How do you make granola clumpy? Before you bake the granola, cover it with an egg-white wash and don’t stir the granola while it’s baking. Let the granola cool completely before packaging it. Those are my best three tips for you but I have a few other suggestions. Clumpy Molasses Pecan Granola Recipe
Recipes
Lemon Shortbread Heart Cookies Recipe
These cookies are crispy and just kissed with lemon, thanks to fresh zest in the dough. The tops of the cookies are dunked in a glaze, which hardens after about an hour. This is an easy cookie recipe made in your food processor. But, if you don’t have a food processor, I also share a…
Rich Chocolate Mint Thumbprint Cookies
I made you a very special cookie since it is nearly Valentine’s Day: Chocolate Mint Thumbprints. You’re going to love this cookie. This particular thumbprint, from an old edition of Food and Wine, is intensely chocolaty with a lush, creamy mint ganache topping. This cookie almost tastes like a chocolate shortbread like these double chunk…
Peanut Butter Hershey Kiss Cookies (Perfect for New Bakers)
Peanut Butter Hershey Kiss Cookies are a perfect marriage of salty peanut butter and sweet milk chocolate from the kisses. These are a great cookie recipe for a new baker to make since it’s a drop cookie dough. More Drop Cookie Recipes
Best Italian Butter Cookies You Ever Tasted
Italian Butter Cookies are tender and extra rich thanks to three egg yolks. Customize the cookies with rainbow sprinkles, chocolate buttercream frosting or leave plain to maximize the butter flavor. I’ll be posting the recipe for the easiest chocolate buttercream frosting later this week. The one thing I miss from my home state of Missouri…
Rosemary Chicken Sandwich Recipe: Make a Quick Lunch
Rosemary Chicken Sandwiches, filled with shredded chicken breast, freshly sliced celery and a rosemary dressing, are one of those hearty, satisfying dishes that will remind you of a sandwich spread you might find at your favorite deli. Rosemary is one of my favorite flavors. It goes especially well with grapefruit in cocktails. Rosemary Chicken Sandwich…
Southwestern Soup (Vegetarian!)
Southwestern soup is one of my favorite recipes because it’s so frugal and chock full of healthy ingredients, especially this particular version, which is vegetarian. I made this soup because I was craving southwestern flavors in soup form. Unfortunately for me, there are zero southwestern restaurants in my coastal part of Maine. But it’s okay…
Spooky Good Halloween Popcorn Recipe Roundup for You
Halloween and fall scream for delicious popcorn treats. Check out my roundup of sweet, spicy and crunchy Halloween inspired popcorn recipes, if you dare! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays next to Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Day. There’s no pressure and no expectations that Thanksgiving and Christmas deliver. Just good treats, creative costumes,…
Halloween Popcorn Recipe
I created a Halloween Popcorn Recipe for you. This snack is salty and sweet thanks to a light coating of white chocolate and a handful of cocktail peanuts and Reese’s Pieces. Halloween Popcorn Recipe
Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies Recipe
Tiny, crunchy and infused with a perfect amount of peppermint, these Peppermint Pinwheel cookies are a slice and bake cookie, which is rolled in sanding sugar or non-pareils and baked. Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies were not a part of my wheelhouse growing up. Gingersnaps were and peanut butter kisses and chocolate chip cookies of course, but…
Best Ever Starbucks Copycat S’mores Bars
S’mores Bars feature a buttery, brown sugar graham cracker crust covered with a layer of chocolate ganache, which is topped with a layer of marshmallows, which melt together to create a rich, bite-size dessert. Hello dear ones, I have a fondness for s’mores, you know that traditional campfire treat of graham crackers topped with chocolate…
Chocolate Chip Cookies: How Do You Like’ Em?
Hello! I missed National Chocolate Chip Cookie day yesterday, (Aug. 4) so I’m posting a chocolate chip cookie question of the week. How do you like your chocolate cookies? Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies, aka the OG of the cookie world, are probably my favorite. I like chewy chocolate chip cookies with a bit of…
Links to Love: Salad Edition
And so it is thoroughly summer. We need salad recipes beyond the usual greens with a few chops of tomato and onion and cucumber, even if all of those vegetables are about as fresh as you’ve had, well, since last summer. To me, a salad means vegetables. Sure there are dishes called pasta salads but…
How to Make Restaurant Style Mexican Rice at Home
Have you ever gone to a Mexican restaurant and wolfed down all the rice on your plate? That’s me every time. Every time I go to a Mexican restaurant that serves really good rice, I’m so happy. I was even happier when I learned how to make restaurant style Mexican rice at home. My recipe…
Chocolate Cherry Pecan Studded Meringue Cookies Recipe
I made for you today an old-fashioned cookie called Forgotten Cookies, also known as Chocolate Cherry Pecan Studded Meringue Cookies! Yes, this meringue cookie recipe is as good as it sounds. Meringue Cookies Recipe I have had a fascination with meringue for as long as I can remember. I first fell in love with meringue…
What’s Your Go To Dinner When The Weather is Hot?
What’s Your Go To Dinner When The Weather is Hot? Slow Cooker to the Rescue! Have you cooled off yet? The nation has just had a massive heat wave. It was even scorching here on the Maine coast. I think it hit 97 here in Blue Hill. I had the presence of mind to throw…
Aperol Spritz: Your New Summer Cocktail
Are all of your friends drinking Aperol Spritz cocktails this summer? The trend that we have the Italians to thank actually started anew in the U.S. a few years ago. I reviewed a book devoted to the Spritz, a mix of bitter citrus liquor, prosecco and soda water, back when it was published in 2016….
How Many Calories in Vodka?
I had a girlfriend once who lived on nothing but vodka and peanut butter M&M’s after her husband left her. She lost a ton of weight but it begs the question, how many calories are in vodka? I often wonder because vodka is the guest of honor in two of my most popular cocktail recipes:…
17 Quick Summer Dinner Ideas
Summer Dinner Ideas Hi! I made you this list of the dishes we’re having for dinner in July to give you ideas about what to make yourself. “What’s for dinner?” is probably the question I find the most annoying. That’s because I’m far from the world’s most graceful wife and mother. Sometimes when I hear…
Best Ever Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies scream fancy cookie without the fancy cookie effort. If cookies and brownies got married, chocolate crinkle cookies would be the result. Tender and cake-like, make these cookies for your next gathering. Thanks to a scoop of cocoa powder (I just used Hershey’s) this is a chocolaty cookie with a low investment. However,…
The Best Key Lime Pie Recipe (3 ingredients + a pie crust)
Have you ever needed to take a dessert to a party or a potluck? The Best Key Lime Pie Recipe is my go-to, easy, no-fuss, always turns out perfectly dessert. You should definitely make it this season, even if you’re just hosting a party of two 😉. “My recipe,” which is printed…
Cook Beyond the Chicken Breast
Cook Beyond the Chicken Breast One way to crush your food costs is to cook other parts of the chicken besides boneless, skinless chicken breasts, which are usually the most expensive. I don’t buy chicken breasts unless they are on sale for $1.99 a pound. Then I make Garlic Lime Chicken Breasts, a recipe I’ve…
What Cooking Habit Have You Inherited?
Saving the Bacon Do you have any odd cooking habits that you inherited from a parent or an in-law or someone else you might have been carousing around with over a stove top? I was thinking about this question the other day as I cut a package of bacon in half. Yes, half. I never…
Nestle Toll House Cookies Recipe
Nestle Toll House Cookies Recipe Is there any cookie that generates more memories than Nestle Toll House Cookies? I think not. Buttery and rich from white sugar, brown sugar, butter and vanilla, these cookies belong with a tall glass of milk or a hot cup of coffee. These cookies make any gathering a party. These…
