Recipes by Eliot (Page 76)

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	Christmas Gift #7: A Healthy Muffin Recipe by Eliot My husband brought home some leftover muffins from work for our weekend breakfasts. (He says there is always a rush on Friday to get to the kitchen to see what is leftover—muffins, bagels, coffee cake.) He is great about “making” breakfast on the weekends! (More about his cooking style later.)One of the muffins in the “doggie…	1 vote 706 views
	Christmas Gift #6 by Eliot Christmas Gift #6By Eliot, on December 11th, 2011I had a terrible, absolutely terrible day at work this week. What to do but come home and bake?I decided I really wanted to explore my antique cookbooks for other great foodie gifts. I started out this project with Butterscotch Drops from a 1959 Farm Journal cookbook. I reached…	2 votes 1 review 1826 views
	Gifts #4: Healthy Holiday Spice Cookies by Eliot If I think about my other grandmother and her traditions during holidays, I have to remember her rolled sugar cookies. We would make these for Halloween, Christmas, and Easter using her tin cookie cutters as well as the newfangled tupperware ones. Her rolled cookies were always perfect.I have tried many times to duplicate her…	1 vote 708 views
	Christmas Gift #3 by Eliot My husband loves beer. (This sounds like it is going to be a heart-warming Christmas story, right? ) So much so, he is ordering all the necessary paraphernalia to start brewing his own, thanks to my brother-in-law. Thanks, bro!So, not only did he build a fabulous hoop house for growing cool weather veggies, but he is also planning…	1 vote 452 views
	Grammy’s Doughnuts by Eliot Grammy’s DoughnutsBy Eliot, on November 29th, 2011We were sitting around the Thanksgiving breakfast table (eating cranberry muffins) and mom declared, “Let’s make doughnuts!” Well, obviously we were not making them for a second breakfast. I suggested we wait until the nephews were back and make them for last Saturday’s breakfast.…	1 vote 689 views
	CTB Post for “Harlot’s Sauce”: Greek Pizza, Anyone? by Eliot The last few Cook the Books Club picks have been pretty humorous: Lunch in Paris, A Homemade Life and Garden Spells. Although these two memoirs and a novel had very serious moments and some grief-stricken passages, there were definitely parts that had me laughing out loud.The current pick, Harlot’s Sauce by Patricia Volonakis…	1 vote 672 views
	Cranberry Muffins for a Thanksgiving Breakfast by Eliot Cranberry Muffins for a Thanksgiving BreakfastBy Eliot, on November 24th, 2011I found a Cape Cod Muffin recipe in an ancient cookbook—the November 1937 edition of American Cookery. I wanted to update the recipe and try it for one of our Thanksgiving breakfasts while the family was here.Cape Cod MuffinsAdapted from American Cookery,…	1 vote 487 views
	What’s up next? More sweet potato recipes. by Eliot This recipe takes two cups of mashed sweet potatoes, so I used one of our “medium” sized ones.Some of our harvest.As soon as we saw our harvest last month and when I started Sweet Potato-Palooza, I knew that a sweet ‘tater pie was in our future.I adapted this recipe from “Sweet Potato Praline Pie” from Taste of Home.Pecan Praline…	1 vote 587 views
	Sauted Swiss Chard with Bacon, Raisins and Pine Nuts by Eliot SRC Post for November: A Swiss Chard Recipe—Seriously delicious so keep reading!Here is my fifth posting with Secret Recipe Club. This club, hosted by Amanda, Angela, Tami, Tina, and Jane, is a great way to expand your foodie horizons and explore different blogs. The premise is that you will be assigned a “secret pal,” you…	1 vote 409 views
	More Palooza Action: Sweet Potato Biscuits by Eliot More Palooza Action: Sweet Potato BiscuitsBy Eliot, on November 23rd, 2011Obviously as the holidays near, you expected even more Sweet Potato-Palooza, right? Well, never one to disappoint, here is the latest Palooza installment.In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, light-brown sugar, spices baking powder, salt and baking soda.…	1 vote 446 views