It’s time, it’s time! The New Year is coming and it definitely needs to be celebrated. Gather your friends, open a bottle of bubbly, serve a few of these amazing appetizers, and you have yourself a party. Whether you’re having fancy cocktail party, or a low key jeans only type get together, we’ve got you covered for fabulous eats. Below is Good Food Reads: New Year’s Eve Appetizers, a round up of our tried and true, as well as those appetizers we’ve been dying to try.
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The easiest homemade slow cooker chicken noodle soup you will ever find (well, short of heading over to grandma’s house…)!
I don’t know about you, but I am so over all of the holiday indulgence (although I wouldn’t turn away a piece of homemade toffee-I just didn’t get around to making it this year). I’m looking forward to the lighter recipes of January. And we’ll get there, I promise. As life would have it though, influenza has hit Minneapolis hard and I know my friends and family are looking for an easy soup recipe to provide some comfort. Easy being the key word. Enter this Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup. Easy, homemade, real food. This may be the cure! …
Tis the season for joy and cheer! Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukah or Kwanza or something entirely different, cookies are a great and fun way to get everyone into the kitchen! Not to mention, such a great gift to brighten someone else’s day! From the traditional to the unusual, here are the recipes that we want to be trying! Make a plate of these and bring them to your neighbors, your coworkers, your friends!
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The Instant Pot is my new favorite kitchen tool. This Instant Pot Maple Apple Steel Cut Oats will make it your favorite as well!
Remember that Quaker oatmeal? The kind that came in packets? The one that came in many different flavors? I was a particular fan of the Maple Brown Sugar flavor, but the Apple Cinnamon flavor came in a close second. It was always hard to choose! I don’t know if it’s still around, but I figured it would be probably be pretty easy to make at home. Always a girl to “want it all”, I decided that if I was making it, I sure wasn’t going to be choosing anymore, because truthfully Maple, Apple, and Cinnamon all worked perfectly together. Given my current obsession with the Instant Pot, the path was clear. Instant Pot Maple Apple Steel Cut Oats. Done and Done. …
I have gotten so many comments and questions lately on the Instant Pot. Yesterday this hilarious comment showed up on social media from my friend Dana, “So…I finally got an Instant Pot, and wouldn’t you know, the instructions said to have Lane come over and make something for you.” Although I laughed, and said that I would be SO happy to go over and make food for her (you can hold me to this, Dana!) this actually made this Friday’s Good Food Reads: Instant Pot really easy to write. Let’s talk about the Instant Pot! Read on further for some great Instant Pot recipes!
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This Instant Pot Thai Butternut Squash Soup is a unique twist on an old favorite-made fast using the Instant Pot!
Winter is here in Minneapolis. Oh sure, it’s not TECHNICALLY winter (which I’m reminded of frequently by my rule following 6 year old), but Thanksgiving is over, the cold has moved in, and it’s dark hours and hours before we go to bed. (Notice I don’t say before I’m READY to go to bed…). With the cold comes the need for soup. Warm, comforting, fill-you-up soup. Like this Instant Pot Thai Butternut Squash Soup. …
Who is ready for another helping of the recipes that are going to brighten your Thanksgiving 2017 table? If you are looking for appetizers, turkey, potatoes, stuffing, or bread, please head to Good Food Reads: Thanksgiving 2017 Part 1. So many good things to be had! Today’s edition will round out your Thanksgiving celebration with salads, vegetables, cranberries and dessert! And don’t forget to tell us what your favorites are in the comments below! …
Oh my friends, it’s November! And although November certainly means cold, windy, dark days here in Minneapolis, November is completely redeemed by the fact that it brings THANKSGIVING (my very favorite holiday ever). Thanksgiving means thousands of sides, desserts, and leftovers for days. I make homemade rolls that serve as dinner rolls on Thanksgiving Thursday and serve as the backbone of the perfect turkey sandwich on Black Friday. Leftover stuffing and mashed potatoes serve as a Black Friday breakfast that dreams are made of. I know y’all are planning your own Thanksgiving feasts, so here are a few suggestions!
(Never fear, this is only part 1!)
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You know when you are looking for something indulgent but simple? ME TOO!
Something fairly quick but unusual? ME TOO!
A recipe that will impress your kids? Well maybe not so much on that one…but if it happens (and it did) then bonus!
These Chocolate Strawberry Eggrolls will check ALL of the boxes!
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Today we have something very special for you!
For this Good Food Reads, we are going to feature a guest recipe by the wonderfully talented Lesli Schwartz of Asian Caucasian, who I had the pleasure of meeting at the Pinch of Yum Tasty Food Photography Workshop I attended this summer. The chosen guest recipe was for Easy Spiced Pumpkin Coconut Soup which was a huge hit in my house! Read on so I can tell you why! (and enjoy the photos by Asian Caucasion-well, with the exception of the one of my little, that one is all mine!)
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