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Home | Susan Bingaman

Susan Bingaman

Growing up, Susan Bingaman might have been deemed the pickiest eater this side of anywhere, but the pages of her grandmother’s copies of Gourmet and Bon Appetit changed all that. There was more to life than American cheese sandwiches with only yellow mustard on white bread, after all. She went on to become a Food Scientist fulfilling a dream of working in a test kitchen. Since then, Susan’s been a Leite’s Culinaria tester since June 2004 and was part of the team of testers for David’s cookbook, The New Portuguese Table.

She works for a major midwestern grocery store chain figuring nutrition facts for prepared foods. She lives in central Iowa with her husband and son where she hopes to break the chain of picky eating. There’s always a batch of Banana Bread Muffins in the freezer and, she’s quick to slather Cream Cheese Frosting on most everything, except when they are having Bucatini all’Amatriciana for dinner.

Susan Bingaman
Fifteen brownies, frosted with white frosting and speckled with crushed peppermint candies.

Peppermint Brownies

1 hr 20 mins

A glass pie plate filled with chocolate wacky cake with a piece cut from it on a white plate beside it.

Chocolate Wacky Cake with Chocolate Frosting

1 hr 30 mins

A giant peanut butter cup on a plate, cut into 15 wedges.

Giant Peanut Butter Cup

1 hr 15 mins

A bowl of easy queso dip with a person dipping a chip into it.

Easy Queso Dip

25 mins

A blue plate with a serving of creamy French chicken stew served over rice and garnished with parsley.

Creamy French Chicken Stew

1 hr

A bowl of creamy pork and egg noodles

Creamy Pork and Egg Noodles

40 mins

Brown butter snickerdoodle cake cut into six pieces on a piece of parchment paper, with a serving knife nearby.

Brown Butter Snickerdoodle Cake

1 hr 55 mins

Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream on a white plate with a fork, beside a small bowl of extra toffee sauce.

Sticky Toffee Pudding

1 hr 20 mins

A plate with a serving of cranberry apple crisp and scoop of ice cream.

Apple Cranberry Crisp

1 hr 25 mins

A skillet filled with sloppy Joe meat mixture, flanked by a filled, untapped sandwich with a toasted top and a bag of sesame seed buns.

Sloppy Joes

1 hr

A glass of homemade ginger ale with ice and a lime wedge, and a gar of ginger syrup in the background.

Homemade Ginger Ale

2 hrs 50 mins

A large measuring cup of slow cooker chicken stock on a wooden table with a ladle on the side.

Slow Cooker Chicken Stock

12 hrs

Nine banana muffins with white wrappers.

Banana Muffins

45 mins

Potatoes with Mexican chorizo tucked inside tortillas with a glass of beer on the side.

Potatoes With Mexican Chorizo

50 mins

A rimmed baking sheet filled with crispy baked kale chips.

Kale Chips

30 mins

A jar of whole grain mustard with a wooden spoon in it.

How to Make Homemade Whole-Grain Mustard

2 d

A large pot of Ina Garten's easy tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich being cut into croutons beside it.

Ina Garten’s Easy Tomato Soup

45 mins

Slices of glazed nutmeg pound cake on a white cutting board

Nutmeg Cake

1 hr

A tray of roasted Brussels sprouts with cranberries and pecans.

Spicy Roasted Brussels Sprouts

35 mins

An apple tea cake on a wire rack with three slices cut from it and one on a blue and white plate.

Apple Tea Cake

3 hrs

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