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Apple Pie with Dried Cranberries

Written By: Chris - Nov• 04•12

So Laura and Jon were coming for dinner and I wanted to prepare a special desert.  Jen had gifted me a wonderful large bowl of crisp, tart apples from her farm, which inspired me to bake a fresh apple pie!  I had recently read in a couple of different “Foodie” magazines a couple of recipes for apple-cranberries cobbler and figured it would be a nice change and a unique preparation for my pie music from youtube on iphone.

Whenever I decide to enjoy desert, which it isn’t very often just ignore the fact that it’s probably not the healthiest thing I could eat!  Just go for it I say deezer single titles download!  And if I was going to think too much about it, apples and cranberries have to be somewhat OK to eat anyways, right?  So as in all things… moderation.  Enjoy a piece and give the rest away!   This evening, I can tell you it was scrumptious and worth every bite fotocollage kostenlosen!

Ingredients:

3/4 Cup Light Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup all-purpose Flour
1 Tablespoon ground Cinnamon, plus more for sprinkling
Freshly ground nutmeg, to taste
7 medium Apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1 Cup dried Cranberries
1 Lemon  juiced
2 prepared Pie Crusts, thawed at room temperature (or make your own if you’re ambitious!)
2 Tablespoons of Egg Beaters

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F application write pattern free.

Recruit a friend (Thanks Bill!) to help prepare the apples.  Wash, peel, core and slice the apples.  The investment of under $20 for the peeler is worth every cent!  I use it every year and it can be used to create scallop potatoes too bus simulator 2015 zum herunterladen!

Sprinkle apples with lemon juice and toss to prevent browning.  Add cranberries.

In another bowl, mix together the brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg netflix wie viel downloaden. Stir in the sugar mixture to evenly coat the apples and berries.  Set aside.

Roll out chilled dough into 2 circles if preparing your own, or use one of the two prepared pieces to line a 9-inch pie pan download unreal tournament for free in full.

Mound the apple, cranberry and sugar mixture into the bottom crust and dot with the cold cubed butter.  Top with other rolled out dough and crimp the edges with fingers gratis dvd cover downloaden.

Brush the top of the pie with egg beaters and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar herunterladen.

Bake pie for about 45 minutes.  Be sure to check near the half hour mark and look to see if the edges of your crusts are browned enough.  If they are becoming to dark, cover edges with foil to prevent them from burning.  Let the pie rest 20 minutes or more before slicing download tlc.

We enjoyed our pie with homemade cinnamon ice cream, laughter, camaraderie and a delicious bottle of LADERA Cabernet Sauvignon and it was delicious if I don’t say so myself!

Enjoy!

Cheers!
~Chris

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Sauted Cape Hake with Aisian Sauce

Written By: Chris - Oct• 29•12

Hake are members of the cod family, found on the continental shelf and slope to depths over 1,000m and are popular throughout Europe and America.  Living in Minnesota, I happen to find mine at our local Costco and bought some frozen after a taste at one of their sample stops! 

This variety are fished by bottom trawling with different mesh sizes for inshore and deep-water trawls wetransfer video downloaden ipad. Ranging from 1kg to 5 kg, hake has a metallic gray back and a silvery white belly.  Mine came in perfectly formed, cleaned, skinned, de-boned individual frozen fillets soundcloud lieder downloaden!

Hake is a mildly flavored fish. The flesh is quite soft, but firms up on cooking, and is well worth trying!  I have read that for a light, modern alternative to heavily battered cod, that you could try deep-frying hake fillets dipped in a light tempura batter.  Well, I don’t deep fry much and since I’ve grilled this type of fish in the past, I am familiar with it’s mild flavor.  I knew that it’s nice firm white flaky texture would hold up to a quick pan saute herunterladen!

This is a quick and delicious dinner idea!

Ingredients:

2 Hake Fillets
1 Tablespoon Butter
1 teaspoon Grape Seed Oil
Salt & Pepper
Fresh Dill
Drizzle of Asian Sauce or your favorite sauce mischpult programm für pc kostenlos downloaden. (optional, I had some left over from a Mahi Mahi dish that I had recently made)

If you want your fish to be mild and as non-fishy as possible, soak it in milk for at least 20 minutes to a half hour prior to preparation hochzeitssprüche kostenlosen. The milk removes most of the fishy taste and helps frozen and pre-thawed fish to taste fresher. The fish should be rinsed before soaking in the milk, and it is best to take the fish straight out of the milk and prepare it for cooking without re-rinsing.  I pat it dry with paper towels and season simply with salt & pepper bkv hessen herunterladen.

Sear and saute fish in hot melted butter in oil until a nice crispy brown coating is apparent and fish is cooked about half way through before flipping and cooking on the other side 60 seconds gratis herunterladen.

Once fish looks cooked through, top with a generous piece of fresh dill and drizzle with the sauce.  Cover and allow sauce to melt and coat fish for about a minute or so before plating warcraft 3 download kostenlos.

Serve with your favorite side dishes.  This evening we enjoyed some fresh green beans, spanakopita and a beet salad rub ticket herunterladen.

This paired perfectly with a beautiful Kunde Chardonnay download duden!

Enjoy!

Cheers!
~Chris

 

 

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Get to know your Squash!

Written By: Chris - Oct• 28•12

You may recall that I’ve had some confusion with some of the types of squash I have encountered this season.  I will always accept gifts of fresh produce that my friends give me (a special thanks to Miss Jennifer who has been the super star of giving this fall download microsoft internet explorer for free! I love her!) None the less, I am still a bit confused and haven’t determined the variety in certain of mystery squash that I was looking for input recently.  It was either a Turban or a Butter cup Squash, but I am still not sure which bmw navi software kostenlos!

While shopping at Coborn’s the other day, I was thrilled to come across a free hand out that they had describing the varieties of squash!  I had to share!  I found some images on line to show you the descriptions for the types so I hope you find it as helpful as I did avira free kostenlos!

All squash provide vitamin A and Vitamin C, some of the B vitamins and are a good source of fiber.  One cup of cooked suaqsh has about 100 calories.  (It’s what we do to it during preparation to make it higher in calories)


Spaghetti Squash

hard rind, and unique flesh that separates into strings when cooked  Microwave steam, or bake/roast whole, then remove seeds and scrape the flesh with a fork to separate film von ard mediatheken.


Buttercup Squash

may be baked or roasted, scoop cooked flesh from skin and puree into soup, mix with cheese and herbs for fresh pasta or ravioli stuffing.  Carefully peel squash and dice flesh, then add to broth based soups with lentils, beans or leeks all google photos.


Acorn Squash

is an excellent source of dietary fiber and contains vitamin C, B6, magnesium and manganese plus a substantial amount of potassium.  they may be peeled, but are more often cooked with their skin-on.  Peel and dice, or cut into slices along the natural ribs: toss with oils, spices or herbs and bake or roast.  Serve with out without the skin how can I videos from facebook.


Butternut Squash

provides the most valuable of any squash, dollar for dollar because it is thin-skinned, has a small cavity with fewer seeds and less waste than with most other squashes.  As with other squashes the butternut squash benefits from baking which the develops and deepens the flavor mp3 converter kostenlos musik herunterladen.


Ambercup Squash

A relative to the buttercup squash that resembles a small pumpkin with orange skin.  Bright orange flesh has a dry sweet taste.  Peel it, cute the flesh, roast it, and serve like cut up sweet potatoes.  Has an extraordinarily long storage life.  Available June to November hart beat downloaden.


Carnival Squash

Cream colored with orange spots or pale green with dark green spots in vertical stripes.  Carnival squash have hard, thick skins and only the flesh is eaten.  It is sometimes labeled as a type of acorn squash.  The delicious yellow meat is reminiscent of sweet potatoes and butternut squash can be baked or steamed and them combines with butter and fresh herbs.  Also great in soups musik mit video herunterladen.

 
Delicata Squash 

Also called peanut squash and Bohemain squash.  This is one of the tastier winter squashes, with creamy pulp that tastes a bit like corn and sweet potatoes.  Size may range from 5 to 10 inches in length.  The squash can be baked or steamed.  The tin skin is also edible.  The squash is most commonly baked, but can also be microwaved, sauteed or steamed.  It may be stuffed with meat or vegetable mixtures happy birthday to.


Sweet Dumpling

This small, mildly sweet-tasting squash resembles a miniature pumpkin with its top pushed in.  It has cream-colored skin with green specks.  Weighing only about seven ounces, it has sweet and tender orange flesh and is a great size for stuffing and baking as individual servings.  Sweet dumplings are tiny but great for roasting and presenting whole.

Happy cooking!  Friends, share your squash ideas and recipes with me please!

Enjoy!

Cheers!
~Chris

 

 

 

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“Perfect” Scones

Written By: Chris - Oct• 26•12

Bill and I learned how to make the “Perfect Scone” while on vacation and in our fun cooking course in the “bon appetite culinary center” on board the Oceania Cruise Ship with Executive Chef Kathryn Kelly how to paid apps for free.

Scones are delightful for breakfast, brunch and/or for tea (if you’re into that sort of thing!) This recipe is for cream scones and was a favorite at tea time on the Oceania Cruises’ ship!  Scones, like frittatas, are extremely versatile.  You can add chives or a little Stilton cheese for a savory variation.  Chef Katheryn mentioned that her mother in law loves black walnuts and a little cinnamon in her scones.  You might want to add lemon or orange zest, nuts, and cheeses to your scones for flavor – just be sure to add small amounts so they do not overwhelm this great recipe.  Bill wanted me to prepare them with fresh blueberries, so I did recently when we had friends over for a wood cutting weekend and they turned out delicious premiere elements!


Ingredients:

3/4 Cup all-purpose Flour
1 Tablespoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
2 Tablespoons unsalted Butter, melted and cooled
1 Egg Yolk, Medium
2 Tablespoons Heavy Cream
1/2 Cup fresh-frozen Blueberries, if desired

In a medium bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Make a well and mix in the butter and egg yolk.  Gradually add the cream and continue to mix JUST until the dough comes together.  DO NOT overwork the dough lieder direkt von youtube herunterladen.

Transfer the dough to a work surface (if you wish to add blueberries, chives, nuts, zest, work them into the dough with the palm of your hand.) Form the dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes warzone auf ps4 herunterladen. (We did not do this resting step and ours turned out delicious!)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  On a lightly floured work surface, roll and shape the dough to about 1-inch thick kaufda.de free of charge.

Using a sharp knife or a baker’s cutter, cut the dough into preferred shapes.  Triangles or circles are the most common typekit font downloaden.

Bake the scones until slightly browned, about 10 minutes.  Baking time may vary according to the size of the scones herunterladen.

At the ships tea time, scones are typically served with clotted cream and raspberry jam, which is how we ate ours!  Clotted cream is made by indirectly heating full-cream cow’s milk using steam or a water bath and then leaving it in shallow pans to cool slowly download internet explorer voor mac. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms ‘clots’ or ‘clouts.  It reminded me of Mascarpone, which is a soft and delicious Italian cheese made from cream.  Scones do not keep well, so they are best enjoyed immediately chess game download for free.

Enjoy Download app apple tv 2!

Cheers!
~Chris (and Bill!)

 

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Chicken, Shrimp & Beef Fajita Salad

Written By: Chris - Oct• 25•12

I know, I know… I’ve made Fajita’s before and blogged about them.  We really just don’t ever get tired of them and this time I prepared them in my WOK and we ate them as a salad!  Years ago, I invested in my official WOK and it’s one of my favorite kitchen tools vavoo apk 1.35!  According to Wikipedia, a wok  is a versatile round-bottomed cooking vessel that originated in China.  It is one of the most common cooking utensils and is also used in East and Southeast Asia.  They are often used for stir frying, steaming, pan frying, deep frying, poaching, boiling, braising, searing and stewing bilder herunterladen facebook sichtbar!   Wok cooking is done with a long handled chahn (or spatula) or with a hoak (ladle). The long extensions of these utensils allow the cook to work with the food without burning the hand.  When I had my appliances upgraded and gas piped into the kitchen, I chose an awesome range that included a burner to fit my wok excel windows 7 kostenlos download!

Fajita’s always come to mind when ever I have a left over steak on hand in the fridge.  I pulled out a couple chicken tenderloins from the freezer along with a couple delicious jumbo shrimp that I picked up at Costco and served it with some Blue Corn chips.  For some reason these chips just “seem” healthier to me and somehow make it easier to indulge in them!  Don’t be fooled, both blue corn tortilla chips and regular tortilla chips contain 140 calories per ounce, according to the FatSecret website.  Blue corn tortilla chips have 6 g of fat per ounce, while regular tortilla chips have 7 g of fat per ounce… so I guess they are a little bit healthier! Just eat fachbücher illegalen!


Ingredients:

1 Green Bell Pepper
equivalent of Red, Orange and/or Yellow Peppers
1 Sweet Onion
1 Beef Steak (left over fillet)
4 Chicken Tenderloins
6 to 8 Jumbo Shrimp
Stir fry Oil
1 Package of your favorite Fajita Seasoning
Salt & Pepper
Lettuce
Spinach
Tomatoes
Salsa
Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese
Chips
Light Sour Cream

Prepare all of your items.  Cut left over steak, clean and peel and de-vein shrimp and cut into thirds (depending on how large they are).  Clean and chop peppers and set aside and dice chicken

Clean and chop onion.  Begin to cook the onion in about a tablespoon of oil within the wok over medium-high heat – tossing frequently until they become translucent.  Add chopped chicken and cook while tossing until it is cooked through Download videos from web pages.

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Add peppers and cook tossing constantly for about three minutes prior to adding the rare slices of beef download apk files.

Follow the instructions on the seasoning packet and set aside.  Toss in Shrimp and cook only for a few minutes until they are no longer translucent and turn from grey to pink.  Add seasoning sauce and toss constantly

Cook only until sauce thickens some and remove from heat!  Serve on a bed of lettuce and spinach and top with your favorite toppings download hp driver software.
We enjoyed this with one of my favorites!  Mitch’s 2007 Pure Cru Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley!  Splendid youtube spot!

Enjoy herunterladen!

Cheers!
~Chris

 

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