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The Very Best Of Recipes for Health: 250 Recipes and More from the Popular Feature on NYTimes.com
By Martha Rose Shulman
Rodale Books - 2010
I was very drawn to this unusual recipe with tomatillos and green pumpkins seeds. When I dry roasted the pumpkin seeds only one popped and then they continued to brown. However once I removed them from the heat they continued to pop and crackle for a long time. This looked like kiwi in the food processor (which I used instead of the recommended blender) with the dark bits of pumpkin seed contrasting against the lighter green of the tomatillo. I ended with tiny particles in the slightly chunky sauce; it was not smooth, but we loved it. I also left out 2 important ingredients, cilantro and Serrano chili. But it was a visual appealing and nice topping for grilled salmon. It was almost seamless, the flavor of the salmon and green pipian seemed really close and I had to keep checking to see if I had the sauce on my salmon. I would like to try it again when I do have cilantro.
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A carefully fried sunny-side up egg on a corn tortilla with cooked salsa and I used Feta cheese. I had no cilantro, so used chives as a garnish. This was quite different from what I call Huevos Rancheros - scrambled eggs and salsa in a flour tortilla. This was fun to make from ingredients that I had on hand in the refrigerator, and was appreciated.
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This is Huevos Rancheros with a layer of black beans between the corn tortilla and the egg. It brings back great memories of being in Cancun 25 years ago with my family and having a version of this quite frequently while we tried to figure out what was in it. I think there it had a flour tortilla and often the addition of canned peas. This is almost as good. My sister nicknamed it Mutilated Eggs as we had a hard time pronouncing its real name.
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A great quick meal from ingredients you are likely to have on hand. I used white corn tortillas, canned black beans, her cooked salsa and grated cheddar cheese. It is easy to either expand or reduce the number of servings you make. I would have prefered to make it in the skillet, but I needed speed, so made it in less thna 5 minutes in the microwave. A nice emergency dinner.
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We enjoyed this for breakfast though it did feel strange to taste sweet couscous. I made this rather quickly in the morning, micorwaving the couscous twice. I used brown sugar in the boiling water. I added the orange blossom water even though I am not usually a fan and did not mind it here. I used raisins in the couscous and topped it with the oranges, dates and pomegranite arils. Rather than cutting the oranges over the couscous, I quickly peeled and sectioned them by hand, cut the sections into bite-sized pieces and made up for the lack of dripping juice while cutting by splashing some orange juice on top. The pomegranite arils are what made this spectacular for me. However, I don't see myself making this on a regular basis. But it would be nice as a special treat when pomegranites and oranges are in season.
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I could not resist making this recipe with fresh kale from my CSA. I used a mix of very aromatic dried mushrooms and fresh baby bella mushrooms. I love barley and this soup sounded, smelled and looked great. It was not spectacular and seems to be missing something. We did try the thicker leftovers as a pilaf with fish.
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This did not seem so different from our usual sauteed summer squash recipe. I used half summer squash and half zucchini. But I like that the squash was in 1/4" dice, not our usual diagonal rounds. The onion was also a nice addition. Instead of the red pepper, I added a Cubanelle pepper that I don't always know what to do with from the CSA. For herbs I looked at the herbed cheese variation and decided to add dried marjorum. This was fragrant, delicious and perfectly cooked. There are two variations and the summer succotach with black beans also sounds intriguing.
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There was a fair amount of chopping involved. I loved the interesting mix of zuchinni, corn, bell bepper, onion and toasted cumin seeds. I could have used more of the cumin, but the flavor was good. I baked it in my 2 quart pyrex dish and it baked perfectly. I was suprised and impressed that the other two members of the family finished off this 6 serving size dish and there were no leftovers for lunch the next day.
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Western National Park Lodges Cookbook
By Kathleen Bryant
Northland - 2007
We had this dish in Paradise Lodge in Mount Ranier National Park. It tasted better in the Lodge than when I cooked it. It only has eggs and vegetables, no starch for a binder. The size of the dish was not specified, so I put it in my usual loaf pan. It took much longer than specified to cook. My second mistake was to poor off "the fat" to see if that would help it cook faster, when I saw yellow going down the drain, I realized I had poured off the binder, the result was grainy, but my family really enjoyed it, especially with the sauce. When I repeat this recipe I will probably cut it in half and only use one pound of bison (high cost of bison) to feed four. I plan to cook individual meatloaves, that should help the cooking it all the way through problem.
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Website: Wild Yeast
A great use of that semolina flour (it takes half semolina and half regular flour) left over from the Moroccan cooking challenge. This is a simple and interesting recipe. There is no leavening agent, but the dough is left to rest at several intervals. My only pasta machine is dedicated to Fimo clay, so I rolled the crackers by hand in a circle. I liked using a single piece of parchment paper for each one; it made it easy to roll out and get on and off of the pizza stone. Timing is critical. I had a few get over cooked and a few were undercooked and not quite crispy. I used the black sesame seeds she suggested for the first batch and cumin seeds for the second batch. They were both excellent. My third batch with half unhulled sesame seeds and half cumin seeds was my favorite.
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Website: Wilton
Very cheesy crackers that make up quickly once you are done finely grating the 1 pound of sharp cheddar. The dough seemed stiff and dry - unusual for my climate, but worked fine. The dough strained my small plastic cookie press, but worked great in my Mom's old aluminum one. The crackers were incredibly cheesy and the other flavorings worked well. The cookie press patterns that made a flat cookie turned out very crisp, and the thicker had a creamy center. At first I thought it would be best to have them all crisp, but the variety was very nice. I found this recipe while looking for our favorite cookie recipe that I could share on cookbooker. I couldn't resist trying this recipe instead to bring to my son away at college. I think it would be a great dish to bring to a party. I used white sharp cheddar and the crackers still had a great color.
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Website: Wilton
These are our favorite spritz cookies, very important for Christmas, Easter and Valentines Day. The secret ingredient is almond extract. The secret for well formed cookies for me is to get them extruded as quickly as possible as you shouldn't refrigerate the dough and the longer it sits the harder it is to makeperfect cookies. I used to put a lot of food cooling into the dough, but now I don't and just use colored sugar. I like my Wilton press as it makes a lot of small cookies, and has great shapes for the holidays - hearts, trees, ducks, rabbits, boys, girls, dolphins! These are also great beacuse the taste of the butter comes through.
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World Food Greece (World Food Series)
By Susanna Tee
Thunder Bay Press (CA) - 2003
This pasta dish featuring frozen seafood cocktail was just what I had been trying to create with canned tomatoes, wine and fresh herbs. However, it just didn't not taste as delicious as it sounded. That may reflect on the frozen seafood I used, so this recipe is worth another try.
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I was so hungry for okra and this really hit the spot. I lucky to find some nice fresh okra. You carefully trim it and then pour vinegar over it and let it sit for 30 minutes. But since it isn't covered with the vinegar, I stirred it frequently. Then it is rinsed and added to fried onions and garlic, add canned tomatoes and simmer. It said to be careful not to boil and I was trying to time it to be ready with the rest of the meal and at the specified time, it was not tender and the sauce had reduced too much, so I added more water and really boiled it and finally had the perfect dish. I only had red onion and really liked it in this dish.
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You grind walnuts and garlic and add it to Greek yogurt and the pan juices of the pan fried then braised chicken. This is an amazingly delicious dish. And yes as you are eating it you can see the sauce turn a light purplish color. But it does not get too dark purple if you have leftovers. Simple but flavorful.
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