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Quest for the Best Banana Bread: Final Showdown

Eat, Play, Love

It’s finally time! Thirteen recipes and nearly a year later, here we are at our final banana bread showdown. As many of you know we began our quest for the best banana bread last spring. It all started with the Big Bird banana bread years ago that I would make with my dad. Then for years without any banana bread at all, we were introduced to Doree’s banana bread and became convinced it was the best. And so the quest was born…

We certainly didn’t come close to touching the millions of banana bread recipes out there, but we did try a variety of often vastly different loaves on this journey. Starting with our Peanut Butter banana bread, we baked 13 loaves and saved several slices of each wrapped up carefully in our freezer. Just before leaving for our trip, we pulled out the slices to thaw, and you should…

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Delicious and Simple Salmon recipe

noregrets2010

[This recipe came from the meat market guy at my local Fresh Market. What makes it so amazing is the method of cooking.]

INGREDIENTS:
1 pound wild salmon
Olive oil
Garlic powder
Ground black pepper
Lime juice
*Lemon pepper
*Lemon juice

[*I substituted Tone’s Canadian Steak Seasoning]

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place foil in bottom of baking dish. Lightly spritz foil with olive oil. Cut salmon in 4 pieces, rinse and pat dry. Remove skin unless your butcher is sweet enough to have removed it for you. ❤ Place salmon on foil and spritz with olive oil. Lightly sprinkle garlic powder on, then the lemon pepper and a small amount of ground black pepper. Drizzle a few drops of lime juice on top. Bake 15 minutes, remove from oven and cover with towel. Let it stand for 5 minutes (this allows it to cook a little…

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Top 5

Happy Friday!

I hope you are able to relax and enjoy the weekend.

Here’s today’s Top 5.

1. Countdown: 8 Days. 8 Days and I will be on a beach in sunny California.  I can’t wait to get there and catch up with our fabulous family.  Vitamin D is calling my name and the hours cant pass by quick enough.

2. I am so in love.  Here’s a wish – I would own every outfit on my Pinterest wish list. Wouldn’t that be awesome?

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Tostones

Pinoy White Boy

Tostones are green plantains that are cut into thick slices, fried, smashed down, and fried again.

What you’ll need:

5 Green Plantains

64 ounces of cooking oil

Salt

For our Mise En Place:

Heat the cooking oil on medium temperature in a large saucepan.

Trim the ends off of the plantains, and make a slit down the center of the plantain. Coat your hands in oil, and peel off the green skin. It’s not going to come off willingly, you need to use some elbow grease, but after some coercing, it should be removable.

Next, cut your plantains into 1 inch slices.

For the Recipe:

Add the sliced plantains to the hot oil and cook for about 5 minutes. Pay attention to the color, if they are browning too fast it means your oil is too hot, and you need to turn down the temperature and wait. You want your…

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Organizing Recipes

Holly Bakes

My name is Holly and I am a recipe hoarder.  It started out innocently enough with just collecting cookbooks.  Then it grew to tearing recipes out of magazines.  And then it spilled over to the internet.  I would watch Food Network instead of studying for exams, make desserts instead of sleeping, and spend a lot of money on ingredients I had never heard of and only used once.  Then, about five years ago, I realized that I had amassed so many recipes that I felt like it was beginning to take over my kitchen.

It was at that point that I realized something had to give.  Did I actually try at least 1/3 of the recipes in the 30+ cookbooks I had?  When was the last time I looked through the numerous manila folders where I stashed all the magazine and internet recipes?  And then it hit me.  I had to do something.  It started with going through the…

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Raspberry & Blackberry Almond Macaroons

The Dollhouse

 

Today I am going to share with everyone my recipe for macaroons. I LOVE baking and whenever I get the chance I make Macaroons! so here is the recipe ,start baking 🙂

 

Makes:40-50

Ingredients:

•  1 1/2 cups Icing Sugar
• 1 1/2 cups almond meal
• 4 egg whites
• 1/3 cup Caster Sugar
• Fuschia food colouring

Rasberry & Blackberry Filling:

• 1 cup Raspberries
• 1 cup Blackberries
• 1/2 cup caster sugar
• 1 tbspn lemon juice

1.  Line 3 baking trays with baking paper
2. Sift 1 1/2 cups of Icing sugar and 1 1/2 cups Almond meal in a bowl.
3. In a seperate Bowl, beat 4 egg whites until foamy. Gradually add 1/3 cup caster sugar until it has dissolved. beat with an electric beater until mixture looks glossy.Add Food Colouring( you can use different colours)
4. Combine almond mixture with meringue mixture, slowly folding in mixture.Don’t stress the mixture will halve its size and will become…

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Financier Cakes with Bluberries and Coconut

oliveoilandlemon

I have been gluten free for about 6 weeks now and everyone keeps asking me do I feel better. Honestly Not Yet, but I am hopeful that one morning soon, I will hop out of bed like a new woman!….

The really big down side of going gluten free is the price of goods – over €4 for a loaf of bread and dont get me started on the cakes. These however are the perfect antidote to having to resort for paying through the nose for hockey pucks. Light, delicious full of flavour and really easy to make – I had to reblog this since it is about all I am making lately!

Makes about 12

6 oz of butter
4 oz icing sugar
4 oz ground almonds
2 oz gluten free white flour mix
5 egg whites
1 tsp lime juice
Zest of 2 limes
2 oz desiccated coconut…

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Banoffee (Banana Toffee) Pie

Chocolate-Caramel Bars Recipe Review

theripebanana

If you are ever looking for a treat that wows, I highly recommend making these Chocolate-Caramel bars by Better Homes and Gardens.  They are the perfect blend between sweet and salty, and they make a great bite-sized desert for parties and the like.  I did a couple of things differently from the recipe that turned out well.  There were a couple of tools that I used that were a big help in the making of this desert, and there was one tool that I wish I had to help me through what was, for me, the toughest part of the process.

This recipe was pretty easy to make, and it is broken up into four easy steps.  First you make and bake the crust.  Then you add the “filling” and bake some more.  Next you whip up your caramel topping.  Finally, you add chocolate chips and the caramel.  The filling…

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