Venezuelan Guasacaca

This recipe is basically a Venezuelan guacamole, so give it a try!

Ingredients:

1Chopped onion

1/2 of a green capsicum (It's a sweet pepper) it needs to be diced and the seeds should be

removed

1/2 of a red capsicum, it too needs to have the seeds removed and be diced

3 Crushed garlic cloves

~4 fl. oz. of olive oil

2 Teaspoons of vinegar

2 Teaspoons sugar

1\4 teaspoon chili powder

1 teaspoon of freshly chopped parsley

1 Avocado that is large and ripe, otherwise, use two avocados, it needs to be peeled and mashed

1 Avocado that is large and ripe, dice or cube cut it

Instructions:

Put all of the ingredients except for the avocados in a mixing bowl. Mix together well.

Now it's time to add in the avocados! Mix everything together, don't mix too hard, but enough to stir everything up.

Refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve with chips or bread to dip into it!

This recipe was modified from:

http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/Salsas%20and%20Rel/Guasacaca%20Veg%20CD%20ACC%20Venezuelan%2015mins.htm

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New England Pumpkin Pie

We're well into fall and the best part of autumn is PUMKIN PIE! It's an original New England recipe that dates back to the first Thanksgiving between the Pilgrims and Native Americans!

Ingredients:

One can of pumkin (located with pie fillers in the supermarket)

Cornstarch--one tablespoon

Cinnomon--half of a tablespoon

Ginger--half of a tablespoon

Nutmeg--half of a tablespoon

Melted butter--one and a half tablespoons

Milk--one and a half cups

Sugar--one cup

Molasses--one eight of a cup

Beaten eggs--two eggs

Recipe:

Using a sifter, sift cornstarch, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg together. A hand sifter or a bowl sifter will be fine either will do. A bowl sifter sits above the bowl and using a spoon you press the contents through it so that they pass into the bowl below. For a hand sifter, all you do is put in the contents and pull a lever located in the handle and it sifts everything together.

Add the can of pumkin to the sifted contents and mix together.

Next, add the milk, beaten eggs, melted butter, and molasses.

Take a pie plate (average size of about 9") and pour the contents of the bowl into the plate. Heat the oven at 450 degrees and bake for at least fifteen minutes. After the fifteen minutes has elapsed reduce the temperature to 350 degrees, now bake for fifty more minutes.

When done, take out and allow it to cool. Finish each slice off with a dollop of whipped cream!

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One-Pie

Crème Brûlée a Great French Dessert

Want a French dessert to go along with a French dinner? Well, Crème Brûlée is a wonderful way to end any meal, whether it's French or not!

Ingredients:

Heavy Cream (2 cups)

Five eggs (You will only use the yolks)

1\2 Cup of Sugar

1 Tablespoon of Vanilla extract

1\2 Cup of light brown sugar

Recipe:

First, preheat the oven to 275 degrees.

Next, put the cream, sugar, eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract in a bowl together and whisk them until the mixture becomes creamy.

Now, pour this mixture into ceramic dishes that are heat resistant. Fill a pan with hot water and place all the dishes inside the pan with water (The water should only be about half way up the side of the ceramic dish, no higher.) Place the pan with all of the ceramic dishes in the oven for about 45 minutes, when a knife can be stuck inside it and pulled out clean it is finished. When in over, check constantly.

When they are done, take it out of the oven and take each ceramic dish out of the pan. Allow them to cool for about fifteen minutes.

Leave them in the refrigerator overnight.

Sprinkle the light brown sugar on the top of each, not too much, just enough to dust the top. Using a kitchen torch, torch it! This will carmalize the brown sugar which gives it the warm and hard top of the dessert, while the inside is cool and creamy.

Have fun with this one!

This recipe was from: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/262/Easy_Creme_Brulee6793.shtml

This image was from:

http://www.homebistro.com/images/products/imgLarge/1928_CremeBrulee.jpg

Halloween Dessert

With Halloween just around the corner this recipe will be perfect for any party and it will be frighteningly tasteful!

Ingredients:

Twizlers (Peelable type)

Black icing

White Icing

Two Resses Peanut Butter cups

Cake Mix (Any flavor that is desired)

First, bake the cake according to the instructions on the box, it should make two circular layers, each may differ slightly, but it usually takes about tweny to twenty-five minutes for it to completely cook.

Next, allow cake to cool completely before decorating. Take the two circular layers and place them on a large platter or tray. Take one of the circular layers and place it in the center of the tray. Cut the other layer in half and place them on the sides of the cake as wings with the rounded edge down and the flat edge up.

Now decorate! Use the black icing to ice the cake completely, wings and all (Make sure that the sides are iced as well so that the "seams" don't show. Using the white icing, make two circles for eyes in the center circle and fill them in with white icing. Place the two Reeses Peanut Butter cups in the center of the white circles for eye balls. Untwist a twizler so that you are left with strands. Place these on the wings in a curved fashion to show the folds of a bat's wing.

Last, but no least: Enjoy and Happy Halloween!

This image was obtained from:

http://www.nearfamous.com/Images/NearFamousWebImagesOptimized/NectarBats/06080474NectarBatFeed%2346283.jpg

Scottish Rumbledethumps

All the way from Scotland is the recipe Rumbledethumps:

Ingredients:

16 0z of potatoes

12 oz of Cabbage

One onion sliced

4 Tablespoons of Butter

4 Tablespoons of grated white chedder cheese

Recipe:

First, preheat the oven to about 400 degrees, so that it will be ready when it is needed.

Dice them and boil them in water. Once a knife can be easily stuck into them they are done.

Drain out all of the water and put them back into the pan or pot that they were boiled in. Now, mash the potatoes.

Slice the onion and shred the cabbage. Melt butter in a frying pan on medium heat, once melted put the onion and cabbage into the frying pan with the butter. Keep the onion and cabbage in the butter until the cabbage wilts and the onions are soft, but nothing should brown.

Mix in all of the potatoes and half of the cheese. Stir until the cheese is melted evenly throughout.

Use the rest of the cheese should now be sprinkled ontop and it should be placed in the oven until golden brown.

Enjoy!

This recipe was from:

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usrecipes/rumbledethumps/index.html

The images was taken from:

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/recipes%20images/Colcannon.jpg

African Aloko

African food can is a great way to make any meal a little more exotic! This recipe is an accent to a formal dinner dish, while it is served with many different dinners, it is most commonly served with fish. From the country of Cote d'ivoire is the recipe Aloko:

Ingredients:

Six plantain bananas

One bottle of Olive (or vegetable) Oil

Recipe:

The first step in this recipe is to slice the plantains lengthwise into thin slices.

Next, pour about five inches of oil into a sauce pan (Depending on the size of the pan use judgement as to how much to put in. The plantains should not be "Swimming" in oil, but should be covered in oil).

Now, place half of the sliced plantain bananas into the oil, fry them until they are reddish brown.

When, the first half of the plantain bananas are done cooking, cook the second half.

Once both batches of the plantain bananas are finished, serve them immediately over grilled fish (Or try something new and serve it over anything!).

Bon Appetit

A fun fact about Cote d'ivoire is that their national language is French.

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Italian Dessert

Tiramisu Bowl

Feel like staying in, but experiencing a taste of Italy? By making this dessert you'll feel as if you were standing in the middle of the Spanish Steps!

Ingredients:

One package of cream cheese

Cold Milk (3 cups)

Two packages of vanilla flavored pudding mix and pie filling. (Instant works great if you're in a hurry)

One Tub of Cool Whip

Two boxes of NIlla Waffers (50 are going to be needed for the recipe)

One cup of fresh raspberries

One half cup of coffee brewed strong

One package of Bakker's semi-sweet baking chocolate (Only two of the squares in the package will be used)

Instructions:

The point of this dessert is presentation, presentation, presentation! So, the ideal bowl to be placing this in is a large clear one, this way the dessert is able to be viewed by all who are sitting at the table.

First: Take the cream cheese and the place it in a large bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese until it is creamy and soft. Now, add in the pudding mixes and two cups of whipped topping. Stir everything together.

Second: Take 25 of the Nilla Waffers and spread them evenly throughout the bottom of the clear bowl. Pour half of the coffee over the Nilla Waffers that were just placed on the bottom of the bowl. Over this place half of the mixture made in step one, it consisted of cool whip, pudding mix, and cream cheese.

Third: Using only one of the pieces of chocolate, shave it using a sharp knife. The shavings should be very small so that many shavings come from only one piece. Put the shaved chocolate on top of the mixture from step one that was just added to the bowl. Now, put 25 more waffers on top of everything. Then add the half of the cup of coffee. Next, add the other half of the pudding and whip topping mixture as well.

Fourth: Shave the second piece of baker's chocolate and add it on top of everything else in the bowl. Place the raspberries over the top and in the center place some more whipped topping. Cool for three hours in the refrigerator and then serve!

Make sure that any left over dessert is kept in the refrigerator.

If you do not like COFFEE, all of the COFFEE can be substituted with CHOCOLATE MILK!

Spanish Rice

Spanish Rice is a great way to make an ordinary day zesty!

This meal can be made spicy if that is how it is how you prefer, if so, just add the optional ingredients in RED.

Ingredients:

Water

Tomatoes

Sausage

Spicy Sausage, (can be bought at same locations as regular sausage, however, they will usually have pieces of pepper in them)

Long grain rice (From the burlap bag, not instant)

Chili peppers

Olive oil

Recipe:

Bring water to a boil in a pot large enough for the amount of rice desired.

Once water is boiling, add the rice. (One bag has a lot of rice, so it is not likely that you will need an entire bag, be prepared to save the uncooked rice.) This should be cooked until it is soft, the difference between cooked and uncooked will be easy to see. When the rice is first put in the water it is very hard, but after being in the water for twenty to thirty minutes it becomes quite soft.

While the rice is cooking take out a frying pan and start to cook the sausage. The sausage should cook quite fast; it could even be done right around the time that the rice will be done. This way the rice will not become cold. When the sausage is done cooking, slice it up into round "Disks" and put it in the rice; mix it up.

Now, take the chili peppers and crush them or cut them into tiny pieces. Mix them with a small amount of the olive oil to make a mixture. Pour this over the rice and completely mix together.

Serve Hot!

This makes as many servings as is needed and remember to play around with recipes; everyone has a different taste, so try something new!

(Image from Kraftfoods.com)

All American Creamsicle Beverage

This drink is fun and great for entertaining! Whether, its a hot day or just one of those days, this dessert will make you feel great!

Ingredients:

Vanilla Ice Cream

Orange Soda (Diet works fine too!)

Straw

Ice Cream Float Mug!

Instructions:

First: Put two scoops of ice cream in as many mugs as desired.

Next: Pour in the orange soda, this will cause the ice cream to "Foam" so make sure not to fill it too fast. If needed you can add more soda after the "Foam" has settled.

Last: Place in a straw for a fun way to drink it!

ENJOY!

(Image from Food Network)