In Case You Missed It
Seeing as the house has been officially brought down by the flu – the Who’s Teenage Wasteland is stuck in my head, only with Kleenex in place of teenage – and we’ve (conveniently) been living on soup and smoothies, it occurred to me that there were some other recipes you may have missed this month. Like these Slutty Brownies (sorry, I didn’t name them) I made for the bake sale – they’re made with layers of chocolate chip cookie dough, Oreos, and brownie batter.
Or these Nutella swirl brownies, made for no particular reason.
These Panko baked cheese sticks would totally be on the menu for tonight’s Oscars, if I had the gumption. (I don’t.) Luckily, soup is sippable on the couch.
And this no-knead cheese bread is completely divine with this surplus soup. You wind up with cheesy tunnels and pockets throughout the bread, which is also pretty fab toasted with grape jelly.
My most popular post this month has been the strawberry cheesecake bites – hulled berries filled with sweetened cream cheese and sprinkled with graham crumbs, if you have them. These took approximately ten minutes to make – and look how adorable!
Seeing as it was Valentines’ Day, I posted a recipe for basic chocolate ganache truffles – the same ones I brought in little Chinese takeout boxes to the bake sale a couple weekends ago.
And heart shaped chocolate chip cookie pops – which really don’t need to be relegated exclusively to Valentine’s day. Any day calls for heart shaped cookies on a stick, don’t you think?
Nor do heart-shaped pretzels.
And there were those mugs of hot chocolate with raspberry whipped cream hearts. Did you know you could spread out and freeze whipped cream, and cut it out with a cookie cutter? Me neither. Methinks there are plenty of applications for this.
The red wine caramel sauce was not as popular as I thought it would be. Red wine caramel sauce!
I’m pretty sure my favourite thing this month was the real baked beans with bacon. Honestly. There’s nothing better. And the best time for it is the bleak midwinter. Bacon counts as a local vegetable in February, right?
February 26 2012 01:08 pm | Family Kitchen
Nicole on 26 Feb 2012 at 3:06 pm #
Now I am very, very hungry.
Annvdr on 26 Feb 2012 at 3:06 pm #
Julie, thank you so much for the No-knead bread recipe! I have made several loaves already – some plain and some with raisins and cinnamon. Why didn’t I think of cheese? I have to try it – but I think I should wait – I’m home alone this week and a whole loaf of cheese bread fresh out of the oven would be dangerous! Mmmmm….
Hope you are all feeling better soon.
Lauren O. on 26 Feb 2012 at 3:32 pm #
Thanks for the round-up, I definitely missed a few of those gorgeous things. I think that no knead cheese bread will be on the menu tonight for supper. Feel better soon!
Laurie from Burnaby on 26 Feb 2012 at 4:32 pm #
Take care, Julie. My daughter and her husband and their kids all have it. Poor things. I made them chickens soup and delivered it and dim sum.
Loved the cheese bread. I’ll have to make that.
suchalab on 27 Feb 2012 at 7:18 am #
made the slutty brownies last week, what a huge success! I think no knead cheese bread will be next on my ‘must try’ list. Feel better soon.
Robyn | Add a Pinch on 28 Feb 2012 at 6:19 am #
Oh my! That is one more delicious February!
Jan @ Family Bites on 28 Feb 2012 at 7:41 am #
LOVE the strawberries! I can see why they are so popular. And the red wine caramel sauce? Yes, please!
Lana on 28 Feb 2012 at 8:02 am #
Every single photo here makes me drool. YUM. I am overdue for some no-knead bread. Maybe with a pot of soup this weekend. Thank you for the inspiration!
Jaya on 28 Feb 2012 at 8:25 pm #
Julie, hope you guys all recover soon! Give a holler down the street if you need rescuing…or any 80′s movies!
Erin on 01 Mar 2012 at 7:52 am #
Thanks so much for posting the no knead bread. I finally tried it, and it was so easy and turned out amazing. I even sent a picture of the finished loaf to my mom. My dad saw it and asked why I had taken a photo off your site and sent it to them! Apparently it looked so good my dad thought you had made it lol!
Adrienne on 07 Mar 2012 at 10:58 pm #
I just made no knead bread the other day. It’s the reason I’m always running out of flour! I’m going to make every one of the treats you posted before March is out. So much for my resolution to eat better… well at least I can share the love with my neighbours.