Parsnip and Apple Soup
From Star Hollow Farm
This soup has parsnips and apples (as the name suggests), and the cumin-corriander-spice combo we've used three other times.
You start out by chopping your apples, parsnips, and onion, and then you plop them in a pot with some melted butter.
Then you add the spice mix and stir it all together.
Then you add some chicken stock and let it simmer for about half an hour.
Eventually you puree the whole thing and add some cream.
So this is a weird one. As you're cooking it, you're smelling that spice mix, and you're adding chicken stock. But when you eat it, it is not as savory as you might expect. The apples really cut through it, and it's very balanced and tasty. Again, as you're cooking it, you don't think that coriander and cumin and curry powder would go well with apples, but that was the best part.
So, different, but delicious. And we probably prefer this one to the sorrel soup, which if you remember we liked quite a bit. So there.
If you find yourself in the possession of parsnips, try this:
Ingredients
- 1 Tbs butter
- 1 lb parsnips, thinly sliced
- 1 lb apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 2 tsp curry powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp cardamom
- 1 large clove garlic, crushed
- 5 cups chicken stock
- 2/3 cup heavy cream
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Chives, chopped
Preparation
- In a large soup pot, heat the butter over medium heat.
- When butter is foaming, add the parsnips, apples, and onions.
- Soften them, but do not let them color.
- Add the curry powder, cumin, coriander, coriander, and garlic and cook for 2 minutes, stirring well.
- Pour in the chicken stock slowly, stirring until well mixed.
- Cover and simmer gently for about half an hour, or until the parsnips are quite soft.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Using a blender, liquidize the soup.
- Add the cream and reheat, without boiling.
- Serve garnished with the chopped chives.
So this dessert is an Oreo-and-chocolate cupcake, with Oreo-infused icing, and topped with some sort of Oreo topping. So besides your usual chocolate cupcake ingredients, you're gonna need - you guessed it - Oreos.
So to get the chocolate cupcakes infused with Oreos, you crumble one and put it in the cupcake liner. When you pour in the batter, the chunks will float up and fill the whole cupcake.
See?
Then when you're making the icing, you sprinkle Oreo crumbs in it to get little black speckles in the white frosting.
Oh my gosh, these were good too! We completely rocked Thanksgiving dessert! The cupcakes were very chocolatey, but it didn't go overboard. They may have been a little bit sweet, but if there's one day to splurge, it's Thanksgiving. Any other day, you probably don't need the Oreo on top.
Here's what you need to do to turn your standard chocolate cupcakes into something that'll turn heads.
It's a Paula Deen recipe, so you know it's going to be good and that you're going to need some butter, y'all.
You start out making the graham cracker crust, by mixing graham crackers, butter, and sugar in the food processor and then baking for 10 minutes.
Then you make the filling, pour it in the cooled crust, and bake the whole thing, floating in a water bath.
Ours sank a little in the middle, but other than that it already looked really good at this point.
Then that needs to sit overnight in the fridge, until it's time to work on the topping - caramel apples and pecans.
And if that doesn't look delicious, look at how the cheesecake came out when we took it out of the springform pan.
This was awesome! Our 
Try this at home now, and you can claim you're just practicing for next year's Turkey Day.
This is a ham, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich on a biscuit. If you don't have ham, we suppose bacon will be just as good. Or better.
So you start out with the biscuits, making the biscuit dough, rolling it out, and baking for half an hour.
Once those are ready, you cut them open and heat them with a little butter while you're frying up an egg.
These sandwiches were definitely tasty. They were kinda hard to assemble because you want to make it right when the egg is finished and melting the cheese on the biscuit is a tough feat.
If you want a breakfast sandwich or you just want to learn how to make biscuits, you'll find what you're looking for below:
This is the third recipe that we've tried from Emily's cousins. The first two - 
How could it not be though? Look at the tasty ingredients.
And ripe bananas.
And those two ingredients are delicious no matter how they're prepared. But look at this bread!
This thing was delicious. We're big fans of all sweet breakfasty breads, we're big fans of bananas and pecans, and this was the perfect combination of all of the above.
Need a new addition for a family brunch? Make this. And invite us over.
We made a strata once before - 
And the steps are pretty much what you'd expect: Cook the chorizo and set on paper towels.
Layer the chorizo with bread, cheese, and an egg and milk combo.
Top it off with the last of the bread and cheese, and bake.
This was an okay strata. It has chorizo and egg and cheese, and it's baked, so it has to be good. But we feel like if we want to have a strata, we'd prefer the other one we mentioned earlier, and if wanted chorizo, we'd prefer the quiche or just chorizo con huevo.
If you feel like giving this a shot, here's how to do it.
The recipe is a pizza with 
Besides the burrata, the other main ingredients are cherry tomatoes and scallions. So chop and mix.
Then you roll out the dough (
This was a bizarre pizza. The burrata makes the whole thing soupy - in a good way - and the green scallions, which don't look like the most appetizing pizza toppings, go really well with the pancetta and tomatoes.
If you can find burrata, you might wanna try this. Just make to sure cook it through.