Recipe: Saffron Rice in Rice Cooker

Recipe: Saffron Rice in Rice Cooker

Ingredients 1/2 teaspoon saffron 4 cups water or chicken broth 8 tablespoons butter 4 cup uncooked long-grain white rice or Basmati rice 4 teaspoon salt Instructions Add water/broth and saffron to rice cooker and turn to the rice cooker to warming. In a skillet that...
Recipe: Indian Naan Bread

Recipe: Indian Naan Bread

Ingredients 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast (There are 2 1/2 teaspoons of yeast in a .25 ounce packet.) 1 cup warm water 2 tablespoons plus 1/4 cup white sugar 3 tablespoons milk 1 egg, beaten 2 teaspoons salt 4 1/2 cups bread flour 2 teaspoons minced garlic...
Recipe: Calzone

Recipe: Calzone

Ingredients Filling: Shredded mozzarella cheese Pineapple & ham, cut up Pepperoni Diced onions peppers tomatoes (Any combination or other fillings you like ie. olives, artichokes, sausage, etc.) Dough: 2 pkg (2 Tb.) yeast 2 Tb. sugar 2 cups warm water 5 cups flour...
Recipe: Cornbread with Yellow Cake Mix

Recipe: Cornbread with Yellow Cake Mix

The trick to making cornbread that is fluffier, less grainy, and doesn’t have the bitter aftertaste is to add yellow cake mix to your cornbread mix. You can either do a 1 to 1 ratio of cornbread to cake mix, or you can do 1.5 cornbread to 1 cake mix, depending...
Mom the Chauffeur

Mom the Chauffeur

Natalie’s Dinner Group Experience Our dinner group is a life saver for the whole dinner experience at our house. My kids are 12, 10, 8 and 10mths, which translates to being a personal chauffeur from 3:30 to 7 or 8pm Mon through Thurs. I drive them to and from...