Gourmet Cooking and Living
Learn the ins and outs of being a gourmet. Quick and easy gourmet recipes and tips for gourmet living.
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Recipes and craft ideas for bring romance into your relationship. Creative romantic recipes for Valentines Day.
Romantic Recipes & Crafts
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:00:00 -0500 - Eat Gourmet and Watch Your Weight
Do you love good food, but could do without the extra calories? Consider these tips to eat gourmet while still keeping an eye on your waist line.
Eat Gourmet and Watch Your Weight
Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:00:00 -0500 - Gourmet Cooking Tips
Check out these collection of cooking and shopping tips:
~ Look for items on sale. This is your opportunity to try products you wouldn't normally buy. Be sure to check the expiration dates, though. Some stores try to unload expiring products with sales.
~ When cooking a new recipe, read the recipe at least twice. Prep work is important most of the time, but especially when trying a new recipe.
more Gourmet Cooking Tips
Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:00:00 -0500 - White Christmas Bars in a Jar
White Christmas Bars in a Jar
1/4 cup white chocolate or vanilla milk chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted* and cooled
1/2 cup sweetened dried cherries or cranberries
1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed**
1 cup buttermilk biscuit baking mix
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed**
1 cup buttermilk biscuit baking mix
In 1-quart wide-mouth glass jar, gently layer and pack ingredients in the order listed, beginning with the white chocolate or vanilla chips. If there is any space left after adding the last ingredient, add more white chocolate or vanilla chips to fill the jar. Place lid on top. Cut an 8-inch circle of fabric to cover lid. Place fabric over lid; secure in place with ribbon or raffia. Decorate as desired.
White Christmas Bars in a Jar
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - Peppermint Marshmallow Sauce
Peppermint Marshmallow Sauce
This is very good over ice cream.
2/3 cup light corn syrup
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 (7 ounce) jar Marshmallow Crème
1/2 cup half-and-half
1/2 cup crushed hard peppermint candy
In medium saucepan, cook corn syrup and butter over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil, stirring constantly. Cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Cool for 5 minutes. Stir in Marshmallow Crème, blending well. Gradually add half-and-half, stirring until mixture is smooth. Fold in crushed candy. Serve warm or cool over ice cream. Store any remaining topping in refrigerator.
Yields 2 cups.
Peppermint Marshmallow Sauce
Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - Festive Holiday Trifle
Festive Holiday Trifle
2 small boxes raspberry gelatin
1 pint frozen raspberries
1 large box vanilla pudding mix
1 pint whipping cream, whipped
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1 angel food cake, broken into pieces
Maraschino cherries
Chopped walnuts
Dissolve gelatin in 2 cups boiling water in bowl; cool slightly. Add frozen raspberries; stir until thawed.
Prepare pudding according to package instructions, using 1/2 cup less milk.
Combine whipped cream, sugar, vanilla extract and marshmallows in medium bowl. Mix well.
Layer 1/3 of cake, gelatin mixture, pudding and 1/3 of the whipped cream in a 4-quart glass bowl. Repeat layers with remaining ingredients, ending with whipped cream mixture. Garnish with maraschino cherries and chopped walnuts.
Yield: 12 servings
Festive Holiday Trifle
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - Christmas Plum Pudding with Brandied Cider Sauce
Christmas Plum Pudding with Brandied Cider Sauce
Although often confused with fruitcake, this classic Christmas dessert tastes more like a rich, dense spice cake. This version uses butter instead of the traditional suet and can be made with your choice of candied fruit, currants, or raisins.
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine (at room temperature)
4 large egg whites
1/2 cup apple cider or apple juice
3/4 cup raisins
1/2 cup shredded carrot
1/3 cup candied cherries, halved, or currants or raisins
1/3 cup chopped candied pineapple, currants, or raisins
1/3 cup pecan halves
Brandied Cider Sauce
Christmas Plum Pudding Recipe
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - Christmas Chocolate Mousse
Christmas Chocolate Mousse
3 cups miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup milk
1 (4 ounce) Hershey chocolate bar, broken
1 cup whipping cream
6 small candy canes
Put marshmallows, milk and Hershey bar in the top of a double boiler. Stir over hot water until melted and cool.
Whip whipping cream and fold into cooled chocolate mixture. Pour into 6 small dessert dishes and chill.
When ready to serve, garnish with a daub of whipped cream and a small candy cane or a piece of fresh holly.
Serves 6.
Christmas Chocolate Mousse
Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:00:00 -0500 - Gourmets Get Ready for Induction Cooking
Get ready, a cooking revolution is at the kitchen door. What the cell phone did for the telecommunication industry, induction cooking is now doing for the food industry. While the technology has been around for decades, in recent years it has been greatly improved upon, already taking hold in Europe and Japan. There can be no doubt that magnetic induction promises to be the most attractive cooking option on the market. In this article we will discuss how induction cooking works, how it differs from electric and gas stovetops, and explain the advantages and disadvantages of the new technology.
Induction Cooking
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:00:00 -0400 - Tips for Preparing Food
Specific steps to assist with food preparation of various types of foods. Learn the basics!
Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:00:00 -0400 - Gourmet Recipe Directory
Easily locate recipes for your favorite dishes, desserts, drinks and appetizers. Fantastic free online cookbook of gourmet recipes.
Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:00:00 -0400 - Gourmet Popcorn
During the Great Depression, popcorn at 5 or 10 cents a bag was one of the few luxuries that struggling families could afford. When other businesses failed, the popcorn business thrived.
During World War II, sugar was sent overseas for U.S. troops, which virtually depleted the abundance of sugar left in the States to make candy. Thanks to this unusual situation, Americans ate three times as much popcorn.
Gourmet Popcorn
Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:00:00 -0400 - Are You a Gourmet?
What exactly does it mean to be a gourmet? Does watching public television cooking shows on Saturday morning while folding the laundry count? How about being fascinated with Julia Child and having all of her cookbooks on your Amazon wish list? Knowing what zest, garam marsala and charcuterie mean, does this qualify you as being a gourmet? Where did the term come from and what exactly does it mean?
Are You a Gourmet?
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:00:00 -0400
