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Butter Beer: Have That Famous Harry Potter Drink Right in your Room. If you’ve spent a good number of your growing up years gushing over the epic and unparalleled magical series that is Harry Potter, then put your round-framed glasses on because you won’t believe your eyes…and your taste buds! Prepare for this enchanting recipe that’ll send you (and your Firebolt) rising to unbounded heights. Tucked in the heart of Hogsmeade, a tiny village where wizards and all sorts of enchanted beings amble around, is The Three Broomsticks.

A familiar haven to Hogwarts students who are on their third year or above, this cozy pub houses a favorite beverage of Harry, Hermione, and Ron—the beloved Butterbeer. And though other muggles have tried to recreate this recipe countless times, here’s one that’s sooo easy to make, you don’t need a wand from dear Ollivander to conjure it. Just as there are three magical objects that comprise The Deathy Hallows, there are three magical (yet not impossible to attain) ingredients needed to complete this wild wizardly treat. Ingredients. Chicken Pot Pie Biscuits. 2-Minute Chocolate Chip Cookie For One & Recipe & Zoom Yummy.

This is one of those ‘I-need-a-cookie-right-now-or-I-die’ recipes that can be prepared in almost no time.We all know that kind of situation, don’t we? I definitely do, I confess.And you know what? This impressive cookie not only takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, it tastes really delicious. Just like a good chocolate chip cookie.The preparation is beyond easy… just have a look… First you need this stuff. 1.

Place the butter and sugars in a 2-cup bowl or ramekin. 2. 3. 4. Save a few for the top, if you wish to.5. Ta-dah! 6. A Guide to Maginhawa Street's Exciting Eats @ ClickTheCity.com Metro. We've listed some of the restaurants that transformed the then sleepy Maginhawa Street in Quezon City into an exciting culinary destination. Which one is your favorite? Lot Number 154 Bundled together in one address: 154 Maginhawa Street, are three restaurants that are starkly different from each other. A fairly new diner, Champs is where you head when craving for huge burgers with chunky patties that are sans extenders.

Must-tries when in here are their beefy Ace Burger (P160) and Boracay Regatta (P150) with battered and fried cream dory patty. Van Gogh is Bipolar serves what owner and cook Jetro Rafael calls the “happy chill diet.” Blacksoup Cafe's specials of the week lists Corn Chowder, Shrimp Linguine, Porterhouse Steak with Zucchini, and Homemade Avocado Ice Cream. The BRGR Project + Pino Resto Bar + Pipino Vegetarian Kitchen A stone's throw away from the Bayantel building is The BRGR Project whose claim to fame is its make-your-own-burger ordering scheme. Milk Tea sa “Kyusi” Asian Street Food Sensation: The Mala Tang Hot Pot Cart. Ma La Tang Street Food Hot Pot One of the great Asian sensations these days is something known as the hot pot. Everything is served or displayed in its raw form and is cooked by scorching the ingredients in a hot spicy pot of flavorful soup broth.

Some hot pot stalls offer self service cooking while others (like this take-away Ma La Tang cart in China) was cooked up by the vendor herself. You may remember one of my favorite meals in the world, also a hot pot style meal, but less of a street and more of a sit down dining experience. All around Asia you’ll find hot pots. In Japan it is called shabu shabu, Thai street food labels it suki or jim jum, and in Malaysia it’s known as steamboat – but they are all the same basic idea. Choose Your Stick It’s nearly impossible to pass by a stall that’s filled with colorful items that are skewered on sticks and nicely arranged on a street cart. Boiling the Ingredients Ma La Tang in China I grabbed a basket added my sticks and handed it back to the vendor.

Lunch Sandwich Round-Up. Dulce de Leche Vanilla Cake. First time I made this cake, it was for my boss’ birthday (say it, i’m the best employee ever!)! But seriously, this cake was amazing!!!! It’s all I want it to be! A moist vanilla cake, with layers of dulce de leche caramel and an amazing buttery icing! WOW!!!!! I know the original recipe calls for homemade dulce de leche but I have recently decided to put a limit to what I make ”homemade” (because I am crazy and I make everything myself) so I decided to just buy the dulce de leche already made.

But EH! , it’s up to you! This cake is amazing, just do it and everyone will love you! Most favorited all-time. Homemade Tater Tots. I am a little in shock right now. I did something crazy. And it involved deep frying. My terrible weakness for over feeding people left me with a about a gallon of leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving. When I thought about the many, many possibilities for leftover mashed potatoes, I couldn’t help but think about little fried nuggets of creamy goodness, because who doesn’t think about deep frying soft starch? While I made a big plate of these to eat by themselves in the middle of the day, these would be delicious in the summer with burgers or served with a hot slice of meatloaf on a cozy night!

I personally made The lovely Ree Drumond’s Mashed Potatoes on Thanksgiving. You add some eggs and flour to bind the potatoes and then they are rolled in crispy breadcrumbs before being deep fried to a golden brown. Homemade Tater Tots, makes 4 dozen -3 cups mashed potatoes, chilled -2 eggs, beaten -½ cup flour -Kosher salt -3 cups panko bread crumbs -4 cups vegetable oil. No-Bake Chewy Cookies and Cream Bars. Oh how I love a treat that can be whipped up in about 15 minutes. My boys and their buddies couldn’t get enough of these Chewy Oreo Bars we had as an after school snack this week.

Sometimes my spontaneous recipe creations turn out to be the most fun, lol! Yes you use an entire package of Oreo Cookies, but what you get in return is a marshmallow-y Oreo treat that is worth every bite Surprise the kids (and yourself) with this one, they’ll be all smiles, Enjoy! 3 whole ingredients. Break out your Cookies! Place them all in the food processor or blender and mix until ground.

Like so. Melt the butter and marshmallows into a large bowl until puffed. You’ll get a little something like this Working quickly, pour in your ground cookies. Mix, mix and mix You’ll get a gooey mess….that’s delish! Transfer to an 8×8 inch baking pan and let set for about 10 minutes. Cut into squares and indulge No-Bake Chewy Cookies and Cream Bars One 16 oz package of Oreo 5 cups Large Marshmallows 4 tablespoons butter 1.

Basil Pesto Recipe : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog - basil pesto - basil pesto recipe - homemade pesto - pesto - pesto sauce - Pasta. July 27th, 2009 | Category: Pasta, Preserving It’s that time of year again. Time to turn the season’s juiciest and sweetest tomatoes into a homemade tomato sauce and preserving it for the winter months. It is also time to stock up your freezer with basil pesto sauce. I’ve managed to freeze ten cups so far. That is in addition to the batches I’ve gone through by tossing it with pasta, grilled vegetables, spreading it in sandwiches and even on a Margherita pizza I ordered yesterday. Pesto means “pounded” in Italian as traditionally it is prepared by grinding the ingredients in a marble mortar & pestle.

Preparing pesto is quite easy if you’re using a food processor like I do. Also, don’t skip on toasting the nuts, which brings out the flavor and provides a nice crunch. So, what else can you do with pesto? Well, someone does. Enjoy! Yields 5 cups of fresh basil pesto Ingredients Method. S Favorite Cocktail Recipes: 1941-2009: 1940s Recipes + Menus. Spaghetti and Meatball Pot Pie. Remember those meatballs I made for a “special idea” on Friday? Here is that idea, Spaghetti and Meatball Pot Pie. I took the concept and figured if pizza was a good pot pie, then spaghetti and meat balls would be too. This isn't as much a recipe as it is a process. I started by greasing the inside of ramekins (1 cup sized, 3 1/2” in diameter). Then I put in a mix of white and mild cheddar cheese. Next I add in two of the meatballs and sauce. Top that with some vermicelli that had been tossed in the sauce too. Another piece of cheese. For the crust, we made one order of our standard pizza dough and then cut out 3 1/2” circles.

I rolled those out a little bigger and then pressed them over the top of the ramekins. Since I wanted the crust to be reminiscent of garlic bread, I made a glaze of butter, roasted garlic, parsley and thyme. I fired up Alexis' Big Green Egg to 450f and set it up in “convection oven” mode with the plate setter legs down. About 15 minutes in, they started to brown. Healthy Baked Chicken Nuggets. Chunks of all white meat chicken breasts coated in breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese then baked until golden. An easy chicken recipe your whole family will love. What can be more kid friendly than chicken nuggets, even the pickiest kids like them. Serve them with ketchup, bbq sauce or whatever you like to dip your nuggets into. Adults can serve them over your favorite salad for a satisfying lunch. Kids love finger foods or anything you can eat with toothpicks so when my daughter was young I would make her a dish of bite sized goodies she liked such as tomatoes, olives, pasta, etc. and served them with toothpicks and she always cleaned her plate!

Once I'm in breading mode I usually make breaded zucchini sticks as well and bake them all at the same time along with some pasta and a salad for a complete meal. Double these for more or make half for less servings. Ingredients: Preheat oven to 425°. Put the olive oil in one bowl and the breadcrumbs, panko and parmesan cheese in another. Braided Spaghetti Bread » The official blog of America's favorite frozen dough.

We are carb lovers at our house, so when I saw the Braided Spaghetti Bread recipe in the Rhodes Home Baked Family Favorites with frozen dough cookbook I knew we would love it. This is a really simple recipe; it just takes a little planning for thawing the dough. It will take 2-3 hours for the bread loaf to thaw to room temperature or 1-2 hours for the rolls to thaw to room temperature. You will need: 1 Loaf Rhodes Bread Dough or 12 Rhodes Dinner Rolls, thawed to room temperature6 oz spaghetti, cooked 1 cup thick spaghetti sauce 8 oz mozzarella cheese, cut into 1/2 –inch cubes 1 egg white Parmesan cheese Parsley flakes Spray counter lightly with non-stick cooking spray (or use parchment paper). Roll loaf or combined dinner rolls into a 12x16-inch rectangle. Cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 10-15 minutes. Cook spaghetti according to package instructions. Remove wrap from dough. Make cuts 1 ½-inches apart on long sides of dough to within ½-inch of filling. This was fantastic!

Death By Oreo Cupcakes. They are probably the best Oreo cakes I have ever tried. A lot of cake's that I have experimented with before are like a vanilla cake with bits of Oreo in them, which didn't really give them enough Oreo flavor. But these were a lot better. I used a dark chocolate fudge cake mix instead of just a regular chocolate cake mix, which went really well with the cookies and gave the cakes just a little more flavor.

So, in this recipe there is Oreo's in the cake, in the frosting, and at the bottom is a Oreo surprise. That's right, you put a whole Oreo at the bottom of the cake. Ingredients 1 package Oreo Cookies, regular size 1 package Mini Oreo Cookies, for decoration (optional) 1 package chocolate cake mix (mix according to directions on box) 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), room temperature 3 3/4 cups powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract cupcake liners Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream together butter and cream cheese. Foodsnots.com. Popsicles! Not to sound full of myself, but I’m pretty sure this is the be all, end all of popsicle roundups. There’s a little something for everyone: the foodies, the purists, the ones who prefer frozen yogurt, the ones who prefer a little alcohol, everyone. Tweny-five options to be exact. The post I did last summer on the cold guys was one of DC’s most viewed ever, so I thought you’d all be up for another round – was I right? Click on the photo to be taken to the recipe.

All photos and recipes copyright of their respective source unless otherwise noted. 50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts from Around the World. – Written by Victoria Philpott Not quite had your fill of breakfasts just yet? Check out our beautifully visual list of the 30 best breakfasts from around the world. Plan your next culinary adventure or just get a little adventurous with breakfast at the weekend. Salivating. That’s the only way to describe me after looking at all this food porn.

If you’ve got a tasty recipe for a breakfast you’ve made in a hostel kitchen, let us know. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Phew, and that’s it! Follow me on Twitter @VickyFlipFlop and let me know what you think of them all… And if I’ve inspired you to travel the world to sample them, remember you can always book your cheap hotels with us at HostelBookers.com. Thanks to everyone for the images from Flickr. Related posts.