Just in time for all those 4th of July cookouts!
Ingredients:
Potatoes, semi peeled, chopped and boiled. (I use russets normally, I also like using the larger red potatoes. I never use the golds.)
Eggs, hard-boiled, peeled, chopped or sliced (I like doing the coins.)
Onions, peeled and chopped. (I usually use white, I'm experimenting with red this time.)
Miracle Whip (I thought it was normal mayo my whole life, not switching now. :D)
Yellow Mustard
Pepper
(Salt - I don't add any, but most people like it.)
Combine!
Sprinkle top with paprika. (I always forget until my husband asks, "You didn't add paprika?")
Chill! (Don't have to, but I prefer it chilled for at least an hour.)
Eat!
Eat more!
Besides deviled eggs, potato salad is my all time favorite bbq dish. What's your favorite bbq/cookout dish?
Showing posts with label Friday's Baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday's Baking. Show all posts
Friday, July 2, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Friday's Baking - Cupcakes
Cupcakes!
From my husband's birthday party. The man who hates cake, loves cupcakes. I don't get it either.
Safe to say I took an easy route...
But my piping skills are improving!
Sort of...
But the little sea creatures and the flowers are just so adorable!
Next time, I'll actually try the full coverage swirls, I did okay with the little center ones.
Have a great weekend!
From my husband's birthday party. The man who hates cake, loves cupcakes. I don't get it either.
Safe to say I took an easy route...
But my piping skills are improving!
Sort of...
But the little sea creatures and the flowers are just so adorable!
Next time, I'll actually try the full coverage swirls, I did okay with the little center ones.
Have a great weekend!
Friday, March 5, 2010
Friday's Baking - Chocolate Heavenly Hash
Sounds great right?
Not really. It basically turned out to be chocolate mousse with some angel food cake mixed in for fun.
I can't find my pictures.
To make it, you whip up 3 cups of whipping cream, mix in some melted chocolate and layer that mixture with cut up angel food cake. (More details than that, but those are the basics.)
It looks good. Really good. Not so great. I'd rather just eat the angel food cake.
I'd rather make strawberry shortcake.
Not really. It basically turned out to be chocolate mousse with some angel food cake mixed in for fun.
I can't find my pictures.
To make it, you whip up 3 cups of whipping cream, mix in some melted chocolate and layer that mixture with cut up angel food cake. (More details than that, but those are the basics.)
It looks good. Really good. Not so great. I'd rather just eat the angel food cake.
I'd rather make strawberry shortcake.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Friday's Baking - Chocolate Chex Caramel Crunch
(Yes - this is Chex's recipe.)
8 cups Chocolate Chex® cereal
¾ cup packed brown sugar
6 tablespoons butter or margarine
3 tablespoons light corn syrup
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¼ cup white vanilla baking chips (I used white chocolate)
Into large microwavable bowl, measure cereal; set aside. Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper.
In 2-cup microwavable measuring cup, microwave brown sugar, butter and corn syrup uncovered on High 1 to 2 minutes, stirring after 1 minute, until melted and smooth. Stir in baking soda until dissolved. Pour over cereal, stirring until evenly coated. Microwave on High 3 minutes, stirring every minute. Spread on cookie sheet. Cool 10 minutes. Break into bite-size pieces. (I don’t break it yet.)
In small microwavable bowl, microwave vanilla baking chips uncovered on High about 1 minute 30 seconds or until chips can be stirred smooth. (That’s what they suggest. I, however, have horrible microwaving skills. My husband jumped in and took over with the double boiler method and it worked.)
Drizzle over snack. ( I’ve found, in order to drizzle it well, you have to sit and stir it with a fork off the heat for a bit until it gets to the consistency that you can shake the fork back and forth over the chex and it does the thin lines. You can see in my photos I eventually managed that. The thick clumps are from when I didn’t stir it enough.)
Refrigerate until set (we let it sit overnight on the cookie sheet, I think an hour or two would be plenty. Then we break it up. Just easier for us). Store in tightly covered container. (Or a zip bag.)
Enjoy!
8 cups Chocolate Chex® cereal
¾ cup packed brown sugar
6 tablespoons butter or margarine
3 tablespoons light corn syrup
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¼ cup white vanilla baking chips (I used white chocolate)
Into large microwavable bowl, measure cereal; set aside. Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper.
In 2-cup microwavable measuring cup, microwave brown sugar, butter and corn syrup uncovered on High 1 to 2 minutes, stirring after 1 minute, until melted and smooth. Stir in baking soda until dissolved. Pour over cereal, stirring until evenly coated. Microwave on High 3 minutes, stirring every minute. Spread on cookie sheet. Cool 10 minutes. Break into bite-size pieces. (I don’t break it yet.)
In small microwavable bowl, microwave vanilla baking chips uncovered on High about 1 minute 30 seconds or until chips can be stirred smooth. (That’s what they suggest. I, however, have horrible microwaving skills. My husband jumped in and took over with the double boiler method and it worked.)
Drizzle over snack. ( I’ve found, in order to drizzle it well, you have to sit and stir it with a fork off the heat for a bit until it gets to the consistency that you can shake the fork back and forth over the chex and it does the thin lines. You can see in my photos I eventually managed that. The thick clumps are from when I didn’t stir it enough.)
Refrigerate until set (we let it sit overnight on the cookie sheet, I think an hour or two would be plenty. Then we break it up. Just easier for us). Store in tightly covered container. (Or a zip bag.)
Enjoy!
Monday, February 15, 2010
To-Do Day (And Banana Bread Photos!)
Pretty simple this week.
Pass my (now one!) exam, read a book, fit Ivory back into my schedule and keep up with 2YN over at Forward Motion.
Add in all the normal day-to-day life stuff, it gets complicated. But it works. If I stick to my routines, it all works and it all fits.
Pictures from my mini banana bread loaves I made Friday. Feel free to skip if uninterested in baking, I won't be offended. ;)
And yes, they were delicious! We gave a few away and frozen a few. They unfreeze very well. We pulled one out at bedtime, it was thawed by breakfast. If I were up in New Hampshire, I'd probably pull one out around dinner time to be thawed for breakfast, but it's not that cold here.
I didn't post the recipe with my original post, here it is now. This is my dad-in-law's banana bread recipe.
2 Cups Sugar
4 Eggs
1 Cup Vegetable Oil
2/3 Cup Water
2 1/4 Mashed Banana
1 Cup Chopped Nuts (I use walnuts, pecans work wonderfully as well.)
3 1/2 Cups Flour
1 tsp Nutmeg
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp Salt
2 tsp Baking Soda
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix in a large bowl sugar, eggs, oil and water with electric mixer.
Sift dry ingredients together then add to the wet mixture. Mix/beat/combine. I love using my new kitchen aid mixture, I’ve used at hand mixer, it works, but with carpal tunnel it sucks. :) Using a spoon…never tired, don’t want to.
Add nuts and mashed bananas and mix with spoon. (I cheat and use the mixer to mix in the bananas, just on the lowest setting and only for a moment.)
Pour into your greased pans. This batter will make 3 decent sized normal loaf pans, or 8 mini loaf pans. You can also do muffins, I believe it makes about 25 normal sized muffins. I may be wrong, it might be double that. I haven’t done the muffins in a while.
I’ll be sticking with the mini loaves because they are perfect. :)
With the normal sized loaves, it should take about an hour. With the mini loaves I checked it at 30 minutes, not quite done, baked for 15 more and they were done. Probably would have been done at 10 minutes more too. Muffins…I want to say 20-25 minutes, but again, I’m not sure.
Toothpicks are your best friend with this recipe!
Pass my (now one!) exam, read a book, fit Ivory back into my schedule and keep up with 2YN over at Forward Motion.
Add in all the normal day-to-day life stuff, it gets complicated. But it works. If I stick to my routines, it all works and it all fits.
Pictures from my mini banana bread loaves I made Friday. Feel free to skip if uninterested in baking, I won't be offended. ;)
And yes, they were delicious! We gave a few away and frozen a few. They unfreeze very well. We pulled one out at bedtime, it was thawed by breakfast. If I were up in New Hampshire, I'd probably pull one out around dinner time to be thawed for breakfast, but it's not that cold here.
I didn't post the recipe with my original post, here it is now. This is my dad-in-law's banana bread recipe.
2 Cups Sugar
4 Eggs
1 Cup Vegetable Oil
2/3 Cup Water
2 1/4 Mashed Banana
1 Cup Chopped Nuts (I use walnuts, pecans work wonderfully as well.)
3 1/2 Cups Flour
1 tsp Nutmeg
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp Salt
2 tsp Baking Soda
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix in a large bowl sugar, eggs, oil and water with electric mixer.
Sift dry ingredients together then add to the wet mixture. Mix/beat/combine. I love using my new kitchen aid mixture, I’ve used at hand mixer, it works, but with carpal tunnel it sucks. :) Using a spoon…never tired, don’t want to.
Add nuts and mashed bananas and mix with spoon. (I cheat and use the mixer to mix in the bananas, just on the lowest setting and only for a moment.)
Pour into your greased pans. This batter will make 3 decent sized normal loaf pans, or 8 mini loaf pans. You can also do muffins, I believe it makes about 25 normal sized muffins. I may be wrong, it might be double that. I haven’t done the muffins in a while.
I’ll be sticking with the mini loaves because they are perfect. :)
With the normal sized loaves, it should take about an hour. With the mini loaves I checked it at 30 minutes, not quite done, baked for 15 more and they were done. Probably would have been done at 10 minutes more too. Muffins…I want to say 20-25 minutes, but again, I’m not sure.
Toothpicks are your best friend with this recipe!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Friday's Baking - Banana Bread
Miniaturized!
(I know this is posting Saturday, need time to organize all the pictures to be oh so pretty...)
My husband and I decided to use the little tinfoil loaf pans this time around. I believe this recipe is his father's, it may originally be his Gigi's. It makes three normal size loaves. Normally. I usually turn them into muffins, otherwise I end up with too much banana bread.
We figured the mini loaves will make good little gifts and they should freeze rather well. When he gets a random craving for banana bread, we'll have some!
(I know this is posting Saturday, need time to organize all the pictures to be oh so pretty...)
My husband and I decided to use the little tinfoil loaf pans this time around. I believe this recipe is his father's, it may originally be his Gigi's. It makes three normal size loaves. Normally. I usually turn them into muffins, otherwise I end up with too much banana bread.
We figured the mini loaves will make good little gifts and they should freeze rather well. When he gets a random craving for banana bread, we'll have some!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Friday's Baking - Cupcakes!
These are my first attempts at decorating cupcakes this year.
I totally 'cheated' and used a Betty Crocker cake mix for the cupcakes. I also used Betty Crocker frosting...
Please remember, I don't do this for a living, I barely do it as a hobby.
I'll get there!
First Attempt - Traditional (in my mind) Swirl
Second Attempt
Third Attempt - Smilie Face! (I was getting frustrated at this point.)
Fourth & Fifth Attempts - I call them, "Alien Cupcakes!"
Number 5 is my favorite. I did pretty well with the sideways swirls too I think.
I totally 'cheated' and used a Betty Crocker cake mix for the cupcakes. I also used Betty Crocker frosting...
Please remember, I don't do this for a living, I barely do it as a hobby.
I'll get there!
First Attempt - Traditional (in my mind) Swirl
Second Attempt
Third Attempt - Smilie Face! (I was getting frustrated at this point.)
Fourth & Fifth Attempts - I call them, "Alien Cupcakes!"
Number 5 is my favorite. I did pretty well with the sideways swirls too I think.
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