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My kids absolutely love it when I bake them muffins. It might be considered weird if they didn’t I suppose. I don’t bake very often but when I do, it’s usually a muffin. I love that muffins can usually be put together in one bowl and with minimal effort. I’ll admit, I am a lazy baker.
I’ve made these Carrot Muffins from Tate’s Bake Shop Cookbook many times and they always turn out delicious. The smell that fills my kitchen when I bake these is full of warm sweetness and the smile on my children’s faces when they see them on the counter makes my heart smile. If you are in the mood for baking this weekend, give this muffin a try.
Photo Credit: The Little Kitchen
There’s nothing more comforting than seeing a basket of soft buttery rolls at a dinner table. It just screams “eat me” as far as I’m concerned. A lot of us will be entertaining or simply sharing a meal with family and friends this Easter Sunday and are looking for ideas for foods to add to the feast. If you are not hosting a meal this year, but are invited to someone else’s home, consider bringing a basket of these easy yeast rolls to share at the dinner table.
From a box of Scharffen Berger chocolates to a KitchenAid stand mixer to cookbooks and aprons, there are lots of fantastic giveaways floating around the blogs right now for anyone who has a passion for all things food. Even if it’s for something you might not be absolutely interested in or not necessarily need, there’s something for everyone and a chance to win an item for yourself or even for a family member or foodie friend is always fun.
Check out this list of great giveaways going on right now and good luck to those that enter. Some are ending soon so check them out quick so you don’t miss out!
I could eat salad every single day. Especially around this time of year when Spring hits and you are just craving lighter and brighter food. Well, salads can definitely be lighter and brighter if you are making them right. I tend to burn out from making too many salads so I try to keep things fresh by following a basic “salad-making formula” and swapping out ingredients each time.
Grab your salad spinner and dressing and read on to find out what it takes to build a better salad.
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Are you trying to incorporate more meatless meals into your weekly menu? I started doing it a couple of years ago and it’s become second nature to me to look at meals from a more vegetarian stand point. My family is not vegetarian, but we do balance out our meals very well to include protein of all kinds, especially protein that comes from plant-based foods such as beans, grains, and vegetables. The more aware you are of the nutrients found in foods of all kinds, the easier it becomes to work more meatless meals into your diet and the better it is for your health.
One of my favorite meatless meals usually consist of beans, vegetables and a grain of some sort, in this case it’s a tortilla. The beauty behind these burritos is that they can easily be assembled ahead of time, say the morning of or night before, and kept in the refrigerator until your meal time. You can even take the preparation one step further by customizing each burrito for each family member and just marking the foil with a name or initial. Your family won’t miss the meat in these, and you won’t miss scrambling to put dinner on the table on those busy weeknights.
We all know the frozen fish stick well don’t we? But have you met the homemade version yet? If not then I insist that you do. I mean, just look at that crunch up there in that picture. That is the work of my favorite kind of breadcrumb called panko. You can’t get that type of crunch from the freezer, you just cant. When I make these for my kids, they go nuts. And so do I. They are perfect for those of us looking for recipes for Fridays during Lent, and we have a few of those Friday left still. And did I mention that they are baked and good for you too?
Grab your panko and your ketchup bottle for dipping and make these homemade crunchy fish sticks tonight.
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Though I have yet to physically pick up her latest cookbook, I already know that I will be on the look out for Sophie Dahl’s newest collection of recipes – Very Fond Of Food. Amazon’s Look Inside feature makes it so easy to shop for cookbooks without ever stepping into a bookstore, you can usually get a good feel for a book just by browsing through a few pages, looking at the table of contents and skimming the introduction.
What I love about this new cookbook is how it’s broken up into seasons, then even further into courses. The focus of this cookbook is most definitely seasonal eating using the freshest ingredients and if you are a health-minded home cook you are in for a treat.
Family Kitchen is happy to be giving away a copy of Very Fond Of Food by Sophie Dahl to one of its readers. Read on to find out how.
Shaina Olmanson 
Kelsey Banfield 
Brooke McLay 
Angie McGowan 
Paula Jones 
Kathy Patalsky 
Elizabeth Stark & Brian Campbell 
Julie Van Rosendaal 
Macki West 
Sara O'Donnell 
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