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Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Breakfast Recipes 

The Adventures of Ramblin Rose: Dude Ranch Cooks

In almost 50 years in the operation of a guest ranch, there are a lot of cooks and chefs that come through the front gate. Rarely is there such a thing as a quiet and demure cook. They all have unique personalities. This is the story of one of our mo...

Rural Route 2 Recipes, Cooking, Food and The Cookbook

When I was growing up on our small family dairy farm in west central Wisconsin 40 years ago, my dad-like most farmers I knew-worked from sunup to sunset. He didn't want fancy food. He wanted good food. And that's what this cookbook is all about....

How to Make Perfect Scrambled Eggs - WITHOUT a Nonstick Pan!

How do you get nonstick eggs without a nonstick pan? Even with nonstick, are your eggs a gummy mess? I always wondered how chefs turned out such light, fluffy eggs, when my scrambles were always heavy and soggy. Turns out the perfect scrambled eggs a...

Flip the Pancake and Sing about Waffles

You can make the best waffles and pancakes with the cast iron griddles and pure Vermont Maple Syrup. To get you in the mood you gotta check out the video "Do you like pancakes?" My daughter drew the cats that keep popping up around the Waffles. So...

Amish baked oatmeal

Once described as eating an oatmeal cookie for breakfast, this recipe really will rock your breakfast world. Better yet, this is a quick and easy make-ahead meal that the whole family will enjoy.

The Best-Ever Buttermilk Pancake Recipe

Have you ever heard of Polly's Pancake Parlor in New Hampshire's White Mountains? Food writers have been known to call their pancakes the best in America. We could quibble about whether mine are the best-ever buttermilk pancakes or whether Polly's a...

Crepes Central!

Crepes are thin delicate pancakes that can be a wrap for anything from strawberries and chocolate, to cinnamon and apples, to grilled veggies, to spinach and cheese! Crepes can turn an ordinary meal into a culinary delight! Crepes can be filled and...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Main Dish Recipes 

Casserole Recipe- Broccoli-Rice-Sausage

We were invited to a "covered dish" tonight at a friend's home. She has re-done her old family home place which was built in 1790 and wanted to have her neighbors and friends over. I immediately thought about our family favorite - The...

The Best-Ever Glazed Baked Ham Recipe

How would you describe the best-ever glazed baked ham recipe? In my opinion, the recipe for the best baked ham would have to be fairly easy to put together and yield an absolutely delicious result. This recipe does just that. It is actually very easy...

Luscious and Low-Carb: Meatloaf

This meatloaf does triple duty: it is low-carb for Atkins eaters, it is gluten-free for celiac sufferers, and it is utterly, sinfully delicious for everyone. My kids beg me to make this meatloaf. Yes, there's a filler that helps it hold together, jus...

Confessions of a Mac and Cheese Snob

There have been heavy accusations lodged against me, so I'm coming clean: Yes, I am a macaroni and cheese snob. It's true. Spare me your Kraft, and don't even show me that tasteless, plastic cafeteria side dish. Can they really call that food? The...

Stuffed Cabbage *

One of my fondest food memories growing up is watching my grandmother make Stuffed Cabbage ... and then, of course, eating it!  She had a "secret ingredient" that made her stuffed cabbage rolls the best I've ever had!  I'l...

How to Make a Great Pasta Salad with Whatever's in Your Pantry

Your pantry is bare except for a few meager offerings. How can you throw together a quick and easy meal? Pasta salad! This salad can be made with just about anything you find in your pantry, as long as you have a couple of basic ingredients. The reci...

Chicken and Black Bean Quesadillas

If you like Quesadillas with cheese you'll love this. The kids loved it. It has chicken, cheese, beans (fun-looking black ones!), salsa - all in a flour tortilla baked to perfection. It's easy to make and since the kids like it there isn't any compla...

Ranch Chicken and Vegetable Recipe

Prepare an easy to make Ranch-Flavor Chicken and Vegetables for dinner. A nice hearty dish. Serve with a salad and some bread. It's great with children! For vegetables I always choose potatoes, carrots and onions. Sprinkle on ranch dry seasoning mix,...

My Chicken got Porked

Well I got ya on that title huh? What do I mean by my Chicken got Porked? Well I mean some good recipes with chicken and bacon - so if you were looking for something else - this is not where to look. If you are looking for some yummy recipes then you...

The Absolute Best Home Made Manicotti Recipes

Nothing beats a steaming dish of manicotti dripping with tomato sauce and loaded with cheese, and in my opinion, nothing compares to home made.  The shells are easy to make once you know how and you can stuff them with all of your fami...

Two for one chicken dinners

A few years ago I watched a program that showed just how horrible living conditions are for battery hens. I decided at that moment that I would no longer buy battery hens or eggs from battery hens. These days I only ever buy free range and/or organi...

Shepherds Pie Recipes

On a cold Canadian winters night one of my favourite meals to serve my family is as the French say "Pate Chinois"!...or Shepherds Pie! Over the years of cooking for my family I have altered this recipe quite a bit and come up with a personal fav...a...

MOREL MUSHROOM RECIPES

The morel of this story is ..........Three species of morel mushrooms are generally harvested the Morchella conica, M. angusticeps and M. esculenta. All types of morels mushrooms have a honeycombed, hollow, cone-shaped cap ranging in size from 1 cm t...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning International/Ethnic Recipes 

Guam's Delicious Recipes

Born and raised on Guam, I never stop comparing parties with the village-wide fiestas where EVERYONE is invited. Rub elbows with the mayors and senators of the island, and never tire of the abundance of food, music and laughter. With its multi-cultur...

Traditional British Puddings

Baked or steamed, whether pie or tart, flan, flummory, or fool, the Traditional British Pudding conjures up images of love and home for many. No meal could ever be complete without this dish, served with warm custard or thick cream. In this day of u...

British Roast Beef Dinner

Who says British food is bland and boring? If you've ever tasted a well cooked slice of roast beef accompanied by a perfectly roasted potato and parsnip, a Yorkshire pudding, and lightly steamed fresh vegetables, well, then you know the fallacy of t...

British Roast Pork Dinner

Let your senses take you away for a moment. It's a winter afternoon, there's a crisp chill in the air. The smell of roasted pork meets you first. Next, your eyes spy a succulent rolled shoulder of pork, perfectly roasted with a layer of crackling on...

Laksa : Taste of Malaysia

It's delicious, it's addictive, it's rich, slightly sweet and strongly spiced. It's laksa! Even the name is delightful. It rolls off your tongue and tempts your tastebuds. Try it. So what exactly is laksa? It's a coconutty broth with lemongrass and...

Alternative Sushi

I love sushi. My kids love sushi. My husband loves sushi. It's also the perfect way to use leftovers if you just get a little bit outside the box. There is a very proper way to make sushi. It takes years of experience and training under a master,...

British Roast Chicken Dinner

We love a roast chicken dinner in our house. That lovely browned, crisp skin, covering succulent, moist meat. Sausages cooked in the juices of the chicken, bacon rolls, and a selection of roasted root vegetables and steamed green vegetables. It's a...

British Savoury pies

The British savoury pie is a time honoured tradition. This is simple food at its most delicious. A steaming hot filling of gravy, vegetables, and meat surrounded by a pastry shell or topped by a thick layer of mashed potatoes. Served up on a plate w...

Welsh Cakes - Picau Ar Y Maen

Welsh Cakes - THE most delicious memory of my childhood. The smell of freshly baked Welsh Cakes is wonderful and the taste is just, well, if you've never had a Welsh Cake, I suggest that you put eating one on your list of "Things To Do Befo...

Welsh Rarebit - aka Welsh Rabbit!

Welsh Rarebit (also known as Welsh Rabbit - although there's not a rabbit anywhere in sight!) is a delicious traditional British dish. Welsh Rarebit consists of toasted bread covered with cheese that has been melted in beer or milk with mustard, pep...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Sandwich Recipes 

Secrets for making Incredible Hamburgers

Everyone loves a great hamburger! They can say that "hot dogs" along with apple pie and baseball are the great American pastimes, but it's McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy's that are on every street corner in America, not hot dog sta...

The Best-Ever Sloppy Joes Recipe ~~ Easy & Delicious

Sloppy Joes. YUM. That is what I think when I think of our family's Best-Ever Sloppy Joes Recipe. It is fast and easy and devoured by every member of our family with absolutely no reservations and plenty of enthusiasm! The name 'Sloppy Joes...

The Best Tomato and Cheese Sandwich

Nothin' says SUMMER better than a homegrown tomato! The BEST way to eat that tomato is to sit on the back porch steps with a salt shaker and go to town. My Mom taught me the following method when I was 5 years old: lick the tomato in one spot, shake...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Bread Recipes 

Ciabatta (Slipper) Bread Recipe

Ciabatta Bread Recipe In Italian, ciabatta means "slipper," which leads many people to call the bread "slipper bread." Ciabatta Bread was invented by Italian bread bakers and became very popular throughout the rest of the world! C...

How To Make Sourdough Bread

With my Alaska lodge recipe, it's easy to make a great loaf of fresh sourdough bread. I'll give you richly-illustrated step-by-step instructions of my proven method, which allows for many variations on a tasty loaf. White, whole wheat, rye, focaccia,...

Ezekiel Bread

Ezekiel bread is a bread made from four grains and four beans. Typically it contains wheat, spelt or rye, barley, millet, lentils, great northern beans, kidney beans, and pinto beans. According to the AAOOB website, the specific mixture of grains and...

Making Bread at Home

Have you ever baked homemade bread? I started making bread many years ago. My mother also made many different kinds of bread through the years. At 84 years of age she still makes bread. I have many favorites but I think the one like the most is honey...

The Best-Ever Country Seed Bread Recipe

The Best-Ever Country Seed Bread Recipe is a delight to throw together using your bread machine. Most recipes for your bread maker are easy, but not all are as delicious as this one is. It always receives rave reviews and is a staple at our house. We...

Banana Bread Recipes

There's nothing quite like a warm loaf of banana bread straight from the oven just waiting to be sliced open! So many recipes, so many alterations...add walnuts or not...add chocolate chips or don't...do you butter your bread or skip it? I think ba...

The Best-Ever Banana Bread Recipe

The best-ever banana bread recipe. We've been making (and eating) it for more than 16 years! Tried, tested and true, this recipe has never failed and we have never, ever found another recipe for a banana loaf that is as moist or as delicious as this...

Scrumpdiddlyumptious Blueberry Banana Bread (or Muffins)

This is my family's absolute favorite breakfast food: Blueberry Banana Muffins!

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Soup and Stew Recipes 

Turkey Soup Recipe

Soup is good food. I know when it comes to cooking a Turkey I will get more than one meal from it and we always use the leftover Turkey for a Yummy Soup. So I am going to share with you a simple recipe that we use to make a delicious easy soup that w...

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Chicken noodle soup has long been known as one of the best healthy comfort foods. When we think of chicken noodle soup, we feel emotionally secure. It is what our mother had given us when we were sick with a cold. Or even with the flu. I remember my...

Everything Gumbo for Planet Gumbo

Gumbo is a thick stew or soup and a very popular Cajun dish that had origins in Louisiana. This Creole soup or stew often made with tomatoes, okra, meats, seafood, vegetables and some kind of thickening agent. It is often served over rice. According...

Broccoli Soup Recipes

What could be more satisfying than a broccoli soup which is easy to make - and good for you too? Broccoli has many health promoting qualities, is cheap and easy to cook with. Oh, and broccoli is low in calories too....... Choose from a sumptuous cre...

How to Make Cream of Turkey Soup From Your Leftover Turkey

The holidays are wonderful, but let's face it: there's a whole lot of eatin' goin' on. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but when the iconic holiday meal centers around a huge bird, chances are, you're going to have to find...

Nothing Beats A Warm Soup On A Cold Night

You may call it soup,soupe,sopa, or minestra or even suppe, but whatever  language is used, it conveys a warm comforting feeling of being nurtured and satisfied.  In this lens, I would like to present you with a few historical soup companie...

Chicken Stew Recipe

I just love Chicken Noodle soup. Although, it's always left me hungry about an hour or so after. I'm a growing boy and I needed to come up with a fufilling Chicken Soup recipe. This is just my take on a classic recipe. Don't feel you have to adhere t...

Delicious Homemade Soup

There are so many delicious soups that you can make. Enjoy a bowl of soup tonight for dinner. You can make your soup in a large pot on the stove or opt to make it in a large slow cooker and let it simmer all day or night long! Make a great vegetable...

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

My version of the all-time favorite warming feel-good food. Generally Campbell's does it for me, but sometimes you want that simmering chicken, fresh vegetable and homestyle noodle taste. Eat! Fast and filling...especially if you already have the chi...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Side Dish Recipes 

The Best-Ever Creamy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe

The Best-Ever Creamy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe is Umm, Umm, Good! These potatoes are exactly what I think of when I think of comfort food and they are soooo delicious. My sister-in-law quite likes them and she, believe it or not, does not like scallo...

Hashbrown Casserole Recipe

Looking for a Hashbrown Casserole Recipe? Hash Brown Casserole Recipe that is very close to the Cracker Barrel recipe. This is not the Official Cracker Barrel hashbrown casserole recipe for their famous Hashbrown Casserole Recipe! But, it comes out v...

Cinnamon Apple Baked Beans (And Other Baked Bean Recipes)!

Baked beans have long been a favorite for chilly winter dinners, summer picnics, and potluck dishes year round. This version adds the sweetness of honey and apples, along with the spiciness of cinnamon! It can be made in the crockpot or in your oven...

Sweet Potatoes: Healthy, Tasty, and Versatile

Yes, sweet potatoes come in a can, in gelatinous chunks destined to be covered with marshmallows.  If that's your idea of sweet potato perfection, stop reading this lens.  If you'd like something different - and much healthier - on your tab...

New Featured Lenses 

The Best-Ever Hawaiian Potato Salad Recipe

Hawaiian Potato Salad is not the simplest potato salad recipe ever, but is certainly one of the most delicious ones! It contains more vegetables than the average potato salad and a slightly lighter-tasting and healthier dressing that still manages to...

The Little Potato Is Not So Humble Anymore

Although the potato is not the cutest and the most colorful of the vegetables, it is still the third largest crop in the entire world. The potato is not the vilain that some diet gurus pretend it is. Eaten plain, it can be part of a healthy and slim...

Delicious Vegetarian Curry Recipes

This is a collection of vegetarian curry recipes, including Curried Fruit, Vegetable Curry, Curried Squash, and Curry Beans. Most of the recipes are vegan too, or can easily be adapted to be vegan. You can also find curry cookbooks and fine spices f...

Hungry Squidz Award Winning Beverage Recipe Lenses 

The Best-Ever Hawaiian Punch Recipe

The best-ever Hawaiian punch recipe you will ever find is available right here on this page! A homemade recipe, it is simple to put together, it is nutritious and it is definitely delicious! I actually have THREE delicious punch recipes but, after a b...

Make Your Own Soymilk

Make your own soymilk at home. It is easy to make with your own soymilk machine. It's a hard long drawn out process if not using one of the new soymilk maker machines. You can make a smooth, flavorful beverage for only a few cents per gallon. It is a...

HERBAL TEA RECIPES - make your own delicious herbal tea for keeping healthy and even to cure what ails you!

GREEN TEA and other herbal varieties have healthifying, therapeutic and even curative qualities, and many elderly and even centigenarians attribute their longevity to the drinking of certain herbal recipe teas. So, let's see what we can learn about t...

Pear and Parsley Green Smoothie Recipe

Having suffered from vitamin deficiencies most of my life, and the doctor's being at a loss to provide me with any answers, only more questions... I have discovered my own best way back to health. Although most people seem to be concerned with losing...

How to Make a Margarita

There's a local Mexican restaurant I go every now and then. The food is not so great, but I have to admit I keep going back for the Margaritas. Their secret? Fresh limes and premium tequila. Put away that boring artificially-flavored and strangely c...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Condiment, Spice, Sauce and Gravy Recipes 

Green Tomato Chutney

When I moved to the UK from Kansas, one of the first food dishes I was introduced to was chutney. Specifically, the green tomato chutney passed down through the generations from my husband's great-grandmother. Every summer, my husband's mother and f...

Beef Gravy Recipe

Beef Gravy Recipe Are you fixing a roast for dinner? Prepare this quick and easy beef gravy recipe to add some zing to your Roast Beef! A fast recipe you can whip up using the left over sauces from your roast. This beef gravy recipe is very tasty an...

It's Time to Spice Up Your Life

Chinese Five Spice, Pumpkin Spice, Mixed Spice, Curry Powders. They add variety and flavour to your food dishes, whatever the cuisine. These assorted spice mixes can also be quite costly at the shop so the temptation to buy in bulk when they're on s...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Novelty Food Ideas 

Making Amazing Japanese Molded Eggs

For those of you who love cute food, have kids, are obsessed with bento lunches, or just want to try something different: I give you Japanese Egg Molds. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to transform the common egg into something eggstraordinary (s...

Hungry Squidz Choice Complete Meal Lenses 

Complete Make-Ahead Summer Dinner Menu & Recipes

Summertime and the living is easy! Or maybe just easier with this complete summer dinner menu comprised mostly of recipes that can be made ahead! Some of them require quite a bit of work beforehand (potato salad generally does) but, on the day you ar...

A Tasty & Traditional Easter Dinner Menu

A delicious Easter dinner menu that is as easy as pie. That is quite an expression, 'easy as pie!' Actually, it is hilarious for I have to admit that pie making, for me, is NOT easy. It is my absolute favorite dessert but it is something that I alway...

Cooking with All Things Trader Joe's

Looking for easy recipes and healthy meals? Love Trader Joe's? You've come to the right place! We all love to eat good, healthy, homemade food but most of us are too busy to spend hours in the kitchen every day. Between work, family, and a fast-pace...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Special Diet Recipes. 

Low Carbohydrate Recipes for Weight Loss

Weight Loss is one of the hardest skills to conquer these days with all the fried snacks and fast food restaurants out there. With trans fats, processed foods, and preservatives...not to mention hodrogenated oils and corn syrup (which IS bad for you...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Snack Recipes 

Recipe for Homemade Yogurt

Homemade Yogurt (yoghurt) is a healthy source of protein, calcium, magnesium, and other essential vitamins and minerals. The active cultures in yogurt aid in digestion. Yogurt is easy to make and you save money by making it yourself. When you make yo...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Dessert Recipes 

A Celebration of Girls and Their Favorite Things

Raising little girls is like riding a roller coaster in many ways. It has it's ups and downs, it's great fun, it can take your breath away and be totally terrifying at times, especially as you come upon the teenage years. This is a celebration of th...

Apple and Pecan Brownies

Award from The Hungry Squidz With Thanksgiving coming up, I'd say that Apple and Pecan Brownies are very appropriate. They are so quick to prepare and easy to bake that anybody can make them. If you are an inexperienced cook, just follow the recipe ca...

Coconut Cream Cake - A Great Special Occasion Dessert

Need a cake for a party or a special occasion? How about for Easter or for a birthday? This coconut cream cake is the perfect choice. It's sweet, very rich and flavorful, pretty, and even a little bit decadent! You might think a dessert with all tho...

The Best-Ever Chocolate Fondue Recipe

Believe it or not, I stumbled upon this recipe in a quick search of the internet. My teenage sons wanted a chocolate fondue; one had won a 400 gram Toblerone chocolate bar as a prize. New Year's Eve was coming and I was not feeling organized or motiv...

The Best-Ever Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrot Cake. WOW. Why should you eat carrot cake? How about because they are a great source of fiber, vitamins, nuts and other nutrients? How about just because they are delicious!!! I didn't know I loved carrot cake until I made this delicious re...

PERFECT HOLIDAY CHEESECAKE RECIPES

No one knows where cheese came from originally, it was presumed to have happened in the middle east when milk was carried in bags which were made from the cow or the goat's stomach. It was churned into cheese by the action of travelling on a camel or...

Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

Peanut Butter Pie Recipe This Peanut Butter Pie Recipe is very fluffy and is no bake. Making it very easy to prepare and will be a huge hit at your next family gathering or at a pot luck dinner! No bake desserts are really easy to fix and this recipe...

Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe

What could be better than an easy to make recipe for delicious lemon meringue pie? This classic dessert has been a favorite for hundreds of years. The tasty lemon filling provides the perfect contrast to the crisp meringue topping. Make lemon merin...

Coconutties: Super Simple, Super Quick, Super Sweet!

Coconutties are the quickest, easiest dessert around, and yet they can look - and taste! - very elegant. Make these when you're headed out the door and the fancy dessert you were supposed to bring was eaten by the dog (at least that's what you'll tel...

Delicious Dump Cake - A Family Favorite!

Just to clarify, "dump" in the case of this dump cake recipe is used as a verb, as in "dump the ingredients into the pan." Sound messy? Not really. Sound simple? That's because it is simple, simple but oh, so tasty! While there are some variations t...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Appetizer Recipes 

Hawaiian Tuna Poke Recipes

Tuna Poke (pronounced POH-kay) is a fresh, yummy, and easy to make appetizer! If you love tuna sashimi (raw fish), you'll love popular and tasty Ahi Tuna Poke. In Hawaiian, poke means "cut piece" or "small piece" and is the flavorful Hawaiian versio...

Sambusa!

If you have never had sambusa you really are missing one of the great culinary delights on the planet. I had never heard of it either, until I worked a job where I had lots of Somali co-workers and the Islamic holiday of Ramadan rolled into my world...

Hungry Squidz Choice Award Winning Recipe Lensographies 

My Best-Ever Recipes Collection

Collected over the last twenty years, my best-ever recipes are from various sources and include recipes for special occasions and for everyday meals. You'll find some extraordinary baking ideas, like carrot cake and banana bread, and some holiday...

Kitchenwitch cookery

I love to cook. I love finding and trying new recipes. I love even more putting my own twist on the recipes I find to make them my own. I must admit that I don't actually have to open a cookbook much any more. That doesn't stop me from wanting to buy...

International Recipes 

TAGINES THE TASTE OF MOROCCO.

Many people believe the Tagine is a tasty Moroccan stew, but in fact the tagine is a Moroccan terracotta cookery pot.The Tagine or tajine consists of two parts, the base is circular with low sides, and the detachable dome shaped cover. Ceramic vessel...

British Roast Lamb Dinner

In the Spring, I find myself hungering for the succulent taste of a roast leg of lamb. This is truly a seasonal food, especially if like me you try to buy locally sourced foods as much as possible. Nothing smells better coming out of the oven, I thi...