I’ve been sick lately, so I haven’t been cooking — or updating my blog. We had an enjoyable Christmas holiday, with plenty of food to eat. We also received a few cooking-related gifts, and I would like to show them off and tell a little about them.

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Check out this cool little single-egg frying pan I got as a gift for Christmas!

As you can see, its just big enough to cook a single egg, and it keeps it perfectly round. Its got a great non-stick coating too.

Just the other day, my mom was telling me about how her mom used to make home-made suckers. So, I borrowed the candy molds to try it for myself. It started out well. I prepped the molds:

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Did you know that Buffalo wings were invented at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY? I spent a couple of years in western New York and the food there is wonderful! Of course, I ate plenty of wings, and wings are a lot more popular there than they are here. All the pizza shops in western New York (Pontillo’s Pizza and La Nova Pizza especially) know how to cook some good wings and a “pizza and wings” combo is pretty much a standard order. Bars even have “wing night” where wings are $0.10/each. TEN CENTS A WING! Compare that to Wingers: 12 wings / $11 = $1.09 PER WING!!!

Naturally, I had to figure out how to make my own. Luckily, they’re pretty easy: cook the wings, then drench in sauce!

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This is a quick and easy recipe to make garlic cheddar biscuits like you get from Red Lobster.

Ingredients:

2C Bisquick mix
2/3C Milk
2/3C Cheese (cheddar, grated)
1/4C Butter (melted)
1 Tbsp. Garlic
1 Tbsp. Chives

Directions:

1. Mix Bisquick and milk until moist
2. Add cheese to mix
3. Spoon onto baking sheet, and brush generously with melted butter and garlic and chives
4. Bake at 450F for 8-10 minutes, until the tops are lightly browned

Last week, some friends invited us over for an “appetizer party.” I thought it was a good idea and would be fun to see all the different things people would bring. As the party approached I became more and more concerned about what I was going to make because I never make appetizers–when I cook, I’m usually making dinner, or some dessert but not appetizers because appetizers just aren’t filling enough.

I spent some time searching around. I was considering making some chicken wings, shrimp cocktail, chicken quesadillas, or a few other things… but I always like making new recipes and I hadn’t quite found that perfect something. So, on the day of the party, I was frantically searching for something tasty to make, and I found it. It was a fruit salsa and cinnamon chips! Its pretty quick and doesn’t take much work to make. The recipe is here: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Annies-Fruit-Salsa-and-Cinnamon-Chips/Detail.aspx

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