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Basic Egg Custard

January 18, 2008 8:16 AM || 1 Comments

A long time ago, in a city far, far away (Richardson, Texas, that is), my family took a trip to the local Luby's cafeteria. It was there, instead of...

Fried Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwich

June 27, 2007 7:02 AM || 4 Comments

I had a whole skillet full of leftover frying oil from my pork flautas, when suddenly a wild hair hit me. I began gyrating my hips and singing "Jail House...

Lottie's Chocolate Pound Cake

May 9, 2007 7:59 AM || 0 Comments

Take a close look at the picture below. Notice anything missing from the recipe? And the answer is the instructions. Well, that is other than 350 for 1.5 hours. This...

Guiness Pub Cake

March 21, 2007 8:30 PM || 3 Comments

This recipe comes from The Baking Sheet, a newsletter-style publication put out by the King Arthur Flour Company. Ingredients: 1 cup Guiness stout 1 cup raisins 1 cup dried cranberries...

Baked Chocolate Pudding

February 25, 2007 1:28 PM || 2 Comments

This is a take-off on a recipe from Jamie Oliver's Jamie's Kitchen. The original recipe had this weird step of making chocolate sauce then freezing it as cubes, after...

Three Nut Chocolate Torte

December 3, 2006 9:09 PM || 0 Comments

This is mostly a Jamie Oliver recipe, except that I added pecans. Weird thing about this recipe is that Olive calls for a regular pie or cake pan in the...

Monkey Bread with Golden Raisins

November 26, 2006 9:31 PM || 0 Comments

- 4 cans plain buttermilk biscuits - 1 cup golden rasins - 1/2 cup butter - 1/2 cup brown sugar - 1/2 cup white granulated sugar - 1 Tsp....

Oat Bars with Golden Raisin Filling

October 17, 2006 8:24 PM || 2 Comments

Shame on me. I bought my wife the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook (the one that supports breast cancer awareness month), and I was the first person to rifle through...

Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies

September 30, 2006 7:40 AM || 0 Comments

By now everyone is probably aware of my affection for Giada de Laurentiis, but did you know that I absolutely adore Paula Deen. In a grandmotherly kind of way. I...

Rice Pudding with Dark Chocolate Sauce

September 12, 2006 9:25 PM || 1 Comments

This is the most decadent thing I have made to date. The rice pudding is just the basic recipe that I posted a while back, excluding the raisins. In...

Chocolate Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

September 6, 2006 10:11 PM || 1 Comments

Just a little bit of food porn for you this evening. After making the chocolate slab cake, I had a lot of dark chocolate chips leftover, so the wife decided...

Chocolate Slab Cake with Dark Chocolate Frosting

August 21, 2006 3:40 PM || 2 Comments

See this cake? Looks good, doesn't it? A shiny layer of chocolat frosting on top of a lusciously thick chocolate cake. Makes you drool, doesn't it? Looks so ooey-gooey...

Lemon Syrup Cake

August 19, 2006 11:39 AM || 0 Comments

I think this is a great any time of the day cake. You can eat it at breakfast time, perhaps with some coffee or tea, or you can make...

Rice Pudding with Golden Raisins

August 1, 2006 10:22 AM || 0 Comments

Pudding. It's soulfood in my opinion. Now, I'm not talking about those little brown cups you can get in the dairy case at the grocery store. No, Bill Cosby...

Basic Sweet Pizelles

July 27, 2006 1:34 PM || 5 Comments

My family and I are selling our house right now, which has prompted us to clean everything. This includes the pantry, where our Pizelle maker resides. TheWife and I...

Fried Twinkies

July 18, 2006 12:43 PM || 4 Comments

OK, I need to apologize right quick. In my efforts to put this post on the web, I neglected to tell you what I thought of the fried twinkie....

Chocolate Crown Cups

June 27, 2006 10:07 PM || 3 Comments

Just an excuse to use some of the Crown Royal Whisky that I received for Father's Day is what this recipe is. Yes, it does give the chocolate a bit...

Deb's Delectables: Chocolates from Heaven

June 8, 2006 9:07 PM || 3 Comments

Step aside Russell Stover. Godiva .... hit the road. There's a new cat in town and her name is Deb. Don't let the name fool you. If you have ever...

Baja Date Cake

May 19, 2006 8:07 AM || 6 Comments

On a whim, I decided to do some baking. TheWife made sure to poke fun at me, "Baking? You? Let's not forget the cornbread fiasco of '02." Ha ha. To...

Toasted Pound Cake with Mascarpone

May 8, 2006 3:07 PM || 0 Comments

I tried one of Giada de Laurentiis' recipes this weekend, one in which I was in love with after seeing her "Power of Pesto" episode of Everyday Italian. I made...

Recipe: Rosemary Citrus Cookies

April 1, 2006 11:20 AM || 0 Comments

This is another submission to the Weekend Cookbook Challenge by Alicat and Sarah. Found these cookies in a baking cookbook that I’ve been using lately for my scone-tacular scones....

Bread Pudding Parfait

January 17, 2006 10:32 AM || 0 Comments

Over the weekend, I had been thinking a lot about my Java Bread Pudding, mostly because I wanted some and was hungry. But I was distressed about the fact that...

Recipe: Kahlua Cool Whip

January 17, 2006 8:00 AM || 0 Comments

The internet came up spectacularly empty when it came to a search on flavored Cool Whip® recipes. Look, whatever you do, please do not make this recipe and then slather...

Kentucky Colonels

January 13, 2006 8:54 AM || 0 Comments

I have decided that this will be the weekend of the binders. I haven't been forthcoming with many recipes from the tres amigos binders, and I feel extremely guilty about...

Tempura Bananas With Kahlua Chocolate Sauce

August 26, 2005 10:13 AM || 1 Comments

I was just sitting around wondering what to do with some bananas that were about to go bad, and this recipe just coalesced into my brain. I had been thinking...

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