My collection of quick and easy recipes, cooking tips and recipe substitutions for busy cooks
Mom’s Quick and Easy Recipes
Easy No Egg, No Milk Biscuits for One or Two
Easy Butter Cookies for One or Two
Mix-In-The-Pan Eggless, Milkless Depression Cake
Recipe Tips and Emergency Substitutions
Suddenly discovering you don’t have an important ingredient is no fun when you are in the middle of cooking an old family favorite recipe. Neither is running out to the store at midnight. When missing an ingredient, knowing its “equivalent” or substitution can help to save the day.
Adapting recipes from antique cookbooks can also cause confusion. What is arrowroot and must I consult a wizard? Mom helps cooks with tips on recipe substitutions, cooking tips and other quick kitchen shortcuts.
Moms Sauce Recipe Substitutions for Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Cornstarch & Arrowroot
Mom's Emergency Sauce Recipe Substitutions and Cooking Tips for: Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Cornstarch & Arrowroot Suddenly discovering you don't have an important ingredient is no fun when you are in the middle of cooking your favorite sauce recipe. Neither is ...
Moms Emergency Recipe Tips for Chocolate, Bittersweet, Sweet or Cocoa
Emergency Chocolate Recipe Substitutions for Chocoholic Cooks It is always a good time to bake something with chocolate. But discovering you haven't got a crucial recipe ingredient can ruin the mood. Knowing an ingredient's "equivalent" or substitution can save the ...
Sugar Recipe Substitution Tips for Granulated, Powdered and Molasses
Sugary Sweet Emergency Recipe Substitutions or Ingredient Equivalents for Sugars and Molasses Today, Mom helps cooks in the kitchen with recipe tips for granulated, brown, powdered sugars, and molasses. It's a treat baking sweets, but running out of a crucial ...
Mom’s Easy Eggless Biscuits Recipe For One or Two
MomsRetro Easy No Milk, No Egg, Butter Optional Biscuits for One or Two This is a simple vegetarian, eggless, milkless biscuit recipe you can whip up in your toaster oven! You don't need biscuit mix and you don't need to ...
Really Lazy Food: Easy Salads and Sandwiches
Lazy Food: Mom's Really Quick, Really Easy Sandwich and Salad Recipe Sometimes it is just too hot to cook, or you're just too busy, too tired... or lazy. Here a few quick and easy recipes that are easy for beginning ...
Mom’s Recipes: Easy Eggless Butter Cookies for One or Two
Easy No Egg, No Milk Small Batch Butter (Optional) Cookies This recipe is adapted to make a small amount of buttery shortbread style cookies. It's great for when it's just you and you need a quick sugar fix or you ...
Moms Recipe Tips and Substitutions for using Molasses as a Sweetener
Baking with Molasses As a Sweetener Molasses has a rich, dark, sweet taste and is used in cakes, cookies and other savory sweet recipes. It is created during the sugar refining process. It is slightly less sweet than granulated sugar. ...
Moms Recipes: Eggless, Milkless Mix-In-The-Pan Depression Cake
Moms Easy Eggless, Milkless Crazy, Mix-In-The-Pan Depression Cake Here's an easy cake recipe that has been around since the Great Depression. It happens to also be vegetarian because back in the day dairy products were in short supply or very ...
Recipe Substitutions for Lemon Zest, Horseradish and More
Mom Demystifies Lemon Zest, Horseradish, Mustard, Paprika & Other Odd Ingredients With Emergency Recipe Substitutions During family get-togethers or holiday season, cooks are more likely to make recipes that have been in the family for ages. But this can also ...
Corn, Cornmeal and Cornstarch Recipe Substitutions With a Johnnycake Recipe
Emergency Recipe Substitutions For Corn Ingredients Including Cornmeal and Cornstarch Suddenly discovering you don't have cornstarch, corn meal or some other corn-based ingredient is no fun when you are in the middle of cooking your favorite recipe. Knowing the equivalent ...
Herbs and Spices For Your Kitchen Cabinet
Starting out with Spices Common Herbs and Spices For Your Kitchen Cabinet In years past entire wars were fought over exotic spices. Trade routes were carefully guarded, beset by pirates and defended by soldiers. Some kitchen herbs were so valuable ...
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