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Baked Brie, Swiss and Mushroom Stuffed Loaf Appetizer

Written By: Chris - Apr• 13•12

I recently had this dish when friends brought it over prepared in a round sour dough loaf.  I basically made it with my own revisions and since I was having several guests, decided to hollow the center of a french bread loaf scratch kostenlos downloaden deutsch.

Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons Butter
1/4 Cup Onion, chopped fine
2 Garlic cloves
12 – 14 ounces Fresh baby Portabella Mushrooms
1 (8 ounce) wedge Brie cheese, rind removed, cubed
1 (1 pound) loaf French Bread
1/3 Cup Parmesan cheese
1/3 Cup Red peppers
1/2 Cup Swiss cheese
3/4 Cup fresh Spinach
2 teaspoons White Pepper

In a saucepan over low heat, melt the butter download xbox app. Saute the chopped mushrooms until tender.  Add onion, peppers and garlic and cook until the onions are translucent.   Mix in the Brie until melted smooth.  Add Swiss and Parmesan cheese as well as the chopped spinach download silverlight mac. Cook and stir until melted and well blended.

Remove the top of the French bread loaf allowing the sides to come up while shaping sort of a bowl hollowing out the center youtube musikvideos herunterladen. Spoon the mushroom and cheese mixture into the bread. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

Place the filled bread on a baking stone, and bake at 400 for about 15-20 minutes until the top is lightly browned.   Then change oven to boiler setting and cook while watching carefully until cheese is nice and brown.  Cool slightly allowing the filling to set up, and slice into wedges to serve Download half life 2.

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Cheers!
~Chris

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Stuffed Chile Verde Peppers

Written By: Chris - Apr• 13•12

I was inspired to make this dish because Bill loves green bell peppers.  These peppers looked so bright and fresh in the grocery store that I thought I would pick them up and go for a healthy and easy filling with much of what I had on hand in my fridge bloons td 5 kostenloser download.

If you haven’t tried a variety of peppers, I encourage you to do so!  There are so many flavors and heat levels out there that you may not realize that many of them are sweet and not HOT!  The description for these peppers: large (5 to 8 inches long, 1 1/2 to 2 inches wide, tapering to a point), mild chiles have a thick skin, and are usually a bright, shiny green herunterladen. Available year-round in most supermarkets, they’re best in the summer. The flavor ranges from mild and sweet to moderate hot,they can vary greatly from pepper to pepper download not possible try it later s3. They are perfect for stuffing, but also for chiles rellenos, dice or purée them for sauces, soups, and casseroles.

Ingredients:

4 large Chile Verde Peppers
1/2 large Onion
1/2 lb typo herunterladen. ground Turkey
3 Garlic cloves
3/4 Cup (or so) Plum or Grape Tomatoes
2/3 Cup of Ricotta cheese (low fat)
4 oz. Cream Cheese (low fat)
1/2 Cup Greek Yogurt (non fat)
8 oz amazon music music. Mozzarella (divided)
3/4 C (small bunch) Cilantro
2 Tablespoons Sugar (or Xylitol)
2 Tablespoons Paprika

Sauce:
can of tomato sauce
2 Tablespoons Italian Seasoning

Start by browning the chopped onion with the ground turkey until cooked through.  Add 2 cloves of crushed garlic and cook a few minutes longer.  Over low heat, mix in the Ricotta, cream cheese, yogurt, mozzarella and crushed tomatoes.  Season with salt & pepper to taste.  Allow to cool slightly youtube downloaden op ps4.

  
 

Using a small sharp knife, slice an “X” in the bottom of each pepper blumenbilder zumen kostenlos.

Fill a piping bag with the stuffing and pipe into the peppers I want to download apache openoffice.

Cover with sauce and sprinkle with half of the mozzarella cheese netflix auf ps4 filme downloaden. Bake 350 for about 20 – 30 minutes

I served these with crustini’s drizzled with olive oil and rubbed with fresh garlic.  Drizzle and bake on stone until the doneness you prefer es 2 downloaden film deutsch.
Rub with fresh garlic

We enjoyed this meal with a wonderful bottle from Biale Vineyards.  It was a bit spicy and delicious!

Enjoy!

Cheers!
~Chris

 

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Cape Hake & Grilled Zucchini

Written By: Chris - Apr• 07•12

So I had never heard of “Cape Hake”…  Have you?

I actually bought some frozen at a reasonable price after sampling at Costco.  To help you understand what we describe it as… It reminds me of a combination of Tillapia and Cod.  Bill says it reminds him of Walleye free whatsapp download iphone. None the less, I decided to grill it along with some fresh Zucchini.

 

It was a BEAUTIFUL Minnesota (early) spring evening and we wanted to hang out on the deck… video aus interneten.

For us, there isn’t much more wonderful than enjoying time out on the peaceful deck… soaking in the tolerable temperatures of the “off seasons” where it isn’t too cold of winter months, nor too hot and humid from our summer days…  Also, there isn’t much better than the flavor of GRILLED (anything)! dj software kostenlos download vollversion deutsch!

This dish is not going to include an “ingredients list”, rather if you simply follow along, I’m confident you can prepare it as you’ll see you likely have most of the ingredients on hand….  I did sendungen von tvnow downloaden!

Slice Zucchini (yellow and green) into very nice thin pieces, leaving the skins on for added nutrients.  Dress with extra virgin olive oil and simply season them with salt and pepper oude pc games.

For the fish, use an oil that can handle the heat of the grill.  I use vegetable or Canola oil.  Mix it with about two tablespoons of Dill paste, one tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice and one large crushed garlic clove.  Distribute evenly on the fish and season with salt and pepper herunterladen.

   

Place the fish on a clean grill that has been heated to medium high heat and sprayed with nonstick cooking spray windows office for free in full.

Cook for roughly three to five minutes without moving… until you can see the fish turning from translucent to white in color herunterladen.

 

Once the fish has begun to turn white in color, add the zucchini.  Turn the heat to high.  The zucchini will only cook for about a minute or two on the first side prior to turning google play store appen android!

We did not have a carbohydrate with this meal because we had enjoyed some crustini’s earlier sipping on the delicious wine.  What a delightful, delicious and healthy meal musik legal downloaden kostenlos ohne anmeldung!

I’m going to share some of the other pictures from our time on the back grill… I hope you can feel the enjoyment we had in the ambiance we experienced with this great dish!

Enjoy!
~Chris

   

Cheers!

 

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~Chris

 

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Hot Spinach & Artichoke Dip

Written By: Chris - Apr• 07•12

Artichoke dip is one of the most simple, but rich and delicious hot appetizer treats that can be tossed together in literally just minutes!

I have made variations from this simple recipe by using low fat mayonnaise, adding chopped spinach (This recipe with the images includes about a cup of chopped fresh spinach – but can be prepared simply as “Artichoke dip” for those who prefer not to have spinach.) and it can easily be doubled for a larger group.  I prefer to bake this in the oven so the cheese bubbles and get’s nice and brown, but have also prepared it in a crock pot so that it stays hot throughout a gathering over many hours Download the photo frame program for free.

This cooked image was borrowed.  Sometimes I get so busy that I forget to take pictures of the finished products from time to time when I have a lot going on! 

Ingredients:
1/2 Cup Mayonnaise
1 can Artichoke hearts
1 Cup Spinach (fresh, chopped)
1/2 Cup Parmesan Cheese – grated
4 oz amazon prime music download for free. Mozzarella Cheese – shredded
1 Garlic clove

Make sure you start with (NON pickled artichokes).  Drain them and I prefer to chop them into small pieces so that it is distributed throughout, rather than big chunks.  Also use chopped fresh spinach office home & student 2019 herunterladen.

Simply add all of the ingredients together and add the cheese.  Place into a sprayed oven safe dish

 

Bake at 350 for about 25/30 minutes or until bubbling and evenly browned on the top foto's icloud downloaden windows! Allow to rest for about five minutes.
Serve with crackers or as I prefer, slices crustini’s that have been drizzled with olive oil and rubbed with fresh garlic tutu app ios free!

Enjoy!

Cheers!
~Chris

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Chicken Noodle Soup

Written By: Chris - Apr• 05•12

Soup is something we never get tired of.  I often make it in the cold months of winter in Minnesota, but then freeze it in smaller portioned dishes so that we can pull it out through out the several months and enjoy variety in our diet download navigator for free.

This was the latest version of Chicken Noodle Soup prepared with prepared rotisserie chicken!  It is an easy to make – thick delicious and healthy soup that even the kids will like cv design downloaden!

 

Ingredients:
1 Rotisserie Chicken (prepared and store-bought)
2 quarts of Chicken Stock
1/2 package of (No Yolk) thin noodles
1 large Onion
6 medium Carrots
3 stalks of Celery
1 teaspoon Celery Salt
2 Tablespoons Butter
Salt
Pepper
1/2 Cup half and half

To prepare this easy soup, start by removing all of the meat from the chicken.  Either make your own chicken stock from the carcass of the bird (or pull some from the freezer that you’ve made in the past) or use water and create your own broth with chicken stock soup starter soundcloud musik downloaden pc.

A reminder how to make stock:

Start with your chicken carcass.  Every time I pick up a broasted chicken and have used the majority of the meat for another dish, I save the carcass, skin and any left over drippings from the take out containers and secure them in ziplock packages for the freezer stoneridge karte herunterladen.

To make your home-made chicken stock:

Place chicken carcass in medium-sized pot and just cover with water download pdf android.

 

After washing all of your vegetables, add all of the onion ends, celery scraps, carrot peelings, etc.  Add the bay leaf and continue to simmer for a couple of hours, stirring every so often skyrim mods.
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Saute onions in the butter until they begin to become translucent and begin to caramelized.  Cook over medium high heat and add the other vegetables cooking them until they soften slightly outlook 2010 bilder herunterladen.
After stock has rendered down, run through a strainer discarding the scraps, bones and skin.  Only reserving the liquid.  Allow to cool slightly cliparts kostenlos.
Remove the fat from the broth and return to pot.  Combine all other ingredients and cook on low to medium heat until the pasta is cooked to your liking download images in google.
Roughly about a half an hour or so.
To provide a creamier consistency, I added 1/2 Cup of half and half.  Add salt & pepper to taste!
Enjoy!
Cheers!
~Chris
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