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Kids Cooking Giveaway

May 5, 2009 By 36 Comments

For the last of four Adventures in the Kitchen giveaways I thought we would give out a Kids Cooking Kit.  I started cooking and exploring in the kitchen when I was little.  Cooking is a great creative outlet for children.  Involving them in the process opens up new foods for them. One night when I was about 10 or 11 years old, my parents were out celebrating their anniversary and my little brother and I were with a babysitter.  I decided to make a cake from scratch.  I believe I left out an important ingredient such as baking powder or [...]

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Barbeque Giveaway

April 14, 2009 By 13 Comments

The second April giveaway is a Barbeque Accessory Pack.  It features 4 items from Sur La Table, one of my favorite cooking stores.  The pack will include a Stainless Steel Grill Griddle, Wood Chip Smoker Box, Sauce Pot with Basting Brush and a large Sauce Mop. Today my Uncle Mark grilled my favorite asian chicken as part of our Easter meal.  Once or twice a year he whips up a batch of his secret sauce and serves up a batch of delicious Asian Style Barbeque Chicken.  I am still trying to get his recipe to share with you all. This [...]

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And The Winner Is….

April 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

There are a lot of mint chocolate chip ice cream lovers.  I was getting hungry reading all of the comments.  Brooke was the winner of the Ice Cream Pack. I will say I never heard of her favorite, Red Bean Ice Cream.  If there was a prize for most original she would have won for that too!  If I hadn’t started a diet today I would run out for a scoop! Thank you so much for participating.  I will be posting the next one on Monday.

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First Adventures in the Kitchen Giveaway!

April 5, 2009 By 110 Comments

Iam excited to announce that April is Giveaway month at Adventures in the Kitchen.   Each week in April there will be a new giveaway.  The first is an Ice Cream Party Pack with a Boston Warehouse Ice Cream Lazy Susan, The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz and a pink ice cream scoop by Zyliss. The Ice Cream Lazy Susan will be a fun addition to any barbeque or kids party.  The Perfect Scoop is filled with delicious ice cream recipes.  I am definitely going to try the Malted Milk Chocolate and Chocolate Raspberry Ice Cream this summer. You can enter [...]

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French Chocolate Brownies

June 4, 2008 By 13 Comments

Another Tuesdays with Dorie and this week Di from Di’s Kitchen selected French Chocolate Brownies. Chocolate…how can you wrong. My camera is not working so I don’t have a picture. I am hoping to post one tomorrow but in the meantime check out some of the other TWD sites. I decided to skip the raisins and rum but tried the cinnamon. It gave the brownies a nice underlying flavor. I also just melted the butter and chocolate together which is quick and less likely to overheat the chocolate. Luckily I have a meeting to go to tomorrow night. The last [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie and Madeleines

May 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment

You might notice for those with Internet Explorer that the big black ugly bar is gone. Thanks Leslie for helping me out! So today’s post is a Tuesdays With Dorie from two weeks back, when the big black bar appeared. The challenge was Madeleines and this time I was determined to get this right. A few months ago I bought one of those soft, silicone pans. It did not go well. The madeleines did not come out easy and left their skin behind. So off to Sur La Table to purchase a metal pan. It was sort of funny because [...]

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TWD: Florida Pie

May 14, 2008 By 11 Comments

I was excited to see Diane from Diane Dishes select Florida Pie for this weeks Tuesdays with Dorie. I love key lime pie and limes so I knew this would be good. It was pretty easy but my crust didn’t seem to come together. I think I needed more butter to bind it together and clearly I wasn’t watching the broiler action close enough! The pie is in the freezer waiting to be taken to work in the morning. Check out the other entries for the week.

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Fluted Polenta and Ricotta Cake

April 29, 2008 By 23 Comments

Another Tuesday and another Dorie recipe. This week Caitlin of Engineer Baker chose Fluted Polenta and Ricotta Cake. The great thing about these challenges is that I am trying new recipes. In the original recipe it calls for figs. Well, if you know how picky of an eater I am, you know those went out of the recipe. I made a simple polenta and ricotta cake. It is very easy to pull together and came out very tasty. I think next time I would add a bit more lemon and throw in a bit of chopped fresh rosemary. I added [...]

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Cheesecake Pops

April 27, 2008 By 1 Comment

For this months Daring Bakers Challenge Elle and Deborah selected Cheesecake Pops. They are little cheesecake morsels on a stick, dipped in chocolate and decorated how you wish. They are very rich and they would have to be served straight out of the freezer. I fear they would fall off the stick on a warm day, as it is today, in the OC. The cheesecake was easy to make but I the dipping was a bit of a struggle. I added some pink sugar to pretty them up, plus it added a bit of a crunch to the bite. Check [...]

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Carrot Cake

April 22, 2008 By 22 Comments

So I am back from my business trip and it is another Tuesday with Dorie.  This week   Amanda  from slow like honey selected Bill’s Big Carrot Cake.  I have never understood carrot cake – I like my desserts veggie free but I was up for the challenge. The recipe was super easy to put together and was soon in the oven.  I  cut the recipe in half and used two small pans.  Because I cut it in half I had to keep checking it at ten minute intervals to keep from overcooking. Tasting it after cutting the cakes, I was [...]

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