Yes, you can buy butter at the store, but making your own is a fun and rewarding experience. Not to mention that freshly made butter has an unparalleled creamy texture, which glides beautifully onto your homemade bread or muffins. And it’s a lot quicker and easier than you might think. Here are the steps to make your own fresh butter: (more…)
How To Customize Your Baked Chicken Breast Recipes
Date: Monday September 29, 2008Posted in: how to
You can cut your chicken breast into bite-size pieces and add it to everything from salads to pastas to soup, but you can also serve it whole as a main course unto itself. Either way, you can greatly enhance its flavor with seasonings, herbs, and sauces.
OPTION 1: (more…)
You may be looking for a good boneless chicken breast recipe because you know chicken breast is good for. And it is! Chicken breast is loaded with protein and low in fat. It also has a nice mild flavor that can be incorporated into almost any type of meal: Southwest, Italian, Mexican, Tropical, Asian, or just good old American.
There is only one problem with chicken breast: It’s DRY! Nobody wants to eat a tough, dried out piece of chicken. Unfortunately, bad cooking techniques have given this fantastic cut of meat a bad name. The good news is that cooking the perfect chicken is easy (even for the new homemaker), once you know how.
Before getting into the specific recipes for chicken, make sure you know the basic cooking technique. (more…)
One of the most important jobs of any housewife is preparing food for her family. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, day after day after day. While it is lovely to use all fresh ingredients, peeled, grated, and chopped by hand, sometimes we need a shortcut!
Canned foods can present exactly that shortcut, but only if the product inside has a delicious taste, perfect texture, and beautiful color. We want to add convenience to our lives, but only if it means we can still serve our families the very best.
In the “Canned Foods” category, Holly Housewife will mention canned foods that will be a great addition to your pantry. The first of these is (more…)
Thanks to the feminine rebellion of the late 20th century, women have been led to believe that they are only contributing to society if they join men in the pursuit of a high-powered career. Unfortunately, this cultural phenomenon has done more harm than good, to both women and their families. Chasing after professional success, women have unintentionally given the best part of their lives (their energy, strength, creativity, and time) to their work. Their husbands and children are stuck with whatever is left over at the end of their full, exhausting day.
Somehow believing that it is possible to be an excellent wife and mother while (more…)
