Category: Desserts
Family Reunion Meals Made Easy
Posted by Jenny Stanger in Chicken, Desserts, Pasta, Pork, Recipes, Stock Your Freezer Tips Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:49 5 Comments
We just had a wonderful family reunion with my in-laws in Ashton, Idaho. It involved staying in a massive cabin with 17 adults and 17 kids, a hike to a nearby waterfall (Mesa Falls), and trip to the gorgeous sand dunes in Saint Anthony. We also ate a lot of good food and played a lot of deep belly laughing games. To make sure no one person was stuck in the kitchen the entire time, we organized it so each family teamed up with one other to make dinner on one of the nights. Breakfast and lunch was set out by the reunion hosts.
Our first night in Ashton we had a hot dog bar with 3-4 different signs instructing you how to make your hot dog special. Very cute idea!
Easy Oreo Cookies
Posted by Jenny Stanger in Cookies, Desserts, Recipes Monday, 7 March 2011 09:19 2 Comments
I love homemade oreo cookies, but making them has always seemed to be too much work, until now. At a girls night the other night my friend Emily brought a huge plate of homemade oreo cookies with peanut butter cream frosting! They were to die for. She told me they are actually very easy to make. They are made from a chocolate cake mix and for the frosting she simply mixed peanut butter into a butter cream frosting tub. Now that’s what I call easy and these cookies are now our favorite treat. Thank you Emily!
Freezer Meal Basic Training
Posted by Jenny Stanger in About the Author, Beef, Bread and Breakfast, Desserts, Pasta, Recipes, Stock Your Freezer Tips Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:41 9 Comments
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I apologize it has been awhile since my last post. We played until we dropped every day of the vacation. My girls received a lot of art supplies for Christmas and my husband bought me an electric back massager. Between making crafts, playing in the snow, eating chocolate and enjoying back rubs, life has been pretty busy around here.
I don’t know about you, but my freezer is EMPTY! It is time to re-stock. I’ve been busy today slicing up marinated steak strips for future meals, and I hope to continue stocking my freezer with cooked rice, meat balls, pot stickers and Chicken Cordon Bleu. I had some time to experiment over the break with some new recipes and I can’t wait to share them with you over the next couple of weeks!
A few months ago I presented to a group of women in Logan, UT how to get started with making freezer meals. Around 60 women attended and with the help of a few other women, the evening was put together with ease and was a huge success. I’ve had the opportunity to teach freezer meal basic training many times and I’ve put together a list of basic tips and recipes I use when I teach.
If you are planning on getting started this year with making freezer meals or would like to spread the word about how great it is to have your freezer stocked, feel free to use this Freezer Meal Basic Training.
Cookbook face-off: Cougars vs. Utes
Posted by Jenny Stanger in About the Author, Desserts, Print Articles, T.V. Promotions Thursday, 29 July 2010 15:19 No Comments
This article was printed today in the Daily Universe. I will be on campus at BYU on August 19th from 4-6pm to sign books at the BYU Bookstore during Education Week. Please come stop by and visit with me if you are in the area.
Photo is by Zac Williams from the Brigham Young University Cougars Cookbook reprinted with permission from Gibbs Smith.
Cookbook Faceoff: Cougars vs. Utes
By Amanda Taylor
The rivalry has made it to the kitchen. Thanks to two new cookbooks, Cougars and Utes alike can create themed snacks to support their team for the next big throw-down.
Cake Balls, the easy way.
Posted by Jenny Stanger in Cookies, Desserts Friday, 23 July 2010 15:15 2 Comments
The other night I had the gym instructors I work with over for a girls night out. Everyone brought their favorite late night snack and Nicole brought these delicious little dipped-chocolate treats. They looked like cake balls I’ve heard so much about ( big at weddings in Idaho) so I was very excited to try one. After taking a bite of the white hardened chocolate with soft creamy Oreo filling I about died. They are so good! Usually something so wonderful is very time consuming to make, but not these little treasures.