5 minute homemade taco sauce lets you ditch processed store bought sauce in favor of homemade flavor. You can customize this easy taco sauce to suit your taste and take taco night to the next level.
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Cinnamon Honey Butter
This Texas Roadhouse copycat cinnamon honey butter is a delicious addition to breakfast or dinner when slathered on fluffy rolls. It easily whipped up in minutes and (just like the name implies) uses only three simple ingredients. This flavored butter also goes great with toast, pancakes, waffles and the like.
Copycat Costco Chicken Bake Recipe
This copycat Costco chicken bake recipe means now you don’t have to take a trip to Costco to enjoy their signature food court cult classic. A stromboli crust wraps around chicken, cheese and creamy dressing giving you a portable savory turnover perfect for lunch or dinner. Make them today!
Copycat KFC Famous Bowls
A homemade version of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Famous Bowls, these copycat KFC Famous Bowls are a winner. Crispy chicken and sweet corn sits on top of creamy mashed potatoes. Finished off with a hearty drizzle of rich brown gravy, and shredded cheeses- it’s a hearty bowl full of comfort food with that classic KFC taste without ever having to leave your house.
Copy Cat Stouffers Macaroni & Cheese
A tried and true creamy, cheesy pasta dish is a cornerstone of any home-cook’s kitchen. This Copy Cat Stouffers Macaroni & Cheese recipe is one you want to keep on hand. It’s easy & delicious, making it perfect for almost any occasion.
Copy Cat Hostess Zebra Cake
A fluffy whipped cream filling sandwiched between two soft yellow cakes and covered in a luscious layer of white chocolate. This Copy Cat Hostess Zebra Cake is topped off with a chocolate drizzle before being sliced and served. This cake is a fun, delicious homage to one of your favorite childhood treats and an easy way to usher it in for a new generation.
Homemade Spaghetti O’s
This version of Homemade Spaghetti O’s is always a hit with the entire family. Pasta rings coated with a sweet homemade sauce, the kids will never guess it didn’t come from a can.
‘Velveeta’ Style American Cheese
Do you ever balk at the prices of those processed loaves of cheese?
Do you buy them anyway, because sometimes a recipe (or a grilled cheese) demands their melty goodness and no substitute will do?
This happens to me every time I purchase that cheese.
Even worse, every time in the back of my mind is a nagging reminder of all the preservatives and other things in them that I should try to avoid feeding my family.
So, finally I decided that somebody, somewhere, in an effort to be more frugal or in an effort to avoid all the chemicals, must have found a way to replicate this ooey, gooey cheese and would have shared their victorious recipe.
After perusing Pinterest and the web for what seemed like forever, I finally found what appeared to be a winner.
My boys had asked to have BLT Mac N Cheese this week and were afraid with my new REAL cheese that it wouldn’t live up to their high standards. They couldn’t have been more shocked themselves to discover this cheese made it even better.
This velveeta style American cheese recipe knocked the ball out of the park! It was spot on everything I was looking for and then some.
It’s real food you can make at home quickly, with ingredients you can easily find (and pronounce), without sacrificing any of that heavenly meltiness.
National Grilled Cheese Day (April 12th) just passed, but I will definitely be celebrating next year with the help of my own homemade cheese.
Velveeta Style American Cheese
This homemade cheese loaf is creamy and tastes even better than the infamous meltable store-bought brand. Whip up a batch and use it in any recipe in place of the commercialized alternative.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp water
- 1 1/2 tsp powdered gelatin
- 12 oz Colby Jack cheese very finely shredded (think TINY grater holes)
- 1 tbsp nonfat milk powder
- generous 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp cream of tartar
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp 2% milk
Instructions
- Line a small 4×5 loaf pan (I only had a full size pan handy) with plastic wrap, letting the excess hang over the sides.
- In a small bowl, combine the water and gelatin. Stir. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Combine cheese, milk powder, salt, and tartar in the bowl of a food processor, pulsing a few times to combine.
- Heat milk in a small saucepan over medium heat.
- When milk begins to simmer, remove from heat, transfer hot milk to a measuring cup (to make pouring easier) and slowly add milk into the food processor feed tube.
- As you slowly add the milk, pulse the food processor.
- Add prepared gelatin.
- Turn the food processor on, and continue to stir until the mixture becomes perfectly smooth. Scrap the sides if needed and whir again.
- Working quickly, transfer the mixture into the prepared mold, pressing the mixture down into the pan with a spatula to help eliminate any air bubbles.
- Smooth surface of cheese, and cover with the overlapping plastic.
- Chill in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours, or overnight. (If pressed for time, a little over an hour and a half in the freezer will work too!)
- Slice, cube, or melt as needed and use as you would Velveeta or individually wrapped processed American cheese.
