tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47697000629022568512024-02-20T08:01:45.581-08:00MenuWishesMenus and easy recipes. I enjoy trying recipes of food that is mentioned in books that I'm reading.Lori Wilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193440116180445850noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769700062902256851.post-68691520237408624052014-02-07T13:48:00.000-08:002014-02-07T13:48:15.739-08:00Zucchini Tots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a recipe that I saw on a website (and I apologize, but I didn't copy the address). It was suggested that this is a great substitute for tater tots. While, yes, they are crispy and shredded like tater tots, they do not taste like tater tots. However, they are quite tasty.<br />
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1 cup zucchini-grated<br />
1 egg<br />
1/4 cup yellow onion<br />
1/4 cup cheese (cheddar or Parmesan work best)<br />
1/4 cup bread crumbs (I used Italian style)<br />
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a mini muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. Grate zucchini and then place in a dish towel to squeeze out the excess liquid. In a bowl, combine the egg, onion, cheese, bread crumbs, zucchini, and salt and pepper to taste. Using a spoon or scoop, fill the muffin cups to the top. Bake for 15-18 minutes.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 large Beef Roast of your choice.</span><br />
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<li itemprop="ingredient" itemscope="" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/RecipeIngredient" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span itemprop="amount" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 package</span> <span itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(10 oz., about 40) regular marshmallows</span></span></li>
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<li itemprop="ingredient" itemscope="" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/RecipeIngredient" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span itemprop="amount" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 tablespoons</span> <span itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">butterscotch flavor instant pudding & pie filling</span></span></li>
<li itemprop="ingredient" itemscope="" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/RecipeIngredient" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span itemprop="amount" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6 cups</span> <span itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ricekrispies.com/products/rice-krispies-cereal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kellogg's® Rice Krispies®</em></span> cereal</a></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. In large saucepan melt butter over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat. Stir in pudding mix.<br /><br />2. Add <span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KELLOGG'S RICE KRISPIES</span> cereal. Stir until well coated.<br /><br />3. Using buttered spatula or wax paper evenly press mixture into 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan coated with cooking spray. Cool. Cut into 2-inch squares. Best if served the same day.<br /><br /><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">MICROWAVE DIRECTIONS:</span></span><br /><br />In microwave-safe bowl heat butter and marshmallows on HIGH for 3 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes. Stir until smooth. Add pudding mix, stirring until smooth. Follow steps 2 and 3 above. Microwave cooking times may vary.</span></div>
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Lori Wilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193440116180445850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769700062902256851.post-9999580959814088432013-10-17T19:03:00.000-07:002013-10-21T17:21:37.035-07:00Finger Lakes Grape Pie<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This recipe is in response to the book The Perfect Match by Kristan Higgins. You can see the review of THE PERFECT MATCH <a href="http://ficwishes.blogspot.com/2013/10/maybe-i-love-you-review-of-perfect.html">HERE</a>. This recipe comes from Kristan herself. Check out what she had to say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As part of my research for books, I like to try the local dishes when I'm visiting the area I set my stories. For the Finger Lakes, there were two dishes that stood out for me - salt potatoes which are potatoes cooked in very salty brine (fantastic) and grape pie. Oh man, I love grape pie! I never had it before I went to the Finger Lakes, and now I'll never visit the area without making sure I have some. Here's my version of the lovely Yankee dessert, which Honor makes for Tom's unofficial stepson in THE PERFECT MATCH.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5 1/2 cups Concord grapes<br />3/4 cups sugar, maybe a little more depending on how sweet the grapes are<br />1 tablespoon tapioca or 3 tablespoons cornstarch<br />butter<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">For Crust:</span><br />1 cup cold lard (I know, I know, but it makes the flakiest crust there is)<br />2 1/4 cups flour<br />1 tablespoon powdered sugar<br />1 teaspoon salt<br />1/4 cup ice water<br />a pinch of breadcrumbs for sprinkling on the bottom of the pie plate before you put the crust in.<br /><br /><br />Assemble crust by cutting lard into small chunks. Mix in dry ingredients with pastry fork. Add ice water (use a tablespoon or two more if dough seems dry). Refrigerate. The colder the crust, the flakier it will be. <br /><br />Preheat oven to 425.<br /><br />Wash the grapes and pop the skins off by pinching them at the non-stem end. Save the skins in separate bowl. Put the peeled grapes into a saucepan, squish them lightly and bring it to a boil. Let boil for 5 minutes; put it through a colander to remove the seeds. Pour the hot pulp over the skins. (The longer you let this mixture sit, the deeper the color.) Add the sugar and tapioca, then pour the mixture into the prepared pie crust and dot with butter. If you’re feeling ambitious, you can do a lattice work top crust or cut out a pattern in the crust so the gorgeous color will show.<br /><br />Bake at 425° for 20 minutes.Lower the temperature to 320 degrees and cook 40 minutes more until the crust is browned and the juice begins to bubble up. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream (you know I was going to say that, didn’t you?). Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This recipe is in response to the book Antigoddess by Kendare Blake. Check out Nikki's review of Antigoddess <a href="http://ficwishes.blogspot.com/2013/09/guest-review-by-nikki-antigoddess-by.html">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take a glass or cookie cutter and cut a hole in the middle of the bread. Butter both sides of the bread. Put the bread into a skillet then crack the egg into the hole. Fry the egg to your personal level of done-ness turning over to cook on both sides. Add salt and pepper to taste.</span><br />
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Lori Wilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193440116180445850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769700062902256851.post-9834105557326905242013-09-19T16:59:00.000-07:002013-09-19T16:59:45.371-07:00Cake Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boys were asking to make cookies this week. We have a couple of cake mixes in the cabinet so I decided to just use one of those to make the cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 (18.25 ounce) package cake mix <span style="font-size: x-small;">(we used Golden Vanilla)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/2 cup butter, softened</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 cup semisweet chocolate chips <span style="font-size: x-small;">(we just added them until we thought it looked like enough)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 teaspoon vanilla</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. In a medium bowl, stir together all of the ingredients except for the chocolate chips. Stir until smooth and well blended. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Add in the chocolate chips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.</span></div>
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<br />Lori Wilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193440116180445850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769700062902256851.post-54649112288077474722013-09-11T08:09:00.000-07:002013-09-11T08:09:12.336-07:00Greek Almond Butter Cookies<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">In honor of a fantastic book that I recently read (</span><a href="http://ficwishes.blogspot.com/2013/09/giveawayreview-where-stars-still-shine.html" style="text-align: start;">Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller</a><span style="text-align: start;">) I decided to make this morning's home school lesson a science experiment about predicting and measuring. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First I had the boys create a recipe for what they thought should go into making Greek Almond Butter Cookies. Two of them got pretty close. The fourteen year old is not allowed in my kitchen ever again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next, we looked at the real ingredients and compared it to theirs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Finally, we followed the recipe and baked the cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/4 cup white sugar 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller is a YA book coming September 24, 2013. If you enjoy reading, I encourage you to give this book a chance. You can read my review <a href="http://ficwishes.blogspot.com/2013/09/giveawayreview-where-stars-still-shine.html">HERE</a> and enter before September 24, 20013 to win a hardcover copy.</span>Lori Wilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13193440116180445850noreply@blogger.com0