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Red Velvet Pancakes
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 large eggs
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons red liquid food coloring
Sweet Cream-Cheese Butter (recipe below)
Directions
Sift together first 6 ingredients into a large bowl.
Whisk together buttermilk and next 3 ingredients in another bowl.
Gradually stir buttermilk mixture into flour mixture just until dry ingredients are moistened.
Pour about 1/4 cup batter for each pancake onto a hot buttered griddle.
Cook 3 to 4 minutes or until tops are covered with bubbles and edges look dry and cooked.
Turn and cook 3 to 4 minutes or until done.
Serve with Sweet Cream-Cheese Butter.
Sweet Cream Cheese Butter
Ingredients
1 (8-oz.) cream cheese
1 cup butter
3 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
Gradually add powdered sugar, beating at low speed until blended after each addition.
Add vanilla, beating until blended.
Dragon’s Loyalty Award
DRAGON’S LOYALTY AWARD
I’ve been nominated for the Dragon’s Loyalty Award! It’s exciting and validating. Thank you Julie,
From the Kitchen of Julie, your page is creative which I love and best of all full of unique tasty recipes!
Please visit her site http://fromthekitchenofjulie.wordpress.com
Here are the rules:
1. You must link the person who has nominated you.
2. You must share 7 things other bloggers may not know about you.
3. Nominate up to 15 people.
4. You must go to their blogs and notify your nominees.
Here are my seven facts about me:
Followed the recommended path -graduated from Mcgill University
I took a chance and invested in a retail store called ATHENA
Sold my business to raise our children – no regrets
Love my morning coffee
Creative, Sarcastic and Loyal
I love learning and debating but I also enjoy passively listening and watching all that life has to offer
I am loving this whole experience of exploring your blogs and creating my blogs – I thank you all
My nominations:
http://ocanadablog.com
http://allgoodgifts.net
http://workingmomcooksblog.wordpress.com
http://twinswithoriginality.com
http://hockeyliz.sportsblog.com
http://cindyknoke.com
http://loveassociatesblog.wordpress.com
http://cancerkillingrecipe.wordpress.com
http://sugarnspicebyradhika.wordpress.com
http://kerrichronicles.com
http://ronitpenso.wordpress.com
http://olisonscupcakes.wordpress.com
http://steviepreater.wordpress.com
http://lefatquack.wordpress.com
http://ieatthereforeiblog.wordpress.com
Thanks again to Julie and congrats to the nominees!! Keep paying it forward and spreading the love!!
Shrimp with Pomegranate, Quinoa, and Butternut Squash
Just wanted to share this creative and yummy recipe!
Shrimp with Pomegranate, Quinoa, and Butternut Squash
For a Near Eastern Friday Night in SE Pennsylvania (serves 2)
Glyn cooks mainly (ok, entirely) from instinct and availability. Tonight we have a pomegranate and a butternut squash sitting on the counter….oh, and shrimp, so…
As last night’s Tuscan dinner sinks slowly in the west, we journey eastward for this fusion dinner worthy of the Magi. Shrimp from the sea, quinoa and squash from the earth, and pomegranate from the spirit, make this a meal of Biblical proportion. Outside, the ice has melted, it’s raining, the weather is heating up and the forecast is threatening thunderstorms, which we receive as the energy of nature affirming the power of this dish. The wine? Pro-mis-Qous Red from Napa, because, well, we prefer Reds.
WARNING: This may well be the most flavorful dish you have ever eaten in your life. And Will thinks it…
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Seriously! Easy Lasagna
Prep time: 20 min
Total: 1 hr 35 min
Servings total:12 servings
Ingredients
1lb. ground beef
2-1/2 cups Mozzarella Cheese, divided
1 container (15 oz.) Ricotta Cheese
1/2cup Grated Parmesan Cheese, divided
1 egg, beaten
1 jar (24 oz.) favourite spaghetti sauce
1 cup water
12 lasagna noodles, uncooked
Instructions
HEAT oven to 350°F.
BROWN meat in large skillet on medium-high heat. Meanwhile, mix 1-1/4 cups mozzarella, ricotta, 1/4 cup Parmesan, parsley and egg until blended.
DRAIN meat; return to skillet. Stir in spaghetti sauce. Add 1 cup water to empty sauce jar; adding the water to the sauce helps cook the traditional noodles during baking, so you don’t have to cook them beforehand. This saves you 15 to 20 minutes of prep time. Add water to meat mixture; stir until blended. Spread 1 cup meat sauce onto bottom of 13×9-inch baking dish; top with layers of 3 lasagna noodles, 1/3 of the ricotta cheese mixture and 1 cup meat sauce. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining noodles, meat sauce and cheeses. Cover with foil sprayed with cooking spray.
BAKE 1 hour or until heated through, removing foil after 45 min. Let stand 15 min. before cutting to serve.
Apple Salad with Dill Pickles
Ingredients:
2 apples – washed, cored and cubed
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1 head romaine lettuce – rinsed, dried, and chopped
2 dill pickles, diced
2 tomatoes, diced
1/2 cup ranch-style salad dressing
Directions:
1. In a large bowl, mix together the apples, sunflower seeds, lettuce, pickles and tomato. Pour dressing on top, toss and enjoy!
Easy Individual Sloppy Joes
Take a break from Turkey! This was a nice change and enjoyed by all four of us!! yah!
Ingredients:
Sloppy Joe Mixture
1 lb (500 g) lean ground beef
1 large onion, chopped (1 cup/250 mL)
1 tbsp (15 mL) Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp (5 mL) garlic salt
1 cup of ketchp
1 tbsp. of mustard
1 diced up tomato
1 cup (250 mL) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Baking Mixture
1/2 cup (125 mL) milk
1/2 cup (125 mL) Original Bisquick* mix
2 eggs
Instructions
Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 12 regular-size muffin cups with cooking spray.
In skillet, brown beef and onion over medium-high heat 5 to 7 minutes, until thoroughly cooked; drain. Cool 5 minutes; stir in Worcestershire sauce, garlic salt, ketchup, tomato and cheese.
•In medium bowl, stir baking mixture ingredients with whisk or fork until blended. Spoon 1 tablespoon baking mixture into each muffin cup. Top with about 1/4 cup Sloppy Joe mixture. Spoon 1 tablespoon baking mixture onto mixture in each muffin cup.
•Bake about 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean, and muffin tops are golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. With thin knife, loosen sides of muffins from pan; remove from pan and place top side up on cooling rack. Cool 10 minutes
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