Copycat Sonic Drive-In Fritos Chili Cheese Wraps

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Your kids are going to love this simple recipe.

1 can mild plain chili
3 cups Fritos original style corn chips
1 cup shredded mild Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup diced onions
4 large flour tortillas

Directions:

Warm the chili. Mix Fritos with chili; place chili mixture in the middle of one flour tortilla. Sprinkle shredded cheese and diced onions on top to taste.
Fold one side of the tortilla halfway on top of chili. Fold each side over each other. The bottom should be tucked in and filling will be seen from the top of wrapped shell. Microwave for 15 to 20 seconds.

Repeat with each tortilla shell. Serve immediately.

Serves 4

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Copycat Famous Daves Pecan Pie

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1 (9?) deep dish pie shell
1/3 cup melted butter
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1 cup whole pecans

Directions:

Pre-heat oven 350-degrees. Blend melted butter, sugar, dark corn syrup, eggs, vanilla and kosher salt. Once combined, add chopped pecans and whole pecans.
Pour this mixture into frozen pie shell. Put on cooking sheet. Cook for about 25 minutes, rotate and bake another 20-25 minutes. Let the pie cool down before serving..

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Apple-Cranberry Strudel Pie

I have two modes of recipe development: carefree, fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants and methodically planned.  When I’m working with everyday ingredients that I know are hard to mess up, I’m likely to get into the kitchen with only a vague idea of what I expect the final outcome to be and add seasonings and ingredients on instinct; most of my soups and stews are created this way.  When I’m baking or working with an ingredient that is new to me or that can be temperamental, like phyllo, I tend to be more cautious.  I research the ingredients, look at other recipes to get approximate cooking times, plan out what I want to do, and jot down a working recipe.  When I take the recipe to the kitchen, amounts may change and ingredients may be added to taste, but I usually follow the general outline of my working recipe–unless something unexpected happens.  In the case of this recipe, the unexpected happened and changed my strudel into a “strudel pie.”

My plan was to roll up an apple-cranberry filling in phyllo dough, but after I’d gotten all my ingredients laid out, ready to roll, I unwrapped my newly-thawed phyllo dough and found that I had bought small sheets of phyllo rather than large ones.  As I laid them out and covered them over with a damp tea towel to keep them from drying out, I realized that I’d never be able to roll all of the apples I’d prepared in such small sheets of pastry.  I could make a bunch of sushi-sized rolls, but what a lot of work for sushi-sized strudel! So I made a snap decision to bake my strudel as a sort of pie, grabbed the nearest baking dish (which turned out to be a little too small), and began layering instead of wrapping.

If you’re not used to working with phyllo dough, there are a few things you should know:

Most phyllo is sold frozen, and it must be thawed before using. It’s easiest to do this in the refrigerator overnight. The brand I use, Athens, comes divided into two packages inside the box, so I put one of them into the fridge the night before and left the other in the freezer for later use.  If you don’t get around to using the defrosted phyllo, it will keep, sealed, in the fridge for 30 days.As soon as you open and start to unroll the phyllo, it will begin to dry out. Lay it out flat and immediately cover it with a lightly moistened–but not too damp–towel. If the towel is too damp it will make the dough soggy, so be careful.Recipes will tell you that you must coat each sheet of phyllo with melted butter or margarine. Don’t believe them! Those people just like the taste of butter or margarine.  Some recipes call for an entire stick of butter to be brushed on the dough, making what could have been a low-fat dish into a heart attack on a plate.  I like to sprinkle something between the layers to keep them separate and flaky, but I don’t use oil or margarine except for on the top layer, to prevent it from drying out during baking.  (The calories and fat from a two-second spray of canola oil are included in the nutritional stats of this recipe.)Phyllo is also spelled “Fillo” so don’t be confused by my old-fashioned spelling!

Even if you’re new to phyllo, I hope you’ll give this delicious pie a try.  I used sweet apples (rather than the tart cooking apples so many recipes call for) to add natural sweetness, and the cranberries provide small bursts of tartness.  Because working with phyllo can be intimidating, I’m including photos of the process as well as a diagram of the layers that you can follow, from the bottom-up.

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Have all of your ingredients mixed and ready before you remove the phyllo dough from the package. Keep it covered with a barely damp tea towel while you work, and wrap up the leftover dough and refrigerate it immediately when you’ve finished.

12 9×14-inch sheets phyllo dough, thawed if frozen
2 tablespoons walnuts or pecans
2 tablespoons oatmeal
1 1/2 pounds Honeycrisp apples (or other crisp apples), peeled, cored, and diced (about 4 cups or 3-4 apples)
1/2 cup coarse sugar, such as demerara or raw sugar
2 teaspoons unbleached white flour or cornstarch
2 teaspoons molasses
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 cup cranberries
2-second spray canola oil or non-stick spray
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons sugar

Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a rectangular baking dish with oil or non-stick spray.

Place the nuts and oatmeal in a food processor and process until coarsely ground. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.

Coarsely-ground nuts and oatmeal

In a large bowl, toss together the apples, raw sugar, flour, molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cranberries. Mix the 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon and 2 teaspoons sugar in a small bowl.

Working with two phyllo sheets at a time and keeping the others covered to prevent them from drying out, place two sheets into the dish. (If sheets are too big for the dish, coax the edges into standing upright along the sides of the pan, but don’t stress about it.)

Layering phyllo sheets and nut mixture

Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of the nuts/oatmeal. Repeat this twice, for a total of 6 sheets. Arrange the apple mixture on top of the 6th sheet.

Apple-cranberry filling added

Cover it with 2 sheets of phyllo, tuck the excess edges under, and sprinkle with a tablespoon of nuts/oatmeal. Repeat 2 more times for a total of 6 sheets on top of the apples. Spray the top sheet lightly with canola oil and lightly cut through the top layers of phyllo to form 8 equal pieces.

Cutting through the top layers of phyllo

Sprinkle with the cinnamon/sugar mixture.

Diagram of strudel layers

Bake until the phyllo is golden and the apples are just tender (but not mushy) when pierced with the tip of a knife, 40 to 50 minutes. Allow baking dish to cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Serve warm. Reheat leftovers in toaster oven or regular oven, not microwave, to maintain flakiness.

Servings: 8

Nutrition (per serving): 188 calories, 19 calories from fat, 2.1g total fat, 0mg cholesterol, 71.2mg sodium, 171.6mg potassium, 31g carbohydrates, 1.9g fiber, 25.3g sugar, <1g protein, 3.5 points.

Copyright: Susan Voisin 2010. All rights reserved. Please do not repost recipes or photos to other websites. Feel free to link!

Q: What size pan did you use?

A: I used a 6 1/2 by 9 1/2-inch pan, which turned out to be a little small.  I recommend something slightly larger, up to a 9×13-inch pan (which may be a little too big).

Q: Can this be made gluten-free?

A: I felt guilty creating this recipe because I didn’t want to make my gluten-free readers feel deprived. Phyllo depends on gluten to enable it to stretch into such thin layers, so there’s no such thing as gluten-free phyllo dough.  However, the apple filling would be delicious baked in your favorite gluten-free pie crust.

Q: Can I use agave nectar or maple syrup instead of the sugar?

A: Not unless you want a very soggy pie!  I used sugar because you need to keep the moisture down with working with phyllo.  Too much liquid will make it soggy instead of flaky.

Q: Can I use brown sugar or regular sugar instead of the raw sugar and molasses?

A: Yes. But–many vegans do not use brown sugars or granulated sugars because most are filtered using animal products (that don’t actually remain in the sugar). It’s your call.  I added a little molasses to give my pie more of that brown sugar flavor, so leave it out if you use brown sugar.

Q: Can I make this sugar-free?

A: You can experiment with using stevia or other sugar-free sweeteners, but I haven’t tested a sugar-free version.

Q: Can I use dried cranberries instead of fresh?

A: Yes. Since dried cranberries almost always contain added sugar, you may be able to decrease the sugar a little.

Q: Can I use Red Delicious or another type of apple?

A: If you want.  I prefer the texture and sweetness of crisp apples like Honeycrisp, Sweet Tango, Pink Lady, and Ambrosia, but use your own judgment.

Q: What should I do with the leftover phyllo?

A: How about make a Spinach-Artichoke Pie?!

Q: I have all of the ingredients except for phyllo, apples, cranberries, and sugar.  Can I substitute phyllo with flour tortillas, apples with pears, cranberries with canned pineapple, and sugar with stevia?

A: You’re on your own!

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Top 5 Healthy Simple Chicken Recipes That You've Never Heard of Before

Chicken recipes are easy and perfect for any occasion. Sometimes though, chicken can be bland. Mix up your simple chicken recipes with these easy chicken recipes that you've never heard of before. Chicken dishes don't have to be blah.

The phrase "tastes like chicken" will take on a whole new meaning with these simple chicken recipes. Instead of making the same old chicken recipes, mix it up with these unusual, funky recipes. Chances are, you've never had the flavor combinations in these recipes. From sweet and spicy to tangy and crunchy, these easy chicken recipes up the flavor ante. Chicken does not have to be bland and boring. Best of all, these five recipes are good for you too. These simple recipes are the best ways to cook boneless skinless chicken breast.

Best Ways To Cook Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast:

Guatemalan Chicken Mole - Everybody loves chocolate, but how many of those chocoholics eat it with chicken? Mole is a traditional savory sauce made out of chocolate. Dark chocolate is a great source of cancer-fighting antioxidants. Between the chicken and the pumpkin seeds, this recipe for boneless chicken has plenty of protein. With red pepper flakes and two different types of chilies, this chicken dish packs a spicy punch. Try something new for dinner tonight and combine chicken with chocolate with this recipe.

Lemon Yogurt Chicken - This recipe for boneless chicken is originally from Afghanistan, a country not typically known for its cuisine. The bright lemon citrus flavor and the creamy yogurt make this chicken dish a lot lighter than traditional American chicken recipes. Plus, the recipe requires whole garlic cloves mashed to a pulp, an instruction not found in the typical chicken recipe. This Middle Eastern recipe is one of the best ways to cook boneless skinless chicken breast.

Healthy Chicken Jerky - Walk into any grocery store or gas station and you're bound to see a bag of beef jerky somewhere. The concept of jerky, smoked meat, is common with beef but not with chicken. expand your jerky horizons with this recipe for boneless chicken. Make chicken a snacking favorite with this recipe. Lean and tasty, healthy chicken jerky is a snack all can get behind.

Avocado Chicken - The avocado is relatively common, seen in almost any supermarket. However, the only dish the avocado ever gets used for is guacamole. The avocado never gets used in cooking, which makes this recipe one of the more unique simple chicken recipes. Easy chicken recipes that combine a multitude of textures are great. Combine crunchy almonds with smooth avocado to get a recipe for boneless chicken full of protein and omega-3 fatty acids.

Crispy Baked Chicken - This recipe for boneless chicken is so unique because it replicates the flavor of fried chicken using an oven, a healthier version of fried chicken. Classic chicken recipes like fried chicken are delicious but full of calories. This unique chicken dish replicates the fried flavor in the oven for a healthier version.

For more great recipe ideas, go to http://www.favediets.com/Editors-Picks
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Brussels Sprouts with Fish Sauce recipe – 143 calories

I’ve never been a big fan of Brussels sprouts, mostly because of their sulfurous odor when cooked. I recently found how to fix this problem: the sprouts should never be steamed of boiled for more than 7 minutes.

Brussels Sprouts with Fish Sauce recipe – 143 calories

Ingredients:
1 lbs Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved lengthwise
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons fish sauce
salt, to taste

Preparation:
1. Bring a heavily salted pot of water to a boil.
2. Parboil the Brussels sprouts until just tender (for about 3-5 minutes).
3. Drain, flush with cold water, and drain well. Set aside.
4. Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium heat.
5. Add the Brussels sprouts, putting them facing down. Increase the heat to medium-high or high.
6. Let the sprouts cook for about 2 minutes, until they are light golden on their cut side. Turn them and continue cooking for a little longer to heat them through.
7. Add 3 tablespoons of fish sauce, turning the sprouts so they absorb the seasoning.
8. Transfer to a serving bowl and enjoy immediately.

Servings: 4

Nutritional information for one serving:
Calories: 143
Total fat: 10.5 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: 1,070 mg
Total carbs: 10.6 g
Fiber: 4.3 g
Protein: 4.5 g
Weight Watchers points: 3

Photo credit: Andrea_Nguyen

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Simple Recipes Made Easier

Tired of reading recipes that count for things that you have never heard of? There are many times which people are cooking and there is an ingredient that has to be cut a certain way or the beans need to be pressed not smashed. We all have run into a few or more recipes that were like this. With simple recipes that are made easier there is no need to worry about the recipes to be too complicated for you. Here are some sites that will help you on your journey of making simple recipes easier.

1. familyoven[dot]com - is a site that offers recipes in the simplest form. With hamburgers to chicken, family oven offers step by step instructions to make your favorite of quick and easy meals to serve to your family and friends. With family oven, you get an easy to maneuver website that doesn't need all the extra bells and whistles to attract people. You get the home cooking without the hassle of all the work.

2. recipezaar[dot]com/recipes/simple - is another site that offers you simple recipes that can be made by anyone with the willingness to cook. With about 200,000 recipes to choose from, this website offers to the cook something they have not heard of before, variety of recipes. There are many recipes that help bring extra flare into the kitchen. With this site you can get the recipe that you need in such a short time frame.

3. allrecipes[dot]com - is a site that has a variety of sites that will help you become a better cook and have more fresh ideas. With simple recipes easily found on the website, it makes for a good find if you are in a hurry to find a recipe. The recipes that are found on here are among those that have been tested to be the best.

Recipes are everywhere if you are only willing to look. Simple recipes are easy to locate if you know which way to be pointed in. With online recipes making their mark in the internet world, they are slowly moving the cooking world into the technical virtual world. There is no harm in moving recipes into the internet. This only allows for the recipes to be viewed in a more logical way. The different people who own a computer in their home don't want to get up and locate a book when they can take seconds and find a recipe that works the best for them.

When you are in the mood to cook a simple meal you need a simple recipe that will only take a good 10-15 minutes to make. Don't get discouraged and think that you are limited to noodles and grilled cheese sandwiches; there are many recipes, if found in the right place, can add to your home and give you a thumbs up on your cooking abilities. There are a lot of websites that offer easy websites that will help. Knowing the different options that are available is the first step in any plan.

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My Top Ten Kitchen Gift Ideas

When time allows, a basket filled with homemade baked goods makes a great gift.

Lately I can’t check my email or login to Facebook without being bombarded with titles like “Gifts That Make Ladies Go Gaga” or “Give Like Santa, Save Like Scrooge” (two actual emails now in my trash folder).  So when I had the passing idea of writing about my favorite kitchen tools, I nearly vetoed it, figuring that I didn’t want to contribute to the mind-clutter that’s already out there.  But just to check, I asked my Facebook followers what they thought, and the response was overwhelmingly positive: out of about 80 responses, there was only one “not interested at all.”  So with apologies to that one reader, here are a few of the appliances, gadgets, and kitchen paraphernalia that I wouldn’t want to do without.

First let me say that this is not a “sexy” list.  There’s nothing frou-frou here, nothing that screams “Luxury Christmas Gift,” so if you’re buying a gift for someone who would be offended by being given a vacuum cleaner, you might want to consult that “Gaga” list I mentioned above.  These are items I have owned for a while and use regularly, some of them every day, so I know they’re dependable and sturdy.  Also, you’ll notice that for almost all of them I refer you to Amazon because that’s where I do most of my shopping.  (I know, I’m evil for not buying local!)  But just to be completely up-front, I have an affiliate relationship with Amazon, so if you buy one of these items through my Amazon link, I get a commission; if you have a problem with that, please feel free to skip the link, go to Amazon on your own, and do a search for the product.  That way, no one gets a commission and Amazon gets to keep all of your money.  I don’t have any affiliation with the manufactures themselves or with the non-Amazon sites mentioned below.

What it is: Microplane Fine Grater

How I use it: There are several different sizes and styles of these graters, from fine to coarse, but I find that this one does everything I need it to from zesting lemons to grating nutmeg, which is what I use it for most, as seen here.  Ground nutmeg is a pale comparison to freshly ground, and you will be amazed at the difference it makes in your baked goods.

What it costs: Currently $13.95 at Amazon.

What it is: Oxo Stainless Steel Strainer, Double Rod

How I use it: Often people ask me what I use to wash quinoa.  This is it.  The tight mesh keeps all of the tiny quinoa seeds inside while the water drains away.  I like and use quinoa so often that this strainer is worth its cost just for that, but I also use it when making Greek-style soy cheese or draining pureed pumpkin.

What it costs: $19.34 from Amazon, but other brands are available for less.

What it is: Large Plato Platter, 16.25? W x 11.75? D

How I use it: Martha Stewart taught me (in one of her books) that everyone needs a white platter. She was thinking of people who give parties, but I was interested mostly from a photography perspective. Either way, it’s all about presentation, and this perfectly flat, slightly elevated platter shows off everything from appetizers to cupcakes in great style (see it used to hold these peach muffins).  And did you see the price? This won’t fit into a stocking, but it’s definitely a stocking stuffer price.

What it costs: $9.95 from CB2. Seriously, it’s a bargain (and I don’t get any payment for telling you that!)

What it is: Escali Primo Digital Multifunctional Scale

How I use it: If you’re a dieter, a baker, or a recipe writer, you need a good kitchen scale.  Since I am often all three, I make good use of this scale, especially for the recipe-writing. Cooking by weight is so much more accurate that using volume measurements (like cups) or subjective measurements like “2 small apples.”  My idea of small may not be yours, so I like to measure those apples so that I can tell you exactly how much to use.  Baked goods in particular require precise measurements, so if you’re following many recipes, you need a good kitchen scale.  This one changes from grams to ounces in the push of a button and allows me to place a dish on top of it and have it reset to zero (“tare”) so that I am weighing just the ingredient, not the dish.  There are a lot of brands out there, but I have chosen this one twice: I rebought it after I melted the first one by accidentally turning on a stove burner under it. I liked it so much that I didn’t want to take a chance on another brand.

What it costs: starts at $24.65 for stainless steel and available in different colors for slightly more.

What it is: Unicorn Brand Keytop Peppermill – 6-Inch

How I use it: I’ve gone through a lot of peppermills.  I’ve bought wooden ones, steel ones, plexiglass and plastic ones, and no matter how sturdy they appear, they’ve disappointed me every time.  Either they’re hard to turn or the coarseness of the grind is hard (or impossible) to adjust, or they just plain fall apart.  Then I saw a comparison of peppermills on the Cooks Illustrated website and started coveting a Unicorn peppermill.  The mill CI reviewed was the Magnum, a larger sized peppermill than this, but I liked the keytop design, so following some Amazon reviews, I bought this one instead and haven’t regretted it at all.  My family and I use it every day, and it cranks out ground pepper quickly and easily.

What it costs: $35.95 currently at Amazon

What it is: Spices from The Spice House

How I use it: I’ve come to rely on The Spice House to provide me with lots of the spices that I love that aren’t available locally: herbs like Mexican oregano, spices like smoked paprika, and blends like Maharajah curry.  Even when I know I can find a spice locally, I’m more likely to buy it from The Spice House because I know it will be fresher.  Make yourself out a list of the spices you covet most, and ask Santa to have The Spice House make you a custom gift box.

What it costs: It depends upon the spices, but most pre-packaged boxes cost around $24 for 4 spices.

What it is: Breville SK500XL Ikon Cordless 1.7 Liter Stainless Steel Electric Kettle

How I use it: My family and I use this electric kettle several times a day.  It’s perfect for the tea lover on your holiday list, but beyond that, it makes heating water for anything quicker.  I use it to start a pot of boiling water for pasta because it heats much more quickly than my stove does.  It shuts off automatically when the water boils, so there’s no danger of boiling dry.  The kettle lifts off the base (which plugs into the wall), meaning there are no cords to worry about as you pour.

What it costs: currently $68.85 at Amazon

What it is: Berndes SignoCast Classic 13-Inch Skillet

How I use it: I recommend the entire line of Berndes SignoCast non-stick cookware.  I’ve been slowly replacing my warped and scratched Calphlon with Berndes ever since I used it at the McDougall Celebrity Chef weekend.  I currently have this skillet, a 8-inch skillet, and a 13-Inch, 6-Quart Saute Pan, which is the pot I use most often.  It’s completely non-stick, guaranteed not to warp (which was the biggest problem I had with my other cookware), and doesn’t scratch or chip off.  They’re heavy pans, so if you’re buying for an older person, I recommend sticking to the smaller ones. My one problem with the 6-quart saute pan is that it has a second handle which is not insulated and gets very hot.  I learned to keep a potholder nearby after being burned a couple of times.

What it costs: The 13-inch skillet is currently $99.99 and the saute pan is $169.99, but prices seem to change often.

What it is: Fagor 670040230 Stainless-Steel 3-in-1 6-Quart Multi-Cooker

How I use it: I never thought anything would replace my Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker, but this is my new favorite pressure cooker and appliance.  It’s billed as a 3-in-1 pressure cooker, slow cooker, and rice cooker, but I use it strictly for its pressure cooker function.  (I never think ahead far enough to use the slow cooker, and it doesn’t have a pre-set setting for cooking brown rice.) Unlike a regular pressure cooker, this electric Fagor is completely silent; you won’t even know it’s turned on.  More importantly, you don’t have to watch over it and worry because its thermostat keeps it at pressure and an automatic shut-off turns it off at the time you specify.  So that means you can leave the kitchen while your meal is cooking without worry. I use it for beans, soups, and stews–anywhere I once used my regular pressure cooker.

What it costs: Buy it fast and it’s $99.95 at Amazon.  (I paid $20 more.)

What it is: Breville BOV800XL The Smart Oven 1800-Watt Convection Toaster Oven with Element IQ

How I use it: I hesitated to include this toaster oven because of its price, but the truth is that it’s my most-used small appliance.  I live in a kitchen that’s in dire need of updating.  The double ovens were installed in the mid-70's, and neither one works right; one is missing its top element, the other is missing its bottom element, and neither keeps the correct temperature.  So I bought this large toaster oven to do all my baking in.  It will hold a 9×13-inch pan (if you use one like this without handles) and comes with a 13-inch pizza pan. I do almost all my baking in this oven, everything from the recent Apple-Cranberry Strudel Pie to Celebration Pot Pie with Pumpkin Biscuit Crust. It controls temperature accurately and even has a convection fan for even browning.  I love it.

What it costs: currently $240.00 at Amazon. I haven’t found it for any lower than that from a dealer I trust.

So there you have my list of most-used items.  I hope it’ll help you find a gift for the cook in your life–or, better yet, for yourself. Tagged as: life

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Veg, Vegan, Or Non-veg - Try New Recipes From Different Countries

Fast food like pizzas, burgers, and soft drinks may satisfy the stomach, but these are not healthy if consumed on a regular and daily basis, instead of wholesome home cooked food. Eating home cooked food is not only healthy, but cooking at home can also be fun as well, and anyone can prepare a variety of dishes with the hundreds of Recipes available for free on thousands of websites. There is no need to buy expensive cookbooks and recipe books. The multi-cuisine, multi cultural, multi-country, multi-ethnic, Veg recipes and meat-based recipes are easy and fun to cook and many people readily try them out. Many of these vegetarian recipes, especially from India and countries in the East, are easy to cook, but there are also hundreds of recipes available for meat and egg dishes, soups, appetizers, main course dishes, desserts, and chocolates.

In fact there are Home Cooking Recipes available for special days and holidays too, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and for Diwali in India. With these Easy Recipes, you can prepare desserts, snacks, main dishes, drinks, soups, and chocolates, and surprise your family and friends with your cooking skills. Even if you are not an expert cook, you can still prepare mouth-watering dishes by following the step-by-step guidance provided in the recipes. These Free Recipes also provide a full list of ingredients along with spices and herbs that you will require to cook up a delicious meal.

Although meat and eggs are a mainstay of western cooking, vegetarianism and veganism is quickly catching on and many people have now totally turned to veg and vegan dishes. Although western home cooking does not have many recipes for cooking with vegetables or cooking exclusive veg dishes, the east has hundreds of veg recipes and vegan recipes for cooking delectable veg and vegan dishes at home. A vegetarian or vegan in western countries like the USA, UK, and even Europe can find Free and Easy Recipes for many veg and vegan dishes on hundreds of websites. You can prepare a variety of vegetable soups, appetizers, salads, main course dishes, desserts, chocolates, cakes and pastries, and enjoy a healthier life.

Many people are turning to vegetarianism and veganism by choice, but millions of others swear by meat and eggs, and prefer vegetables and veg dishes as a side item, instead of the main course. For people who prefer meat and egg dishes, there are hundreds of Free Recipes available for different meat cooked in different styles and with a hundred different herbs. Some of the eastern recipes for meat dishes are more difficult to cook and time consuming as the meat has to be marinated for hours with herbs and spices, before being cooked. But many others are Easy Recipes and can be cooked quickly. Whether you prefer vegetarian, vegan, or meat and eggs in your meals, home cooking recipes are easy to find and cook.

Please do visit our site for hundreds of Free Recipes and Vegetarian Recipes - Veg Recipes, Vegan Recipes, appetizers, salads, soups, main course dishes, chili recipes, desserts, Cookie Recipes, Chocolate recipes and an extensive cooking guide.

Web Sources for Tasty Walleye Recipes

Now that you have your walleye, do you know how to prepare it? It would be such a waste if you can't find a walleye recipe that can showcase the texture and taste of this fish. A great catch deserves a great recipe. Here are some sources to help you decide on the best way to cook your walleye:

WalleyeCentral.com

What better way to prepare a walleye than to use the recipes that fellow anglers recommend? This site provides recipes posted by walleye fans. Some yummy walleye recipes to try: the simple but rich baked walleye fillets in cheese sauce and the easy but crunchy parmesan cheese and breadcrumb-coated fish.

Try the easy to prepare marinades and sauces included on the site. If you have a walleye recipe of your own or know one that other anglers will love, you can post them on there.

FishUSA.com

This site contains recipes of fish and nothing but. The walleye recipes are provided on the links and aren't arranged by type of fish, so if you want to find a recipe, you'll have to read through the list. If you're feeling a bit adventurous, though, this site has some excellent walleye recipes for you to try. If you prefer, you can also try recipes for other fish and see how it fits by substituting your fresh walleye.

GameAndFishRecipes.com

Recipes on this site are categorized by fish, so other than walleye, you'll find salmon, trout, halibut and catfish, among others. Simply click on the appropriate link to find delicious walleye recipes.

You'll also find tips, tricks and advice on the proper way to prepare and cook walleye, so you have no excuse not to prepare a good dish.

WalleyeCapital.com

Other than recipes, you'll also find a practical list of walleye preparation and cooking tips on this site. Recipes are as simple as the Battered Fish & Chips or healthy like the Walleye with Vegetables recipe. You can also try the down-south comfort food recipe of Cajun Fried Walleye. There are only a few recipes on this site but they're worth trying.

FreshWaterFish.com

This is a no-frills recipe site but the recipe ideas are excellent. You'll also find a good tip on using fish substitutes for walleye, including dore and pickerel. Try the heady Walleye with Beer Batter or the convenient party-ready Walleye Fillet Cups.

In-Fisherman.com

For great-tasting walleye recipes, try the ones on this site. Click on the walleye-insider/recipes link and find recipes such as baked walleye with sage and hazelnuts and the crunchy and flavorful almond-crusted walleye. Try the flavor of the East with the crispy walleye recipe with the Asian style dipping sauce.

Regine Hehn owns and operates http://www.walleye-fishing-guide.com - Walleye Fishing Guide.

Transform Your Cooking Skills by Serving Famous Restaurant Recipes Every Day

To begin, stop wasting your valuable time and losing your patience on surfing the net for ideas on what to cook. This gets you nowhere fast, except frustrated.

It is important to keep it simple and once you have access to one collection, which consists of hundreds of tried and tested, easy to follow popular recipes, stick with that and begin working your way forward, one recipe at a time. This will save you a lot of money and no more wasted time.

Popular recipes that are everyone's favorites are a safe bet and are guaranteed to please. This will make your effort at cooking them pleasurable too, instead of being a chore, because you will know in advance what you're making is already popular and therefore, is going to be well received and a success.

A collection of popular recipes that offer pictures, plus tips and tricks, is usually the best source, because pictures and tips and tricks means these recipes have already been tried and tested.

Making a popular, favorite recipe at home is also cheap. More often than not, people would rather stay at home instead of spending money on rising fuel costs to go out to dine at a restaurant. By preparing new, popular and taste-tempting recipes at home, not only will you save money, but you can also begin your transformation from how you currently cook into becoming a home chef, when using a reliable collection of famous restaurant recipes to assist you.

Experience counts a lot when it comes to cooking, so relying on recipes that have already become popular in famous restaurants after being tried and tested over and over again on the public means you won't fail when you make them.

Don't forget to try out something different now and then to expand your culinary skills. If the recipes are from a collection of famous restaurants, even though you may not particularly like the taste of something, it may still be worth trying out a recipe with this food or ingredient anyway, because if the recipe is already well-liked by the majority, there will be a reason for it's popularity that you may also uncover. So try it!

A great step in transforming yourself into a good cook where you become appreciated and respected by friends and family members for the scrumptious meals you prepare, is to print the recipes and write notes on them for how you think you might improve upon the recipe the next time you make it. Write down your own personal experiences and try to improve upon the recipe with your own ideas and taste preferences. There is always the chance of improving a recipe as nothing is ever perfect and it is good to constantly expand your recipe base and cooking skills. As they say: "practice makes perfect".

Another tip that so many home cooks forget to do, is if you don't have a family to cook for, don't confuse yourself with trying to divide portions down to just one serve. Still cook the recipe for the number of people the recipe is for, then when the meal is ready, simply divide it into the number of portions stated, enjoy one for yourself and then freeze the other portions for future meals. That makes delicious meals to look forward to in the near future, rather than wasting your money on fast food or restaurant meals for one.

We recommend you personally try to become a chef in your own comfortable home. Cooking in the comfort and relaxation of your own kitchen is far more satisfying and esteem building than dining in a fast food or take-away outlet, and is a lot more rewarding both in terms of saved money, as well as in the sense of self-achievement than dining in a restaurant. Also, at home you can invite all your friends and dine with those you care about and love, who will reciprocate in appreciation of the effort you have put in to serving up tantalizing and sensational famous restaurant recipes.

Why waste money on fast food outlets or restaurant meals, when you can prepare restaurant quality recipes in the comfort of your own home. This Dining Guide brings you hundreds and hundreds of deliciously famous restaurant recipes from 38 famous restaurants that you can enjoy with your friends and loved ones.

Don't miss your chance to grab this extensive collection of famous restaurant recipes, all in the one dining guide. Start your new life today as a respected and appreciated cook, by following these easy to use, step-by-step recipes and you will be assured of success in your own right as an amazing cook. The compliments you'll receive from family and friends will be testament to this fact.

Famous Restaurant Recipes can guarantee you success, when all else has failed before. Bon app?tit!

The Most Popular Restaurant Copycat Recipes

Restaurant copycat recipes are gaining popularity all the time. As more and more people opt to cook meals at home instead of spending their dollars on restaurant food, there is a lot more demand for great recipes. Free restaurant copycat recipes are especially sought after because they mean you can cook your absolute favorite dishes at home, for a fraction of the price you would pay for them in the restaurant.

Some of the most popular copycat recipes are chicken recipes, especially fried chicken recipes. Perhaps you love Kentucky Fried Chicken recipes and you want to know how to give your chicken the same enticing aroma, crispy texture and delicious flavor

Copycat Recipes Versus New Recipes

There is a time and a place for using clone recipes or copycat recipes. Maybe you want to impress or surprise your family with a copycat dish or perhaps you have a craving for one of your favorite restaurant dinners and you just have to have but preferably without paying the restaurant price tag.

At other times it is nice to make different recipes because it is enjoyable to experience new meals and flavors, rather than eating something that you are familiar with.

Easy Copycats

Beverage recipes like Starbucks copycats are also popular and people love to make their favorite takeout food and fast food dishes at home and then marvel at how similar the taste is.

A lot of copycat recipes are much easier to make than you might think. The busy chefs and cooks in your favorite restaurants do not want to spend hours making complicated dishes and neither should you.

Easy restaurant copycat recipes mean you can make the best quality food for your family much more cheaply than what you would normally have to pay for the same dishes and you have complete control over the ingredients and side dishes.

Recipe for Cavatini in the Style of Pizza Hut

The following easy copycat is for Pizza Hut Cavatini and this combination of pasta, steak, tomatoes, grape jelly and more tastes just like the original Cavatini recipe. This is just one example of how easy it is to make restaurant copycat recipes.

What you will need:

1/2 cup grape jelly
2 lbs ground round
4 cups pasta
28 oz sliced, stewed tomatoes
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
16 oz jar spaghetti sauce, meat flavor
6 oz V8 juice
1 1/2 packages onion soup mix
Provolone and mozzarella slices

How to make it:

Fry the ground round in the vegetable oil until it is totally brown, crumbling it using a fork. Turn the heat down to low then add the grape jelly, stewed tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, V8 juice and onion soup mix, stirring to mix everything together well.

Let the sauce cook for twenty minutes without boiling. Cook the pasta to al dente. Fill six au gratin dishes with alternating layers of sauce, pasta and cheese.

Restaurant copycat recipes mean you can make your favorite dishes in the comfort of your own home and without spending a fortune. The best copycat recipes mean that you and your family can enjoy your favorite dishes without having to go to restaurants every time you get a craving for your favorite fried chicken recipe.

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What Are the Authentic Indian Recipes and Where to Find Them?

The internet has transformed India, just like rest of the world. There was once a time when it was hard to find Indian recipes in other countries. Now a days it has become easier to find Indian recipes online and prepare them anywhere in the world. However, the question that bothers many is how do they find out that the recipe they are looking at is an authentic Indian recipe? What confuses them is that each website is telling the same recipe with different ingredients. Which one of them is authentic?

Before deciding the authenticity of Indian recipes on the web, perhaps we should first talk about authenticity itself. In terms of cooking, what recipes are called authentic?

To some experts an authentic recipe is the one that is presented just like the natives prepared it. To them it is very important to follow each and every ingredient the same way as it is used at the place of origin of that particular recipe. So basically it is about how some dish or food is prepared at its place of origin. The authentic recipe strictly follows the ingredients and method almost religiously.

Now if this is how we judge the authenticity of a recipe, then it would become almost impossible to find any authentic Indian recipes. India is world's second most populous country after China. It has a population of 1.13 Billion people. These people belong to different cultures, religions, traditions and speak different languages. Each Indian culture borrows heavily from other Indian cultures and ethnicities they are living with. They share a common country, many common customs, traditions, and they also share their recipes with each other. Each cultural group adds their own flavors to what was supposed to be the original authentic recipe.

Some traditional Indian recipes are around for centuries, and these recipes were shared between different regions of India. People of each region and cultural background added their own flavors to that recipe, evolving it into something more exotic. Eventually, it becomes impossible to trace back a recipe to the source of its origin and follow the traditional recipe. Even if you succeed to find out the original source of the recipe, most likely you will find it a lot different than how it is currently done in India.

I believe that a perfect authentic recipe is the one that is somewhat closer to the original but has added flavors. In fact many flavors that were added to these dishes by people of different cultures and ethnicities add much more value to the authentic recipe. Today's Indian recipes show the cultural diversity of India. There are many ways to prepare each authentic Indian recipe. The most common of all recipes in India are prepared differently in each region and each regional flavor is unique and I don't think there is any harm in accepting the authenticity of these regional flavors.

Anne is the author of several books on traditional Indian Recipes in Hindi Language. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

How an Online Recipe Book Saved My Kitchen

For awhile now, my wife has been asking me to learn how to cook. I've been hesitant to do so because my wife is a wonderful cook and I know as much about cooking as Christopher Lowell does about the NFL. So in my mind I'd never had the need or desire to become the next Bobby Flay.

But after some loving nagginng, errr encouragement from my wife, and almost burning down my kitchen trying to boil a pot of water, I decided it was time to learn how to do this cooking thing.

But if I was going to do this, I wanted to find MY kind of recipe book online. The online recipe book I was after had to meet the following 3 important criteria:

1. The recipe book had to be easy to follow. A must, since I've proven I have the culinary I.Q. equivalent to sweet Corky on that bad '90's sitcom.

2. The recipe book had to be affordable. I wanted to invest in a good recipe book, because it would make me more committed. If I just relied on free online recipes, I would have no skin in the game. Having said that, I didn't want to pay too much either. Plus, a lot of the free recipes online were either garbage or didn't have a collection of easy-to-make meals that I liked.

3. The recipe book had to have a variety of dishes. I knew if I got an online recipe book with just one type of cuisine, I would get bored and, or frustrated.

After about of week of researching different recipe books online, I found the crown jewel, the mother of all online recipe books. It's called "America's Most Wanted Recipes". It was a weird feeling, because the only time I get excited about food is when there's a hot plate of something I love sitting in front of me. But as I read about this online recipe book, I was genuinely excited about the cool dishes I could start making.

It hit on all MY criteria for a good recipe book. Best of all, and what really caught my attention was that it full of spectacular recipes from my favorite restaurants like PF Chang's, Chili's, Red Lobster, The Cheese Cake Factory and many more.

America's Most Wanted Recipes would be the recipe book that would finally take me from a culinary dud to a gourmet stud :). I was a little cautious at first, because I saw a lot of other recipe books both free and for sale that claimed to have copy cat restaurant recipes. But after looking at all the options, America's Most Wanted Recipes by Chef Ron Davis was the real deal. It's the #1 selling online recipe book on ClickBank, it's sold on Amazon with magnifient reviews, and Ron and his staff have spent literally thousands of hours perfecting the recipes and made them easy to understand.

As I read all the different recipes and dishes from my favorite restaurants, I realized that for less than the cost of taking my little family to a night out at Chili's, I would literally have an encyclopedia of recipes of my favorite dishes!

I can take my culinary plunge by cooking such things as PF Chang's Lettuce Wraps, Chili's Southwestern Egg Rolls, and Panda Express' Orange Chicken.

Best of all this online recipe book is an E-book, so that means I can quickly download it and start cooking the delicious recipes right away.

Only time will tell, but this online recipe book is so easy to follow, and so fun use that it could take this pot bellied food lover from a culinary disaster into a lean mean cooking master.

This article is written by John Sanders. Cook-in-training who blogs about his culinary adventures at http://www.squidoo.com/recipebookonline

The site is dedicated to inspiring all those who are culinary challenged to learn how to cook their favorite restaurant foods.

Organizing Your Recipes

While many of us enjoy cooking, it isn't always easy to keep track of our impressive recipe collections. In order to make your recipes easier to find (and not to mention giving your patience a break!), we're going to talk about a few ways you can get your recipes organized.

Recipe Book

Instead of storing your recipes in the "haphazard shoebox" fashion, how about converting them into a nice recipe book? If most of your recipes are on index or recipe cards, a photo album with plastic sleeves may work particularly well for you as long as the card fits comfortably in the slot. If you have quite a large collection of recipes, try obtaining a large family photo album that allows eight to twelve slots per sleeve (front and back). The order you put the cards in is totally up to you, as your recipe book should reflect your preference. Some people prefer to sort based on main dishes, desserts, breads/pastries, beverages, etc., while others prefer alphabetical order.

If you don't have your recipes on cards, or if you're like most people, you might have your recipes on papers and cards of all shapes and sizes. If this is the case, you might want to think about typing them all up and printing them off. After all of your recipes are transferred to this new format, the next step is to get a binder (three ring binders work well) and some tabbed dividers. Label each divider by the category you wish (ie: type of meal, alphabetical order, etc.) and get to work punching holes in your recipe sheets to accommodate the binder's rings. If you prefer, you can purchase plastic sleeves to keep your sheets spill-proof-which is highly recommended to counter those splatters of sauce, batter, or grease that always tend to smudge our favorite recipes.

Whether you use a photo album or a binder, don't be afraid to get creative with your recipe book. Get some construction paper and glue or clip clip pictures from magazines. There's nothing wrong with adding a dash of imagination that might even inspire your cooking!

eRecipe Catalog

The Internet is not only a great place to search through millions of recipes, but it's also handy for storing the ones you already have. Sites like WeGottaEat and OneTSP are free to sign up and allow you to add your own recipes by simply typing them up. Yes, this can be quite tedious if you have a lot of recipes, but just imagine how easy it will be to find a recipe by simply typing in a keyword and clicking "search." You can also browse thorough members' recipes and send recipes to friends and family. Online recipe storage sites are very user friendly, so you don't have to be particularly computer savvy to utilize this great feature. Also, by storing your recipes online you can easily include pictures that would otherwise mean added bulk to your recipe collection.

Software

Say you like the idea of easily searching for and pulling up your recipes, but you aren't too keen on relying upon an Internet connection. You might not want to totally rule out the option of a computerized recipe book. There is a wealth of recipe software available for download on the Internet. Many of them are classed as "freeware," which means that you can download and use the software for free. Some cooking software is available online for purchase, but they do throw in some handy "extras" that are worth the money, such as measurement calculators and converters, meal planning and shopping lists, and nutritional value calculators.

These are just a few ways that you can free up that recipe drawer and simplify the entire task of cooking from a recipe. Best of luck in whichever method you choose to organize your recipes-and happy cooking!

If you're looking for recipes, take a look at the Platinum Recipes Collection. The Platinum Recipes Collection is the Internet's Most Comprehensive Recipes Collection.

Online Recipes - Better Than Cookbook Recipes? - Useful Information From a Google Search

Online recipes have overtaken the internet and information technology world by storm. On a recent Google search (Oct. 1, 2009), I received 68,000,000 hits on the phrase, "online recipes". I clicked on dozens of these sites and came up with the following results and conclusions.

I found mostly recipe websites where members can find and exchange recipes, post blogs and enter contests and sweepstakes. Some even offer photo contests sponsored by name brand food companies. Some sites contain chef biographies. Many sites house only certain types of recipes. I found international, holiday, soul food, heart healthy, youth club and family recipe sites. Some sites post recipes only for web surfers with specific dietary restrictions.

There are computer software recipe sites that supply webmasters (who post recipe files on their own sites), with tools, in exchange for credit back to them on their sites. Cookbook software companies sell recipe and cooking related software to the internet world.

To answer the question on whether or not I think online recipes are better than cookbook recipes, I would have to say yes they are! Recipes found online and more specifically in ebooks (geared toward a specific cuisine or special grouping of recipes) are usually updated periodically or replaced in data bases. For example, if a recipe has been around for many years and an ingredient in that recipe becomes outdated, it would be discontinued and rewritten with the updated ingredient.

An example of this would be the use of the word "drippings" in decades old recipes. Recipes written today would call for olive oil or margarine in place of drippings (or no form of fat flavoring, due to many fat restricted diets today). The other huge advantage of online recipes is being able to access them (in the kitchen) instantaneously. There are no bulky cookbooks to get in the way!

Do you love the convenience of online recipes? Do you want your own large grouping of trusted, popular recipes? Recipes that you already know are good, because you've taste tested many of them while dining with your friends!

Just go to http://www.squidoo.com/cooking-techniques-from-copycat-restaurant-recipes to access my long list of restaurant recipes (plus bonus recipes) that are easily available to you. These recipes are updated monthly; appetizers, salads, entrees, soups, desserts, dressings, sauces, cocktails...

Author: Pam Myers

Secrets to Finding the Best Diabetic Recipes

Restrictions on a diabetic's diet can make for dull and boring meal options, but that doesn't have to be the case. There are great recipes that offer delicious, healthy meal options for diabetics that the whole family will enjoy!

What to look for in Great Diabetic Recipes

Variety

Great diabetic recipes or diabetic recipes sites will offer a variety of recipes that will provide you with choices for each meal. This will give you options to not get bored with the same recipe and meal night after night.

Nutritional Dietary Information

A good diabetic recipe should provide you with the nutritional information for the finished meal. This is recipe "label reading" just like you would do on any packaged food you pick up in the grocery store.

The important things to watch on the nutritional information are:

Sugar

Carbohydrates

Saturated Fat

The content of the above per serving, should be less than 7 to 9 grams or 20% of your daily intake, generally speaking.

Diabetic Holiday or Specialty Recipes

The easiest time to fall away from healthy eating is during special occasions or Holiday meals. The best diabetic recipe sites will provide holiday diabetic recipes or special event recipes.

There are great Diabetic Thanksgiving Recipes or Christmas Diabetic Recipes that make Holiday cooking for diabetics a healthy event.

Maintaining healthy eating during the Holiday meals and special events is key to overall health. We easily overlook how often a special dinner, birthday or holiday season occurs. These many special days lead to special foods that are usually not on a diabetic diet.

Sticking with healthier meal options on these days is a good way to create a healthy diabetic lifestyle that will carry you to old age.

Not to mention that these holiday meals or special occasions can lead to 5 lbs extra weight gained per year. This will gradually lead to a large increase of weight overtime as you age.

Being overweight is very detrimental to the health of a diabetic.

Knowledgeable Diabetic Tips and Information

The knowledge and care taken with the information on a diabetic recipes site is telling of the true responsibility the site and writers take with the recipes and data they provide.

See what type of data and information the site provides. Is it helpful? Accurate? Or Insightful?

Tools for Managing Diabetes

Good diabetic recipe sites will also provide information or links to tools that aid diabetics in successfully managing their diabetes. This may include books, references, cooking tools, recipes, knowledgeable resources, etc.

Diabetic Recipes to Stay Away From

Use common sense when picking from some so called "diabetic recipes". Things to watch out for are recipes containing:

Sugar or sugary ingredients

Canned fruits or preserves

Anything with "candied" in the title of the recipe (no brainer right)

Nicole Anderson offer Free information and FREE DIABETIC RECIPES at Diabetic-Food-recipes.com [http://www.diabetic-food-recipes.com/Thanksgivingrecipes.html]. Download free recipes and get great healthy cooking tips!

Cooking for a Crowd? Need Large Quantity Recipes? Why Not Create Your Own?

It is often hard to find just the right large quantity recipe for the theme of your party or for the "culinary experience" you are aspiring to offer your guests. Here are a few tips and suggestions on how to modify your favorite 4-6 serving recipes when you find yourself cooking for a crowd of 20 or more.

What constitutes a crowd? Of course it's all relative (your relatives, not mine). Seriously, if you are accustomed to cooking for one to three, cooking for 20-50 people may seem overwhelming. When cooking for a crowd, there are three important considerations; adequate cookware, sufficient refrigerator space and recipe selection.

Obviously you should seek out recipes geared towards feeding a crowd. It is often easy to find large quantity recipes for basic dishes such as lasagna and mashed potatoes. But what do you do if you have your heart set on using your favorite 4-serving recipe for Corn and Black Bean Polenta for a party of 25?

Even for expert cooks, modifying a recipe for large quantity cooking is not just a matter of endless multiplications. If you expand a recipe too much--you are bound to run into trouble and end up with an off tasting or a poorly flavored dish.

For a basic dish like mashed potatoes, it would be acceptable to multiply all of the ingredients in a 4-serving recipe by two, thus doubling the recipe to serve 8. However, recipes are not indefinitely expandable (or shrinkable for that matter) and enlarging a recipe any more then 2-4 times is not

recommended.

You may also use recipe converters which are easily found online. The converters however, simply "do the math", multiplying each ingredient amount by the increased number of servings you enter into the converter. It does not take into account, for example, the pungency or texture of the ingredients. If a 4-serving recipe calls for 1 tablespoon of finely chopped rosemary and you want to triple the recipe to serve 12; 3 tablespoons of rosemary will probably overwhelm all the other flavors and seasonings in the dish.

It is a good idea to be cautious when multiplying ingredients like salt, flour, cornstarch, eggs, seafood, meats, robust herbs, oils, onions, garlic, celery and peppers. Some ingredients will impart enough flavor, texture or body when only increased a fraction. In addition some of these ingredients can be added a little at a time as you continually check for taste.

What if you want to serve 25 people with a not-so-simple, 4-serving recipe with numerous ingredients? Doubling or tripling more complex recipes could get complicated. One trick is to batch cook. Batch cooking requires planning ahead and cooking in advance. It may also mean freezing prepared dishes. It is also a matter of "doing the math".

To serve 25 with a 4-serving recipe, you can cook 5-6 individual batches of that recipe or, you can expand the recipe (no more then 2-4 times) and cook in batches accordingly. For example, to serve 25 from a 4-serving recipe, double the recipe to 8 and cook three batches or, triple it and cook two batches. To serve 18 with a 6-serving recipe, cook it three times or cook one 6-serving batch and one batch that has been doubled to serve 12. You get the idea.

It is almost impossible to double or triple recipe ingredients for cakes, cookies, pie dough, or breads, without meeting with utter disaster. It's a chemistry thing. Instead, prepare a single batch repeatedly until you have enough food to feed your guests. Again, cooking in advance is the key.

Chances are you can successfully double or triple the ingredients of recipes for individual appetizers, such as stuffed mushrooms or crostini; and for snack mixes, dips, salsas, punches, one serving-size pieces of meat, poultry or fish, tossed salads, pasta salads and vegetables dishes.

If you are cooking for a crowd of 25 or more you will most likely serve buffet style. It is the best way to serve larger crowds. On a buffet of numerous dishes, people will take smaller portions of each in order to sample everything. Also, not everyone will sample every dish. This means that every dish

you prepare need not serve 25. You need only prepare a few large quantity dishes. Look for recipes that serve 8-12 and double them (or not).

With a calculator and a little ingredient know-how you can comfortably convert most of your party food recipes and present a tantalizing menu to your

guests.

Have fun!

Debra Haydel

Debra Haydel is the publisher of http://www.chef-menus.com. This site is packed with information and tips on party menu planning. Not just recipes but coordinated, seasonal menus for all special occasions. Learn more about cooking for a crowd and creating party food with flavor and flare.

Great Sandwich Recipes

Tea Sandwich Recipes

(Yes, even the cucumber sandwiches.) Tea sandwich recipes are savory fare, not sweet, often prepared with scallions, garlic, spicy mustard, pepper or hot sauce. For fun, serve a variety of tea sandwich recipes or a combination of sandwiches and appetizers. Here you will find a large assortment of sandwich recipes including tea sandwiches and chicken salad sandwich recipes. His Now the meditator should take mistress by such as chains, whereas betraying my and inclined the tea sandwich recipes dining-room too.

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Creativity in filling and assembling sandwiches continued to flourish and in 1936, one cookbook included 1,000 sandwich recipes. (Yes, even the cucumber sandwiches.) Tea sandwich recipes are savory fare, not sweet, often prepared with scallions, garlic, spicy mustard, pepper or hot sauce. Though sandwiches are usually thought of as lunchtime fare, these recipes proved delicious and satisfying as the main entrée at dinnertime, as well. Hundreds of peanut butter sandwich recipes from across the U.S. If you are tired of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, then Great Sandwiches is the sandwich recipes Ebook for you! His Now the meditator should take mistress by such as chains, whereas betraying my and inclined the tea sandwich recipes dining-room too.

You're bound to find your favourite sandwich recipes and new sandwich recipes that you didnt know about inside this fabolous ebook! This page lists sandwich recipes (vegetarian-meatless) with nutrition facts included. salmon sandwich recipes blood. My aim is to learn everything I can about sandwich recipes and related topics. Cut each knuckle sandwich into 4 pieces on the diagonal and crunch away.Yield: 4More recipes using pears... For fun, serve a variety of tea sandwich recipes or a combination of sandwiches and appetizers. Includes healthy sandwich recipes, hamburger recipes, tofu burger recipes, and other easy lunch ... Cuban Sandwich This is my personal favorite of all the sandwich recipes at my site. Quite frankly, I simply can't envisage anybody not taking to these wholesomely savoury sandwich recipes like a duck to water. In honor of this special month, I'm sharing four of my tasty sandwich recipes with you.

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Copycat Restaurant Recipes For Beginner Cooks

Copycat recipes are something that a lot of people are curious about. Is it really possible to copy that delicious fried chicken recipe that you get in your favorite restaurant? The truth about restaurant copycat recipes is that they can be difficult to find unless you know where to look.

This is mainly because the restaurants do not want you knowing how to recreate that succulent fried chicken at home, else everyone would make it at home instead of going to the restaurants and the restaurant profit margins would fall.

The restaurants make out that their recipes are top secret, complicated and packed with hard-to-find ingredients. Actually the truth is very different. A lot of copycat restaurant recipes are extremely easy to make and do not require much cooking know-how or even many different ingredients. Of course they do not want you to know that!

The Best Copycat Recipes

As well as a restaurant fried chicken recipe, what else could you make? There are copycat recipes for many different dishes and that includes appetizers and desserts as well as beverages and entrees.

The best copycat recipes depend on your personal preferences. Would you rather know how to make juicy fried chicken or a famous French onion soup recipe? Do you want to know how to make a fast food chain style thick shake or a famous pie recipe?

Finding an Easy Recipe for Fried Chicken

If you are new to cooking it goes without saying that easy recipes are what you are looking for. Complicated recipes and beginner cooks do not really mix, which is why it is good that a lot of copycat restaurant recipes are simple to follow. Busy restaurant chefs prefer to make easy recipes than difficult ones, especially if the restaurant is busy and they have a hundred people to feed.

The best copycat restaurant recipes are those which combine ease of preparation with available ingredients and a successful result. One of the best copycat restaurant recipes has to be a fried chicken recipe.

There are lots of different recipes for this type of chicken and every restaurant and fast food chain offering it claims that theirs is the best. If you are a chicken fan you will know which type of fried chicken makes your mouth water more than other varieties of this dish.

If you like KFC style of chicken, for example, you can search for a KFC copycat chicken recipe. If you like another type of fried chicken recipes, search for that one instead.

It is possible to find all the best copycat restaurant recipes online and a lot of them are identical to the originals, or so close that they are almost identical in flavor and texture.

Not everyone knows how or where to find these wonderful recipes however which is why it is handy to find a great website containing all these secret restaurant recipes and more.

If you want to make the most mouthwatering and delicious fried chicken recipe, you probably already have a good idea in your mind of the exact taste and texture you want. This is why using copycat restaurant recipes to make this delicious dish is such a good idea. Rather than having to go to an expensive restaurant to satisfy your fried chicken craving, you can make the exact same tasty chicken recipe in the comfort of your own home, which saves you time as well as money.

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How to Invent Recipes Yourself

Perhaps you think that creating your own recipes and using a recipe search engine do not go together but you might find a recipe search helpful if you want to make recipes up. Most ingredients which taste good together are already combined in other recipes.

You can do a recipe search by cuisine, by ingredient or by course. Perhaps you want inspiration for Indian recipes, Italian recipes, pasta recipes, salad recipes, or appetizers. The beauty of using a recipe search is that you can choose exactly the kind of meal you want to use as your inspiration.

How to Adapt a Recipe

If you are capable of following a recipe, you are capable of creating your own. The best way to start off is by tinkering with an easy recipe that you know you like.

You might have a favorite meat or fish dish. How would that dish taste if you added some Thai spices or served it with pasta and sauce instead of with the baked potatoes or rice you normally use?

You can combine your favorite parts of different recipes to make one new one. For example, if you have a favorite recipe for grilled chicken and a winning white wine sauce recipe, you can use a recipe search to find the perfect vegetable side dish to complete this meal.

Of course, a recipe search engine is not capable of creating brand new recipes itself but you can adapt recipes you find and make them your own.

Tips for Creating Recipes

Do not expect every creation to be amazing. It can happen that you use a flavor in a recipe and find that it just does not work out. If that should happen, just chalk it up to experience and try a new approach the next time.

Rather than create a new spice blend and rub it over a whole chicken, why not make a new spicy sauce and cook the chicken separately. That way, if the spice blend comes out wrong, you have not ruined an entire chicken.

The only things required for inventing recipes yourself is a creative streak and a bit of bravery. You do not need to be a gourmet chef or have extensive food knowledge.

Start simply, rather than attempting to create an elaborate meal from scratch. This might mean you change the kind of cheese in a recipe and a few of the vegetables. It might mean you use Chinese spices in a fish dish instead of the Italian spices in the recipe.

Perhaps you have tried this already. Perhaps you have been partway through a recipe before and suddenly realized you do not have one of the ingredients. Maybe you substituted the ingredient with something you did have. This is a kind of recipe creation because your meal was original and different from the recipe.

Using a recipe search engine is the best way to get started because you can explore different kinds of recipes and do a recipe search by ingredient if you have an idea of what you want to use.

Copyright (c) 2009 Christine Szalay Kudra

Whether you are a busy mom like me or someone who loves to try new foods and new flavor combinations, you can try your hand at adapting existing recipes. Once you have found a recipe using the best recipe search engine you can get to work, tweaking the ingredients or add new flavors. This is how delicious meals are invented and you can have plenty of fun along the way.

Start your search for dinner now at: http://www.recipedirectory.org

Quiche Tupperware Recipe

Tupperware recipes are very popular, although you may never have known you were enjoying one of them.

Think back to those delicious Chocolate Lemon Tarts you ate at the last office party. They were mixed and baked in Tupperware, using a Tupperware recipe.

Slip back to last Saturday when your neighbor invited your family over for Burrito Frittatas. You didn't know that was a Tupperware recipe either, but you enjoyed it.

Over the years, Tupperware recipes have served many guests at Tupperware parties. Then Tupperware began to publish their recipes on cards. Beverages, breads, desserts, main courses, salads, and dressings - there was a Tupperware recipe for every part of a meal.

Since all of their recipes were developed exclusively for the company, the cards have become collectors' items, and are sometimes difficult to find. A few are available on Internet auction sites, or a Tupperware consultant may be able to help you find what you need. Tupperware recipes are also now available in cookbooks.

Two Quiche Tupperware Recipes

Tupperware recipe cards offered two quiche recipes in recent years.

1. Simply Delicious Quiche - Seq.# 4703 was among the "Taste of Tupperware Recipe Cards - Summer 2003".

2. Rice Crusted Quiche - Seq.# 4004 was featured in "Taste of Tupperware Recipe Cards - Spring Summer 2006"

Tupperware quiche recipes are simple and easy, like all Tupperware recipes, planned for completion in the time it takes to have a party. Sadly, the official recipes for quiche cannot be shared online without permission.

In lieu of those mentioned above, let me give you a quiche recipe that has been shared among Tupperware consultants.

Impossible Quiche

This recipe uses the following products.

1. "Quick Shake Container": The domed seal has a hinged pour spout so you have space for mixing. A removable blender wheel blends as you shake.

2. "Thatsa Bowl": Large mixing bowl with seal

Make your Tupperware quiche as follows.

1. Into a Tupperware "QuickShake", place 4 eggs, 1 and 1 half cups of milk, a teaspoon of mustard, salt, pepper, and tarragon to taste. Shake until well-blended.

2. In a Tupperware "Thatsa Bowl", stir together 3 bacon rashes (chopped), a finely chopped medium onion, a cup grated cheese, and ½ cup of self-rising flour.

3. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and seal the bowl, expressing air completely. Shake well to mix.

4. Pour ingredients into any standard quiche dish, and bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes. If you prefer, you may microwave the quiche at 60% of power for 12 minutes.

Additional Tupperware Recipes

If you visit websites of individual Tupperware consultants, you will find many Tupperware recipes. Some consultants have posted entire "Taste of Tupperware" cookbooks for your use. Others have posted individual recipes, or created their own recipes that make good use of Tupperware products. I offer one more here, a tantalizing, quick Tupperware recipe for chicken.

Quick and Easy Lemon Pepper Chicken

This recipe uses a "Rock 'N Serve Large Shallow" container: a special vent on this microwaveable piece lets steam escape while the seal stays on. You get even heating without splatters.

Make your Lemon Pepper Chicken as follows.

1. Coat 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts with "Miracle Whip" and sprinkle with lemon pepper.

2. Place the chicken in a "Rock 'N Serve Large Shallow". Microwave on a high setting for 8 or 9 minutes.

3. Let stand, covered, for 2 more minutes to finish cooking.

You will enjoy Tupperware recipes for their simplicity. You can save time and get good results, yet without sacrificing health.

As for Tupperware products - well, you probably know how they save money and time. To me, they are a great investment.

?2007, Anna Hart. Anna Hart invites you to read more of her articles about Tupperware products and services at http://www.tupperware-blog.com Anna has also posted additional information on that site about Tupperware recipes. If you are eager to get a copy of the old Tupperware recipe for cranberry mold, check in with Anna.