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Contents 4
Graibeh Arabic Cookies
5
Fruit Trifle
12
Beef and Okra Stew
14
Author Norah Wilson
16
Raspberry Zabaglione
17
Greek Salad
18
What’s your body type?
20
Vegetable Pasta
22
Angr y Birds
Homemade Whole Wheat Pizza
8
Savoring the sweet moments By Author
Sandra Mihic
6 Raspberry Zabaglione By Author
Norah Wilson 16
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Graibeh (Butter Cookies) - Beat melted butter until it's lighter in color. 1 cup cake flour 1/2 cup sugar pow der 20 pistachios
- Add sugar and keep beating until you get a cream like texture. Add vanilla. - Add flour to the previous mixture. Do not over work it; you should have a very soft dough that doesn't stick to your hand.
1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons melted
- Let the dough rest for 15 minutes in the fridge.
butter
- Take one tablespoon (or one and a half teaspoon) of dough and make it into a ball.
3 drops v anilla
- Place it in baking pan. Place a piece of pistachio or almond on top of the balls. - Put in a preheated oven at 350 F/180 C for 10 - 12 minutes. - Keep the cookies in the baking pan to cool, they are very delicate when hot. MunatyCooking | 4
Fruit Trifle 1 apple cut in small slices
- In a serving bowl, add part of the cake and cover it with 3 tablespoons of custard.
1 banana cut in circles
- Add some of the fruit. Add another layer of cake followed by custard.
3 cups of pound cake cut in
- Last layer should have cake, covered by jam, followed by the fruit and custard.
small slices 2 cups ready made custard
- Sprinkle granulated coffee on top of the custard and garnish with grapes.
1 tablespoons granulated coffee
- Refrigerate for an hour.
14 grapes cut in half 3 tablespoons your fav orite fruit jam
- You can add whipped cream on top when serving.
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Savoring The Sweet Moments
By Author
Sandra Mihic I am a mother of 3 kids, a wife of a wonderful man, a proud and supportive food community blogger, a self taught cook and photographer, and now new author of a cookbook Sandra's Easy Cooking: Savoring the Sweet Moments. I think—like most foodies—once you start food blogging you might consider, at least once, to write your own cookbook. I was thinking about it ever since I started blogging but it always seemed an impossible task to tackle...I had to learn a lot before starting this journey, from cooking, photography, design etc. I really sat down and studied. I spent probably minimum 3 hours daily just watching videos and reading how to do many things. There were also my foodie friends, where I got more
inspiration and learned from many. Somewhere in early November, I went with my husband and our good friends, the Turners, for a lunch. Our friend said, "You have to write a cookbook." Of course, my husband strongly agreed. When we came home, I kept asking my husband "Do you really think I could do that?" He never ever said that he was joking; instead, he kept showering me with his support, which was what I truly needed. Many nights, I would lay down and repeat in my head, like a prayer, "If you believe in yourself, anything is possible!" I pushed myself to the last drop of energy to do everything that involved being proud of something I only dreamt of a year ago.
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bring it down to what I really, really loved and felt like I had to share with everybody. Actually, that was the easy part—at least for me. Editing, checking, rechecking, and designing were harder because I had to follow the rules and requirements of the printing/publishing house once I started to prepare/edit the book for them. My family did enjoy those days when sometimes I would cook more than 3-4 meals and few desserts a day just to taste and see how it would look. However, they didn't enjoy it as much when I started to work on editing because I had less cooking time. So, quick meals, fresh fruits and veggies, and eggs came to my rescue. Now Every day, I collected recipes that I saw and I
when I look back, I would do it again in a heart-
tried to recreate them by adding a twist to make
beat without thinking!
them my own. Even though there are many recipes in the book that I grew up eating, I tried to add different spices to make them my own. I
I would love to express my thanks not only to my beautiful family but also to all my amazing foodie supporters for following me and making
something I have never eaten before and, of course, my family accepted without complaining! I went through many ideas. First, I wanted to make only desserts, then only main dishes, after that sandwiches etc. Yet, that was not enough to complete my vision of what I wanted to present. I
my days brighter every single day! Right now, my cookbook Sandra's Easy Cooking: Savoring the Sweet Moments is sold at Lulu.com. There is an immediately downloadable version as well as a printed one, which usually takes 3-5 shipping days.
dinners, soups, desserts, and some refreshing or comforting drinks. That seemed a lot. I had to
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Next
wanted to have IDEAS for breakfasts, lunches,
Homemade whole wheat pizza
simply played around until I came up with
Homemade Whole Wheat Pizza By Sandra
Ingredients for dough:
Topping:
4 cups of Whole Wheat flour
2 Handful of Grilled Chicken Strips
3 cups of water
2 cups of Mo zzarella Cheese
1 Tbs. Salt
3-4 Fresh Cherry Tomato, sliced in half
1 Tbs. Dry Yeast
2 cloves of grated Garlic
1/2 teaspoon sugar
Scallions
1 Tbs. Olive oil
Dry Basil
1 teaspoon of baking powder
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1. In a bowl, mix all the ingredients and combine them very well. 2. Pour lukewarm water, mix with a wooden spoon, and then knead until you form a ball. 3. Add olive oil and leave the dough to rest and rise for 30 minutes 4. After 30 minutes, put the dough on your working area and knead for few minutes. 5. Start stretching the dough. 6. Oil your baking pizza pan and stretch the dough into thin pizza crust. 7. Put grated garlic, bit of olive oil, then cheese 8. Dice grilled and defrosted chicken and place it on the pizza 9. Add the tomatoes that you previously sliced. 10. Sprinkle pizza with basil 11. You can add additional cheese on top - optional. Bake pizza on 400F for 20 minutes or until the crust is darker on the side and bottom.
Easy and delicious pizza!
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Beef and Okra Stew Ingredients :
3 tablespoons tomato paste
1 kilo beef cut in cubes 4 medium tomatoes chopped
7 cups hot water 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
4 garlic minced
Salt to taste
2 large onion chopped
1 teaspoon cumin powder
Oil
1 teaspoon coriander powder 1/2 kilo okra
1/2 tablespoon ginger paste
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Soak the okras in water mixed with salt for 40 seconds, rinse with water and let it dry.
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In a hot pan, add oil and onion. Stir until onion is transparent.
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Add the beef and stir until it turns brown.
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Add the chopped tomatoes and all the spices. Stir and add tomato paste.
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Add the ginger and the garlic and stir some more.
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Pour the hot water and let it simmer until the beef is cooked.
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Add the okra and stir. If the water was reduced too much, add around two cups boiling water.
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The okras should be very soft and the beef very tender.
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Serve hot with rice or bread.
Tip For a vegetaria n version, remove the meat by skippin g the third step. Just use the okra.
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Author
Norah Wilson YA, the latter with writing partner Heather Doherty). Visit her at www.norahwilsonwrites.com/ or check out her author page/books at Amazon.com or Smashwords.com. You can also visit her Wilson Doherty YA blog or buy the YA books (The Summoning and Ashlyn’s Radio) on Amazon. Message from Norah I am not much of a cook. Just ask my family! Basically, I’m too busy juggling a full time job as well as what amounts to a second full time
NORAH WILSON lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick with her husband, two adult children, a Rotti-Lab mix and five rats (the pet kind). She’s been writing for fifteen years. In 2003, she won Dorchester Publishing`s New Voice in Romance contest and her first mass market book was published in 2004. These days, she’s part of the Indie author movement.
job writing fiction. But like so many other timestarved women, I love to read about cooking (including this very ezine!), and I collect recipe books with the best of them. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed writing a heroine who is a professional cook so much! In my romantic suspense PROTECTING PAIGE, the heroine supplies local fine restaurants with desserts. A single parent,
Her ebooks are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBook Store, Smashwords, and pretty much anywhere ebooks are sold. Norah is a little eclectic, writing in several genres (romantic suspense, paranormal
‘Because I don't have Paige's culinary skills, I picked the easiest dessert from the book to share with you.’
romance, humorous cozy mystery, and even
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PROTECTING PAIGE
Paige has her hands full with a suddenly rebellious teenage son. To distract herself from worrying, she basically barges into her handsome, invalid neighbor's life and starts cooking for him. Poor Tommy! He's a cop – a former K9 handler – who has suffered a career-ending gunshot injury, and he just wants to be left alone to lick his wounds. But he's no match for the force that is Paige. Of course, when it turns out that her son is not just troubled but in trouble, Tommy gets drawn inexorably into their lives. Some of my favorite scenes to research and write were the meals, each topped off by a fabulous dessert. [There’s something lushly romantic about that, isn’t there? Feeding your loverN Or in this case, the sexy, gruff, slightly-too-young guy next door Paige can’t quit fantasizing about.]
picked the easiest dessert from the book to share with you. This recipe will serve two, but the servings are not large, which is just as well. (Hello – it's made from egg yolks, sugar and booze!) MunatyCooking | 15
Next Raspberry Zabaglione
Because I don't have Paige's culinary skills, I
3/4 cup fresh berries 3 large egg yolks 3 tablespoons sweet Marsala wine or white grape juice 3 tablespoons sugar
Raspberry Zabaglione for Two - Divide the berries between two dessert glasses. (I don't have proper dessert glasses, so I used crystal glasses.) - Place an inch or so of water in the bottom saucepan from your double boiler and bring to a simmer. In the top saucepan of your double boiler, whisk the egg yolks, sugar, and Marsala wine vigorously until well mixed. Place the saucepan over the simmering water and continue to whisk until the mixture doubles and thickens (4-5 minutes). Pour it over raspberries. Garnish with fresh mint and serve hot. Alternatively, make ahead and refrigerate. It's gorgeous cold, too. NOTE: For non alcoholic version omit wine and replace it with white grape juice.
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VAMPIRES ARE FOREVER
Greek Salad 1/2 green pepper cut in cubes
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In a bowl mix all the vegetables.
I medium tomato cut in cubes
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Make the dressing by whisking olive oil, salt, and black pepper.
1 small onion cut in thin slices 1/2 cup feta cheese cut in cubes
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Add the dressing to the mixed vegetables, and toss well.
1 cucumber cut in cubes
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Add the feta cheese and sprinkle with black pepper.
1/2 cup black olives Salt and black pepper 1 teaspoon olive oil
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Have you ever wondered
What’s your body type? Knowing your body type is very important,
also must religiously follow their training
especially if you are planning to lose weight. It
program or they will lose the muscles they’ve
determines what food can help you succeed
gained, since their metabolism is fast and they
and reach your goal faster. It will also make you
can face a setback in their progress.
aware of foods that‘ll hinder your work.
Their diet should be 45% carbohydrate, 25%
Didn't you notice that there are people who eat
fat , and 35% protein.
what you eat, maybe more, and not gain a pound, yet it is difficult for you to lose half a
Endomorph : They are short in build, the fat is
pound despite your efforts to stay away from
mostly stored in their mid section. They have
fatty and junk food?
very strong legs, specially the thighs, and are
It all depends on the body type. Different body
round in shape with a very soft body.
types require different diets and training
Their metabolism is very slow, hence they find it
methods. There are three body types:
very difficult to lose weight.
Ectomorph, Endomorph, and Mesomorph.
Since endomorphs store fat easily, their weight training program should have both strength
Ectomorp : Are lucky, in a way. Their metabolism rate is very high, they burn almost
training and cardio. In fact, endomorphs are ad-
everything they eat, and hardly store much.
To boost their metabolism. Endomorphs should
Most ectomorphs have thin narrow shoulders,
consume 5 to 6 small meals per day. Their diet
with flat chest, and generally look very thin.
should be 30% carbohydrate, 20% fat , and
Women may not have a problem, however,
50% protein.
ectomorph-men usually find it very difficult to build muscles. They usually take longer and require special training program. They are the ones who are advised to eat a nice big meal before bed, to keep their muscles active. They
vised to do more cardio than other body types.
Most endomorphs feel down and fail in their weight loss journey only because they see little and slow improvement. Endomorphs should get all the support possible, to help them continue with their journey to losing weight.
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Mesomorph : They have the best of the two
Although Knowing which body type you are
worlds, they gain weight quickly but lose it as
will help you choose what is best to help you
quickly. Mesomorphs can get away with
lose the extra weight, you should always
cheating while on diet, since few days are
remember that proper nutrition is needed.
enough to put them back on track. They have
There are vitamins and minerals your body
strong, large bone structure, rectangular
requires to function at its best. Concentrating
shaped body, and wide shoulders. Most
on losing weight must not let you forget that
bodybuilders are mesomrphs, their well built
your body needs some fat as well. So no
and strong body help them gain strong
matter what body type you are, remember that
muscles quickly.
your kidneys, liver, heart, brain and muscles
Mesomorphs need special diet that is
need nutrients available in different types of
balanced. The downside of being
food to make you feel your best and help your
mesomorphs is that they gain fat quickly,
immune system be as strong as it should be.
which means they have to watch their calorie-
Never jeopardize your health, instead, think of
intake to maintain their weight . Their diet
looking good from the outside and the inside.
should be 40% carbohydrate, 30% fat , and 30% protein. Some of you may find it difficult to determine which body type you have. It makes sense since there are few people who have a combination body type, a meso-endo. In this case, when you go to a gym, your trainer will have to make a training program for you to workout different parts of your body on different levels. If you are at home, cardio training with some strength training can show great results. Diet should be balanced but you must stay away from carbs, especially simple carbs.
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Mixed Vegetables Pasta
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Ingredients : 1 cup uncooked pasta 1 onion chopped Olive oil 1 1/2 cup mixed vegetables
1 tablespoon tomato paste Red chili flakes Salt 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder 1/2 teaspoon thyme
Salt Black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 2 garlic cloves minced
1 tomato chopped
1/2 cups boiling water
Method : •
Boil the pasta as per instruction on the box. Keep aside.
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In a hot pan add olive oil and fry onion until transparent.
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Add the vegetables and stir for three minutes.
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Add the tomato paste, garlic, and the spices. Stir for two minutes.
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Pour the boiling water on vegetables and let it simmer on medium heat for 3 minutes.
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Add the pasta to the sauce and stir. Reduce heat to the lowest and let it cook for 3 minutes.
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Turn off the heat.
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It’s best to serve pasta 20 minutes after it’s done. This way the pasta will have enough time to absorb the flavors.
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Featured Food Blogger
Angry Birds Onigiri Bento Box By Shirley Tay An idea struck me when it was my son’s lunch box day on Fridays. Jon loves Onigiri, so I decided to make him an Angry Birds Lunch Box! Angry Birds Bento Box for a 16-yr-old boy? Never mind, his mum is a big kid too! Guess what? It was my hubby who was more impressed & “snatched” the lunch box from
(Red Bird)
Jon! Yes, Ken brought these Angry Birds to
Ingredients :
his office instead!!
3 tbsp cooked Japanese Rice 2 Crabsticks
Angry Birds, the popular & best-selling mobile game, has taken the world by storm. The game is about these birds who’re angry because their eggs were stolen by a bunch of green pigs. Since they can’t fly, they’ve to use a giant slingshot to catapult themselves to destroy those pigs that are well protected inside their fortress. So are you ready for some action now?? Let's GAME!
½ Hard-boiled Egg 1 slice of Cheese 1 sheet of Nori (seaweed) 1 tsp Salt water 1 tbsp Ketchup ( tomato sauce) 1 tbsp Mayonnaise Dash of black pepper 1 sheet of Cling wrap Ma yonnaise & Wasabi for serving (optional)
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Method: •
Mash hard-boiled egg & set aside.
Blanch crabmeat in boiling water & drain. Dice it & mix with egg, mayo & pepper. •
Mi x Ketchup into 2 tbsp of rice. Using
fingers, spread some salt water onto cling wrap. Put 2 tbsp of rice onto palm & top with crabmeat mixture. •
Make into a ball. Add 1 tbsp of white rice
to make the bottom of the Red Bird. Press well to combine the two. •
Once you’re done, start cutting out the
eyes by using Cheese & Nori & the crown/ beak using Carrots. Tada! Here’s your 1st Angry
Bird!!
Serve
with
mayo
&
wasabi if you like :) So what do you think of this Red Bird? Remember to visit: http://luxuryhaven.blogspot.com/2011/07/ angry-birds-onigiri-bento-box.html for the Yellow Bird, White Bird & the King Pig!!
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