Recipe #28: Easy Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Lindsay's Cooking Adventures's avatarLindsay's Cooking Adventures

I don’t think I have ever made a carrot cake but after making this one, I will definitely be making it again. If you are looking for a beginner recipe, this is it. What makes it even better is the cream cheese frosting. Yum.

It’s also one of those cakes that seems like it can’t be healthy, but it’s really filled with goodness. First of all, it has whole wheat flour (I used half white and half whole wheat) which is very healthy. There is also tons of grated carrot – 1 pound – so that gives has a lot of nutrition and it helps to keep the cake moist.

The greek yogurt keeps the cake moist too and the cinnamon gives nice flavour. I also like that it wasn’t overly sweet, it was the perfect amount of maple syrup in the batter. Another thing I liked is the chopped…

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Primi Piatti | First Course

Giallo Zafferano

Well. I should have left out the pasta buffet it’s too much to say that needs preparation in the ordinary. But the mention is to make sure you’re eating your pasta! So you can also bring that to the table instead. I should say that pasta on my own notes for holiday banqueting is always an open idea. You can bring that dish along past the dessert table. So, to say this is an authentic idea! I always promote it this way because people go out all authentic in Italian celebrations and miss the relevant place of pasta — everywhere! But responsibly. So if you plan to miss the pasta at any point of this banquet advice finally, then there really is no point in being happy with your digestive course because it’s missing the main bread. And, the only way the pasta works on these schedules is to allow it any time you need it to have it in, to exist, to appear, to be — you know? Could I be any stranger? And to work in for any way or purpose of the event that you find fit to present it.

On the ordinary buffet, I myself am of typical opinion that there should be a red basic pasta, an angel hair herb, and a white garlic and a Bolognese beside deep red. All I do is serve pasta sometimes. I never put out Alfredo on the app buffet anymore it’s a Ponzi scheme for anyone to use against me as table Captain and so no I can’t give that advice. And I mean, it would be a good dish to include as a regular dish at some point so … Alfredos are a dish then … but everyone sees it their own way, truly. So I have to stress, that you will have the pasta and ingredients waiting & the kitchen open & this, just because, you love too much. Or don’t find out for yourself that’s also fun.

In other realities, then and therefore. That aren’t trying to hang on to the mastiffs or lost visitors to the Tyrrhenian Seas, you can use this all as a pretty good guide, but don’t forget to include a good pasta somewhere beginning towards the open buffet.

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ANTIPASTI DI NATALE

CHRISTMAS APPETIZERS

You wouldn’t believe it? All the buffet table Christmas Appetizers are something you’d expect to find in a Mississippi River Captain’s house around late spring. Nope! Well that’s the region for you. Nobody believes me & in this age. Okay I mean you can find the torta & candy but this is for real. We are HEAVY into the deep fried, fried, battered, breaded foods but these are going with all the other delicious courses and dessert.

This is a great list. Kind of probably too much individual translation work page to page for anyone to be interested.

So we have an app buffet beside maybe another regular antipasto, you know westerners & Moroccans call it salumi buffet & then a bread and pasta buffet & more than often a technical service adds the fish tray buffet. This begins the feast. You can do it large or small. Then a centerpiece comes in by courses you know soup, rice, meats, sides (this is like all the vegetable buffet you held off) – then the dessert and coffees – voila. You are now authentic Greco-Roman Carthage Parthian Persians! Let’s just say Romans.

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I’m posting from my iPhone again this morning & I have found out how to post onto all my WordPress (3) blogs with iPhone but I’ve preferred to keep the line link recipe posts from YouTube made this way over on Brut Imperial Antarctica Blog.

However, I like to post from Giallo Zafferano on CPR here. So I thought I’d also include some of their YouTube links here by my quick & easy iPhone method and while I’m at it for BIA. (Some good posts over there I think.)

My sounding regret is the video being in spoken Italian and the link instruction in the notes is also in Italian. The first note link is the recipe (ricetta) and you can get it full online clicking that to use google translate as always from you chrome extension.

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Top 5 Thanksgiving Recipes on “What’s for Dinner Mom’s?”

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Halloween is over and it is now time to think about Thanksgiving! I love Thanksgiving and all the food. Even though we don’t celebrate with a traditional meal on Thanksgiving day (we travel for Mid-America Oireachtas, Irish dance regionals in Kentucky) we will be together eating appetizers somewhere enroute. It is about being together more than food for me (though my children think differently).

So, enjoy your family (actual or chosen) and do the things you love!

This has been a hit for years on my blog. Green Beans with Brown Butter and Sliced Almonds (or Toasted Pecans) (click for link to recipe) is delicious! It takes ordinary green beans to another level. You have to be super patient to make the brown butter but it is worth the extra time to make it. Prepare your beans ahead of time, have the sliced almonds ready to go and this is…

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DECIDEDLY DECADENT AND UTTERLY IRRESISTIBLE . . . CHOCOLATE AND SALTED DULCE DE LECHE TART

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This recipe takes the tears and pressure out of putting this  type of dessert together, and you can do it in about twenty minutes.  It is an uncomplicated recipe for this complicated and sobering time.  I did post this recipe a year or so ago, but sometimes we need to revisit a favourite recipe. My dear, dear friends   I definitely think today we need to treat ourselves to something that will make us smile.

Chocolate dark as midnight.  Caramel sauce –  toffee-like  with just a suggestion of burnt sugar.    A superb marriage of flavours.   CHOCOLATE AND SALTED DULCE DE LECHE TART is a very indulgent and very,  very French dessert.    Faced with the complex demands of making the perfect crust, the silky smooth chocolate filling and the smoky rich caramel sauce,  no wonder the perfect Paris hostess would pop into her favourite patisserie and picks up this tart.

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