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Recipes from you
- Send us your recipes! Richmond, Indiana - If
there is one thing I enjoy, and every other cook too, it is
getting a great recipe to try and enjoy. Don't be shy. Send
us your favorites. And if you can, send us a photo too.
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After-School Snacks
Afternoon snack time is often
overlooked when parents are planning meals, making it easy
for families to stray away from making smart food choices.
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Baking Tips It's pretty easy to
fall into a baking rut. There's the classic chocolate chip
cookie, or maybe your kids have a home-baked favorite that
you've made a thousand times. Once you get a recipe down, it
sometimes feels easier to just go with what you know. But
many bakers find that getting creative in the kitchen can be
rewarding - literally.
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Breakfast You've heard for
years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Although eating in the morning is a step in the right
direction, what people eat appears to be just as important
as simply eating.
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Carefree, casual feast
Casual, laid back dining with family and friends is
definitely a must for outdoor gatherings and what's more
relaxed than a utensil-free feast? Think beyond burgers, and
serve up some party favorites that work well without a fork
and knife. Great tasting finger foods, like bruschetta, dips
and quesadillas, can make backyard bashes easy, fun and
flavorful.
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Cajun Cornbread Here's a
fun recipe from Frontier's test kitchen that lets you try
out the "buy a pinch" concept.
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Carmel Icing This is an old
fashion recipe that most young cooks wouldn’t take the time
to make these days. Life is busy and as most often both
parents work outside the home which makes time very precious
that most see opening a can of frosting is much faster. But
trust me this one is worth the time and effort to make.
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Cobb Scramble Going out is
out, eating in is in. Home entertaining has become big
again, as folks look for an economical way to gather friends
and family together but still stay within a budget.
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Cousin's
Chicken Soup
This recipe was a joint effort. My cousin, Sue,
had been down with the common cold for better than 3 weeks.
After all the doctor visits and medicine her doctor finally
told her that she needed some homemade chicken soup!
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Diets - Your body needs vitamins and
nutrients to operate effectively and keep you healthy.
Developing healthy eating habits is a simple way to ensure
your body is receiving the necessary amount of nutrients.
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Double D
Chili - The winning Chili from the 2009 Pendleton
Library Chili Cook-Off
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Easy, Economical Meals
- With the departure of summer barbecues and the approach of
the busy holiday season, more than one family will rethink
that familiar question ... "What's for dinner?"
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Healthy Meal Ideas
Putting healthy, nutritious meals on the table for your
family every day often feels daunting, but it can be as easy
as opening your pantry. Even on busy nights, when you may be
tempted to hit the drive-through, cooking at home with
simple ingredients from your pantry is a more nutritious,
cost-effective and quicker solution when dinnertime rolls
around.
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Healthy Meal Ideas
Putting healthy, nutritious meals on the table for your
family every day often feels daunting, but it can be as easy
as opening your pantry. Even on busy nights, when you may be
tempted to hit the drive-through, cooking at home with
simple ingredients from your pantry is a more nutritious,
cost-effective and quicker solution when dinnertime rolls
around.
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Home Made BBQ Sauce Spice
things up, literally. Expanding your use of spices and herbs
is the easiest way to add flavor to dishes.
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Home Made Macaroni and Cheese One of our readers from
Greenville, Ohio sent me an email requesting homemade
macaroni and cheese! What a comfort food, and as far as I am
concerned simple is always better.
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Healthy Nutrition - Even
the healthiest eaters have their weaknesses - those foods
that make them "splurge". |
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Homemade tortilla chips - After indulging during the
holiday season, many people start the new year with the best
intentions to eat well. But imposing a too-strict New Year's
resolution diet can backfire and when you don't see
immediate results, it's easy to slip into unhealthy eating
habits. |
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Lightening Your Diet -
Health experts recommend young families, especially
expecting moms, should aim to eat a variety of nutrient-rich
foods -- those that are bursting with vitamins and minerals
in every bite. A serving of seafood, for instance, packs
nutrients like protein and omega-3s into only about 100
calories. For this reason, eating fish and shellfish two to
three times a week is linked to healthy hearts among adults
and a brain boost in babies. |
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Macaroni and Cheese - This
recipe illustrates, you can take the fat and calories out of
comfort foods while keeping the taste - and comfort. |
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Making It Sizzle -
Sure, summer is suited to barbecues, picnics and all sorts
of al fresco fun. But indoor entertaining has appeal during
the warmer months as well. When temperatures turn too sultry
to sit outside, or you just crave a more elegantly prepared
meal shared with good friends and no mosquitoes, you'll be
grateful for your kitchen and indoor entertainment spaces. |
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Marlene's Salad - The
recipe I am sending you all today is a wonderful salad. This
one compliments just about any meal, from Italian to a
Thanksgiving meal. I like to put some back in the
refrigerator and add the dressing and noodles to it the next
day, It is lovely with a glass of wine for a light lunch. |
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Pairing Wine and Food -
Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific
explanation for one of the most widely known rules of thumb
for pairing wine with food. |
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‘Prewashed’ Salad - For
people trying to get in their recommended daily servings of
fruits and vegetables, prepackaged green salads are an easy
way to start a meal. But there’s growing concern that these
convenient items aren’t as ready to eat as advertised. |
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Raps - After a summer
filled with sunny beach days and sleepovers, getting kids
motivated to head back to school and adjust to a new routine
is often a challenge. To make the transition a little easier
for kids and parents, here are some tips and fun ideas to
get creativity flowing and wake-up brains for learning. |
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Slow Cooker Chicken and
Potatoes - Cheryl
Koompin knows a thing or two about getting dinner on the
table for her family after a long day of work. She and her
husband raised two boys while maintaining the family's
potato farm in American Falls, Idaho. |
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Spring Recipes - Rain
showers and blooming flowers aren't the only things that
will be kind to your sense of smell this spring. It's also
the time of year when you start to bake up homemade breads,
cookies, and moist crumbly muffins. |
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Spring Recipes - Rain
showers and blooming flowers aren't the only things that
will be kind to your sense of smell this spring. It's also
the time of year when you start to bake up homemade breads,
cookies, and moist crumbly muffins. |
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Summer Snacks - Summer is
here, and that means barbecues, get-togethers and outdoor
parties with friends and family. With so many tempting
treats, it can be hard to snack smartly, but some easy
substitutions here and there can keep the whole family on
track all summer long. |
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Super Foods - SWhen you're
paying attention to good nutrition, it's easy to spend a lot
of time focusing on what not to eat. |
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Tuscany - All types of cuisines,
from Italian to Latin to Asian, have a set of core staples
that are essential to creating a distinctively authentic
meal. |
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Vidalia and Pear Honey of a Soup
- Churchill's "Vidalia and Pear Honey of a Soup" was the
winning recipe in the Vidalia Onion Committee's "Sweet Times
with Vidalias" recipe contest. |
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White or Wheat? - "White or
wheat?" Restaurant patrons are often presented with this
familiar, yet inaccurate, question when ordering toast or a
sandwich. Given the confusion between whole and enriched
grain products, it's not surprising that this phrase is
universally accepted among the general public. |
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