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It's fall here in Utah, we've even had some wintry like weather. I happened across this recipe last week on Our Best Bites website and knew that I needed to make this recipe for our last dessert recipe in National Dessert Month! This recipe went together quickly and it was amazing! Let's just say these loaves didn't last long at our house! I loved that these didn't seem greasy and heavy, they were all around perfect!  Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread by Our Best Bites 2 cups flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 cup white sugar 6 ounce container vanilla yogurt 3 eggs, slightly beaten 15 ounce can pumpkin puree 1/2 cup canola oil 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup chocolate chips (plus a few to garnish tops of loaves) Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees and spraying two 9x5"-ish loaf pans with baking...

  This is probably one of my very favorite things I have ever made! It was so easy and so yummy.  I have leftovers and I can't wait until tomorrow to eat them.  I found this recipe on pintrest and the original posting is here .  I made a few adjustments when I made it myself.  It took probably less than 10 minutes to get in the oven.  This will be going in my meal rotations for awhile. Italian Chicken 4-6 boneless skinless chicken breasts Salt and Pepper 1 can diced tomatoes with Garlic and Olive Oil (I believe I used the Western Family brand) Additional fresh tomatoes and chopped garlic if preferred. (I added 2 Romas and a couple globs of chopped garlic from a jar) 1 can of artichokes, drained 2 tablespoons flour {since the chicken will produce so much liquid}. Shredded mozzerella cheese Chopped fresh basil Lightly grease 9x13 pan. Place chicken breasts in pan and season well with salt and pepper.  In a bowl, mix together tomatoes, garlic, artichokes,...

WHAT YOU WILL NEED: 1 can (20 oz.) DOLE� Pineapple Chunks 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, diced 2 cups prepared baking mix 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 egg HERE'S HOW: Drain pineapple, reserve 2/3 cup juice. Pat pineapple dry. Mix brown sugar, cinnamon, walnuts and butter in medium bowl; set aside. Beat reserved juice with baking mix, granulated sugar and egg in large bowl for 30 seconds. Spoon into 9-inch round baking pan sprayed with nonstick vegetable cooking spray. Top with half of walnut mixture, pineapple and remaining walnut mixture. Bake at 400�F., 20 to 25 minutes. Cool

This cake recipe comes from Real Mom Kitchen , another cooking blog that I love to read. I made this cake for a family birthday last summer and this last weekend I just knew it would be awesome to make again! This cake is one of the few, including cake mixes, that actually has turned out for me in our oven. We live at a high-ish altitude, so that might be part of why they don't turn out, but I just don't know. This cake is amazing, so chocolaty, and the frosting that goes with it is awesome too! Perfect Chocolate Cake 2 cups less 2 tablespoons sugar 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour 3/4 cup cocoa  1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1 cup milk 1/2 cup canola oil 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons boiling water I did adjust some of these for high altitude baking, so if you live at an elevation less than 3,000 feet use: 2 cups sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 cup boiling water Preheat o...

Rumor has it that this is the recipe for the pumpkin chocolate chip bread that they make at Kneaders Bakery. I don't know if that is true or not. All I know is that I tried making this bread tonight and it is heavenly. Also on the plus side, there is no oil in the recipe, and it makes three loaves. 3 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose Flour 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice 1 tablespoon cinnamon 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 2 2/3 cups sugar 2/3 cup butter. softened 4 eggs 1 large (29 oz) can pumpkin puree 2/3 cup water 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Sift together dry ingredients and set aside. Cream sugar and butter until well incorporated. Add eggs one at a time and then add the pumpkin. Alternate adding dry ingredients with water. Fold in chocolate chips. Pour into three large greased bread pans and bake at 325 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean. Mak...

This is our 3rd recipe for October's National Dessert Month. I've been having a great time finding and making dessert recipes! I don't think that my family has complained either. Today's recipe is No-Bake Peanut Butter Cup Bars.  This is a recipe that I tried when I was able to go to Orson Gygy , an amazing local kitchen store, a fixture really, to meet the awesome bloggers from Our Best Bites . They had amazing samples from their new cookbook, Savoring the Seasons with Our Best Bites.  A fter one bite I knew that I had to make this recipe. There's a similar recipe floating around Pinterest right now, but this one is better, simply because it's no-bake! These taste just like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, but in a bar shape, you must try them! No-Bake Peanut Butter Cup Bars Savoring the Seasons with Our Best Bites  by Sara Wells and Kate Jones, pg 187 25 chocolate sandwich cookies, such as Oreo's 1 cup plus 4 tablespoons butter, divided 1 1/2 cups plus 3 Ta...

Last week we had a special visitor at our bakery.  Si from A Bountiful Kitchen , one of our very favorite food blogs, came in to learn how we make our special cookie for fall� Pumpkin Chocolate Chip  ( just click to check out her post). 

Here's our second dessert recipe for National Dessert month.  This is a recipe that comes from our summer vacation. We went to Nauvoo, Illinois. Nauvoo is a little pioneer town, and they do things in pioneer ways. There is a little replica of an actual bakery that would have been there in the 1840's and they make cookies to let people sample there using a recipe that would have been used in the 1840's.  MMmmmm, they were soooo good! We had to sample them several times. We couldn't resist buying a little gingerbread boy cookie cutter to make our cookies look the same as they did in Nauvoo. As you can tell from the picture, they turned out really cute! I wasn't sure they would taste the same way when I made them at home, but they were really great! I can't wait to make these again! Gingerbread Cookies from www.historicnauvoo.net 2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp cloves 2 tsp ginger 3/4 cup oil 2 eggs 1 cup molasses 1 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup hot water 6 1/2 cup flour 1 tsp baki...

This definitely ranks amongst the top of my list when it comes to cookware. My cooking khaki recommended this to me 6 years ago. It is a God-send for busy mums! My mum and my siblings have since bought their own sets too. What's so wonderful about this cooker and how does it work? A thermal cooker typically consists of two stainless steel pots, one within the other. The inner pot is used to bring the food to the boil and the outer thermal pot, which is double-walled with a vacuum between the walls, is used as the container to allow the cooking process to continue in the inner pot. To use the thermal cooker, put food into the inner pot and bring it to the boil.   Let it boil for about 15-20 minutes to create sufficient latent heat. Then, place the inner pot inside the thermal pot to continue the cooking process for another 4-6 hours.   As the food is cooked using its own latent heat in the inner pot, do not open the cover of the inner pot as this will cause heat to escape. For ...

And here's another kitchen tip I ran across the other day on Pinterest. Instead of putting a piece of bread or a slice of apple in the bag to keep your brown sugar soft, try using a couple of marshmallows. That sounds a lot more appetizing to me!

When Big C was born 9 years ago, I went through what only mothers can understand. By all means, I have a wonderfully supportive husband and Big C was a wonderful baby. Big C fed well and had a sleeping pattern that was like clock work. In fact, he started sleeping through the night when he was about 3 months old. I never felt that I lacked sleep. But somehow, the stresses of being a first time mom and having a full time job took a toll on me. I remembered the feeling of exhaustion, helplessness, senselessness and living through the weekends numbly... Then I chanced upon this book " Mother Nurture ", and came across the term "Depleted Mother Syndrome" which was coined by the authors Rich and Jan Hanson to describe the overall feeling of physical and emotional stress commonly experienced by mothers. This book and its many case studies totally resonated with me and I began to understand the situation I was in and the emotions I was going through.   I had pushed myself...

This Italian dessert is a wonderful concoction of cream cheese, liqueur, coffee and cocoa. Delicious! I'm not kidding when I said that this recipe is easy as the end product looks sophisticated and tastes so heavenly.... It is a great dessert to prepare for dinner parties and will sure impress your guests! Once you get the hang of it, you can have this prepared within 15-30 mins. The good thing is you have to prepare this beforehand as it requires around 8 hours chilling time.   The only equipment needed is a good electric whisk / egg beater or cake mixer. A simple hand-held cake mixer will do. This set of ingredients serves about 8-12 people. Ingredients 500g Marscapone Cheese (recommended brand: Polenghi - can be found in larger NTUC Fairprice stores, Cold Storage and Jason�s) 3 tablespoons sugar 3 eggs Italian lady finger biscuits (1 packet) (can be found at NTUC Finest and Cold Storage in the biscuit section) Coffee Powder Cocoa Powder (eg. Hershey's 8 oz, available at NT...

Just tried something I found on Pinterest the other day. When you are making hard boiled eggs, add 1/2 teaspoon baking soda to the water. Apparently, doing so changes the PH level, so the shells won't stick to the eggs when you peel them. I tried five eggs this morning, and the shells were all very easy to peel except one of them (not sure why). I had no idea! Give this a try.

"The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind."~Ambrose Bierce French onion soup is gastronomic heaven to me. Next to my homemade potato soup, I think it is one of the best and most nourishing soups on the entire planet. I made this last night for our dinner and it was all that we needed and more.  I could write a song about it....it would be entitled, "My tongue is slapping my brains out." If I only had a brain.  1/2 stick real butter 6 cups thinly sliced sweet onions 2 tablespoons flour 6 cups beef stock 1/2 cup dry white wine 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper 3 tablespoons brandy 6 slices French bread-toasted 6 slices Gruyere or Swiss cheese 1/2 cup or more of freshly grated Parmesan cheese Melt butter in large stockpot. Add onions and saute over medium heat until lightly browned, scraping up the browned bits as you go. Add flour, blend well. Stir in beef broth, wine, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes. Remov...

Sarah and Henry (and if I'm being totally honest, myself) could eat pancakes everyday.  When I don't feel like standing at the stove flipping pancakes while I am also pouring syrup, getting cups of milk, frying eggs and cleaning up spills, I make these: Pancake Squares.  Simply make up the batter and stick it in the oven.  The flavor is dead-on for regular pancakes although the texture is a little cake-like but I think Sarah likes them more. Justin doesn't think they can ever replace fried in bacon grease pancakes and he's right but it's nice to mix it up a little and give my griddle a break. If it's just me and the kids, an 8x8 pan is enough but if Justin's home, we double it for a 9x13 and bake for 27 minutes. Pancake Squares 3/4 cup milk 2 T. melted butter 1 large egg 1 T. sugar 1 cup flour 2 t. baking powder 1/4 t. salt Preheat oven to 350�. Lightly grease an 8�8 baking dish. In a large mixing bowl, beat together milk, butter and egg. Add sugar, then gra...

This isn't a recipe I've tried making myself yet, but it is a signature dish of my Uncle Brent. And he just brought one of these tasty hams by to give to my family. What a guy! I'd forgotten how good this is. Great to eat warm and later on for sandwiches. 1 15-pound precooked ham with bone 1 pound dark brown sugar 8 12-ounce cans beer (the recipe calls for Coors) 1/2 cup honey 1/4 cup Dijon mustard 2 cups packed dark brown sugar 1/2 cup bourbon Place ham in a deep roasting pan. Firmly pat 1 pound brown sugar on all sides of the ham. Pour beer around the ham. Cover and bake at 325 degrees for 3 3/4 hours (15 minutes per pound). One hour before end of baking time, pour off all but 1 1/2 cups of the beer. In a small saucepan, combine honey, mustard, 2 cups brown sugar, and bourbon; heat until the sugar melts. Baste ham every 10 minutes with beer mixture from the bottom of the pan and then brush on bourbon glaze. Use all of the bourbon glaze before removing the ham from the ove...

Did you know that October is National Dessert Month???!!! I'm thinking we need to celebrate! There are two ways you can celebrate National Dessert Month: The first is come in to our store and get some amazing cookies! The second is to stay right here on our blog. Every week on Wednesday, I will be posting a new dessert recipe that I've tried so you don't have to, I'm nice like that! This weeks recipe is Root Beer Float Cupcakes. Our daughter had a birthday last week and she requested a Root Beer Cake, but I had no trouble getting her to change her mind and have these instead! I really loved how simple this recipe was. Only two ingredients for the cake part! I was kind of nervous that they wouldn't work, we tend to have problems with our oven getting cakes and things to rise, but they turned out great, and so yummy! I loved this recipe, next I want to try using orange soda and a butter cream frosting to get kind of a Dreamsicle effect. Root Beer Float Cupcakes 101 Go...