If something looks like banana bread and tastes like banana bread, chances are it’s banana bread. Unless it’s these cute little banana muffins riddled with chocolate.
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- 45 M
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Susan Bingaman, Recipe Tester
A list of all the recipes Susan Bingaman has tested.
Cooking has been a lifelong affliction for Susan Bingaman. It never occurred to her that other kids didn’t bake their own birthday treats, read cookbook like novels, and peruse the shelves at cooking stores instead of clothing stores at the mall. Needless to say, her friends were (and still are) always well fed. Encouraged to major in food science by her mother, Bingaman now spends her days in the test kitchen of a major Midwestern grocery chain. She started testing recipes for Leite’s Culinaria in June 2004, never thinking it would lead to becoming part of the recipe testing team for David’s cookbook, The New Portuguese Table.
Pear Bread
Quick bread. Tea cake. Spice bread. Whatever you call it, this recipe has pedigree–and you don’t need to know its geneology to know this. One taste tells all.
- 15 M
- 1 H, 30 M
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Roasted Strawberries
Whether you have unripe berries, overripe berries, or an abundance of the season’s most fragrant berries, say hello to your sweetly sticky solution.
- 10 M
- 50 M
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Cream Cheese Frosting
Folks are raving about just how perfect this cream cheese frosting is compared to all the others they’ve tried. Try it. You’ll be saying the same.
- Quick Glance
- 15 M
- 15 M
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Chicken Apple Sausage
Seriously, it’s so easy to make your own sausage. Insanely easy. And holy heck, does it taste phenomenal. No meat grinder required.
- 25 M
- 45 M
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Smoothie
Perhaps the sneakiest way ever to get kids–of all ages–to slurp something relatively nutritious for breakfast.
- Quick Glance
- 5 M
- 5 M
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Spaghetti with Bread Crumbs
Bet you’ve already got everything you need for this frugal pantry pasta. All you need now is 15 minutes to pull it together.
- 10 M
- 20 M
- 12
Old-Fashioned Zucchini Cake
No matter how much soggy steamed zucchini you were forced to choke down as a child, you won’t turn away this moist zucchini cake that tastes just like grandma used to make.
- Quick Glance
- 25 M
- 1 H, 40 M
- 0
Goat Cheese with Olives, Lemon, and Thyme
Words sort of elude us when we attempt to describe just how stunning and scrumptious we consider this dish. Just…wow.
- 10 M
- 25 M
- 6
The Milkiest Chocolate Ice Cream in the World
Milkiest? Chocolatiest? We think so. This creamy, dreamy little concoction is smoooooothness on a spoon.
- 15 M
- 45 M
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Breakfast Oven Fries
These richly spiced, slowly roasted spuds will zap as much life into you as your morning caffeine fix.
- 10 M
- 1 H
- 6
Raspberry Jam With Framboise
No, making homemade jam doesn’t need to be a big production. Not with the right recipe, anyways. This small batch raspberry preserves shows you how simple it can be.
- Quick Glance
- 45 M
- 45 M
- 6
Homemade Yellow Mustard
Why make your own mustard? Because you can. And if that’s not reason enough, there’s no comparison between this and the store-bought stuff. Enough said.
- 1 H, 15 M
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