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The last thing any holiday cooks want to do is walk around the kitchen and find out that they are missing a vital item they need to finish a meal in fantastic fashion. Undoubtedly it has happened to you at least once. Be sure it doesn’t happen again with this pantry staple list for the holidays.
Each holiday, most of us prepare the same things. There are favorite family dishes that must be prepared or Aunt Minnie will have a fit. That goes for desserts as well. Since you know this in advance, let’s make sure that the kitchen cupboards are stocked with the items you use the most.
The pantry list includes items for the fridge, cupboard and the freezer. Let’s begin with the cupboard:
• Flour (all purpose, cake)
• Baking soda
• Dry yeast (for breads)
• Sugar (white, brown, confectioners’)
• Chocolate (bricks, squares, morsels, cocoa powder)
• Nuts (pecans, English walnuts, almonds)
• Spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pepper)
• Baking powder
• Honey, oil, vinegar
• Broth
• Dried fruits
• Vegetables (sweet potatoes, white potatoes, onions, garlic)
• Rice
• Dried pasta
This is just a short list. Depending on your tastes, you’ll add or detract from it depending on your tastes. Now we move on to the fridge. Some items just need to stay in there to stay fresh. To know your refrigerated pantry staples, think of things that you are always sending someone to the store for.
• Milk
• Butter (not margarine)
• Sour cream
• Eggs
• Lemon juice
• Half and half
This list is shorter because you use these items more when you cook and bake around the holidays than any other time. The broth from the other list will end up in the fridge after you open it.
Don’t forget the freezer. Most of the freezer staples come into play with baking but they can pertain to cooking the meal if you make fruit relishes, cranberry sauce from scratch and other condiment additions to your holiday table.
• Frozen fruit (berry mix, peaches)
• Frozen vegetables (to make up for any shortfall with fresh veggie side dishes)
• Fruit juices from concentrate
As you can see, there are a lot of staples that you’ll need when cooking and baking for the holidays. You don’t necessarily have to account for every family member who darkens your door. If your list includes at least these items you are well on your way to a well-stocked holiday pantry.
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The Betty Crocker Non-Stick Oven Liner
One of the most annoying things about baking is what happens when spills occur in the oven. Even the good chefs have spills occur on a somewhat frequent basis in the oven, especially considering that baking is not an exact science in a lot of different cases. While the spills might denote good cooking in one form, in another form they represent what could be hours of annoying cleaning as you attempt to scrub the spills and stains out of your otherwise nice looking oven.
Well, with The Betty Crocker Non-Stick Oven Liner, those days of endless scrubbing and cleaning are over.
The actual liner itself when you purchase it measures approximately twenty three inches in length by sixteen and a half inches in width, but at the same time the material is easy enough that you can cut through it with a simple pair of scissors. This means that you can use it to create a number of custom fits for microwaves, toaster ovens and counter tops in addition to using them in your oven. This particular liner can be used all over the kitchen with the same excellent effects that you would get from using it in the oven.
One of the problems with using things like aluminum foil in the same role is that foil runs out, costs a lot of money and ends up taking longer to cook because of its natural abilities with heat. The Betty Crocket Non-Stick Oven Liner however does not have any of those problems. It is reusable and does not affect either positively or negatively the cooking or browning time of anything that you might end up popping into the oven. All of your dishes are prepared in the exact same way; the only difference is that you’ll worry a lot less about potential spills.
The material that the liner is made of is created in order to prevent adhesion of molecules so that nothing that spills actually permanently sticks to the sheet. This means that you just remove it after use and clean it with soap and water in order to have a liner that is good as new that you can use again and again anytime that you want to guard against spills, drips and splatters.
This is an excellent addition to any kitchen and the price of $14.95 is practically a steal considering how expensive things like foil can be.
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Whether you are cooking for a feast of adults for Halloween or looking for some great kid approved recipes there are plenty of resources online for some excellent spooky recipes for All Hallows Eve. There are some basic rules that will help the meal preparation and presentation go a little more smoothly if you’ll follow them. Hopefully that advice below will help you get through your spook fest and enjoy a great dinner too.
Most people who have a huge Halloween party will find that they will be interrupted throughout the evening with trick or treaters seeking the perfect treat. While we want to enjoy the ghosts, goblins, kings, and princesses gracing our stoop we also do not want to burn the food we are working hard to prepare. For this reason we need to select foods that require little attention during the preparation process rather than foods that are quite time consuming and attention demanding.
Crock pots are a blessing to have around on a night like Halloween. You can begin the food cooking well before the little goblins begin their appointed rounds and have the dishes you’ve prepared kept warm while you’re waiting for guests to arrive or doling out treats at your front door, whatever the necessity of the moment may be. You can even cook normal favorites in the crock pot or cook them on the stove and use the crock pot to keep them warm.
Some excellent spooky crock pot ideas include spaghetti brains. Prepare the sauce and the noodles ahead of time separately. Mix the sauce in the noodles and keep them warming together in the crock pot. Meatball eyes are another crock pot favorite. Stuff the meatballs with one stuffed olive eyeball and place in spaghetti sauce. Bat wings (which are actually chicken wings) with your favorite sauce are also excellent in the crock pot. Sloppy Joes can also be prepared and stored in the crock pot then served open faced over buns with small triangle cheese slices for eye and a pickle for eyeballs and a large triangle of cheese for the mouth.
Another great Halloween cooking idea is to prepare as much as possible ahead of time. There are all kinds of frightening and ghastly goodies that can be made ahead of time and stored for the big day. Make your spooky offerings such as dips that can be made cold and used for veggies, which can also be chopped ahead of time, can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge for the big day. Cookies can be baked and decorated and stored in advance. Devilled egg white mice can be made earlier in the day and stored in the fridge on waxed paper.
The Internet is full of great recipe ideas for delicious and devious Halloween desserts, snacks, and treats. There are far too many to try them all. However, if you have favorite foods that are easy to prepare and a good party food you might want to search the net for a manner of making the food more appropriate to a Halloween theme. You can make your own pizza a little spookier by decorating it in a manner that is spooky or painting pictures, such as a jack o lantern face with pizza sauce. There are plenty of things you can do to raise the fear factor even on family favorites if you use a little creativity and give it a fancy name (like spaghetti brains).
The most important thing about Halloween as a holiday is that it gives children of all ages the perfect excuse to use their imaginations and play pretend. The food you cook doesn’t have to be too terribly spooky in order to be a perfect fit for the theme of the day. A few simple adjustments, a little dash of food color, and a lot of imagination can make any meal so much more Halloween worthy in the end.
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Halloween Trick or Treat Yummy Recipes
Get our collection of yummy Halloween recipes, just in time for trick or treat. You get 30 easy
and yummy ghoulish recipes.
1. Flying Broomstick Ghosts
2. Wacky Halloween Lollipops
3. Hay Bale Candy Drops
4. Green Monster Toes
5. Spooky Graveyard Squares
6. Halloween Oatmeal Cookie Triangles
7. Mystery Halloween Cookie Pops
8. Munchable Scarecrows
9. Squirmy Crawler Cupcakes
10. Totally Batty Cupcakes
11. Caramel Candy Apple Surprise
12. Creepy Black Cat Cake
13. Creepy Crawly Ice Cream Cups
14. Trick or Treat Ice Cream Cones
15. Halloween Banana Bites
16. Glitter Popcorn Snack
17. Strawberry Rice Mini Rounds
18. Oh So Gooey Nachos
19. Wicked Witch Popcorn Balls
20. Crispy Rice Pumpkin Pops
21. Fluffy Ghost Pops
22. Eerie Eyed Mint Cocoa
23. Ice Spider Punch
24. Wrapped Up Mummy Dip
25. Monster Face Burgers
26. Ghoulish Squirm Sandwiches
27. Pumpkin Joe Pie
28. Crispy Witch Fingers
29. Frankenstein’s Coffin Surprise
30. Bloodshot Red Ghoul Eyes
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Relish! Weekly Menu Planner
Relish! is an online recipe site that helps families build a healthy menu plan and
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