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One of my new favorite weekend rituals is to make my own pizzas from scratch. It saves money over spending a small fortune at the local pizza shop (my family can eat a LOT of pizza!), and I think it tastes better than most commercial pizzas. Plus, we can customize our pizzas to everyone’s preferences […] Never-Fail Pie Crust From the “Bentley Farm Cookbook” by Virginia Williams Bentley Yield: enough pastry for a 9-inch one-crust pie (double recipe for a 2-crust pie) Ingredients: 2 C. all-purpose flour 1 tsp. salt ½ C. vegetable oil ¼ C. cold […] This is one of my “signature” desserts. I get requests for it ALL the time. I like to make it because it is quite easy: just 3 or 4 ingredients that can be put together rather quickly. It can be made ahead and refrigerated for several days or frozen for several weeks. And it never […] Trying a new recipe for dinner: Smokey black bean & corn pizza cooked on the grill. Made Omega Bakery’s focaccia for the crust. Yum! Question: My mom says you can substitute applesauce for oil in some recipes? What do you think? Baking S.O.S. says: It is possible to substitute applesauce for some of the fat (oil, butter, or shortening) in recipes. However, fats serve an important role in baked goods, so you cannot omit them all together. Fats give […] |
Smart Balance 50/50 Baking Sticks Test: Take 2
Recently, I tested a new product for baking: Smart Balance 50/50 butter blend sticks. These sticks are a combination of 50% Smart Balance spread and 50% butter. The benefit to baking with Smart Balance sticks is that they contain 28% less saturated fat and 50% less cholesterol than butter (according to the Smart Balance web […]