember what you ate last Wednesday? I sure can’t.) I can re-read whatever coy comments I wrote about such and such a pasta, what suggestions Taylor had for improving the hum-drum flavor of that fish....

Ingredients 2 sq. chocolate, bitter 1 cup sugar 3 cups milk 1/8 tsp. salt 1 cup water, boiling 1 tsp. vanilla Preparation Scald milk and melt chocolate. Add to hot milk. Mix sugar with salt and boiling water. Boil 5 minutes. Add to scalded milk. Add vanilla. Cool. Freeze. Add whipped cream. Related Video

4 oz strong coffee 2 sugar cubes, to taste 1½ oz dark Jamaican rum 2 tbsp whipped cream Fill the cup with coffee, sweeten to taste with the sugar cubes, then add the rum. Place whipped cream on top and serve immediately. This coffee drink is typically served in a large glass tumbler with a saucer made for this drink. If it’s not available, use a coffee cup. Traditionally, this drink is not supposed to be stirred, but sip it through the whipped cream....

Ingredients 8 hot dogs, of your choice 3 cups pancake mix, preferably Bisquick ¾ cups water, add more as needed 4 oz white cheddar cheese, or preferred cheese, shredded, plus more as needed all-purpose flour, for dusting cooking spray ¼ cup mayonnaise ¼ cup ketchup ¼ cup pickle relish ¼ cup mustard Preparation Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a baking sheet with cooking spray and cover with parchment paper....

16 ounce peaches, preferably home-frozen ½ cup juice, drained from peaches 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 4 eggs, separated ½ cup water 1 tbsp. lemon juice ⅛ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. almond extract ½ pt whipping cream, whipped ½ cup sugar Take the canned peaches and separate the juice from the peaches. Sprinkle gelatin on juice. Beat egg yolks and water together and add to gelatin mixture. Cook in double boiler until gelatin is dissolved and mixture is somewhat thickened....

Today we’re talking all about snacking and sharing an easy recipe for No-Bake Apricot Almond Coconut Energy Bars. We’re also sharing tips to help you snack healthier and stop you from going elbow deep into a bag of Doritos or polishing off a sleeve of Ritz crackers at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Snacks should be nourishing, they should be energizing and should be ‘just enough’ to give your blood sugar and metabolism a little boost to keep you going until your next meal....

Ingredients 3 tsp vanilla 14 oz heavy cream 3 egg whites 3 tbsp sugar cinnamon, for sprinkling or garnish Preparation At least 40 minutes before preparing the dessert, place a metal mixing bowl and the electric mixer’s beater attachments in the fridge. In the cold metal mixing bowl, add vanilla to the heavy cream and beat with the chilled mixer attachments until it peaks. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until they form soft peaks....

16 strawberries 1 cup confectioner’s sugar ½ cup sour cream 12 oz. cream cheese, softened 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 graham cracker crusts, Store-bought Start with chopping half of the strawberries coarsely and into small pieces. Place in bowl. Pour sugar and sour cream into a bowl and whisk the cream, the fruits, and the sugar together until well mixed. Add in vanilla extract and stir well again until the whole mixture is well combined....

This stunner of a cake is sure to impress your friends and family this holiday season, and with some well-planned time management, is really much easier than you might think. I’ve been wanting to make a chocolate mirror glaze ever since I made those blueberry mirror glazed cakes this past summer (can you blame me for wanting to mirror-glaze everything? Too pretty!) As it turns out, you can easily make milk chocolate or dark chocolate mirror glaze simply by swapping out the white chocolate....

Every year about this time we start to really look forward to the coming year – to clean slates, new possibilities, new adventures and let’s not forget – new recipes to create and share. But before we jump into 2019, let’s take a quick trip down recipe memory lane with our most popular recipes of 2018. And before we do that, we just want to thank you – our amazing reader and follower – for being here with us for the 97+ new recipes we shared this year....

I miss pizza. Poor Taylor (who can still eat pizza) misses pizza more than I do. So when I come across a pizza recipe that isn’t slathered in mozzarella, I jump on it. Like this recipe, found in the January issue of Bon Appetit. Only cheese on this baby is Parmesan, which is aged enough that it doesn’t harm my delicate stomach. Perfect. Granted, it looks a bit out there....

2 cups red wine ½ cup water 1 pkg dry onion soup mix 1 tbsp brown sugar 1 tsp dried rosemary , or fresh rosemary 4 lb beef roast, trimmed 2 tsp cornstarch Place roast in crock pot and season with pepper. Mix the rest of the ingredients together and pour over roast. Cover and cook on Low for 6 to 7 hours. Remove roast to rest on platter. Turn crock pot to High....

3 lb roast beef, pork, or wild game 2 pkg brown gravy mix 1 pkg beef stew mix 1 tbsp garlic, minced 2 carrots, sliced or diced 2 green bell peppers ½ onion 3 green onions 67 red potatoes, small, whole or quartered or 2 cubed russets salt and pepper , to taste 1 tsp Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning water Throw all ingredients in the crockpot or pressure cooker. Add water until it covers the roast....

½ lb linguine, dry 1 ½ cup cream ¾ cup Parmesan, grated 2 tbsp garlic, roasted, pureed salt, to taste pepper, to taste Cook the pasta until just tender. Drain and rinse. Set aside. Heat the cream in a skillet. Whisk in the cheese and garlic. Reduce slightly. Toss in the cooked pasta. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve warm. Sugar: 2g : Calcium: 305mg Calories: 603kcal Carbohydrates: 48g...

Weight Watchers Points included. You only need 4 simple ingredients for this dessert treat. It’s incredibly quick to make. It’s great for camping trips but can also be made in the oven, so if your camping trip gets rained out, you can still enjoy these Banana Boats. Or you know, make them just because, no camping trip needed 😉 You can make Air Fryer Banana Boats or Oven version too....

1 can cream of chicken soup 1 cup milk ½ tsp. dried thyme 2 cups chicken, cubed 2 cups frozen vegetables 6 oz biscuits, (1 pkg) In an 8-inch square baking dish, mix soup, milk and thyme. Stir in chicken and mixed vegetables. Bake at 375 degrees F until hot. Top with biscuits and bake as directed for biscuits until golden. Sugar: 2g : Calcium: 69mg Calories: 190kcal Carbohydrates: 21g...

Two years ago, I was dining at a charming Colorado restaurant with my parents when the waiter (after hearing us discussing our latest culinary projects) brought out a special batch of salsa that he had made earlier that day. In it was a mixture of typical salsa ingredients (tomato, jalapeno, and onion) along with not-so common additions like blueberries and watermelon. I don’t think we’ve ever eaten a bowl of salsa so quickly....

Ingredients 1 lb ground beef 1½ cups vegetable oil, for frying ½ cup green onions, finely chopped ½ cup cabbage, finely chopped ½ cup carrot, finely chopped ½ cup garlic, minced 4 tsp sesame oil, divided 1 tbsp sesame seeds, toasted, plus additional 1 tsp for sauce ½ tsp monosodium glutamate, such as Ac’cent® salt and ground black pepper, to taste 2 eggs 16 oz wonton wrappers, (1 package) 3 tbsp soy sauce...