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Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream Pudding ~ Only 3 Ingredients! |

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Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream Pudding ~ Only 3 Ingredients! |

I love homemade ice cream, but I hate how much work it is to make it!!  I can honestly say this is the easiest ice cream ever. If you want vanilla, it’s just two ingredients! Chocolate adds one more. Quick, easy, and sooooo yummy!

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The idea struck me to use dry instant pudding mix when ransacking my cupboard and not finding anything else that looked good. We had chocolate ice cream in the freezer, but that’s no fun. I wanted to make dessert with my little girl. Editor’s note: even though it literally took two minutes to mix up a batch, she still bailed on me. Ha, joke’s on her! I didn’t share. 😛

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I used my KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment because I have one, and I love it. No rock salt or anything needed with it. It’s pretty easy to use.  I also like to do things with reckless abandon, so I didn’t look up how to actually use it. I did read the manual the first time, but that was at least a year ago and I can’t remember what I did this morning. So, yeah, you should check your own ice cream maker’s manual for best results.

As for the value, the pudding package has a tag on it that says 49¢ and the sweetened condensed milk was 69¢ (off brand, probably from a “crash and dent” grocery store).  If you add in the milk, I still spent well under $1.50 for the whole pint of ice cream.  This stuff is better than Talenti which costs about $6 per pint!

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Homemade Sundried Tomatoes Recipe

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Homemade Sundried Tomatoes Recipe

Besides tasting amazing, Sun Dried Tomatoes are a low calorie, healthy snack. There are only 22 calories in a medium tomato. Consider that you’re slicing it onto 5-6 slices or more and you’re talking around 4 calories per slice. And tomatoes come backed with health benefits since they contain carotene lycopene, one of the most powerful natural antioxidants. They also have Vitamins A and C.

I dried mine in my cyclonic air cooker (which is like a Nuwave oven), and was done in less than 30 minutes (25 of it was cook time!)  At this rate of speed, I make them as I need them. But, you can store them for a long time (see storage tips below).

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Price Breakdown: I love sun dried tomatoes, but hate the pricetag! I once found them at the dollar store (ONCE!) and stocked up. But when I ran out, and my addiction already fully in force, I had to find another way. The regular price on sundried tomatoes can be upwards from $5 for a small bottle! Larger bottles can be $9 or more. There’s probably only a few tomatoes in there!! And, if you want organic – it’s even more! This recipe calls for approximately 2 lbs of tomatoes. I can usually find them for under $1 a pound, making this a fraction of the price of store-bought sun-dried tomatoes!

Storage Tips for Homemade Sun-Dried Tomatoes: IF you can resist eating them all up (lol!), they can be frozen or stored in the refrigerator. Sun Dried Tomatoes keep for at about 3 months in the fridge, or up to 6-9 months in the freezer. See recipe below for storage tips. I haven’t actually tried storing them long-term. Every time I make them we eat them right away!

Use them in salads, side dishes (add to broccoli and throw in pine nuts for an amazing treat!), or in a large number of dishes that call for sun-dried tomatoes, such as Cheesecake Factory’s Sundried Tomato Fettuccine. Yum!

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Easiest Homemade Ricotta Cheese {2 Simple Ingredients}

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Easiest Homemade Ricotta Cheese {2 Simple Ingredients}

Imagine making Ricotta cheese with just two simple ingredients.  Hard to believe, right?

Whether this is actually called Farmer’s Cheese, Ricotta, or even dry curd, dry cottage cheese, or Queso Blanco – is up for debate. It kind of depends on what you use to make it, what you put in it and how long you let it drain. They all have similar characteristics: they don’t melt, they’re considered a “bland cheese” (until you season it), and they’re really easy to make! If you’re lactose intolerant, you’ll want to steer clear of this since it’s “fresh” or not aged cheese, it contains more lactose.

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I’m enjoying Do It Yourself projects lately, and so I decided it would be fun to try to make cheese. I live in Wisconsin, America’s Dairyland, so it seems natural that I’d want to.  I don’t have cows, but I live in a very small town with many family farms surrounding us. I grew up here, and for a while my family did have a small dairy farm. Talk about a fantastic childhood!

But, I’m not exactly ready to delve into becoming a fancy cheesemaker and spending a lot of time on this. I just wanted to see if I could make something we could eat and enjoy. So, I Googled “Easy Homemade Cheese” and was pretty shocked at how not easy they all seemed. I don’t want to buy a bunch of ingredients simply for the purpose of making cheese, I just want to make it and eat it! 😉

They say using raw milk from grass-fed beef is best when you’re making your own cheese.  Since this recipe is for Easy Cheese – or would that be Easy Cheesy? – I’m not going to suggest that you go out of your way to find raw milk. I would imagine it’s wonderful, but I didn’t do that. I used milk from the store. It’s pasteurized (just be sure it’s not ultra pasteurized).

You also don’t need other ingredients you need to make other homemade cheese, such as special cheese salt or even muslin or cheesecloth to strain it – because you don’t need to do all that with this super easy cheese recipe.

What can you do with Gimmie’s Super Easy Cheese? You can use it in Italian dishes, such as lasagne.  You can add honey to it and eat with crackers (yum!!) Or, sprinkle it on salads or put in your tacos. Get creative!

What’s it cost? That all depends on milk prices, and that varies so much it’s impossible for me to figure out what it will cost you. But, around these parts you can find milk on sale priced, 2 gallons for $5. That would mean you’re spending about $2.50 a gallon and since this recipe makes around 2 pounds of cheese, that’s $1.25 a pound. At Walmart by me, 15 oz of their Great Value brand Ricotta cheese (which is just less than a pound) costs around $2.

How to Make

Super Easy Ricotta Cheese

Easy-Cheese-CollageINGREDIENTS

  • 1 gallon whole milk
  • 1/2 cup vinegar (use 3/4 cup for firmer cheese)

DIRECTIONS

  1. Heat 1 gallon of whole milk in large pot on stovetop, over medium/high heat until it scalds (thin layer forms on top of milk). Be careful not to let the bottom scorch or burn.
  2. Remove from heat and add vinegar. Stir and watch the curds and whey separate until whey (liquid) becomes clear and yellowish color.
    Optionally, you can add salt. I used about 3 tablespoons of sea salt. Just stir it in while you’re making it, or you can add salt while you’re using (eating) it.
  3. Strain in a colander. Note: your colander needs to have small holes that will keep the cheese in it. I used a pasta pot with it’s own built-in colander top and that worked just fine. You could line a coarse (big-hole) colander with cheese cloth. The longer you let it strain, the firmer the cheese will become.

Makes about 2 lbs of cheese for essentially the cost of a gallon of milk!

Takes about 15 minutes (cook time).

DIY Wipes: Homemade Flushable Wipes {Costs less than 10¢ per pack!}

DIY Wipes: Homemade Flushable Wipes {Cost less than 10¢ for the whole pack!}

DIY Wipes: Homemade Flushable Wipes {Costs less than 10¢ per pack!}

Wipes. We love them, we hate paying full price for them and we don’t want to talk about them.

Whether it’s flushable Cottonelle Fresh wipes for grown ups or Wet Wipes baby wipes for little bottoms, wipes help clean up shh… er..  well, you know what I mean. It’s a sh… crappy job, but somebody’s gotta do it. 😉

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What’s the difference? The big difference between baby wipes (homemade diaper wipes) and homemade flushable wipes for grown-ups is the ingredients. Although you can certainly try whatever you’d like (I’m not about to start policing butt wipes), using baby products such as baby wash and baby oil for baby wipes makes sense! I’m making the grown-up version and it’s worked very well for my family.

Why make wipes? I wanted to make my own wipes because buying my favorite Cottonelle Fresh Flushable Wipes can get expensive! The last time I bought flushable wipes, I bought at Sam’s Club in bulk. I paid over $10! Sure, I got a lot of wipes, but the problem was, it took so long to use them that they got moldy! Yuck! Now you can make your own flushable wipes in whatever quantity works best for you.

What’s the best way to make flushable wipes? I’ve seen quite a few different ways to make flushable wipes online and on Pinterest. Many suggest cutting a whole roll of paper towels in half with a knife, then adding liquid. That seems like a big commitment and my machete is out on loan (giggle).  One blog talks about tearing each paper towel from a whole roll, and then folding them on top of each other just so. I might do that once… but I can’t see doing that every few weeks! (Let’s be honest, I probably wouldn’t do that once.)

How I did it: I used 12 paper towels (yes, 12!) and made two cuts with scissors (cutting into thirds). Not that you couldn’t use all those the paper towels from the other examples eventually, but my way seems much easier!

Simple ingredients you have at home. And lastly, some of the ingredients suggested in other “recipes” for homemade wipes are things I’d never even heard of! I mean, sure you can use whatever you want. But, I like easy and fast. I’m funny like that.

Price breakdown: as I said, buying wipes can really add up. If you buy a regular container of Cottonelle Fresh Flushable Wipes, you’ll pay around $2.49 per package, and up to $20 if you buy in bulk! You’ll save per sheet (as low as 4¢ each) but you have to shell out twenty bucks!

  • The Member’s Mark paper towels were $14.98 at Sam’s Club, for a pack of 12 “super mega rolls”. Each has 175 sheets per roll. I used 12 sheets. Each roll costs $1.25, and each sheet costs $0.007 (that’s just over half a penny, and a code name for James Bond). So, my 12 sheets cost a whopping 8.5 cents.
  • The soap was another bulk deal, so I’m going to call the tablespoon I used about 3 cents.
  • The bottle of baby oil I used cost $1, and I used a tablespoon. I’m calling that another penny, give or take.
  • I reused the container I had from my Cottonelle wipes
  • And, water is basically free

Total for a whole container of Homemade Flushable Wipes = less than 10¢

So, without further ado… Here’s the EASY, CHEAP and FAST way to make your own Homemade Flushable Wipes using stuff you have at home. Oh, and I even reused the container! How’s that for being green?!

Gimmie’s Homemade Flushable Wipes

Ingredients

  • 2 cups water
  • 1 tablespoon soap (liquid, or bar soap grated into small pieces)
    I used Dove sensitive bar soap
  • 1 tablespoon baby oil
  • 12 paper towels, folded
    I used Member’s Mark paper towels from Sam’s Club, but you can use anything that’s not super flimsy (Bounty, Viva, etc.). My paper towels are perforated so you can tear off smaller pieces (1/3 regular size) which is perfect for this!
  • Air-tight container
    I reused a Cottonelle wipes container so the wipes pop up like a Kleenex box

Directions

  1. If using liquid soap, skip to step 3
  2. If using bar soap: carefully grate bar soap with a cheese grater. Put soap flakes and water in a medium saucepan. Boil until soap flakes are melted (about 5-10 minutes), stirring occasionally. Allow mixture to cool
  3. Add baby oil to water & soap, and stir
  4. Fold paper towels on top of each other like an accordion (when you pick them up they’ll look like a zigzag, shown below)
  5. Cut the stack of paper towels into thirds with scissors (which was the perfect size for my container)
  6. Arrange paper towels in container and pour liquid on top

As you can see, it’s really quick and easy to make your own homemade wipes!

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Other ideas for ingredients:

Since some of our readers might want to use different ingredients, I scouted out a few other recipes. I didn’t use these things, but apparently some people have.

  • Summer’s eve feminine wash
  • Essential oils
  • Vinegar

Here are some other recipes I found:

Homemade Baby Wipes

  • 3/4 cup water, boiled
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon baby shampoo

Pour liquid over a whole roll of separated and then meticulously folded paper towels, and store in airtight container. Similar to Huggies wipes.

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DIY Wet Wipes

  • 2 cups hot water
  • 1 tablespoon Baby Wash
  • 1 tablespoon Baby Oil
  • a few drops of Tea Tree Oil (an antibacterial to keep mold away)

Add liquid to a roll of paper towels sawn in half with a knife. Store in air-tight container. Similar to Wet Wipes baby wipes

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DIY Homemade Laundry Detergent Recipe, Stain Remover, Fabric Softener & Refresher

DIY Homemade Laundry Detergent Recipe, Stain Remover, Fabric Softener & Refresher

A Non-Fictional Account of This Mom’s Attempt to Save…money on laundry, while being green.

Recipes for making homemade laundry soap, homemade stain remover and homemade fabric softener and more for a fraction of the cost. Plus, tips to save energy costs!

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Do It Yourself Laundry Products

With major name brands such as Tide, Downy, Gain and Bounce costing a pretty penny, paying less than a penny per load of laundry sounds enticing.  And when you use natural ingredients, it’s less harmful to the environment than the big brands.  I’d call that a win-win!

Price Breakdown

So, what do the big brands cost?  In my neck of the woods, Tide Ultra 50 oz is approximately $13 and claims to do 32 loads.  The price divided by number of loads is $0.42 per load.  Purex 100 oz claims to do 64 loads, and costs just under $5 (or $0.08 per load).  How much does your brand cost?  If it’s more than a penny per load, why not give our homemade laundry soap a spin!?  It’s a great way to bridge the gap between extreme couponing sessions to find cheap or free laundry soap!

I first heard about making your own laundry detergent on my local Freecycle cafe (I talk about them a lot, huh?)  I tried a variety of “blends” over the years – some work better than others.  Mostly it works well, but it does depend on the stuff in your water as with any soap or detergent.  If you have hard water, you may need to adjust slightly.  Please feel free to comment below if you have had success with any specific combination.

Homemade Laundry Detergent

It takes about 15 minutes to make.  Ingredients can be purchased from most grocery stores.

Ingredients:

  • 3.1 oz bar soap – very small bar, or use part of regular size bar (cost approx. $0.25 – $0.50) TIP: If you prefer all natural with no additives, try Ivory soap or Fels Naptha works very well too. If you prefer specific fragrances, look for bar soaps that smell how you want
  • 1 cup 20-Mule Team Borax (76 oz for $4.29 = 1 cup for $0.45)
  • ½ cup Arm & Hammer Washing Soda (55 oz for $2.99 = ½ cup for $0.43) NOTE: This is NOT Arm & Hammer baking soda, although it’s almost the same and I’ve heard you can substitute it
  • Water (mostly free 😉 )

Tools:

  • 5 Gallon container (we use a cat litter bucket)
  • Knife or cheese grater
  • Pot large enough to hold 5 cups of water
  • Long stirring stick/spoon (for 5 gallon container)

Instructions:

  1. Shave (or grate) the soap into small bits and place in large pot with 5 cups of water
  2. Bring the water just shy of a boil and stir until the soap is completely dissolved
  3. Fill the bucket with 3 gallons of water and pour in the melted soapy water from pot
  4. Stir in ½ cup pf washing soda until dissolved
  5. Then stir in the cup of Borax

Optional: If you like fragrant detergent add a few drops of your favorite essential oils.

Next, cover the container and let sit overnight.  It will gel, but probably won’t look like the detergent you’re used to.  No worries, it’s perfectly normal to be lumpy and watery.  If you have empty containers from your name brand detergent, reuse them for easy dispensing.

Usage: ½ cup per load.  Works well in high efficiency (HE) washing machines because it is low sudsing, but be sure to stir it first or it may not fully dissolve.

Yield: 442 oz @ 4 oz per load = 110 ½ loads of laundry = total cost $1.38 = total cost per load $0.01

Homemade Laundry Stain Remover

To get tough stains out of clothes, sometimes you need more than just laundry soap. Popular stain removers on the market include Shout!, Oxi Clean, Resolve, Clorox and Tide. Here’s our homemade version we think works just as well:

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup ammonia
1/2 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup baking soda
2 Tablespoon dish soap
2 quarts water

DIRECTIONS

Mix all ingredients together and pour into a spray bottle.

Store in empty spray bottle (I reuse empty household cleaner and laundry stain remover bottles and reuse them)

To use: shake well and spray solution on stains.  Let it soak in for a few minutes and wash as usual.

Homemade Liquid Fabric Softener

Liquid fabric softener goes into your washing machine when you’re washing clothes. Similar to Downy, Snuggle and Gain fabric softener, this homemade fabric softener leaves your clothes smelling great!

INGREDIENTS

  • 6 cups water
  • 3 cups white vinegar
  • 2 cups inexpensive hair conditioner, pick a scent you love!

DIRECTIONS

Heat water to almost boiling and add conditioner. Mix well.  Add vinegar and mix again.

Store in a large container (I reuse empty fabric softener bottles)

To use: shake well and use 2 Tablespoons per load in fabric softener dispenser.

Note: Sometimes I also use just plain white vinegar (about 1/4 cup per load) which does not make the clothes smell like vinegar, but does leave them feeling soft and clean.

Homemade Dryer Sheets Fabric Softener

While I don’t think generic dryer sheets cost enough to break the bank, this is a nice alternative that does cost less. Commercial brand name dryer sheets such as Bounce, Snuggle, Downy and Gain cost much more than generic alternatives. But, our homemade version still costs less!

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 capful of liquid fabric softener
  • Water
  • NEW sponge (or your batch might get moldy! yuck!)
  • Tupperware or Rubbermaid type container to store

DIRECTIONS

Wring them out almost dry and throw them in the dryer in place of fabric sheets. I tried this and it worked well. I think if I tried this again I’d do a smaller amount and mix up batches more often to avoid possibly getting moldy.

Homemade Fabric Refresher

If you love Febreze Fabric Refresher, Lysol Fabric Refreshers, Dreft Fabric Refresher or even a generic version, you need to try this simple trick!

Why? Not only is it much, much cheaper (name brands can cost from $5 – $12 and up!) it’s also natural. So it’s better for your family and the environment!

Believe it or not, a great thing to use in the laundry when you’re trying to remove odor is baking soda!  It soaks up the odor and whisks it away, and really works!

My little girl played in the sprinklers at Disneyland in her favorite Cinderella gown.  Apparently they feed the sprinklers from the sewer or something because when she got home I could not stand the smell of the bag containing her dress!  I soaked it for 3 days in a baking soda and water bath, and the smell was gone!

To use: soak clothes in water with baking soda (approx. 1/4 cup baking soda per gallon of water)

Save a Bundle Drying your Clothes

A few years back, I asked on my local Freecycle cafe for tips on cutting laundry costs so I could write this article. Sometimes the most obvious answers are the most brilliant!

Save money on energy by NOT drying your clothes!

The tip? Save a TON – put up a clothes line! Line drying is something we always did when I was a kid, growing up in the country. But when I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles. A clothes line? I don’t know, it never crossed my mind. And, the thought of hanging my family’s undies out when my neighbor can practically reach them from INSIDE their house just did not appeal to me. So, okay, I didn’t hang out unmentionables. But, I did hang out my bedding and towels (things that take forever to dry!) And, even with L.A. just 55 miles away (think: smog) they smelled great! Not just great…. amazing! No fabric softener can touch how fantastic line-dried clothes smell. Even in the city!

When I put up a clothesline, the line itself was just a few bucks at Lowe’s Home Improvement.  I could have strung it from one pole to the other on my patio and called it a day for under $3.  But, I decided to put up a pulley system, so I spent about $12 total being fancy. 😉

Homemade Tomato Juice ~ Tomat-o-lio Recipe

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Homemade Tomato Juice ~ Tomat-o-lio Recipe

New word of the day:  o•li•o [pronounced: oh-lee-oh]
1. A dish of many ingredients.

If you’re a gardener or just love the Farmer’s Market, and find yourself with a big pile of tomatoes, onions, peppers, etc. that you need to use up asap – make your own homemade tomato juice!  The thing that’s great about this recipe is that you can do the basic recipe, and toss in whatever other veggies you have on hand.  Set it up at night before you go to bed, and by morning time, you’ll have some awesome juice!

 

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Homemade Caramel Apples

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Homemade Caramel Apples

When I was young I used to hate homemade caramel apples, they were just a sticky mess that was difficult to eat. Over the years I have learned to appreciate them, and everything you can do to change them up.

We went on vacation last year, and I had my first *gourmet apple*. It was covered with a bunch of yummy stuff like nuts, candies, and it was covered in hardened chocolate. I literally had to eat it with a knife & fork! I will be tackling that recipe coming up, but for now this recipe is just for your basic caramel apple with some nuts, or candies added. I like to pair mine with a tall glass of cold milk! Its such a treat!

Check out the recipes below, and give it a try!

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Homemade Corndog Recipe

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Homemade Corndog Recipe

If you’re looking to make homemade corndogs, you’re going to love this recipe! It is quick, cheap, and anyone can do it. You can ever have your kids help with dipping the hot dogs into the batter. The best part of this is, you probably have most of the ingredients lying around your house already.

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What you’ll need (check below for measurements):

  • yellow cornmeal
  • all-purpose flour
  • sugar
  • baking powder
  • salt
  • an egg
  • buttermilk (or whole milk)
  • vegetable oil (or canola)
  • honey
  • hot dogs
  • skewers or chop sticks

homemade corndog recipe dry ingred.

Combine all of the dry ingredients together (cornmeal, flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder).

wet ingredients

Once you combine all of the dry ingredients together, set it aside and combine all of the wet ingredients (buttermilk, egg, vegetable oil, and honey).

combine

Combine the wet and dry ingredients together, and then pour the batter into a tall glass. Get the hot dogs out of the package and dry them off with a paper towel.

dry off hot dogs

Make sure to dry them off really well so they’re not wet. The batter won’t stick too great if they’re not dried off. Once you do that, insert the skewers into the hot dogs.

skewers hot dogs

At this point, you want to start heating up your oil. Make sure to heat it to 350 degrees. When it’s ready, start dipping the hot dogs into the batter.

dip

And put them in the oil for around 2-3 minutes or until golden brown. Make sure to watch them because they’re going to fry fast.

fry

When they’re done, place them on paper towels to drain the grease (try not to eat them right out of the oil).

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Enjoy!!

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Homemade Beignets

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Happy Mardi Gras! Homemade Beignets

Tomorrow, March 4th is Mardi Gras. Also known as Fat Tuesday, it is the day of feasting and partying before the fasting season of Lent. So enjoy the day with some homemade beignets!

What is a beignet? Simply, it is a type of sweet fritter, deep fried and served doused with powdered sugar. They are traditional squared shaped and have no holes in the middle (don’t call it a donut…pshaw!) The Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans, LA is famous for their fresh beignets.

For those of us who do not live in New Orleans and can not get to the Cafe Du Monde to order fresh beignets, you are in luck! They are easy to make at home. Why make them from scratch when Cafe Du Monde sells a perfectly good beignet mix? Why not? I love a challenge. I’ve used the Cafe Du Monde beignet mix for years and I like it.  But this year I wanted to raise the bar.

Some things I found helpful when making the beignets:

Proof the yeast. I always proof yeast. Years of baking bread and yeast-risen pastries have taught me never to skip this step. Yeast is alive and does loose its vitality when it is old . Your packet of yeast might say it has not expired, but I do not take chances. It really does stink to go through this whole process and your dough to fails to rise.

When you proof the yeast, you simply add the warm water, yeast and sugar ingredients to the bowl first. Stir and let it sit for ten minutes. The yeast will bubble and foam. It will look like this:

proofing Happy foaming yeast!

You can use all purpose or bread flour.  I researched many recipes that say you can use either or. Bread flour has more protein content than all-purpose, which helps with gluten development. It is also more expensive. Unless you happen to have some at home, I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it.  You can use all purpose.

You can use a stand mixer  w/dough hook or a bread machine. Next time I will throw the ingredients in my bread machine and let it mix. The stand mixer wasn’t bad. But I did have to baby sit it. You know the dough is ready when it “clings” to the hook:

dough Dough is ready.

Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough. If you’ve got one handy,a pizza cutter works great to cut the dough into squares!

Test the oil first with a small piece of dough. This is an easy way to test if the oil is right temperature; sacrifice a small piece of dough first. I never use a thermometer when frying. I test the oil with small pieces of what ever I am frying first.

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DIY Homemade Hamburger Buns Recipe & Instructions #goodcookcom #goodcookkitchenexprt

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DIY Homemade Hamburger Buns Recipe & Instructions #goodcookcom #goodcookkitchenexprt

Do you think baking bread is just for grandmas?  Well, you might be surprised how easy it can be! There’s no denying how fantastic fresh homemade bread tastes.  Here are a few tips to reclaim that baking gene you keep telling us you have on Pinterest. 😉

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makeaheadbreadI highly recommend Good Cook cookware and bakeware!  I’ve had old, beat up baking pans for years. It’s SO much different baking on nice pans. These air filled cookie sheets are a dream come true. You would have to try really hard to burn the bottoms of your cookies or buns ~ they distribute heat so evenly NOTHING BURNS!  I mean, compared to my tin pans, on which I cannot bake anything without burning it, these are heaven sent!

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Since I was making Pulled Pork & Applesauce, I thought I’d go ahead and go the extra mile and really impress my family by baking the buns!

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Note: For more detailed instructions, please visit Donna’s full recipe at Cookistry.com.


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