Look What You Can Do with Cinnamon Chips!
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE A friend gave me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies with vanilla pudding added. Good cookies! But we always think we can make a good cookie...
View Article37 Yummy Things You Can Do with a Twice-Baked Potato
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Save up to 50% or more at this week’s specials. Ends Tuesday night! Get a bread mix for a buck! Bake a potato, slice it lengthwise, scoop out...
View ArticleLearn to Make “the Most Scrumptious Concoction on the Planet!”
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Check out this week’s specials! A good lady in California once wrote us, “Monkey bread is the most scrumptious concoction on the planet!”. The...
View ArticleStrawberry Shortcake Supreme
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Several years ago, we developed this recipe from a picture on a website. They were the best, prettiest strawberry shortcakes I had ever seen....
View ArticleHow to Use Refrigerator Muffins for Easy Make-Ahead Breakfasts
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE See this week’s specials and save up to 50%! I know. You don’t have time to bake in the evening, much less the morning. But here’s a way you...
View ArticleHot Pockets and Their Cousins
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE My kids knew them as “hot pockets.” Miners in Michigan knew them as “pasties.” Immigrants in St. Paul know them as “piroshky.” To me, I guess...
View ArticleSix Decadent Brownies You Can Make with a Mix
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Crazy Deal! Save up to $15! Uncle Bob’s Extra Moist and Chewy Brownies – Only $.99. Reg. $5.99. Limit 3. Save 83%! Use coupon BRN2″! Not valid...
View ArticleAsk the Baker: Answers to Your Most Pressing Baking Questions
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE I’ve been writing multiple articles about food and baking every week for well over ten years—I’m guessing several thousand articles. Sometimes...
View ArticleYou’ve Never Seen Cinnamon Rolls Like These!
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Get a Donut Cinnamon Roll Mix for free! Use code “DNUT” at checkout. Years ago, we started making filled cinnamon rolls, filled with everything...
View ArticleHow to Bake Perfect Brownies Every Time
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Aubrey comes in every morning at 6:00 to bake for a few hours before school. At sixteen going on seventeen, she’s a remarkably good baker. (Way...
View ArticleSelecting and Baking Your Holiday Ham
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Get 2 dinner roll mixes for $1.00 each! Sour Cream Potato Dinner Rolls! Use code “DOUBLE” at checkout. Limit 1 double-pack. Not valid with...
View ArticleVariations on a Freezer Jam
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE There isn’t anything much better than butter melting on warm biscuits with fresh strawberry freezer jam. Make biscuits for $1.00 per mix. Enter...
View ArticleHow to Make Scones in Three Easy Steps
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE This morning I received an email from a nice lady who wanted help making scones. I told her that the key to great scones is “Don’t let your...
View ArticleFive Easy Meals To Put On Your Menu This Week
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Last night, Merri Ann was out of town and I fixed myself supper. There was a chicken breast in the refrigerator so I made myself a Fajita...
View ArticleThree Ways to Make Superb Banana Muffins
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE We love banana muffins this time of year. They fill a void waiting for the summer harvest to come on. Besides, we’ve frozen so many over-ripe...
View ArticleQuick! Grab Your Biscuit Mix and Make Strawberry Shortcakes
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Everyone has those busy nights when you need a quick dessert. If you have strawberries on hand this will do, it’ll even impress. My son wanted...
View ArticleAnyone Can Make Crème Brûlée!
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Merri Ann has a favorite restaurant in Idaho Falls that serves a very good crème brûlée. It’s one of the few times she’ll order dessert....
View ArticleThe Forgotten, Overlooked Orange—and Why Your Baking Needs More of It
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Bakers tend to overlook oranges. They shouldn’t. It’s a wonderful flavor that works either as a backdrop or as a primary flavor. Open your...
View ArticleDon’t Make the Same Mistakes in the Kitchen We’ve Made
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE We bake for a living . . . and make mistakes! But we do learn from our mistakes. Here’s an opportunity for you to learn from seven of our...
View ArticleSeven Delicious Ways to Use Strawberries
Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE Cut your prep time in half! Get a free strawberry slicer! Use code SlicerX at checkout I was digging around in the archives to see what we had...
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