Blueberry Corn Muffins Recipe

These muffins are great for breakfast.  They are quick and easy to bake because the recipe uses Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix. We don't normally like muffin mix from the box but Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix is the exception and we think it's the best muffin mix from the box and it makes really delicious corn muffins.  We packed a few this morning along with a thermal of coffee for our commute to work.  These are tasty carry-along breakfast alternatives to our beloved blueberry pancakes when we don't have time for a sit down breakfast at home. They can be stored in muffin boxes or containers for up to 3 days and when warmed up in microwave for 12-15 seconds, they taste and smell like freshly baked.  Warm or cold, these muffins taste great. Click here for the recipe.

Buttery Apple Biscuits

Click here for the Buttery Apple Biscuits Recipe

Today, we made biscuits from scratch for the very first time. Long time ago, we tried making biscuits from the canned dough but they were too salty for us and therefore we came to the wrong conclusion that we didn't like biscuits after all. But these Apple Biscuits we made this morning totally converted us into the new fans of biscuits.  They are so delicious and so easy to make. We just can't have enough of them.

Cheddar Bread Twists Recipe

This cheddar cheese twists recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Single Serving Microwave Carrot Cake

The concept of baking a quick one serving cake using the microwave really intrigued us and got us excited. Unfortunately, the result was far from what we expected. The time we spent mixing up the batter for this one serving cake was not much shorter than the time we typically spent mixing up an oven-baked cake from scratch (no boxed cake mix). The cooking time was of course a few minutes with the microwave versus 25 minutes for oven-baked cake. However, the taste and texture of this cake was not close to the goodness of the traditional oven-baked cake we were expecting. This microwave cake was dry and the texture too spongy. It became even harder and drier after a few minutes. We felt like we were eating a bath scrub.... We wonder if it's really possible to bake any cake at all using microwave... or it's just our taste bud that we don't like eating cake in such texture? For those of you who are curious and who are willing to spend a little time to try this out, you can click here for the recipe.

Cottage Cheese Yeast Rolls Recipe

This cheese roll recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Rustic Nut Bars Recipe

This nuts bar recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Apple Butter Cake Roll Recipe

This apple cake recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Walnut Blue Cheese Coins

This blue cheese crackers recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

Cherry Almond Cups Recipe

This cherry almond cookie recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Cornflakes Chocolate Chips Cookies

Today is my last day at work before the Christmas holdiays begin. This means it's my last chance to give my co-workers their presents. Money is tight for me because I had spent too much money eating out in fancy restaurants (spent $80 for lunch just yesterday in Ivy in Beverly Hills and the food wasn't really that good) and buying cook books. In a desperation to save money, I found this cookie recipe on the internet and baked several dozens last night without much effort, packed them in boxes and just gave each of my fellow co-workers a box. They love them and are eating them at this moment with coffee. I'm relieved the Christmas gifting ordeal is officially over for this year. I don't cook much and am not good at cooking. So when I looked for cookie recipes, they have to be easy enough for me to do, and yet unique and special enough for me to make an effort to bake them at home. (or why bother, cause I can always buy the same old cookies from Costco) These cookies are just perfect cause I had never had chocolate chips cookies like these before, they have this special and flavorful crunch which makes the cookies more fun to chew on and a lot more tasty than the usual classics baked by everybody else.

Cup Brownies With White Chocolate Pecan Frosting

We don't have sweet teeth because we were raised in a non-sweet Asian diet. We also never cared too much for sweet stuff because we want to maintain our 4 to 6 sizes. But these brownies are, at this moment of our lives, the best brownies we ever had, they are melt-in-the-mouth yummy treats that we couldn't stop eating. We baked 24 last-night and they were all gone! We were shocked that we could do this. We normally could only take one bite of the store bought brownie or restaurant baked brownie and we felt sick to the stomach already. But these brownies tasted so good, each of us could take in several and still wanted more. We didn't have any sick feeling. We now realize brownies made with natural ingredients and the right amount of real butter are much better than those made with artificial shortenings, or whatever it is that only one bite makes us feel nauseous already. We realize there is no point in using margerine or whatever butter substitute that don't nearly taste good but only give us a bloating stomach. Click here to see the recipe for these delightful brownies. Besides, why use margerine since butter had done no harm to us, we are still in sizes 4 to 6. The secret to our slim figures is, not to over eat on a daily basis...but do enjoy the real good stuff once in a full moon.

Oak Leaf Cookies

This cookie recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

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Maple Walnut Rolls Recipe

This breakfast roll recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it? Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Cream Cheese Cranberry Muffins Recipe

This muffin recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?
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Quick Sticks

This recipe was originally featured in Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue in the article "Making Crackers", sort of to give readers an idea of making cracker gifts for the holidays. When brainstorming for money saving ideas, I suddenly remember this article I read when I was in college... glad to find the recipe updated on Martha Stewart's Website with how-to video.