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Peanut Brittle Hearts for Valentine’s Day
I’ve been meaning to share this peanut brittle recipe forever, because it’s one of the easiest candies you can make, and everyone seems to love it. I’ve also been meaning to post a Valentine’s Day recipe … and don’t you just love when you can do two things at once? This recipe takes little time and few ingredients. What’s not to love about that? [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:10] If you’ve never bought raw Spanish peanuts before, here’s what they look like. It’s important that they be raw, because you’re going to cook them in the brittle mixture, and if you start with roasted peanuts, they’ll taste burnt.Here’s what the brittle looks like when…
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No-Bake Mountain Bars … and a Dream
I had a dream last night … and let me tell you, it was a doozy. In this dream, I was in a foreign land, or so I thought, until I realized it was Brooklyn. Dave was there with me, and someone asked him to do a Catholic funeral at a place that was supposed to be a large church, but which ended up being big and expansive, like a sports stadium, except that it also felt like a small, intimate bowling alley. We’d been assigned the center four “lanes” for this particular funeral, but other funerals were going on all around us on the other lanes. Ours was the…
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Those Licorice Caramels
I’m about to divulge my secret recipe … the one that has men fighting over the gallon-sized baggie holding these little treasures, and women hinting that they could eat another, and children sneaking their hands up over the counter and grabbing another gooey handful. Yes. It’s my licorice caramel recipe. I’ve had it forever. I started making it about three minutes after I found it. For the life of me, I can’t remember where I got it, and I’m sorry for that. I would love to give credit where credit is due, but I just don’t know where I got the recipe. Now, people have asked me for this recipe,…
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Salted Caramel Short Bread Bites
Just a warning: don’t try these if you don’t like things that are gooey, creamy, buttery, flaky and just the tiniest bit salty. So … who’s still reading? No one? Yeah, I figured you’d all drop out at that. Guess I’ll just talk to myself 🙂 I’ve been seeing variations of this recipe all over the internet, so I figured I’d combine a few of my own recipes and make yet another version. See this box? It contains the very first kitchen tool (implement? gadget?) I ever received. I don’t remember how I even knew it existed, but it ended up on my Christmas list when I was 16 somewhere…
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Poor Man’s Almond Roca
[contact-form][contact-field label=”Name” type=”name” required=”true” /][contact-field label=”Email” type=”email” required=”true” /][contact-field label=”Website” type=”url” /][contact-field label=”Message” type=”textarea” /][/contact-form] I’ve been making this candy (which, btw, is also known as “Cracker Candy” ) every Christmas for as long as I can remember. Which is why I was surprised today when Tera, my 15-year old daughter, said, “This candy is a little piece of heaven. Why have you never made it before?” Oh, daughter. This is another of those never-fail-to-delight recipes. It’s so easy as to be almost embarrassing. But no one will know if we don’t tell them. Just offer them a little bit of heaven and say nothing. Poor Man’s Almond Roca (a.k.a…
