Easy comfort food dinner: Paprikash & noodles

Last night, I tried a recipe I clipped from the label on a can of Giant Eagle condensed cream of chicken soup. When you want quick and simple, those cream soups are terrific! Recipes and more info are below the gallery.

Busy Day Paprikash
Taken from label of Giant Eagle Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup.
Makes four servings [...]

Healthy oat bran muffins made with Amish friendship bread starter

Amish friendship bread starter can overwhelm a household, especially when your friends and family start hiding when they know you’ve got some more to give away. And if you’re like me, you’re trying to lose weight and don’t want to have those calorie-dense quickbreads around to temp you (let alone be making more every ten [...]

Italian herb bread, kneaded by hand this time

Tomorrow’s our annual Beast Feast with our friends. For the uninitiated, that’s our annual dinner and gift exchange with our best friends and their kids. We make a big turkey dinner with all the trimmings, and they bring dessert.
So, today and this evening have been prep time. I have the brine ready for the turkey [...]

Applesauce Whole Wheat Bread

I got this recipe from a Google search that led to fooddownunder.com, a website that’s no longer in existence. Fortunately, Google had a cached copy, so I copied it!
Applesauce Whole Wheat Bread
For the bread machine.
1 1/2 cup Applesauce
1 1/4 cup All-purpose flour
1 cup Whole wheat flour
1/2 cup Oatmeal (grind to coarse flour first)
1/4 cup Wheat [...]

Italian herb bread for bread machine

I made this for our Thanksgiving dinner and it was delicious. I realized after the bread was mid way through its cycle in the machine that I needed to move the machine so we could sit down at the table for dinner. Thing is, with bread machines, you can’t interrupt them if they’re past the [...]

Cinnamon apple whole wheat bread

Why are my breads turning out so craggy on top instead of smooth? I used the lightest crust setting, but it still looks like it’ll be too done. Aaaargh.
This is the recipe from Recipezaar:

Ingredients

1 1/3 cups apple juice
2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate
1 tablespoon honey
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup diced apple
1/4 cup wheat gluten
3 [...]