Cooking Tips
Culinary Quiz
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UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS
Applebee's Classic Patty Melt
Culinary Quiz Answer
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Cooking Tips
* When a recipe calls for adding oil, garlic, and onions to a pan, always add garlic last. This keeps it from burning and tasting bitter.
* Make your own celery flakes. Just cut and wash the leaves from the celery stalks; place them in the oven on low heat or in the hot sun until thoroughly dry. Crumble and store in an air-tight container.
* Put sliced cucumbers, onions, carrots and/or pieces of cauliflower in leftover pickle juice and in a couple of days they will be pickled.
* Don't discard the water in which the vegetables are soaked or cooked. It is more flavorful than plain water so use it in making soup or gravy.
* If you are baking and out of eggs, substitute 1/4 cup applesauce for 1 egg.
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Culinary Quiz
(Answer at the bottom of page)
Indian curries go well with saffron rice, or a large flatbread called naan. How is naan usually cooked?
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"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients."
- Julia Child
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UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS:
July is: National Ice Cream Month
National Picnic Month
National Baked Bean Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Pickle Month
July 3 - National Chocolate Wafer Day
July 4 - National Barbecued Spareribs Day
July 5 - National Apple Turnover Day
July 6 - National Fried Chicken Day
July 7 - National Strawberry Sundae Day
July 8 - National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day
July 9 - National Sugar Cookie Day
July 10 - National Pina Colado Day
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FUNNIES: Signs You've Cut Back Too Far on Your Food Budget
9. "Leftovers" consist of whatever you retrieve when flossing.
8. There are lost pet notices tacked to every power pole on your street.
7. For dessert, you have the kids lick mint-flavored stamps.
6. You can call it "Dandelion Salad" all day long, but that doesn't change the fact that it's just lawn clippings.
5. Your kids pine for the good old days when they got brussel sprouts and fried liver for dinner.
4. You made do with a can of hash and a banana for a dinner party, breakfast, church pot luck and class cupcake day.
3. Your food pyramid is now one-story.
2. You spend more on gasoline every month than you do food - but you don't own a car.
... and the #1 Sign You've Cut Back Too Far on Your Food Budget ...
1. "It's not like you kids played with the gerbils. Now shut up and eat your 'Cornish game hen'."
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Applebee's Classic Patty Melt
http://www.e-cookbooks.net
1 burger patty
Salt, pepper, granulated garlic, to taste
Melted butter, as needed
2 pieces Italian bread
2 tablespoons mayonnaise with roasted garlic and mustard
2 slices Swiss cheese
2 slices Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup sliced onions
Season one side of the burger with salt, pepper and garlic. Place on grill or in broiler, seasoned side down. Then season the other side. Cook to desired doneness.
While burger is cooking, melt butter in fry pan on medium heat or in electric skillet (set at 350F). Spread mayonnaise onto bread. Drop bread, dry side down, onto melted pools and swirl to coat (to avoid sticking).
Cover one slice of bread with two slices of Swiss cheese and the other with two slices of Cheddar.
In a separate frying pan, melt butter and saute sliced onions. Season with salt, pepper and garlic while heating.
Place cooked burger patty on top of one cheese-topped slice of bread and the sauteed onions on the other. Carefully close and cut sandwich. Serve with your favorite summer side dish.
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Culinary Quiz Answer:
stuck to the side of an earthen oven
All Indian restaurants have large round clay ovens called tandoor. Naan dough is stretched out, then slapped on the inside walls. A few minutes later, the bread is pulled off with a hook. Additionally, chicken is marinated in yogurt and spices, then skewered and cooked in the same oven, hence the name tandoori chicken.
Culinary Quiz
Quote
UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS
Applebee's Classic Patty MeltCulinary Quiz Answer
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Cooking Tips
* When a recipe calls for adding oil, garlic, and onions to a pan, always add garlic last. This keeps it from burning and tasting bitter.
* Make your own celery flakes. Just cut and wash the leaves from the celery stalks; place them in the oven on low heat or in the hot sun until thoroughly dry. Crumble and store in an air-tight container.
* Put sliced cucumbers, onions, carrots and/or pieces of cauliflower in leftover pickle juice and in a couple of days they will be pickled.
* Don't discard the water in which the vegetables are soaked or cooked. It is more flavorful than plain water so use it in making soup or gravy.
* If you are baking and out of eggs, substitute 1/4 cup applesauce for 1 egg.
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Culinary Quiz
(Answer at the bottom of page)
Indian curries go well with saffron rice, or a large flatbread called naan. How is naan usually cooked?
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Quote
"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients."
- Julia Child
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UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS:
July is: National Ice Cream Month
National Picnic Month
National Baked Bean Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Pickle Month
July 3 - National Chocolate Wafer Day
July 4 - National Barbecued Spareribs Day
July 5 - National Apple Turnover Day
July 6 - National Fried Chicken Day
July 7 - National Strawberry Sundae Day
July 8 - National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day
July 9 - National Sugar Cookie Day
July 10 - National Pina Colado Day
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FUNNIES: Signs You've Cut Back Too Far on Your Food Budget
9. "Leftovers" consist of whatever you retrieve when flossing.
8. There are lost pet notices tacked to every power pole on your street.
7. For dessert, you have the kids lick mint-flavored stamps.
6. You can call it "Dandelion Salad" all day long, but that doesn't change the fact that it's just lawn clippings.
5. Your kids pine for the good old days when they got brussel sprouts and fried liver for dinner.
4. You made do with a can of hash and a banana for a dinner party, breakfast, church pot luck and class cupcake day.
3. Your food pyramid is now one-story.
2. You spend more on gasoline every month than you do food - but you don't own a car.
... and the #1 Sign You've Cut Back Too Far on Your Food Budget ...
1. "It's not like you kids played with the gerbils. Now shut up and eat your 'Cornish game hen'."
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Applebee's Classic Patty Melthttp://www.e-cookbooks.net
1 burger patty
Salt, pepper, granulated garlic, to taste
Melted butter, as needed
2 pieces Italian bread
2 tablespoons mayonnaise with roasted garlic and mustard
2 slices Swiss cheese
2 slices Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup sliced onions
Season one side of the burger with salt, pepper and garlic. Place on grill or in broiler, seasoned side down. Then season the other side. Cook to desired doneness.
While burger is cooking, melt butter in fry pan on medium heat or in electric skillet (set at 350F). Spread mayonnaise onto bread. Drop bread, dry side down, onto melted pools and swirl to coat (to avoid sticking).
Cover one slice of bread with two slices of Swiss cheese and the other with two slices of Cheddar.
In a separate frying pan, melt butter and saute sliced onions. Season with salt, pepper and garlic while heating.
Place cooked burger patty on top of one cheese-topped slice of bread and the sauteed onions on the other. Carefully close and cut sandwich. Serve with your favorite summer side dish.
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Culinary Quiz Answer:
stuck to the side of an earthen oven
All Indian restaurants have large round clay ovens called tandoor. Naan dough is stretched out, then slapped on the inside walls. A few minutes later, the bread is pulled off with a hook. Additionally, chicken is marinated in yogurt and spices, then skewered and cooked in the same oven, hence the name tandoori chicken.
