I forgot to mention the identity of the "sauce in squeeze bottles" in my post about the ice cream cakes. They’re Smucker’s PlateScrapers dessert topping. I tried to the raspberry, caramel and chocolate versions. There is also a vanilla PlateScraper. Compared to Smucker’s ice cream toppings, these are a good value (even when not on [...]
Posted on March 19, 2005 in Products and Equipment
First, the baby faced cupcakes were a big hit at dear friend Michele’s baby shower. I received many compliments on them, both on taste and the cuteness factor. It was a fun but tiring experience. I made about four dozen full-sized cupcakes and about 60 mini-cupcakes – three mixes worth – and two double-batches of [...]
Posted on March 15, 2005 in More Stuff
Every slow cooker cookbook I own has variations on the same recipe, but no new ideas. I was getting tired of making the same old slow cooker variations on chili and roasts. Then I came across Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann. First, I was sold on it because [...]
Posted on March 4, 2005 in Books,Cookbooks,Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Venison and tagged as beef
Congratulations to the Denver Post. Their food section’s tribute to Julia Child, which unfortunately has been removed from the Denver Post’s website, won first place for special section in the large newspaper category of the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters Association awards last week. As reported in Thursday’s Denver Post, "Remembering Julia," published on [...]
Posted on March 4, 2005 in More Stuff