Strawberry Shortcakes! Yes, Please!
How To make Strawberry Shortcakes - A Smile Maker. It is getting to be that time of year when, finally, great summer fruits start showing up on grocery store shelves and at the farmers market. In Europe, where I have been lucky to have spent a large amount of time...
How To Make Pastry Cream
How To Make Pastry Cream Do you often find yourself in need of a pastry filling? Are you constantly wracking your brain with questions about how you will fill your profiteroles, eclairs or donuts? Do you wish you could whip up a rich, creamy filling in a few minutes...
How To Make Pickles – Classic Dills!
How To Make Pickles I am always amazed at the power a good pickle has. How many times have I sat down to a pastrami on rye thinking that the sandwich will be the main player when, after a bite of the pickle that comes with the sandwich, I come to a full stop...
How To Make Eclairs – An Easy Recipe For The Classic
How To Make Eclairs I believe when it comes to eclairs we have been a bit bamboozled. I am only guessing here, but I would bet that most of our experience with eclairs comes from our many trips to the neighborhood donut shop which uses normal doughnut dough for the...
How To Make Celery Root Soup In The Slow Cooker
How To Make Celery Root Soup On a cold night there is nothing better than a pot of hot, homemade soup. It is especially nice if you can have it on a weeknight. A good pureed soup is not that difficult to make, but it can be made even easier if you employ your slow...
How To Make Pulled Pork In The Slow Cooker
How To Make Pulled Pork I like pulled pork. One of the reasons I like it, beyond the fantastic taste, is the idea of taking a really tough piece of meat and making it into a thing of beauty. Braising tough meats and turning them into tender, succulent eats, is in my...
Easy Peanut Butter Recipe – Dark Chocolate!
Easy Peanut Butter Recipe Made Chocolatey It will always be easier to just go out and buy something at the store - peanut butter included - but it is worth noting that making peanut butter at home is easy. Any peanut butter recipe is pretty much an easy peanut butter...
How To Make Chocolate Custard Pie
How To Make Chocolate Custard Pie This is not your typical pudding pie. No, this is a rich, velvety chocolate custard pie. Yes, a chocolate pudding is nice, but a rich chocolate custard delivered in a buttery graham cracker crust is the next level. If you want to know...
How To Make Almond Butter – An Easy Recipe
How To Make Almond Butter It is funny how things have changed in the nut butter space. When I was growing up, all you could buy in the store was peanut butter. There was that machine next to the peanut butter in the store where you could grind your own peanuts for...
How To Make Peanut Butter
How To Make Peanut Butter I like peanut butter. I must say though that the peanut butter your mother starts you on sticks with you. We were, for better or for worse, a Jif family. Maybe it was Annette Funicello, maybe it was that the others out there just didn't taste...