Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
If the salted caramel sauce didn’t do the trick to winning friends and influencing people you may need to try these… Salted Caramel Bars Recipe Type: Dessert Prep time: 25 mins Cook time: 45 mins Total time: 1 hour 10 mins Serves: 30 This recipe requires all your attention, it is best to have all…
Two words: salted caramel. Salted Caramel Sauce #ratingval# from #reviews# reviews Print Recipe Type: Dessert Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 10 mins Total time: 15 mins Serves: 10 This recipe requires all your attention, it is best to have all ingredients prepped in advance. Ingredients 1 C. sugar 1/4 C. water 2 T. light…
…is a dangerous thing! Especially when it involves peanut butter and chocolate. Cookies with peanut butter and chocolate. You know Peanut Butter Blossoms. Learning how easy it is to make those could prove lethal. So easy in fact my daughter taught be how to make them last weekend. I thought she was mistaken when she…
More packages on the porch, always makes me happy. This time it is peanut butter sent to me as part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker program with National Peanut Board. I love being the first one to dip into a new jar of peanut butter. We actually go through a lot of peanut butter in our…
I’ve been a little obsessed with cherries this summer. When I saw them on sale I could not resist grabbing some, though I forgot we had a huge bag already sitting in the fridge. The kids eat them up pretty quickly, but we had way too many on hand. I am glad I saw this…
Ack, I got so behind on the vegetables! I spent over an hour this weekend catching up. Cleaning, drying and storing all them all. Man you miss tacking care of business one week and it gets a little overwhelming. I knew I didn’t have time to deal with more than we were going to eat…
The Organic Aji Cereza chilies were my inspiration for the A Chile & A Spoon Challenge that Marx Food is sponsoring. I loved that it looked like a cherry, I knew an ice cream sundae was in order. The challenge, use at least one chile from the chile sampler in a dish that can be…
Thinking ahead to holidays I got some apples from the farmer’s market and used my weekend in the kitchen to get a jump start on pie making. I am not a huge baker, the necessary precision is my down fall, so any help to make it easier is welcome. Especially this year since we will…
Bundt cakes are the ultimate in low maintenance cake making. Especially when it involves using a cake mix. There are countless ways to liven up a simple cake mix. The Cake Mix Doctor is my go-to for ideas. It has more than just Bundt cakes too. Block party season is here and there is nothing…
We had a progressive dinner on the block this weekend. In Winter we rarely see the neighbors, unless maybe we drive past them in the alley, so it was really fun to spend the evening with everyone. We all met up at one house for appetizers. Tons of great food, chicken satay with peanut sauce…