Comfort Food
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Rice Pudding |
Apple Crisp |
Bread Pudding |
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Homemade Rice Pudding
takes milk, rice, and sugar and produces a wonderfully sweet and
creamy dessert which so often evokes feelings of nostalgia that we
think of it as a 'comfort' food.
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An apple
crisp is perfect when the weather turns cold. There is something so
appealing about warm baked apples covered in cinnamon and sugar,
made all the more tasty with a crisp and crunchy topping.
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Bread Pudding starts
with bite sized cubes of bread that are covered in a rich
custard-like mixture of cream, eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla extract
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Chocolate Pudding |
Hot Chocolate |
Oatmeal Porridge |
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Homemade Chocolate
Pudding is wonderfully rich and creamy with a deep chocolate flavor.
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James Beard once said
that, "A steaming cup of hot chocolate with buttered toast is surely one
of the most heart warming, body-warming, and taste-satisfying
combinations known to man." more |
The
porridge of my youth started with 'rolled' oats which are oats that
have been cleaned, toasted, hulled, steamed and then flattened into
flakes and, depending on the thickness of the flakes, are labeled
either 'old-fashioned' or 'quick-cooking'
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Cinnamon Rolls (Buns) |
Banana Bread |
Pancakes |
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Although you may be able
to buy these gorgeous buns, nothing compares to the smiles you are
rewarded with when your family wakes up to the smell of these baking
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Its
thick sweet batter is full of mashed bananas, cinnamon and toasted
nuts and when you pull the bread from the oven the golden brown
crust is delightfully crisp.
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These batters produce a
pancake that is light and fluffy with a soft crust and spongy
texture. more |
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The
light and refreshing desserts I enjoy in the heat of summer
are very different from the warm and comforting desserts my
body craves during the cold of winter. There
are all sorts of recipes that are perfect 'winter' desserts,
but puddings are particularly well suited for this time of
year. Puddings contain the most basic of ingredients (milk,
sugar, eggs, flour, fruit and/or spices) and their simple
flavors satisfy our need for nostalgic foods. Plus, who wants to drive around town on a dark night trying to
find some exotic ingredient for a complicated dessert when
making a creamy smooth pudding will more than suffice.
The British
sometimes use the word 'pudding' to mean any sweet dessert.
But if we put that meaning aside, Webster's' Dictionary
defines 'pudding' as a thick, soft dessert, typically
containing flour or some other thickener (cornstarch, rice,
tapioca), milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener. Sweet puddings range from milk based to custard based and
can be steamed, cooked on the stove (sometimes in a double
boiler) or in the oven (usually in a water bath). The trick is to cook them slowly to prevent curdling so the
end result is a soft and creamy dessert that can be eaten
hot, if you can't wait, or cold, if you can.
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Chocolate Mousse |
Lemon Sponge Pudding |
Butterscotch Pudding |
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Chocolate Mousse has a
lovely rich chocolate flavor and a creamy smooth texture.
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The top layer is a light and
airy sponge cake and underneath the cake is a deliciously tangy lemon
sauce. more |
Butterscotch Pudding Recipe
gets its wonderful butterscotch flavor from dark brown sugar and a
generous amount of pure vanilla extract. more |
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Pumpkin Pie |
Vanilla Pudding |
Homemade Granola |
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My personal favorite pumpkin
pie recipe is this Pate Brisee recipe, as I like its' wonderful buttery
flavor and crumbly texture. more |
Vanilla Pudding is smooth
and creamy with the wonderful flavor of pure vanilla extract.
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Homemade granola is
simply a mixture of rolled oats, coconut, and almonds that are mixed
with melted butter and honey and then baked until golden brown. The
result is a wonderfully crisp textured cereal with just the right
amount of sweetness. more |
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Banana Pudding |
New York Style Cheesecake |
Pumpkin Bread Pudding |
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Banana Pudding combines
layers of creamy vanilla pudding with slices of sweet banana and vanilla
wafers. more |
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York Style Cheesecakes are creamy, and smooth, and rich, and dense, and
absolutely delicious. more |
Pumpkin Bread Pudding is a
delicious combination of cubed bread that is soaked in a rich custard
containing cream, pumpkin puree, and spices.
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French Toast |
Cranberry Pear & Apple Crumble |
Oatmeal Cookies |
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French Toast is one of those
breakfast dishes that almost doesn't need a recipe. It is known the
world over with names such as Bombay Toast, German Toast, Spanish Toast,
Nun's Toast, Poor Knights of Windsor, Pain Perdue, Portuguese Toast, Arme Ritter, Arme Riddere, Torriga, and Egg Toast.
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The
delicious combination of sweet pears, tart cranberries, and crisp
apples, along with a crumble topping, make for a perfect Fall
dessert. more |
Loaded with oats, this
version produces a crisp and chewy cookie that can be filled with
chocolate chips (white or dark chocolate), dried fruits, and/or
chopped nuts. more |
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Carrot Cake |
Scones |
Peanut Butter Cookies |
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This Carrot Cake is moist and
flavorful with grated carrots and is frosted with a delicious cream cheese
frosting. more |
Cream Scones have a
lovely crisp crust with a rich buttery flavor and light and fluffy
texture. They are delicious cut in half and served with Devonshire
Cream and either jam or lemon curd. more |
Peanut Butter Cookies
are instantly recognizable by their crisscross pattern. They have that
'sweet and salty' flavor combination that make them irresistible.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies |
Lemon Bars |
Molten Chocolate Cakes |
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
are made with butter and a combination of white and brown sugars
which produces a rich and chewy cookie with caramelized edges.
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Lemon Bars start with a
delicious shortbread base that is covered with a lemony filling that
separates as it bakes; giving us a thin cake-like crust on top of a
tangy citrus-flavored sauce. more |
Molten Chocolate Cakes
have a rich chocolate flavor with a pudding-like center that is dense
and moist. more |
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Lemon Meringue Tart |
Sticky Toffee Pudding |
Key Lime Pie |
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Lemon Meringue Tart is a
delicious combination of a sweet pastry crust, lemon curd filling, and
airy meringue. more |
Sticky Toffee Pudding
is a sweet date filled pudding with a sticky, gooey and moist
texture that is served warm from the oven with toffee sauce poured over top.
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Key Lime Pie has a sweet and
grainy graham cracker crust, a creamy and tangy lime flavored filling,
and is topped with a soft and fluffy whipped cream.
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Waffles |
Coffee Cake |
Butter Tarts |
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Waffles are really easy to
make and use the same batter you use to make pancakes.
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A mixture of toasted
nuts, chocolate chips, ground cinnamon and brown sugar is used both as a
filling and topping for this cake.
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These Butter Tarts consist
of flaky pastry shells that are filled with a sweet mixture of butter,
brown sugar, and eggs. more |
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Pecan Pie |
Chocolate Banana Bread |
Apple Pie |
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Pecan Pie is a delicious
combination of toasted pecans, sugar, and eggs which gives this pie
wonderful flavor with a dense and chewy texture.
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Chocolate Banana Bread
combines the sweet flavor of ripe bananas with chocolate.
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The Apple Pie, with its
two rounds of pastry enclosing slices of cinnamon sugared apples, is
a favorite dessert in North America. more |
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Cinnamon Toast |
Chocolate
Pudding Cake |
Blueberry Pancakes |
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When I think of comfort food
Cinnamon Toast always comes to mind. This is one of those childhood
foods that my mother always served us during the cold winter months.
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A Chocolate Pudding Cake
has two delicious layers, a rich and moist brownie-like chocolate cake
along with its' own thick and creamy chocolate pudding sauce.
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Blueberry Pancakes are
delicious, with their golden brown crusts, their light and spongy
texture, their rich and tangy flavor, made all the better by the
sweetness of the blueberries.
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Banana Cake |
Banoffee Pie |
Banana Cream Pie |
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This Banana Cake
is tender and moist with the sweet flavor of bananas. It is
frosted with creamy smooth Chocolate Fudge Frosting.
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A Banoffee Pie has a buttery crisp shortbread
crust, toffee, slices of sweet bananas, all covered with loads of
whipped cream. more |
A Banana Cream Pie
is all about crisp pastry, a velvety smooth vanilla flavored filling, loads of bananas, all covered
with fluffy whipped cream. more |
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Chocolate Cream Cookies |
Coconut Cream Pie Recipe |
Peanut Butter Pie |
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These Chocolate
Cream Cookies have a buttery crisp texture and are filled
with a sweet and buttery cream. A sandwich cookie at its
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A Coconut Cream Pie
takes a buttery crisp prebaked pastry crust and fills it with a coconut
flavored cream and a whipped cream topping.
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This elegant
Peanut Butter Pie has a chocolate crust, a rich and creamy
peanut butter filling, and a smooth chocolate Ganache
topping. Tastes like a giant peanut butter cup.
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