Eggs are a critical leavening agent for cream puffs, making the batter rise and expand. Piercing the cooked puffs allows steam to escape so the texture is almost hollow. A stand mixer is crucial; the batter is too thick to beat with a hand mixer. Freeze completely cooled cream puffs for up to one month. Cream puffs are also good with savory fillings, such as chicken or shrimp salad.
Marinated chicken, spinach, feta, and sun-dried tomatoes are tossed with dressing and served on grilled or toasted slices of focaccia bread. This is a great appetizer any time of year!
Vanilla pudding mix in the yeast dough gives a sweet, distinctive taste to these bread machine rolls oozing with butter laced with brown sugar and cinnamon. A vanilla-tinged glaze tops them off perfectly.
This Start-Right Strata recipe contains sausage links, white bread, reduced-fat sour cream, shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese, fat-free milk and more.
There's nothing I'd rather serve for Easter dinner or another springtime occasion than succulent baked ham. My recipe features a rub that add flavor to a meat plus a delicious cherry sauce with a hint of almond. -Lavonn Bormuth Westerville, Ohio
This marinade is great for beef or chicken. The Worcestershire sauce and Italian-style dressing give the marinade a zing, while the garlic pepper seasoning and barbeque sauce give it that barbeque flavor. The longer the beef or chicken sits in the marinade, the better it will taste.
Have a crowd to feed? This recipe for Sloppy Joes can be made ahead and put in the crock pot to be ready when you need it. Teenage boys have been known to go back for thirds.
'When I'm pressed for time, I find this take-along casserole is easy to fix,' writes Pat Waymire, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 'The crouton-topped combination is not only attractive but tasty, too.'
Marinated chicken breasts broiled with bacon and cheese, then served with sauteed mushrooms and honey mustard dressing. Fantastic way to broil chicken that adds that 'extra something!'
This Bacon Ranch Potato Casserole recipe contains sliced bacon, shredded Monterey Jack cheese, butter, butter-flavored crackers, cottage cheese and more.
This is the ultimate in thriftiness and convenience - beans in a slow cooker. The long, slow cooking time coaxes all the flavor from the sausage into the beans for a mild yet full-flavored dish. You can also cook in on low heat for 8 hours.
