Archive | January, 2012

What’s For Dinner This Week? Decadence

By on January 30, 2012 in Making Dinner

Meal Planning

For this week’s meal plan, we’ve combined some heart-healthy meals like Turkey-Spinach Meatloaf with simple decadence like Herb-Crusted Chicken with White Chocolate-Blue Cheese Sauce.

For subscribers to The Organized Cook Weekly Meal Plan System, “Decadence” is on the menu, and at an affordable price of about $87-$102 for the entire week of groceries.

MONDAY

Herb-Crusted Chicken with White Chocoalate-Blue Cheese Sauce

Day 1: Herb-Crusted Chicken with White Chocoalate-Blue Cheese Sauce

 

TUESDAY

Menu Plan The Organized Cook

Day 2: California Avocado Chicken Sandwich

 

WEDNESDAY

Turkey Spinach Meatloaf

Day 3: Turkey Spinach Meatloaf

 

THURSDAY

Creamy Shrimp & Vegetable Casserole

Day 4: Creamy Shrimp & Vegetable Casserole

 

FRIDAY

White Bean Turkey Spinach Chili

Day 5: White Bean Turkey Spinach Chili

 

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Skip The Frosting Cupcakes- Smores Style

By on January 30, 2012 in Dessert Recipes, Recipes, Saving Money

Smores Cupcake Recipe

For chocolate cupcakes you can use boxed chocolate cake mix like Pillsbury Chocolate or Dark Chocolate, or Betty Crocker Milk Chocolate or Dark Chocolate.

Or you can use my homemade chocolate cupcake recipe mix below….. if I do say so myself, this recipe is the bomb.

Skip The Frosting Chocolate Smores Cupcakes

Skip The Frosting Chocolate Smores Cupcakes

Toni’s Chocolate Cupcake Mix Recipe

Ingredients:

  1. flour- 1 1/4 cup
  2. cocoa powder- 1/2 cup, like Hershey’s Cocoa

    Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

    Toni's Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

  3. baking powder- 1 tspn
  4. sugar- 1 cup
  5. butter- 1 stick
  6. milk or dark chocolate- 4 oz., melted in microwave
  7. egg whites- 3
  8. milk- 1 cup
  9. vanilla- 1 tspn
  10. honey graham crackers- quartered, like Honey Maid Honey Grahams
  11. jumbo marshmallows- like Jet-Puffed Marshmallows

Directions:

  1. mix together flour, cocoa powder and baking powder
  2. In standing mixer, cream together butter and sugar
  3. add melted chocolate, egg whites, milk and vanilla; mix together until creamy
  4. slowly add flour mixture until batter forms
  5. bake until toothpick pulls out clean

    Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

    five minutes before baking is complete, place graham crackers......

  6. set timer about five minutes before baking is complete, at 15 minutes
  7. add one graham slice on top of each cupcake then top with a marshmallow
  8. continue baking another 5 minutes until marshmallow is toasted and toothpick comes out clean

    Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

    .... and then marshmallows. Bake five more minutes until toothpick comes out clean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For another great Skip The Frosting recipe, check out Skip The Frosting Red Velvet Cupcakes:

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Skip The Frosting Red Velvet Cupcakes

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Join Us For Our Weekly #MealPlanning Party & #Pinterest Pinfest

By on January 27, 2012 in Giveaways and Promotions

By now you all are well aware of our love for Pinterest. It inspires us, it motivates us, it entertains us. And it actually is the greatest medium we have found to really share our love of food. We share our recipes, we read others, their photos inspire us to creatively help you be the super star Organized Cook we know you are!

We would love to have you continue to join us as you have have since October on twitter each week for our weekly #mealplanning party. But with a bit of a twist. We would love to have you come prepared to share your favorite foodie pins with us. We want to share your ideas as well as ours.  Each week we will have a board topic-like Valentines Day pins, or Superbowl. We will announce them on twitter a few days before the party so make sure you are following our @organizedcook account. Let’s share our creative ideas and combine our love of both twitter and pinterest!

If you happen to *gasp* miss the party one week, you can always see what was shared on our #mealplanning Pinterest board saved just for the #mealplanning parties!

Pinterest board for #mealplanning twitter parties

Are you a little lost on how to use Pinterest? We suggest you read 5 Pinterest Tips for Beginners by Kelby Carr. If you are a little lost on how to participate, read about twitter parties here.

Twitter and Pinterest #mealplanning weekly party

Remember- if you are a blogger and would like to preview the Weekly Meal Plan from The Organized Cook™ we would love to hear from you.

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Real Red Velvet Cupcakes- Skip The Frosting!

By on January 25, 2012 in Cupcakes, Dessert Recipes, Recipes

Red Velvet Cupcake Recipe

Creating new recipes can be challenging but fun.  I wanted to bake my Skip The Frosting Cupcakes this year for Valentine’s Day and have used several Red Velvet cake recipes in the past.

Red Velvet Cupcake Recipe Skip The Frosting Marshmallow

Skip The Frosting Cupcake by Toni Spilsbury, 2011

I don’t know about you, but I like my Red Velvet cake to taste less like white cake with red food coloring, and more like- well, Red Velvet.

So what does “Red Velvet” taste like?  With very little information out there, this is the question I asked myself.

And here is what… uh, myself answered.

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Real Red Velvet Cupcakes- Skip The Frosting!

Real Red Velvet Cupcakes- Skip The Frosting!

Ingredients

  • cake or all-purpose flour- 2 1/2 cups
  • sugar- 1 1/2 cups
  • baking soda- 1 tspn
  • fine salt- 1 tspn
  • ground cinnamon- 1 tspn
  • cocoa powder- 1 tspn
  • canola or vegetable oil- 1 1/2 cups
  • milk- 1 cup
  • egg whites- 4
  • red food coloring- 2 tbspns
  • white distilled vinegar- 1 tspn
  • vanilla extract- 1 tspn
  • strawberry extract- 1 tspn
  • marshmallows, jumbo (use strawberry marshmallows for Valentine's day)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cocoa powder
  3. In another mixing bowl or electric stand mixer, whisk together oil, milk, egg whites, food coloring, vinegar, vanilla and strawberry extracts
  4. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients using a stand mixer until batter is smooth
  5. Pour batter into lined cupcake tin
  6. Set timer five minutes before baking is complete, approximately 14-16 minutes to add marshmallows
  7. Finish baking for five minutes until toothpick comes out clean, total baking 19-21 minutes
https://tonispilsbury.com/real-red-velvet-cupcakes-skip-the-frosting/

 

 

Red Velvet Cupcake Recipe Skip The Frosting Marshmallow

 

For another great Skip The Frosting recipe, check out Smores Skip The Frosting Cupcakes:

 

Smores Cupcakes

Skip the Frosting Cupcakes- Smores Style!

 

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