I remember one year before my Christmas baking, I just had it in my head that I had to have Crystallized Candied Ginger for a cake I was baking. That was back in the ’90s and it had become kind of a trendy ingredient, except where I lived! I couldn’t find it. Now it’s available in many stores or online, but Homemade Crystallized Candied Ginger is super easy to make at home; it just takes a bit of ginger, a bit of sugar and a bit of time.
Homemade Crystallized Candied Ginger
Are you a waffle lover? I am. I love a good waffle. I like to make them for dinner – because they’re just too much of a pain to make in the a.m. One exception might be Alton Brown’s Really Good Waffles.
Alton Browns Really Good Waffles
I don’t ever remember having pretzels as a kid. Growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere, they just weren’t available. But when I did have that first pretzel? A Chewy Soft Pretzel? Yeah, I fell in love.
Soft Pretzels
I’m calling this Almost Alton’s Oven Roasted Broccoli. Just because it’s slightly adapted from the Man himself! I used to make oven-roasted broccoli a lot. Maybe you did, too. So simple, it was hardly a recipe. I’d toss broccoli with a bit of oil, throw it in the oven, and when it was done, it was done.
Almost Alton’s Oven Roasted Broccoli
With a few minutes of time and a few basic pantry ingredients, you can whip together a chocolate syrup that is so unbelievably good it doesn’t even deserve the same name as the store-bought kind. That’s why it’s called Intensely Chocolate Syrup, not ordinary old grocery store syrup. 🙂