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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Fruit salad recipes best Ambrosia fruit salad

Here is a classic recipe for fruit salad that many people love. It features pineapple, oranges, cherries, marshmallows and coconut.

2 Cans of pineapple chunks, drained

2 Cans mandarin oranges, drained

2 Glasses Maraschino Cherries, drained

1 Can coconut flakes

1/2-Pocket mini marshmallows

4 Ounces sour cream

16 Ounce container, the cool whip

Directions

Combine sour cream and that in a bowl cool whip. Fold in remaining ingredients. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours before serving.

= > fruit salad recipe: fancy frozen fruit salad

A delicious cold 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 dressing

1(16_oz.) Can sliced peaches, drained

1/3 Cup Maraschino cherry halves

1 (16 Ounce) can fruit cocktail, drained

1 (8 Ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained

2 Cups miniature marshmallows

1/3 Cup whipped cream

Few drops red food coloring

Additional whipped cream to garnish

Directions

In a bowl whip of the cream cheese with a hand blender. Add the icing sugar and mix until well mixed. Add the vanilla and mix in mayonnaise. Fold in the fruit and marshmallows. Fold the cream into the mixture.

Add food coloring mixture. Salad should now be a pale pink color. Scoop mixture into 5 oz portion or soufflé of cups. Place freeze in the freezer and over night.

You serve at least 15 minutes prior to the ropes. Garnish with DAB of cream and cherries.

= > fresh fruit salad recipe: summer fresh fruit salad

This salad is loaded, fresh fruit display a nice centerpiece.

1/2-Watermelon

Cantaloupe balls

Seedless grapes

Peach slices

PEAR slices

Sliced strawberries, sliced

Red and black raspberries

Banana slices

Pineapple cubes

Black cherries

Apple cubes

Fruit salad dressing

Directions

Tap into the red meat out with melon ball cutter within the watermelon. Drain the shell well.

Cut the other fruits into pieces. Fill the watermelon shell with watermelon balls and other assorted fruit chunks and berries. Chill until ready to serve.

Fruit salad dressing

4 1/2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 (6 Ounce) box of pineapple juice

1/3 Cup sugar

1/3 Cup orange juice concentrate

2 Tablespoons honey

2 Tablespoons lemon juice

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a pot. Bring to a boil; Cook for 2 minutes or until thickened; stirring constantly. Cool. Serving of fruit. Cool links about dressing.

= > easy fruit salad recipe: quick and easy fruit salad

If you need to make fruit salad for an audience, like for a picnic or potluck, this recipe is a snap.

Can fruit cocktail, drained 1 (oz 30)

1 (11 Oz) Tin mandarin oranges, drained

1 (20 Oz.) can pineapple of chunks do not drain.

2 fixed bananas, cut 1 inch thick (optional) *.

1 Box instant vanilla pudding

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Stir until the dry pudding mix is fully integrated into the mix fruit. The runny salad appear but is thicker than pudding absorbed the pineapple juice.

Cool overnight. Stir before serving.

* Note: Serve bananas just before joining.


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Friday, May 2, 2014

We Won a 2011 Saveurs Best Food Blog Award!


I am very proud and honored to announce that Food Wishes has won a second consecutive Saveur Magazines Best Food Blog Award in the video category! A giant thank you to everyone who took the time to register and vote.

Through your support with these types of awards, you are directly helping get our videos in front of a whole new audience. Thats what this is really all about. That, and bragging rights. Also, my hearty congratulations to all the other winners and nominees.
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Friday, April 25, 2014

Best Hamburger Buns

**I recently revised this recipe to be more mixer-friendly. If youd like to make it with a wooden spoon/your own two hands, see the original recipe (link at the bottom).

I saw these buns over at Smitten Kitchen and I knew they would be amazing. They arent any harder than any other bread and they are so good! I know it probably seems silly to make hamburger buns, but I love making bread in any form, and I likewise dislike buying bread, so I thought I would give these a try. The recipe makes 8 buns. These are tasty and if youre looking to make burgers better than any restaurant, this will help you get there.

By the way, my husband, the burger-lover, absolutely fell in love with these! Paired with these oven fries, he was in heaven.

Makes 8 buns* (see note at end about freezing dough)

Hamburger Buns
1 c. warm water
3 T. warm milk
2 tsp. active dry yeast
2 1/2 T. sugar
2 large eggs
3 - 3 1/2 c. flour
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 1/2 T. unsalted butter, softened
sesame seeds, optional

Combine water, milk, yeast and sugar. Let stand until foamy, about five minutes. Meanwhile, beat one egg.
In bowl of mixer, combine 3 c. flour and the salt. Add butter and rub into flour between your fingers, making crumbs. Add yeast mixture and beaten egg until and mix on low until dough forms. Continue mixing and add more flour a little at a time, if needed, until the dough clears the side of the bowl. Knead for 5-6 minutes.
Shape dough into a ball and put in a bowl. Cover bowl with plastic wrap or a towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, one to two hours.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Divide dough into 8 equal parts. Gently roll each into a ball and arrange two to three inches apart on baking sheet (youll need 2 baking sheets; 4 buns on each). Cover loosely with a piece of plastic wrap lightly coated in nonstick spray (or a towel) and let buns rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about one to two hours.
Set a large shallow pan of water on oven floor. Preheat oven to 400 degrees with rack in center. Beat remaining egg with one tablespoon water and brush some on top of buns. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, if using. Bake, turning sheet halfway through baking, until tops are golden brown, about 15 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool completely.
I made these earlier in the day and then cut them open and toasted them in the oven for a minute or two right before dinner. Delicious!
*On freezing: The first time I made these, I froze half of the dough in a chunk and used it later so I just made 4 at a time. This time, (I just made another batch today), after I formed them into individual balls, I lined a pan with parchment, stuck the balls on the pan, put it in the freezer until hardened, and then pulled off the balls and stuck them in a ziploc bag. This way I only have to bake 2 at a time (for the two of us) and I only have to make them once every 4 times. Just an idea. Just let them thaw and rise on the counter before you want to bake them (take them out the morning of).

Source: Adapted from Smitten Kitchen
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Friday, March 28, 2014

Best Gluten Free Italian Meatball Recipe

best Italian meatballs gluten free with brown rice spaghetti
Gluten-free Italian meatballs recipe with pesto g-free pasta.

Craving meatballs but shun evil gluten? 

Have I got a meatball recipe for you. And it's so good you won't even have to apologize to your Aunt Carmella. I promise. She won't ever suspect you pulled a switcheroo on the old family recipe and made it gluten-free.

Mum's the word (or is it Mama mia?).

Let's face it. When it comes to making meatballs every family boasts an ultra-special top secret meatball recipe, right? There's a loyalty to meatball mojo as fierce and tooth baring as the die hard belief that Mom's meatloaf can cure all ills, mend bruised hearts, and restore order to chaos theory.

So why am I putting myself on the line here? How do I even dare to post a gluten-free meatball recipe? The wrong ingredient or technique might actually lead to fisticuffs. Or bristling. You might turn away from Gluten-Free Goddess in utter, sheer contempt.

I'm putting my reputation on the line here, and I know it.

So why risk it? Why torture myself with the inevitable backlash? Reason one-  an obvious plea. My meatballs are gluten-free and casein-free, in other words, GFCF. My audience. My people.

These meatballs also happen to be egg-free (yes, I hear the snorts of derision- may you wake tomorrow with a blooming albumen rash and come crawling back to peruse my egg-free recipes).

Reason number two? My spaghetti and meatballs? Killer. I'm serious.

Meatball bliss.

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Monday, December 23, 2013

Stovetop Sous Vide Episode 1 The Best Duck Breast Ever

If you watch any food television at all, youve undoubtedly seen the "sous vide" (French for "under vacuum") technique many, many times. What was once a very unique procedure is now about as rare as a hung-over line cook.

Not so long ago, only a handful of pros using state-of-the-art sous vide set-ups, costing thousands of dollars, got to play this game. Today, there
are many options for home sous vide kits, most costing hundreds of dollars, but what about the home cook who just wants to try this once and a while, and doesn’t want to invest that kind of money and space?How about a simple, almost foolproof, stovetop sous vide method that requires no special equipment? Too good to be true? Well, Im happy to report its so very true, and produced what Michele and I agreed was the best duck breast weve ever had.The principles behind this sous vide duck breasts succulence is quite simple. Put the meat in a watertight, vacuum-sealed bag, and place it in a water bath held at a temperature exactly equal to the ideal desired internal temperature. After a certain amount of time, the meat reaches that temperature and stays there.
Thats it. Not only is there no real danger of overcooking the meat, but it cooks so gently, in a vacuum, that virtually no moisture is lost. The only real difference with our stovetop sous vide and the professional set-up, is the vacuum part.

Were going very low tech here; simply pressing or sucking the air from a ziplock bag. Its not a perfect vacuum, but as youll see, it doesn’t have to be. As long as your package sinks below the surface, and no water gets in, youre good to go.
After an hour in the 135 degree F. water, my duck breasts were picture perfect inside. I crisped-up the skin, drizzled over some sweet and sour peach sauce, and ate in stunned silence. I could not believe how amazing the texture was. I wont even waste time trying to find the adjectives, as most of the ones I need havent been invented yet.

Ive only done this with one other meat (a NY Strip steak, also very impressive) so I can’t give you any info on other recipes/times/temperatures just yet. I will, however, post the quick and easy peach sauce seen in this clip soon. Anyway, I really hope you give this spectacular sous vide duck a try. Enjoy!




Ingredients:
2 large duck breasts, boneless, skin-on
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
1 teaspoon vegetable oil


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