It's been awhile since I posted so you're getting two posts today!
Just wanted to share a cute idea for a Valentine's day breakfast. Heart shaped french toast and heart shaped bacon. Awww how cute!
I'm not going to bore you with a recipe for french toast. Mine always includes a dash of cinnamon and a dash of pure vanilla extract though.
I've never made heart shaped bacon but it seems pretty simple. Here's a link to a blog where someone else made it. If I find any helpful tips/tricks I'll be sure to share.
http://www.wendyseewendydo.com/2012/02/i-heart-bacon.html
Either way, I hope you all have a Happy Valentine's day!
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Pretzel Crack
Maybe you've heard of it. Maybe you already have an addiction. Either way, this is something you're definitely going to want to make!
Pretzel Crack
2 Sticks Butter
1 C light brown sugar
1/2 bag mini pretzels
1 bag chocolate chips
sprinkle of sea salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt butter in a sauce pan. Stir in the brown sugar, heat and keep stirring until the mixture forms a caramel type substance. It will become bubbly.
In the meantime, cover a cookie sheet with tin foil. Place a layer of pretzels on the bottom of the pan. (It's best that it's flat-ish). Next, pour caramel mixture over pretzels, it may not cover all of them. Place in oven for 5 minutes.
Remove pretzel/caramel mixture from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips over the top. Place in oven for 1 minute. Remove from oven and spread chocolate around(it may not cover all of the pretzels).
Place the whole pan in the freezer or other cold place and let cool. Once cold, break into pieces. The piece will be all different sizes, that's ok!
My recommendation is that you have plans to share this... it's SO good it's hard not to want to eat it all.
Pretzel Crack
2 Sticks Butter
1 C light brown sugar
1/2 bag mini pretzels
1 bag chocolate chips
sprinkle of sea salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt butter in a sauce pan. Stir in the brown sugar, heat and keep stirring until the mixture forms a caramel type substance. It will become bubbly.
In the meantime, cover a cookie sheet with tin foil. Place a layer of pretzels on the bottom of the pan. (It's best that it's flat-ish). Next, pour caramel mixture over pretzels, it may not cover all of them. Place in oven for 5 minutes.
Remove pretzel/caramel mixture from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips over the top. Place in oven for 1 minute. Remove from oven and spread chocolate around(it may not cover all of the pretzels).
Place the whole pan in the freezer or other cold place and let cool. Once cold, break into pieces. The piece will be all different sizes, that's ok!
My recommendation is that you have plans to share this... it's SO good it's hard not to want to eat it all.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Superbowl Winner
There are three main components to the Superbowl; football, commercials, and food. There is a clear winner today and I'm not talking about the Ravens or the 49'ers... I'm talking about Turtle Cheesecake.
As a general rule, I do not like baking.. I find the exact-ness (I know, not a word) needed to measure all of those ingredients to be too constricting and I just don't like it. That being said, my baking usually only includes cheesecake, peanut butter cookies...they have three ingredients, I can handle that, and boxed brownies. Homemade cheesecake is so easy to whip up and can be topped with so many different things, which makes it pretty versatile.
I whipped up a cheesecake last night for The Boyfriend to take to his Superbowl Party today, we decided on a turtle topping with caramel, chocolate and pecans.
As a general rule, I do not like baking.. I find the exact-ness (I know, not a word) needed to measure all of those ingredients to be too constricting and I just don't like it. That being said, my baking usually only includes cheesecake, peanut butter cookies...they have three ingredients, I can handle that, and boxed brownies. Homemade cheesecake is so easy to whip up and can be topped with so many different things, which makes it pretty versatile.
I whipped up a cheesecake last night for The Boyfriend to take to his Superbowl Party today, we decided on a turtle topping with caramel, chocolate and pecans.
According to the recipe it makes 16 pieces. I cut it into 8 pieces, just had a hunch that football watching, Superbowl partying men were not going to be satisfied with 1/16th of a cheesecake
I got a text from The Boyfriend around 3:30 that said "Your cheesecake is gone already and everybody isn't even here yet... Best cheesecake ever, you're pretty much a star here right now." My response was that the people who weren't there were going to be mad and I was told that "we already made a pact to not tell them." So, I guess it was good.
I don't have a super special secret recipe... I just used the Philadelphia cheesecake recipe from Kraft. Here it is: Philadelphia Classic Cheesecake
Please note* Depending on what you're cooking, I've found you can use off brand cream cheese to save a little bit of money. Do not do that in this cheesecake, Philadelphia cream cheese is the only option, it makes a big difference in the end product.
I topped the cooled cheesecake with mini chocolate chips and pecan pieces, then I melted chocolate chips for a chocolate drizzle and topped it off with a drizzle of caramel topping (found by the ice cream).
Enjoy!
Love and Garlic Salt
Here it is folks... the very first post.
I absolutely love cooking. It's my favorite thing to do. There is so much freedom to throw things together and see what comes out of that. I decided to start documenting my adventures in cooking. I'll share recipes, tips and reviews. I'll also talk about the challenge of balancing eating delicious foods with eating nutritious, healthy, waist-friendly foods. Good food isn't always butter and cream and all those other delicious, not so good for you things, sometimes it's fresh veggies and grains and herbs and turkey sausage.
I'm by no means a chef and no where near a baker, I'm just your at-home, throw some crap together cook. Sometimes I burn things, sometimes they're too salty but they're always made with my favorite ingredients; love and garlic salt.
Enjoy!
I absolutely love cooking. It's my favorite thing to do. There is so much freedom to throw things together and see what comes out of that. I decided to start documenting my adventures in cooking. I'll share recipes, tips and reviews. I'll also talk about the challenge of balancing eating delicious foods with eating nutritious, healthy, waist-friendly foods. Good food isn't always butter and cream and all those other delicious, not so good for you things, sometimes it's fresh veggies and grains and herbs and turkey sausage.
I'm by no means a chef and no where near a baker, I'm just your at-home, throw some crap together cook. Sometimes I burn things, sometimes they're too salty but they're always made with my favorite ingredients; love and garlic salt.
Enjoy!
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