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Looking for a different idea for a luncheon salad or a salad to take to a pitch-in at work or church? Give this old-fashion Molded Egg Salad a try. Served on a bed of lettuce leaves and a ripe red tomato slice, it is colorful and tasty. Serve with some whole-grain crackers or breads for a different meal. This Vinegar Vegetable Salad is also good for "pitch-ins" as well as your own family dining table. This salad features one of our favorite vegetables, green beans. MOLDED EGG SALAD 8 hard-cooked eggs, coarsely chopped 1 cup minced celery 1/4 cup salad dressing 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp finely minced onionsalt and pepper to taste 6 thick tomato slicessalad greenspaprika...

When it comes to summer picnics, two of the classic foods that come to mind to me are great tasting macaroni and potato salads. I don't think any summer picnic would be complete without them. If you are cooking for a large group, both of these recipes can be easily doubled. I recommend refrigerating them for at least 6 hours before serving them. To prevent spoilage, don't let them sit out in hot summer heat for more than two hours. If they will be sitting out for long periods of time, sit your serving bowl in a basin of ice or purchase one of those new chilled bowls that are out in the marketplace. Classic Macaroni Salad Recipe 1 (8 ounce) box elbow macaroni pasta 1/4 cup green pepper, finely...

Macaroni salads are always a big hit at summer barbecues. These recipes are easy to prepare and you can make them ahead of time. They taste better if you let them sit in the refrigerator and let the pasta absorb the flavors of the other ingredients. Surprise your loved ones with one of these delicious pasta creations at your next summer family get together. Macaroni Salad Ingredients: 1 lb. salad macaroni 12 med. green onions, sliced 4 hard-boiled eggs, chopped 1 c. thinly sliced celery 12 slices crisply cooked bacon, crumbled 1 c. dill pickles, chopped 1 1/2 c. mayonnaise 1 tbsp. mustard 1 tbsp. horseradish 1 tbsp. dill pickle juice Salt and pepper Cooking Instructions: Cook macaroni according to...

Salads are so darned versatile. They can be served in a sandwich, on the side or as the main meal. My 6 year old just correctly noted in her book about mom that her mom's favorite food is salad. (which wasn't nearly as funny as saying that what her dad likes to read is mail!) Here's a few of my favorites and some tips to make them as simple as delicious. Olive Salad Prep Time: 30 minutes, Cook time: 0 minutes A great side salad or amazing on a ham sandwich - turns it into a New Orleans style muffaletta sandwich. Add some provolone and mozzarella cheese and some genoa salami to it and you'll think you're in the big easy. - equal amounts large pimento stuffed green olives and pitted large Greek...

Here is a basic chicken salad recipe that's suitable for lunch, dinner or a potluck meal. 1 7oz. pkg. Creamette elbow macaroni 1 1/2 to 2 pounds chicken breast 1 small red onion, diced 1 green bell pepper 1 celery stalk, chopped Salt and Pepper to taste 2 boiled eggs, chopped Mayonnaise Frozen peas Directions Cut up vegetables. Cook the noodles and add the frozen peas at the last 3 minutes of the boiling noodles. Drain and rinse with cold water. Add vegetable, mayonnaise, noodles and peas then the chicken. Using the canned chicken, add the water from the can. Add at the end with the rest so it does not break up too much. You'll have to add more mayonnaise as it soaks up about 1 to 2 hours later. If...

Sometimes the best "something new" is really something old. That is the case for these old-fashion recipes for delicious salads. These salads are especially good on hot summer days. They are all some form of gelatin salad which is always refreshing. The Strawberry Rice Salad is unique in that is has cooked rice and milk as ingredients along with the more typical ingredients of gelatin, crushed pineapple, nuts, etc. The Citrus Delight Gelatin Salad combines orange and lemon gelatins with 7-UP. The marshmallow creme and cream cheese, along with the other ingredients, make this a very special and refreshing salad. STRAWBERRY RICE SALAD 2 small pkgs strawberry gelatin 2 cups boiling water 3/4 cup cold...

Have you been to a Greek restaurant? If you have ever been to a Greek restaurant, chances are, you have tried, or at least have seen Greek salad being served there. This salad usually consists of vegetables, such as lettuce, cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, a cheese, feta cheese that is nice and salty and a tangy dressing, that brings all of the ingredients together. Want to learn how to make your own Greek salad? Read this article to learn my very easy recipe for making a delicious Greek salad! Here is how to make the salad that everyone will love: 1. Pick Vegetables There are a ton of different vegetables that you can use: - Lettuce. We sometimes leave it out, but if you do use it, go...

A salad is a dish of raw vegetables served with a sauce called a dressing. Some salads have a mixture of raw and cooked vegetables. Any mixture of vegetables or even fruit can be used in a salad. When choosing vegetables for a salad, bear in mind the color, texture and flavor of the salad. The following salads are easy to prepare, try it out! Egg Salad Ingredients:- 1 small lettuce 2 tomatoes 1 small carrot 1 chili 1 tablespoon mayonnaisesalt and sugar ½ cucumber ¼ yam bean 1 egg 1 limemilkvinegar Method:- 1. Scrape and wash carrot, wash egg and boil them together in a little water. 2. Clean and pound chili. Mix chili with 2 tablespoon of vinegar and 1 teaspoonful of sugar. 3. Mix...

Beans are nutrious, healthy, versatile, and make great salads.  Legumes and beans are an important part of a diabetic diet, especially garbanzo beans or chickpeas as they are sometimes called.  Below is a great recipe for a Garbanzo Bean Salad with a great yogurt dressing.  This salad is not your usual salad and is a perfect salad to serve your family and friends.  You will no doubt have many requests for your recipe.  This is a great salad choice for diabetics as well as anyone.  The other recipe is for a Bean and Bacon Salad.  This recipe is a salad featuring green beans and bacon.  It is also diabetic friendly with its use of boiled eggs, bacon, and healthy olive oil.  Both of these...

You may feel that that there just isn't enough spare time to cook three full meals each day. Don't worry—many people all over the world can sympathize with you! If you have about half an hour free on the weekend, you can easily make a number of cold dishes that you can store in the fridge to use as a meal or to munch on throughout the weekdays. Below we have a few recipes for cold pastas and salads that will send your taste buds into a frenzy without a great deal of time spent on preparation. If you're a big fan of tuna, try whipping up a tuna and bean salad. For this, you'll need: 3 cups water, 2 cans cannellini beans, 1/3 cup olive oil, 3 teaspoons red wine vinegar, 1 teaspoon salt, fresh...

We are all encouraged to get more vegetables into our diets. One of the easy ways to do this is with salads. Here are two different salad ideas and both feature cucumbers, one of the healthy vegetables we can eat without remorse. For those who like a crunchy salad, this Thai salad is perfect with its combination of cucumbers and peanuts. So give these salads a try as you work to improve your diet. THAI SPICY CUCUMBER PEANUT SALAD 1 1/2 lbs cucumbers 1 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup rice vinegar 1/2 cup water 3 tbsp Splenda granular 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper 2 tbsp minced red onion 1 tbsp chopped dry roasted peanuts without salt Peel cucumbers and half lengthwise, then slice into thin pieces. Add salt and...

The hot days of summer are definitely here.  It's time for quick, easy, lite, cool foods!  Following are a couple of recipes that are perfect for summertime entree salads.  Whether for a luncheon, dinner by the pool, or simply something quick and easy on a hot summer day, give these recipes a try. This curried turkey salad is a good blend of poultry with a veggie - celery, and a fruit - apple, blended in a low-fat creamy dressing.  It not only tastes good but looks great served on a pretty plate atop a bed of lettuce leaf.  You can pick up the turkey at the deli and save heating up the kitchen. CURRIED TURKEY SALAD 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp curry powder 1/4 cup diced onion 2 tbsp lemon juice 2...

The stir-fry cooking method using a wok originated in East Asia thousands of years ago. It is used for stir frying, but can also be used many other ways, such as in steaming, deep frying, braising, stewing, smoking, or making soup. Every kitchen in South East Asia stocks several different sizes, and a wide variety of recipes have been passed on from generation to generation. Shortage of fuel was the reason the wok was created and the fact that metal working cultures started evolving around the same time. This versatile round-bottomed cooking vessel makes it possible to move the food around fast without using much oil, which makes it much healthier than European or American cooking methods. The...

We Love To Eat! Fortunately, I enjoy cooking. Wanting to cook healthy, quick simple meals for only two people, and not wanting another electrical kitchen appliance, an All Clad Panini Press stove top grill was the best choice for us. It has dimensions of 17x11 inches which makes it an ideal size for two 4x5 inch toasted sandwiches. A toasted sandwich maker is non-stick and easy to clean, however, after preheating it helps to baste press and pan with olive oil or spray them with a non-stick spray. They all have instructions but preheating the pan and press on medium (or a little lower) heat has worked the best for most recipes. It is also essential to heat both pan and press on separate burners. Be...

With a health grill you can cook gorgeous food in a fraction of the time of a normal grill. It doesn't matter what you are cooking, anything from vegetables through to steaks, the health grill will become in indispensible part of your kitchen. The most popular health grill is the George Foreman grill range, however there are many other brand grills available including some from celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver. Health grills are on the whole a pair of grooved heated plates coated in a non stick layer which are both heated. The food is placed sandwiched between the plates and is consequently cooked from the bottom and top at the same time which cooks the food evenly all the way...

It's a proven fact that a healthy diet can help preventing your risk of numerous diseases, from high cholesterol over obesity, arteriosclerosis and heart disease to stroke, heart attack and diabetes. But what many don't know is that eating healthy foods is not enough. The healthiest vegetables won't give you much good when you store them for weeks of hot summer weather in your kitchen or cook them until they dissolve in the cooking water. Cooking foods in water is still a very popular method, especially for vegetables, because it's often believed to be the quickest way of getting the food done. But it's certainly not the healthiest method, since water soluble nutrients are drawn out of your veggies...

The beginning of the New Year is the time when everyone focuses on healthy eating and getting themselves into shape. With obesity becoming more and more of an apparent problem in today's society, eating more healthily should be something that we all make an effort to do all year round. Making the effort to eat more healthily is no good unless you have the right tools available to help you reach your goals. Steam ovens are brand new onto the market and they offer an excellent, healthy alternative to traditional oven cooking. What are the benefits? Steam ovens provide a much healthier way to cook compared to more traditional methods. The unique health benefits include the preservation of vitamins and...

The Harvest Eating Cookbook BY KEITH SNOW RUNNING PRESS. 296P $29.95 Towns and garden centers everywhere are hosting farmer's markets for local growers to showcase and sell their produce directly to neighborhood families. This is the perfect time for cookbooks to offer new recipes and ways of preparing the food that can be found at these venues. Not only is The Harvest Eating Cookbook full of delectable photos but the recipes are reasonable in length, simple to prepare, tasty and nutritious. The author, Kevin Snow, also includes recipes for making your own healthy pancake mix and homemade yogurt, and salad dressings as well as canning tips and other ways to avoid store bought products. Snow shares...

The food that you eat means a lot more to you than may be aware of. The nutrients in your diet is the way you fuel your body and how you eat it matters more than you may know. When you are making a certain recipe that calls for spices, would you be able to tell which of those spices are going to help you in improving your health? Which spices are going to make a difference in the level of nutrients that you get from that recipe? Have you made dishes that require cooking with turmeric? In India, many dishes are made that include turmeric. This has been a part of their cuisine for thousands of years. The reason for this is not only because it tastes good, but also because this spice provides many...

The Autumn is there and with it the cold days. For such days, there is nothing better to eat than a soup. Soups are not only great to warm us in cold days but they are also very healthy. You can add as many vegetables as you want in a soup and make it a very nutritious and delicious dish. I like almost all kinds of soups but one of my favorites is chicken soup. Chicken soups are very tasty and it is also well known that chicken noodle soup is a good remedy for cold and flu. Here some of the best recipes for chicken soup. I hope you like them as I like. Chicken Noodle Soup Ingredients: 3 lb. chicken 2 qts. water 2 tsp. salt 1 1/2 cup chicken stock 2 cups celery, chopped 2 cups carrots, chopped 1 tart...

Do you always have leftover pumpkin after Halloween or Thanksgiving, and want to know how to cook it? Do you love pumpkin soup and want to make sure that you do not make any mistakes? Whatever your reason, there are lots of important tips for cooking with this versatile squash relative. Most people just make desserts out of their pumpkin, but you are not limited to these options. Here is a look at a few of the things you might want to know about this great vegetable before you begin to cook. They will help you get much better results, after all. Picking the Right Type of Pumpkin The first thing to remember is that not every pumpkin will make great soup or pie. The kind of pumpkin you carve at...

Soup, properly made, is one of the healthiest and most enjoyable styles of cooking. While most canned soups are way too high in fats and salt, when you make it yourself, you can get the nutrition without much of the bad stuff. You can create hundreds of tasty and healthy meals using this outline of the basic steps for making healthy soups. Learn the basics and enjoy the rewards for life. The Base: We're going for simple and easy, here, so, instead of figuring out all the perfect soup base ingredients, let's just use bouillon cubes. They're cheap and easy to use. Just add 3 cubes to a gallon of water in a 6 quart Dutch oven or large pot. Use Chicken cubes for poultry soups and beef cubes for...

"> If you work all day, the last thing you want to do when you get home is to slave in front of a hot stove to prepare dinner. However, you don't want to fall to temptation and drive through the take out window for some sub-standard fast food. If you are trying to eat healthy and watching your weight, you want to eat foods that are nutrient rich, giving the most goody for the calories you consume. The below recipe is great for a quick snack or as an accompaniment to a main entrée. It's a great complement to chicken, fish, pork or beef. Asian Green Bean Stir Fry 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1 pound green beans, cut 1-inch portions Pinch of crushed red pepper 1/2 cup water 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen...

Have you just been told you have to eat a Gluten Free diet? How will this change your life? For those of us that suffer from Celiac disease or gluten intolerance it is a medical necessity that we maintain a gluten free diet. Simply prepare celiac recipes. Hundreds of processed foods contain Gluten so it is necessary to read ingredients when shopping for food items. Basically it means that you have to change your cooking style. It has now become necessary to cook without gluten: that is remove all traces of Gluten from your diet and recipes. Gluten Free flour is now available and produces a great result. Many Gluten Free foods are now also available to make your life easier anfd make up into great...

Things to Consider when Planning a Dinner Party Most successful dinner parties are planned well in advance. By doing so you will not only relieve yourself of unnecessary stress but you will guarantee that the night goes perfectly smooth and that you are there to enjoy the evening as much as your guests. The following are some items you will want to consider and plan well before the night of your next dinner party. * Send invites with occasion, theme (if any), time, address and an rsvp contact. * Confirm attendees. * Include other items on your shopping list that you may also need, i.e. coffee, tea, mixers, alcohol, wine, candles etc. * Polish all the cutlery. * Check the glassware and wash and...

Did you know that traditional Japanese cooking is one of the healthiest in the world? This is why the Japanese have a low rate of diseases, especially those which pertain to the digestive system. More and more people are trying to learn the art of traditional Japanese cooking not only because it is healthy, but also because it offers an exciting and refreshing taste. What constitutes a traditional Japanese meal? If you often visit Japanese restaurants, or has been invited to the home of a Japanese national, you might be familiar with the most basic of their food: miso soup is always served first; a warm soup to whet your appetite, you can add vegetables into the soup to make it even more healthy. It...

Here's a classic recipe for fruit salad that many people love. It features pineapple, oranges, cherries, marshmallows and coconut. 2 cans pineapple chunks, drained 2 cans mandarin oranges, drained 2 jars maraschino cherries, drained 1 can coconut flakes 1/2 bag mini marshmallows 4 oz. sour cream 16 oz. container Cool Whip Directions In a bowl, combine the sour cream and the Cool Whip. Fold in the remaining ingredients. Cover and chill in refrigerator for 2 hours before serving. => Fruit Salad Recipe: Fancy Frozen Fruit Salad A deliciously cool salad to serve on a hot summer day. 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese 1/3 cup powdered sugar 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/3 cup mayonnaise or salad...

Are you tired of sneaking bites of sweets only to be left feeling guilty? You should know that you can still enjoy a nice treat without having to experience any guilt, and to prove it, you will find four low-fat recipes in this article that are big on flavour and won't cause your waistline to grow! In fact, your family won't even guess that these recipes are low in fat, which means that everyone can enjoy these tasty desserts. Apple and Fig Compote 6 large (baking) apples 6 dried figs 1 cup water 1 cup brown sugar 6 whole cloves 1 cinnamon stick Rind of 1 lemon In a saucepan, bring the water and sugar to a boil. Add the cinnamon stick, cloves, and lemon rind. Once this has thickened to a syrup...

Meatloaf isn’t always made with the traditional ground beef, it can also be made with low fat ground turkey meat, which cuts down on the calories and the fat. Ground turkey is very versatile and blends well with a variety of spices and vegetables. This particular turkey meatloaf is packed with onions, mushrooms, broccoli, carrots and green peppers. It’s held together with quick cooking oats and includes seasonings like garlic, poultry seasoning and soy sauce. This loaf can be the centerpiece of any hearty meal. Here’s how to make this meatloaf: 1 cup of diced yellow onion, 4 ounces of mushrooms that have been chopped, 1 cup of diced broccoli florets, 1/2 cup of diced green bell pepper, 1 cup...

Are you a fan of yakitori? Japanese food is one of the healthiest foods worldwide, and so it is not surprising to know that the Japanese often grill their food. This grilling is called hibachi, and Japanese hibachi cooking is not only famous in Japan, but in other parts of the world as well. These meats on sticks are a favourite of many, as these taste good, and come fresh and hot; grilled over direct fire. The best way to do Japanese hibachi cooking is to grill over fire-and not a hot plate. The fire gives your meat a smoky, authentic flavour, which lacks in those which are prepared using metal plates. One example of Japanese hibachi cooking is the sukiyaki. A favourite among many, sukiyaki...

When it comes to summertime barbecues, one of our favorite meats to grill is pork chops. We purchase ours in big family value packs and then repackage them into smaller packages to save money. You can freeze them uncooked for up to 12 months. Grilling Tips 1. If you are concerned about sticking, spray a clean grill grate with non-stick cooking spray. 2. The longer you marinate your meats, the stronger the flavor will be. I recommend no less than 2 hours marinating time. 3. Use one platter for raw meat and a clean platter for cooked meats. Never reuse the same platter. 4. Use long handled grilling tongs for flipping meats. Here are 4 of our favorite recipes. Peach Chops 4 pork chops 1/4 cup peach...

In today's society with all the worries about jobs, finanaces, etc most families are trying to cut back on spending everywhere they can.  One of the areas where many families are cutting back is on eating out and the food budget.  Casseroles to the rescue.  Casseroles are inexpensive to make, feed several, and they are comfort foods.  Here is a variety of old-fashion casserole recipes for you to choose from.  Try our Beef and Rice Hot Dish, Turkey Noodle Casserole, or Tamale Pie.  Surely one will be a big hit with your family. BEEF AND RICE HOT DISH 1 lb hamburger meat 1 med onion, chopped 1/2 cup chopped green pepper 1/2 tsp saltpinch pepper 1 1/2 cups uncooked instant rice 1 can (14 1/2 oz...