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Bonus Recipe: Salted Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Published May 20, 2013 | By Nancy

Surprise Recipe Swap

You may remember last month when I shared the delicious Spiced Pumpkin Loaf recipe. Each month I am pared up with another blogger and asked to pick a recipe off their blog to create and write about. It’s a win-win situation. I find out about a new blog and a get to make a new recipe at the same time!

This month I was pared up with Jess’s blog Simple, Clean & Homemade. Her blog is relatively new, she started it in March 2012. It was a challenge to herself to try out new recipes that she never though she would make. I’m certainly glad she started writing and I am thrilled to have found her blog and had the opportunity to try one of her recipes.

It was hard to choose just one recipe, as they all look delicious. However we were having family for the weekend and her Salted Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe looked just perfect to have on hand. I made the recipe just as Jess wrote it. what intrigued my about this recipe was that Jess mentioned that these cookies were ot overly sweet, despite the large quantity of chocolate. The salt brings out the flavor of the chocolate without making the cookie too sweet.

Salted Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
By Jessica

Some of the Ingredients

Ingredients (4-6 dozen cookies)

2 sticks butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, not packed
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 1/2 cups blended oatmeal (About 3 cups rolled oats unblended)
2 cups flour
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1 cup chocolate chunks
1 1/2 cups dark chocolate chips
Pink Australian Flake Salt

Instructions

In the food processor or Vitamix flour canister, blend oats into a fine flour.

Cream the butter and sugar in a stand mixer or electric hand mixer. Add vanilla and eggs. Beat until fluffy. Add salt, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda. Beat to incorporate. Slowly add flour and blended oats. Beat to combine. Add chocolate and beat until evenly dispersed.

Roll into balls and store in a plastic container. Store in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. I was running out of time so I formed the cookies into balls and put them right on the cookie sheet. I then sprinkled them with the salt and baked them right away.

Ready for the oven

Heat oven at 375 degrees. Break the cookie dough balls in half and stack them broken side up. Sprinkle with Pink Australian Flake Salt.

Place on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 8-12 minutes. Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack. Allow to cool about 2 minutes before removing them from the pan.

The cookies were a big hit! This is definitely a recipe I will make again. Warm from the oven they were amazing! Can’t beat the sweet salty combination!

Salted Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you are a blogger and write and share recipes feel free to participate in the Surprise Recipe Swap, it’s so much fun

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Posted in Home Front, Recipes | Tagged Home Front, Prudent Living, recipes

Recipe Box: Spring Salad

Published May 17, 2013 | By Nancy

I love the different seasons. I especially love spring with the abundance of green everywhere and the fresh fruit, which starts to appear in the garden and at the farmers markets. Although it’s still a little early for strawberries in Vermont, this fresh spring salad with berries is perfect for that first dinner cooked on the grill. We ate this salad with grilled chicken the first night and the next night I served it with slices of grilled chicken on top of the salad. Both were delicious.

Spring Salad

Salad Greens
Fresh Strawberries
Fresh Raspberries and Blackberries
½ cup slivered almonds, toasted

Orange Vinaigrette:

¼ cup oil
1 Tbsp red wine vinegar
1 Tbsp orange juice
1 Tbsp honey
1 tsp grated orange peel
1 tsp Dijon mustard
¼ tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper

In a large bowl, combine the greens, berries and almonds. Combine the remaining ingredients in a jar and shake well. Drizzle dressing over the salad and toss to coat.

Spring Salad

Leftover salad is wonderful with sliced chicken.

Spring Salad with Chicken

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Posted in Home Front, Recipes | Tagged Home Front, Prudent Living, recipes, Salad

Recipe Box: Rustic Sourdough Bread

Published May 10, 2013 | By Nancy

A few weeks ago I shared my Amazing Sourdough Biscuit recipe, another favorite way to use my sourdough starter is making bread.

Sourdough Starter

This recipe is very simple and you can add all sorts of things to the batter to change the taste. The recipe is adapted from a recipe I found on the King Arthur website.

Rustic Sourdough Bread

1 cup of fed sourdough starter
1 ½ cups of lukewarm water
2 tsp instant yeast
1 Tbsp sugar
2 ½ tsp salt
5 cups all purpose flour
2-3 Tbsp Tuscan Sunset seasoning from Penzey Spices

Combine all the ingredients and knead to form a smooth dough. I used my Kitchen Aid mixer. Place the dough in a bowl, cover the bowl and allow the dough to double in size, about 90 minutes.

Place dough in a bowl to rise.

Gently shape the dough into two logs about 10 inches long.

Shape the dough into two loaves.

Place on a lightly greased parchment-lined baking sheet. I used my baguette pan.

Place loaves in your pan or baking sheet and allow to rise.

Cover and let rise until very puffy, about one hour. Toward the end of the rising time, preheat the oven to 425. Spray the loaves with lukewarm water. Make two fairly deep diagonal slashes in each loaf. I made several slashes in the long loaves using a serrated bread knife.

Bake the bread for 25-30 minutes; until it’s a very deep golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool on a rack.

Let cool on a baking rack.

Couldn’t wait, while it was still warm I enjoyed a slice with some butter! (Well perhaps too much butter!) Yum!

Rustic Sourdough Bread

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Recipe Box: Chicken Masala

Published May 2, 2013 | By Nancy

The majority of the time I cook from scratch. However, some of my recipes use some pre-made ingredients. Like my chicken masala recipe. For those nights when I don’t have a lot of time and want to have a quick dinner on the table I use curry sauce from a jar! Never fear I make a few additions and the end result is very much like a dinner made from scratch and just as tasty.

Chicken Masala and Vegetables

1 pound of boneless chicken –cut into chunks, raw or can use leftover chicken
1 cup Zucchini – sliced
1 cup Carrots – peeled and sliced
Jar of Masala Sauce

Take a large pan and sauté the chicken chunks until done. Remove from pan and set aside.

Take sliced carrots and sauté in the same pan.

Saute carrots in a large pan.

When almost done add the zucchini and continue cooking until vegetables are crisp tender.

Add zucchini and continue to sauté vegetables.

Add the chicken to the pan and pour in the jar of sauce.

Tikka Masala Sauce

Use enough sauce to your liking. Heat through and serve immediately. Excellent served on rice.

Chicken Masala

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Posted in Home Front, Recipes | Tagged Curry chicken, Home Front, Poultry, Prudent Living, recipes, Zucchini

A Special Day With Kathe With An E

Published April 30, 2013 | By Nancy

Today, along with several other bloggers, I am helping a friend to celebrate her one year anniversary of her blog party! Feel free to link up or to just check out the other links, you’re bound to find something inspiring!

52 weeks ago the very first

“You’re Gonna Love It Tuesday”

blog party at Kathe With An E went live!!

I know! A whole year ago!

I cannot freakin’ believe it myself!

Over the past 12 months I have worked really hard to

make the party as fun as possible each week.

It has always been my goal to have the party be not for me
but, my readers, my friends, YOU!

I want everyone to be able to come and really

feel like their posts are being showcased to their full potential.

This little party has grown so much and

I reeaally love hosting it each week.
I’ve grown too and I have learned a ton!

I cannot thank you enough for,
not only choosing to party with me,

but, for your comments too.

I truly do love “talking” with you!
Through this party I have made some
life long friends and I hope you have too!

Now, we just gotta celebrate right?

I have some awesome friends that are going to

help me by co-hosting this week.

That means when you link up here or on one

of their blogs,
you are getting 11 times more exposure!

Yep, like I said, this is your party each week and

this is my gift to you!

Without further ado, let me introduce you to

my co-hosts for this weeks special party:

Rebekah@We Lived Inspired

Doreen@HouseHoneys

Kathy@Life on Lakeshore Drive

Danni@Silo Hill Farm

Robyn@Robyn’s View

Dawn@Spatulas On Parade

Jamie@Love Bakes Good Cakes

Nancy@On The Home Front

Cynthia@Feeding Big

Sue@HouseKaboodle

Lauren Frank@Tutus & Tea Parties

Since this is a pretty big celebration,

I’m opening up this weeks party to be

ANYTHING GOES!

That means you can link up blogs posts, giveaways, your own link parties,

Etsy shops, whatever!!

I will also have no limit on how many posts you can link up!

All I ask is that you keep it clean and family friendly please.

(And, would you please consider sharing this party on

Facebook, Twitter and Google+)

And, finally, I am going to pin every single post that links up

onto my

You’re Gonna Love It Pinterest board!!

Again, more exposure for you!!

*By linking up your post, you are giving Kathe With An E permission to use your pictures as a feature on this blog and other social media outlets.

So, that’s it!

Let’s make this the biggest

You’re Gonna Love It

party ever!

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Recipe Box: Homemade Graham Crackers

Published April 25, 2013 | By Nancy

Recently our oldest daughter was visiting us. While she was staying with us she made the most delicious batch of homemade graham crackers. They were so much better than store bought graham crackers. She found the recipe on the Weelicious.com website. They are so easy to make in just a short amount of time you can be enjoying a batch!

Homemade Graham Crackers
Adapted from weelicious.com

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup dark brown sugar
½ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
½ cup butter, chilled and cubed
¼ cup honey
¼ cup water

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In your food processor or mixer combine the first six ingredients. Add the cubed and chilled butter to the mix and pulse/mix until it resembles coarse meal. Add the honey and water and continue to mix until it is well combined.