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Are there any

Are there any good recipes anyone has? I have a lot, so I will post them later.

submitted by ~Blue Fairy~, age 12, Swimming
(February 28, 2013 - 5:37 pm)

Oooh! Yes, I have lots of scrumptious recipes! There's cream puffs (Mmmm!), homemade mac'n'cheese (a favorite), and tomato basil soup (delicious)! I can't post them right now, but I'll be sure to do that soon! 

submitted by Teresa, age 13, Michigan
(February 28, 2013 - 8:25 pm)

OMG!!! CREAM PUFFS!!!!! I have a family recipe for Tiger Butter which is melted peanut butter that was melted with white choclate and melted choclate chips that was melted separately. It's soooooooo good and I will post the recipe tomorrow!

submitted by ~Blue Fairy~, age 12, Swimming
(February 28, 2013 - 9:01 pm)

Top!

submitted by Top
(February 28, 2013 - 8:26 pm)

Ooh! I've got one. Really simple. It's called Haystacks!

1 bag of butterscotch morsels.

1 bag of Chow Mein Noodles.

Melt the butterscotch. Mix the noodles with the butterscotch. Place in small stacks cooking parchment. Let harden. Eat!

It sounds weird, but this is like the BEST RECIPE EVER!!! I love it! They're addicting! 

Do the recipes, btw, have to be homemade? Or can you post ones you like, found in a magazine?

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule, Cooking/Baking
(February 28, 2013 - 10:02 pm)

Nope! It can be from whatever resource! And it does sound good!

submitted by ~Blue Fairy~, age 12, In a garden
(March 1, 2013 - 2:52 pm)

The thing that I made for Thinking Day and couldn't stop making:

KASKNÖPFLE! It's like mac and cheese from Liechtenstein, and it's really good and easy to make. The measures are metric, though :/ so I'll do my best with conversions.

1 1/4 cup of flour

3 tbsp water

4 eggs

Pepper, salt, nutmeg to taste

Shredded cheese! And lots of it.

Put the flour, water, and eggs into a bowl and stir as if your life depends on it. Put in a little nutmeg and continue stirring. Let sit for about 20 minutes while you boil a pot of water with a tablespoon of salt in it. When that's all done, spoon the batter stuff into the water (a little at a time at first, then more), boil for a few minutes. It'll want to stick together but you cannot let that happen. Cut it up with a fork or something. After five or ten minutes, you can drain the water and put shredded cheese on top of it - the more, the better! Let it get all melty and stir it up a lot. If you want, you can sprinkle French's onion ring things on top for deliciousness. There! Now you are done and can eat it with joy.

Yava says hade. Hades? What?

--L

submitted by L
(March 1, 2013 - 4:27 pm)

Here are two of the recipes.

Smore Dip

1 1/2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 (14oz.) can of sweetened condensed milk

1/2 c. of marshmallow dip

1 box of graham crakers.

1. Melt the chocolate chips and condensed milk in a bowl for 1-2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then pour into a 9 inch pie pan

2. Drop marshmallow creme on chocolate and microwave for 30 sec.

3. Swirl the marshmellow creme in the chocolate (like a marble appearance)

Then, serve. Dip the graham crackers in the dip and enjoy! Serves 16.

Homemade Mac'n'Cheese

1 14oz box of elbow macaroni

6 TBS butter

1/2 tsp. salt

Pepper

2 c. milk

2 c. shredded cheddar cheese

Optional: 1/8 c. onions, 1/4 tsp of mustard 

1. Prepare the macaroni according to directions and drain.

2. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium low heat.

3. Add the flour, salt and pepper and stir. Then, add the milk. (If using, add onions and mustard.)

4. Bring mixture to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. 

5. Remove from heat and stir in cheese.

6. Mix pasta and sauce together.

7. Enjoy! Serves 8.

I'll post a few other recipes soon.  

 

 

submitted by Teresa, age 13, Michigan
(March 1, 2013 - 9:06 pm)

The s'more dip sou ds AWESOME!!! I will surely make that! 

submitted by ~Blue Fairy~, age 12, In a garden
(March 1, 2013 - 9:47 pm)

I really like that recipe, especially during the winter when making actually smores is difficult. 

submitted by Teresa, age 13, Michigan
(March 2, 2013 - 2:41 pm)

There's a lot of mac and cheese recipes :D Not that I'm complaining. I love the stuff.

Annd here's another one: bread pudding! Dessert or breakfast, it doesn't matter but it is SO. GOOD.

6 slices of bread

2 tbsp melted butter

2 cups of milk

3/4 cup of sugar

4 eggs (beat them first it's so much easier)

1 tsp vanilla extract 

cinnamon 

(Preheat the oven first, about 350 degrees)

Rip up the bread into pieces about half the size of your thumb and put them in a baking pan. Pour the melted butter on top and let it sit there and think about what it's done. In a separate bowl, mix everything else until it is one gloppy homogenous mass. Pour that onto the bread and push it down so it gets all soaked up. Bake for 45 minutes. 

submitted by L
(March 2, 2013 - 1:08 pm)

Here's a few more recipes.

Cream Puffs 

2 (3.5 oz) packages of instant vanilla pudding

2 cups of heavy whipping cream

1 cup of milk

1/2 cup of butter

1 cup of water

1/4 tsp. salt

4 eggs

1 cup of flour

1. Mix together the pudding mix, milk, and cream. Refrigerate.

2. Preheat oven to 425 F.

3. Put water and butter in a large pan, and bring to a rapid boil.

4. Stir in salt and flour until the mixture forms a dough ball.

5. Transfer to a new bowl and beat in eggs, one at a time.

6. Drop by the TBS on an ungreased cookie sheet.

7. Bake for 20-25 minutes and golden brown.

8. Once cool, fill the centers with the pudding/cream mixture. Enjoy.

( I find it easiest to cut off the top of the cream puff, then spoon in the pudding mixture.)

Baked Bananas 

4 bananas

2 TBS brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

2 TBS butter

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.

2 Cut bananas in half lengthwise and put in an ovenproof dish with the sides facing up.

3. Melt butter in pan over low heat and stir in sugar and cinnamon.

4. Pour butter sugar, over bananas.

5. Cover dish with aluminum foil.

6. Bake for 45 minutes and enjoy! 

submitted by Teresa, age 13, Michigan
(March 2, 2013 - 2:58 pm)

Here is an all-purpose dip mix, you just add whatever flavoring you want, and you have dip.  I recommend chopped up dill pickle or curry powder as flavoring.  I wouldn't recommend having this without the flavoring, I think that would be kind of nasty.

All Purpose Dip Base:

1 part mayonnaise 

1 part sour cream (the measurements of the mayonnaise and sour cream don't matter, as long as they're approximately equal.)

A chunk of onion (no less than a quarter, because you need to do some weird knife stuff with it.)

Flavoring (pickles, curry powder, fill in the blank)

 

Mix the mayonnaise and the sour cream in a mixing bowl. Take the onion and hold it by the skin.  Scrape the tip of a sharp knife against the onion.  Onion juice and little flecks should come out. (It is best to do this directly into the bowl with the mixing stuff in it.) Repeat onion scraping thingy to taste.  Add flavoring to taste.  Serve with crackers or chips or other dip-appropriate vessels.

Serves as many as you want.

submitted by Gollum
(March 2, 2013 - 8:07 pm)

poke

submitted by Poke
(March 5, 2013 - 7:48 pm)