Jan 16
My Chicken Chili
Obviously I wasn’t the only one cooking up a pot of chili the night of the college football championship game. Thinking my guys would think me a hero if I made my chicken chili with all the toppings – cheese, sour cream, cilantro, avocado – I strolled into the supermarket at 5 to get last-minute [...]
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Dec 13
Scarlet’s Red Velvet Cupcakes
Being a redhead, I seldom wore the color red growing up – lots of green dresses, but I won’t dwell on that here. Now that my hair has softened in color and looks more blond (Mother Nature, I promise!) I bought my first red dress. I had no idea how on-stage you are in red. [...]
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Dec 01
Holiday Pumpkin Cake
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think there are enough hours in the day to be the perfect mom. Coming out of Thanksgiving and looking ahead to Christmas, I greet the holidays with joy and a little trepidation. Thankfully, I have no problem taking a few shortcuts. I doctor up cake mix (you [...]
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Welcome to my kitchen, where you’re as likely to find a caramel cake cooling on the counter as you are my son’s homework, folded laundry, and the makings for dinner. My life in Nashville is busy with three children, a husband, dog and a cat, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve been writing about food for 30 years, first in Atlanta and now through the Cake Mix Doctor and Dinner Doctor cookbooks. I love to eat well - burgers grilled over charcoal, roasted butternut squash soup, and that caramel cake – but I also rely on good shortcuts to make dinner happen. So come cook and bake with me as I share secrets and simply delicious recipes, some from scratch and some not.
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The Books
The Dinner Doctor
The doctor's back, and now she's curing dinner woes! Anne Byrn, the award-winning food writer and author of The Cake Mix Doctor and Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor does for dinner what she did for dessert-shows how to take common, convenient supermarket ingredients and turn them into meals that taste like they're made from scratch.
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Anne’s Old-Fashioned Yellow Cake Mix
Put on your favorite apron, plug in the mixer, and get ready to bake some memories. I've dreamed of creating a yellow cake mix that gets its color from butter and eggs, not artificial colors, and its scent from Madagascar vanilla.
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