Get out your bread machine for this easy recipe using a Jiffy cornbread mix.
Just in case you haven’t finalized your Super Bowl party menu, here’s an idea for your consideration.
These aren’t the famed corny dogs of the Texas State Fair, but they are a great substitute for those of us who would rather not eat the fried version more than once a year. I try to buy hot dogs lower than 100 calories a piece which brings these in just under 200 calories per swirly dog. Makes a great lunch with my salad in a jar.
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Fried shrimp with a crumbled saltine coating makes for extra crunch.
Fried food is an endangered species in my kitchen, but these shrimp are on the protected list.
I have a tradition of serving fried shrimp on New Year’s Day for our annual celebration with friends–when the party is at my house. Once in awhile we might have them on someone’s birthday, but they are a rare and special treat.
Because it’s pretty basic, I never thought about putting up the recipe until my daughter-in-law requested it. So this one’s for you, Susie.
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Everybody has a recipe for chicken salad, I suppose. This is mine. One of them, anyway. I have an everyday mix-in-two-minutes-spread-on-white-bread recipe and a party recipe. This is the latter.
It started with a recipe I found buried in a notebook of company recipes for a pizza chain where I used to work in research and development. After revising the amounts to make them domestically appropriate, and dressing it up a bit, I consider it mine.
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Have you missed any of these favorites from this blog, pinned and re-pinned on Pinterest this year? In order of popularity, I have gathered them in one place for you.
How to Make Salad in a Jar
If your clothes feel tight and your pocket-book thin, the new year might be a good time to give this money/calorie-saving technique a try.
Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Chicken Bites
Check out the comments on this post for some delicious-sounding variations. The guys seem to really like this one.
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Coating cookies with powdered sugar can be time-consuming, but I have devised a way to streamline the process and end up with prettier cookies, too.
When my favorite Christmas tree decorator hinted he would accept some kind of lemon-flavored Christmas cookies as payment, I had my working orders. I surprised him with lemon thumbprints last year but wanted something different this year, of course. My tradition-following gene is apparently mutated.
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