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What are your Favorite Foods?  Recipes?  Restaurants?
My Food Message Board entries have been
 moved to the Recipe Exchange
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CopyKat Creations 
   'You have tried it in the restaurant,
now make it at home and we will show you how.'  
  Includes many Olive Garden Recipes.

Berry Crostada
Warm pastry filled with cranberries, blueberries and blackberries.
Served with ice cream with raspberry syrup

 

Wikimedia Cookbook A collection of recipes from around the world.

The Vegetable Patch    Recipes, including Ethnic

Cheese

Fruit Pie Recipes    

Cookies Recipes  and other collections

Now...You're cooking!
by Joan Donogh of Toronto

Peanut Butter Lovers

Hot  Stuff  by Deb of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
 

Just for that  'Snack Attack'

If you are caught with the between-meal "hungries", pick from the Pyramid!

 Nutrient-rich-snacks from the Five Food Groups (Meat, Milk, Vegetable, Fruit and Grain) can add key nutrients, such as calcium, to your diet, while providing energy to zip through your day.  Snacks also can help to keep your appetite in check.  Arriving at the table hungry, not ravenous, may make overeating at meals less likely. 

Try the following pyramid snack ideas for your next "snack attack."

• Break the habit.  Don't just think chips and soft drinks!  Nutrient-dense snacks from the Five Food Groups include a slice of raisin bread, a glass of vegetable juice, a handful of dried cherries, cheese cubes or a hard cooked egg.
   

• Yogurt with fruit satisfies a sweet tooth and provides calcium.
   

• Popcorn sprinkled with Parmesan cheese is great for a salt craving.
   

• For a calcium boost, take a refreshing dip.  Dip fruit into fruit-flavored yogurt-based dip seasoned with cinnamon.
   

• Bagel chips are a great alternative to potato chips and it's easy to bake your own from leftover bagels.  To make garlic-cheese bagel chips:  Vertically slice a bagel into thin circles.  Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and garlic salt.  Bake at 325 degrees about 10 minutes or just until crisp.
   

• Have a bowl of cereal with milk and fresh fruit.  For a tangy twist, layer flavored yogurt with cereal to create yogurt sundaes. 
   

• Puree cottage cheese with herbs in a blender as a quick dip for broccoli, cucumbers, carrots or other raw vegetables.
   

• "Refresh" by choosing a single-serve container of flavored milk:  banana, vanilla, chocolate or strawberry.
   

• Layer cheese and fruit slices, such as apple, on cinnamon-raisin bread.  The combinations of fruit and cheese you can use are endless, with more than 300 varieties of American-made cow's milk cheese to choose from. 

It's easy to add a boost of flavor and nutrition to your next snack attack by choosing nutrient-rich food from the Five Food Groups.      

By Jennifer DeHoog, Nutrition educator of the St. Louis District Dairy Council from the 4-18-3 Illinois Agrinews

Special K Bars

 Ingredients:

1. 1 cup sugar
2. 1 cup white karo syrup
3. 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
4. 6 cups Special K cereal
5. 1 package butterscotch chips
6. 1 package chocolate chips

Utensils:

1. 9x13-inch pan

Preparation:

S'Mores

   Original S'Mores  the campfire type   

Jet-Puffed recipes  another S'More recipe

Mint S'mores
Ingredients:

• Graham Crackers
• Large Marshmallows
• Inch Long Mint Chocolates
   

Cooking Method:
Microwave Directions

1. Place graham cracker squares on microwavable plate.
2. Place the mint chocolates on half of each graham cracker.
3. Cut the marshmallows in half and place both halves evenly on the graham cracker that you put the chocolate on.
4. Place the cracker half you didn't use on top of the marshmallow halves.
5. Place the plate of un-cooked s'mores in the microwave and turn it on for 1 or 2 minutes (or high 15 - 20 seconds) depending on the type of microwave, until marshmallow puffs.
6. Serve while warm.
    

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