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SPICY NACHOS SUPREME
Servings: 6
Ingredients:
* 8 oz Tomato Sauce
* 4 oz Diced Green Chiles
* 1/2 c Chopped Green Bell Pepper
* 1 Green Onion, Sliced
* 1/4 ts Hot Pepper Sauce
* 10 oz Tortilla Chips
* 2 c Shredded Cheddar Cheese
* 1 Avocado
* 1 ts Lemon Juice
* 1/2 c Sour Cream
* Jalapeno Slices, Optional
Combine tomato sauce, chiles, green pepper, green onion and hot pepper
sauce in a bowl; let stand for 15 minutes. Place tortilla chips in a
shallow 8′ X 10′ baking dish. Pour sauce over chips; sprinkle grated
cheese over all. Broil nachos for 3 minutes or until cheese melts. Just
before serving, seed, peel and mash avocado. Stir in lemon juice. Spoon
avocado mixture and sour cream on hot nachos and top with jalapeno slices.
Serve immediately.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Spicy Nachos Supreme
Easy Carrots Au Gratin carrot-cheese casserole
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EASY CARROTS AU GRATIN
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
* 1 T Butter 3 T Flour
* 3 C Carrots, sliced 1 1/2 C Milk
* 3 T Butter 1/2 lb Cheese (processed)
Slice the carrots and saute in about 1 T butter over low heat for 5-10
minutes, until cooked to taste.
Make a roux with the butter and flour. Add the milk (warmed) and cook
until thick. Add cheese and cook until cheese is melted. Mix in the cooked
carrots.
Place in greased casserole and sprinkle with buttered bread crumbs. Bake
at 350 degrees F. for 15-20 minutes or until brown.
NOTES:
* A simple and unusual carrot-cheese casserole — This is a family recipe
that my in-laws make for holiday dinners. I’ve never seen it in any
cookbook. It’s unusual, but good. Servings: Serves 4-6.
* Process cheese is sometimes called American cheese or Canadian cheese
depending on where it is bought. You can make a standard cheddar cheese
sauce instead, or you can use something like Velveeta instead.
: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 15 minutes preparation, 20 minutes baking.
: Precision: no need to measure.
: Michelle Berteig
: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Asian Recipes Ramen Noodle Salad
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Ingredients
noodle salad
1/4 c butter baked pork chops.
1 (16 oz) packagecooking recipes fresh broccoli florets .
1 head romaine lettuce, tornsalad recipes .
1 (3 oz) package ramen noodlesnoodle salad recipe .
1 c pecans, sliced noodle salad.
4 green onions, sliced food recipes
Directions
* Remove noodle salad recipeseasoning noodle salad recipepacket
noodle salad recipe from the noodles & break the noodles into pieces.
* Melt culinary recipesbutter In a large-ish skillet over medium-high heat.
* Add noodles & pecans & cook till light brown.
* Drain noodle misture onnoodle salad recipe paper towels.
* Whisk free recipestogether in a all recipessmall bowl: 1/2 c vegetable oil,1/4free culinary recipes c sugar,1/2 tsp salt,1/4 c vinegar,1 noodle salad recipetbsp
culinary arts soy sauce,1/4 tsp black pepper.
* Toss togethereasy recipes noodles, green recipesonions, broccoli, & 1/4 c of the dressing.
* Serve salad with saladsremaining dressing.
* Enjoy the Ramen vegetable saladNoodle Salad recipe
Monday, December 1, 2008
Recipes Oatmeal Muffin
Source: Muffin Mania by Cathy Prange & Joan Pauli.
Ingredients:
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup boiling water
Mix and let stand for 20 minutes.
1 1/2 cup brown sugar or less
1/2 cup butter or margarin
2 eggs well beaten
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup dates cut fine or 1 cup raisins
Directions:
- Cream sugar and butter.
- Add eggs and beat.
- Add the dates to the dry ingredients and add.
- Add vanilla
- Stir in oatmeal mixture gently
- Bake 375 F for 20-25 minutes.
handful of coconut added to this butter makes a nice variation***
Sunday, November 30, 2008
French Chocolate Brownies
Julia Moskin’s got a terrific story about Brownies in the Dining section of today’s New York Times and I’m delighted that she’s included my recipe for French Chocolate Brownies. I’m crazy about these brownies and love the story of how they came about.
The first time I made the recipe I was in Paris, preparing dinner for friends and thinking I was making a fondant for dessert. Fondant, a creamy chocolate cake, is one of only a handful of sweets the French make for themselves at home. I made my fondant in a square pan (not usual, but not so far-out) and added rum-flamed raisins (again, not usual, but not heretical either). I cut the cake into squares and got the following reaction when I brought it to the table: “Ooh, brownies – splendide!”
Fondant? Brownies? Who was I to argue? Maybe my friends assumed that if an American was offering them a soft, thin, crackle-topped chocolate cake cut into squares, it had to be brownies. It didn’t really matter to me. I liked the recipe in Paris and I liked it just as much when I re-tested it in the States.
Because Julia Moskin is a brownie-purist – she’ll allow nuts, but that’s the limit on add-ins – she understandably clipped the raisins from the recipe. Without raisins, the brownies are a creamy, profoundly chocolaty tender treat; with them, they’re all that with a touch of exoticism tossed in.
If you want to add raisins to the brownies, here’s how to do it:
RUM-FLAMED RAISINS, for French Chocolate Brownies
(Adapted from Baking, From My Home to Yours)
1/3 cup raisins, dark or golden
1 1/2 tablespoons water
1 1/2 tablespoons dark rum
Put the raisins in a small saucepan with the water, bring to a boil over medium heat and cook until the water almost evaporates. Add the rum, let it warm for about 30 seconds, turn off the heat, stand back and flame the rum. When the flames have died, set the raisins aside until needed. Right before you’re ready to put the brownie batter in the pan, fold in the raisins.
Good Recipes for Dinner: Aphrodisiac Dinner Date
Dinner dates with new companions can make or break a budding romance. First dates can be nerve racking. Planning the date can be particularly difficult. Where should you go, what should you do and what would be enjoyable? You might worry that your date will not like the restaurant, the food or worse yet, the company. Once the date begins you may sometimes struggle with conversation, feel awkward and suffer from anxiety. Don't be ashamed, it happens to everyone.
What you need to do is have a plan. Once you have a course of action in place, you can stay focused. You will have more on your mind than the impending fate of your date. With this in mind you should be able to focus on the fine details of your production instead of wondering if he or she will like you. This will immediately restore your confidence and it will give you something else to worry about! A quintessential part of your grand design should be controlling what kind of delicacies are to be consumed.
Well planned and prepared meals can be a journey through sensuality. You don't have to be a master chef to concoct a tantalizing meal, but take some time to familiarize yourself with natural foods and herbs which directly affect the senses as well as hormone and vitamin levels. A great meal can be an aphrodisiac on a number of levels: the way it is prepared, the way it looks, the way it feels, the way it smells, the way it tastes and the way it makes you feel afterwards. The absolute best and incomparable sort of dinner date you can arrange is one that you prepare yourself at your own home. In this scenario you can be the male or the female, it does not matter. When a guy cooks for a girl, the woman feels special, elated, curious and very vulnerable because the man is in complete and total control. And when the woman cooks for her special guy, she gets to showcase any special culinary talents which can serve as a hint of more to come. When you cook for someone at home you can control the food, the ambiance, the music and even the romance. You are also alone. You have a little bit less stress on both parties because you are not in front of a crowd of other diners and waiters, you can forget about small formalities and you have a better opportunity to be yourselves. And not to mention cooking for someone is incredibly romantic in itself. It shows heart, thoughtfulness and a generous effort to please the other person.
The definition of an aphrodisiac is something that arouses or intensifies sexual desire. There are hundreds of different natural foods and herbs that are thought to be aphrodisiacs usually stemming from folklore and myths. To be exact, there are no foods that will turn on sexual desire like the flick of a switch. No scientific tests have ever concluded that certain foods will suddenly make you feel in the mood . Forget about Spanish fly. All that ever did was aggravate the urinal tract causing people to confuse the tingling sensation in their pelvic region with one of a sexual nature. However, there are certain natural foods that can help alter and guide the moment, and you might be surprised.
Asparagus may be at the top of list as a natural aphrodisiac. It contains healthy doses of natural vitamins and minerals including the two major sex vitamins : vitamins D and E. Vitamin D is responsible for hormone production including sex hormones while vitamin E is responsible for increasing the amount of oxygenated blood being pumped into your sex organs. Notably, asparagus has always been considered an aphrodisiac even in the past because of its phallic appearance. The rest of the nutrients in asparagus increase vitality and work to energize the body by erradicating ammonia. Other foods rich in the sex vitamins are eggs and sunflower seeds. I don't think we can work in the eggs for a romantic dinner, but try sprinkling your salad with some delicious sunflower seeds.
Another aphrodisiac at the top of the list are chiles. Not only do chiles increase the heart rate, they also release endorphins into the body. Spicy foods in general help the body to increase its production of these so called happy hormones which are utilized by the body to cope with the burn. But the hormones have another effect, they give us a natural high. Chocolate, a popular aphrodisiac, also helps increase the endorphin rush. Oysters on the half shell are not as potent as you might think. They contain very little nutritional value and the effect they have are on men, not women. First, the sweet and salty smell is very similar to the female pheromone and second, they contain a high amount of the zinc mineral which is a key ingredient for testosterone production.
Aphrodisiacs do not have to have an effect on the body as described above. Delicious and fragrant smells can put people in the right mood and even make people feel more comfortable. For example, men are insatiably attracted to the smell of apple-cinnamon candles while women are pleased with smell of lavender and rosemary spices. Use your imagination with the food selection as well. Some foods are just sexy. Grapes and champagne, chocolate covered strawberries, artichokes with hollandaise sauce and lamb chops are just a few of my favorites.***
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by Advice Diva
About the author: The Advice Diva has written four self-help guides on relationships and dating which can be found at http://www.advicediva.com She also hosts an online advice column which is completely free of charge.
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