Posted by : David H. Urmann

There are various recipes you can make with corned beef. You can even mix this with your favorite vegetables.

Here are some delectable and delicious recipes you can make with corned beef:

1.Corned Beef Brisket

Ingredients:

• 2 cans regular beer (24 ounces)

• Approx. 9 lbs beef brisket (cut into half)

• cold water (for cover)

• 2 large onions with skins (halved)

• garni bag

• 5 cloves garlic (including skins)

• 1/4 cup brown sugar

• 3 tablespoons dry mustard

Preparation:

Cut the beef brisket in half. Rinse and place into a large kettle. Cover with cold water and bring it to a boil. Cook for about 15 minutes then drain water.

To make a garni bag use cheesecloth and tie it with string. In the brisket, add beer, cold water (for covering, a garni bag, large halved onions, garlic, mustard, and brown sugar). Bring to a simmer and boil for about 2 to 2-1/2 hours.

Prepare one day ahead to exude more flavor. Conserve water and save the garni bag. Make sure that the beef brisket is inside the cooked mixture.

Serve the corned beef brisket with potatoes and carrots separately in small pots. Ladle the mixture and pour in cups.

Chop cabbages and add to the brisket. Cook until cabbage is tender.

Combine the horseradish sauce ingredients (as listed below). You can serve this with corned beef for dinner.

For Garni Bag:

• 10 whole peppercorns

• 2 tbsps pickling spice (including spices, packed along the brisket)

• 7 whole cloves

• parsley (chopped)

• 3 bay leaves (crumbled)

Horseradish Mustard Sauce

• 1 1/2 - 2 teaspoon dry mustard

• 1/2 cup sour cream

• 1+ teaspoon horseradish (for taste)

• 1/4 teaspoon onion salt

2. Corned Beef and Sauerkraut Sandwich

This is a delectable corned beef sandwich recipe with Swiss cheese.

Ingredients:

• Swiss cheese

• Rye bread

• Corned beef

• Mustard

• Sauerkraut

Preparation:

Arrange several layers of Swiss cheese in a dark rye bread. Top it with some slices of hot corned beef and drained sauerkraut. Spread mustard then top with another slice of rye bread.

3.Corned Beef Hash with Eggs

This is a tasty and favorable brunch (breakfast and lunch) dish.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup green bell pepper (chopped)

• 1/4 cup onions (minced)

• 2 tbsp butter

• 4 cups cooked potatoes (diced)

• 4 to 5 cups corned beef (cooked, chopped)

• 1/2 tsp pepper

• Pepper and salt (to taste)

• 12 eggs

Preparation:

Saute green pepper and onions in butter, until the mixture becomes tender. Add potatoes, corned beef and pepper. Mash together and mix well.

Flatten the mixture between 2 sheets of wax paper until 1-inch thickness is achieved. Cut into 12 large circles. Cook in a skillet until both sides turn brownish.

Add poached egg on both sides. Sprinkle with pepper and salt. Refrigerate and cook before serving.

4.Corned Beef and Vegetables

Ingredients:

• 2 turnips or 1 medium rutabaga (cut this into 2-inch chunks)

• 3 to 4 carrots (cut crosswise and halved lengthwise into 2 to 3 inch pieces

• corned beef brisket of 3-4lbs (cut if necessary)

• 1-1/2 cups water

• 3 medium onions (sliced in 4)

• pepper and salt (to taste)

• 1 small cabbage

Preparation:

Combine all ingredients except cabbage and cook in low heat. Cover and cook for another 4 hours in low heat, or another 2 hours in high heat. Add cabbage. Sprinkle with pepper and salt.

Posted by : Christine Steendahl

Breakfast is an essential part of a nutritious lifestyle. Breakfast is especially important for little ones. When little ones take part in making their own simple breakfast items, they are guaranteed to eat them. These breakfast solutions are simple staples. You and you children will enjoy preparing them together.

Cinnamon-Sprinkled French Toast

Ingredients:

2 Large eggs

2 tbsp milk, fat free

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp soft tub margarine

4 tsp light pancake syrup

Kids: ***** two eggs into flat-bottomed bowl.

Thoroughly stir in milk and cinnamon with a whisk.

Dip bread slices, one at a time, into egg mixture in bowl

Make sure you wet both sides with the egg mixture.

Re-dip until all the egg mixture is absorbed into the bread.

Adults: Meanwhile, heat large, non-stick skillet over medium heat.

Add butter.

Place dipped bread slices in skillet.

Cook for 2½-3 minutes per side, or until both sides are golden brown.

Kids: Drizzle the toast with syrup. Serve when warm.

Fruity Granola Yogurt Parfait

Ingredients:

1/2 granola

3/4 cup vanilla or plain yogurt

1/2 cup fresh blueberries, raspberries, or sliced strawberries or bananas

You can use frozen if fresh is not available

Adults: Measure out all ingredients to be used.

Provide stemware or clear drinking glass or bowl.

Kids: Layer ingredients any which way you want in a glass, such as half of granola, yogurt, and fruit, then repeat.

Eat with a long spoon

Commercially available granola is often toasted with oil and honey, making it high in calories..

Sticky Carmel Pecan Rolls

Ingredients:

1/4 cup fat-free caramel flavored sundae syrup

Cooking spray

1 can refrigerated reduced fat crescent dinner rolls

1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar

2 tablespoons finely chopped pecans

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instructions:

Adults: Preheat over to 375 degrees

Kids: spoon 1-1/2 teaspoon syrup onto each of 8 muffin cups coated

with cooking spray. Set aside

Adult: Unroll dough: separate into 4 rectangles

Kids: Combine brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon

Kids: Sprinkle sugar mixture evenly over each rectangle

Press mixture gently into dough

Kids/Adults: Beginning at 1 long edge, roll into 6 slices.

Pinch ends of dough to seal

Adults: Cut each roll into 6 slices

Kids: Place 3 slices, cut sides down into prepared muffin cups

Bake at 375 for 14 minutes.

Adult: Run knife around edges of cups; invert into a platter

Makes 8 servings Calories 172

Breakfast Pizza Recipe with Strawberries

Ingredients:

1 package (10-count size) refrigerated biscuits

1 Orange

1 package (8 ounce size) light cream cheese, softened

5 teaspoons Honey, divided

1/2 liter Basket fresh strawberries, stemmed and halved

Instructions:

Adults: Preheat oven to 400F.

Kids: Stack 2 biscuits

Roll out to a 6-inch circle, 1/8-inch thick.

Place on ungreased baking sheet

Prick all over with fork.

Repeat with remaining biscuits to make 5 circles in all.

Adult: Bake until golden, 6 to 8 minutes; loosen and cool slightly.

Kids: Finely grate peel from orange.

In bowl combine cheese, peel and

3 teaspoons of the honey to blend

set aside.

Juice orange into large bowl.

Add strawberries and the remaining honey

toss.

Adults: Increase oven temperature to 425F. Spread biscuits with cheese to within 1/2 inch of edges.

Bake until cheese edges brown lightly.

Top with drained strawberries. Serve warm.

Posted by : cmsfebRameshSonu

You get up in the morning and you get ready for your day. And of course, you grab a piece of toast, some cold cereal or a cup of coffee and you rush out the door. You don’t think about the fact that not eating breakfast is the reason you lose your fire and energy by ten o’clock in the morning. Instead, you think you’re losing your energy because you’re not getting enough sleep. So the next morning, you go ahead and sleep in an extra fifteen minutes so you’re shaving your face (guys, you know you’ve done this or at least thought about it) or putting on your makeup (ladies…please) while you’re driving down the freeway at eighty miles an hour. For more details www.cooking-groundbeef.com .And of course, you completely skipped your meager breakfast and you’ll do it again tomorrow. It’s the beginning of a vicious cycle that has the potential to go on forever, affecting your sleep, your work performance and yes, even your weight, stress levels and mood.

To avoid the vicious cycle that leads to everywhere you never want to be, the first thing you have to do is commit to eating breakfast everyday. If you’re worried that you won’t be able to commit, there are ways you can help yourself.

My favorite suggestion to offer up to breakfast skippers everywhere is that they need to purchase a crock pot. In fact, if you’ve ever been married (especially if you live in the Mountain West) you probably received one as a wedding gift, so you can just dig it out of the cupboard. Crock pot cooking is extremely easy to do and breakfast crock pot recipes are in high demand and high supply all over the internet and crock pot cook books.

With a crock pot, you can put your breakfast in when you go to sleep at ten o’clock at night and it will be finished when you get up at five o’clock or six o’clock. For more details www.cat-head-biscuit.com .If you don’t feel comfortable leaving your crock pot cooking overnight, you can always prepare a more simple crock pot breakfast recipe first thing when you wake up and it will prepare itself while you’re getting ready.

However, whether you choose to use the crock pot recipes available to you on the internet and in crock pot recipe books or you decide to stick with a couple of eggs with your piece toast and cup of coffee, it’s important to remember that you can’t hit the snooze button twice every morning if you want to break free of the cycle.

As a perpetual snooze button pusher myself, I’ve learned to set the alarm 30 minutes earlier, so I can hit the snooze button twice and still get up in time to cook my crock pot breakfast recipes that get me through the morning at my computer.

Since I’ve learned to love breakfast and my crock pot, I’ve been exceedingly more productive. You can balk at opinion but you just can’t balk at science and logic.

Posted by : David H. Urmann

Ethnic Recipes are cultural or regional ways of cooking authentic cuisine. Cooking Chinese foods are considered healthy and a balanced way of having ancient Chinese culture.

Ethnic recipes originated from different cultural diversities of each country. It is a way of learning traditional meals in terms of food preparation, dietary habits, food symbolism and rituals.

Most Chinese dishes combine a mixture of ingredients and a balance of elements in its flavors, colors, aroma, textures and food preparations. It is a noted and regarded great combination of dishes.

The usual meal that comprises Chinese ethnic dishes would include a cup of steamed rice, mixed vegetables, fried, steamed dish or soup. It even has four major Chinese cooking styles like Beijing Cuisine, Cantonese, Szechwan and Hunan also incorporate mixing of dishes.

A good Chinese cooking practice can be distinguished by their seasoning blends, temperature control and meticulous cutting of ingredients. For best results, parboiling and partial frying are the techniques used by Chinese for centuries already.

In a family meal, eating rice two to three times a day is basic. Two cups of long grain white rice is cooked with 3 cups water for just 20 minutes, done usually in four servings.

For rice porridge or congee, combining 8 cups of water and 1 cup of short grain rice will make out a commonly eaten breakfast. You can bring it to a boil, cover it in low fire and allow it to simmer for 1 ½ hours. Stirring is important every now and then in order to keep it from sticking in the pan. Veggies, dried fruits, meat, scallions, gingers and nuts can be added on top in order to spice up the recipe.

A combination of tea in every meal is a must. It is the most-loved beverage of Chinese individuals. Social gatherings would not be complete without a cup of hot tea. Oolong, black and green tea are the 3 popular varieties in China. Oolong is brown pale tea as compared to fresh peaches. Black tea has a more strong taste. Green tea has a light and fresh flavor. It comes in loose form and it is often drank without sugar or milk. Drinking tea lowers the risk of cholesterol, prevents cancer and heart diseases.

Some Chinese ethnic recipes are as follows:

Soups and Appetizers

A clear soup serves as a drink during meals; it is a way to warm up people during the winter time. Their soup is usually served in large bowls, for dinner or banquet. On the other hand, dimsum as an appetizer is served during the mid-mornings or afternoon and can be as a late night snack. Dimsum samples include wonton, egg rolls, dumplings, shrimp balls and pastries. To enjoy delicious soups and dims sum samples, you can try these recipes:

Wonton Recipe - Ingredients:

o Minced pound pork ½ lb.

o Minced fresh mushrooms ¼ lb.

o ¼ tsp. salt

o 1 tbsp. minced scallion

o 1/8 tsp. ground black pepper

o 1 pc. egg yolk

o Peanut oil

o Wanton squares

Method:

o Using a bowl, mix pork, mushrooms, salt, scallions, pepper and egg yolk.

o Put a 1/2 tsp mixture at the center of won ton square and fold a corner to make triangles.

o Pull the corner bottom and overlap the tips pinching together.

o Fry in hot oil and drain.

o Serve with ketchup or mustard with a horseradish. It can make 120 pieces.

Main Dish

A main dish usually consists of meats or fish and vegetables. Fresh vegetables are important. It should be cooked quickly in order to retain its color and crispness. The dish below is good for 4 persons.

Almond Chicken Recipe

Ingredients:

o 1 ½ lbs. chicken breasts

o 1 tsp. honey

o 1 tbsp. cornstarch

o 12 ounces pea pods

o 3 tbsp. soy sauce

o ¼ cup vegetable oil

o 3 to 4 tbsp. Water

o 1 tsp. ginger

o 1 cup natural whole almonds

o 1/3 cup sherry

Method:

o Cut chicken ******* in ½ inch cube.

o Mix ginger, cornstarch, and honey. Blend soy sauce and sherry in water.

o Heat oil in a wok on medium heat.

o Add almonds and chicken. Cook for 3 minutes.

o Pour sherry mixture until sauce thickens and add pea pods. Stir fry and glazed.

Posted by : Bidyut Bikash Dhar

Have you seen the price of breakfast bread (Morgenbrød) lately? It’s enough to make one wonder if it wouldn’t be cheaper to make your own. You know what? It is! For the cost of a typical loaf of bread (between $2 - $4), you can make more than one loaf of homemade goodness. A large bag of bread flour can make quite a few loaves with a handful of other ingredients. You’ll need some yeast, salt, sugar, milk, water, oil and maybe an egg or two, depending on your chosen recipe.

Also Quick bread recipes are a great alternative to making homemade loaf the old fashioned way. Sure you can use a bread maker that will do the work for you, but then you would be missing out on all of the fun of making the treats yourself.

When making bread, there are a few things to keep in mind. Choose a basic recipe if you’ve never made bread before. Plan ahead. Read through the recipe a few times to familiarize yourself with the ingredients and the process. It is important to follow the recipe exactly.

Learning how to make bakery (Bageri ) bread is a great way to get started on your path to a healthier lifestyle, plus you’ll get to enjoy fresh, warm loaf that just melts in your mouth. Yummy is the only word to adequately describe homemade loaf.

You can make loaf in two different ways. You can make it from scratch by hand or you can use a bread making machine to make the dough for you. The second yields fast results, but seems to lack that “homemade” quality that comes from kneading and seeing the loaves take shape from your very own hands.

Make sure all your ingredients are at room temperature before you start. Yeast likes a warm environment. The measuring of dry and wet ingredients is of utmost importance to create a tender, tasty loaf. Pre-measure your ingredients if you find that helpful.

Follow your recipe exactly. If it says to mix the ingredients in a certain order, do it. Making bread is a science as much as an art, and if you want your loaf to turn out the same way every time, follow the directions to the letter!

When all your ingredients are mixed, it is time to knead the dough. You will need additional flour to spread on your counter and to dip your hands in so the dough doesn’t stick to you or the table top. Kneading is necessary to develop the gluten in the bread dough, mix in air for rising, and distribute the ingredients so the yeast can feed. Yes, the yeast actually feeds on the sugars in the dough, and creates a fermentation process, which enables the dough to rise properly. The biggest rookie mistake in bread-making is not kneading the dough long enough. Use a timer if you need it. You’ll want to knead the bread between 8-10 minutes.

When you are done kneading, form the dough into a ball and set in a greased bowl. Cover and let rest. Your dough will need to sit for 1-2 hours to rise. Make sure your kitchen is warm to aid the rising process.

At the end of this time, you’ll want to uncover the dough, punch it down, shape the dough how you want it be when you bake it, and cover it for another rising session. When it is done rising, it is time to bake. Pre-heat your oven before baking. Once your bread is done, let it cool completely before slicing.

Once you’ve mastered a basic bread (Brød ) recipe, you can make artisan breads, French bread, herbed breads, rolls, and more.

Just imagine some sweet banana loaf with a gooey cream cheese frosting just waiting for you when you get home from a long, stressful day at work. It is an ultimate comfort food and is well worth the little bit of time it will take to make and bake.