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Minestrone Soup is a Once in a Lifetime Experience. I always feel a little apprehensive when I post a recipe like this minestrone soup. It’s the type of dish I never make the same way twice, and the fear is that someone will watch and assume that this is my “official” version. You don’t need a recipe for minestrone, just like you don’t need a recipe for a great sandwich, or an epic salad. To make minestrone soup precisely same way every time, using a very specific list of ingredients and amounts, is to trample on the soul of this Italian classic. Having said all that, what if you happen to make it so incredibly delicious one time that you want to experience the exact same shuddering soupgasm in the future? That seems like a perfectly sound reason for why you should write down the recipe…except cooking food doesn’t work that way. Your perception of how a recipe tastes involves so many factors above and far beyond the list of ingredients.

So, I hope you give this amazing minestrone recipe a try soon…but only once. Ingredients:3 oz pancetta. Halloween Kids' Party - Holiday Party Menus. Crafts + Recipes by Clare Crespo | Photography by Lucy Schaeffer Menu Extras tips + how-tos CHILD'S PLAY Save your energy -- and let the kids exhaust some of their supply. Play (partial) dress-up. Invite kids to help with party decorations. Extend activities. EYE CANDY Instead of draping fake cobwebs all over the house, hang eyeball balloons from the ceiling. FACE TIME Make jack-o'-lantern juice glasses by cutting the eyes, nose and mouth out of 3-inch pieces of black construction paper (use an X-Acto precision knife), then taping the paper to clear tumblers.

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Now you're cooking with comics. Apple Cinnamon Rolls Recipe | Eliza Domestica - Healthy Recipes and Creative Ideas for Practical Living. These buns taste like an apple fritter and a cinnamon bun collided together in an ooey-gooey mess of deliciousness. Seriously, they’re kind of a big deal. Make this for your family. Make this for your friends – just find a way to make them, and quick. And remember, tis’ the season for sharing. Recipe updated 10/19/13 Apple Cinnamon Rolls Recipe Ingredients 4 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour 2 cups milk 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon of salt 1/2 teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 packet of active yeast Filling 2 medium apples, chopped into small cubes (about 1 1/2 cups chopped) 1 cup brown sugar, packed 1/4 cup ground cinnamon 1 cup of butter, melted (2 sticks) Frosting 1/2 cup butter, melted (1 stick) 1 1/3 cup of powdered sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pure maple extract (or pure vanilla extract) 1/4 cup milk To prepare the dough, heat milk, oil and cane sugar for 5-8 minutes (do not boil).

For the filling, heat up 1 cup of butter and brown it. Serve warm. Mango Blueberry Quinoa Salad | Refreshing Summer Meal | Dash of East. Quinoa. I had heard about this super food for a while now, and I finally decided to make the leap and try it out. Since it was a completely new food to me, I did a little bit of research, and wow, quinoa really is amazing. Quinoa is high in protein, complete protein, which means that it contains all nine essential amino acids. For a complete list of all health benefits, take a look at Whole Food’s blog. Although quinoa at first appears to be a grain, it is actually the seeds of a plant that is related to spinach, beets and chard. For my first quinoa dish, I made the mango blueberry quinoa salad recipe by Veggie Belly, with a few slight changes. In my opinion, you can not go wrong when mangoes are in the recipe.

Cube the mangoes so that they are approximately the same size as the blueberries. Ingredients (Serves 2): Quinoa 1/2 cup quinoa (washed) 1 cup water Let’s Cook! While the quinoa is cooking, prepare the other ingredients.