Cooking - for a new lifestyle (Our Test Kitchen)

http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/bakingtips.ingredientsubstitutions/IngredientSubstitutions.cfm This is a quick reference site when you don't have what you need for that meal. Substitues are sometimes necessary. "Bon Appetit!"

These are the "BEST" chocolate chip muffins EVER!!! That coming from a girl who routinely DOES NOT eat chocolate chip muffins often. Because neither of my children like anything in resemblance to a sandwich subs, excluded , it has been customary to send them muffins in their lunch. Only problem, Dalton will not venture out of the norm and relies on the old standby... a CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFIN. I soooo hate the taste of grocery store muffins and looked to searching out a respectable version Dalton would love. Within minutes I happened apon the blog by Poornima Nair called Tasty Treats . Here in all it's glory, is the recipe for the best Chocolate Chip Muffins ever... CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups flour 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup dark brown sugar, tightly packed 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 2 eggs 1/2 cup butter, melted and slightly cooled 1/2 cup milk 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 cup chocolate chips (at Dalton's request I used ...

Started as a food event by Nicole from For the Love of Food , this is the fourth time I've participated in Taste and Create . It’s whole purpose was, and has been, to create a community of bloggers who test each others’ recipes and share links. The participants of the event are paired together and have to try a recipe from each other's blogs. The blog partner given to me this month was ..... Veronica, from La Recette du Jour who resides in France. Unknown to me, cooks in Europe measure dry ingredients by weight, not volume (i.e. cups). so many of her recipes use European standards for measurement; weights are in grams or kilos, volumes are in litres, centilitres, or millilitres, and oven temperatures are in Celsius. Fortunate for me, Ivy from Little Ivy Cakes had used the same recipe in a previous Taste and Create and converted the measurements to American standards...THANK YOU!!! I had previously posted a poll asking of which you would choose: Cheesecake Re-Arranged or Lemon...

This was a fun site to look at too! http://100mile.foodtv.ca/community/recipes

Here's a new post courtesy of heather....re: apples http://allrecipes.com/Newsletters/Archive/Detail.aspx?ms=1&year=2009&month=09&nid=2&eid=455&prop25=23775782&prop26=WhatsCooking&prop27=2009-09-17&prop28=TopNav&prop29=Archive&me=1

I had some lovely people send me links to wonderful sites full of awesome holiday ideas. Hope you like the links as much as me, and post any recipes that you try!!! http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/recipelanding.htm and http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/ "Bon Appetit!"