Recipes
by Nicole on May 20, 2013
I love the taste of fresh berries in the summer! When I was young and went to day camp we picked wild raspberries in the woods near the camp and I remember eating so many of them right from the vine – so yummy! I frequently buy raspberries, strawberries and blueberries especially in the summer when the prices are more reasonable and love to have a simple dish of berries for dessert or make something more elaborate using the berries!
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My family loves berries and the Driscoll’s site has a HUGE selection of delicious sounding recipes! I loved looking through them to pick out something delicious! I wanted to use the berries to make a main course since I think it’s a different way to use the berries than for dessert. I made these sweet and spicy raspberry wings - the picture is from Driscoll’s (theirs came out prettier than mine did!). The recipe was easy and these wings were really good – everyone scarfed them down in my house right away and asked for seconds!
Sweet and Spicy Raspberry Wings
Ingredients
- Raspberry Sauce
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- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1/2 cup minced yellow onion
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 packages (6 ounces or 1 1/3 cups each) Driscoll's Raspberries
- 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoons light molasses
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon hot red pepper sauce
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- Chicken Wingettes
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- Vegetable oil spray for the baking sheet
- 4 pounds chicken wingettes
- 2 tablespoons chili or Madras-style curry powder
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
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Instructions
- Raspberry Sauce
- Heat the oil in heavy-bottomed, medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring often, until golden, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in the raspberries, brown sugar, molasses, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, mustard and hot red pepper sauce and bring to a simmer. Note: for a less spicy sauce reduce amount of hot red pepper sauce to 1/4 teaspoon. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring often, until the raspberries are soft and the juices are slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a blender. With the blender lid ajar, puree the raspberry mixture. Separate into two portions and let cool. Reserve one portion for the glaze and one for dipping later.
- Chicken Wingettes
- Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and spray with the oil.
- Pat the chicken wingettes dry with a paper towel then toss them in chili powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Spread on the baking sheet. Roast, turning once, until the wings are browned and show no sign of pink when pieced at the bone with the tip of a knife, about 35 minutes. Brush with some of the sauce and roast until glazed, about 2 1/2 minutes. Turn, brush with more sauce, and bake until glazed, about 2 1/2 minutes longer. Transfer remaining sauce to a small serving bowl. Transfer the wings to a platter and serve warm, with remaining sauce for dipping
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by Pennie on May 17, 2013
Amanda at A Few Shortcuts has such a cheery looking dish this week. Makes me want to have it just for the colors! The recipe, Fiesta Stuffed Mini Peppers has all the ingredients that will get my son-in-law to eat it: cheese, cheese and garlic salt; is quick and easy to put together and is sweet peppers so I’ll like it. That just leaves my daughter. She has a “thing” about cilantro. A dish can have some, but not “too much” and that sketchy line is somewhere in her head and as yet undefined to the rest of the world. So, I wonder if I could substitute red pepper flakes or something else to give it a zing. Any ideas? Anyway, I will be trying this soon!
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by Pennie on May 10, 2013
Amanda at A Few Shortcuts is planning her own perfect Mother’s Day. This week’s recipe, Sour Cream Coffee Cake is one I would really like to have on my Mother’s Day morning. Because, A – it has cinnamon, brown sugar and pecans on top. And B – it is a coffee cake with sour cream, which are the best coffee cakes, and 3 – it starts with a box cake mix. Perhaps I’ll just have to leave this post up on my computer screen so my daughter gets the hint. Or maybe I’ll bring home a yellow cake mix and leave it on the counter, with a printout of the recipe!
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With Mother’s Day right around the corner, I want to do something special for my daughter, who has been having some adjustment issues to handling 2 children at once. Amanda at A Few Shortcuts has the perfect recipe. This week’s recipe, Key Lime Pound Cake will definitely cheer her up because it combines 2 of my daughter’s favorite desserts, Key Lime Pie and Pound Cake. Pound Cake, in general, takes a while to bake but it is so worth the wait. Now all I have to do is find some Key Limes!
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by Nicole on April 27, 2013
I have made these Garlic Hasselback potatoes for years and always have used olive oil to make them. I was excited to hear about Pompeian’s Grapeseed Oil and OlivExtra Premium Mediterranean Blend and couldn’t wait to try them using one of my old favorites to see how it worked out!
Thanks to recent scientific findings, the Mediterranean diet has boosted the popularity of olive oil. As a leader in olive oil, Pompeian wants to share a much lesser known oil and chef secret for decades – grapeseed oil. A chef secret for decades, grapeseed oil has similar health benefits to olive oil, but it is even more versatile for cooking due to its light taste and high smoke point. And just for entering, Pompeian will send you a voucher for one free bottle of Pompeian oil!
I used the OlivExtra Premium Mediterranean Blend to make the hasselback potatoes and they turned out delicious! The recipe is super easy but very impressive looking if you have guests! Here is the recipe:
Time To Change Your Oil with Pompeian
Ingredients
- 4 baking potatoes
- 4 cloves of garlic, sliced very thin
- Pompeian OlivExtra Premium Mediterranean Blend
- kosher salt
- pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Scrub the potatoes and pat them dry.
- Slice the potato width-wise as thin as possible making sure not to cut all the way through. You should have at least 12 cuts but hopefully more.
- In between each cut place a slice of garlic.
- Coat potatoes in the Pompeian OlivExtra Premium Mediterranean Blend and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Cook until potatoes are soft inside and crispy outside, at least 60 minutes.
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by Pennie on April 26, 2013
Amanda at A Few Shortcuts likes to experiment. I really appreciate that quality. This week’s recipe, Strawberry Cinnamon Rolls, comes out of that desire to try something a little different and see what happens. I haven’t made these yet, but once I saw the chopped strawberries laying on that layer of jam on the dough, I was hooked. I love the yeasty dough of cinnamon rolls and these look so tasty. I’ve had some really good strawberries from the market lately, so I’m going to give them a try!
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by Pennie on April 19, 2013
The name of the recipe from A Few Shortcuts this week confused me. Mostly because it was accompanied with a tiny little picture which looked like something covered with creme cheese frosting! But then I opened the link and I got it (my brain apparently needs a tune up). Amanda’s Cheesy Zucchini Cakes (like crab cakes not chocolate cakes) are a patty of cheesy, zucchini goodness that are fried up quickly in a little bit of oil. Amanda uses ranch dressing as a garnish, but I’m pretty sure I’d try some horseradish!
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by Pennie on April 12, 2013
I stopped on the first recipe I saw on A Few Shortcuts this week. There it was, one of the defining southern dishes, Amanda style: Fried Okra.
I was sort of surprised to see this on Amanda’s site, because I believe she is situated a little north of the Mason-Dixon line and I think of this as a purely southern dish. But no matter the reason, I am happy she found joy in such a truly southern fashion!
Each week I will highlight one of Amanda’s fabulous recipes. If you don’t have the ingredients or they’re not on sale near you, you could easily print and save the recipes for later use!
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April 5, 2013
We know you are going to need a lot of filling snack food for the Final Four games on Saturday and the Championship game on Monday night, so I checked Amanda’s recipe box for something easy and filling. I give you: Loaded Tater Skins. They are the quintessential comfort food – potatoes. And they have [...]
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April 3, 2013
I had never had Colman’s Mustard until very recently. It is my new favorite! I love the heat and flavor it adds to dishes and the mustard powder makes adding it to any dish super easy. There are so many favorite dishes to look forward to this spring season: baked ham, cornbread stuffing, roasted fingerling [...]
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March 29, 2013
The Great American Sandwich is a wonderful invention. It’s portable, you can fill it with whatever you like and when you are done, well there is nothing to dispose. My only issue is the bread. It’s not a carb thing, or a corn syrup thing or even a crust thing (which I will admit I [...]
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March 22, 2013
This week’s recipe from Amanda at A Few Short Cuts is: Bacon Cheddar Corn Bread. As soon as I saw the title, I thought to myself, “why have I never tried something like this before?”. It would be the most natural progression of corn bread for a southerner to make. In the old days, way back [...]
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March 15, 2013
I’m having a week… I’ll leave it at that and say when I saw this recipe I decided the next free moment I had I was going to make (and eat) about 50 of them. This week’s recipe from Amanda at A Few Short Cuts is: Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies. Oatmeal Cream Pies are one of [...]
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March 8, 2013
I love a good Tiramisu, even though I’m not a coffee drinker (yes, I said it out loud – I don’t drink coffee). But I like a little coffee flavor. It compliments my favor taste, chocolate, very nicely. And I like the creaminess of Tiramisu, it has a truly comfort food quality to it. So [...]
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March 2, 2013
In January when I went to the Krispy Kreme Headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina the chefs talked to us about some recipes they had created using the doughnuts. They look delicious and I wanted to share one with you today! This is a recipe for doughnut pudding, a la bread pudding from one of the [...]
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March 1, 2013
This week’s recipe from Amanda at A Few Short Cuts is a little bit of Mexican heaven: Chicken Spinach Taquitos! She uses her Citrus Lime/Chili Crockpot Chicken, homemade guacamole and salsa. You know I like finger food and since these taquitos are baked instead of fried they are waist-line friendly. A perfect combo for me. I’m not sure I’d do [...]
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February 22, 2013
I’ve been looking for some comfort food that doesn’t break the calorie bank. This week’s recipe from Amanda at A Few Short Cuts fits the bill: Portobello Pizza! Like Amanda, I also always get mushrooms on my pizza. So this recipe is perfect for my taste buds as well as my waist line! And it’s quick [...]
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February 15, 2013
After all the sweets of the past couple of months, my tummy needs a break! Amanda at A Few Short Cuts has a great looking sandwich that will do the trick. This week’s recipe is: Turkey Bacon Avocado Panini! There is nothing about this recipe that I would change. What the name doesn’t tell you is [...]
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February 12, 2013
For as long as I can remember we had Grandmom Annie’s brisket several times a year at home. My mom modified the recipe slightly and once I was out of college and living on my own I called my grandmother to get the recipe directly from her and realized my mom had changed it! She [...]
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February 8, 2013
This week Amanda at A Few Short Cuts has Valentine’s Day (or any other day, in my opinion) in mind. She created a fantastic “little bite of heaven“: Cheesecake Stuffed Chocolate Covered Strawberries! This looks like the perfect combination to me. Whenever I make cheesecake, I always like it with some strawberry puree on top, so [...]
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