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Tips for Making French Toast with Banana Bread (or Any Quick Bread) To start, you’ll need your favorite banana bread (here are 20 of our favorite recipes to give you inspiration) or other quick bread such as pumpkin bread and zucchini bread. The best French toast usually uses day-old or “stale” bread to absorb the egg batter. It would be sad to try using a fresh loaf right out of the oven and find it crumbling before you can get it on the griddle....

1 cup whipping cream 2 tablespoon sugar ½ teaspoon vanilla

1 cup (about 1 large) chopped onion 1 tablespoon cooking oil 1 16 ounce can whole cranberry sauce ⅓ cup bottled chili sauce 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Collections are a big part of her personal style, which she describes as “light, loose, comfortable, and casual.” White beaded-board wainscoting creates an airy cottage backdrop in the living room, while above, pale sea-foam green walls work as a neutral. Comfy upholstered furniture is slipcovered in white. “The furniture and paint colors set the tone, then the personal vignettes pull you in a little closer and tell the story of our family,” Becki says....

¼ cup snipped fresh parsley 2 teaspoon finely shredded orange peel 2 cloves garlic, minced ⅛ teaspoon salt Test Kitchen Tip: To substitute beef tenderloins for shoulder petite tenders, prepare potatoes and meat as above, except do not roast potatoes before adding beef. Place browned tenderloin in center of greased roasting pan. Place potato wedges around pan edges. Roast, uncovered, 30 to 35 minutes for medium-rare (140 degrees F) or 40 to 45 minutes for medium (155 degrees F)....

2 reserved beets 2 tablespoon vegetable oil

1 cup cold heavy cream 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Blue Marguerite Daisy Care Must-Knows Blue marguerite daisy grows best in areas with dry, but cool and mild, summers, making it an excellent choice for many gardens in the Pacific Northwest and Northeast. In areas with frost-free winters, it grows as a shrubby perennial that blooms throughout the summer and fall. It’s grown as an annual in colder areas of North America, thriving in a sunny spot with at least 6 hours of direct sun per day....

Blueberries prefer well-drained, sandy, acidic soil and grow best in soil with a pH reading of 4.0 to 5.5. (Contact your local extension service to learn more about the general pH reading of soils in your area.) Make soil more acidic and therefore hospitable to blueberries by incorporating sphagnum peat moss into the mix. Sulfur also can lower the pH, but add it one year before planting blueberries as this chemical element reacts slowly with soil....