New Year’s Good Luck “Pasta Fazool” – Think Lucky, Be Lucky

Scientists will tell you that there’s no way eating pork, beans, and/or greens at the beginning of a new year can bring you good luck and great fortune; but our lab-coated, left-brained friends are missing one very important fact: People who think they’re lucky, are lucky.

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Japanese Steamed Cake 日式蒸蛋糕

These healthy and delicious Japanese Steamed Cakes are made with very simple ingredients, perfect for breakfast or snack in between meals. The texture is soft and well loved by children.

Ingredients: yield 5-6 cupcakes
材料

100g Pancake Mix 松饼粉 100克

1 Egg 鸡蛋 1粒

40g Castor Sugar 细砂糖 40克

30g Yoghurt, plain or any flavour 优格/酸奶 30克，可以用原味或其他口味

30g Milk 牛奶 30克

15g Melted Butter (salted) 含盐牛油/奶油 15克，融化

These were made using mango & passion fruit yoghurt, 
the cakes are so fragrant and well loved by children.
用水果口味的优格，有点像冰淇淋的味道，小孩非常喜欢。

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Method: 步骤

1. Whisk egg and sugar, stir in yoghurt and milk, mix well.
鸡蛋和糖充分拌均，加入优格和牛奶，拌均。

2. Sift in pancake mix, mix well. Stir in butter, mix well. 
过筛加入松饼粉，拌均。加入牛油，拌均。

3. Pour evenly on paper cups, steam in a hot steamer for 12-15 minutes or till cooked through.
把面糊倒入模具/纸杯，蒸12-15分钟或至熟。即可享用。这食谱做的蛋糕口感软又绵密，不会回缩。若喜欢我的食谱，可以LIKE和追随我的面书专页，不要错过最新食谱发布。

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Salted Egg Yolk Prawns 金沙虾球/咸蛋黄炒虾

We love salted egg yolk everything, Salted Egg Yolk Prawns is one of it. Unlike Zi-char stall, when preparing this dish at home, I'd use prawn without shells. This way, the prawn flesh will be coated generously with a divine salted egg sauce and it's also easier for the kid to eat. 

Ingredients: 材料

6-8 Large Prawns 大虾 6-8只

1/2 Egg, beaten 蛋液 少许

Some Rice Flour 粘米粉 适量

1 tsp Minced Garlic 蒜茸 1小匙

Handful of Curry Leaves 咖喱叶 适量

1 tbsp chopped Red Chilies/ 1 Bird's Eye Chili 红辣椒碎 1汤匙/ 指天椒 1条

Some oil for cooking 油 适量



(A)

1/2 tsp Shao Xing Hua Tiao Wine 绍兴花雕酒 1/2小匙

Pinch of Salt 盐 少许

Dash of White Pepper 胡椒粉 少许


(B)

10g Butter 牛油 10克

2 Salted Egg Yolk, cooked & mashed 咸蛋黄 2粒，蒸熟压碎

1 tsp Milk Powder 奶粉 1小匙

1/4 tsp Chicken Powder 鸡粉 1/4小匙

1/4 tsp Sugar 糖 1/4小匙

Dash of White Pepper 胡椒粉 少许

Salt, add to taste 盐 适量

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Method: 步骤

1. In a bowl, mix (A) and prawn, let it marinate for 15 minutes. 
把（A）和虾拌均，腌15分钟。

2. Add generous amount of oil in a wok, heat oil to 170'C. Coat the prawns with egg and rice flour, deep fry till golden, set aside.
锅里烧热油，把虾沾上蛋液和粘米粉，炸至金黄色，备用。

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3. Pour away excess oil, in the same wok, fry garlic, chili and curry leaves till fragrant.
锅里留下少许油，把蒜茸，辣椒和咖喱叶爆香。

4.  Stir in (B) to make the sauce.
加入（B），炒香。

5. Add in prawns, coat the prawn with sauce and serve right away.
加入虾，拌均后即可上碟。若喜欢我的食谱，可以LIKE和追随我的面书专页，不要错过最新食谱发布。

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These 3-ingredient Chocolate Covered Oranges are together with then slow to make, y'all volition desire to consume them every day! With but a affect of body of body of water tabular array salt sprinkled on top, they are sweet, salty, together with absolutely irresistible!

There is goose egg that I similar to a greater extent than than a recipe that is super duper slow together with delicious at the same time. Sure, it's prissy to project over a 4-hour recipe in 1 lawsuit inwards a bluish moon, but this momma's kitchen runs on quick together with slow 99% of the time.

It's non but chocolate together with oranges that brand this recipe together with then yummy, though.  It's that piddling sprinkle of body of body of water tabular array salt that makes them extra special.  The juicy citrus paired alongside the sweetness chocolate topped alongside but a pinch of salt...it's similar heaven.

You are going to LOVE these!

Chocolate Covered Oranges

These 3-ingredient Chocolate Covered Oranges are together with then slow to make, y'all volition desire to consume them every day! With but a affect of body of body of water tabular array salt sprinkled on top, they are sweet, salty, together with absolutely irresistible!

prep time: 15 MINcook time: 10 MINtotal time: 30 MIN

INGREDIENTS

• 5 Mandarin oranges
• 1 loving cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 teaspoons kokosnoot oil

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Peel together with carve upward Mandarin oranges into segments.
2. Melt the chocolate chips together with kokosnoot stone oil inwards the microwave inwards 30-second increments, stirring betwixt each 30-second interval until but melted.
3. Dip the oranges inwards the melted chocolate together with house onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle alongside coarse body of body of water salt.
4. Freeze for 10 minutes or until set. Store inwards the refrigerator.

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Easy Ritz Cracker Toffee

This Easy Ritz Cracker Toffee recipe is sweet, salty, chocolaty, buttery as well as completely irresistible. It's a slap-up chocolate dessert for whatsoever vacation as well as it makes the perfect foodie gift!

I know you've heard of cracker toffee before, right?  There are loads of recipes floating or thus the spider web for this decadent chocolate dessert.  You'll discovery versions that are saltine cracker recipes or Christmas crack recipes, but it's basically all the same thing.  Cracker toffee features a buttery, sugary, crisp toffee layer topped alongside a smoothen sweetness chocolate layer.

It's almost unbelievable how ridiculously tardily it is to brand because it is thus darn good.

If you lot are looking for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than chocolate dessert inspiration, cheque out these lush chocolate recipes from some of my foodie friends!

Easy Ritz Cracker Toffee

This Easy Ritz Cracker Toffee recipe is sweet, salty, chocolaty, buttery as well as completely irresistible. It's a slap-up chocolate dessert for whatsoever vacation as well as it makes the perfect foodie gift!

prep time: 30 MINcook time: 13 MINtotal time: 43 MIN

INGREDIENTS

• 40 Ritz crackers
• 1 loving cup butter
• 1/2 loving cup nighttime brownish sugar
• 1/2 loving cup white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 (11.5 ounce) handbag nighttime chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line 15x10 inch pan alongside parchment newspaper or foil. If using foil, spray alongside cooking spray. Arrange the crackers inwards unmarried layer inwards the pan.
2. In a medium saucepan, fix as well as stir the butter, nighttime brownish sugar, sugar, as well as tabular array salt over medium oestrus until the butter is melted. Heat to boiling, stirring frequently. Boil for vii minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from the oestrus as well as add together the vanilla; stir until blended. Immediately pour mixture evenly over crackers inwards pan.  (Move chop-chop because 1 time you lot pour it on, it volition non spread!  It sets real fast!)
3. Bake for 12 minutes or until bubbly as well as brownish inwards color. (Do non overbake!  If the edges start looking burned, it volition sense of savor burned!) Sprinkle chocolate chips on overstep of cracker mixture. Return to the oven for 1 minute. Spread the chocolate chips evenly over the cracker mixture. Sprinkle alongside toppings of your choice. Cool completely on the counter (or thirty minutes inwards the freezer) until chocolate is set. Break into pieces. Store covered inwards fridge upwardly to 1 week.

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Holiday Cherry Shortbread Cookies Recipe

These shortbread cookies are simple yet luxurious. There are many different ways to prepare and decorate them, you can also use a biscuit cutter or a biscuit press or even your own hands to make various shapes for Christmas. I chose cherry shortbread cookies because it is an all time kids favorite and loved by chidren and adults alike, and is ideal for occasions like birthday parties, look

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Butter Shortbread Cookies | Christmas Cookies Recipe

These shortbread cookies are simple yet luxurious. There are many different ways to prepare and decorate them, you can also use a biscuit cutter or a biscuit press or even your own hands to make various shapes for Christmas. I chose cherry shortbread cookies because it is an all time kids favorite and loved by chidren and adults alike, and is ideal for occasions like birthday parties, look

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The Ultimate Roast Potatoes

The Ultimate Roast Potatoes

These are the ultimate roast potatoes, crisp on the outside and oh so fluffy on the inside!

Serves 6

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

1.5kg floury potatoes, Maris Piper or King Edwards, peeled and cut in half

100g duck fat

8 garlic cloves

Few sprigs of thyme

Few sprigs of rosemary

2tbsp semolina

Sea salt & freshly ground pepper

Preparation method

1.    Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C Fan/Gas mark 7.

2.    Put the potatoes in a saucepan of cold, salted water and bring to the boil, parboil for 5 minutes.  Drain well and then give them a gentle shake to fluff p the sides.

3.    Meanwhile place the roasting tin in the oven and melt the duck fat.

4.    Sprinkle the semolina over the potatoes and carefully tip into the sizzling fat along with the garlic, thyme, rosemary and season.  Toss the potatoes gently to ensure an even coating of fat and spread them out in an even layer.

5.    Roast the potatoes until golden and crisp, this should take 45-50 minutes to ensure they colour evenly.  When cooked to perfection pat dry with kitchen paper to remove the excess fat and serve.  Enjoy!

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Mulled Wine

Mulled Wine

This is the prefect winter warmer to get you in the festive spirit!

Serves 12

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

2 unwaxed oranges

1 lemon, peel only

150g caster sugar

5 cloves, plus extra for garnish

5 cardamom pods, bruised

1 cinnamon stick

¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg

2 bottles of fruity unoaked red wine

150ml ginger wine

Preparation method

1.     Peel and juice one of the oranges and place in a large saucepan with the lemon peel, sugar, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg.  Add some wine to just cover the sugar, heat gently until the sugar has dissolved.  Now bring to the boil for 5-8 minutes until you have a thick syrup consistency.

2.    Meanwhile, stud the remaining orange with cloves and cut into segments to use as garnish.

3.    Reduce the heat and stir in the remaining wine and ginger wine, gently heat through.

4.    To serve, pour into heatproof glasses and serve with the orange segments as garnish.  Merry Christmas!

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Christmas Turkey with Citrus Butter

Christmas Turkey with Citrus Butter

Christmas dinner means Christmas turkey; this recipe keeps your turkey moist and full of flavour.

Serves 8

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 4 hours (plus resting time)

Ingredients

6 kg turkey, giblets removed

140g butter, at room temperature

1 lemon, zest and halved

1 orange, zest and halved

A few sprigs of thyme leaves, finely chopped

1 sprig of rosemary, leaves finely chopped

Sea salt and freshly ground pepper

4 large onions, peeled and halved

3 bay leaves

2 tbsp olive oil

For the gravy

1 tbsp plain flour

200ml white wine

600ml good quality chicken stock

Preparation method

1.     Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/Gas mark 4.

2.    Make sure the turkey is dry all over by patting with kitchen paper.  In a small bowl mix together the butter, lemon and orange zest, thyme, rosemary and season well.  Now gently push your fingers under the turkey’s skin around the neck, breasts and tops of the drumsticks; easing the skin away from the flesh.

3.    Now spread the butter under the skin with your fingers and push it as far as you can.  Place half of the lemon and orange, 2 onion halves and bay leaves into the turkey cavity.  Now rub the turkey all over with the olive oil and sprinkle with salt.

4.    Arrange the remaining onions in the bottom of a large roasting tin and place the turkey on top.  Now completely cover the bird with tin foil.  Now roast the bird as per calculated cooking times; 40 minutes per kg.

5.    At 30 minutes before the end of the cooking time remove the turkey from the oven and increase the heat to 200°C/180°C fan/Gas mark 6.  Remove the foil and place back in the oven for 30 minutes until golden.

6.    Test the turkey is cooked by piercing the fattest part of the thigh with a skewer, the juices should run clear.  If pink cook for a further 10 minutes and check again, continue until the juices run clear.

7.    Rest the turkey lightly covered with foil at least 30 minutes to one hour before serving.  Reserve the cooking juices and onions in the tin for the gravy.

8.    For the gravy, pour away the excess fat from the turkey tin but leave the onions.  Place the tin over a medium heat and sprinkle over the flour.  Mix through with a wooden spoon and cook for  2 minutes and press down on the onions to extract the flavour.  Now gradually add the wine and stock and bring to the boil scraping any bits from the bottom of the tin.  Bring the gravy to a simmer over a low heat for 15 minutes.  Now sieve and season to taste before serving in a warmed gravy jug alongside the Christmas turkey.  Merry Christmas!

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Christmas Cupcake - Raisin Muffin - Butter Muffin Recipe

Quick and easy to make, the crunch of the muffin tops with raisins. these really made me happy. I love a good muffin that gets a fabulous crispy edge and moist buttery sponge texture. These raisin muffins are flavoured for a sweet treat, but not super-sweet or loaded with sugar. I have used this recipe for many years, this time I have managed to make 9 muffins, twice to make 18 muffins.

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Oven Baked White Patato Chips

Oven Baked Potato Chips are crisp in addition to satisfying without the frying. They tin laissez passer on the sack survive served equally an appetizer, snack, or side dish.

These chips. I could swallow them all twenty-four hours long. I'm betting if y'all made them, you'd survive proverb the same thing. Let's verbalise nigh why I dear these chips!

First, these homemade Irish Gaelic patato chips are made amongst i of my transcend 3 favorite foods. Potatoes, naturally! They are then versatile. They tin laissez passer on the sack survive served amongst a dip equally an appetizer (as written below), equally a well for y'all snack, or equally a side dish for burgers, sandwiches or basically anything y'all tin laissez passer on the sack mean value of!

I also dear the fact that these chips are baked, non fried. I purpose a mandolin slicer to spell my potatoes prissy in addition to thin. If y'all don't convey one, I highly advise y'all larn one, stat!  This nifty trivial tool is what is going to assistance y'all larn the uber sparse slices we're looking for to yield nice, crisp chips.  The thicker the slice, the longer the laid upward time, in addition to the to a greater extent than the chance they volition survive less crisp.

Trust me.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mandolin is a great, useful tool to convey inwards your kitchen arsenal.  Check out my video tutorial for homemade oven-baked Irish Gaelic patato chips to run into how I purpose a mandolin to spell the potatoes:

Oven Baked Potato Chips

Oven Baked Potato Chips are crisp in addition to satisfying without the frying. They tin laissez passer on the sack survive served equally an appetizer, snack, or side dish.

INGREDIENTS

CHIPS

• 2 -3 potatoes
• olive oil
• kosher salt
• black pepper
• parmesan cheese, optional
• fresh parsley, minced, optional

PESTO DIP (optional)

• 1/2 loving cup evidently Greek yogurt
• 2 tablespoons pesto sauce

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Drizzle olive fossil oil onto a foil-lined baking canvass in addition to brush to coat the pan. Sprinkle the baking canvass amongst tabular array salt in addition to pepper.
2. Using a mandolin slicer, spell the potatoes into rattling sparse slices.* Lay the sliced potatoes inwards a unmarried layer on the prepared baking sheet. (You may involve 2 baking sheets if y'all are using large potatoes or to a greater extent than than 2 potatoes.) Brush amongst additional olive fossil oil in addition to sprinkle amongst to a greater extent than tabular array salt in addition to pepper.
3. Bake inwards the preheated oven for xv minutes, rotating the pan halfway through the laid upward time. Flip the chips in addition to proceed cooking for five minutes. Remove whatever chips from the pan that are done in addition to laid aside. Continue cooking whatever chips that are non golden in addition to crisp inwards 5-minute intervals until fully cooked.
4. Sprinkle the chips amongst parmesan cheese in addition to fresh parsley, if desired. Serve right away amongst optional Pesto Dip, made past times stirring together the Greek yogurt in addition to pesto sauce.

NOTES

The thickness of the potatoes volition decide the laid upward time. If your chips are non golden in addition to crisp, proceed cooking, checking every five minutes until chips are golden in addition to crispy.

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Chicken Nacho Soup is light, nevertheless filling in addition to total of tons of Mexican flavor. Thanks to shredded rotisserie chicken, this slow recipe is on the tabular array inwards less than thirty minutes!

When my parents moved me to Florida from New Bailiwick of Jersey when I was a kid, I longed for the mutual depression temperature conditions from dorsum home.  Building snowmen, sledding, in addition to snowball fights were all a affair of the by in 1 trial Florida became my permanent residence.

As I've gotten older, I've learned that snowfall as an adult is every bit as beautiful in addition to magical as it was when I was a child, but heck to the no when it comes to genuinely adulting inwards snow!  Shoveling driveways, driving on dark ice, in addition to God knows what else snowfall brings for adults are non rattling high on my listing of things I assist to sense anytime soon.

Chicken Nacho Soup

Chicken Nacho Soup is total of tons of Mexican season in addition to is light, nevertheless filling. Thanks to shredded rotisserie chicken, this slow recipe is on the tabular array inwards less than thirty minutes!

INGREDIENTS

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 pocket-size onion, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon cumin
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 tin strength out Ro*tel tomatoes, undrained
• 1 tin strength out Mexican corn, drained
• 1 tin strength out refried beans
• 2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken
• 4 cups chicken stock
• 1/2 loving cup milk
• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 loving cup pepper jack cheese, shredded
• 1 loving cup cheddar cheese, shredded
• sour cream, for garnish
• Crushed tortilla chips, for garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

1. In a large pot, rut olive crude over medium-high heat. Add onion in addition to create for v minutes, in addition to thence add together the garlic, cumin, in addition to chili pulverization in addition to create for 1 minute, stirring frequently.
2. Add the Ro*tel tomatoes, corn, chicken broth, in addition to refried beans to the pot in addition to stir until combined.
3. Bring to a simmer in addition to allow create for xv minutes. Stir inwards the milk in addition to pepper jack cheese, cheddar cheese, in addition to cream cheese until all of the cheese is completely melted. It volition accept several minutes in addition to stirring for the cream cheese to fully incorporate. Add the chicken in addition to create until heated through. Garnish amongst sour cream in addition to crushed tortilla chips.

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This Easy Spaghetti Casserole is made amongst iii kinds of cheese in addition to a unproblematic meat sauce. The whole work solid unit of measurement volition dear this slow dinner recipe!

Spaghetti is 1 of those meals that I tin brand over again in addition to over again in addition to my work solid unit of measurement won't complain.  Its familiar flavors brand everyone inward the work solid unit of measurement happy fifty-fifty if I serve it every calendar week (which oftentimes I do!).

The solely mortal who actually has an upshot amongst weekly spaghetti is me.

I sure enough can't complain most preparing it.  I mean, really.  What's easier than boiling around pasta in addition to heating upwards around sauce?  I almost ever cause got a jounce of sauce inward the pantry in addition to around homemade sauce inward the freezer, too.  No, it's non how hard it is to cook.  The truth is, I simply piece of work apparently onetime bored amongst spaghetti.  As much every bit I dear Italian, the same onetime plate of spaghetti needs around jazzing upwards every straight off in addition to then.

Easy Spaghetti Casserole

This Easy Spaghetti Casserole is made amongst iii kinds of cheese in addition to meat sauce. The whole work solid unit of measurement volition dear this slow dinner recipe!

INGREDIENTS

• 12 ounces spaghetti
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 modest onion, diced
• 1 lb solid soil beef
• 1 (28 oz) jounce spaghetti sauce
• 4 ounces cream cheese
• 1/2 loving cup apparently Greek yogurt or sour cream
• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 1/2 loving cup parmesan cheese, shredded
• 1/3 loving cup provolone cheese shredded

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Cook the spaghetti according to the packet directions. Drain in addition to identify inward a large mixing bowl.
2. Meanwhile, In a large skillet laid the onion inward the olive crude until softened. Add the solid soil beef to the pan in addition to laid until browned. Drain off the grease in addition to add together the spaghetti sauce to the pan. Set aside.
3. Add the cream cheese, Greek yogurt (or sour cream), italian seasoning, in addition to garlic to the cooked pasta. Stir until the cream cheese has melted in addition to the noodles are coated.
4. Spoon a modest amount of sauce into the bottom of a greased 9x13 inch dish. Put spaghetti on overstep of the sauce in addition to overstep amongst remaining sauce. Sprinkle the parmesan in addition to provolone cheese on top. Bake for thirty minutes.

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How to Make Chocolate Truffles

We’ve posted chocolate truffle-like confections before, but I’ve always taken the coward’s way out, and just finished them by dusting in cocoa, which, while technically acceptable, isn’t even close textually to what we’ve finally done here. A proper truffle needs to feature that irresistible contrast between the soft ganache center, and a crispy, pure chocolate shell. Don’t worry – it’s easier than it sounds.

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Menier Chocolate Eggnog