Chef Daniel
All Recipes and Posts by Daniel
Boiled Corn On The Cob
It takes only minutes to cook corn on the cob. Corn is one of the fastest cooking whole grains. Corn is at its best and sweetest during the summer. You know corn is abundant when stores advertise 3, 4, 6, and even 10 ears for $1. Yes, corn on the ...
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Dough for 2-Crust Pie
Dough for 2-Crust Pie makes a flakey, golden brown, pie crust essential for great savory and fruit pies. This recipe makes enough dough for a 9 to 10 inch 2-crust pie or for two 1-crust pies. Calories Pie crusts, especially for 2-crust pies, is a major source of a pies ...
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Banana Bread
Banana Bread is an easy recipe producing a moist bread or homemade banana muffins. Nuts can be omitted if desired. Although walnuts add calories, Americans are encouraged to add nuts to their diets. Walnuts are a good source of anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. Nutrition Information Nutrition information includes nuts. Reduce sugar ...
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Basil Pesto
Most Americans associate Basil Pesto with pasta or pizza. Pesto is a basil based sauce originating in Genoa, Italy. Like tomato and Alfredo sauce, pesto and can be used in a variety of ways to flavor soups or stews, spread on toasted bread, add a rich basil flavor to grilled ...
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Panzarotti, Calzones, Fried Bread & Sopapillas
The same basic stand mixer bread dough used to make loaf bread and focaccia can be used to make deep fried southern Italian panzarotti (spelled panzerotti in Italian). An uncle first introduced me to panzarotti in 1968. At first I thought it was an oversized warm doughnut. After taking a ...
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Graham Cracker Pie Crust
Cheesecakes and cream pies usually have a Graham Cracker Pie Crusts or cookie basked crust instead of a pastry crust used for fruit and meat pies. Graham cracker crusts have about the same number of calories as a pastry crust. Unlike homemade pastry crusts where you can omit salt and ...
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Pound Cake
Pound cake is one of the simplest cake recipes that has been round for hundred’s of years. The original recipe called for a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and a pound of eggs. Today, recipes for the home cook and baker specifies ingredients in ...
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Deluxe Chicken or Turkey Pie
Don’t let the long list of ingredients for Deluxe Chicken or Turkey Pie intimidate you. About half are herbs and spices and all ingredients are natural not dozens of chemical additives and preservative like most frozen pot pies. Deluxe Chicken or Turkey Pie is perfect for leftover dark turkey meat ...
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Easy Homemade Muffins
Easy Homemade Muffins is a simple, low sodium, muffin recipe for making a variety of delicious muffins without additives, preservatives, and artificial colors and flavors added to most store bakery and mass-produced muffins. Muffins can be frozen, thawed in about 30 minutes at room temperature, and reheated in a microwave oven. I ...
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10 Minute Steel Cut Oatmeal
Pictured in Photo: steel cut oats with diced apple. If you have avoided making steel cut oatmeal due to the 40 to 50 minute cooking time, you now have one less excuse. You can reduce cooking time to as little as 10 minutes using the method in this recipe that ...
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