Back-of-the-Package Cooking

[judiu]

I think that it was a bag of Double-H sauerkraut where I got the idea of cooking the kraut with beer and caraway seed.

I always cook it this way now, and usually add kielbasa and new potatoes.

Easy comfort food.

BB

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Try adding "country ribs" instead of the sausage and add some sliced onions, too!

[christine007]

1 pint sour cream

2 tablespoons dehydrated minced onion

1 tablespoon instant beef boullion or concentrated beef stock base

WOW

Ok, not making this up, but I've been preparing this for about five years now, and I never read the recipe, I thought this was something I invented! Serious.

I add a tiny dab of sugar to this too.

We have it with Ritz crackers, it's really good. This is weird.I really thought I was the only one.....

[kaneel]

My husband fav. chocolate chip cookies from ghiradelli's dark chocolate bag!!

[MarketStEl]

My husband fav. chocolate chip cookies from ghiradelli's dark chocolate bag!!

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Hey, at least your hubby has picked the right package!

[Eric_Malson]

One bowl brownies from the Baker's chocolate box.  Well, I DO change it a bit, lessen the sugar, remove the butter, add apple sauce.... but, still, it's from the label!

Those are modifications that would NEVER occur to me to make in a brownie recipe...

Actually, my favorite brownies ever come from the recipe on the Baker's chocolate box, but with an extra stick of butter and a bag of Nestle's Semisweet Morsels added. Those are the kind of modifications that would occur to me, except they occurred first to my piano teacher's housekeeper, who would make them for the receptions after the monthly studio recitals. Invariably, they were the best part of the recital!

[Rebecca263]

Those are modifications that would NEVER occur to me to make in a brownie recipe...

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Yup, I like my brownies fudgey as opposed to, um, buttery.

[Eric_Malson]

Adding APPLESAUCE to brownies somehow makes them fudgier? Color me unconvinced.

Extra butter does actually make them "fudgier", at least to my mind.

[Rebecca263]

Adding APPLESAUCE to brownies somehow makes them fudgier?  Color me unconvinced....

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I've got my grease paints out, what color is 'unconvinced' represented by, anyway? Gee, maybe you should "Face the Fear", like I did awhile back! Take one for the team! Actually, it is true, the result of adding fruits to batters is a denser and moister mouthfeel, i.e. fudgey in chocolate recipes. You do lose the mouth coating of a high butterfat content, but that isn't the appeal for me, in a brownie. For me it's all about a fudgey texture and a crackled top, and a very dense chocolate taste. I haven't been using Baker's lately, though. It's been Fazer chocolate lately, I've received a gift of the stuff from a nice Swedish boy. A bit too sweet for my taste, so into the recipes it goes!

edited by me to repair the crackles!

Edited January 19, 2006 by Rebecca263 (log)

[hazardnc]

The Fantasy Fudge recipe on jars of Kraft Marshmallow Cream - family tradition at Christmas.

Cinnamon Coffee Cake on boxes of Bisquick - fell in love with this when I was pregnant with my first kid