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Onion and Herb Roasted Potatoes

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May 072013
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Onion and Herb Roasted Potatoes

We love potatoes. Of Any Kind. But these, ohhhh, these potatoes…they are a big favorite in this house!

This is one of those simple, easy to make recipes that requires few ingredients, is economical yet packs a punch of flavor that you won’t soon forget! Another great thing about this recipe is that it is easy to double if you feed a crowd like I do.

Onion and Herb Roasted potatoes ingredients

All you need are some potatoes, dry onion soup mix, Italian seasoning and olive oil.

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Wash and peel the potatoes, then cut into chunks.

Add the olive oil, dry onion soup mix and mix well.

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Then I top with the Italian seasoning and mix it in…you can do this with the other ingredients but I never measure the amount of Italian seasonings that I use, I just add until it looks right to me. If you are one of those folks that needs exact measurements though, I would guess I use about 1-2 Tablespoons.

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Bake on 400 degrees for 1 hour.

Onion and Herb Roasted Potatoes

2 pounds of potatoes

1 package dry onion soup mix

1/3 cup olive oil

Italian Seasoning

Wash and peel the potatoes and cut into chunks. Place the potatoes in a 9 X 13 baking dish, top with olive oil, dry onion soup mix and Italian seasoning. Mix well, Bake on 400 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Just check the potatoes to see if they are fork tender to make sure they are done.

I always double this recipe, so if you need to feed a larger crowd it is easy to double and the cooking time only increases by about 15 minutes.

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Chupon Mocha Cookies with Marshmallow Icing or Whoopie Cookies (GIVEAWAY)

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Nov 132012
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OhhhhMyStinkinHeck! I can’t say enough how good these are. Recently I was sent some chocolate shavings by Chupon Chocolate. For a couple of days they sat there and taunted me. I mean really, how can you just let chocolate sit there?? Every time I would walk past them they would scream at me “Drink me, You know you want to!” But I also knew I wanted to make something with them. Something to satisfy my love of sweets. And my love of chocolate. After pondering it a day or two I decided on cookies.

Chupon Mocha Chocolate Cookies

After making the cookies and icing about half of them I decided they would also make fabulous whoopie pies, and that is what happened to the other half.

Chupon Mocha Chocolate Whoopie Pies

I can’t quit eating these. Seriously. I am probably going to gain 500 pounds between now and Christmas.

Chupon Drinking Chocolate is made by an 8th-generation Swiss chocolatier using a proprietary method for fusing spices, fruit and teas into Swiss Neuchâtel chocolate, and is available in Green Tea White Chocolate, Mocha, and Mayan flavors. The product line includes:

 Chupon Chocolates

Gift boxes of 8 ounces of shaved chocolate, retail price: $16

Eco-bags of 8 ounces of shaved chocolate, retail price: $14

Individual servings of 1 ounce of shaved chocolate, retail price: TBA

 

Chupon is delicious, delectable flavor-infused chocolate shavings for hot chocolate, mixed drinks, baking and more! It is how hot chocolate should be made… and much more! All 3 flavors are delicious. I am in love!

 Ingredients for Chupon Mocha Chocolate cookies

These are really easy to make. Simply mix the cake mix, butter flavored crisco and eggs.

mix ingredients for Chupon Mocha Chocolate cookies

Warm milk in microwave for 30 seconds, add the Chupon Mocha, mix well.

Add into batter. The batter is going to be pretty thick. That is the way it is supposed to be.

un-iced Chupon Mocha Chocolate Cookies

Bake for 8-10 minutes on 350 degrees.

ingredients

Gather up the ingredients for the icing. I love this icing! Of course I love marshmallow cream alone so of course this is going to be one of my favorites.

add marshmallow icing

Ice the cookies

sprinkle with Chupon Mocha Chocolate shavings

 And sprinkle with chocolate shavings.

Or, slap a bunch of icing in the middle of two cookies and you have a whoopie pie!

 

CHUPON MOCHA COOKIES OR WHOOPIE PIES

1 chocolate cake mix

1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening

2 eggs

3 Tablespoons milk

3 Tablespoons Chupon Mocha Chocolate

Preheat oven to 350. Combine cake mix, eggs, shortening in the bowl of a heavy-duty mixer and mix until well combined. Warm milk in a mug in the microwave for 30 seconds and add chocolate, mixing well. Add the chocolate milk to the dough and mix well. Drop dough by the tablespoon onto a baking sheet and bake for about 8-10 minutes or until the cookies appear done but are still soft in the center. Do not over-bake. In my oven 8 minutes is perfect.

ICING

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) margarine or butter, softened

1 jar (7 oz.) Marshmallow Creme

1 tsp. vanilla

1 pkg. (16 oz.) powdered sugar

1 to 2 Tbsp. milk, divided

Place margarine, marshmallow creme and vanilla in small bowl; beat on medium speed until well blended. Gradually add sugar, beating after each addition until well blended. Mix in 1 Tbsp. of the milk. Add remaining 1 Tbsp. milk if necessary for desired spreading consistency. I only needed to use one tablespoon of milk because I wanted mine to be a little on the thicker side.

AND, thanks to the great folks at Chupon, one of you lucky folks are going to win a 3-pack sampler!

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” Thanks to Chupon Chocolate for supplying chocolate for review and giveaway. This stuff is superb! And as always, all opinions are mine.”

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Caramel Pecan Delight Cake

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Sep 212012
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As I was standing in the grocery store talking with a friend one day we got on the subject of food. Yeah, I know, novel conversation topic considering where we were. But as the conversation flowed she was telling me about the best cake she has ever had and how simple it was. I always tell folks, I am not a baker, I am a cook. I love to cook but hate to bake. There are those times though that you need a go to dessert recipe filed away and this one was just perfect for me…and will be for you as well. But it needs to be made in a bundt cake pan, which I have never owned. So, I found myself gathering the ingredients and purchasing my first ever bundt pan. Let me tell you it was the best thing I have ever done!!! I am in love with the pan, for the simple fact that it yields the absolute best cake I have EVER put in my mouth. Moist and Delicious. I am telling you, you have to try this one!

I love that it requires few ingredients, is easy to make and turns out great no matter what your skill level is.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Brenda Wilson for this fabulous recipe!! Everyone who has tried it LOVES it. My neighbor Michael even gave it an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10. And he is not usually one to brag on the things I make. It has now surpassed pineapple upside down cake as Bric’s favorite. I am telling you, it is really that good.

ingredients

Gather all your ingredients.

mix ingredients

Mix the cake mix according to directions.

mix in frosting

Microwave the frosting for 20 seconds and add it to the cake mix. Stir well.

grease and flour pan

Grease and Flour your pan.

Make sure you use shortening to grease your pan and then flour it well, otherwise, it will stick.

bake

Bake on 325 degrees until golden brown.

drizzle with caramel sauce

Drizzle caramel sauce over the top.

ENJOY!!

Caramel Pecan Delight Cake

1 box Butter Pecan Cake mix

3 eggs

1 cup water

1/2 cup oil

1 tub of Coconut Pecan Frosting

Caramel Syrup (optional but HIGHLY recommended)

Mix the cake according to the directions. Mine called for 3 eggs, 1 cup of water and 1/2 cup of oil. Open the frosting, removing the foil seal and microwave for 20 seconds. Mic the frosting directly into the cake mix. Grease your bundt pan with shortening and then flour well. It is important not to use cooking spray or oil…if you do, it will stick. Bake on 350 degrees for about 35-40 minutes. Allow to cool for about 10 minutes, then invert the pan onto a plate, the cake should turn loose easily. Drizzle the top of the cake with caramel sauce, cut and serve.

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Southern Ranch Fried Chicken

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Mar 212012
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Yep, THE number one staple to any Southerner’s picnic, family gathering, church social, funeral, reunion or party of any kind.

southern style fried chicken

Fried Chicken

There are so many different ways to cook fried chicken and they are all correct. It just depends on what region you live in and how your Momma and Grandmomma done it as to which you probably use in your home.  Growing up I didn’t care to much about cooking. My Daddy was always in the kitchen cooking up something and while I remember it being a passion of his I didn’t hang out with him in there too much. Now, I regret that and I wish I had made a pest out of myself and made him show me what he was doing. So many of his recipes went to the grave with him, lost forever. So, when I started looking for a fried chicken recipe I went to my Great Aunt Ruth. With both of my Grandmomma’s and my Dad gone I had to look somewhere. My Momma didn’t like to cook a lot when we were young and since my Daddy did it was usually his job.  Ya’ll have heard me talk about my Aunt Ruth many times and she is one of the best cooks I know…and I have ALWAYS loved her fried chicken.

Ruth told me that the trick to any good fried chicken is to marinate it in a mix of buttermilk and egg for at least several hours, preferably overnight.

chicken soaking in buttermilk and egg

After your chicken has marinated you want to gather your other ingredients.

fried chicken ingredients

 Flour, Salt and Pepper.It doesn’t really matter if you use self-rising flour or all-purpose flour. Just flour.

I know you see the ranch dressing up there, I am getting to it…

…you see, we have experimented with adding many flavors to the mix and the one that is requested the most is Ranch Dressing mix. We also like adding some cayenne pepper or chili powder and cajun seasoning for a spicy fried chicken. Or add a little powdered sugar for a taste more in line with Chick-Fil-A chicken. We also like to add dry Italian dressing. Or just Italian seasoning. You can also do lemon pepper seasoning. See where this is going? The possibilities are limitless.

bread chicken for frying

Mix all your dry ingredients together and dredge your chicken in it.

 Cast Iron Deep fryer

Ruth also told me to always fry my chicken in Peanut Oil.

So that is what I use. Heat your oil in a heavy pan on medium-high, then drop your chicken in, just be careful of oil splatters.

 southern style fried chicken

Remove it from the oil and place on a paper towel to drain when it is golden brown.

 Fried Chicken

Chicken  (I use chicken tenders)

Buttermilk

1 egg

Flour

Salt and Pepper to taste

Seasonings of your choice (Ranch was used in this batch)

Directions:

Whip one egg and add to buttermilk. You will use enough buttermilk to cover your chicken and marinate at least 4 hours, preferably over-night. Heat oil in a heavy pot on medium-high heat. After chicken has marinated mix flour, salt, pepper and seasonings of choice together. Dredge chicken in the flour mix coating well. Place chicken, one at a time, in oil. Fry until golden brown.

If your oil is too hot your chicken will cook too quickly on the outside and be raw on the inside so make sure not to use too high of heat.

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