Spring Rolls are a great way to enjoy vegetables. There is something about seeing vegetables all sliced thinly and wrapped up neatly that makes them more appealing, and like most Americans I could stand to eat more veggies. So I recently decided I should make Spring Rolls at home, and made these Spring Rolls with Black Bean Noodles.
Once I decided to make the Spring Rolls I turned to Pinterest to learn how. I quickly found this Pin which promised step by step instructions on how to wrap spring rolls. Luckily it isn’t very difficult!
Pie is an excellent dessert for Spring, whether you are celebrating Easter or just the arrival of warmer weather and spring flowers! This year I bought a Marie Callender’s Coconut Cream Pie and added a few special homemade touches to it to celebrate the season and make spring even sweeter. This fruit filled Spring Coconut Cream Pie is the perfect dessert for any spring party or brunch.
Easter is nearly here and that means it is time to start thinking about your menu. The Easter weekend gives us plenty of opportunities for feasting whether it’s appetizers before the big Easter Sunday meal or family brunches during the weekend. Several bloggers have gotten together to bring you our Favorite Easter Recipes. From delicious brunch, dinner and, of course dessert recipes you’ll be sure to find something to add to your Easter menus.
Are you looking for some grown up desserts for St. Patrick’s Day? Many desserts are enhanced by a little bit of alcohol flavoring, and few holiday’s bring out the Boozy Irish Desserts like St. Patrick’s Day!
These delicious Irish desserts feature Bailey’s Irish Cream, Guinness or Whiskey to add a little excitement and depth of flavor. Of course, since most of them are baked the alcohol is cooked out, leaving only the taste. I found 18 of my favorites to share for the holiday. Just click on the picture below to see the Irish dessert original recipe.
My family loves seafood, so I make sure I serve it for a dinner regularly. And seafood dinners don’t have to be complicated! This Shrimp Scampi with Tomatoes meal is quick and easy, and sure to be a family favorite.
Using frozen shrimp makes meal preparation fast, so that I can have a tasty dinner on the table in 20 minutes. I combined SeaPak Shrimp & Seafood Co.‘s Shrimp Scampi with fresh grape tomatoes and green onions for a fresh coastal flavor.
The combination of sweet and salty is one of my favorites, so I love chocolate covered pretzels. They are very easy to make, and it is easy for kids to help out in the creation of these treats.
I decided to make a batch of St. Patrick’s Day themed pretzels last week, by using two different colors of green chocolate and sprinkles to decorate the pretzels.
St. Patrick’s Day will be here soon, and what better way to celebrate than with a healthy green smoothie, like this Matcha Pear Green Smoothie.
I bought some Matcha Green Tea Powder a few months ago, because of its antioxidant properties. I am trying to eat more healthy foods, and I have heard lots of people raving about the advantages of green tea powder, so I figured why not give it a try? I am not a big fan of green tea, so after I bought it the powder just ended up sitting in my pantry until I decided to use it in this smoothie.
This dessert is super easy to make, but it looks fancy and tastes wonderful. Trifle is traditionally made with fruit, but peanut butter and chocolate are good too.
I added peanut butter to vanilla pudding to give it a nice light peanut butter taste. Then chocolate pudding and peanut butter pudding are layered with whipped cream and chocolate cake for a delicious combination of flavors that makes the trifle taste like a giant peanut butter cup.
These Candy Cane Dessert Minis are an easy holiday dessert – perfect for Christmas. There are only 3 simple ingredients – Jell-o, Cool Whip and Candy Canes
This time of year my family is very busy and we are always looking for ways to save time. It is important to my family to sit down together for a family meal most week nights, but that doesn’t mean it has to be an elaborate time consuming meal. I find that a frozen dinner is a great way to save time and still allow us to enjoy eating together. And it is fun and easy to add a little bit of a twist to the dinner to make it even more special, like I did this week when I served Marie Callender’s Cheesy Chicken and Rice in Puffed Pastry Cups.
Christmas and New Year’s are just around the corner! I can’t believe how quickly the holiday season is coming up, and I am busy planning for holiday entertaining. When it comes to the holiday meals nothing is better than ham. It is easy to make, delicious, and serves a crowd at a reasonable price. This year I made this tasty Mango Jalapeno Ham Glaze for the holidays.
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A ham glaze adds flavor, texture and color to a ham, is the perfect finishing touch for a nice presentation. The glaze makes the ham shiny and glossy, and it takes only a few minutes to achieve a nice effect. I wanted to use some different, less traditional holiday flavors for my ham glaze this year, and I decided on mangoes and jalapenos for a spicy and sweet glaze.
Double Chocolate Chunk Peppermint Cream Cookies – Easy Cookies for Christmas Baking – These cookies start with a cookie mix and add just a few ingredients to make a festive holiday cookie.
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Minions will be coming out on Blu-Ray/DVD next week, on December 8th. This movie was hugely popular earlier this year, and the release is the perfect time to plan fun themed family movie night. And these Minion Pancakes are the perfect meal for a family movie night!
Minions are adorable, and both kids and adults love them! I am sure Illumination Entertainment’s Minions movie will be a popular holiday present for kids of all ages. Right now you can pre-order the movie, so you have it for your family.
My family and I love to have themed family movie nights, because it is a great way to relax and bond on the weekends. Over Thanksgiving I mentioned that I was planning a Minion movie night with minion shaped pancakes, and my 10 year old nephew heard me and he thought this was the best idea ever, and I should do it right then and not wait for the movie. So I ended up making pancakes for my extended family during Thanksgiving weekend, with lots of help from my nephew.
One of the best things about the holiday season is family traditions. We have many traditions in my family, and most of them revolve around ornaments or baking! When I was growing up this recipe for Danish Pastries was part of every holiday season. My mom always made them for Christmas, and every year we would eat them for breakfast on Christmas morning after we opened presents.
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California Dried Plums are a delicious fruit that is perfect not just for snacking, but for cooking too. I recently made this Thai Shrimp Noodle Bowl recipe from the California Dried Plums Website, and it was a tasty dinner that the entire family enjoyed.
The recipe combines the dried plums with lots of vegetables like carrots, red peppers and scallions, and tops it all off with shrimp. I shredded the carrots and zucchini and cut all the ingredients finely for an easy to eat stir fry, suitable for using chopsticks. I served it over rice noodles, and it was delicious.
I am always looking for new ways to serve old favorites, like carrots. While browsing Pinterest for sides for Thanksgiving I came across this recipe for Maple Glazed Carrots, and decided it would work well. So I changed it up a little and made these Maple Roasted Carrots.
I modified the recipe up by using olive oil instead of butter, and adding garlic too. I love garlic, so I tend to add it to most vegetable dishes! I also used multi-colored carrots to make the dish look pretty, which makes it perfect the the Thanksgiving table.
This is the perfect time of year for making winter squash. One of my favorite winter squash is Acorn squash because the size is perfect for our family. This weekend I made this Couscous & Cranberry Stuffed Acorn Squash for dinner, and it was delicious.
Couscous makes a nice base for stuffing a squash because it has a nice nutty flavor which goes well with the squash. I used Israel couscous, which is larger and has a chewy consistency that is closer to pasta. To add to the seasonal nature of the dish I stirred in some dried cranberries.
