Waldorf Slaw is sweet, savory, crispy and crunchy - the perfect salad for your summer bbq! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! Today's recipe isn't mine - it's from my friend, Rivky Kleinman, from her incredible new cookbook, Simply Gourmet. If you haven't heard yet about this new cookbook, Simply Gourmet is full of just the type of recipes I love - mostly easy, totally doable, and completely delicious! And trust me when I tell you that Rivky Kleinman knows delicious food that's approachable - she's the co-author of the incredibly popular Bais Yaakov Cookbooks! So. Let's talk about this sample recipe, … [Read more...]
Blueberry Corn Muffin Mug Cake
Blueberry Corn Muffin Mug Cakes are a perfect summer breakfast that takes less than 5 minutes to prep and cook! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group. Click here to join the conversation. It all started in Walmart, at 2 am. Where all good stories start, right? I was shopping with my friends Shaindy and Miriam, and naturally, we found ourselves in the baking aisle. (Shocking, right?) Turns out that nowadays, they don't just make full size cake mixes, but they also make single serve cake mix, meant to be made in a mug. Obviously we bought a bunch of them. Obviously. The only flavor that was pareve was … [Read more...]
Blueberry Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
I'd like ramble about two things today. I hope you will bear with me, as these ramblings end in...cupcakes. Do I have your attention? Awesome, let's start. With blueberries. Is there anything that really screams out "summer" like sitting down to snack on (read: completely devour) a bowl of juicy blueberries? I don't think so either. I tried to cheat the system a couple of months back, and bought myself a package of blueberries. Many dollars later, I discovered the disappointing truth: for the real goodness of juicy, summery, deliciously plump blueberries, you gotta wait for the summer. Here's my second rambling. (Patience my friend, we're getting closer.) Where's the line between a … [Read more...]
World’s Best Blueberry Crumb Muffins
Last summer I took my two nieces (then 2 and 4) blueberry picking. They had an amazing time, and amazingly learned to tell the difference between a blueberry that was ripe and one that wasn't. One problem: they enjoyed themselves so much that I didn't have the heart to stop them once we had we had enough berries. So they kept picking until we finally drove off with about two thousand pounds of fresh blueberries. (Slight exaggeration. Slight.) We got home and I came up with a great way to use up some of the surplus: "Who wants to bake blueberry muffins?" And so we did. And even the blueberry-muffin-haters among us loved them. I made a triple recipe, thinking I'd freeze a bunch. That wasn't … [Read more...]