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Rondi Hillstrom Davis and Janell Sewall Oakes are the co-authors of the award-winning book Together: Creating Family Traditions. To check out their website that's jam packed with family ideas, visit http://togetherparenting.com/
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Raisin Roll Delight
Ingredients: ¾ cup cold water plus 2 Tablesps (very important) 6 Tablesps butter (¾ stick) ¾ cup vital wheat gluten flour 1/3 cup unbleached, all-purpose wheat (white) flour trace of salt (two light shakes or to taste) 1 ½ ounces of raisins 3 eggs * 1 egg whitePreheat oven to 425F. Have ready one large, nonstick, heavy-gauge metal cookie sheet.
Grilled Scallops with Ginger-Lime Sauce
Summer time is great for barbequing, but aren't you tired of burgers and hotdogs? At your next party why not try something a little classier. This scallop recipe is so easy, but so good.
Easy Trail Mixes
Before you set off on your next family walk or outing, try making one of these super easy trail mixes to keep your energy up.* Quick Fix Mix2 cups mini pretzels1 cup cheese snack crackers1 cup honey roasted peanuts1 cup raisinsPlace all ingredients into a plastic baggie, seal, and then shake.
A Healthy Summertime Snack For Your Kids
Oh, for the lazy days of Summer..
Noodles
Different cultures have their own way of taking some water and mixing it with an all-purpose flour, a rice flour, a wheat flour and adding either barley, buckwheat,soybeans,seaweed or tapioca. After combining whatever ingredients are used with the type of a chosen flour, they work the dough on a floured surface, roll the dough out and let it dry.
Teas from Wild Plants and Their Benefits
All these teas (unless specified) are brewed with one teaspoon of dried leaves or two teaspoons of fresh leaves to one cup of water. You should always steep the teas.
Fast Food at Home
Kids have to eat. Three meals a day, every day.
Grandmas Peach Canning Recipe
Grandma loved to bake peach pies or top pancakes with peaches instead of syrup. During the summer months, she would buy baskets of seconds and freeze them.
Straight Talk from a Comfort Foodie: Strudel Makes the Woman
Strudel Makes the WomanGrandpa Max loved butter cookies. He liked his Chivas Regal from a heavy cut-glass decanter, but the little butter cookies with coarse sugar sprinkles just had to come from a can.
Pasta Recipes - The Very Best In Italian Cuisine!
These pasta recipes are excellent for dinners or parties.In this article, I'm going to share with you three delicious pasta recipes that you can prepare for any occasion that suits you.
My Grandmothers Heritage Recipe
The whole thing started when my sister-in-law called to say that she needed a special dessert for her Mother's 75th birthday party. "Don't you have a family recipe that would be meaningful as well as delicious.
How to Easily Make Sourdough French Toast Like Cracker Barrel
I got an idea one day when I was in a Cracker Barrel restaurant eating breakfast. They had sourdough French toast and it was the best French toast I'd had, so I wanted to re-create the recipe at home.
Summer Basil Pasta Salad
With the long hot days of summer, you will find that you will need something lighter than a T-bone steak. If you are seeking a fresh and light pasta salad, they you will need to serve this at your next gathering.
Rosemary flower candies (Rosemarinus officinalis)
Leave your tic-tacs at home. This medicinal plant provides delicious mouth fresheners to integrate into a balanced healing diet.
Summer Salads
Green vegetables are the food most missing in modern diets. Nutritionally, greens are very high in calcium (120 -190 mg per cup!) They're also high in magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorous, zinc, and they are a power house for Vitamin A, C, E and K.
Chicken Recipes That Everyone Enjoys!
Chicken recipes are a stable in many people's diets. Many of them are recipes we have made time and time again and others, are special recipes, maybe a favorite Christmas recipe or even a special fondue recipe using chicken.
Mexican Recipes - World Class Dishes In Your Kitchen!
Here are two **Must Try** Mexican recipes! They are HOT, tasty and so easy!Chiles Rellenos Meatballs12 small potatoes, or 2 large baking potatoes2 tablespoons vegetable oil1 pound ground beef1/2 pound Anaheim chili peppers1/2 cup yellow onions -- minced4 eggs1/2 teaspoon saltblack pepper -- to tastegarlic salt -- to taste *Anaheim chilies, roasted, peeled and diced.Peel and boil potatoes until just tender.
Italian Recipes - Top 3 Dinner Recipes That You Should Prepare Tonight!
If you are wondering what to prepare for dinner tonight, then you can always try these easy recipes. It's quick and affordable.
Braised Fish in Soy Sauce (Hong Shao Yu)
Braised fish in soy sauce is the basic craft of Chinese dish. The distinguishing characteristics are it looks red and glossy, rich in smell and thick in gravy.
Crab Stuffed Salmon with Lobster Sauce
I served this dish at an event I catered and people are still talking about it a year later. The lobster base used in the sauce can be found at stores offering specialty foods or you can order it off the internet.