Recipes

Robin McDaniel is a community columnist for Blount Today and writes the weekly column - In The Kitchen. Every week she prepares or collaborates on a recipe then cooks and photographs the dish for Blount Today. Robin must consider it a labor of love. You can certainly see the love and care she puts into In the Kitchen each week.

• Walnut Cranberry Biscotti is a better biscuit Published 3/17/2010 at 3:15 p.m. 0 comments

  When my friend (and boss), Brenda Pilson, brought in biscotti she had made, I knew I wanted to share this with Blount Today readers. Biscotti is a type of biscuit, and it is often called “twice-baked cookies.” Traditionally, biscotti contains ...

• Wear the green, eat the pie for St. Patrick’s Day Published 3/11/2010 at 11:28 a.m. 0 comments

  The Emerald Isle and all that is fun and good about the Irish will be celebrated on Wednesday, March 17, with St. Patrick’s Day. To celebrate at the dinner table, whip up this traditional Irish dish, courtesy of Food Network’s ...

• Healthy soup from the slow cooker Published 3/4/2010 at 11:57 a.m. 0 comments

  Crock Pot Bean Soup is a great meal that lets your slow cooker do the work while you work. My sister Gail had a request from her friend Holly for a recipe for a Crock Pot meal that could cook ...

• Pizza is twice as nice with double crust Published 2/25/2010 at 12:38 p.m. 0 comments

  Pizza is just about the best thing that ever happened to dinner, but you don’t have to order delivery. Make this home-made pizza that has a special twist of being a double-crust pizza. When made with frozen bread dough, it’s ...

• Empanada stars in all roles at dinner table Published 2/17/2010 at 4:45 p.m. 0 comments

  The empanada can play a leading role, start the show or provide the sweet finale in your dinner table production. An empanada is the name of a stuffed bread or pastry. They can be large or small and are usually ...

• Celebrate Valentine’s Day with White Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake Published 2/10/2010 at 3:29 p.m. 0 comments

  Valentine’s Day will be here Sunday, Feb. 14, so I wanted to make a special dessert for the holiday. Since I find cheesecake hard to resist, this White Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake seemed a perfect fit. The crust is extra-special in ...

• Cheesy football a winner for Super Bowl parties Published 2/3/2010 at 1:47 p.m. 0 comments

  It doesn’t matter if you are hoping the Saints or the Colts will take home the honors from the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 7. Prepare this football-shaped cheese ball, and you will receive rave reviews. Many families have traditional ...

• Savor the chili then devour the bowl Published 1/28/2010 at 2:16 p.m. 0 comments

  White Chili screams “winter.” Not only is it a warm, filling dish, but it is a little lighter than traditional chili, because it features chicken and not beef. An easy dish to prepare, White Chili can be “dressed up” a ...

• Sous Chef offers recipe for stroganoff Published 1/20/2010 at 2:51 p.m. 0 comments

  Today’s In the Kitchen recipe comes at the request of a new friend through the cooperation of my stepson. Once a week I enjoy going to Crossroads, a facility for young people run by the Blount County Children’s Home, to ...

• Personalize your soup for a ‘comfort food’ fit Published 1/13/2010 at 2:18 p.m. 0 comments

  If ever there was weather that screams for “soup,” we’ve had it! Walk into a house where a pot of soup or chili simmers on the stove, and it truly is like “coming home.” I see soup as the original ...

• Sweeten your healthy resolutions with Orange Pecan Loaf Published 1/7/2010 at 12:29 p.m. 0 comments

  If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to eat healthier, this recipe for Orange Pecan Loaf is a good start and can help wean us from our “sugar overload” of the holidays.

• Start new year with ‘lucky’ appetizer Published 12/29/2009 at 11:31 a.m. 0 comments

  Following a typically Southern tradition for luck and prosperity for the New Year, I knew I had to share this recipe because it contains the “lucky” ingredient -- black-eyed peas. Some call this a salsa, others a dip, and I ...

• Two cooks made Sunday pancakes a special meal Published 12/22/2009 at 1:29 p.m. 0 comments

  If your want something special to prepare for family and/or friends on Christmas morning, how about a delicious, fluffy stack of made-from-scratch pancakes? Pancakes at our house when I was a child were usually reserved for Sunday mornings, although there ...

• Mac and cheese is simple crowd pleaser Published 12/16/2009 at 2:42 p.m. 0 comments

  The recipe this week is not the most elegant dish I’ve done in In the Kitchen, but it is always a crowd pleaser at the McDaniel home. There are many ways to prepare macaroni and cheese, but when it comes ...

• Christmas Meringue Puffs Published 12/2/2009 at 7:02 p.m. 0 comments

  These are so light and delicate and absolutely the easiest cookies to make. Decorate any way you like. You can leave them white and sprinkle with colored sugar, or add a drop of red or green food coloring to the ...

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