Author: CookDiaries

Soups & Salads

Broccoli Cheese Soup

This is a great, very flavorful soup. Good for serving at luncheons or special gatherings with a quiche. To make this soup a little fancier, add 1 cup sliced mushrooms and 1 cup white wine with the onions. Ingredients: ½ cup butter 1 onion, chopped 1 (16 ounce) package frozen chopped broccoli 4 (14.5 ounce) […]

Appetizers, Desserts

Dreamy Fruit Dip

Everyone will love this thick cream cheese fruit dip. Serve it alongside apple wedges, pineapple chunks, strawberries and grapes. —Anna Beiler, Strasburg, Pennsylvania Ingredients: 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup marshmallow creme 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed Assorted fresh fruit Directions: In a small bowl, […]

Dinner & Lunch

Grilled Sausages

It’s not a backyard barbecue without some perfectly charred sausages. INGREDIENTS : 6 sweet or spicy Italian sausages 6 split rolls DIRECTIONS: Heat grill to medium. Grill sausages, turning occasionally, until cooked through, 10 to 15 minutes. Serve in rolls with desired toppings. . Source:countryliving.com

Desserts

Coffee And Dessert: How To Make This Perfect Tiramisù

Award-winning food blogger Bernard Laurance has a fantastic new cookbook out, and if you’re a fan of baking at home, you’ll want to pick up a copy. With dessert recipes from around the world, Baklava to Tarte Tatin has something for every sweet tooth. Head to Italy for a lightly caffeinated, heavily delicious confection that comes together in no time.  Tiramisù […]

Soups & Salads

Instant Pot Potato Soup

This soup is what an Instant Pot was made for. No need to boil potatoes for a long time or stand over a stove. Throwing everything in the Instant Pot will give you a delicious soup in about 40 minutes flat.  If you need more Instant Pot soup inspiration, we can’t get enough of this Instant Pot […]

Pasta

Farmer’s Pasta

Ingredients: Butter, for greasing pan 2 tablespoons (or more) olive oil 6 ounces pancetta, chopped 4 teaspoons minced garlic 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 7 cups whole milk 8 ounces Fontina cheese, grated 4 ounces mozzarella cheese, grated 3/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan 6 ounces provolone cheese, grated 1 pound rigatoni pasta 3 tablespoons chopped fresh […]

Desserts

Apple and butterscotch pie

This delicious butterscotch shortcrust pie is filled with sweet sliced apples. INGREDIENTS: 3 sheets frozen shortcrust pastry, thawed 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup golden syrup 20g butter 1/3 cup plain flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 10 medium granny smith apples, peeled, sliced 2 teaspoon caster sugar 1 egg, lightly beaten METHOD: Step […]

Bread

Our Favorite Banana Bread

The Epicurious test kitchen baked up the most popular versions of banana bread on our site to discover what we like (or didn’t like) about each one. Then we made our ultimate version: a sweet, nutty, and supremely moist loaf that is everything we could ever want in this classic quick bread. INGREDIENTS: 1/2 cup […]

Cookie, Party Bites

The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies

“Whenever you make these cookies for someone, be sure to bring along several copies of the recipe! You will be asked for it, I promise! NOTE: I make icing with confectioners’ sugar and milk. I make it fairly thin, as I ‘paint’ the icing on the cookies with a pastry brush. Thin enough to spread […]

Soups & Salads

Cobb Salad

To make the *perfect* Cobb salad, you MUST use homemade dressing. And it’s so easy, there’s really no excuse. Just throw some red wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, and olive oil into a mason jar and shake it out. There’s no need to stress over the vinaigrette emulsifying—the mason jar does all the hard work.   In […]