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snacks

pimento-cheese-dip

pimento-cheese-dip

After having fresh pretzels with pimento cheese dip at Winter Hill Brewery I wanted to find a recipe. I thought it would be great to serve with chips or sto...

Scallion Pancakes

Scallion Pancakes

After a few attempts I find it really hard to get the scallion pancakes crispy but not oily. Next time I will focus on how much oil and how long to cook. T...

Popcorn spices

Popcorn spices

You can definitely adjust the amount of kernels. The measurements are just approximate and spices best added by feel. You can season and taste based on your ...

Dumpings

Dumpings

We recently took a dumpings class at Mei Mei teaching folding and cooking techniques. Learning the folding techniques from the demonstration was really great...

Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard boiled eggs are easy to make but come out differently depending on the time and temperature. Using a sous vide wand seems excessive but they come out e...

Congee

Congee

There are lots of ways to make congee. I prefer to make a really nice homeade chicken broth. Using a vitamix blender with cooked rice saved lots of make ma...

Chicken Broth

Chicken Broth

I got the recipe and idea from David Changs Cooking At Home book. The idea is to boil a while chicken in just salted water to cook the chicken. Then the liq...

Soft Pretzels

Soft Pretzels

I really like making soft pretzels for the textures and salty bready tastes. The Samantha video pretzel recipe gets a dark pretzel by adding brown sugar to ...

Potato Chips

Potato Chips

Homemade kettle potato chips are really delicious. They are easy to make but a little messy. The key is to get the potatoes sliced really evenly with a mad...

Fruit Leather

Fruit Leather

The first part of the video shows an easy recipe for fruit leather. Our new air fryer has a dehydrate mode but seems easier to use an oven where you can use...

Yogurt updated

Yogurt updated

I’m a fan on the What’s Eating Dan? youtube series. The yogurt episode has good recipes. When I have some extra cream substituting some in yogurt works wel...

Wings Sauce

Wings Sauce

Investigating different air fryer wings sauces gochuchang sauce works really well. We have some gochuchang sauce in a tube. I tried using ketchup but I thi...

Air Fryer Chicken Wings

Air Fryer Chicken Wings

I watched a video on air fryer wings from Mike on Pro Home Cooks. He tried several methods with the airfryer including baking powder, flour, breading (flour,...

Potstickers

Potstickers

Found recipe to make simple potsticker wrappers from Mei Mei. The wrapper fillings are simple with the ingredients of just flour, water, and salt. The key ...

Barley Oat Biscuits

Barley Oat Biscuits

I like this youtube video on food52 for Barley Oat Biscuits. I like the idea of a salty and sweet easy to make cracker. You can keep some in the uncooked ...

Spiced Peans

Spiced Peans

Spiced pecans are a family tradition around the holidays. I like the heavy flavors from the bitters, bourbon, and hot spices. The nuts last for a while. I...

Sourdough crackers

Sourdough crackers

Crackers are a really nice and easy way to use discarded sourdough starter. There is enough liquid in the starter so you only need to add flour, butter, and...