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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/30/2009 7:00:00 AM
I tasted these BLT appetizers recently at a restaurant and I'm going to try to make them for guests who are coming up to our cabin this week. They can't be that difficult to make, can they? They start with bread brushed with some mayo, and then they are topped with lettuce, cooked bacon and cherry tomatoes. I think that the tomatoes were roasted in a slow oven to dry them up, just a little. Since Jack and I love BLT sandwiches in the summer for dinner, I'm sure these little "bites...
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bacon appetizers, BLTs, summer appetizers
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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/25/2009 9:00:00 AM
I tasted a delicious Italian-American recipe for pork roast for the first time, when I visited the home of our friend Michael’s parents, many years ago. Marena (Michael’s mom) called her pork roast a Porchetta (pohr-KAYT-tah). She would make a mixture of garlic, dill seed, ground pork, oregano and parsley and then pack that mixture into slits she cut into the top of a 4-pound pork-butt roast. She baked it for at least 2 hours and when it was juicy and tender, she pulled the meat off the bone and served it in burger buns. It took around five hours to drive from Minneapolis to Virginia, Minnesota but when we got there late at night, Marena would have ho...
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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/23/2009 11:00:00 AM
If it seems like I am preoccupied with the weather, I admit it—I am. That’s because I live in Minnesota. It’s supposed to get to 95°F to 100°F today and get very humid—the heat index is predicted to be 105°F for today. But, I’ll take these...
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Bayfield Wisconsin, Lake Superior, North Shore, Wild Rice Restaurant
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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/18/2009 1:26:00 PM
The season for those deliciously mild onions, goes from mid-June to early September. They are sold under the names of Vidalia Onions (grown in Georgia), Walla Walla Onions (grown in the area of the Walla Walla Valley of southeast Washington and northeastern Oregon) and Maui Onions (grown on the Hawaiian island of Maui). They are medium-large onions with a sort of flattened-round appearance...
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Backyard BBQ, Father's Day, grilled burgers, GRilled Onion-Topped Caesar Burgers, Maui Onions, Vidalia Onions, Walla Walla Onions
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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/16/2009 3:00:00 PM
Easy Granola Bars are wonderfully chewy and delicious, made with two kinds of cereal and dried cranberries. I found this recipe in a Land O Lakes® magazine, published in 2007.
I like cereal bars for lots of reasons, one of the most important ones is that you don’t have to turn on your oven during the hot summer months to make them. They are easy to transport to a picnic or backyard party and they usually don’t have to be refrigerated.
They are very easy to make. Start by combining ce...
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bars for summer, cereal bars, Cheerios, easy granola bars, no-bake bars
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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/11/2009 9:45:00 AM
In a recent email, my friend Hilary suggested that whenever we visited Bayfield, Wisconsin, we should buy some “wine bread “ at the Candy Shoppe. She suggested placing an order for it, the day before. Here is my phone conversation with the shop owner when I called to place an oder for the bread:
Candy Shopper Owner: “Hello, Candy Shoppe.”
Andi: “I’d like to place an order for some wine bread.”
Owner: “What kind would you lik...
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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/8/2009 1:58:00 PM
I brought a cookbook, titled, Cooking Bouquet—Feeling at Home in the Kitchen, to the cabin over the weekend. This cookbook by Arlene Stolley doesn't have any photos in it but instead has whimsical water-color illustrations sprinkled throughout. 
The Strawberries and Cream French Toas...
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Arlene Stolley, Cooking Bouquet cookbook, French Toast, griddle, hulling strawberries, strawberries
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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/4/2009 7:18:00 AM
Here is the (long) reicpe that I promised you on Tuesday. I didn't like the cinnamon and sugar top crust because it crumbles off and makes the loaves difficult to slice so that is one step in the recipe that I don't do. Here is a starter recipe.
Amish Friendship Bread
Do NOT use any type of metal spoon or bowl for mixingDo NOT refrigerate starter...
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AndiatBettyCrocker 6/2/2009 3:50:00 PM
I’ve been baking Amish Friendship Bread since Easter when my brother-in-law, Eric, gave me a resealable plastic bag filled with a thick-beige colored liquid called a “starter”. Starters are yeast-based leavenings that give breads a slightly sour, tangy fla...
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Amish Friendship Bread, bread starter, cinnamon bread, quick breads