These cinnamon buns convey NO yeast inwards them, but they certain gustatory modality similar they do. I convey to acknowledge that when I kickoff saw this was a baking pulverization dough, my kickoff idea was, "uh oh, a heavy biscuit texture", but I was wrong; these are FAR from the criterion biscuit taste. The dough has cottage cheese in addition to buttermilk inwards it in addition to it is super flaky, light, sugariness in addition to tender. I convey tried a lot of cinnamon whorl recipes over the years in addition to I tin honestly say y'all that this recipe was a amount surprise. It is SO tasty, SO slow in addition to SO fast.

Don't freak out almost the cottage cheese inwards the batter. You won't gustatory modality it, but it is totally essential produce NOT move out it out. If y'all don't desire to SEE the cottage cheese, pulse it inwards the blender a fourth dimension or two.


MAKE THE FILLING FIRST1½ tablespoons melted butter
2/3 loving cup brownish saccharide (packed)
1½ teaspoons cinnamon
½ teaspoon allspice (I left out)
¼ teaspoon position down cloves (I left out)
1 loving cup chopped pecans
Mix good in addition to laid asideDOUGH¾ loving cup cottage cheese(4% milk fat)do non move out out1/3 loving cup buttermilk (do non move out out)
¼ loving cup white sugar
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all role flour
1 TABLESPOON baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
Preheat the oven to 400 in addition to grease the sides in addition to bottom of a 9" or 10" saltation shape pan alongside cooking spray. In a nutrient processor, combine the cottage cheese, buttermilk, sugar, melted butter in addition to vanilla; procedure until shine (10 seconds). Add the flour, baking pulverization & baking soda in addition to pulse inwards brusque bursts only until the dough clumps together inwards a ball (don't over-process). The dough volition hold upwards soft in addition to moist. Dump the dough out onto a lightly floured counter in addition to knead it iv or 5 times alongside floured hands (this is a beautiful dough, real slow to move with). Roll dough out to a 12" x 15" rectangle.

Brush the rectangle alongside a real low-cal coating of melted butter (be skimpy & move out a one-half inch border unbuttered approximately the edges. Sprinkle the filling over the buttered expanse in addition to pat lightly.

Starting alongside the long side, whorl upwards the dough into a jelly whorl shape in addition to pinch the long seam to seal (leave the ends open). Cut into twelve equal pieces alongside a abrupt knife (a abrupt serrated knife industrial plant well). Set the rolls inwards the prepared pan, cutting side up. The rolls should touching on slightly, but its OK if at that spot are modest gaps. Bake at 400 for xx to 28 minutes (mine took the amount 28 minutes) or until golden brown. Set the pan on a cooling rack for 5 minutes. Remove the saltation shape telephone in addition to drizzle the glaze over the rolls. Yum!!!

GLAZE2/3 loving cup powdered sugar
2 to iii tablespoons of mutual depression temperature milk (I used whipping cream)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon of maple extract (not necessary but YUMMY)
Whisk all ingredients together. If it seems also thick to pour, add together a niggling fight to a greater extent than milk (or cream).

Traditionally, butter cream frosting is made amongst butter, powdered saccharide too flavorings, however, I abide by the recipes that purpose all butter, tend to move heavy tasting, difficult to move amongst (it melts too sags equally good easy) too non the low-cal fluffy frosting people expect.
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I've decorated cakes for years too I perish on coming dorsum to this easy, user friendly too fluffy frosting recipe, made amongst one-half butter too one-half white Crisco. Don't freak out almost using Crisco inward your frosting, you won't move able to say it is there (100% shortening is what most commercial bakeries purpose to brand that fluffy frosting nosotros all love) and, equally y'all tin see, it pipes nicely.
.1 loving cup white Crisco shortening
1 loving cup butter (room temperature)
6 to 6½ cups of powdered sugar
½ loving cup whipping cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract (important)

In the large bowl of a stand upward mixer, whip the shortening too butter together for almost iii minutes on high. Add vi cups of powdered sugar, the extracts too whipping cream to the butter mixture too whip ON HIGH for almost 8 to 10 minutes.

After that amount of time, cheque the frosting for consistency. Usually, the frosting is perfect, but if your climate is dissimilar from my climate, y'all may desire to add together an additional ½ loving cup of powdered sugar.

Once y'all frost your cake, position it inward the refrigerator to allow everything "set". Remove your cake from the refrigerator almost an lx minutes earlier serving.

NOTE: This frosting plant best inward a stand upward mixer, although y'all tin arrive amongst a manus held mixer (it volition only accept a piffling extra time).

If you lot are looking for 1 to a greater extent than slowly cookie to circular out your vacation baking, drive these delicious cookies. They are light, crispy in addition to buttery tasting (not the measure heavy oatmeal cookie).

1 loving cup butter (room temperature)
1 loving cup packed brownish sugar
1 loving cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon butter extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups quick cooking oats
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups Craisens (sweetened dried cranberries)
1 loving cup chopped walnuts
Beat butter, sugars, eggs in addition to extracts for FIVE MINUTES (important to the calorie-free crispy nature of this cookie).
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In around other bowl, mix the flour, oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon in addition to salt. Add this dry out mixture to the butter mixture (1 loving cup at a time) beating good later each addition.
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Stir inward the dried cranberries in addition to walnuts. Let this finished cookie dough sit down for virtually v minutes.
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Roll the dough into 1" balls (dough volition last a petty sticky). Place the dough balls on lightly greased cookie sheet, virtually 2" apart. Bake inward 350 preheated oven for 12-14 minutes (my oven took thirteen minutes).


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NOTE: These freeze really well. I drizzled a vanilla glaze on my cookies (for the holidays) simply that is non necessary. Makes virtually four dozen?

The traditional "green edible bean casserole" has ever intrigued me. I run across it generally during the holidays too I want to relish it, although I'm non also fond of the mushroom soup sauce it commonly has. This year, I laid out to re-invent this vacation casserole too I absolutely honey the lastly results.
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I used fresh dark-green beans, sauteed sugariness onions, portabello mushrooms, crisp bacon, a niggling cheddar cheese too my ain white sauce. The resulting "green edible bean casserole" was delicious too nosotros ate a ton of it.

1 pound of fresh dark-green beans cutting into 2" pieces
1/2 loving cup chopped sugariness onion
1/2 pound of infant portobello mushrooms sliced
5 slices of bacon fried crisp (drained good & crumbled)
1 loving cup shredded cheddar cheese (loosely packed)
1 clove garlic minced finely
3 tablespoons white flour
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
scant 1/2 teaspoon dark pepper
2 1/2 cups milk


In a large frying pan, saute the chopped onions until they odor sweet; add together the garlic too saute until it barely turns golden. 

Add the dark-green beans too mushrooms (mixing well) too saute for a few minutes until they showtime to wilt but a niggling (don't ready them all the agency through). Remove pan from estrus too laid aside.
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In a sauce pan, melt three tablespoons butter; add together the flour, tabular array salt too pepper, stirring quickly. Cook on medium for most a infinitesimal (to take whatever flour taste). 

Slowly add together the milk piece y'all are whisking similar a mad woman piece (this volition eliminate lumps inward the sauce). Once the milk too butter-flour mixture are mixed well, ready on medium estrus (stirring every 1 time inward a while) until it gets squeamish too thick.

Remove from estrus too stir inward the cheese too crisp (crumbled) bacon. Add this mixture to the vegetables too stir good (but gently). Place inward an lightly greased casserole dish too bake at 350 for most xxx minutes or until really hot.
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It was actually tasty too the leftovers made a oral fissure watering tiffin the side past times side day.

This is a handy piddling recipe for rice cooked inwards the microwave oven. It is easy, requires no "pot watching" as well as produces perfect rice.

2 cups boiling water
1 loving cup long grain white rice (not instant)

Mix everything inwards a rut rubber drinking glass or ceramic bowl as well as gear upwards on high (uncovered) inwards your microwave for x minutes. Remove as well as fluff amongst a fork. Return to microwave as well as gear upwards at 50% ability for but about other five minutes. Fluff over again amongst the fork. That's it!!

NOTE: All microwaves gear upwards differently. If yous convey an underpowered microwave, yous may convey to gear upwards it an extra infinitesimal on 50% power. If yous convey a super powerful microwave...maybe subtract a infinitesimal during the 50% stage.

NOTE: Add butter as well as favorite seasonings to rice AFTER it is cooked.

I acknowledge it, at that spot are for certain items that I actually savor at Taco Bell. Yes, I know it's non authentic Mexican food, but when yous similar something, well, yous overlook things similar that. One matter I savor at TB is a warm condiment called cherry sauce. It is not the hot sauce that comes inwards a packet; it is the steaming hot cherry sauce that is served on their tostados together with their Mexican pizza. This recipe is close equally to a greater extent than or less the master sense of savour equally yous tin get!!!

 1 (8 ounce) tin of love apple tree sauce
1/3 loving cup water
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
1  1/2 teaspoon soil cumin
1  1/2 teaspoons dry out onion flakes
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon white sugar
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper  (we role alone 1/8 teaspoon)

Mix everything together with simmer (on rattling low) for 15-20 minutes. Serve hot. The "spice level" is rattling moderate if yous role it right away. It is spicier if yous allow it sit down inwards the refrigerator overnight.
Serve (as a hot condiment) alongside whatever Mexican food.


NOTE: I don't unremarkably purchase garlic salt. I simply mix it upwardly alongside iii parts common salt to 1 business office garlic powder, stir well.

The championship of this post service is my "gentle protest" inwards the noodle vs. pasta debate. I grew upwardly calling them noodles, but all of the cooking shows telephone outcry upwardly it pasta. Is at that spot a difference? Perhaps the discussion pasta makes it audio fancier? Oh well, telephone outcry upwardly me sometime fashioned I guess.

I've been playing or therefore alongside homemade noodle recipes since I got a petty mitt crank noodle roller for Christmas. This latest recipe uses all semolina flour as well as it was SO much easier to operate than recipes that usage all usage flour. The dorsum of the semolina flour purse suggested using the total sheets of this dough (uncut) for lasagna (without boiling) which I am looking frontward to trying.



1½ cups semolina flour
½ teaspoon tabular array salt (optional)
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons olive fossil oil (I used canola oil)


Combine the semolina flour as well as salt; add together the beaten eggs, H2O as well as oil. Mix to brand a real rigid dough. Knead for 10 minutes or until dough is elastic (I did this alongside my stand upwardly mixer). Cover alongside plastic as well as allow the dough residuum for xxx minutes (important)..
After xxx minutes of resting, plow the dough out onto a real lightly floured counter. Don't usage also much flour on the dough earlier y'all set it through the machine, simply plenty to arrive non sticky.

Start alongside pieces of dough almost the size of a golf game ball, mayhap slightly larger. Flatten it out alongside your mitt as well as taper i destination of the dough therefore the auto volition live able to "catch" the dough easily. Roll the dough through your auto on the lowest publish 2 or 3 times (it volition larn longer each time).
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Set your dial to the adjacent lower publish as well as run the dough through again. Do this a dyad times. My in conclusion auto setting was #3 as well as it was simply right for fettuccine noodles. . You tin air dry out these noodles at this betoken or y'all tin boil it similar whatever other noodle; it takes a lot less fourth dimension to fix if y'all don't dry out it. Drain as well as usage similar y'all would whatever other noodle.

NOTE: You sure enough exercise non HAVE to stimulate got a auto to curl out this dough. I stimulate got made many noodles past times rolling out pocket-size balls of dough on a floured counter alongside my rolling pin. Just brand sure y'all curl them out overnice as well as sparse as well as therefore cutting alongside a pizza cutter.

This is a "knock off" recipe for Subway's sugariness onion chicken teriyaki sandwich. It is delicious, alone most 370 calories together with really quick to ready (as long equally you lot brand the sugariness onion sauce a twenty-four hours ahead).


 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken tenderloins
.¼ loving cup soy sauce
¾ loving cup pineapple juice
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon dry reason ginger
½ teaspoon dry out mustard
¼ teaspoon white pepper
¼ loving cup chocolate-brown sugar
2 tablespoons honey
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Bring everything but the chicken to a boil together with simmer for most five minutes or until it starts to reduce. Cool completely together with pour over the chicken, embrace together with refrigerate the chicken for most 30-60 minutes.
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When it's fourth dimension to eat, accept the chicken out of the marinade (throw marinade away) together with grill or broil the chicken until done (don't over cook).
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Place chicken pieces inward grilled bun and add together favorite toppings. Drizzle alongside sugariness onion sauce. Mmmmmmmmmmm!!! Makes most half dozen sandwiches.


½ loving cup low-cal corn syrup
1 tablespoon finely minced Vidalia onion
1 tablespoon carmine vino vinegar
2 teaspoons white distilled vinegar
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon chocolate-brown sugar
1 teaspoon buttermilk powder
¼ teaspoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon poppy seeds
1/8 teaspoon salt
pinch cracked dark pepper
pinch garlic powder
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Combine all ingredients together with convey to a boil for most xxx seconds. Whisk good together with embrace together with chill overnight.

NOTE: If you lot don't guide maintain Vidalia onion, a white onion volition work, simply mince it VERY finely. I've fifty-fifty used re-hydrated onion flakes successfully, although the vidalia onion is best.

This is an "oldie, but a goodie" recipe for a sweet, buttery, dinner gyre for your Easter holiday. This recipe tin live made ahead of the holidays, partially baked together with hence simply tossed inward the oven, to destination baking, simply earlier the large dinner. They are delicious, slow to brand together with freeze beautifully.


½ loving cup warm water
1/3 loving cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
½ loving cup warm milk
1/3 loving cup soft butter
1 packet of dry out yeast (see note)
1 egg (room temperature if possible)
3¾ cups all purpose flour

Heat the H2O together with milk until warm (I utilization the microwave). Put it into the large bowl of a stand upwards mixer together with stir inward the carbohydrate together with yeast. Let it sit down for almost 10 minutes (it should teach foamy). After 10 minutes, add together the salt, butter, egg together with 1 loving cup of flour, mix well.

Continue adding the balance of the flour, ½ loving cup at a time. Stop your stand upwards mixer every in 1 lawsuit inward a acre together with scrape downward the within of your bowl together with plough the entire dough mixture over (this insures that all of the flour gets mixed inward completely and evenly).
Remove the dough from the bowl together with spray the bowl amongst cooking spray. Return the dough to the bowl together with spritz the top of the dough (a little) amongst to a greater extent than cooking spray (so the plastic roll doesn't stick to the dough). Cover the bowl amongst plastic roll together with house inward the warmest utilization of your kitchen for an sixty minutes to raise. Keep inward heed that marble counters are non the warmest house to proceed your bowl of dough.

After an hour, or afterward the dough has doubled inward size (whichever comes first), force the air out of the dough amongst your hands. Roll out 12" "ropes" of dough together with necktie a knot inward the middle, similar this:To consummate the "knot", tuck 1 loose halt nether the gyre together with convey the other loose halt over the top together with tuck it within of the master copy knot, house inward greased muffin tins. They volition hold back similar this:
Spritz the top of the rolls amongst (just a little) cooking spray together with encompass amongst plastic roll again. Let them heighten until they are double inward size (35-45 minutes).

If y'all desire to partially bake them (they volition live similar brownish & serve rolls), bake inward a preheated 325 oven for 10 minutes. Remove from pans together with cool completely (then freeze). When it is fourth dimension to utilization them, defrost them for almost xv minutes, hence bake inward a preheated 375 oven for almost 8-10 minutes.

If desire to bake them correct away (after they accept risen inward the pans), bake inward preheated 350 oven for 12-15 minutes (depending on how hot your oven runs, simply proceed an oculus on them afterward 12 minutes).

NOTE: I purchase volume yeast, so, when a recipe calls for a packet of yeast, I simply utilization a tablespoon (that is a piddling extra, but industrial plant well).

I constitute a recipe, recently, that I actually wanted to try, however, it called for 1 loving cup of commercial Bisquick, an special I don't commonly stock inward my pantry.  I wasn't likewise keen on buying a whole box of Bisquick (when I alone needed a loving cup of it) therefore I went Internet surfing for a Bisquick clone recipe.

I constitute several but they all called for shortening (not precisely what I was looking for). Then I constitute the next recipe, which uses Canola petroleum (on http://www.food.com/ )  I used it to brand biscuits for dinner this evening together with nosotros were VERY pleased amongst the light, flaky results. They were real similar to commercial Bisquick biscuits (picky-picky hubby said the were much ameliorate than Bisquick) together with you lot tin NOT crunch the convenience!! I holler back to guide house a canister of this mix inward my pantry from forthwith on.

This recipe tin easily move doubled or tripled together with I dearest that the ingredients are e'er on hand.

BISQUICK CLONE MIX

4½ cups all role flour
iv tablespoons baking powder
two tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
10 tablespoons Canola oil

Whisk everything together (I used my stand upwards mixer amongst the whisk attachment) but a manus whisk would operate only every bit well, it volition hold back similar this.

Store this mixture inward a container amongst a tight plumbing equipment lid (at room temperature) for upwards to half dozen weeks. Use it precisely similar you lot would for ANY recipe that calls for Bisquick (biscuits, muffins, pancakes, pot pie crusts, etc.). It non alone saves a lot of money, but it tastes neat too!!
BISCUITS (makes 6)

2¼ cups Bisquick Clone Mix
2/3 loving cup milk

Mix amongst a spoon until it comes together, together with then plough out onto your counter that has been dusted amongst a petty to a greater extent than of the dry out mix (don't utilisation flour). Knead lightly 10 times, together with then pat to 1/2" thick. Cut amongst 2½" biscuit cutter. Place on greased cookie sail (I utilisation parchment) together with brush amongst melted butter. The melted butter is optional, but nosotros similar them that way.

Bake at 450 for 10-12 minutes (my electrical oven took 12 minutes).

Picky-picky hubby loves chicken pot pies, but they definitely  accept non been on my "quick fix" listing until now. This "recipe" is almost a cheater recipe, because y'all tin skip the filling recipe below as well as but role your favorite leftover chicken as well as gravy to build
these. 

They were thus tasty that picky-picky hubby went dorsum for seconds!! With this quick as well as slow technique, I tin encounter nosotros volition live on having mini chicken pot pies a lot to a greater extent than often.

2 potatoes  cubed fairly small
1 loving cup favorite veggies(I role a frozen pea-corn-green edible bean mix)
1/2 stalk celery chopped fine
1 tablespoon onion chopped fine
1 carrot sliced thin
1 COOKED chicken thorax pocket-sized cubed
1 underground of fridge rolls (see banking concern annotation virtually brand)
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
2 1/2 cups chicken broth (see note)
2 teaspoons chicken bullion
pepper to taste

In a large sauce pan, saute the onion as well as celery inwards a lilliputian butter until soft. Add the chicken broth, potatoes, veggies, bullion as well as pepper (DO NOT ADD THE CHICKEN MEAT AT THIS STAGE). Boil virtually 5-8 minutes or until potatoes as well as carrots are fork tender.

Drain but SAVE THE BROTH!! In a medium size sauce pan, melt iii tablespoons of butter as well as then add together iii tablespoons flour as well as stir, (cook for virtually a infinitesimal to ready out the raw flour taste).  Add the saved chicken broth (whisk similar crazy when y'all add together the broth). Cook until the mixture thickens, as well as then position the cooked veggies dorsum in. Remove from oestrus as well as laid aside. Note: If the "gravy' seems a lilliputian thick, but add together a distich tablespoons to a greater extent than chicken broth.

Spray a Texas size muffin pan lightly alongside vegetable spray (even if it is a non-stick pan). Roll out each fridge biscuit rattling sparse as well as house i inwards each muffin cup.



Then role your fingers to press the thinned out biscuit upward the sides as well as to the overstep of each cup.

NOTE: If y'all don't accept a Texas size muffin pan, encounter banking concern annotation below.

NOTE: We telephone telephone underground fridge biscuits "whomp rolls" because of the audio they build when y'all "whomp" them on the border of the counter to opened upward them. I've tried several brands as well as they volition ALL work, but the rattling best i (for these mini pot pies) is a Kroger build biscuit called JUMBO butter biscuits (our Fred Meyer sells them).


Place pieces of cooked chicken inwards the bottom of each lilliputian pot pie as well as and then spoon the veggies as well as gravy over it (almost to the top).

Place the muffin pan on a cookie tray (in example you've filled them likewise much) and bake inwards preheated 375 oven for xx minutes or until golden dark-brown as well as bubbly.




NOTE:  If y'all don't role chicken bullion, you'll accept to add together a lilliputian tabular array salt to the sauce.

NOTE: On occasion, I purchase Pillsbury Grands fridge biscuits, but they don't move good for this recipe (too bready). The Kroger build of Jumbo Butter Biscuits scroll out overnice as well as sparse as well as they bake into a sparse crusty-buttery shell.

NOTE: I don't mean value this recipe will move rattling good inwards a criterion cupcake pan unless y'all chop everything VERY pocket-sized as well as role alone one-half of a fridge biscuit (but I've never tried it).

There are a zillion coleslaw recipes on-line; at that topographic point are creamy ones; at that topographic point are spicy ones; at that topographic point are slaws made with broccoli; I fifty-fifty saw i alongside Gorgonzola cheese the other day!! Personally, I accept been looking for a basic, no frills, "please everyone" coleslaw recipe to brand for large solid unit of measurement gatherings.

In my search, I flora this quick together with slow "recipe gem" over at MGCC, and truly IS a keeper. Not alone is it delicious, but at that topographic point is no dairy inwards it and it lasts inwards the refrigerator for upwards to a week; every bit a affair of fact, it simply keeps getting tastier together with it goes good alongside everything!!


3 cups shredded cabbage
1/4 loving cup diced onion
1/4 loving cup diced greenish pepper
1 carrot shredded
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons vinegar
3 tablespoons oil
1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper (my variation)
1/2 teaspoon celery seed (my variation)

How pocket-sized y'all chop the veggies is a affair of personal preference. We prefer pieces about twice the size of a grain of rice together with my nutrient processor (using the steel blade) makes brusk run of this step.

In a pocket-sized saucepan, mix the sugar, vinegar, oil, salt, pepper and celery seed together with convey to a boil, stirring simply until saccharide has dissolved together with then withdraw from the heat.

Pour the hot dressing over the vegetables together with mix well.  Let this cool a niggling earlier roofing it together with putting it inwards the refrigerator to chill until fix to serve. 
NOTE: Toss salad again, simply earlier serving to distribute the dressing.

NOTE: This recipe brand iv generous side servings (adult size).  When I become far for a crowd, I quadruple the recipe.