A Few More for You

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*This isn't supposed to be a blog exclusively about food or recipes in particular. It just happens to be that way right now. Perhaps I will take you all by surprise by whipping out some galvanizingly political diatribe for my next piece. Until then, try some tasty food.*
If you are annoyed by my overuse of our little friend the asterisk, sorry, I just don't know yet how to do any fancier formatting. Or, rather, get over it, it's my b*l*o*g. At least it's not a comma splice.*

I got all het up about this-here recipe experimentation, then the responses stopped coming and the excitement fizzled. Perhaps a few more recipes will get things going. Every one of these looks delicious! I hope to try a few this weekend and report back to you.

In the meantime, a friend of mine reports that the taco pie is delicious.

*A lovely lady from Alabama sent the two following recipes:

MEXICAN WON TONS

Ingredients:
1 lb cooked, crumbled, drained sausage
1 green pepper diced
1 sm. can chopped black olives
1 8 oz. bottle ranch dressing
2 cups shredded Mexican cheese
1-2 packs of wontons (60 ct.)

Directions:

Preheat oven for 350 degrees and get as many mini muffin pans as possible. Cook, crumble, drain sausage & mix in all the ingredients in large bowl. Take wontons and put into mini muffin pan to form a basket. Cook wontons for 5 minutes to make crispy. Then spoon 1 heaping tablesppon of sausage mixture into wonton baskets and put back into oven for about 7 minutes until wontons are golden brown.

* They make great appetizers for a party!


CARAMELITAS

(I acutally melt real caramels in a double broiler - 1 pkg mixed with some half-andhalf - for this recipe instead of using caramel ice cream topping and if you are a caramel lover, it's amazing! I also don't include walnuts b/c I don't like nuts.)

Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups quick-cooking oats
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups butter or margarine, melted
1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 (12 ounce) jar caramel topping
Preheat oven to 350*F
Grease bottom and sides of a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan.
Combine 2 cups flour, oats, brown sugar, baking soda, salt and butter in a large bowl.
Firmly press half the mixture into the bottom of baking dish; reserve remaining half for the top.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle the chocolate chips and walnuts over the crust.
Mix the caramel topping with the 6 tablespoons flour, mixing well.
Drizzle caramel mixture over the chocolate chips and nuts.
Sprinkle the remaining oat mixture evenly over the caramel.
Bake for an additional 20 to 22 minutes.
Cool completely before cutting into bars.

* These last two recipes are from a woman in Israel.

1)Spinach Angel-hair with a tomato/garbonzo sauce
1pk of spinach angel-hair pasta
1 can of chopped tomato
1 pk of cherry tomatoes
1 can of garbanzo beans
oregano
basil
sage
2-3 garlic cloves (pressed or chopped)
salt
pepper
red pepper
To make the sauce:
heat up in a sauce pan some olive oil. then put garlic
in heat that up for about 30 sec add the other spices
as much as you want
then add the tomatoes and lastly add the beans.
Heat all of that up and then mix the pasta and add parmesan 0n-top.

2)Tofu with asparagus:
Grill asparagus in oven with olive-oil rosemary and
garlic until somewhat crunchy.
Finely chop tofu (extra firm) then put tofu in hot pan
with olive oil tumeric, garlic, salt, pepper, basil
until brown and somewhat crunchy.

Recipe number two

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I am changing nothing but the formatting of these recipes. The only suggestions I'll make will appear above the title of the recipe. Everything from the title on is copied, pasted, and then spaced and underlined to look pretty.

This comes from an equally prompt resident of the great flat midwest.

Tomatoe Soup

This soup is my husbands favourite, I hope you enjoy it as much as he does.
Ingredients:
4 to 5 medium ripe tomatoes
3 cups chicken broth
1 Whole lemon juice
1 teaspoon finely chopped onions
1 table spoon flour or a little more dissolved in some water.
1 teaspoon sugar
1 table spoon soy sauce
cream
paprika
Ground ginger
salt n pepper
( Note the igredients are approx since I dont really follow a recepie, soyou can adjust according to tatse )
Directions: Make a small slit in tomatoes and soak in a hot bowl of water for about10 minutes, then peel tomatoe skin, and blend them in a blender.stir fry onions in butter or olive oil, add tomatoes and let cook until itboils and its red darkens abit. Add broth, ginger, paprika, sugar, soy sauce, dissolved flour, then lemonsalt and pepper let it thicken then serve with some cream on top. Hope you like it.

Woohoo!

I got my first recipe, and it has filled me with glee. I bet it is delicious with ground turkey or boca crumbles (if you are using the latter, though, be sure to add plenty of oil to the pan, and don't skimp on the seasonings).

Maybe I'll test these before I post them, and maybe I won't.



This is fascinating--we could see what kind of recipes we get from different regions, or from people I've met at different stages of my life. Ooh, I am so excited. Geesh, I am such a food-geek. Perhaps just an everything-geek

Well, this recipe comes from a lovely (and apparently very prompt) lady in the South. I did not ask her specific permission to include her name, so I won't.

Taco Pie



Ingredients

1 lb. lean ground meat

1 packet of taco seasoning mix

1 package of crescent rolls

1 egg

2-1/2 to 3 Cups grated cheese (I use sharp cheddar plus a mexican blend)

Sour cream (optional)

Tomatoes (optional)

1 small onion (optional)

1 small can green chiles (optional)

Pie pan



Directions Preheat oven to 350 desgrees. Brown 1 lb. of lean ground meat, add taco seasoning, following the packet directions. Add finely chopped onions (if you like) and simmer for a few minutes. While meat is browning, place the triangles of dough from the crescent rolls into the pie plate, pressing together so they form a pie crust in the pan. Place pan w/crust in oven for about 5 minutes. Remove pan from oven. Mix egg and pour into the pan, spreading it around. Next, cover the bottom of the pan w/grated cheese. Add green chiles to meat mixture (if desired). Pour meat mixture into pie pan (on top of the egg). Add remaining cheese to the top (sometimes I mix some of the cheese in with the meat mixture, just depends on how much I have). Place in oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove and let stand for 10 minutes. Cut in pie-like slices and serve with sour cream and pico de gallo. Goes well with a small side salad, also.

I dream of a pool full of quick, delicious recipes I have not eaten once a week for the past six months.

This is a copy of an e-mail I sent this morning, including the forwarded chain letter portion at the bottom, which I obviously did not write. I went back and counted, and I sent it to 19 people. Now you can start your own, unless I already sent this to you, which I probably did.


Hi,

When you were nine, it was a chain letter for new friends and penpals. Then you got a little older, and somebody tried to convince you if you sent a dollar to the person at the top of the list, you would receive three kajillion dollars and never have to do another book report (like all pyramid schemes, irrationally tempting, despite its fishiness and eventual illegality. Kind of like the lottery, which is still legal). Then it was a panty exchange, in which I did not participate, mostly because I hate the word "panty".

Now we are all grown up. Well, sort of. Ok, not really, but we all have grown-up kitchens, with stoves instead of hot plates and freezers that are completely separate from the refrigerators. All you big city folks about to contradict me, move to Richmond and you can have all this and more!

I will post all delicious recipes I receive on my blog, so all three of my readers can try them out too.

Read on for the instructions, as well as some rather fuzzy math about how many recipes you should eventually receive (perhaps they are trying to predict how many people will actually forward this, then how many of their friends will actually send a recipe. I doubt that much effort went into it, though, and the random number 36 has more to do with daydreaming about what you would do with all those dollars arriving one by one through the mail and turning your bedroom into a Scrooge McDuck-style swimming pool instead of paying attention in math class).

It all goes out the window, anyway, because who knows exactly twenty people who are computer literate, enjoy goofy things, and like to cook and talk about food? I've assessed you all to meet the above-listed criteria, and if you don't, or you're annoyed I sent you this, I'm sorry. Just delete it, no hard feelings. At least not on my part.
xo,
Me

1. myfriend@something.com
2. me@something.com

You've been invited to be part of a recipe exchange. Please send a recipe to the person whose name is listed in the number 1 positionabove (even if you don't know them) and it should preferably be something quick, easy, without rare ingredients. Actually, the bestis the one you know in your head, and can type out and send right now. Then, copy this letter into a new email, move my name to the number 1 position, and put your name in the number 2 position. Only your nameand mine should appear in this list when you send out your email.Send this to 20 friends. If you cannot do this within 5 days, pleaselet me know so it will be fair to those participating. You shouldreceive 36 recipes. It is fun to see where these recipes come from!Seldom does anyone drop out because we can all use new recipes! The turn around is fast because only 2 names are on the list.