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Homemade Glazed Doughnuts

Let me begin this post by saying how excited I am to share this doughnut recipe with you. What can I say? Doughnuts are exciting. They thrill me to the bone.

Second, let me lay one thing out on the table: Making good, raised doughnuts at home is not as easy as you'd think. For years (yes, you heard me) I tried in vain to make the perfect homemade doughnut—not just a fat, bready wad of fried dough with a sweet glaze, but a delicate, light ring of love with a slightly crispy surface and a...

A Brief Superbowl Rundown, and Le Creuset Winners

 

The winners for the Le Creuset French ovens are listed below.

Meantime, I've made the shopping list for our Superbowl feast. After all is said and done, I thought I'd come clean and tell you once and for all what I'm making 48 hours from now for a sweaty room full of football-crazed humans.

Well, maybe four or five football-crazed human.

But only if the weather holds up.

 

Restaurant Style Salsa. I made it last night in 2 minutes, 47 seconds. I timed it.

 

 

Drip Beef Sandwiches...

The Flame of Love

 

I haven't had a giveaway here on The Pioneer Woman Cooks for quite awhile. Since the first of the year, I've had most of my cooking-related giveaways over on the Tasty Kitchen Blog (Please see Jaden's post on Compound Butter this morning. Perfection.) and besides that, I've been busy cooking, eating, and padding my abdomen. Whoever said abdomens were supposed to be taut, anyway? Abdomens weren't taut in biblical times and as far as I'm concerned, that's good enough for me.

 

Did they...

Drip Beef, Two Ways

Drip Beef. To me, the name means Scumptious. Hearty.

Drip Beef. To me, the name means Crowd pleasing. Yummy.

Drip Beef. To me, the name means Hyacinth.

Well, so many things mean Hyacinth to me—not just this flavorful, slow-cooked shredded beef slapped on a buttered bun and dipped in the cooking juices…though the significance of such beauty should never be underestimated. But Hyacinth is so much more than Drip Beef. How can I adequately describe her? Sweetness and Light. Goodness and...

A Tasty Recipe and Other Matters

 

This is a numeric list.

 

I just love numeric lists. They satisfy my deep psychological yearning for order.

 

My pantry sure isn't going to satisfy that need. It's a royal mess these days. Someone please come help. Thank you.

 

THE NUMERIC LIST

 

One. I made this blessed soup last night:

 

Because it's Tuesday, I posted the step-by-step photos on the Tasty Kitchen Blog. Here's the link:

A Tasty Recipe: The Mushroom Soup

I absolutely loved it. It warmed my pancreas.

 

 

 

Two...

Cajun Chicken Pasta

This is an exceedingly yummy, decadent pasta dish with chicken, vegetables, and lots and lots of scrumptious carbs. It's a cinch to throw together, and if you don't have prepared Cajun spice in your cabinet, you can just throw a few spices together to make your own combination. Different Cajun spice mixtures use different combinations of ingredients, but if you stick to basics like cayenne pepper (important!), paprika, white pepper (plenty, to help the spice factor), and garlic or onion...

Life by Chocolate

Enough of this talk of death. Chocolate is a life-giving elixir! Without it, where would we all be?

Oh…we'd all be skinny, you say?

Well, I guess you have a point. Without chocolate, we'd all be skinny. But you know what? We wouldn't be happy. Did you know that studies have proven that consuming a very small amount of dark chocolate once a day has a more profound affect on mild to moderate depression than prescription serotonin inhibitors? Now, I wouldn't necessarily advise anyone to stop...

Restaurant Style Salsa

Okay. Here's the situation:

I am completely high maintenance when it comes to salsa.

Now, I'm not talking about Pico de Gallo. I'm high maintenance there, too…but that's not what I'm making today.

What I'm making today is salsa. The kind they serve in restaurants with chips. The kind they sell in jars. The kind you eat during a football game. The kind that's replaced ketchup as the number one condiment in America.

As ubiquitous as it is, you'd think salsa would be a pretty straightforward t...

A Tasty Recipe: Lettuce Wraps

First. The four winners of the Surf & Turf sushi weekend have been contacted. However…as of Tuesday morning, only three have responded. I'll give the fourth winner till the end of the day today to respond; if I don't hear from them, I'll choose another winner tonight. Meanwhile, I'm in the process of planning several other cooking weekends at the Lodge this year and am gathering creative ideas for cooking/baking themes and expert demonstrations. Feel free to offer suggestions here for...

Homemade Chicken and Noodles

This is a comfort food from my childhood on the golf course, and something I highly recommend if you've never come across it in your life. It's beautiful, simple homemade Chicken and Noodles—a thick, hearty dish not to be confused with a thinner, brothier chicken noodle soup. It's so perfectly yummy and soul-pleasing.

While you could certainly go the turbo homemade route and make your own egg noodles (recipe below), I"ll show you a quick and easy alternative that I think is just as good.

You...