Amaretto Cream Cheese Dip

Amaretto Cream Cheese Dip


Serves 10
Ingredients:

• 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup brown sugar or 2 tbsps. honey
• 1/4 cup finely chopped toasted almonds, plus a few for garnish
• 1 1/3 teaspoons amaretto or almond liquer

Combine all the ingredients, leaving a few almonds for garnish, in a food processor fitted with a metal blade and process until well mixed. Transfer to a serving bowl and garnish with chopped almonds. Serve with fresh fruit such as apples, pears and berries.

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Meatballs with Julienne Vegetables

Meatballs with Julienne Vegetables

Serves 5-6

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 yellow onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 pound package frozen meatballs
• 1 - 16 ounce package of julienned vegetables
• 1/4 cup beef broth
• salt and lemon pepper to taste

In large saucepan, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic, and cook for 5 minutes. Add meatballs, vegetables and beef broth, then cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 7 minutes. Uncover, season with salt and lemon pepper, and cook an additional 5 to 7 minutes, until meatballs are hot.

Lisa's Tip: Serve this recipe tossed with cooked spaghetti for a different version of traditional spaghetti and meatballs. garnish dish with 2 halves of lime.

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Potatoes Persillade (Parsley Sauce)

Potatoes Persillade (Parsley Sauce)

By Eli Michaels

This potatoes recipe is the perfect side dish for any meat as pork, veal, beef, and also accompany surprise well fish as salmon or the kind. The taste provides by the rich flavor of garlic mix with parsley a special kick that upgrade meat flavor.

Therefore, the side dish ingredients can be bought for less than $10 dollars feeding six to eight persons. Once again the dish presented offers a few steps, which can be perform by a child of ten years old. So remember enjoy and relax cooking is an entertainment not a burden!

Please feel free to leave comments on the recipe, and please enjoy the dish with friends and family. Last, visit the article source for further recipes from salads to desserts all quick and easy recipes!

Ingredients

1 bunch of parsley

8 oz. olive oil

2 table spoon of fresh ground garlic

4 pounds of small red potatoes

Directions

1. Wash in cold water the potatoes, and then peel them.

2. Cut them in quarter and boiled them for twenty minutes in water with salt.

3. put the bunch of parsley inside a food processor or cut with a knife until the parsley size a quarter of inch or less.

4. Add 8 oz of olive oil and the 2 table spoon of fresh ground garlic and mix about 1 minute.

5. Put the mix contain of the food processor in a middle size bowl.

6. After draining the potatoes add them to the mix in the bowl.

7. Empty the bowl in a rectangle flat glass baking and bake at 350 degree Fahrenheit in middle oven for 1 hour.

8. the time of the potatoes can vary from 10 to 15 minutes depending the potatoes kind, please make sure that your potatoes are cook properly by inserting a knife inside one potatoes, if it is cook the potatoes will gently size down the knife by itself.

Eli's Secret

I do perform steps 1 to 6 the day before for the potatoes to maximize the flavor of parsley, olive oil, and garlic. Then I leave the bowl in a cooler.

Preparation Time

The time of preparation is 20 minutes, and the firing is approximately 1 hour.

Serving

6-8 persons

Eli's Comment

If you can find the little golden potatoes reduce the firing and boiling by half time and add them to strong flavor poultry like the duck. Besides, the recipe about can be the perfect stuffing for a thanksgiving or Christmas turkey. Thank- you, and please provide feedback on how your guests and yourself enjoy the dish.

Eli Michaels is a home business author and specialist.

He makes his living successfully from the comfort of his home office by sharing his passion for food.

You can find all his quick and easy recipes at http://easyelimichaels.blogspot.com/.

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Grilled Chicken with Raspberry - Barbecue Sauce

Grilled Chicken with Raspberry- Barbecue Sauce

• 
  1 - 12 ounce jar seedless raspberry preserves


• 
  1/2 cup barbecue sauce


• 
  2 tablespoons raspberry vinegar


• 
  2 tablespoons Dijon- style mustard


• 
  1 - 2 1/2 pound chicken, quartered

1. 
   In bowl, combine preserves, barbecue sauce, vinegar and mustard and have ready when chicken quarters are nearly done.


2. 
   Season chicken quarters liberally with seasoned salt and pepper. Grill chicken, covered with grill lid, over medium-high heat for about 8 minutes on each side.


3. 
   Baste sauce over quarters last 2 minutes of cooking. Serve with remaining sauce.


4. 
   Or place sauce in a small serving bowl and serve as a side with the chicken

Above recipe belongs to my 1001 "Fast and Easy Recipe" repertoire

Buon Appetito!
Lisa


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Italian-Style Rice and Beans

Italian-Style Rice and Beans

• 
  
  1 - 16 oz. package frozen chopped onions and bell peppers


• 
  
  2 tablespoons olive oil


• 
  
  1- 15 oz. can Italian stewed tomatoes


• 
  
  1- 15 oz. can great northern beans ( cannelini beans ok), drained


• 
  
  1 cup instant rice

1. In large saucepan, saute onions and bell peppers in oil.


2. Add stewed tomatoes, beans, 1/2 cup water and rice and stir well. Over medium-high heat, cover and cook about 3 minutes. Uncover and continue cooking another 3 minutes, stirring once, or until rice is tender. Serve

The above recipe is part of "My 1001 Fast and Easy Recipe" repertoire

Buon Appetito!

LisaImage courtesy of Google and it is similar to the above recipe.

Tossed Zucchin Salad

Tossed Zucchini Salad

• 3/4 cup unpeeled, grated zucchini


• 1 6 ounce package shredded lettuce


• 1/2 cup sliced olives


• 1 carrot, grated


• 1/3 cup shredded mozzarella cheese


• Zesty Italian salad dressing

1. In salad bowl, toss zucchini, lettuce, olives and grated carrot. Add cheese and toss with salad dressing.

The above recipe is part of my " 1001 Fast and Easy Recipes" repertoire

Buon Appettito!

Lisa

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Tortellini Soup

Tortellini Soup

3 - 14 oz. cans chicken broth

2 - 9 oz. packages refrigerated cheese tortellini

1 - 15 oz. can cannelini beans, rinsed, drained

1 - 4 oz. jar chopped pimento

1 teaspoon dried basil

1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar

Salt and Pepper

• In large saucepan, bring chicken broth to a boil; add tortellini anc cook about 6 minutes or until tender.


• Stir in beans, pimento basil, vinegar and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for 8 to 10 minutes.

Recipe belongs to my "1001 fast and easy recipes" repertoire


Bon Appetito!
Lisa


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