Tag: pecans
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Chunky Pecan Muffins
I recently purchased a lovely cookbook at the thrift store Mad About Muffins by Dot Vartan. Each page is filled with wonderful muffins recipes and beautiful illustrations by Shelly Reeves Smith. I sat by my fireplace and looked at all 128 pages and couldn’t wait to try my hand at one of her recipe’s. The Chunky…
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Easy Blueberry-Pecan Muffins
This is a quick and easy muffin recipe. Feel free to substitute the blueberries and pecans with your choice of fruit and nuts. Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a 12 muffin tin with Bakers Choice cooking spray. In a small bowl, whisk together butter, eggs, milk and vanilla. In a separate bowl mix…
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Pecan Cookies with Rosemary
I have tons of rosemary in my garden. I am always looking for recipe’s to use this wonderful herb and my good friend Sherry shared this one with me. The original recipe called for Pine Nuts. As usual, when I decided to give this recipe a try, I was out of the pine nuts and…
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Brown Butter Pecan Tart
Is there any better Southern dessert than a piece of pecan pie with a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream? Oh YES, this brown butter pecan tart with vanilla ice cream. My dear friend Sherry sent this to me a few weeks back telling me it was the VERY best pecan pie recipe that…
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Pralines (Microwave)
My family loves visiting New Orleans anytime of the year and often take day or weekend trips. As soon as we get in the car, excitement increases as we start talking about what food we are craving or restaurants we want to visit. There is no better place in the world to eat and party than…
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Three Cheese-Cheese Pâté
Directions: Combine cream cheese, Italian seasoning, and pepper. Beat at medium speed with mixer until smooth. Line a lightly oiled 6x4x2″ loaf pan with plastic wrap, leaving a 2″ overhang on each side. Spread 1/3 of the cream cheese mixture in the loaf pan, smoothing to corners. Combine the grated Gruyere cheese & pecans, spread on top…
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Lemon-Poppyseed Cake
I work in sales and every year for Christmas, I bake about 130 cakes for my customers. This means that beginning the week after Thanksgiving, I am baking 6-8 cakes a night. This is one of the recipes that I use — Directions: Combine first 6 ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Beat at medium…