June, 2016

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE butterscotch pudding and you may not know just how easy it is to make. It takes just ten minutes to make and only uses five ingredients, items you probably already have on hand. You can make it with low fat milk or whole milk, just not fat-free milk. I usually make mine with 1% low fat milk but I had some whole milk left over this week from making my chicken pot pie, and homemade pudding is richer tasting when made with whole milk. Of course it won’t be as low in fat but I will take butterscotch pudding any way I can.

I use light brown sugar and remember that cornstarch is not the same as corn flour. Cornstarch is very powdery and is the perfect thickener for homemade pudding. There is no reason to ever buy a box of pudding mix filled with ingredients you can’t pronounce. Make your own healthier homemade butterscotch pudding. It’s so yummy good! Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones

I couldn’t decide what kind of cookies to make today. I often make my giant breakfast cookies but I wanted something different. I like my crispy oat cookies too but I wanted something with even more fiber. So I made a hybrid of both cookies and LOVED them. They are super crispy and as with most of my cookies, they have no butter and no white flour. I followed my recipe for Crispy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with these changes:

~reduced oats to 1 cup

~added 1/2 cup All-Bran Original Cereal

~used one egg instead of two egg whites

~doubled the vanilla

~added about five chopped mission figs

~added about 3 Tablespoons shredded, sweetened coconut

I baked them at 350° F for 16 minutes and they were perfect. Crispy. Not too sweet. Easy recipe. I like these healthy cookies so much they are now a new recipe here on my site.  Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones

THESE ARE NOT PAID ENDORSEMENTS. I am just sharing some of the products that I use for anyone who is interested.

Cheaper parchment paper usually sticks but Reynolds brand never sticks.

Sunday breakfast usually means there’s time to make something special. Today I made English muffins and as soon as I tasted them I remembered why I never buy them at the store. They’re delicious! You don’t need an oven to make these because they cook on a griddle or large pan. This first photo above is how they look just before cooking. And below is how they look after about 15 minutes on the grill, seven minutes per side…

My recipe is simple. You make a yeast dough, let it rest for 10 minutes, then roll and cut out six circles. You dust them with cornmeal and once they rise in a warm spot, you cook them on a griddle – no oven. I preheat the griddle and just rub it with a stick of butter. They cook for seven minutes per side and now you have your own homemade English muffins, ready to split in half and toast. And yes, there are lots of nooks and crannies!

If you’ve never tasted homemade English muffins, I will say they taste nothing like the ones in the package. They’re a hundred, million, zillion times better! Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones

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CATHY MADE MY CINNAMON RAISIN BREAD
“I made your cinnamon-raisin bread.”

JUDY MADE MY CHICKEN STEW
“It’s a hit! – Judy L in CA”

MAILEIN ML MADE MY PIZZA DOUGH
“Hi Jenny, I used your recipe to make my pizza dough last weekend, it’s easy and so delicious. Thank you! ?????”

JUDY MADE MY OATMEAL BANANA BREAKFAST BROWNIES
“Thanks, Jenny, I substituted Craisins for the chips. They are delicious! – Judy L in CA”

CATHY MADE MY CINNAMON ROLLS AND DINNER ROLLS
“Tonight for dinner I made your dinner rolls and they were delicious. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes.”

SABINE MADE MY NO KNEAD CRUSTY ROLLS
“Dear Mrs Jones, today I baked the rolls. It was really easy to make them. Nice food for our weekend-breakfast. :-). Lots of greetings from Germany.”

JUDY MADE MY THIGHS ‘n’ FRIES & PUMPKIN MUFFINS
“Hello, Jenny, Today I made your pumpkin muffins. For dinner we had your Chicken Thighs and Fries. Lovely meal with minimal clean up and almost no effort on my part. Thank you!  I have time to play in my sewing room tonight.  – Judy L in CA”

ALEXANDRIA, 9, MADE MY FLATBREAD
“great flatbread!!!!!”

(I love to see young people learning to cook. Keep up the great work! – jenny)

SABINE MADE MY GRANOLA
“Dear Mrs. Jones, I am a Youtube – Bakingvideo- Fan. I saw your Video “making granola” . I mixed it today and send you a photo. It tastes fantastic, much much better than to buy it. I must say, I am not a Fan of granola or sweet breakfast, but this selfmade I will have tomorrow for breakfast. Kindly regards from Munich, Germany”

CHERRY MADE MY EASY ONE BOWL CHOCOLATE CAKE
“Dear Jenny, I am from Hong Kong. I am so excited that I made it myself for my mother’s birthday. The cake tastes very good!!!! Your recipe is really good, simple, and easy. thanks!!!”

SANJA MADE MY MEATLOAF
“Hi, thanks for great and really the best meatloaf recipe ever! Here is how it turned out for me, it is not so nice like yours, but it tasted great! If you do not mind, I shared it on our blog, but offcourse I put the source Jenny Can Cook. I made it few times and it is one of those recipes that will be made in the future, not just one time only…Thanks once again!!”

SANDYEVE MADE MY CHOCOLATE CHIP COFFEE CAKE
“I followed your recipe, but the only thing I switched out was the walnuts and just added some extra chocolate chips on top… Turned out great! Thank you so much for the recipe! 🙂 “

RECLAIMTHEWORLD MADE MY CHICKEN POT PIE
“Didn’t have a deep enough pie pan. So i used my 8X8 pyrex. I could have used my corningware in hindsight… but it would not have been half as cool to not be able to watch it bubbling after I took it out of the oven. It was delicious. Never felt so fulfilled with food. Wasn’t hungry until the next day-good thing this was dinner lol Looking forward to it again tonight.”

SANDY MADE MY SIMPLE WHITE BREAD
“Simple White Bread… 1st time EVER making homemade bread and it turned out great!
Thank you so much for the AWESOME recipe Jenny 🙂 “

GREG MADE MY CHICKEN POT PIE AND RIBS
“Love your recipes, they always turn out.  We’ve had the ribs and chocolate cake several times.  The chicken pot pie was awesome. Greg, East Lansing MI”

JACQUIE MADE MY NO KNEAD BREAD
“I made this lovely bread last night.  I am such a multi-tasker, I love the fact it doesn’t require a ton of hands on time J  Warm bread and homemade Montana Applebutter  a combination that is tough to beat!”

ANNA MADE MY SIMPLE WHOLE WHEAT BREAD
“Hi Jenny, I haven’t made your Whole Wheat Bread in over 6 months and though I’d make it again today but using a bundt cake pan to add a fun twist to it!  I doubled the recipe and used part of the bread mixture to include dry cranberries. It was SO DELICIOUS! Thank you SO MUCH again.”

CHIANDCHRIS MADE MY CINNAMON ROLLS
“I love your buns! First time making cinnamon roll and your recipe. I can’t believe it’s low fat! The house smell like as bakery.”