Food Recipes: Varying from the Norm
The Internet has a virtual library of food recipes that I want to explore. I've tried a few here and there, but I want to try some more. After all, Variety is the Spice of Life.
This lens will mark my food recipe explorations from books, magazines, experimentation, and Internet resources.
What is a Recipe?
A recipe is a set of instructions that describe how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish.
Modern culinary recipes normally consist of several components:
*The name (and often the locale or provenance) of the dish
*How much time it will take to prepare the dish
*The required ingredients along with their quantities or proportions
*Equipment and environment needed to prepare the dish
*An ordered list of preparation steps
*The number of servings that the recipe will provide
*the texture and flavour
Some recipes will note how long the dish will keep and its suitability for freezing. Nutritional information, such as calories per serving and grams of protein, fat, and carbohydrates per serving, may also be given.
Earlier recipes often included much less information, serving more as a reminder of ingredients and proportions for someone who already knew how to prepare the dish.
Recipe writers sometimes also list variations of a traditional dish, to give different tastes of the same recipes.
Step Outside of the Box!
My favorite cookbook can be found in a cabinet above my pantry. It's the Betty Crocker Cookbook (pictured below). I love this cook book, not because of the food recipes, because of the notations by my Nana--the world's greatest cook.Nana was my grandmother. She taught me how to cook. You can read more about the experience in Cooking Hamburger Helper Outside of the Box - Just like Grandma Used to Make.
From those early experiences I realized that food recipes are not written in granite. Recipes are meant to be changed and improved upon.
Nana's Betty Crocker Cookbooks
My Favorite Cookbook!
Betty Crocker Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition
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Family Night Dinner Ideas Blog
A blog featuring new recipes we're trying on family night.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byA Simple Food Recipe: Garlic Toast
Pictured right is my Garlic Toast. You can make it yourself to go with any food recipes, especially Pasta.What you need:
French Bread
Margarine
Pam Spray
Garlic Salt
Parsley
Parmesan (fresh works best)
Putting it together:
1. Slice your French Bread 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick, thicker is better.
2. Butter both sides of your bread with Margarine.
3. Sprinkle a garlic salt and Parsley mix on one side (I like Lawrys Garlic Salt, it already has the parsley and it has no MSG).
4. Frying pan heated to medium high heat (Pam sprayed to prevent sticking).
5. Throw in your bread to begin browning the salted side.
6. Sprinkle some Parmesan cheese on the uncooked side. (You do not have to have the Parmesan. The Garlic toast is good without it too.)
7. Flip the bread to brown the other side.
8. Serve warm.
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Use Garlic Bread with Several Food Recipes
Food Recipes: Show What You Know
I like to include food recipes in my Internet articles when I can, if I feel it is appropriate. It's also a nice tribute to good old home cooking. For instance, at the end of A Comparison of Del Monte Sloppy Joe Sauce Vs. Hunt's Manwich Original Sloppy Joe Sauce you will find my own Sloppy Joe recipe.I included a recipe for my Cracker Baked Chicken at the end of A Comparison: Clover Valley Cheese Snack Crackers Vs. Sunshine Cheez-it Brand Crackers.
Cook Books to Peruse
Picked Fresh From My Peach Tree!
Cooking Recipes from the Net: Peach Cobbler
I wanted a simple recipe without a lot of ingredients or preparation involved. I found a Fresh Peach Cobbler Recipe on Recipe Zarr that fit the bill.
The ingredients are things you can probably find in your pantry right now. A real treat for me because we live so far from a grocery store.
Here's how the Peach Cobbler Recipe turned out for me:
With some Vanilla Ice Cream on top, we're talking heaven in a bowl. This one is not tart and not overly sweet.
I think the next time I make it I'm going to add a bit more nutmeg and perhaps some cinnamon.
Kudos to the creator, MizzNezz! (It looks like she's got some other stuff I may have to give a spin in my kitchen.)
Since Variety gives You More
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Show Your Cooking Pride
Cooking Recipes from the Net: Portabella Mushroom Burgers
Take a look at how my attempt came out:
This recipe was a stretch outside of our norm where burgers are concerned. My husband and I both love mushrooms so we decided to give it a try. The results were fantastic. Our youngest even liked them!
You really could not tell you were eating a mushroom. The marinade truly makes the mushroom juicy and meaty tasting. We will do this one again and again. We broiled the pictured burgers, next time we're grilling them.
Mexican Food Recipes for Added Spice
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Tamales For Christmas
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How To Make Great Chili Without a Recipe
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Recipe Keepers
If you are anything like me, you read magazines. Some magazines are geared toward food and recipes. I really like Woman's World for their food recipes, tips, and tricks.Woman's World has a recipe card section that highlights four recipes per issue. On one side is an image and recipe title on the other is the how to.
I found these nifty small photo albums at Dollar General. They hold and protect 100 cards. Call me crazy, but sometimes food recipes need to be held in your hand.
I have a large photo album for full page recipe layouts. These albums all rest aside of my Nana's Betty Crocker Cookbook. I'll say it again, Variety is the Spice of Life! In the case of cookbooks and recipes, the more the merrier for me.
Food Recipe Album
More Recipe Keepers
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Some of My Favorite Food Recipes
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Recipes Using Cream of Mushroom Soup: Versatility in a Can!
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A Lasagna Recipe Anyone Can Make
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Cooking on Google
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Cooking Gear
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- Eclectic_Muse Eclectic_Muse Apr 23, 2009 @ 4:08 pm | in reply to poutine
- Hey! Let me tell you, that recipe is super easy and good! I've been watching my peach tree since it started budding this spring. I'm like an animal watching it's prey with it. I will get the peaches before the birds, bugs, and deer again this year!
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- poutine poutine Apr 23, 2009 @ 10:59 am
- Your Peach Cobbler picture has me salivating...
I'll have to try and make it this summer when
the peaches are in season.
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- poutine poutine Apr 23, 2009 @ 10:56 am
- Variety is the Spice of Life! has been added to your lensroll on the following lenses:
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- CleanerLife CleanerLife Aug 10, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
- My mom had a Betty Crocker cookbook like your Nana's, and it had to be replaced with another Betty Crocker cookbook when it was lost -- it's the one she uses the most!
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- poddys poddys Jul 31, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
- Nice recipes and ideas (well except for the mushrooms... yuck! LOL). 5***** for a good lens.
Go Back to...
- What is a Recipe?
- Step Outside of the Box!
- Nana's Betty Crocker Cookbooks
- My Favorite Cookbook!
- Family Night Dinner Ideas Blog
- A Simple Food Recipe: Garlic Toast
- Buy Bulk and Freeze!
- Food Recipes: Show What You Know
- Cook Books to Peruse
- Picked Fresh From My Peach Tree!
- Cooking Recipes from the Net: Peach Cobbler
- Since Variety gives You More
- Show Your Cooking Pride
- Cooking Recipes from the Net: Portabella Mushroom Burgers
- Mexican Food Recipes for Added Spice
- Recipe Keepers
- Food Recipe Album
- More Recipe Keepers
- Some of My Favorite Food Recipes
- Cooking on Google
- Cooking Gear
- You Can Build Your Own Cooking Lens!
- Love This Lens? Please help give it a boost...
- Do You have a Food Recipe to Share?
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