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Spicy Chicken Nuggets (Chicharrones de Pollo) Recipe. Spanish Roasted Potatoes with Tomato Sauce (Patatas Bravas) Recipe. This recipe makes more than enough sauce for the potatoes, so you can double the amount of potatoes for more servings, or save the extra sauce for later.

Spanish Roasted Potatoes with Tomato Sauce (Patatas Bravas) Recipe

It will keep a week in the refrigerator. Method 1 Preheat oven to 375°F. Toss the potatoes with 3 tablespoons of olive oil and salt well. Arrange in one layer in a casserole pan or rimmed baking tray and roast until browned, about 50 minutes. 2 While the potatoes are roasting, make the sauce. 3 Add the white wine to the pan and turn the heat to high. Skillet Tortilla Pizza Recipe. Method 1 Heat a large cast iron skillet or griddle on medium high to high heat.

Skillet Tortilla Pizza Recipe

Place a flour tortilla in the center of the skillet. When the tortillas begins to puff up or form air bubbles, flip it and turn the heat down to medium low. Pierce the air bubbles with a knife tip or the tines of a fork to deflate them a bit. 2 Sprinkle the top of the tortilla with a thin layer of grated mozzarella cheese. 3 Once the edges of the tortilla are browning, indicating that the bottom of the tortilla is getting nice and brown, remove the pan from the heat. Shrimp Quesadilla Recipe. Method 1 If you are starting with frozen raw shrimp, defrost them by placing them in a bowl of ice water until defrosted.

Shrimp Quesadilla Recipe

Then poach the raw shrimp for 1 to 2 minutes in boiling water, remove from pan with a slotted spoon, and rinse under cold water to stop the cooking. If you are starting with frozen cooked shrimp, you can defrost them in a bowl of ice water or lemon juice with ice. 2 Place strained cooked shrimp in a bowl. Add lime or lemon juice, some chopped fresh jalapeno or serrano chile and/or a dash of chile powder (can also use chipotle chiles or chipotle chili powder) to desired level of heat, green onion, and cilantro. Oven-toasted Sonoran Quesadilla Recipe. Ingredients One large (13-inch diameter) flour tortilla1 Tbsp butter1/2 cup of grated cheddar cheeseSeveral strips of green chiles, cooked* *Green chiles are entirely optional - the easiest thing to do is to use canned Ortega green anaheim chiles.

Oven-toasted Sonoran Quesadilla Recipe

Nachos Recipe. Deviled Eggs Recipe. Method 1 First hard boil the eggs.

Deviled Eggs Recipe

(See how to make hard boiled eggs.) Fill up a large saucepan half-way with water and gently add the eggs. Cover the eggs with at least an inch of water. Crab Fondue Recipe. We also peeled and chopped up bosc pears to use for dipping in this recipe.

Crab Fondue Recipe

If you are avoiding wine, just use water to get to desired consistency. Method 1 Slowly heat the cream cheese, mayo, powdered sugar, garlic powder, Old Bay, lemon zest, and mustard in a double boiler until the cheese is completely melted. Cheddar Cheese Puffs Recipe. To make cheese puffs, first you make a pâte a choux dough (pronounced “pat ah shoo”), which, if you’ve never made it before, can seem a little weird.

Cheddar Cheese Puffs Recipe

Weird because most of us who bake are used to mixing dough ingredients together and then plopping them in the oven. With a pâte a choux dough, you essentially half cook the dough first, by adding flour to boiling water and butter, and stirring like a madman until you have a ball of dough the consistency of playdough. Then you mix in eggs and then the dough goes in the oven, where it puffs up as the water in the dough turns to steam and expands into air pockets.

The dough is used for making cream puffs, eclairs, cheese puffs (gourgères), beignets, and even churros. Caramelized Onion Dip Recipe. I’ve always been a fan of onion dip, have you?

Caramelized Onion Dip Recipe

Especially with ruffled potato chips. Most of the flavor in the onion dip with which many of us are familiar comes from a package of dried onion soup, which works if you have only 2 minutes to put together a dip. But if you are looking for something a little more special, you can make your own onion dip from scratch.

The key is to caramelize the onions first. When onions cook for a long time, their natural sugars start to caramelize. This dip is easy to put together. I love the way this dip turned out. Ingredients 2 Tbsp olive oil4 cups chopped yellow onions (from about 2-3 onions)1 teaspoon brown sugar2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar1/2 teaspoon kosher salt1/2 teaspoon black pepper1 cup sour cream1/2 cup mayonnaise1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce1/4 teaspoon garlic powder. Buffalo Wings Recipe. Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil Recipe.

Method 1 Prepare the tomatoes first.

Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil Recipe

Parboil the tomatoes for one minute in boiling water that has just been removed from the burner. Drain. Barbecued Buffalo Wings Recipe. Planning a gathering for a Fourth of July BBQ?

Barbecued Buffalo Wings Recipe

Try these spicy hot wings from Hank. Watch out though, they’re good; if you’re not careful you might eat the whole batch! ~Elise Many years ago, when I was a cross country runner in college on Long Island, our team had a Tuesday tradition: After an especially hard workout, we would go to a place called Big Barry’s in Lake Grove and eat as many buffalo wings as we possibly could. Why Tuesday? Now I’ve eaten thousands of Buffalo wings before and since, but none were like Big Barry’s. I loved these wings. Because Barry’s wings were roasted (or barbecued, I was never sure), and they could be ordered with sauce on the side, I had routinely eaten dozens at a sitting.

It was the final 25 that got me. Did I make it? Apple Walnut Gorgonzola Turnovers Recipe. If using prepared frozen puff pastry sheets, they need to be defrosted in the refrigerator at least 3 hours before using. Method 1 Place chopped apples in a bowl, microwave on high heat for 5 minutes until apples are cooked through. Remove from heat and let cool. 7 Layer Dip, 7 Layer Bean Dip Recipe.