Check out the latest show of Giada cooking!!
She is an inspiration!
How does she stay so thin and fit when she is constantly cooking and eating food?!
We here at The Food Network love her, and am proud to call her one of our rising stars!
watch this!
~ Lauren
10.18.2010
Sneak Peak - Summer Decor and Food!
Here is a sneak peak of the fun stuff you will be seeing in the near future as summer quickly approaches us!
Summer decor:
Summer decor:
Special thanks to Dining-Delight for this beautiful summer table setting!
Beautiful Summer centerpieces for your tables! Using simple bright flowers, lemons, limes, and oranges as decoration!
Summer inspiration for your sun room or deck!!
Adding bright colors, plants, and paper lamps does the trick!
Summer Food:
Fruit pizza perfect for barbecues and other summer outings!
Homemade Popsicles for those hott summer days!
Grilled veggies! Great for cookouts, and parties!!
Stay tuned for full blog and How-To!
~ Lauren
News on Home Magazine, and The Food Network
New fall and winter addition of Home Magazine is now in stores! Go check it out to get even more ideas on how-to's
for cooking and decorating your home!!
Also pick up a copy of the new fall Better Homes and
Gardens Magazine for our feature article in there!!
Gardens Magazine for our feature article in there!!
NEW SERIES on The Food Network!Starts Thursday October 21st at 7pm!!
Tune in for live how-to's on seasonal cooking
for the fall and winter!!!
Our new fall magazine is now in stores also!
~ Lauren
It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Christmas......Around Your Home!!!
Dining room table decorated = Check!
Living room table decorated = Check! Check!
Shelving around the house decorated = Check! Check! Check!
Now on to the rest of your home!
Easy as 1-2-3 decorations for around your entire home!
These projects wont take you but 10 to 30 minutes a piece to accomplish! Spend a couple hours one Saturday afternoon and your house could be done! :)
Living room table decorated = Check! Check!
Shelving around the house decorated = Check! Check! Check!
Now on to the rest of your home!
Easy as 1-2-3 decorations for around your entire home!
These projects wont take you but 10 to 30 minutes a piece to accomplish! Spend a couple hours one Saturday afternoon and your house could be done! :)
Use Simple hurricane vases,and put in clear stones, silver snowflakes, and pine cones from your backyard. For the snowy look on the pine cones, simply spray with a "snow spray" that you can get from any craft store. You can use as many or little as you want, and vases of different sizes and shapes to create this simple, elegant winter decoration!
Alot of these winter/christmas decorations you can get from your own backyard or your neighbors backyard. Stumps of wood, pine cones of different sizes, and tree branches. Add some candles with a couple vases and silver/white sprays and you have a wintery/christmas decorated home!
This one is beautiful and unique. All of these pieces can be found at your nearest craft store. Vases, fake snow, candles, Silver branches and berries. Put them all together, and you have a masterpiece! Easy as 1-2-3!
Another favorite of mine is taking vases yet again, and ornaments of different shapes and colors plus a little bit of fake snow and adding them all together in one vase to create a pretty christmas scene on any surface!
Enjoy your white Christmas,
~ Lauren
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...on your furniture!!
It's beginning to look alot like Christmas! Everywhere we go......
Have you ever wished this song could be describing your home? Well this winter, it can!
Try these simple do it yourself projects at home to lavish your home with the beauty of Christmas!
Idea # 1
Idea # 2:
Have you ever wished this song could be describing your home? Well this winter, it can!
Try these simple do it yourself projects at home to lavish your home with the beauty of Christmas!
Idea # 1
Thanks to the creativity of Dining-Delight we have a beautiful example of how to decorate your kitchen table with the most beautiful adornments!! Use those red and gold hues to really make your center piece an elaborate one!
Idea # 2:
Remember back during one of our fall blogs called "The Smell of Fall is Here!", and we had you pick pumpkins and decorate your shelving in your house? Well we're going to do that again but with Christmas decorations. Pick prominent shelving in your home, and use white candles, and snowflakes, lights, and silver berries and whatever else you have to decorate with! You will end up with a beautiful shelf that you created all by yourself! :)
Enjoy your white Christmas,
~ Lauren
Winter Delicacies!
Walking into a home during the winter, smelling that fire burning, and those cookies fresh out of the oven is one of the most comforting smells ever. Or how about that turkey roasting, or that bread cooking!
Now is the time to get your thinking caps on and come up with your menu for winter!
It's always the main courses everyone knows what and how to make. But its those side items that people are always stumped on.
Well here are two side items and a dessert to which are perfect for the winter season, or Christmas Holiday.
Now is the time to get your thinking caps on and come up with your menu for winter!
It's always the main courses everyone knows what and how to make. But its those side items that people are always stumped on.
Well here are two side items and a dessert to which are perfect for the winter season, or Christmas Holiday.
Strawberry Nut Festive Salad
Click here for Recipe:
This red and green salad will certainly turn heads at your table. With the bright fresh colors, the sweet smell, and the different textures, this salad will be a big hit with your guests!
Original Green Bean Casserole
Click here for Recipe:
Yes, a green bean casserole is a must have at your christmas dinner! So why not try this inexpensive version, and new recipe! It's delicious, and well presented all at the same time.
Black Forest Cupcakes with Cherry Puree Buttercream Icing
Refer back to a post in the fall called: Desserts for Fall for the How-to on these great cupcakes!
Enjoy,
~ Lauren
It's Winter Tme!!!
Oh how we here at Home Magazine and the Food Network LOVE winter time! There is the beautiful snow, pretty lights, holidays like Christmas and New Years, and delicious food! This winter you are in for a treat with these new spunky ideas on how to decorate with jaw dropping ideas, and how to make the most taste-bud frenzy foods!
So as to speak from this winter song:
Take a journey with us as we go, "Over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through white and drifted snow!!...."
~ Lauren
So as to speak from this winter song:
Take a journey with us as we go, "Over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through white and drifted snow!!...."
Fill Your Appetite with Fall!
Fall time! What a wonderful time filled with, color changes, smell changes, and weather changes. You have football season, and holidays like Halloween and thanksgiving! What more could you ask for than good food??!!
Well I'm here to tell you a bunch of new ideas for fall appetizers, entrees, and festive foods!
Recipe:
What You Need
20 fresh mushrooms
3 Tbsp. butter
2 Tbsp. finely chopped onions
2 Tbsp. finely chopped red peppers
14 RITZ Crackers, finely crushed (about 1/2 cup)
2 Tbsp. KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese
1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
Make It:HEAT oven to 400°F. Remove stems from mushrooms. Finely chop enough stems to measure 1/4 cup. Discard remaining stems or refrigerate for another use.
MELT butter in large skillet on medium heat. Add chopped stems, onions and peppers; cook and stir until tender. Stir in cracker crumbs, cheese and seasoning; spoon into mushroom caps. Place on baking sheet.
BAKE 15 min. or until heated through.
Well I'm here to tell you a bunch of new ideas for fall appetizers, entrees, and festive foods!
Jack O' Lantern Cheese Ball
Recipe:
What You Need:
3 green onions, divided
2 pkg. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1 pkg. (8 oz.) KRAFT Shredded Cheddar Cheese, divided
1/4 cup finely chopped red peppers
2 slices pepperoni
Make It:
CUT 4-inch length from green end of 1 onion; slice remaining onions. Beat cream cheese and 1-1/4 cups Cheddar with mixer until well blended. Stir in sliced onions and peppers. Refrigerate 1 hour.
SHAPE into ball; roll in remaining Cheddar. Cut pepperoni into shapes for the jack-o'-lantern's eyes, nose and mouth; press into cheese ball to make face. Insert green onion piece into top for stem.
SERVE with RITZ Crackers.
ENJOY!!
Mummy Pizzas
Stuffed Mushrooms
What You Need
20 fresh mushrooms
3 Tbsp. butter
2 Tbsp. finely chopped onions
2 Tbsp. finely chopped red peppers
14 RITZ Crackers, finely crushed (about 1/2 cup)
2 Tbsp. KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese
1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
Make It:HEAT oven to 400°F. Remove stems from mushrooms. Finely chop enough stems to measure 1/4 cup. Discard remaining stems or refrigerate for another use.
MELT butter in large skillet on medium heat. Add chopped stems, onions and peppers; cook and stir until tender. Stir in cracker crumbs, cheese and seasoning; spoon into mushroom caps. Place on baking sheet.
BAKE 15 min. or until heated through.
ENJOY!!
Apple-Cranberry-Pecan-Stuffing
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Desserts For the Fall
Desserts are my favorite part of every meal. A lot of times I even start with dessert before I eat my entree! So if it wasnt obvious, I love to bake desserts!
Cupcake are always a fun treat to make as creativity is limitless.
Cupcake are always a fun treat to make as creativity is limitless.
Carrott Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing! Yum!
Using fun icing tips, you can apply icings in different ways to make them texturized!
Adding slices of pumpkin, carrot, or orange, adds a little topping and color to your icing!
Caramel Apples!
Make your own! Take apples, buy the prepared caramel apple mix(containing caramels and sticks). Stick the apples, melt the caramel, cover the apples with caramel, and decorate with extra goodies that you enjoy! Let sit for a little while before eating!
Football Bites!
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Halloween Truffles
Recipe:
What You Need
1 pkg. (6 squares) BAKER'S Bittersweet Chocolate
1/4 cup whipping cream
1 Tbsp. butter, softened
1 pkg. (6 squares) BAKER'S White Chocolate, divided
Yellow and red food colorings (3 drops yellow and 2 drops red)
3 Tbsp. BAKER'S ANGEL FLAKE Coconut, tinted orange
Black decorating gel
Make It
MICROWAVE bittersweet chocolate squares, cream and butter in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 to 2 min., stirring after 1 min. Stir until chocolate is completely melted; cover. Freeze 1 hour or until firm enough to handle. Use teaspoon to scoop and roll chocolate mixture into 20 balls, each about 1 inch in diameter; place on waxed paper-covered baking sheet. Freeze 20 min.
MICROWAVE 3 white chocolate squares in clean microwaveable 1-cup measuring cup or small bowl 1 to 1-1/2 min., stirring after 1 min. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Set aside. Repeat with remaining white chocolate squares in separate bowl; stir in food colorings. Cool chocolates completely.
DIP 10 chocolate balls in tinted chocolate, turning to evenly coat each ball. Return to baking sheet. Repeat with remaining chocolate balls and untinted chocolate. Decorate orange truffles with coconut to resemble pumpkins. Use decorating gel to draw eyes and mouths on white truffles to resemble ghosts. Refrigerate 30 min. or until chocolate is firm. Keep refrigerated.
ENJOY!!!
Apple Pie Crumb Cake
Recipe:
Cake
Apple Crumb Topping
Directions:
Prep Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 1 1/4 hr
1. 1 Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. 2 Lightly butter a 9 inch square pan and dust with flour (you can also use nonstick spray).
3. 3 For the topping, melt 1 tbsp butter in a skillet. Add the apple slices and saute over medium high heat for 2 minutes (stir often). Move the slices to a plate and allow to cool while preparing the cake.
4. 4 For the cake, sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl; set aside.
5. 5 With an electric mixer, cream the butter (1/2 cup) and cream cheese in a large bowl.
6. 6 Gradually add in the sugar, 1/2 cup at a time.
7. 7 Add in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
8. 8 Add the flour, a third at a time, blending well after each addition.
9. 9 Add the vanilla and lemon zest.
10. 10 Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth it with a spoon.
11. 11 To finish the topping, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl.
12. 12 Rub the butter into the dry ingredients until you have uniform crumbs.
13. 13 Sprinkle half of the crumbs over the batter, then add the apple slices.
14. 14 Top with the apples with the remaining crumbs.
15. 15 Bake the cake on the center rack for 50-60 minutes. When the cake is done,it will pull away from the sides and the top will be golden brown.
16. 16 Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack.
Black Forest Cupcakes with Cherry Puree Buttercream Icing
Take a prepared chocolate cupcake mix from the grocery store. Add extra chocolate chips.
If you're doing store bought icing(which is easiest), by plain buttercream icing and mix with cherry flavoring. Add some chocolate shavings or sprinkles over the icing, and finish with a cherry on top!
The Yummy Foods of Fall!
One of our favorite times of the year here at the Food Network Channel is the fall. There are so many delicious foods that you can make for parties, or dinners for your family that allows the festivities of the season to be used!
So what are some fun and yummy ideas? Well let me give you some ideas to boost your creativity for cooking for the fall time!!
How to Roast your Pumpkin Seeds!
An easy treat that the whole family will love is pumpkin seeds that you can roast and bake, and apply different flavors to the seeds to really make them delectable! Check out the video above for a How-To!
Lauren
So what are some fun and yummy ideas? Well let me give you some ideas to boost your creativity for cooking for the fall time!!
An easy treat that the whole family will love is pumpkin seeds that you can roast and bake, and apply different flavors to the seeds to really make them delectable! Check out the video above for a How-To!
Lauren
The Smell of Fall is Here!!
It's that time of year already, where the weather starts to change, and so does the artwork of nature. If you're lucky like me you get to experience fall weather in it's entirety. It's still warm, with a cool fall breeze, and all of the leaves are orange, red, and yellow at this point, within the beautiful mountain ranges surrounding my city. The smell of fall weather, and delicious fall food is something I can not wait for every year! It seemed to creep up on me alot faster this year though, and I'm finding myself frantic to get in the seasonal spirit before I miss out on this beautiful time of year!!!
Fall is fun in that you get to decorate with warm colors, and natural earthly products like hay, and pumpkins, and gourds, etc.
I am quite behind on my decorating but here are some ideas to get you started. Things you can do so easily in your own home that dont cost you your leg!
Make fall decorating a fun event for you and your friends and family. Go to a pumpkin patch a pick your own pumpkins!! They really can go a long way!
Take a shelf thats prominent in your house, and cover them with those pumpkins you picked!
This is an easy, low cost way of bringing the beauty of fall - inside!
My next suggestion is taking items in your house that you use all the time plus a couple seasonal items - and mixing them to create fun fall center pieces for your table or counter top! These are fun things you can put together that are cute and not time consuming! :)
It's colorful, easy, and festive!
Take a couple different jars and vases, putting in them candy corns, and acorns and pine cones you pick from your backyard! Add a couple little pumpkins, and a few leaves from your backyard and you have yourself a homemade center piece that your friends will be ooing about!!
Take time today to decorate!!!
Lauren
Fall is fun in that you get to decorate with warm colors, and natural earthly products like hay, and pumpkins, and gourds, etc.
I am quite behind on my decorating but here are some ideas to get you started. Things you can do so easily in your own home that dont cost you your leg!
Make fall decorating a fun event for you and your friends and family. Go to a pumpkin patch a pick your own pumpkins!! They really can go a long way!
Take a shelf thats prominent in your house, and cover them with those pumpkins you picked!
This is an easy, low cost way of bringing the beauty of fall - inside!
My next suggestion is taking items in your house that you use all the time plus a couple seasonal items - and mixing them to create fun fall center pieces for your table or counter top! These are fun things you can put together that are cute and not time consuming! :)
It's colorful, easy, and festive!
Take a couple different jars and vases, putting in them candy corns, and acorns and pine cones you pick from your backyard! Add a couple little pumpkins, and a few leaves from your backyard and you have yourself a homemade center piece that your friends will be ooing about!!
Take time today to decorate!!!
Lauren
10.11.2010
Discovery and Innovation
Imagine this scenario:
You're running late home from class or work, or wherever you may be coming from, and you have a party to go to tonight, or a party to prepare for, at your own home this evening. But you don't know what to take to this party, or how to decorate your house for your own party. What do you do?
Well women in today's day and age are more likely to turn to the Internet for ideas over anything else. What a better place to turn, then somewhere that inspires you in all of those areas! A One-Stop-Shop, so to speak!
I wanted to start off this blog introducing myself as a way for the readers and followers to understand why I'm doing this blog.
I'm a college student, getting ready to graduate with my several degrees and move on with my life and start a career for two great companies joining together to make one great blog. The Food Network Channel and Home Magazine, have come together to create a perfect combination of decorum and cooking. For women like me who are the majority readers and watchers of these companies are in a time in life where they are starting to become interested in cooking and baking and cool new ways to decorate their home with out spending a fortune. Well that's where I am. When i graduate in May, I move to a new phase of life where I have my own home to make mine. My own kitchen to cook in, my own living and dining rooms to entertain in, and my whole new house to decorate however I want. Over the years I have become a little Susie Homemaker! I think part of it is just growing up, and part of it is thinking about getting married soon, and starting a family. This is what Home Magazine, and The Food Network Channel are for -- for these types of women!
These are the things that encouraged me to develope the idea of blogging more detailed information about the Home Magazine articles, and The Food Network Channel with those women who are in my similar shoes; and those women like my mother who have been doing these things for so long, that they just want to change things up and bit and introduce new creativity and excitement into their kitchens and homes.
So, for you readers:
Have you ever wanted a new recipe for a great new dessert or appetizer to take to a get together with friends, but you have no new recipes left in your recipe box? Have you ever wanted to decorate your home for the summer, or for Christmas but are the not the most creative person?? Well that's where I'm here to help you.
As I go from the life of a college student under mommy and daddy's bank account, to a full blown career and life on my own bank account, I will be scrap booking my new innovative ideas for food, and decorating my home for the current season. This is what I like to call Delicacies and Decor - The inspiration to the name of this blog.
I hope you enjoy these fun tips, tricks, and tell all sessions, as I invite you into my ever changing life for new ideas for your creative side to spin off of!
xoxo,
Lauren
You're running late home from class or work, or wherever you may be coming from, and you have a party to go to tonight, or a party to prepare for, at your own home this evening. But you don't know what to take to this party, or how to decorate your house for your own party. What do you do?
Well women in today's day and age are more likely to turn to the Internet for ideas over anything else. What a better place to turn, then somewhere that inspires you in all of those areas! A One-Stop-Shop, so to speak!
I wanted to start off this blog introducing myself as a way for the readers and followers to understand why I'm doing this blog.
I'm a college student, getting ready to graduate with my several degrees and move on with my life and start a career for two great companies joining together to make one great blog. The Food Network Channel and Home Magazine, have come together to create a perfect combination of decorum and cooking. For women like me who are the majority readers and watchers of these companies are in a time in life where they are starting to become interested in cooking and baking and cool new ways to decorate their home with out spending a fortune. Well that's where I am. When i graduate in May, I move to a new phase of life where I have my own home to make mine. My own kitchen to cook in, my own living and dining rooms to entertain in, and my whole new house to decorate however I want. Over the years I have become a little Susie Homemaker! I think part of it is just growing up, and part of it is thinking about getting married soon, and starting a family. This is what Home Magazine, and The Food Network Channel are for -- for these types of women!
These are the things that encouraged me to develope the idea of blogging more detailed information about the Home Magazine articles, and The Food Network Channel with those women who are in my similar shoes; and those women like my mother who have been doing these things for so long, that they just want to change things up and bit and introduce new creativity and excitement into their kitchens and homes.
So, for you readers:
Have you ever wanted a new recipe for a great new dessert or appetizer to take to a get together with friends, but you have no new recipes left in your recipe box? Have you ever wanted to decorate your home for the summer, or for Christmas but are the not the most creative person?? Well that's where I'm here to help you.
As I go from the life of a college student under mommy and daddy's bank account, to a full blown career and life on my own bank account, I will be scrap booking my new innovative ideas for food, and decorating my home for the current season. This is what I like to call Delicacies and Decor - The inspiration to the name of this blog.
I hope you enjoy these fun tips, tricks, and tell all sessions, as I invite you into my ever changing life for new ideas for your creative side to spin off of!
xoxo,
Lauren
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