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Confetti Bars

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:30:50 +0000

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Colorful mini marshmallows coated with melted chocolate chips. Yum yum Confetti Bars!

Serving Size: 9.
Cook Time:
Prep Time: 20 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients for Confetti Bars:
> 1/4 cup butter or margarine
> 1/2 cup peanut butter
> 1 cup chocolate chips
> 250 grams colored marshmallows

Directions

Instructions:
1. Take the one pot that is all you need, and put your margarine in it. Take your peanut butter and add it as well. And on a side note, I use only natural peanut butter, and my squares are just that slightly less sweet because of it. The recipe is mean for normal sugared PB, but don’t be afraid to use natural if that’s all you have.
2. Melt the peanut butter and margarine together until they are fairly hot.
3. Once the mixture is hot, remove the pot from the burner entirely. Add in your chocolate chips, and stir until they are melted completely.
4. Let the chocolate mixture cool until you can place your hand on the bottom of the pot, so until its comfortably warm.
5. Here’s where you can go two directions: you can either grease the pan slightly, or you can line it with tinfoil for easy removal. I suggest the tinfoil.
6. So if you are smarter than me and actually HAVE tinfoil in the house, use it to line the pan.
7. Once the mixture spread evenly in the pan, cool it in the fridge for a few hours until it’s completely set, slice and serve the confetti bars to rounds of raucous applause!

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Melon Parfait

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:30:08 +0000

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A vegetarian breakfast which is healthy for everybody.

Serving Size: 1.
Cook Time:
Prep Time: 5 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients:
> canteloupe
> honeydew melon
> strawberry yogurt
> granola

Directions

Instructions:
1. My first attempt at using a fruit baller, and I must admit, its quite fun.
2. So you can either use a melon baller, or slice up the melons and place them in a serving dish.
3. Pour some strawberry yogurt over top of them. Strawberry tasted really great, but I am sure that blueberry or raspberry even would go smoothly with the melon flavors.

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Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:29:59 +0000

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Simply the best and the easiest recipe I have found for spicy oatmeal raisin cookies yet, I am pretty sure it comes from the Quaker Oats package as their recipe for cookies using their brand of oats. Nonetheless, I thank them mightily for the recipe even though I may not buy their oats, but usually a generic brand instead. Which, by the way, work just fine.

Serving Size: 16.
Cook Time: 8 minutes.
Prep Time: 20 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients needed for spicy oatmeal raisin cookies:
> 1/2 cup butter, softened
> 1/2 cup margarine or butter
> 1 cup packed light brown sugar
> 1/2 cup white sugar
> 2 eggs
> 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
> 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
> 1 teaspoon baking soda
> 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
> 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
> 1/2 teaspoon salt
> 3 cups rolled oats
> 1 cup raisins

Directions

Instructions:
1. Kick the tires & light the fires to 350 degrees.
2. First, your butter. I have also used a cup of only margarine or a cup of all butter. The all butter ones taste so delicious, but you do have to watch so they don’t burn.
3. As always, cream your sugars with your butter.
4. Add in your eggs
5. Time for vanilla.
6. Get your flour out. I love my old containers. My only wish is that one of them was labeled Brown Sugar, instead of Coffee.
7. In a separate bowl, throw in your flour.Add in your baking soda……your cinnamon…and here is where you can add more if you like ‘em spicy, I LOVE them spicier, so I add two.
8. And your cloves, where, again, if you like spicier cookies, play with the amount you like to use.
9. Whisk them together.
10. Add into the butter, egg mixture, and stir until well blended.
11. Chuck in your raisins. Once those are mixed in thoroughly, add your oatmeal.
12. Mix until it looks like this. Yummy. Spicy smelling. Ready to rock.
13. Place rounded teaspoons of dough on an ungreased baking sheet.
14. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.

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Parmesan Chicken

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:28:13 +0000

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Parmesan Chicken is an excellent chicken recipe when you feel like something completely out of the norm chicken-wise.

Serving Size: 4.
Cook Time: 40 minutes.
Prep Time: 20 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients needed for Parmesan chicken:
> 2-3 lbs of skinless chicken
> 1/3 cup fine dry bread crumbs
> 1/4 tsp of oregano
> 4 Tbs grated Parmesan cheese
> dash of pepper
> dash of garlic (unless you use garlic soup)
> 1 can cream of mushroom or cream of mushroom and garlic soup
> 1/2 cup of milk
> paprika

Directions

Instructions:
1. Kick the tires and light the fires to 400 degrees.
2. Combine the bread crumbs, oregano, half the Parmesan cheese, pepper and garlic in a large plastic bag, large enough to shake and coat the chicken parts in.
3. Grease a roasting pan very well.
4. Shake the chicken parts in the crumb mixture until completely coated.
5. Place all the coated chicken parts in your baking pan. Put them into the oven and start them cooking.
6. Take your soup, I tried the mushroom and garlic and it tasted great instead of the plain mushroom. You choose whatever you feel comfortable with.
7. Open it and mix it with the 1/2 cup of milk.
8. Now at about 30 minutes into cooking, take the chicken out.
9. Pour the soup mixture over the chicken.
10. Sprinkle whats’ left of your Parmesan cheese on top.
11. Sprinkle some paprika on as well, then put it back into the oven for another 10-20 minutes, until the chicken is completely cooked.
12. Serve this delicious main course for dinner and enjoy!

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Mincemeat Tarts

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:26:45 +0000

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A very simple recipe for Mincemeat Tarts

Serving Size: 16.
Cook Time:
Prep Time: 15 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients:

> unsweetened tart shells
> mincemeat filling

Directions

Instructions:
1. kick the tires and light the fires to 375 degrees
2. Fill the tart shells with mincemeat.
3. So I took the dough out of a few shells and rolled them on a floured surface.
4. Took a shot glass and cut out some beautiful circles and put “a top” on them.
5. Threw them in the oven at 375 degrees (which is the temperature that I cook my famous butter tarts at, so I figured I couldn’t go wrong) and baked them until they were golden, beautiful brown.

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Basic Banana Loaf Recipe

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:25:44 +0000

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A simple banana loaf recipe.

Serving Size: 16.
Cook Time: 50 minutes.
Prep Time: 10 minutes.

Ingredients needed for banana loaf recipe:
> 1/2 cup margarine or butter
> 1 cup of sugar
> 2 eggs
> 1 cup of banana, equals about 3 medium bananas
> 2 cups of flour
> 1 tsp of Baking Soda
> 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
> 1/2 tsp salt
> 1 tsp vanilla

Directions

Instructions:
1. Kick the tires and light the fires to 350 degrees.
2. So take your butter or margarine and cream it with the sugar.
3. Add your two eggs and mix them in thoroughly.
4. Time for the ripe bananas. The riper they are, the sweeter your banana loaf will be.
5. Smash ‘em up, as my kids would say. Completely mashed up without many big chunks in them.
6. Mix them in with the wet ingredients you have already combined.
7. Add a plop of vanilla. Ok, fine, a teaspoon of vanilla for those of you who are picky with measurements. Measuring, smeasuring.
8. Time for baking soda… 1 teaspoon..and baking powder, 1/2 a teaspoon..and shake a bit of salt in as well at this point. I don’t measure salt often. You can’t make me. I shake salt.
9. Whisk it together.
10. Add the dry to your wet ingredients and mix until they are well combined. If you desire walnuts at this point, go ahead and throw them in. I don’t. My little magpies sit and pick out all the nuts if I dare put them in, leaving a huge crumb mess and lots of complaining. By me.
11. Grease and flour a loaf pan please!
12. Pour your batter into the loaf pan, and bake in your 350 degree oven for 50-60 minutes, until a knife inserted comes out clean as a whistle.

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The Kitchen Magpie’s Oven Crispy Chicken

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:18:12 +0000

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Delicious spices & a trick or two make this oven crispy chicken just as good as deep fried! Time warning: the chicken has to sit for 30 minutes before even baking in the oven.

Cook Time: 40 minutes.
Prep Time: 30 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients:
> 1 1/3 cups of flour
> 1 tbsp garlic powder
> 2 tbsp seasoning salt
> 1 tsp paprika
> 1 tsp pepper
> 2 or 3 eggs
> 1/3 cup of margarine
> one chicken, cut into 8 pieces (2 drumsticks, 2 thighs and the breasts cut into 4)

Directions

Instructions:
1. Kick the tires and light the fires to 400 degrees.
2. Take your flour and put it into a bowl large enough to coat your chicken pieces in.
3. Add in your garlic…
4. ..your 2 tablespoons of seasoning salt….
5. …your teaspoon of paprika…
6. ..and your teaspoon of pepper. Do not add any salt, it is the perfect salty goodness already!
7. Whisk the ingredients together.
8. Get your eggs ready, beat them up.
9. Grease a baking sheet really well.
10. Line up your bowls and your baking sheet in this order from right to left; egg, flour, then baking sheet.
11. First, dip your chicken into the flour mixture and cover it completely.
12. Then go to the egg mixture, and cover it again completely, this time with egg. Completely cover the piece of chicken with egg.
13. Ok, back to the flour mixture to cover it completely again, trying not to disturb the two other layers you just did.
14. Place the chicken on the baking sheet, and repeat with all the pieces of chicken until they are all done. Now it is time to put them into the fridge and let them sit for 30 minutes. Try not to skip this part, it helps the layers adhere to not only the chicken, but themselves. And make sure you let the chicken sit in the fridge, the cold helps it stick.
15. When you have waited the 30 minutes, and I trust that you did, melt the margarine and pour it over the chicken pieces.
16. Don’t worry about evenly covering them, just do the best you can. They turn out fantastic no matter how you drizzle that margarine, as long as most of it lands on the chicken pieces somehow. Put the chicken into a 400 degree oven and cook from 40-50 minutes, or until done.

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They’ll-Never-Know-You-Cheated Quiche

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:10:53 +0000

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It is simply the easiest and best quiche ever! I no longer bother making one with a crust and actually prefer this one.
This is an easy vegetarian recipe as well, just use your favorite veggies!

Serving Size: 12.
Cook Time: 33 minutes.
Prep Time: 30 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients for the Basic Quiche Mixture:
> 1 1/3 cups of milk
> 3 eggs
> 3/4 cup Bisquick
> 1/2 tsp salt
> 1/2 tsp pepper pepper
> 1 1/3 cups of shredded cheese

Directions

Instructions:
1. kick the tires & light the fires to 400 degrees
2. Now its time to choose your ingredients for the filling, so to say. You need anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 cups of veggies, meat or other to add to the base mixture.
3. I chose mushrooms, asparagus, bacon, and Canadian Bacon. I also love bacon. A lot.
4. Ok, time to get to work instead of gawking at food. If you are using bacon (and I highly suggest you do) you need to chop it and fry it up.
5. Take your sharp knife and using the flat of your palm, press it through the bacon. You don’t slice, you put the blade in, and then just push it through to the cutting board. Repeat until its all sliced up.
6. Fry it up!
7. Time to prepare the other fillings. Chop your veggies fairly small.
8. Then I slice them rather thin, after removing those bottoms.
9. Throw them into a microwave safe dish, and steam them for about 3 minutes. They won’t cook properly in the quiche if you don’t.
10. So take that cheese, and shred 1 1/3 cups of it.
11. Mix together your salt, pepper and Bisquick. Add it to your milk and stir it well Make sure there aren’t any lumps!
12. Crack your 3 eggs into that same bowl-there’s me whole hating to wash dishes- and whip them up.
13. Add them to the milk and Bisquick mixture and once again, make sure its stirred really well.
14. Those veggies should be all steamed up now.
15. Drain them well, you don’t want to add moisture to the mixture.
16. Time to drain your bacon. Putting the pieces onto paper towel to blot up the grease works wonders. And saves you that wee bit of fat that you just don’t need.
17. Slice up the Canadian Bacon, which cooks just fine in the quiche without any pre-cooking.
18. Grease, and I mean grease very well, an 8×8 pan, then add in all your additions.
19. Take your cheese and add it into the liquid mix.
20. Pour it over your additions, don’t worry about mixing, it seeps through the holes between your ingredients just perfectly.
21. Its ready to pop into the oven for about 30 minutes at 400 degrees.

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Easy Hollandaise Sauce Recipe

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:10:23 +0000

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This easy Hollandaise Sauce recipe can be used on recipes like Steak Oscar and Eggs Benedict.

Serving Size: 1.
Cook Time:
Prep Time: 5 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients for the easy Hollandaise Sauce recipe:
> 3 egg yolks
> 1/8 tsp salt
> 2 Tbs lemon juice
> 1/2 cup margarine or butter
> hot sauce of your choice

Directions

Instructions:
1. Take your egg yolks and put them into your blender.
2. Add in your lemon juice.
3. Add your hot sauce of choice, and the amount of your choice as well.
4. Start your blender for about 30 seconds then stop.
5. Melt your butter and heat to boiling one of two ways:
on the stove or, place into a glass measuring cup and microwave until bubbling. This way I prefer, since then you can pour right from the glass you heated it in.
6. Start your blender again, and slowly pour the hot butter in, very slowly and carefully, allowing it time to mix and cook the egg yolks in there.

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Ukrainian Style Creamed Dill Potatoes

TKM — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:09:06 +0000

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Traditional Ukrainian creamed dill potatoes recipe.

Serving Size: 1.
Cook Time:
Prep Time: 20 minutes.

Ingredients

Ingredients: > new potatoes > whipping or 10% cream > chives > dill > butter > cornstarch if needed

Directions

Instructions: 1. Scrub up your new potatoes, and they definitely should be new. 2. Start chopping those red beauties. 3. Put them in a pot of water and boil them until they are just soft. Just. This part is important. You will have to cook these further in the cream, so make sure you cook them just to softness, no further. 4. Drain the perfectly cooked potatoes and put them back into the pot. 5. Add some butter. 6. Let’s add a cup of cream and see how that swims too. 7. Throw your chives and your dill in. You can’t really overdo either easily. 8. On a low heat, let the cream simmer away until its evaporated some. If you used 10% like I did, you most likely will have to add a wee touch of cornstarch to thicken it. 9. Mix it in a little bit of cold water and throw it in the pot, and stir.

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