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Ingredient Spotlight: Cream Cheese

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This post is part of a new series where you get to link up your recipes! Each week I’ll focus on a different common pantry ingredient. I’ll link to a few of my recipes that feature the ingredient and then give you a chance to link up to your blog.

I use a lot of cream cheese at this time of year. There are so many delicious desserts, cheese balls and frostings that gain richness from this ingredient. Here are a few of my recipes that use cream cheese: [Read more…] about Ingredient Spotlight: Cream Cheese

Ingredient Spotlight: Oats

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This post is part of a new series where you get to link up your recipes!  Each week I’ll focus on a different common pantry ingredient.  I’ll link to a few of my recipes that feature the ingredient and then give you a chance to link up to your blog.

Four out of six people in this house like to eat oatmeal for breakfast. But we all like eating cookies that have oats in them. A lot.

I try to keep both quick cooking oats and old fashioned oats in the pantry. Not only are they a basic ingredient, you never know when a chocolate attack is going to strike and you’ll need to whip up a batch of No Bake Cookies.

It looks like most of my oat recipes are desserts. I know there are some other types of oat recipes out there. Maybe you have one to share. Not that I’m opposed to more dessert recipes!

Here are a few of my oat recipes: [Read more…] about Ingredient Spotlight: Oats

Ingredient Spotlight: Potatoes

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This post is part of a new series where you get to link up your recipes!  Each week I’ll focus on a different common pantry ingredient.  I’ll link to a few of my recipes that feature the ingredient and then give you a chance to link up to your blog.

Potatoes definitely qualify as a staple for many people all over the world and all through history. Remember the Irish Potato Famine? For a long time I could never remember if that meant all they had to eat was potatoes or that they didn’t have any potatoes. (For the record, it was a blight on the potatoes which was the main food of the Irish at the time.)

Thankfully, we have plenty of potatoes around these days. Whether they are fresh, canned, frozen, instant, sweet potatoes, yukon gold, new, red… they are all good!

Here are a few of my potato recipes: [Read more…] about Ingredient Spotlight: Potatoes

Ingredient Spotlight: Pumpkin

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This post is part of a new series where you get to link up your recipes!  Each week I’ll focus on a different common pantry ingredient.  I’ll link to a few of my recipes that feature the ingredient and then give you a chance to link up to your blog.

We’ve been thinking about Thanksgiving dinner recipes this week, so Ingredient Spotlight on pumpkin is perfectly timed. I have to admit, I have never cooked with fresh pumpkin before. But I bought the two pie pumpkins you see in the photo and I’m planning to make something with them. I haven’t decided what to turn them into, but I know you all will tempt me with your recipes!

Here are a few of my recipes that use pumpkin: [Read more…] about Ingredient Spotlight: Pumpkin

Ingredient Spotlight – Whole Wheat Flour

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This is the second post in a new series where you get to link up your recipes!  Each week I’ll focus on a different common pantry ingredient.  I’ll link to a few of my recipes that feature the ingredient and then give you a chance to link up to your blog.

Using whole wheat flour instead of white is a great way to increase the nutrition of your foods.  I used to substitute whole wheat for white in a lot of foods I bake, like cornbread, cookies and yeast breads.  Sadly, I’ve gotten away from that habit.

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