Crunchy Broccoli Slaw
Posted on September 22, 2008
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Cut brocolli stems into long thin strips with a fine julienne peeler. The sweet and crunchy stems are perfect in a fresh-tasting slaw with carrots, scallions and salty sunflower seeds.
In a food processor, process the mayonnaise, vinegar, oil and ginger until smooth.
Transfer to a large bowl and season with salt and pepper.
Add the broccoli, carrots, scallions and cilantro and toss.
Garnish with the sunflower seeds and serve.
Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies
Posted on September 12, 2008
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Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients:
* 1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
* 1 (3.4 ounce) package instant butterscotch pudding mix
* 2/3 cup rolled oats
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 1/2 cup sour cream
* 1/4 cup water
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
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Procedures
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets.
2. In a large bowl, stir together cake mix, instant pudding, and rolled oats. Add oil, sour cream, water, and vanilla; mix until smooth and well blended. Stir in chocolate chips. Roll dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, and place 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Barbecued Steak
Posted on August 31, 2008
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Barbecued Steak
Ingredients
- 4 (1/2 pound) beef top sirloin steaks
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 ounce steak spice seasoning mix
Procedures
- Put oil and steak spice on a large enough platter to accommodate the steaks.
- Coat the steak well with the oil and spices.
- Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat and lightly oil grate
- Grill steaks over high heat to desired doneness.
Beer Steak
Posted on August 31, 2008
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Beer Steak
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons sea salt
- 2 tablespoons lemon pepper
- 2 (12 fluid ounce) cans or bottles beer of choice
- steak
- oil
Procedures
- Place the steaks in a large, shallow container with a lid.
- Season each side of the steaks with the salt and lemon pepper.
- Gently pour the beer over the steaks (making sure the seasoning doesn’t wash off).
- Cover, and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours.
- Preheat grill for high heat.
- Lightly oil grill grate. Place steaks on grill, and discard beer marinade.
- Cook for 5 minutes per side, or to desired doneness.
Cheesecake Banana
Posted on August 31, 2008
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Cheesecake Banana
Crust Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cup Graham Cracker Crumbs
- 1/4 cup Sugar; Granulated
Cheesecake Ingredients:
- 1 lb Cream Cheese
- 1/4 cup Sugar; Granulated
- 2 tsp Lemon Juice
- 4 Eggs; large
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 1 cup Bananas; Mashed; *
- 6 tbsp Butter; Melted
- * Approximately 3 medium bananas should yield the 1 cup of mashed
Crust Procedures:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Place the crumbs in a mixing bowl and add the butter and sugar. Blend well.
- Press the crumb mixture onto the bottom and partly up the sides of a greased 9-inch springform pan.
- Smooth the crumb mixture along the bottom to an even thickness.
- Bake for about 10 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees F. Cool before filling.
Cheesecake Procedures:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl; beat the cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice together.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Stir in the sour cream and the mashed bananas and blend well until very smooth.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared crust and bake for 1 hour.
- Cool in the oven, with the door propped open, until the cake is at room temperature. Chill until serving time.
Arkansas Cheesecake
Posted on August 29, 2008
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Arkansas Cheesecake
Ingredients:
- 1 Egg, separated
- 1/2 cup Skim milk
- 1 pk Gelatin (envelope)
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Equal (no substitute)
- 1 1/2 cup Cottage cheese
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 6 tbsp Lite Coolwhip
Procedures:
- Take cottage cheese and cream in blender until very SMOOTH. Set aside.
- Put egg yolk in top of double boiler, beat well and add milk.
- Add gelatin & salt. Cook over boiling water until gelatin dissolves and mixture thickens. (about 10 minutes)
- Remove from heat, add sugar substitute. Cool.
- Add cottage cheese, lemon juice and vanilla to cooled mixture.
- Chill, stirring occasionally, until mixture mounds when dropped from spoon.
- Beat egg white until stiff. Fold egg white and cool whip together into mixture.
- Pour into graham crust. Or pour into pie plate and top with crumb topping.
- Crumb Topping: crush 2 graham crackers fine. Mix with pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Take cottage cheese and cream in blender until very SMOOTH. Set aside.
- Put egg yolk in top of double boiler, beat well and add milk.
- Add gelatin & salt. Cook over boiling water until gelatin dissolves and mixture thickens. (about 10 minutes)
- Remove from heat, add sugar substitute. Cool.
- Add cottage cheese, lemon juice and vanilla to cooled mixture.
- Chill, stirring occasionally, until mixture mounds when dropped from a spoon.
- Beat egg white until stiff. Fold egg white and cool whip together into mixture.
- Pour into graham crust. Or pour into pie plate and top with crumb topping.
- Crumb Topping: crush 2 graham crackers fine. Mix with pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg.
Berry Good Cheesecake
Posted on August 29, 2008
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Berry Good Cheesecake
Ingredients:
- 1 Envelope unflavoured gelatin
- 1/4 cup Orange juice
- 1/4 cup Milk
- 1 Egg, separated
- 2/3 cup 1% cottage cheese
- 2/3 cup Yogurt cheese
- 7 tbsp Equal, sugar substitute
- Grated rind of 1 orange
- 1 Corn Flake Pie Crust
- 1 cup Fresh strawberries, halved
Procedures:
- Smooth and so satisfying, no one will guess that this cheesecake is calorie and fat trim.
- In 2 cups glass measure, sprinkle gelatin over orange juice.
- Microwave at HIGH until gelatin dissolves.
- Stir in milk and egg yolk.
- Microwave at medium for 30-60 seconds, or until hot and slightly thickened.
- In food processor or blender, process cottage cheese until smooth; stir in yogurt cheese, 4 tbsp Equal, and orange rind.
- With food processor or blender running, add gelatin mixture and process just until blended.
- Refrigerate until consistency of egg whites.
- In separate bowl, beat egg white until soft peaks form.
- Add 2 tbsp Equal and beat until stiff peaks form. Fold into cheese tixture.
- Pour into corn flake pie crust and refrigerate several hours until set.
- Just before serving, toss strawberry halves with remaining 1 tbsp Equal. Arrange on cheesecake. Cut into 6 wedges. Makes 6 servings.
Black Forest Mini Cheesecakes
Posted on August 29, 2008
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Black Forest Mini Cheesecakes
Ingredients:
- 24 Vanilla wafer cookies
- 16 oz Cream cheese; softened
- 1 1/4 cup Sugar
- 1/3 cup Hershey’s Cocoa
- 2 tbsp All-purpose flour
- 3 Eggs
- 8 oz Dairy sour cream
- 1/2 tsp Almond extract
- Canned cherry pie filling chilled
Sour Cream Topping Ingredients:
- 8 oz Dairy sour cream
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Procedures:
- Heat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Line muffin cups (2-1/2 inches in diameter), with foil bake cups.
- Place one vanilla wafer (flat-side down) in bottom of each cup.
- In large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar, cocoa and flour; blend well.
- Add eggs; beat well. Stir in sour cream and almond extract.
- Fill each muffin cup almost full with batter.
- Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until set.
- Remove from oven; cool 5 to 10 minutes.
- Spread heaping teaspoonful sour cream topping on each cup.
- Cool completely in pan on wire rack; refrigerate.
- Just before serving, garnish with cherry pie filling.
- Cover; refrigerate leftover cheesecakes. 1-1/2 to 2 dozen cheesecakes.
- Sour Cream Topping Procedures:
- In small bowl, stir together 1 container (8 oz.) dairy sour cream, 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
- Stir until sugar is dissolved.
Candy Cane Cheesecake
Posted on August 29, 2008
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Candy Cane Cheesecake
Ingredients:
- 1 1/3 cup Chocolate Cookie Crumbs
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 1/4 cup Butter or margarine
- 1 1/2 cup Sour Cream
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 1 tbsp Flour
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 1/4 tsp Peppermint extract
- 3 8oz packages of Cream Cheese
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 2/3 cup Crushed peppermint candy
Procedures:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Combine first 3 ingredients and press into a 9-inch springform pan.
- Blend sour cream, sugar, eggs, flour and both extracts until smooth.
- Add cream cheese and 2 T butter.
- Stir in crushed candy.
- Pour into crust and bake on lowest rack of oven for 50-60 minutes or until firm.
- Allow to cool (top may crack) and refrigerate overnight.
- Remove from pan and serve.
- Top with sweetened whip cream and garnish with candy cane if desired.
Cheesecake
Posted on August 29, 2008
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Cheesecake
Crust Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cup Graham cracker crumbs
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 2/3 Cube margarine; melted
Filling Ingredients:
- 2 8 oz pkgs cream cheese; at room temperature
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 2 Eggs
Topping Ingredients:
- 1 cup Sour cream
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 2 tbsp Sugar
Procedures:
- Stir together Crust Ingredients and press into 9 inch pie pan.
- Bake at 350 for 5 minutes and set aside.
- Beat Filling Ingredients well and pour into crust.
- Bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes until not too jiggly in center.
- Mix Topping Ingredients together and pour over top of cheese cake.
- Bake at 350 for 5 minutes.
- Chill for 3 hours.
- Top with your choice of pie filling, for example, cherry, lemon, raspberry or strawberry. Serves 6-8.