Making Homemade Bread with your KitchenAid Mixer is Easy This KitchenAid Honey Oatmeal Bread Recipe is easy and delicious. Traditionally making homemade bread was a pretty laborious job. Kneading the bread was a real physical workout. And then KitchenAid added the “dough hook” to their stand mixer and making bread became a far more reasonable endeavor. The dough hook … [Read more...]
Best Slow Cooker French Onion Soup
The Lowly Onion Becomes Slow Cooker Crockpot French Onion Soup This recipe for Slow Cooker French Onion Soup allows the lowly onion, the bridesmaid never the bride of the culinary world, to show off its star quality. How many savory recipes, particularly soup recipes, can you think of that don't include the onion? Not many! It always seems to be … [Read more...]
Boston Baked Beans Recipe
Homemade Boston Baked Beans are so darn' good! Homemade Boston Baked Beans are far more yummy than canned beans and worth the small extra effort to prepare them. This Boston Baked Bean recipe is all about easy comfort food. When I was a kid growing up here in New England, every Saturday supper we had "beans and franks" and brown bread. There is a reason that Boston is … [Read more...]
Easy Creamy Butternut Squash Soup
Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Try this Easy Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe for a fall evening pleaser or a perfect course for Thanksgiving Dinner This Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe is a Thompson family favorite. I have to admit that I love all the members of the squash/pumpkin family and for that reason I have a great collection of squash and … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Soup
Olive Garden eat your heart out - it's Slow Cooker Zuppa Toscana Soup for supper! Winter seems like a soup fest! If I have a fire burning in the kitchen wood stove, I will leave pot of soup simmering on it. But even in the winter, I don't always have the time to babysit the kitchen woodstove so I rely on my slow cooker. Crock pot cookin' is a favorite of mine … [Read more...]
Twice Baked Potatoes
Twice Baked Potatoes Recipe - A step by step tutorial Twice baked potatoes are definitely worth the extra effort. This is a potato recipe that you can easily change up with different flavors and toppings so after you get the basics down, get creative. Food should not only be good, it should be fun! Here in Aroostook County, Maine, potatoes are big business and … [Read more...]
Easy Moist Pistachio Muffin Recipe
Green is Good - especially when it's a moist Pistachio Muffin! I love the pistachio flavor, be it in ice cream, pudding, or in the yummy results of this Pistachio Muffin Recipe. The first time I ever had pistachio ice cream, as a kid, I thought it was maraschino cherry ice cream and they had got the color wrong. To this day, pistachio "anything" reminds … [Read more...]
Cider Vinegar Pickled Beets
A Tale of Two Beets - A Pickled Beet Alternative This pickled beet recipe is a little different than the usual. Traditional pickled beet recipes usually are all about cinnamon, cloves, and sugar but this one has a more savory twist. Safety first when canning your Pickles Beets As with all water bath canning recipes, cleanliness and detail to directions is … [Read more...]
Best Homemade Blueberry Jam Recipe
Home Made Maine Blueberry Jam is the best Blueberry Jam is on my mind. Its August and blueberries are in abundance here in Maine. I love preserving whatever produce is in season and abundant whether it is from my garden or the farmers market. The more news reports I hear about food recalls like the lettuce scare pf last year, the more I like to grow my own food or buy … [Read more...]
Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffin Recipe
New England's Best Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins The best blueberry muffins I have ever had were the Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins we would get from the bakery at the Jordan Marsh Department Store in downtown Boston. Th muffins were a treat because they were so good and we didn't have them very often. I grew up in Hudson, New Hampshire so a trip to Boston in … [Read more...]
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