Tuna Noodle Casserole

Recipe By : Reader’s Digest Down Home Cooking
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:30
Categories : Casserole

Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
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—-Filling—-
1 tsp olive oil
1/2 c onions — chopped
1/2 c bell peppers — chopped
10 3/4 ozs cream of mushroom soup
1 c fat-free cheddar cheese — grated
1 c fat-free plain yogurt
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
1/2 tsp black pepper
8 ozs elbow macaroni — cooked
12 1/4 ozs tuna in water
2 c frozen corn — thawed
—-Topping—-
1/2 c bread crumbs
1/4 c fat-free parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 350. In a 12″ skillet heat oil over medium heat. Then, cook
onion and bell pepper until tender. Add soup, cheddar cheese, yogurt,
crushed red pepper, black pepper, macaroni shells, and tuna just until
combined. Pour entire mixture into 2 1/2 quart casserole dish. Meanwhile,
combine bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Sprinkle on top of the vegetable
mixture. Bake for 30 minutes.

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Per serving: 376 Calories; 5g Fat (11% calories from fat); 28g Protein; 54g
Carbohydrate; 19mg Cholesterol; 655mg Sodium

POTATO AND SPINACH SOUP

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Soups

Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
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1/2 c Onion (fresh),
-chopped
2 tb Butter
2 c Water
1 t Salt
2 c Potatoes
-(about 2 pounds
-of raw potatoes)
1 t Worcestershire sauce
2 c Spinach (chopped),
-cooked (fresh or frozen)
13 oz Evaporated milk
-(one standard can)
1/2 lb Cheese, grated
-(Cheddar and Swiss
-work best, but any
-kind will do)

In a 3-quart saucepan, saute the onion in the butter
until the onion is translucent (about 3 minutes).

Add water, potatoes, spinach and salt. Cook until
potatoes are tender (about 20 minutes). Longer cooking
does not hurt, but turn down the heat to a simmer. Add
milk and Worcestershire sauce. Reheat to near boiling,
but do not boil. Stir in grated cheese. Serve
immediately.

NOTES:

* A rich cream-style potato and spinach soup for a
cold, winter day — This recipe is adapted from one
that the U.S. Department of Agriculture used to
distribute to potato growers in the 1930s. It is rich
and thick, almost a meal in itself, and is very easy
to make.

: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 30 minutes.
: Precision: no need to measure.
:
: Kathy Wright
: Harris Computer Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust

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Russian Potato and Mushroom Croquettes

Recipe By : Net
Serving Size : 5 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Low-Cal Low-Fat
Pesach Potatoes
Vegetables Burgers

Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
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1 1/2 lbs potatoes — peeled and chopped
5 cups water
1 onion — peeled and chopped
1/4 lb mushrooms
1 tsp oil
1 Tbsp water
salt/pepper to taste
1 cup matzo meal
1 teaspoon oil

Boil potatoes in water til tender. Drain and mash potatoes. In
a separate pan, saute onions and mushrooms in oil and water over
medium-high heat for three minutes. In a large bowl, mix mashed
potatoes, sauteed onions and mushrooms, seasonings and matzo
meal together in a large bowl. Form 10 croquettes. Heat oil in
a large non-stick frying pan over med-high heat and fry croquettes for 8
minutes on each side. Serving size is 2 croquettes per person

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Fruit Soup

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Soups

Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
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3 Tbsp. instant tapioca
2 1/2 C. water
1 Can frozen orange — (6 oz.)
juice (other juices may be substituted)
fresh mint
3 C. fresh fruit

(melons, oranges, nectarines,
peaches and bananas are good choices, but use
whatever is in season)

Combine tapioca and 1 cup of the water. Bring to a boil
and simmer 2 to 3 minutes. Add orange juice and mix until well
blended. Add remaining water. Cover and refrigerate until
thoroughly chilled. Cut fruit into bite-size pieces and add to
chilled soup. Serve in well chilled mugs. Garnish with fresh
mint if available. Makes 6 servings.

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Potato Sweet Biscuits

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 20 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Rolls/Bisc.

Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
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2 medium sweet potatoes — peeled and diced
4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup light brown sugar — packed
5 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
10 Tablespoons margarine
1/3 cup milk

1- In 3-quart saucepan over high heat, heat sweet-potato dices and enough
water to cover to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 12 to 15
minutes until potatoes are fork tender. Drain the potatoes; mash and set
aside to cool.

2- Preheat oven to 425 degress F. In large bowl, combine flour, brown
sugar, baking powder, and salt. With pastry blender cut in margarine until
mixture resembles couarse crumbs. Stir in milk and cooled mashed sweet
potatoes; mix until just combined.

3- On lightly floured surface, pat dough into an 8 1/2-inch square. Cut
dough in half. Cut each half into 10 equal pieces. Place biscuits,
2-inches apart, on 2 ungreased large cookie sheets.

4- Place cookie sheets on 2 oven racks; bake biscuits 12 to 15 minutes
until golden, rotating cookie sheets between upper and lower racks halfway
thruogh baking time.

Serve biscuits warm. Or cool on wire rack, store in tightly covered
container to use within 1 day or wrap in foil and freeze to use within 2
weeks.

NOTES: Per serving: One biscuit; 200 calories. 6g fat, 33g carb.

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Title: Pumpkin Mozarella Lasagne
Categories:
Yield: 4 servings

1 md Onion
1 Clove of garlic, crushed
30 g Margarine, or oil
1 kg Pumpkin
2 tb Freshly chopped sage
Cracked black pepper
Lasagne sheets, instant
300 g Grated mozzarella cheese
40 g Grated parmesan cheese
300 ml Sour cream
2 tb Freshly chopped chives
2 tb Roasted flaked almonds

1/ Fry the thinly sliced onion and garlic in the margarine until
golden brown. Peel the pumpkin and cook until tender, drain well,
then mash.

2/ Mix together the pumpkin, onion mixture and sage. Add salt and
pepper to taste. Grease a 30cm * 20cm lasagne dish. Place a layer
of lasagne sheets in base of dish, top with a third of the pumpkin
mixture then a third of the combined cheeses. Repeat with the
remaining lasagne sheets, pumpkin and cheese.

3/ Mix the sour cream with the chives, spread cream over the top of
the dish.

4/ Bake in moderate oven for 35-40 minutes until lightly browned and
cooked through. Sprinkle with the almonds.

Enjoy!

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Title: SESAME SEA SCALLOPS
Categories: Chinese, Seafood
Yield: 6 servings

1 1/2 lb large sea scallops
1 tb Salad oil
1 tb Soy sauce
2 tb Dry sherry/white wine
2 Egg whites/substitute
1/2 ts Ground ginger/five-spice
-powder
4 tb Bread crumbs
4 tb Sesame seeds

Gently stir scallops with oil, soy sauce, wine, egg
whites and ginger. MArinate for 1 hour. Combine bread
crumbs and sesame seeds, roll sea scallops in this
mixture or put crumbs and seeds in large plastic bag
and add scallops a few at a time; close bag tightly
and shake to coat scallops. Arrange coated scallops in
single layer on shallow non-stick baking pan, sprayed
with cooking spray. Bake uncovered in preheated, very
hot 475 degree oven for about 6-8 minutes.

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Title: DIPS INFO (8 OF 9)
Categories: Dips, Info/tips
Yield: 1 servings

1 x More information on DIPS fol
1 x (This is part 8 of 9)

MINIATURE POTATO PANCAKES
Rather at the opposite end of the spectrum from crisp
raw vegetables lies another kind of dipper. One that
at least began life in the vegetable kingdom
~-miniature potato pancakes. They’re delicious and
practical since they can be made weeks in advance and
reheated. 2 Cups Diced Raw Potato
2 Large Eggs, Beaten
1 1/2 Tsp Salt
1 ea Black Pepper To Taste
1 Tbls Grated Yellow Onion
1/4 Cup Vegetable Oil
Place the potato in a strainer and run under cold
water to remove the starch. Shake well. Place in a
food processor or blender and chop fine. Add the eggs
salt, pepper, and onion, blending well. In a 10-inch
skillet, heat vegetable oil until it crackles. Drop
the batter by Tablespoonful into the hot oil and fry
until golden brown (about 5 minutes per side). Drain
on paper towels. Once cooled, the pancakes may be
frozen. Place in a freezer-safe container making sure
that they don’t overlap and put a double thickness of
wax paper between each layer. Reheat on a cookie
sheet at 350 degrees F. until hot and crisp. Makes
about 50 pancakes or enough for about 2 cups of dip.
********* * FRUIT *
*********
Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small dip
table, as they day, and man does not live by chips
alone. To experience the full spectrum of dipping,
one must savor the particular pleasure of cooping a
mouthful of cheesecake dip on a slice of melon or
plunging a strawberry into chocolate dipping sauce.
As with veggies, you can let your imagination run
amok, using the following suggestions merely as points
of departure. Here too, always wash fruit carefully,
dry, and chill. Use firm fruit. Some, as indicated
below, should be dunked in an acid bat, which will
keep the fruit from turning brown. To make the acid
bath, just add 2 tsps of lemon juice to 2 cups of
water. After dunking fruit in the bath, drain on
paper towels. APPLES: Peel, if desired, core and cut
into wedges. Requires the acid bath treatment.
APRICOTS: Remove the pits and quarter. Requires the
acid bath treatment.
BANANAS: Use firm bananas, free of bruises. Just
peel and cut on the diagonal into wedges. Requires
the acid bath treatment. COCONUTS: Remove the outer
shell and reserve the milk for other uses, if desired,
and cut the coconut meat into dipping strip sizes or
chunks. Rinse with cold water. FIGS: Remove the stem
end and quarter. GRAPEFRUIT: Remove the peel, then
break into segments. Carefully remove the seeds and
white pith. GUAVA: Remove the skin. Cut into wedges
and carefully remove the seeds.
KIWIS: Remove the skin from firm kiwis and quarter or
cut into circles.
MANGOES: Remove the skin. Cut top half of the fruit
away from the large oval pit. Turn over and cut away
the balance of the fruit, and discard the pit. Cut
the fruit into wedges across the grain. MELONS:
Cantaloupe, crenshaw and casaba melons, like most
fruit, complement sweeter dips, while honeydews are a
good accompaniment to salter or spicier dips. In any
case, cut off the outer skin, cut in half, scoop out
the seeds, and cut the pulp into dipping size slices,
chunks, or wedges. NECTARINES: Pit and quarter.
Requires the acid bath treatment. ORANGES: Peel and
separate into individual segments. Carefully remove
the seeds. PAPAYAS: Use ripe papayas. Remove the
rind, cut in half and scoop out the seeds. Cut into
thin strips. PEACHES: Remove the pit and cut into
wedges. Requires the acid bath treatment.
PEARAPPLES: Remove the core and cut into slices or
wedges. Requires the acid bath treatment. PEARS:
Peel, if desired, core and cut into dipping size
chunks. Requires the acid bath treatment. PINEAPPLES:
Remove the outer skin, cut out the eyes and remove the
center core, if desired. Cut into chunks or spears.
PLUMS: Cut in half, pit, and quarter firm plums.
PRICKLY PEARS OR CACTUS PEARS: Using a fork to hold
the fruit in place, remove the rind and cut into
slices or wedges. STAR FRUIT OR CARAMBOLA: White or
sweet yellow varieties. Cut the fruit horizontally
into stars. STRAWBERRIES: Serve whole.
TANGERINES: Peel and separate into individual
segments. Carefully remove the seeds.
Dried fruits not to be overlooked include apples,
apricots, banana chips, pitted dates, figs, pears, and
pineapples.

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Title: Bagels (Breadmaker)
Categories: Breads, Machine
Yield: 12 servings

MMMMM————————–SMALL (8——————————-
2/3 c Water
1 tb Honey
1 ts Salt
2/3 c Whole wheat flour
1 1/3 c Bread flour
1 ts Yeast

MMMMM————————-MEDIUM (12——————————
1 c Water
1 1/2 tb Honey
1 1/2 ts Salt
1 c Whole wheat flour
2 c Bread flour
1 1/2 ts Yeast

MMMMM————————-LARGE (16——————————
1 1/3 c Water
2 tb Honey
2 ts Salt
1 1/3 c Whole wheat flour
2 2/3 c Bread flour
2 1/2 ts Yeast

Set for dough cycle.Let the machine knead the dough once, and then
let the dough rise for only 20 minutes in the machine. Even if your
cycle runs longer, simply remove dough after 20 minutes and turn off
the machine. Divide the dough into the appropriate number of pieces.
Each piece should be rolled into a rope and made into a circle,
pressing the ends together. You may find it necessary to wet one end
slightly to help seal the ends together. Place these on a well
greased baking sheet, cover and let rise only 15 to 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring to a slight boil in a “nonaluminum pan”, (Donna
German uses a cast iron frying pan) about 2 inches of water.
Carefully lower about 3 or 4 bagels at a time into the water, cooking
for about 30 seconds on each side. Remove bagels, drain on a towel,
sprinkle with poppy seeds, sesame seeds or dried onion bits if
desired and place on the greased baking sheet. Bake in a preheated
550 degree oven for 8 minutes. This recipe is from Donna German’s
first Breadmachine Cookbook, pages 160- 161.

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Howard’s Delicious Apple Pie

Recipe By : Dec/Jan 94
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Desserts Pies

Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
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3 tablespoons water
4 teaspoons cornstarch
1 egg — beaten
3/4 cup light cream
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
4 medium Red Delicious apples — peeled and
Pastry for double-crust pie
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon milk
1 tablespoon cinnamon-sugar

In a small bowl, mix water and cornstarch until dissolved; add egg, cream,
sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg; place apples in a large bowl; pour cream mixture
over and stir to coat; line a 9-inch pie pan with the bottom pastry; pour
apple mixture into crust; dot with butter; top with remaining pastry; flute
edges and cut slits in top; brush with milk and sprinkle with
cinnamon-sugar; bake at 350~F for 55 minutes or until golden brown.

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