Ciao & welcome to my food blog!! My name is Lisa & I grew up loving authentic Italian fare, being that is my heritage. However, as I expand my travels & restaurant cuisine types, I have found a passion for ALL foods! I intend to share my enthusiasm in this blog with cooking stories, recipes, pictures, and reviews of my eating out adventures! Most of which are done with my husband, Greg! ♥

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Homemade Mini Donuts!!!!


Girls taco night turned into, "now what can we make for dessert?"!! Of course Pinterest ALWAYS provides the best recipes and with Jenny around, we were in good hands :) The donuts are baked, ridiculously easy to make, & SO delicious!! The mini donut pan is available at Sur La Table. Ours was given to us by Drew & Sahar as an engagement present and is quite the addition to our bakeware.  I recommend making these especially when you have people over, or you will just end up eating them all yourself ;)


Ingredients
  • 5 TBSP unsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • pinch salt
  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • for the topping
  • ¼ cup butter, melted
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
 
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325ºF
  2. Lightly oil mini donut pan and set aside (alternatively you can use mini muffin pans)
  3. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar
  4. Add the egg, milk, and vanilla and mix until combined (mixture will look curdled)
  5. Mix in the baking powder, then the salt
  6. Mix in the flour just until combined
  7. If using mini donut pan, transfer mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large round tip or into a ziplock baggie with the tip cut off. Pipe into the pan only filling ½ of the way fill. If using the mini muffin pan, fill each well ½ full
  8. Bake at 325ºF for 8-10 minutes
  9. Allow to cool slightly before dipping in topping
  10. Melt the butter for the topping and combine the cinnamon and sugar
  11. Dip each donut lightly in butter then roll in cinnamon and sugar

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Egg Salad with a Twist

Egg salad is not a really popular sandwich... But on Pinterest it is! And now I see why!! Time to change this old fashioned recipe into something more delicious! ....by adding some avocado :) I also used Light Canola Mayo to remove the cholestorol and fat that Greg and I don't need to be consuming!! Toast the bread, add a few shakes of paprika on top, and every couple bites throw some hot sauce on there :) However, since I just found out a few years ago how MUCH I like hot sauce, I kind of put it on EVERYTHING! mmmm gooooood!

PS check out my new favorite blog: (food blog of course) http://www.bonappetempt.com/