There is absolutely nothing healthy or beneficial about sweetened condensed milk even if made from organic or grassfed milk. Strike #1 is the lengthy heating time required to reduce the milk down to a condensed state which thoroughly denatures the fragile milk proteins. Denatured milk proteins do not digest well even for those with a healthy…
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Strict Key Lime Adherents: Please look away. I haven’t got time for the pain. Everyone else: Let’s make Key Lime Pie! Using regular limes! Because that’s all I have available in my small town! And I don’t live in Florida! So I can’t grow my own! Key limes! I’m still calling it Key Lime Pie, though—no one can stop me. Not even you Strict Key…
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There are a few methods to making homemade dulce de leche. Whatever method you use just remember to start with a can of sweetened condensed milk and not evaporated milk. It’s easy to mistake one from another when purchasing because the packaging is very similar. In general, the sweetened condensed milk is in a smaller can than the evaporated…
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So I feel so stupid for not having known for so long, that making your own sweetened condensed milk is super easy, & delicious. I hate how expensive one store-bought can, can be sometimes & I don’t usually have it on hand. But, thanks to food storage, I usually have powdered milk on hand. This recipe is so EASY, seriously…
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This week we finally got our first “snow day” . For two days, my kids (and all the kids in the neighborhood) have been outside 8-10 hours a day sledding, building snow men and making snow angels. One of the children suggested making snow cream and once the idea had been spoken out-loud, all of the kids begged to be able to make this treat…
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Print RecipeJump To Recipe Which situation do you run into more often, having leftover egg whites or egg yolks? In my case, I often have leftover egg whites because I use egg yolks for dishes like Chicken Karaage and Kakiage Don. One night I happened to have one egg white leftover and I remembered my friend Sissi’s Easiest Chewy Coconut Cookies…
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These are delicious and very easy-to-make chocolate truffles with an unlikely surprise: a sprinkling of light, fluffly sea salt. If you haven’t yet experienced a yummy chocolate truffle with sea salt, then you haven’t…experienced a yummy chocolate truffle with sea salt. It’s a seemingly unlikely, but absolutely scrumptious and special, flavor…
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It’s been, what, …2 weeks since I’ve posted something? Well, you guessed it, my class has started so posting will be a little less frequent than usual. I have loads of great recipes up my sleeve, so I will try to post more often. This is an easy and delicious frosting that mom discovered. The previous Russian Cream Cheese frosting that I had…
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A few weeks ago I bought a can of caramel flavored sweetened condensed milk, a new seasonal flavor from Eagle Brand. Even though sweetened condensed milk is completely different from caramel, the product seemed a little redundant. Condensed milk is already used in so many caramel flavored recipes and is the primary component of dulce de leche…
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Chances are if you walk into our house or work with us in our studio, you’ll end up sipping on some of our favorite coffee drinks. For the morning, a manual pressed espresso or cappuccino will start the day. In the afternoon when we start feeling sluggish, a Vietnamese iced coffee is the perfect “pick-me-up”. If you’ve never had a Vietnamese…
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You’re not surprised I made another gooey bar, are you? No? Good. Because this lemon version is my favorite gooey bar EVER. Hi, my name is Dorothy and I have a gooey bar addiction. I have about 3, 453 versions on this site. Chocolate, Funfetti, Peanut Butter, Pumpkin, and the list goes on. Okay, so not quite 3, 453…but if you could see inside…
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If you want to be known for making the very BEST vanilla wafer banana pudding recipe EVER , you are in luck! I will be glad to share with you the banana pudding that made me famous. Alright, I might be exaggerating a tad, but trust me, people will be begging you for this scrumptious favorite. Of course, you can dress up the banana pudding…
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This lemon cream pie is magnificent and glorious and refreshing and creamy and perfect and you should just make it. Ok? Oh, you want me to say a bit more about it? To tell you that the luscious lemon flavor is perfectly balanced with the creamy sweetness? And that, despite a a baking-cooling-baking session, it is the easiest pie in the world…
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Make truffle chocolate with this easy brigadeiro recipe. This quick no-bake Brazilian dessert will be a great guest pleaser for any party. Children will also love to make these during holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s easy to make 3-ingredient brigadeiro truffles. You can decorate truffles with green tea powder, grated coconut…
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Quick & Easy Caramel Pie Ok. I know that I’m supposed to be getting all obsessed with peppermint and gingerbread right about now, but I have to admit that I am actually having a really hard time letting go of my beloved Fall flavors! This is why I have to start Fall baking at the beginning of August– there’s never enough time to get through…
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