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September 18, 2014 · 12:19 am

Success® Whole-Grain Boil-In-Bag Brown Rice Is a Pantry Staple For Me!!! #SUCCESSRICE

Success Rice Box

You know what’s one of my go to foods when I want a quick and easy side dish or to make to eat for lunch or a snack? It’s Success® Whole-Grain Brown Rice and Salsa. I have been eating that for the last several years so I was absolutely stoked to be chosen to write a sponsored post for Success® Boil-In-Bag Rice. I absolutely love it the brown rice and mild chunky salsa combination. I have no idea what ever led me to mix the two, but from the first time I did, it was love at first bite.

Have you tried Success® Boil-In-Bag Rice? If you have, then I am sure you will relate to how convenient it is to have in your pantry, I consider it a pantry staple. It’s simple to make and the brown rice can even sit for 30 minutes in the hot water (with the heat off) before serving making it foolproof and worry free.

If you’ve never tried it, you should! Success® Whole-Grain Brown Rice is 100% whole grain and gluten-free. The rice has a great chewy texture and nut-like flavor that are a nice departure from traditional rice products on the shelves. The cooked brown rice can be used in a variety of recipes from salads, soups, main entrees to desserts just like white rice. Success® Whole-Grain Brown Rice is available in two sizes (14 oz. and 32 oz.) to accommodate different household sizes.

I tried a recipe for the first time with Success® Whole-Grain Brown Rice. I improvised on one of the recipes I found online at the Success® Rice website. and made a fried brown vegetable rice. It was super easy. I just prepared 2 bags of Success® Whole-Grain Brown Rice according to the package directions.

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I put the rice in a bowl and mixed it with peas and carrots (you can use cooked fresh, canned or frozen) and green beans. Then I heated up some oil in pan to cook 4 beaten eggs for about 40 seconds, began to break up the eggs into small pieces while they finished cooking.

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When the eggs were cooked I added the rice and veggies and cooked until heated through adding a few tablespoons of low sodium soy sauce. An easy way to a healthy side that tastes great.

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You may also like Success® White Boil-In-Bag Rice. I hope you will share with me if you are a user of this rice and what your favorite way to use it is or if you try a new recipe with it. If you have never tried it, I hope you will let us know your thoughts if you do and what you made with it. For inspiration you can browse more than 300 recipes from breakfast to dessert on the Success® Rice website at www.successrice.com. For additional recipe inspiration, lifestyle tips and more, you can connect with Success Rice on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Success® Rice is one of the participating brands in a “How Are You Cooking This Fall?” Sweepstakes from O, The Oprah Magazine! Would you like to win a variety of culinary-themed prizes? If so, head on over to O’s Magazine and submit the entry form and pin with inspiration from O’s PROMO: “How Are You Cooking This Fall?” Pinterest board for a chance to win.

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf Success® Rice.

Glazed Lime Blueberry Pound Cake!!!

First weekend after the start of school and a busy one it was! We have so much going on, sometimes it feels like a three-ring circus! We had a #FitMadeFun Party to kick off the launch of LeapFrogs new LeapBand Activity Tracker for kids. It was a lot of fun and there was a huge variety of kids Cliff protein bars but more to come on that soon.

I did some baking too and I want to share with you a lime blueberry pound cake I made. It really was supposed to be a lemon blueberry pound cake but I found out I only had limes so I went with that. It was really good and really tasted like lemon to me. It must have tasted good to everyone because it did not even last 6 hours before it disappeared.

I found a recipe online that was inspired by the Starbucks’ Lemon Loaf and as I said above I made some changes.

lime collage

This is the recipe:

Glazed Lime Blueberry Pound Cake:

Ingredients

Cake:

⅓ cup buttermilk
3 tablespoons of lime juice
Zest of 1 lime, finely grated
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1 cup blueberries with 2 tablespoons flour

Glaze:

2 cups powdered sugar
4 to 6 tablespoons of lime juice
milk for glaze (add enough to get it to the right consistency for glazing)

I wash my limes with a toxic free soap to get rid of the wax and any other dirt on the limes.

When grating the zest of lemons or limes just grate the colored rind and not the white pith as that is very bitter.

Love these Juicers, so great to get every drop of juice out of the limes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Spray a 9″ x 5″ loaf pan with cooking spray. Line with parchment paper with the paper hanging over the sides. I sprayed my parchment paper with a bit of coconut oil.
In a small bowl, pour in buttermilk, lime juice, and lime zest. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside.
In a large bowl, using a mixer, beat the butter and sugar.
Add 1 egg at a time, mixing well in between each egg.
While mixing the batter on low speed, add the flour mixture and then the buttermilk mixture until batter is smooth. Do not over mix.
In a small bowl toss the blueberries with about 2 tablespoons of flour to coat them. (This prevents the blueberries from sinking to the bottom of the cake.)
Stir in the flour-covered blueberries.
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Using a spatula spread the batter so it is spread out evenly in the pan.
Bake in a preheated oven for 45 to 55 minutes. Let cool completely.
Prepare the glaze by mixing 2 cups powdered sugar with 4 to 6 tablespoons of lime juice.
If your glaze is too thick (mine was) add milk a tablespoon at a time until it is the desired consistency.
Pour over the top and sides of the cooled cake.

Let me know if you give this recipe a try, remember if you like use lemon instead of lime. For another great blueberry cake recipe check this one out too! Moist, Delicious Blueberry Pound Cake!

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January 2, 2011 · 7:16 am

Piles of Pizzelles!!!

As far back as I can remember during the New Year’s holidays I made Pizzelles. My mother had this heavy pizzelle iron that was built to withstand a nuclear war. The recipe we used called for a dozen eggs and made dozens and dozens of pizzelles. During the years I have purchased various pizzelle irons. Some made four at a time, some two, different designs but the cookies taste the same. They take me back in time and make me remember a lot of good times. So today I pulled out one of the irons I have and whipped up a batch of dough.

It called for six eggs.

You whisk up the eggs before adding the sugar.

Gradually whisk in 1.5 cups of sugar.

Add 1 cup of melted butter, 4tlbs of baking powder, 2 tbls of pure anise extract.

Add 3.5 cups of flour a little at a time and mix thouroughly.

You can use a scoop or drop by the teaspoonful on the iron. You will quickly find the right amount needed once you do your first batch.

Please excuse the sloppiness of my Pizzelles, usually they are neatly trimmed and stacked but in the middle of making them, my sons came home, one with his new girlfriend, my husband was building something on the porch and the two little ones kept running in and out, my daughter was running about too and it was like a zoo. I just got them done as fast as I could and put perfection on the back burner. The taste was the same as I remember and that is all that matters. Happy New Year!!!