Cook Pasta With A Rice Cooker Cooking pasta in a rice cooker is easy. No draining required. First make sure your rice cooker can handle the amount of COOKED pasta–remembering that it doubles in volume when cooked. Mostly I make about 1 cup dry, 2 cups cooked in my rice cooker. For “shaped” pasta like…
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No Bake Peanut Butter Crack Bars
No Bake Peanut Butter Crack Bars There is nothing better than peanut butter and chocolate, and best of all, this is no bake! So easy to make and so delicious!!! It’s just hard to wait while they chill. No baking required There’s many versions of this all over the ‘net, but none of them have…
Steak with Herb Butter
Steak with Herb Butter Herb butters are all the rage. Easy to make and delicious! Lately I’ve been seeing herb butters for seasoning cropping up everywhere–not only for meats and fish but in sweet baked goods as well. In fact, a blogging pal of mine, Heather T. has a great recipe for cupcakes using…
Mixed Berry Smoothie Pops
Mixed Berry Smoothie Pops It’s a smoothie on a stick! Nothing could be better or more portable! These delicious popsicles start with mixed berries–the ones sold as “mixed berries” in the frozen food section. They are generally blueberries, red raspberries and blackberries. Of course you can substitute fresh if you wish, but do at least…
Shrimp with Bok Choy
Shrimp with Bok Choi Indescribably delicious and healthy too! This is a recipe I developed for the Gastrolux® folks. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to readers here that I’m into Asian cooking…so I was MORE than happy to test their FANTASTIC wok and come up with some dishes for them. You can easily substitute…
Pinning to Pinterest Made Easier
Pinning to your Pinterest boards from this blog just got easier. In addition to the wonderful Wibiya toolbar at the bottom, a week or so ago I added Pinterest’s new “hover” button to each photograph. This eliminates the step of going to another screen to choose an image to pin. All you have to do…
Cheeseburger Ring
Cheeseburger Ring All the taste of those fast-food superburgers, but half the price! I think everyone is familiar with the famous taco ring that’s made with crescents. It’s time to think outside the taco ring! Not being a fan of taco flavoring, I do these with other fillings. I’ve done chicken and broccoli and pizza…
Banana Rama Lama Ding Dong Pie
Banana Rama Lama Ding Dong Pie in Revol Dish An easy frozen banana pie, a Revol dish and the Edsels. Who could want more? I am the first one to admit that making a pie…especially the crust…isn’t my forte. Sometimes it works, most times, it DOESN’T. The wonderful people at Revol-USA asked me to…
Coconut Banana Popsicles
Coconut Banana Popsicles A taste of the tropics! Gluten and dairy free too! I love coconut…I mean REALLY love coconut. I could live on that and avocados and never miss anything else. Say, now avocado gives me ideas…. Since I love coconut so much, I figured I’d try to make something that resembled those old…
Raspberry Cheese “Danish”
Raspberry Cheese Danish If you like Entenmann’s raspberry danish strip, you’ll love this….and the price. I belong to a small recipe and chit chat group on Facebook. I forget who found this now, but member after member was making it and saying how delicious it was. It even spilled over into some other groups a…