Karen's Kitchen Stories
Adventures in cooking and baking.
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Mexican Cinnamon Cookies (Polvorones de Canela)
These Mexican Cinnamon Cookies are a shortbread cookie both filled with cinnamon and coated in cinnamon sugar. You won't be able to stop at just one cookie. If you have a jar of these cookies in your house, they will call your name. Fair warning. They are super crumbly, sweet,…
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Vanilla Cookies with Fudge Filling
These vanilla cookies with fudge filling are an easy to make tasty dessert. Take them to your next cookie exchange and they will be the hit of the party. You can also make these cookies to keep for snacking at home or for an after-school treat. Vanilla and chocolate are an…
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Aloo Paratha (Indian Spicy Potato Bread) Recipe
Aloo Paratha is a flaky Indian flatbread (paratha) stuffed with spicy potatoes (aloo). It's a wonderful breakfast bread that you can buy at roadside stands and eateries along northern Indian highways. Aloo paratha are also made in Indian households as part of a hearty…
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Summer Squash and Fettuccine
Tossing together seared strips of summer squash, including zucchini and yellow squash, with a creamy and cheesy sauce and fettuccine is an easy and quick way to put together a wonderful pasta dish. This pasta dish is so easy! You don't need a lot of pans either. You just combine…
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Pompe Á L'Huile - Provençal Olive Oil Brioche
This Pompe Á L'Huile, an olive oil brioche, is a soft and fluffy orange scented bread. It's a traditional Christmas bread from Provence, but it's so good that there's no reason you can't enjoy this any time of year. This month, the Bread Baking Babes are making an olive oil…
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Wicked Witch Cones
These Wicked Witch Cones are a fun project you can do with kids. I should probably put the word wicked in quotes because these cones don't look at all wicked to me! I made these wicked witch cones with ice cream, so it took a little while to make these because I had to keep…
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Uzbek Rice with Beef and Carrots (Plov)
Plov is a meaty rice dish that is considered the national dish of Uzbekistan. It is typically made with rice, onions, garlic, carrots, and either lamb or beef. As is the tradition, this pilaf dish is made in layers, beginning with the meat, the onions, the carrots, and finally…
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Mini Chocolate Almond Babka
This Mini Chocolate Almond Babka is made with an enriched brioche dough and is filled with swirls of chocolate and almonds. This little babka is made with just one cup of flour and baked in a mini loaf pan. I love it because enriched doughs, especially ones with butter, tend to…
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Werewolf Sliders
These werewolf sliders are a fun to make Halloween treat. You can make them to serve at a party or prepare the ingredients for your guests to get creative and make their own. I had fun making these a few years ago with my grandkids but never posted them! Now that Halloween is…
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Giant Nutella Pop Tart
This giant Nutella Pop Tart is a fun take on the classic breakast pastry. It's definitely too big for a toaster but it is just right for dessert. This big Nutella Pop Tart starts with a pie dough and then is filled with a generous amount of Nutella. Once it's done baking in the…
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Iced Lime Cookies
These slice and bake iced lime cookies begin with a shortbread-style dough, but they are flavored with fresh lime zest, lime juice, and even lime oil, to bring out the sweet citrusy flavor. These lime cookies are rolled in sparkling sugar, baked, and then dunked in a lime…
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Parmesan and Thyme Honeynut Squash
This Parmesan and Thyme Honeynut squash is cooked until it's tender and then it is tossed with Parmesan cheese and roasted until it's crispy. Once you have prepped the honeynut squash, this side dish takes just 25 minutes to cook, and the resulting side dish will make you very…
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Tomatillo Salad
This tomatillo salad is bright flavored and refreshing. It's made with a combination of fresh tomatillos and butterhead lettuce and dressed with a creamy tomatillo ranch-style dressing. Fresh tomatillos are not actually tomatoes despite their appearance and their name. They come…
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Fried Rice with Crab and Peas
This fried rice with crab and peas takes only 20 minutes to make, especially if you have some leftover steamed or Chinese takeout white rice. It makes a great lunch or dinner with a salad. The ingredients are easy to find and the dish is a lot of fun to make. Read more »
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Banana Apple Coffee Cake Muffins
These banana apple muffins, with a layer of cinnamon and brown sugar through the middle and a crunchy buttery topping with sugar, flour, cinnamon, and vanilla, are like little single serving coffee cakes! These banana apple coffee cake muffins are exceptionally moist. After all,…
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Pear Fritter Loaf Cake
This pear fritter loaf cake combines all of the goodness of a fritter in an easy to make quick bread. This pear loaf cake is loaded with fresh pear chunks along with vanilla bean paste, a brown sugar cinnamon swirl, and finished with a vanilla glaze. The cake is super moist too.…
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Apple Streusel Cookies
These apple cookies, with a spicy oat streusel and a cinnamon glaze, are moist and filled with chunks of fresh apple. They are a great for a snack or dessert. The apple flavor is enhanced by the flavors of fall, including cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and brown sugar. These…
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Sear Roasted Steak
Sear roasting is a great way to prepare a steak, especially when you are unable to grill outside. By searing the steak on the stove top and then transferring it to a hot oven for just a few minutes, you end up with a steak that is charred on the outside and evenly cooked on the…
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Easy Clam Chowder
This easy clam chowder is wonderful when the weather gets cooler and you need something warming and easy to put together. This chowder fits the bill. The broth is a combination of clam juice and the juice from canned tomatoes, and the soup is loaded with goodies such as clams,…
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Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles
These frozen chocolate peanut butter truffles are a tasty treat that are like a cross between candy and ice cream. These frozen truffles are filled with a concoction of whipped cream, peanut butter, and chcolate ganache. They are then chilled and coated in chocolate and…