Chocolate!!!

I found a really great website full of chocolate recipies that this guy has made up. It has a whole list of chocolate truffles that I really, really want to try next Christmas. I love Chocolate!!!

Really Yummy Fudge Brownies

These brownies are really delicious. They're a little flat because they have no leavening, but they taste amazing. Enjoy!

Ingredients :

1/2 cup Butter or margarine
1/2 cup Cocoa
1 cup Packed brown sugar
2 Eggs
1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
1/2 cup All-purpose flour
1 cup Mini chocolate chips
1/4 tsp Salt


Method :

* Melt the butter/margarine in a medium saucepan.
* Remove from heat and stir in the cocoa. Stir in the brown sugar, then beat in the eggs and the vanilla extract. Blend in the flour, the walnuts, and the salt.
* Spread evenly in a greased 8 inch square pan.
* Bake at 350 F(180 C) from 20 to 25 minutes. Cool. Make about 16 brownies.

Tilapia

Wow, it's been awhile. I just learned how to make tilapia - and it's really easy! You can also use this recipe for mahi-mahi, snapper, or any other white fish (although halibut, I'm told, is best with just a bit of lemon juice.)

Buy fish.
Crumble some saltines (as finely as possible) and put the crumbs on a plate.
Pour a little milk in a pan.
Grease a casserole dish with cooking spray, oil, or butter.
Dip fish in milk, then coat fish in crumbs, then place in greased pan.
Bake at 375 for about 20-30 minutes, or until flaky.

Yum!

Cumin Cabbage

This recipe Katie and I kind of made up to use the excess of cabbage we had. It's really good, and extremely simple to make. You can eat it plain, or with rice.

Sauté some cabbage and onions in olive oil.
While sautéing add a bunch of cumin, some curry, a bit of garlic, a pinch of salt, and a smidge of pepper.
That's it folks!! Enjoy!

Cheese Beans

Hey everyone, I'm back from MN and I have lots of recipes to share!! Here's one of my favorites:

Cheese Beans (from Moosewood)

Begin soaking 3 cups raw beans at least 3 1/2 hours before you plan to assemble.

Ingredients:
6 cups cooked (3 c. raw) pinto or kidney beans
2 cups chopped onions
2 large cooking apples, in chunks
2 cups grated mild, white cheese (Muenster or Monterey Jack are best)
4 medium sized tomatos
6 T dry, white wine
2 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. dry mustard
salt (about 1 1/2 tsp.)
pepper

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 deg.
Clean the beans and soak at least 1 1/2 hours. Cook them, partially covered, about 1 1/2 hours.
Saute the onion in butter or olive oil and add chili powder and mustard.
Combine cooked beans (make sure they are cooked enough) with onions and remaining ingredients.
Pour into greased casserole dish, cover, and bake at 350 deg. for 35-40 minutes. Serve with fresh corn bread, or over rice.

Sounds Yummy, Miriam

(Except for the whole pinapple thing, because I hate pinapple). But nice job updating our little blog. I have several recipes I want to contribute, but I may have to wait until the end of the summer because I think I would look kind of funny bringing my cookbooks to the library!!

Cool fruity Dessert

As I currently have no job (yet), I have been filling my time with cooking for my family. I've made chicken curry and today I made raspberry muffins! But the recipe I'm going to share is an easy one (yea!) and very tasty.

Ingredients:
One package cream cheese
One cup of shredded pineapple (drained)
One cup of strawberries (frozen from last year works well, maybe better b/c of the juice)

Mix together, stick in freezer until it's somewhat or really frozen, depending on preference. (ours was really frozen, I think I would've preferred somewhat.) Eat!!

Supposedly serves 4, but we did 6 servings, and I probably could've eaten the whole thing myself. (but not in one sitting of course...)