Chocolate Chip and Candied Bacon Pancakes with Nutella Maple Syrup
Valentine’s Day is coming. We do not really celebrate Valentine’s Day here at Casa Shenanigans. No heart shaped boxes of candy, no bunches of wilted grocery store roses, and no adult-sized footie pajamas in the mail. No, we do not celebrate with silly tokens. We celebrate with food. Sometimes we go out, but more often we stay in and make something really naughty. This year I will be making my darling these. We both...
Pecan Chocolate Chip Gooey Butter Cake
Oh baby, it is COLD outside! The Dallas area, and most areas in the Mid-west, are enduring what I am unofficially calling ‘Ice-pocalypse 2011’. Around the Evil Shenanigans homestead the temperatures hovering around 15 F, while ice and gusty winds have made travel and work nearly impossible. When I get cooped up indoors during this kind of weather I tend to do some nesting. I clean, putter around the house, read, and...
Crab Jalapeno Hushpuppies
I love hushpuppies. I mean, who does not like golden grown, deep fried balls of delicious cornbread? When I was growing up we had them with fried fish and shrimp dinners and they were the item I ate most greedily. These days I make hushpuppies for all sorts of occasions and I have found they make an excellent appetizer, especially if I add a little seafood directly to the batter. These hushpuppies are very rich. Lump crab meat is...
Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies
When I have a bad, or stressful day, or when I have an especially good day, I like to treat myself. In the case of this recipe I was having a bad day. It was the last day of a rather bad week, actually and I was in need of something really evil to sooth my nerves. This recipe was inspired by a brownie that I saw in a coffee shop a few months ago. It was a walnut brownie with a walnut chocolate chip cookie baked in the center and it...
Jalapeno Cheddar Pigs in Blankets
Ok, sometimes you need things … I am serious when I say need. A few days ago I was discussing pigs in blankets with some friends on the Twitter. It became apparent to me that, despite our love of the finer things, a good old-fashioned pig in a blanket could reduce us to children. Happy, and often naughty, children. (Linda, I’m looking at you!) When a desire strikes, who am I to say no? My little piggies, all natural...
Raspberry Nutella Bread Pudding
I will admit, I am always looking for new ways to eat Nutella. It is probably one of the tastiest spreads out there, and I will admit to occasionally eating it straight from the jar. No, not my proudest moments. Anyway, I have been up to my eyeballs in pies this week so when it came time to bake something sweet just for me, and not for testing, I decided Nutella would have to be involved. This is a variation on a traditional English...
