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Baked Maple Cinnamon-Sugar Donuts and a Giveaway! - CLOSED. Pound Cake and Petit Fours. I’ve been on a pound cake kick lately.

Pound Cake and Petit Fours

Last weekend I made two of them. Nine basics of a healthy vegan diet. How to Replace Dairy Desserts in Your Diet. Dessert is one of life’s simple pleasures.

How to Replace Dairy Desserts in Your Diet

Giving up dairy doesn’t have to mean giving up dessert. You can find a variety of delicious ice cream substitutes and frozen novelties made with nondairy ingredients in natural foods stores and some mainstream supermarkets. Shish Barak (Lebanese Meat Dumplings in Yogurt Sauce) A friend called me yesterday to ask me why I haven't updated the blog?

Shish Barak (Lebanese Meat Dumplings in Yogurt Sauce)

Oh dear, that is bad isn't it? I have a good explanation though- you see, I went to Texas for a lovely Thanksgiving, got home on a hectic Sunday and dumped my smelly jeans and farm boots into the laundry, refilled my suitcase with a couple suits and linen trousers, and headed to the Middle East for a work trip. Work trips being what they are, there was a lot of flying, a lot of meetings, and very little fun time, other than some good food and vodka-mint-lemonades.

But I'm happy to be home and I've had this recipe in my queue, eager to share it here. It's the Lebanese version of meat dumplings, called shish barak. Pot O' Dirt (Oreo/Pudding Dessert) Fry bread taco with Mexican spicy meatballs {Taco Party #IIP} So this is the time of the month again for International incident party, and the theme of the month is Taco.

Fry bread taco with Mexican spicy meatballs {Taco Party #IIP}

And I have to say this. Taco is the new food porn in this house. Yeap, that´s truth. Ever since I made the taco noodles for the last IIP, instant taco seasoning has become a staple in my house. We have grown to love the flavour despite the unfortunate lack of Mexican cuisine presence in Australia. Spicy Roasted Potato Fries - Recipe - Laura in the Kitchen - Starring Laura Vitale. Homemade Strawberry Fruit Leather. If you follow weelicious on Twitter or Facebook, you may have read about my recent fruit leather obsession.

Homemade Strawberry Fruit Leather

My kids love fruit roll-ups and while there are some great brands out there made with just fruit, I know can save a ton of dough making it myself. While I haven't spent a lot of money trying to figure it out, I have spent a lot of time! As of today, I've made 15 (yes, fifteen!!!!) Batches of strawberry leather in an effort to perfect the recipe. It's been a frustrating challenge to say the least, especially when making fruit leather seems so easy in principal. Yukon Gold Potato Fans. Wayyyyyy back in my vegetarian days, I was a major potato fanatic.

Yukon Gold Potato Fans

Easy Whole Wheat Cheddar Crackers. While I'm super easy-going about Kenya and Chloe having cake at birthday parties or ordering things like french fries every now and then when we're out to eat, I can't help but cringe when they are offered goldfish as a snack on play dates or at camp.

Easy Whole Wheat Cheddar Crackers

Of course there are many things that would be considered far worse for them than these little yellow bite-sized snacks, but goldfish kind of get under my skin. Goldfish are one of those "easy" foods that most people keep in the pantry for their kids. And why not? They're delicious. 蒸し鶏サラダ - Yahoo!レシピ. Bob & Angie. Yasuko-san's Home Cooking / Sauteed and simmered chicken and vegetables.

Yasuko-san's Home Cooking / Mizore nabe. Yasuko-san's Home Cooking / Sweet & Snack azuki bean soup with rice cake. Recipes. Kale Waldorf Salad. Afghan Culture Unveiled. Thai Recipes. Malaysian Recipes. Punjabi Recipe, Punjabi Food, Punjabi Recipes, Punjabi Dishes, Punjabi Cooking, Punjabi Receipes. Afghan « multiculturalfamilyrecipes. Ingredients: 1 Lb ground beef 1/8 tbsp salt1 tbsp pepper1 ½ tbsp coriander ground¼ tbsp cumin ground2 large finely chopped onions1 package wonton wrappers2 tbsp tomato paste6 tbsp oil¾ cup yogurt¼ tbsp dried mintFresh chopped cilantro2 mashed garlic glovesboiled water Directions: Filling: Combine ground beef, onions, salt, pepper, cumin, coriander ground and 1 cup water in a skillet; stir and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes or until all the water is absorbed.

Afghan « multiculturalfamilyrecipes

Let it cool off. Place wrappers on a cutting board covered lightly with flour one at a time then pure 1 cup of cold water in a bowl. Story: Growing up, Mantu was my favorite Afghan Dish. Lemon Mint Tea (Nane Limon), a Turkish delight - Cooking by the seat of our pants. This recipe is inspired completely by my wife, who told me about something similar she had in Turkey shortly after her return there.

Lemon Mint Tea (Nane Limon), a Turkish delight - Cooking by the seat of our pants

It’s nothing more than Squeezed lemon, a bit of mint and sugar with boiling water added but like so many simple dishes the final product is something that is somehow ethereal and infinitely sublime. Perhaps it’s that this simple drink looks as magical as it tastes. The mint leaves and lemon pulp swirling slowly in the glass are equally as enticing as the combination of sweet, sour and savory that greets your tongue when you take a sip. sure, it could be made with perfectly strained lemon juice, but why in the world would you do that? It would take something away from the experience in my opinion.

I have no idea what the Turkish name for this drink is, nor does my wife (Nor can she find the restaurant she had it in again.). Thanks to Oz for letting me know that this drink is called “Nane-Limon” or simply “Mint Lemon”. Simple and Delicious ! IngredientsAtta / wheat flour 2 cupspotato 1 medium sizeonion 1/2green chilly 1 or as desiredcurry leaves fewcoriander leaves fewcumin seeds powder 1/4 tspwater enoughsaltoil How to prepareBoil and peel potato.

Simple and Delicious !

Mash it.Chop onion, green chilly, coriander leaves and curry leaves together finely. Chocolate faces. For the dough: 3 1/2 to 4 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon yeast 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg 1/4 cup milk powder 1/2 cup butter or 1/4 cup oil. Ruchi's Kitchen. Desert Diet - the Food of the Bedouin. Fran Gillespie Vanishing Lifestyle | Snacking with the Bedouin | A Hard Life | Bedouin Hunting | Lizards and Locusts | Other Foods For thousands of years, the Bedouin, the nomadic people of Arabia, travelled the desert, moving on every few weeks in search of fresh pasture for their camels, sheep and goats.

Living on the simple products of their livestock: dairy products and meat, supplemented by dates and commodities such as rice, sugar, tea, coffee and flour for which they traded with the settled people of the coastal villages, these incredibly hardy people managed somehow to survive even in the scorching heat of summer. Vanishing Lifestyle In the Arabian Gulf, the fixing of national borders coincided with the oil wealth that changed the lifestyle of entire peoples and rendered the harsh life of the bedouin unsustainable, once people began to want the luxuries that go with a settled lifestyle.

Snacking with the Bedouin. Simple Rice Cereal - Cooking for Babies and Toddlers. Nutrition facts, calories in food, labels, nutritional information and analysis – NutritionData.com. Arabic Food Recipes. A Yemeniyah's Recipes. Ya Salam Cooking. Indian & Continental Recipes. AZ Cookbook - Food From Azerbaijan & Beyond - Vegetarian Cooking Shows. Falooda Recipe. Made with Falooda noodles Tukmania seeds Milk Pistachio ice cream, rose syrup.

It is a dessert as well as a beverage This dish originated in Iran where it was made with fresh lemon juice. During the Mughal empire, lemon juice was substituted with reduced milk (Rabri). Jahangir loved Falooda and milk of antelope. Of course, milk of antelope is not readily available. I will use Rice Noodles widely available in United States. Ingredients 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Method 1. RETRO FOOD RECIPES : Classic Recipes from 1970s, 1960s, 1950s and Before. Fauzia's Pakistani Recipes - The Extraordinary Taste Of Pakistan - Specializing in Delicious Pakistani, Indian, Middle Eastern recipes and Recipes from all around the world all created, tested, reviewed and approved by Home Cooks worldwide.

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