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Apple and Cheddar Cheese Crumble Ingredients
5 large apples , 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon , 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar , 1/2 pound cheddar cheese -- grated , 1/2 cup flour , 1/2 cup rolled oats , 1/2 cup granulated sugar , 1/2 cup unsalted butter -- cut into small piece
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees farenheit. Grease a 10-inch square baking dish. , 2. Peel and core apples. Cut each into 8 pieces. In a medium bowl, toss together apples, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Place in baking dish. , 3. In a medium bowl, combine cheese, flour, oats, and granulated sugar. Cut unsalted butter into dry ingredients with your fingers, a pastry blender, or two knives. Combine until mixture holds together in large crumbs. Cover apples with crumb mixture. Bake until apples are tender and topping is slightly browned (35 minutes).
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly oil a 9- by 12-inch baking pan with shallow sides. , 2. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, cook apples, currants, lemon juice, vanilla, and date sugar until soft (about 15 minutes). Remove from heat and let cool. , 3. In a small bowl mix cinnamon, nutmeg, and almonds. Set aside. , 4. Sprinkle each sheet of filo with 2 teaspoons of the melted butter, then spread butter to coat filo evenly. Sprinkle sheets with almond mixture and pile one sheet on top of another. Line prepared baking pan with stack of filo sheets, folding edges where necessary to make 1-inch sides. , 5. In a small saucepan over medium heat, cook apricot preserves until soft, then spread evenly over top sheet of filo. Spoon apple mixture over preserves. , 6. Bake pastry until slightly browned (about 20 minutes). Let cool, then cut into 2-inch squares. , Makes 12 squares.
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In large bowl of electric mixer, beat eggs, oil, and vanilla until well combined. , 2. Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, and salt, stirring to combine thoroughly. Add to egg mixture and stir to blend. Stir in apples and nuts. , 3. Spoon batter into a greased 9- by 13-inch baking pan, or a 10-inch fluted or plain tube pan. , 4. Bake until a skewer inserted in center comes out clean (30 to 40 minutes, or 40 to 50 minutes if using a tube pan). Cool 30 minutes in pan on rack before cutting. , * Timesaver Tip: Batter can be made ahead and frozen before baking. Line a 9- by 13-inch pan with heavy-duty foil and add batter. Freeze, uncovered, until frozen solid. Remove from pan; wrap tightly. For tube pan, spoon batter into unlined greased pan, wrap pan tightly with heavy-duty aluminum foil, and freeze. Label and date package. Freeze at 0 degrees F up to 4 weeks. To bake, peel off foil; put batter in greased pan. Bake in preheated 375 degrees F ove
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Grated Apple Tartlets
Ingredients : 400g filo pastry 4 or 5 Granny Smith apples 200g apple sauce or compote (homemade or shop bought) 150g caster sugar 20g butter A little flour
Recipe : Preheat oven to 420°F (210°C).
Dust your work surface with flour, roll out pastry to 3mm thickness, divide into two rectangles then cut each one into three.
Place the pastry rectangles on a baking tray lined with baking parchment and roll the sides of each one up slightly to form borders. Prick the bottom of each tartlet with a fork. Peel the apples, removing cores and pips, then grate into medium strips and mix with half of the caster sugar.
Spread a layer of compote on each tartlet, then share the grated apple out on top. Sprinkle with remaining sugar and add a few small chunks of butter to each one.
Bake in the middle of the oven for 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 350°F (180°C) and bake for a further 20 minutes. Leave in the oven for a further 5 minutes, with the door half open.
Leave tartlets to cool completely on a wire grill, once you have taken them out of the oven.
Recipe : Wash apples by brushing under hot water, cut into four then cut each quarter in two. Pour a litre of water into a jam-making pan, or large saucepan, add the juice of the lemon, then apples. Cook for 45 minutes, until apples are tender and soft. After 2 hours, strain apples through a sieve for juice. Add preserving sugar for the amount of juice you have (1.6kg sugar for every 1.3kg juice).
Juice limes and add to mixture. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes over a high heat, stirring constantly, then share out into clean, sterilised jars. Label and store in a cool, dry place.
Tip: Sterilise jars by washing in hot soapy water and heating in a moderate oven for 5 minutes.
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Soft Fruit Crumble with Vanilla Ice Cream
Ingredients : 50 g sugar 50 g chopped almonds 60 g butter 50 g flour 1 egg yolk 250 g strawberries 1 punnet raspberries (100 g) 1 punnet blackberries (100 g) 4 large bunches red currants (100 g)
Vanilla Ice Cream: 250ml milk 5ml liquid crème fraiche or cream 1 vanilla pod 4 egg yolks 40 g sugar
Recipe : This recipe needs to be chilled for 2 hours before serving.
Make the Ice Cream: Bring the milk to the boil, with the crème fraiche and vanilla. Beat the egg yolks and sugar until white and frothy, then mix in with the hot milk, whipping constantly. Cook for 5 minutes on a low heat, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens. Turn off the heat just before the mixture boils and put the whole pan straight into cold water. Leave to cool, stirring from time to time. Once cooled, tip cream into ice cream box or sorbetière and leave to freeze in freezer.
Make the crumble: Mix the sugar, chopped almonds 50g of the butter, flour and egg yolk together. Rub fat in thoroughly between fingers until mixture has breadcrumb consistency. Roll out onto a baking tray covered with greaseproof paper. Wash, hull and slice strawberries in half. Wash and seed red currants. Cook the pastry for about 12 minutes in an oven preheated to 325°F (170°C). Sauté the strawberries, red currants, raspberries and blackberries for 2 minutes in 10g of melted butter. Share the fruit out between 4 plates, sprinkle with warm crumbled pastry and serve immediately with a scoop of ice cream.
Recipe : Mix the flour, coconut, sugar, salt, butter and vanilla together in a large bowl. Work fat in with fingers until mixture has consistency of breadcrumbs, then leave to chill. Cut papaya in half and remove seeds. Peel fruit and slice thinly. Arrange in bottom of an oven or pudding dish and pour coconut milk on top. Sprinkle pastry on top of fruit and put in oven for 20 minutes at 400°F (205°C), or until golden.
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French Onion Soup
Ingredients : 2 tbsp olive oil 500g onions, finely sliced 1 clove garlic 1/2 tbsp brown sugar 1 l beef stock salt and pepper 4 sliced of baguette 25g grated gruyére or cheddar 25g parsley
Recipe : 1- In an oven proof saucepan or casserole, heat the oil and add the onions, cook over a low heat for 15 minutes until golden. 2- Add the garlic and the sugar. 3- Heat the beef stock ab=nd add to the onions, mix well. 4- Bring to the boil, then turn the heat right down and simmer for 20-30 minutes. Season to taste. 5- Lightly grill (or toast) the slices of baguette, top with cheese. 6- Float the cheese topped baguette on the soup, and place under the grill for 5 minutes, so that the cheese melts. 7- Sprinkle parsley on top and serve.
PREHEAT oven to 350ºF. Beat butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed 1 min. Gradually add sugar, beating well after each addition. Beat an additional 5 min. or until very light and fluffy. Add cream cheese and vanilla; beat 1 min. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. COMBINE flour, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture. Beat 1 min or until well blended. Pour batter into greased and floured 12-cup fluted tube pan or 10-inch tube pan. BAKE 1 hour or until golden brown. Cool 10 min.; loosen from sides of pan with spatula or knife and gently remove cake. Cool completely on wire rack.
Prep Time: 20 min Total Time: 5 hr 50 min Makes: 10 servings, 1/2 cup each
1-1/2 cups boiling water 1 pkg. (8-serving size) Lime Flavor Gelatin 1/4 tsp. salt 1-1/2 cups cold water 1 Tbsp. lemon juice 1/2 cup Sour Cream 1/2 cup whip Dressing 1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded and chopped (about 1-1/2 cups) 2 Tbsp. finely chopped onion 1 tsp. dill weed
STIR boiling water into dry gelatin and salt in large bowl at least 2 minutes until completely dissolved. Add cold water and lemon juice; stir. Refrigerate 1-1/4 hours or until slightly thickened (consistency of unbeaten egg whites). MIX sour cream and dressing until well blended. Stir into thickened gelatin. Refrigerate about 15 minutes or until thickened (spoon drawn through leaves definite impression). Stir in cucumber, onion and dill weed. Pour into 5-cup mold sprayed with cooking spray. REFRIGERATE 4 hours or until firm. Unmold. Garnish as desired. Store leftover gelatin mold in refrigerator.
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Barbequed Prawns -----------------
Main Ingredients
Shrimp, Red Pepper Sauce, Garlic
Ingredients
For Dipping Sauce: ½ cup - peanut butter ½ cup - water 1 tbsp - brown sugar 1 tbsp - lemon juice ½ tsp - red pepper sauce 1 no - garlic, crushed ½ tsp - salt
For the Shrimp: 500 gms - shrimps, peeled 2 tbsps - vegetable oil 2 tbsps - water 1 tbsp - lemon juice 2 nos - garlic, crushed 1 tsp - brown sugar, packed 1 tsp - red pepper sauce ½ tsp - salt
Method
Mix all the ingredients mentioned below dipping sauce and keep aside. Make a cut in the back of the prawn and remove the green vein from it. Mix the vegetable oil, lemon juice, brown sugar, salt, red pepper sauce, crushed garlic with water. Add the prawns to this mixture, cover and keep for atleast an hour in the refrigerator. Remove the prawns from the marinade, put them on skewers and reserve the marinade. Grill the prawns, turning and brushing with the reserved marinade, until the prawns are well cooked. Remove from skewers and serve with the already prepared dipping sauce.
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Apple Juice Roast --------------------------
Ingredients
4 lb Boneless Beef Chuck Roast 1/4 tsp Pepper 2 ea Med. Onions, Sliced 1/4 tsp Thyme Leaves 2 tb Butter or Shortening 1/4 tsp Prepared Mustard 1 c Apple Juice 1/8 tsp Basil Leaves 1 tb Catsup 3 ea Large Sweet Potatoes * 1 tsp Salt 1 x LemonJuice
GARNISHES
1 x Chopped Parsley OR 1 x Gravy 1 x Apple Rings And Parsley
Directions
Sweet potatoes should be pared and cut into pieces. Cook onions in 1 T butter or shortening in Dutch oven until tender-crisp; Set aside. Brown roast in remaining butter or shortening in Dutch oven over medium heat 15 to 20 minutes or until browned on both sides. Pierce entire surface of meat with fork. Combine apple juice, catsup, salt, pepper, thyme, mustard and basil;Add to meat. Top meat with reserved cooked onions; Cover and cook slowly 2 1/2 hours or until almost tender. Brush sweet potatoes with lemon juice for bright color; Add to meat. Continue cooking, covered, 30 to 40 minutes or until meat and potatoes are tender. Place meat and potatoes on warm platter. Sprinkle potatoes with chopped parsley or garinish with apple rings and parsley, if desired. Serve gravy over sliced meat.
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Chili Cheese Pie -------------------
2 deep dish pie crusts (found in grocery freezer section) 2 cans of chili (I tend to like to use chili w/meat & beans, but you can use anything) 2 cups of rice (I use the instant bags of rice, like Success Rice....then, you only need 1 bag) 2 cups shredded cheese (typically, I use Mild Cheddar, but I like to try different kinds)
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Poke holes all over the pie crusts with a fork, and place both on a cookie sheet. Cook the crusts for 10 minutes. During this time, cook the rice (if using instant rice, boil 1 bag for 10 minutes). Remove the crusts, and set aside. In a large bowl, combine the cooked rice, and UNcooked chili. Mix both together well, and put half of the mixture into one pie crust, and the other half into the second crust. Put one cup of shredded cheese on top of each pie. Bake for 30 minutes.
**Second pie can be frozen for use at a later date.....just use the microwave to re-heat!
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Banana's Early Morning Muffins --------------------------------
Ingredients
3 large ripe bananas 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup applesauce 2 large eggs 3 tablespoons plain yogurt or low fat sour cream 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour 1/4 cupwheat germ or crunchy granola Comments *You can also add chopped nuts, raisins, carob or chocolate chips or any other surprise treat!
Directions
Heat oven to 375°F. Mash the bananas in a big mixing bowl with a potato masher. Add the sugar, eggs and applesauce and mix well. Stir baking soda into yogurt or sour cream and it will become foamy which makes the muffins rise. Add the flour and wheat germ And stir until just mixed (muffins won't rise if you overmix). Spoon mixture into muffin papers in muffin pan. Bake about 10-15 Minutes until done.
In a large skillet, heat the vegetable and sesame oils until almost smoking. Add the ginger, scallions, pepper, soy sauce, cayenne and orange zest. Cool completely, and then add the raw shrimp. Marinate overnight in the refrigerator.
When marinated, push 2 or 3 shrimp onto small wooden skewers (that have been soaked overnight in water), place filled skewers in plastic bag. Take to the picnic, barbecue over hot coals until pink. Watch carefully - they will cook very quickly. (Also can be stir fried in hot saute' pan on stove and served with toothpicks.)
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Macaroni Salad -----------------
you can make this big quainties for large parties, or reunions.
1 pkage macaroni, yur chioce(shells are nice) 1 can tuna 3 stocks, celery, chopped 1 can, small corn 2 large, carrots, graded 1 green onion, add more it want, chopped 4 baby pickels, chopped 4 cups, manaize, add more/less
cook macaroni as package. cut all veggies, add tuna and mix. you can also add a couple of boiled eggs sliced and paperika to garnish, if desiered. you can eat right away which might be warm but best to let sit for abit and it is so good cold.
1 c powdered sugar 1 c marg. or butter softened 2 tsp maraschino cherry juice 1/2 tsp. almond extract few drops red food coloring 2 14 c all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp salt 1/3 c maraschino cherries, drained and chopped about 48 chocolate candy kisses.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Blend sugar, butter, cherry juice, almond extract, and food coloring well. Mix in flour and salt. Fold in chopped cherries. Shape dough into 1" balls and place 2" apart on cookie sheet. Bake 8-10 min. While still hot, top each cookie with choc. candy. Makes about 4 doz.
Put the meat in a pot on medium-low heat and dry the water already present in it stirring constantly to prevent burning along with salt, pepper and haldi.
When water dries add green chili, onion and dhuniya and dry water on high heat and remove.
Take the ready-made samosa strips available in market and use this filling. Seal the edges of samosa using a mixture of some flour dissolved in a little water and cooked into a thick paste.
Take the Wheat Flour, put 1 tsp Ghee and pinch of Salt, add water and Knead the Flour into Atta. Make four Chapattis. Spread Sugar on one Chapatti and pour 1 tsp of Water on the Sugar. Cover this Chapatti with another Chapatti and seal the sides with your hand by pressing the corner of the Chapatti. Heat a Tava and bake this Chapatti with a little oil till it turns brown. Remember to serve hot.
