I love cooking with onions. I love cooking with garlic. They are both weekly regulars in our house. In yours? If so, you know how pungent your hands smell after all the aromatic chopping and mincing. I’ve got an easy solution that will help you eliminate that weirdo habit of rubbing your hands on the …
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Have you ever tried your hand at homemade peanut butter? If not – now’s the time to try. No fear. Just grinding until you arrive at smooth spreadable peanuty love. It’s easy and spoonfully delicious! We are always looking for ways to eat healthier without sacrificing flavor or nutrition and this peanut butter is a …
Last year, I set about making my own decadent blend of vanilla extract and the results were so delicious, I’ll never buy vanilla from a store again. Yep, it was that good. You would have thought with all my years of baking experience, I would have tried to make vanilla extract at least once, but …
I feel like everyone in the South has a go-to baked onion recipe. Why? ‘Cause they’re delicious and we know it! Baked onions are great year-round. Think cookouts in the summer, addendum to crock pot ribs in the fall, a side dish with Christmas dinner and an ever-present Easter favorite. Plus you can totally throw …
Who doesn’t love cookies? Who also doesn’t like turning the oven on in the summer? ~ALL OF US~ Chocolate Yummies to the rescue. I make these every year for Christmas, but in recent years have also been making them in the summer when I neeeed cookies, but don’t want to heat up the whole danged …
Have you ever attempted to make homemade roasted garlic butter? Sometimes it’s the simple things that makes us the happiest. Homemade roasted garlic butter is high on my makes-me-crazy-happy list. Creamy, buttery, garlicy – did I mention buttery? And garlicy? This is the stuff, my babies. The stuff of long mmmmms and satisfied eye-rolling delight. …
When I think of hummus, the word conjures images of the Middle East and a healthy diet with all the mmmmm-mmmmming, you know, if you love hummus like I do. The Lebanese arm of my family insists that store-bought hummus is a less tasty version than homemade. Isn’t that the case with everything? Knowing that …
You should know, this broccoli casserole is not haute cuisine. It’s comfort food. Funeral food. Get the kids to eat their veggies food. It’s pretty delicious, too. Back Story Of Guilty Pleasure Goodness: When my grandmother passed, I watched her neighbor, a literal little old lady, walk up to the house with a covered dish …
We are fortunate to enjoy avocados year-round in Texas. If they aren’t in the house, they’re on the grocery list to buy. Of course we love guacamole and are constantly whipping up a batch, but this avocado dressing is a little different and as versatile as well. Time to up your avocado game, my babies! …
Frosted brownies that dreams are made of?! Am I exaggerating? Not a chance. Time for your close-up, dreamy brownie: Fun Fact: When OMT! needs a quick dessert to take to ailing friends or to an unexpected party, these are the badboys I bring. Yep, some days require a little one-on-one time with some quality chocolate …