In 2010, 52 Kitchen Adventures explored one unusual ingredient each week, demystifying different foods from strange looking produce to exotic pantry items.
These days on the food blog you'll find easy Crock Pot recipes every Monday, along with homemade versions of things you thought you could only buy, plus lots of fun desserts thrown into the mix.
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On Saturday I asked my Facebook fans a simple question: pumpkin butter or apple butter? Both were popular choices and the votes ended up being pretty much split down the middle. Luckily, everyone wins: today is apple butter day and Wednesday is pumpkin butter day! I like both kinds of fruit butter and...
Today is the day my wonderful friend Hannah was born. It’s the first time in many years that we haven’t been together on her birthday, so last week I sent her some goodies in the mail. I needed something that would ship easily and I considered brownies or cookies until I discovered something better:...
Salted caramel – it’s sweet, salty, rich and simply delicious. Recently I made some wonderful salted caramel cupcakes (complete with salted caramel buttercream and filled with salted caramel) and homemade salted caramel mocha to rival Starbucks’ version. I couldn’t help but continue down this path of deliciousness. We’ve all had caramel apples, but I’d never tried...
A couple of weeks ago I shared some cute and creepy Halloween cupcakes and mentioned a set of Halloween stencils that I tried on them. I used powdered sugar onto Nutella buttercream frosting with the stencils and the images didn’t come out as clear as I wanted. I didn’t want the stencils to go to waste,...
I’ve always been curious about making desserts in my slow cooker. I’ve seen some recipes for things like pudding and slow cooked fruit (I’ve tried maple apple compote and spiced & stuffed pears) but I was more interested in actually baking in a Crock Pot. I came across an article with simple directions for...
Welcome back to Slow Cooker Monday! I haven’t done a Slow Cooker Monday in a few months, but you can look forward to seeing them more regularly (coming up next: pumpkin bread!). Also, in honor of “Crock-tober,” Crock Pot asked me to create a video of a favorite or secret slow cooker recipe for their Crock-Star...
