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Onigiri - Japanese Rice Balls Recipe - Allrecipes.com. 5 Scottish Dishes Every American Should Try. A Scotch pie (Pic: Press Association via AP Images) On September 18, the Scottish people vote on whether they wish to be formally independent from the United Kingdom. And it’s a referendum that has stirred up strong feelings on either side of the debate. We do not seek to inflame any of these feelings still further, but it seems a decent moment to celebrate Scottish culture in general, particularly its fine culinary history. So here are five recipes that you will not regret trying out, should you get the chance: Mince, tatties and neeps To stereotype along national lines for a second, the Scots are not a people that enjoy an excess of pretension or nonsense in their food. So if they’re going to eat minced meat (beef or mutton, most commonly) with some potatoes (tatties—sometimes mashed, sometimes not mashed) and maybe a side order of mashed turnip (neeps), well they’re just going to give it the most descriptive name possible.

See Scotty Brand’s mince, tatties and neeps recipe. Spooky Halloween Punch Recipes. Every Halloween party needs a spooky Halloween punch! Serve your guests a themed punch to quench their thirst whether you are planning a full food menu or not. A Halloween punch is the perfect addition to any costume party, cocktail party, kids party or dinner party. Just make sure you serve at least one cocktail punch and one mock-tail punch to appeal to everyone’s tastes.

Here are some easy Halloween punch ideas for adults and kids to try at your monster bash. Halloween Punch for Adults: Bloody Vampire Punch 4 cups clear rum 4 cups orange juice, 6 cups pomegranate juice 1/2 cup fresh-squeezed lime or lemon juice 1 liter seltzer (pomegranate seltzer works best) Combine the orange, pomegranate and lime or lemon juices in your favorite punch bowl and refrigerate until just before serving. Sewer Water Punch 1 bottle vodka or vanilla vodka 7 cups fresh orange juice (with pulp) 1.5 liters Dr. Bobbin’ for Apples Punch In a large punchbowl, combine the vodka, schnapps and soda. 10 Desserts That Brits Miss When They Leave the U.K. | Mind The Gap. Every British expat living in the U.S. has a constant yearning for some culinary pleasure they left back home. For many, it’s British bacon while others long for a traditional Sunday roast with all the trimmings. Some even declare they would swim across the Atlantic just to get their hands on a decent portion of fish and chips.

For me and my sweet tooth, it’s the desserts. Trifle Trifle. Let us begin proceedings with what is undoubtedly the most famous English dessert of all. Eton mess Eton mess. Eton College is a lot like Hogwarts, except instead of teaching witchcraft and wizardry, they teach poshness and pomposity. Arctic roll In 1939, a Czechoslovakian lawyer named Dr. Jam roly-poly This sweet, stodgy pudding evokes much nostalgia amongst Brits of a certain age for it was once a staple of school lunches throughout the United Kingdom.

Banoffee Pie Banoffee pie. Bread and butter pudding Yet more stodgy pudding! Spotted dick Come on now, stop laughing, we’re all adults here. You Asked For It: Strawberry cookie recipe from Parkesdale Farms. ELLEN FOLKMANTampa Bay Times Tuesday, June 7, 2011 5:30am I would love the strawberry cookie recipe from Parkesdale Farms in Plant City. Thank you. Susan Moriarty, Tampa Clearwater resident Debbie Carlson was going through recipes recently when she came across the strawberry cookie recipe Susan requested. This is a delicious cookie and it's easy to make. It's not too sweet and has a subtle pink color and a light strawberry flavor. Rather than finely chopping the nuts, I used Fisher Nuts cookie pecans.

And even when Florida strawberries are out of season, California berries are ripe and ready. Recipe request • Susan Masztak of Gulfport likes the chicken salad sandwich at Neptune Restaurant in Gulfport. . • G. Recipes tested by Times correspondent Ellen Folkman unless otherwise noted. Parkesdale Farms Strawberry Cookies 1 ½ cups of granulated sugar 1 cup shortening ½ teaspoon baking soda 2 large eggs, beaten ¾ cup strawberry puree, from 1 pint of berries 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt. Okonomiyaki Recipe. Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) literally means “grilled as you like it” in Japanese. As the name implies, what goes into it and how it’s prepared depends largely on your preferences. That’s why it’s sometimes known as a “Japanese pizza” in the US. In most versions okonomiyaki is made with shredded cabbage and a pancake-like batter, but that’s where the similarities end.

Some people like a soft custardy interior, while others prefer a ton of fillings with the batter merely binding the ingredients together. Since there are no hard and fast rules for the filling and toppings, it’s a great way to use up scraps from the fridge. That said, there are a two general styles of okonomiyaki: Hiroshima-style and Kansai-style. Nagaimo, which literally means “long potato” is a key ingredient in Kansai style okonomiyaki. Another key point to getting a soft custardy Kansai-style okonomiyaki is to limit the development of gluten in the batter. Mentai Cheese Okonomiyaki Smoked Salmon and Thyme Okonomiyaki Ingredients. Japanese Curry Buns (Kare-Pan) Miss Foodwise | Celebrating British food and culture: Wheaten Soda Bread with Stout Beer, Oats and Molasses for St-Patrick's day. Wheaten Stout Beer, Oats and Molasses What do you need • 500g/17oz. good quality - organic wholemeal wheat or spelt flour • 1/2 cup / 4oz.rolled oats • 2 teaspoons of baking soda • 1 teaspoon of sea salt • 3 teaspoons of molasses • 200ml/6.7 oz stout beer and 200 ml/6.7 oz live yoghurt • some extra flour to dust Method Preheat your oven to 190C/375FLine a baking tray with greaseproof paper Combine the flour, baking soda and salt well in a bowl.Add yoghurt and stout and mix with the dry ingredients.Quickly form a wet dough - it is important to get the bread in the oven as quickly as possible and not to overwork it - if the dough is too wet dust with flour until you can shape it.Dust it with flour and cut a cross in the dough half way down the dough.

Put on the baking tray in the middle of the oven for 40 minutes.The bread is ready when it makes a hollow sound when you knock on the bottom.Cool on a wire rack. 77 Healthy Crock-Pot Recipes. Crazy schedules, long work hours, and tempting takeout menus make it tough to even think about cooking most nights during the week. Despite the inconvenience, firing up the stove or oven is almost always cheaper and healthier than ordering in or eating out. How about a compromise? Making dinner with a slow cooker — Crock-Pot is the go-to brand in the U.S. — is an easy way to get in all those vitamins and minerals without slaving over a hot stove for hours at a time. Most of these recipes involve mixing up ingredients and popping them into a slow cooker for a prescribed number of hours.

Save even more time by starting some of these dishes overnight or first thing in the morning and reaping the delicious, healthy benefits later in the day. Breakfast 1. Tart apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, and walnuts — what’s not to love? 2. Why not begin the day with a protein-rich superfood like quinoa? 3. This vegetarian burrito filling includes loads of vegetables, beans, and eggs. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The 34 Simple Two-Ingredient Recipes | Crazy Food. Posted by admin on May 22, 2013 in Recipes | 0 comments Cooking doesn’t get much easier than this. BTW, these are mostly desserts. I hope you’re OK with that. I know that you will enjoy in this amazing food tricks. All these food ingredients are amazing and with them you will enjoy in delicous food.

You can try one day all these food ideas, but on some way, the best one is with Nutella.. Printer. From the molten yolk and bacon crunch of a hand-held breakfast, to the gooey charm of grilled cheese for lunch, nothing matches the simple pleasures of well-made sandwiches. They're quick to assemble, infinitely adaptable, easy to eat, and immediately satisfying—the very definition of good food. The 25 sandwiches you're about to meet can be thrown together during the average basketball halftime or, with practice, during the seventh-inning stretch.

(Who needs hot dogs, anyway?) Use each recipe as a basic road map, but bring your talent for finding creative routes. You'll easily reach your final destination: a full belly and a satisfied smile. Think BLT, but better. Smear sandwich bread with some mayo thinned with a bit of lemon juice. More on MensHealth.com: 20 Ways to Stick to Your Workout 2.

Layer pieces of ciabatta or a sturdy sandwich roll with grated fontina or mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced prosciutto, sliced figs, and arugula. More on MensHealth.com: 100 Ways to Live Forever 3. 4. Raspberry Lemonade Recipe : Ree Drummond. Red Velvet Cake Recipe - RecipeTips.com. Food Recipes Scotland Scotch (Scottish) Eggs recipe. Scottish Recipes - Scotch Eggs This is a simple recipe for making a traditional Scottish dish which is often used for a light snack at picnics or "buffet lunches". It can be served hot or cold. Ingredients:1lb sausage meat (try to get as best quality that you can afford) 1 large raw egg 3oz approx of dry breadcrumbs 5 hard boiled eggs, with shells removed Pinch of mace (the outer casing of the nutmeg-this is not an essential) Some salt, freshly ground pepper Small quantity of flour 1 tablespoon water Method: Dust the hard boiled eggs in a little flour then place aside.

Mix the mace (if available) with a pinch of salt and pepper into the sausage meat and divide into five equal portions. Beat the egg and water together and coat the meat-covered egg with this and then breadcrumbs (you may have to press the crumbs onto the meat). Fish RecipesOther Recipes The images and contents on this page are copyright free for personal use ONLY.

Pumpkin Nutella Bread. Pumpkin Nutella Bread Fall is in the air and that means football and pumpkin baking for us. On Saturday afternoon, Josh turned on the football games and I started baking. To kick off football and pumpkin season, I made pumpkin Nutella bread. If you like pumpkin chocolate chip bread, I have a feeling you will love pumpkin Nutella bread. I started with a basic pumpkin bread recipe-pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. While the loaves were baking we cheered on our favorite football team and enjoyed the smell of pumpkin that was gently warming the house. Add pumpkin Nutella bread to your fall baking list today! Pumpkin Nutella Bread Ingredients:1 3/4 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon 1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup canola oil 1/3 cup water 1 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling) 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon hazelnut extract 8 tablespoons Nutella (2 tablespoons per mini loaf)Directions:1.

Chocolate Cold Coffee recipe at Mobile PakiRecipes. Banana Cookies Recipe. Chocolate Guinness Goodness Recipe. Editor's note: This recipe was developed by Shane Philip Coffey, the chef at Alias restaurant on New York City's Lower East Side. This rich and luscious dessert came about because I needed a special dessert for a St. Patrick's Day tasting menu.

I was on a mission to use my favorite beer, Guinness, something I consider to be one of Ireland's gifts to the world. As the 17th of March drew closer, I looked for inspiration at my favorite Irish pub in Manhattan. Make the effort to find a good dark chocolate (about 70 to 72 percent cacao). AWESOME Legend of Zelda Birthday Party! Every mystical kingdom needs a timeless hero… and every hero deserves to be celebrated! With bow & arrows in tow, some hard work and a handful of Rupees, Mayra of In Flight Celebrations LLC dreamed up this magical Legend of Zelda Birthday Party for her little hero’s 10th birthday! So grab a Life Heart Cookie {or two} and your slingshot and get ready for a journey full of creative surprises! PARTY HIGHLIGHTS to look out for: – Hourglass Cake Pops, Cuccos Cupcakes and Stained Glass Cookies – Forest Water, “Will Cut Grass For Rupees Sign” and more amazing printables from Hello My Sweet – Link Inspired Color Palette and “Lost Woods” Style Dessert Table Backdrop – Watermelon Juice Potion Drink and Zelda Wallet Favor Bags by Vanessa Grant Events PARTY DETAILS, as told by Mayra… ; My son and I share a love for this video game, Zelda, and we decided to have his 10th birthday on this theme!