Shoebox Recipes Blog

Hi everyone. This morning I’m concentrating on adding recipes for baked goods such as muffins and coffee cakes. Here’s what is new so far:

• Bran Muffins with Plums – This recipe combines a oat bran muffin mix with apple juice, plums and raisins.
• Ham and Cheese Buttermilk Breakfast Muffins - This muffin recipe is made with ham, cheese, scallions, red bell pepper, buttermilk, flour, eggs, butter and seasonings.
• Favorite Coffee Cake – This coffee cake recipe is made in a bundt pan using butter, sugar, vanilla, sour cream, eggs, flour, baking powder and salt. It is layered with a topping made with walnuts, brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Whole Bran Muffins – This muffin recipe is made with whole bran, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, milk, egg and butter.

Hi everyone! I’ve just added the following recipes that are very easy to make:

• Southern Style Summer Squash - This recipe combines yellow squash with zucchini and onions. They are cooked in butter until very tender and seasoned with salt and pepper.
• Featherweight Pancakes – These delicious pancakes are made with stiffly beaten egg whites, beaten egg yolks, salt, flour and cottage cheese.
• Creamy Roasted Garlic Dressing - This low-fat dressing is made with roasted garlic, yogurt, parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice, mustard and anchovies.

Hi everyone! Today I’ve added the following recipes that are super easy to make:

• Almond Flip-Top Cake with Orange Filling - make it with a cake mix, almonds, sugar and butter. The filling is orange juice based.
• Angel Food Cake with Coffee Cream - made with an angel food cake, whipped cream, instant coffee, sugar and vanilla.
• Baby Orange Babas - made with a yellow cake mix and soaked with a syrup made with sugar, water, orange juice and orange peel.
• Butterscotch Torte Supreme – This cake recipe uses a yellow cake mix that is filled with a pudding mixture made with butterscotch pudding, dates, walnuts and butter. The sides are frosted with a fluffy white frosting.
• Chocolate Chiffon Dessert – This easy to make dessert is made with a crust of vanilla wafer crumbs, walnuts and butter. The filling is made with gelatin, chocolate syrup, vanilla and whipped evaporated milk.

By the way, if you’ve been to the site before you may have noticed that once again I’ve changed its appearance. Guess I’m simply never satisfied. Maybe this time will be different and I’ll keep this look for awhile.

I previously mentioned that I just may add more recipes today, and as it turns out I’ve done just that. Here’s another assortment for your cooking pleasure:

• Quick Chicken Pot Pie
• Peachy Chicken
• Grilled Lemon Chicken
• Brown Sugar Poundcake with Gingered Apricots

Today I have just added some more recipes for vegetables, but I hope to be adding recipes for other foods later today if time permits. Here’s what is new so far today:

• Triple Bean Casserole
• Green Peas with Scallions
• Vegetable Paella
• Potatoes and Spinach in Garlic Red Chili Sauce
• Summer Tomato Potato Basil Gratin

Finally, after many cold days and nights our dear friend Spring has returned. That’s not to say that we won’t get any more snow storms, because we usually do, but it means that gardening and especially vegetable gardening is right around the corner. Maybe that will be sooner for you than for me, but in any case it means I’m usually cooking more vegetables.

Here are a few new recipes that I’ve just added:

• Risotto with Spring Vegetables
• Tomato Salad
• Baked Sugar Snap Peas

Hi there! I certainly hope you are enjoying your day. I’ve just added a few new recipes and I hope you and your family enjoy them. They are:

• Green Chile Pork Stew
• Spinach Rice Pilaf
• Easy Spicy Chicken Wings
• Cheese Enchiladas with Red Chile Sauce
• Irish Stew

Hi everyone. This morning I was able to complete the new look for Shoebox Recipes and I hope you like it. There may be a few bugs floating around that I haven’t yet located, but I am on the lookout for them. Hopefully there aren’t any.

At this point I’ve only added one new recipe, an Open Faced French Ham Omelet. It’s easy to make and serves 4 or 5. I’ll be adding more great recipes soon. Enjoy!

I’ve just changed the theme for this blog. The old theme had a few problems that I simply couldn’t fix and that bugged the heck out of me. It was nice, it matched the main site, but links to the new recipes simply refused to show up on the main page.

An additional note. I’m working on a new look for the main site, one that is in shades of tan and just might be easier on the eyes. Well, at least my old eyes. It has a more sophisticated appearance as well. I personally find it calming. I’ll keep you posted on its progress here, but it shouldn’t be too long before it goes live.

Also, when I can, I will try to take some photos of the dishes that the recipes produce. That in itself is an undertaking as I can’t and won’t cook everything in a day or even in a year – there’s just too many! But you will eventually see more photos being added.

And all that goes with warmer weather too.

Hi everyone. Welcome to 2010 and I’m hoping for a much better year for all of us. I’m also wishing for warmer weather at the moment, we’ve already seen quite a bit of snow here and winter has barely gotten started. But enough of that. However, it has influenced my choice of new recipes to add today in that a few are probably going to be best enjoyed during the summertime. Here’s what is new:

• Crenshaw Cooler
• Citrus Spritzer
• Shrimp and Pineapple Skewers
• Chicken Tetrazzini
• Coconut Rice with Edamame and Sweet Potatoes