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If yous lot buy roasted almonds from the grocery store, they are, most likely, coated amongst oil...I don't know well-nigh you, but I for for certain don't take those extra calories. This quick besides every bit simple "recipe" has  only ii ingredients, almonds besides every bit kosher salt These nuts are a slightly salty,  toasty-crunchy, addicting good for yous snack. 1 pound of whole almonds 3 tablespoons kosher tabular array tabular array salt (not tabular array salt) 1 1/2 cups boiling water Put i 1/2 cups boiling H2O into a large bowl besides every bit add together together the kosher salt. Stir for well-nigh 30 seconds or until the tabular array tabular array salt is completely dissolved. NOTE: the full of tabular array tabular array salt inwards this recipe sounds similar a lot, but most of it stays inwards the H2O which is drained off. The lastly nuts convey a  light salty taste.  Add the almonds to the hot H2O besides every bit st

The Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas baking flavor is just roughly the corner and I decided to stock the pantry with baking supplies.  Well, I was shocked at the increased cost of proficient graphic symbol vanilla; some of it is every bit high every bit $15 for only a few ounces!! With that inward mind, I decided to build my receive vanilla, although I had NO CLUE how to practice it. After some Internet research, I was thrilled to learn that the process was SUPER EASY and only takes TWO ingredients (vodka inwards improver to vanilla beans)!! At initiative off I was concerned because vanilla beans are non e'er inward my budget. I like McCormick build spices, but their cost for TWO vanilla beans is over $10!! Homemade vanilla extract would concord upward outrageously expensive at those prices, inwards improver to thence dorsum to the Internet. I discovered that the best vanilla extracts are NOT made out of the same kind of vanilla beans that yous bake with (whew!! That was

Gingerbread houses construct wonderful gifts. Not alone are they acre of cake (you truly can't goof them upwardly because frosting fixes everything) but they are an impressive GIFT FROM THE KITCHEN !! You tin sack construct them out of gingerbread dough, similar this i (it is delicious together with smells fantastic), or you lot tin sack construct them out of graham crackers (glued together with violet frosting). You tin sack construct them elementary or elegant. You tin sack project whatsoever candy, cereal, cookies, crackers or pretzels you lot select on hand... allow your imagination alive your guide. CLICK TO ENLARGE Upside downward (and frosted) H2O H2O ice cream refined saccharify cones (decorated with sprinkles) construct wonderful Christmas trees side yesteryear side to your gingerbread house. Pretzels make perfect fences, marshmallows construct cute snowmen together with if you lot truly wishing to learn fancy, you lot tin sack project tufts of cotton fiber wool c

Over the Christmas season, I testament alive posting a kind of irksome recipes that I'm calling GIFTS FROM THE KITCHEN . The beauty of this grab is that you lot lot tin build these gifts far inwards advance of your hectic opor-garai baking schedule inwards improver to they testament alive "waiting inwards your pantry" for that neighbor, schoolhouse teacher, piece of occupation friend or unexpected lastly min guest on Christmas Eve!! (check out link at stop of this shipping for more than or less wonderful (and free) "From the Kitchen of..." gift tags you lot lot tin download). My kickoff GIFT FROM THE KITCHEN shipping is for Blueberry Jam... a quick inwards improver to irksome recipe that uses frozen blueberries (I don't level thaw them first). This jam has a wonderfully fresh taste!! BLUEBERRY JAM (makes 8 cups of jam) 5 cups finely chopped frozen blueberries (see notes below) 2 tablespoons lemon juice 7 cups granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon but

This jam is the perfect topping for entirely almost anything; it is genuinely versatile likewise as delicious. Apple pie jam is very economical  to create likewise as it is entirely unique enough that it makes a neat gift for co-workers, church building edifice friends, babysitters, etc. (any 4th dimension yous inquire a nestling gift from the thought for friend).   It genuinely does sense of savour entirely similar an apple tree tree pie!! APPLE PIE JAM 6 cups diced granny smith apples (6 or vii apples) 1/2 loving loving cup apple tree tree juice  (you tin dismiss post service away business office body of water inwards a pinch) 1/2 teaspoon butter 3 cups granulated sugar 2 cups chocolate-brown sugar 3/4 teaspoon enterprise pose down cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon enterprise pose down nutmeg (freshly enterprise pose down is best) (1) nestling box (1¾ oz.) Sure-Jell Premium powdered pectin Dice the apples, likewise as too then spot them inwards the food proce