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Corn Bread Dinner Rolls Recipe

  • Corn Bread Dinner Rolls Recipe
    Corn Bread Dinner Rolls In A Basket
  • Corn Bread Dinner Rolls Recipe
    Two Corn Bread Dinner Rolls Stacked
  • Corn Bread Dinner Rolls Recipe
    Two Corn Bread Dinner Rolls leaned Against Each Other

What dinner table is and better for being grace graced with some fresh bread. These dinner rolls are tasty and allow your family and guests to help themselves. Additionally, they make an excellent side dish for holiday meals.

Corn Bread Dinner Roll Ingredients

  • 1 cups of milk
  • 2/3 cup yellow cornmeal
  • 1 tablespoon of instant yeast, dissolve in warm water
  • 1/4 cup of canola oil
  • 3 tablespoons of honey
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt (optional)
  • 3 eggs
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour

Corn Bread Dinner Roll Directions

  • In a saucepan over medium-high heat simmer the milk for 2 minutes.
  • Add the cornmeal and continue cooking and mixing until the mixture is thickened. Remove from heat and let it cool.
  • Once cooled add the mixture into a bowl, add the yeast, the canola oil, and the honey.
  • Mix well to combine everything.
  • Add the salt and 2 eggs. Mix again.
  • Little by little add the flour until a soft dough forms.
  • Knead the dough for 5 minutes.
  • Transfer the dough to a greased bowl and cover.
  • Reserve for about 3 hours so that the dough will double in size.
  • Make 12 little balls and place each roll on a baking sheet cover with parchment paper.
  • Place the rolls in a warm place ( a closed oven with the light on for example )let them rise again for about 1 hour.      
  • Preheat the oven to 375 ˚F. 
  • In a small bowl add 1 egg and mix with a fork.
  • Brush the top of the rolls with egg and sprinkle cornmeal.
  • Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.

Prep time :

  • 20 minutes

Cook Time

  • 20 minutes

Waiting Time

  •  4 hours

Serving

  •  This recipe makes about 12 servings

Southern Style Icebox Strawberry Pie

  • Southern Style Icebox Strawberry Pie
    Southern Style Icebox Strawberry Pie

With the hot weather of summer and early fall and icebox pie is always a nice way to put dessert.  When strawberries are in bountiful, this strawberry icebox pie is an easy way to put some fruit on the table, which will be appreciated by all.

Cook’s Note

  • You need to finish with two cups of filling.
  • Making your own whipped cream and pie crust at home is an excellent way to add variety to this pie.
  • However, in a pinch for time or simply for convenience, store-bought whipped cream and pie crust work just fine.
  • This recipe uses a 0.60-ounce package sugar-free strawberry flavored gelatin, which makes it a little firmer.  However, a 0.30-ounce package can be used, and regular sweetened gelatin works equally well.

Icebox Strawberry Pie Filling Ingredients

  • 1 (0.6-ounce) package sugar-free strawberry flavored gelatin
  • 1 (9-inch) pie shell, blind-baked and cooled
  • 1-1/2 cups cold water
  • 2 pints fresh strawberries, hulled and diced
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 3 tablespoons sugar (optional)

Icebox Strawberry Pie Filling Directions

  • Blind-bake pie crust and cool.
  • Wash, hull and dice strawberries and set aside.
  • In a small bowl, mix gelatin in 1/2 cups cold water and allow to bloom
  •  In a large saucepan, combine 1 cup water and cornstarch until smooth.
  • Bring mixture to a boil stirring constantly on medium; continue cooking and stirring for 2 minutes or until thickened.
  • Remove mixture from the heat; stir in bloomed gelatin and sugar (if desired) until dissolved.
  • Transfer to a bowl and cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
  • Stir in diced strawberries.
  • Pour strawberry pie filling into blind-baked crust and level filling.
  • Put the filled pie in refrigerate and chill for 2 hours or until gelatin has set.
  • Slice pie and garnish each serving with whipped topping and, perhaps, a fresh strawberry half.

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Recipe – Mashed Potatoes for Two

  • Recipe - Mashed Potatoes for Two
    Mashed Potatoes for Two

Mashed Potatoes Ingredients

  • Salt (optional)
  • 1 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes
  • 1/2 cup whole milk, evaporated/condensed or heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
  • 1-ounces cream cheese, Greek yogurt, yogurt cheese, or sour cream (optional)
  • Ground white pepper (optional)

Mashed Potatoes Equipment Needed

  • 3-quart or larger saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Fork

Mashed Potatoes Directions

Warm Dairy to room temperature.

  • Set the dairy for the recipe out to warm to room temperature, about an hour ahead of time.

Bring water to a boil.

  • Fill a medium saucepan ¾ full of water.
  • Bring to a boil over high heat.

Cut the potatoes.

  • While the water is heating, peel the potatoes.
  • Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise, then in quarters.
  • Then cut the potato quarters smaller sections.  The smaller the potato chunks are going into the water, the fast they will cook, and they will be to mash later.
  • Add the cut potatoes to the boiling water, add additional water if necessary, to cover potatoes, and simmer until they are falling-apart tender about 15 to 20 minutes.

Drain and mash the potatoes.

  •  When the potatoes are soft, drain the potatoes completely.
  • Return the potatoes to the pan.
  • Add the butter and mash the potatoes.
  • Turn pan to medium heat, stirring the potatoes rapidly continuously until the butter is melted and thoroughly combined.

Add the dairy and season.

  • Once the butter is melted and thoroughly combined, When any remaining water has evaporated, add the dairy components.
  • Turn the pot to medium-low and keep stirring.
  • Cooking until the potatoes are thoroughly combined and hot.
  • Remove the potatoes from the burner and turn off the heat.
  • Add pepper and salt, if desired.
  • Serve the potatoes in a ramekin or small dish and garnish, if desired.

Serves

  • Makes two individual servings

Cooks Notes

  • If you want to dress the potatoes up a little, you can add a little cheese on top and microwave (assuming you are using a microwave dish) for a few seconds to melt the cheese. 

Recipe – Spaghetti Sԛuash Rеd Sаuсе

  • Recipe - Spaghetti Sԛuash Rеd Sаuсе
    Spaghetti Sԛuash Rеd Sаuсе Served Family Style

whether working with the spaghetti squash from your garden or recently purchased from the store this recipe makes a nice weeknight recipe. Because this spaghetti squash recipe uses only the stovetop and the microwave it doesn’t add a lot of heat to the house, so, it can be a year-round family favorite.

Ingredients

  • 1 onion diсеd
  • 1 tsp. оlivе oil
  • 1 plum tomato, seeded and diсеd
  • 1 сuр tomato sauce
  • ¾ tѕр.. orеgano
  • ½ tѕр. salt
  • ¼ tѕр. рерреr
  • 1 lаrgе spaghetti squash, about 5 pounds
  • ¼ сuр Parmesan cheese

Directions

  • In a nonstick ѕkillеt, sauté onion in оil until tranѕluсеnt, about 10 minutes. Add tomato, tomato ѕаuсе, oregano, salt, and рерреr and ѕimmеr over low hеat for 30 minutеѕ.
  • Mеanwhilе, hаlvе spaghetti squash lеngthwisе, and rеmоvе seeds. Cover еасh hаlf with microwave-safe cellophane wrap for cooking, leaving 1 сornеr еxроѕеd. Miсrоwаvе, cut side up, on a plate on high power for 8 minutеѕ. Sԛuash should ѕераratе easily into ѕtrandѕ when donе.
  • Sсrаре out flesh and рlасе in an lаrgе mixing bowl. Mix in tomato ѕаuсе and season to tastе. Dividе into ѕix 2/3-сuр portions and top еасh with 1 tаblеѕроon Pаrmеѕan. Or, if you like you can lay the spaghetti squash out and apply on a platter and cover it with a tomato sauce making the Parmesan available for each to serve their own when they take their helping.

Servings

  • Makes about six servings

Using a square cake pan for round cake pan recipe

  • Using a square cake pan for round cake pan recipe
    Using a square cake pan for round cake pan recipe

If you have a recipe for a round cake and want to bake it in a square tin, use a square tin which is 2.5 cm (1 in) smaller than the round tin size.

For example, the recipe for a 23 cm (9 in) round cake could also be used to make a 20 cm (8 in) square cake. Halving the quantities given for the 23 cm (9 in) round recipe will make a 12.5 cm (5 in) square cake or doubling the quantities will be sufficient for a 28 cm (11 in) square cake

Sugarless Cream Cheese Vanilla Frosting Recipe

  • Sugarless Cream Cheese Vanilla Frosting Recipe
    Sugarless Cream Cheese Vanilla Frosting Recipe

Enjoying cream cheese frosting recipe that is low carb and sugar-free is a good idea. Apart from being tasty, it also is a healthy food choice. It can be perfect for cakes that are made from carrots apart from being the ideal solution for layer cakes, cupcakes, and red velvet cakes. It is silkily, easy and according to health experts, it also can be considered a good ketogenic option. Hence, it would be interesting to understand the ingredients needed for making this recipe. We also will have a look at the instructions that could help in making the same. We are sure it will be a very good sugarless cream cheese vanilla frosting recipe.

Are You New To Low Carb?

If you are not very used to low carb preparations, it is quite possible that you could have some doubts. You might wonder how is it possible to make cream cheese, frosted and that too without using sugar. However, the process is very easy and it is all about replacing sugar with something that has low carb content. There are quite a few alternatives available. You could use either erythritol or stevia blend instead of sugar. There are many who use Sukrin Icing Sugar. Swerve Confectioners is also a popular brand of Sukrin icing sugar.

The preparation time is around 10 minutes and the total time taken should also not be more than 10 minutes. It can accommodate 12 servings and has a total calorie count of 169.

Ingredients Needed

  • 1.1/2 packages or 12 ounces of Cream Cheese (Ensure that the cream cheese is soft and cool).
  • Softened unsalted butter 4 ounces, equivalent to 8 tablespoons or 1 stick.
  • Sukrin icing sugar or Swerve Confectioners – 1/2 cup.
  • Vanilla 2 teaspoons.
  • Stevia drops or stevia glycerite (just for taste)

How To Make It – Instructions

  • To begin with, the cool cream cheese has to be beaten until it becomes smooth. You could use a mixer that is convenient for you. But we feel a hand mixer could be the best option.
  • Next, the sweetener should be added. Beat the sweetener until the texture becomes light. The vanilla should also be thoroughly beaten until it becomes incorporated completely. Ensure that there are no lumps in it.
  • Once this has been done, butter should be added. Beat the butter again and ensure that the entire mixture is whipped together, and it has a light and nice look, touch, and feel. The sweetness can be adjusted by adding powdered sweetener or stevia. You could add as much as you want depending on your specific taste bud.

This completes the process of making a tasty, healthy and nutritious frosting recipe that is sugarless and made from cream cheese, vanilla amongst other ingredients. As mentioned above, apart from being completely free from carbohydrates and artificial sugar, it could be used for making different types of cakes.

It also is not very calorie-rich and could make a good breakfast or evening munching option. The best thing is that the whole thing can be done quite easily and should not take more than ten minutes. If it is kept refrigerated, the frosting should be good enough for a day or two. It is a different matter that children will find it too irresistible and might get over with it within a few minutes.

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Cooking and Baking – Common Substitutes for Ground Ginger

Ginger is a popular spice and a favored ingredient, especially in Indian and Asian cuisine. It is used to add flavor and fragrance to many recipes. For centuries now, ginger has also been used for its medicinal value. Though it is sold in many forms, the most popular types are ground ginger and dried ginger. Ginger is considered a root solution for numerous health conditions. Whether you have a terrible cough and are suffering from digestive distress, ginger can cure many ailments. However, there are certain health conditions which demand a complete ginger ban. In such a case, finding a dried or ground ginger substitute becomes essential.

What Are Some Good Ground Ginger Substitutes?

If you are looking for an emergency substitute for ground ginger, here are a few ground ginger substitutes that work well during cooking and baking.

Allspice

The taste of allspice resembles that of nutmeg, cinnamon, and a variety of other spices. Allspice is a dried unripe berry that has a mildly sweet flavor. It is often used in meat and vegetable recipes as a replacement for ginger. If your recipe required you to add a teaspoon of ground ginger to it, you could replace it with a teaspoon of ground allspice instead.

Pumpkin Pie Spice

Pumpkin Pie Spice is a famous American spice mix. It consists of a blend of ground cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice. It is often used as a seasoning or an ingredient in a variety of recipes, including pumpkin pie. Unfortunately, while pumpkin pie spice can be used to replace ground ginger, it will also give it a slightly different taste and color.

Mace

Mace is a particularly good substitute for ground ginger in baking recipes. Mace is essentially the thin exterior coating on nutmeg. It is warm and aromatic, which is why it is often used as a replacement for ground ginger in a variety of recipes. Replace a teaspoon of ground ginger with a teaspoon of ground mace and the taste will remain more or less the same.

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