Martha To The Rescue: How to Properly Cream Butter

Baked is Better: How to Fake Fried Chicken

The girls here at Savory Salvations are always looking for food and cooking inspiration from some of the best places on earth. We look to women like Martha Stewart, Bethenny Frankel, Giada de Laurentiis, and Ina Garten as innovators in the food and drink world that we can always learn from.

Today, we found an amazing recipe to share with all of you and this one is coming straight from Martha's Everyday Food where the resident chef and foodie, Sarah Carey, has created a brilliant recipe: How To Fake Fried Chicken. This recipe is simple and light giving you no excuse not to try it. 

Watch this video & learn how you can still maintain that juicy crunchiness with heaps less fat and calories than the fried version. The clip is less than 5 minutes (wow!) and in that short time, you will have yourself a new foodie favorite! We are sure you will be adding this one to the recipe box.

Here is your ingredient list: 
Panko bread crumbs 
Olive oil 
2 large chicken breasts (boneless & skinless) 
1/2 Cup Lowfat greek yogurt 
1 Teaspoon fresh thyme (1/2 teaspoon if dry) 
1 clove garlic (minced) 
Salt 
Pepper 
Cayenne (pinch) 
Yields 4 servings

Everyone Deserves a Trophy

On the heels of this supposed “Muffingate” I must pay tribute to an amazingly creative and yummy obsession that is sweeping the nation. Cupcakes. They are so individualized and instantly gratifying that the world has embraced them with open arms (and wallets...). These treats were once saved for the mouths of babes but now, not the case and we have the reality television proof to back us up. Cupcake Wars, DC Cupcakes, The Cupcakes Girls, and podcast The Cupcake Show are reality based guilty pleasures for us all to take a gander out. Episodes both old and new show the absolute devotion of traditional lifelong bakers and newcombers to the industry for a passion for sweet treats.

My own indulgences are a bit more tangible and local. Trophy Cupcakes is Seattle’s answer to the question of, here will the next luxe little treat shop pop up?” Here it is and they truly do deserve a trophy. 

They are beautiful and I must eat beautiful things. It sounds crazy but what is pleasing to the eyes has the sincerest tendency to be pleasing to the mouth. See for yourself here.The shop also boasts a full espresso bar making it a full service cupcake cafe serving locals hot drinks which pair perfectly with a cupcake on a cool Seattle day. Trophy Cupcakes serves mom groups, corporates on the go, wedding parties & children’s parties thousands of impressively packaged treats each day.

Opened in 2007, Trophy Cupcakes already has 3 locations and also caters and customizes their luxury baked goods to those willing to pay top dollar. At over $3/cupcake (after tax) they deliver the flavor like no one else so rest assured your little mouth investment was worth it. the flavors are so unique with truly decadent choices like Hummingbird Cake made from banana cake topped with pineapple and coconut frosting and features old school sprinkles. One of my favorites, Red Velvet, is a definite primo choice. Tiger Tail is a cococunt cake topped with raspberry butter cream drizzled w/ raspberry sauce and rolled in coconut.

Trophy Cupcakes was most recently featured on the Cooking Channel’s Unique Sweets where they shared some of their most coveted flavors. There flavor selections do change from day to day but all flavors are one of a kind. Childhood favorites a la cupcake are Trophy’s specialty featuring Snickerdoodle cupcake, Thin Mint cupcake with a rich chocolate ganache, and Peanut Butter and Jelly using a vanilla cupcake with strawberry jam filling topped with real peanut butter and jelly butter cream topping. Many of their select ingredients are natural and organic when possible and some of the worlds finest vanilla and other flavorings are used to give each cupcake that rich, real flavor. Quality is key in the world of food.

Hey, if Martha loves them, so do I! Watch the video on their press site. Martha Stewart, in true form, asks the tough questions but owner Jennifer Shea bakes on without missing a beat! If you don’t have a Trophy Cupcakes near you, do a quick google search and you are bound to find a shop very close to home. These cupcake places are rising up all over town

Eat, drink & be merry!