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Savory Pancakes: Home Cooking Dish of the Month (Nov. 2012)

I am wondering if a pancake with canned pumpkin and chopped up bacon would fall into the savory catagory, no sugar would be used in the recipe but woult it be okay to use maple syrup for topping it and maybe a herb butter

Nov 09, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? October 2012, part deux [old]

Gearing up for a 9 day vacation to Myrtle Beach to visit family and enjoy the last little bit of warmth before winter kicks in here in Southwest PA. So not baking anything till we get to Myrtle Beach, I do plan to make the dry mix of my favorite CC cookies and bring that along with the tri mix of CC to bring on the airplane then all me and my niece needs to do is get butter, sugar and eggs and whip up the cookies to sell at a MB Humane Society event, as my niece wants to do something to help out her local shelter like I do up here. And I need to make if its possible there to make my mom a birthday cake while I'm down there in MB with her. Then after we come home on November first Its planning for Thanksgiving and maybe some side baking and more cookies for humane society events to sell for them, I have a party I need to make something for and want to make some kind of bar dessert or cheesecake bars as everyone loves cheesecake, right? But anyone have ideas, want to do something just not plain cheesecake.

Oct 18, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

Dinner in Richmond's West End

My family and I will be heading to Myrtle Beach for our annual beach vacation and to visit relatives there but we leave western PA this Friday Sept 28 and are staying at the Holiday Inn express in Innsbrook and will be planning a quick trip to Trader Jokes as we have never been in one before and we love to shop for unique food items. But we will need to find a place for supper. Inexpensive is a plus. We all are in the mood for a good Pizza restaurant one that does wood fired authentic Italian margarita pizza with fresh mozzarella. But as long as its not fast food I am game even a nice diner would be okay. Would like to stay in the west end area but could go east on broad St for a good place.

Sep 26, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Mid-Atlantic

What are you baking these days? September 2012, part deux! [old]

Made PB and banana dog treats yesterday to sell at a event for a dog park in town also made CCC dough and will bake that today. Made some double dark chocolate chip brownie cookies last week and have cut them out and have cookie crumbs and need to do something with it so I will use the cookie crumbs to make a cookie crumb chocolate pudding pie, pro ally two of them. Then we are off on vacation from Sept 28 to October 7. We are taking our two dogs a corgi and a daschshund with us to Myrtle Beach, SC driving 2 days there and back and staying in pet friendly hotels in Richmond VA. So I won't be baking much in our small kitchen at MB just easy breakfasts, quick lunches, and dining out a few times or cooking something easy in that kitchen.

Sep 22, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

Substitute for canned green chiles

Thanks everyone yes I think I will use 3 chiles, I like spicy foods but the rest of my family do not so much but in this case they are more for flavor than spice and I figured that they are a good substitution but wanted to check first.

Aug 02, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

Substitute for canned green chiles

I need to make a pork enchilada recipe in which it called for canned green chiles I was just at the store yesterday and forgot to pick them up but I have small green chili peppers I think similar to a banana pepper that is very mild I would ass use I could roast these in the oven like at 500 or under other broiler and then let them sweat in a plastic bag and chop these and use them in place of the canned green chiles, how many small peppers to equal a 4oz can

Aug 02, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? July, 2012 [old]

Yay great tip I had to throw out my pastry cutter because the little blades bent so much on it I will try the whisk next time.

Jul 26, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? July, 2012 [old]

It does look good the bundt cake just not sure if I'm into cake right now but little cherry crumble bars yes.

Jul 06, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? July, 2012 [old]

Its so hot here and muggy to, my dad would think I was mad If I baked anything now and only beingable to use my window AC for a few glorious minutes a day I really don't want to be cooking or baking for very long. On top of that I was sick the first part of the week with a stomach flu, I have only made a Strawberry Coconut Ice cream , good timing though as I proved to my self today that I cannot stomach cow's milk anymore. But I have yet to try the Ice Cream, after Churning I put it in a freezable container and stuck it in my kitchen freezer, I checked on it about 2 hours later and it was softer than it was when I churned it so I quickly stuck it in my big standing freezer in hopes it does freeze more solid. I have two bag fulls of sweet cherries that were on sale, We ate 1 bag already but I am so tempted to make a baked cherry dish, clafoutis are good but I want to do something different.
http://crepesofwrath.net/2012/07/02/c...
These sound good if I don't find anything else now just to wait for a cooling thunderstorm then I will bake and the AC will be my reward for my hard work. But I eventually need to make the best ever chocolate chip cookie recipe to sell at a flea market to benefit a new dog park trying to open in town, fortunately I can make the batter, roll out into balls then freeze, and bag and bake when I need to before the 19th when ever it does cool down a bit.

Jul 05, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

Best Ice Cream Brand

Here in PA we don't have blue bell but I was in the south for 3 months and tried a few blue bell flavors and fell in love with it. I really like the blackberry cobbler, but here I love Turkey Hill, I will buy Haagan Dazs Carmel when its on sale the pints that is. Breyers is pretty good I like the different flavors they have and ones with mix ins are better than plain, hate Edy's and do buy blue bunny if I have a coupon and go with a fruity flavor for milkshakes

Jul 05, 2012
LEsherick2007 in General Topics

What's your favorite oddball candy?

I do love those sanded hard ginger candy's
http://www.amazon.com/Claeys-Sanded-G...
I want to try clove, and sassafrass, and the cinnamon kind to.

Jul 05, 2012
LEsherick2007 in General Topics

Foods you can't keep in the house because you can't stop yourself eating them

Right now I am hooked on burrata and craving it so bad but I'm heading to DeLallo's in Jennette, PA for some on Monday, only place close by to buy it locally. But mozzeralla is standing in pretty good right now.
More include...
Peanut Butter
Cheese Danish
Cake
Cookies
Just about any sweets or baked goods
Yep cheese and sweets that's what I crave usually

Jul 05, 2012
LEsherick2007 in General Topics

Freezing or Refrigerating Onions

I have a bag of small onions and possibly 1 bag at my moms I have a basketball game next sat the 19 and I need to mince or finely chop all these onions before they go bad. They are all for on top of hot dogs at the concession room. I need to do this tomorrow as they are at the point they might sprout soon. Will all these raw onions keep in the fridge for a week or should I freeze them and how do I freeze them.

May 12, 2012
LEsherick2007 in General Topics

your dream birthday cake

I need to find a great moist scratch chocolate cake recipe most times I just doctor up a cake mix but I want to do one by scratch oh and I have some unsweetened chocolate on hand I should use up if that will work in a recipe and I never made chocolate mousse before, I need a recipe for that, anyone?

Apr 28, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

your dream birthday cake

I never got a cake for my birthday this year my birthday is April 1st . I'm still want my cake I mean I'm 30 it was a big birthday. So I am going to have to make my dream cake myself. A moist chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and a salted Carmel butter cream frosting.

Apr 28, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? April 2012 [old]

I have been baking up a storm for a fundraiser next weekend and I'm freezing some things to keep fresher.
I have made my favorite chococolate chip cookie dough and while I made two small cookie sheets of it their is still a big bag of ore rolled balls of cookie dough, then I made Bakeat350's sugar cookie dough with some flowers, butterfly, cats and dog bones. While the butterfly and flower cookies are colorfully decorated the cat and the dog bone cookies are just white so when kids come to my local humane society's table at a fundtaiser they can buy the cookie and decorate it however they want with edible markers. Then I made dog treats its a simple recipe with flour, oats, banana and shredded carrots, and olive oil. Then just for the family I made a cream cheese banana bread with pecans, I baked them in mini ceramic loaf pans and they are great and very moist. I still have pastel merangue cookies to make the day before the event and let dry in oven overnight, and strawberry and cream rice crispy treats dipped in a white chocolate bath and sprinkles. Whew a lot of work but its to help a great cause.

Apr 26, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? February 2012, part deux! [old]

This is my colored Zebra cake I told everyone about in the What are you baking these days? February 2012 Part 1

Feb 17, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? February 2012, part deux! [old]

While not actual baking I did make chocolate dipped strawberries today.

Feb 16, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? February 2012 [old]

I am spending 3 glorious months in a condo at the beach, and have made a few muffins and cokies just mainly to be able to get a feel for the oven here it heats like 30 degrees hotter than it should bit I made a birthday cake for my brother it was a Zebra cake with 4 colors used to alternate with the white cake. Basically I made two layers I decided the vanilla cake in half and decided that in quarters and colored them sky blue, orange, green, and purple. The one cake layer I started with a scoop of vanilla "white" then blue, the white, then orange, white again, and blue once more till I was all out of batter. I did the same in the other cake pan with the purple and green. I baked these off let cool then they went in the fridge over night. I made a cream cheese icing and frosted the cake with the two layers oh I did level the layers after they were cooled. My neice my brother's daughter sprinkled on her choice of sprinkles and placed happy birthday candles on it. I will post pictures later today.

Feb 16, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

Colored popcorn

I have use this recipe to make this candy corn popcorn but you really can use any color and flavor of jello.
Http://cookiesandcups.com/candy-corn-...

Feb 16, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

What are you baking these days? February 2012 [old]

That sounds so good, do you have a recipe.

Feb 16, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

1 night in DC looking for the best Restaurants in NoMa

Thanks for the reccomadations, sorry about the NoMa when I was using Google maps it was there in big letters as the neighborhood title so I assumed everyone knew about it. I do hope the train is not lat but if it looks like it will be that way I may just have to have dinner on the train, hope its decent but maybe their a great place for lunch at union station the next day as that is where the tour want to go and eat.

Feb 15, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Washington DC & Baltimore

1 night in DC looking for the best Restaurants in NoMa

Me and my mom are coming into DC on Friday March 30 and are joining up with a tour bus of photography friends for a day of cherry blossims and U.S. National Arboretum. We are staying at the Courtyard in NoMa right rear the Metro. We will get in to Union Station at 8pm. If we hurry get the red line 1 stop,walk to our hotel check in and leave can we even make it anywhere for a late dinner somewhere that is very close, Is Todd Greys Watershed very good they are open till 10 pm an are right next door.

Feb 14, 2012
LEsherick2007 in Washington DC & Baltimore

Peanut Butter Sauce for Ice Cream Sundaes??

Yes I just wish I could recreate the sauce I love how salty it is compared with the sweet soft serve, I don,t like peanuts so that's why I tried the Blast.

Jan 31, 2012
LEsherick2007 in General Topics

Peanut Butter Sauce for Ice Cream Sundaes??

So I just went to DQ yesterday and had a Peanut Butter Blast I loved the salty peanut butter sauce on it and would like to find a similar recipe to that sauce.

Jan 26, 2012
LEsherick2007 in General Topics

Are you thinking about Christmas cookies yet? (Seriously!)

Yes please a recipe would be great if you can.

Dec 04, 2011
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

Are you thinking about Christmas cookies yet? (Seriously!)

Wow what is Whipped Shortbread that is new to me and sounds interesting.

Dec 03, 2011
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

Are you thinking about Christmas cookies yet? (Seriously!)

Yes the butter is the cheapest at Aldi's at $1.99 and also at Save-a-lot it is $1.99. I got 4 pounds but that's for thanksgiving mostly and will need more for cookies. I am not doing many cookies this year as I will be busy with doctors appts and getting a drivers permit, and packing as me and my mom are going to stay with my brother for 3 months starting Jan 5 to March 30 in Myrtle Beach. So I plan to make Mexican Wedding cookies, Shortbread cubes with red white and green non parells, chocolate chunk cookies, and probally lime meltaways. I also plan to try making red hot cinnamon popcorn, and peppermint bark.

Nov 21, 2011
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking

One Food You Just HAVE to Try?

I know I love anchovies and its great on pizza but if I make pizza I chop up the anchovies then sprinkle on the chopped pieces so you don't get on big hit of salt and none in the other bites its more balanced and tastes so good.

Nov 21, 2011
LEsherick2007 in General Topics

Love Love Love me a homemade pie...

I am making Libby's Pumpkin Pie, my grandmas traditional Oatmeal Pie, and I want to try a Pecan Pie bars.

Nov 17, 2011
LEsherick2007 in Home Cooking