This post originally appeared on the The Confident Mom’s Blog, where How To: Simplify regularly contributes monthly guest posts filled with tips, tricks and recipes to simplify life in the kitchen. I recently discovered that blondies are my absolute favorite treat. They are chewy and flavorful with wonderful undertones of molasses due to the brown…
Archives for June 2010
{Tips & Tricks} Checking for Doneness
I don’t know about you but one of my greatest fears while cooking is to serve meats that are not cooked to the right degree of doneness. Spending hours preparing a delicious spread only to serve guests under-cooked meat and then sending them home feeling ill would be an absolute nightmare. Be sure to stop…
Pesto Pasta Salad
We recently went to a Field Day for my husband’s work during which we stuffed our faces with grilled chicken sandwiches, potato chips and a delicious pesto pasta salad. My husband fell in love with the salad at first bite and immediately turned to me and said that I absolutely had to recreate it at…
Banana Muffins with Crumb Topping
Is it strange that I actually look forward to bananas becoming fully ripened with peels covered in brown spots? Bananas, also known as a climacteric fruit, are able to ripen after being harvested. They are picked and shipped green and then ripen usually while at the store or at home. As you are well aware,…
{Tips & Tricks} Making Pesto
Last year when I visited my parent’s house I was immediately inspired by their herb and vegetable gardens. They had beautiful tomatoes, amazing green beans and aromatic herbs. When I was planning my garden prior to spring this year, I decided to put that inspiration to work. After stopping by the store to purchase seedlings,…
Cornbread
I’ll get straight to the point: Cornbread is delicious. Soups, salads, stews, fried foods, grilled meats…you name it, cornbread is the perfect complement to many styles of food. For Christmas, my Mom, the creative lady that she is, put together a bunch of “recipes in a jar” and handed them out to family and friends….
Celebrating One Year of How To: Simplify
How To: Simplify is celebrating its first year! I cannot believe it has already been a year…as they say, time flies when you’re having fun! One of the main reasons this blog is still around and going strong is because of you. My readers. Without you, it would just be me taking photos of food…