40 Healthy Easy Mexican Recipes eCookbook
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Click the eBook Cover to Order Work at Home Truths, by Tiffany Dow
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Favorite Family Chicken & Noodles Recipe
Ingredients:
4-5 pieces of chicken (chicken breast preferably)
4 carrots, sliced
1 small onion, chopped
2 cups water
4 chicken broth cubes
1 tsp garlic salt
1 lb egg noodles
salt & pepper
Instructions:
Add carrots to your crock pot, then add chicken, onion, water, cubes and spices (leaving out the noodles). Turn the crock pot on low and cook for about eight hours.
When almost ready, cook egg noodles according to package instructions. While the noodles cook, take chicken pieces out and cut into child-friendly, bite-size pieces. Place chicken pieces & cooked noodles in the crock pot.
If needed, mix cornstarch, water and a bit of broth together and add to your chicken and noodles to thicken.
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Best Slow and Easy Recipes
Where to buy: www.amazon.com
The Best Slow and Easy Recipes book contains recipes compiled from the Cooks Illustrated magazine. The book features more than 250 mouth watering and easy recipes, from Beef and Barley Soup to Coq Au Vin, Osso Bucco, Beef Chilli, Braised Chicken with Almonds and Pine Nuts and oven-baked creamy Polenta, something for everybody. The focus of the recipes are on slow cooking using a crockpot, but if a crockpot is not available, the recipes also work in the oven on low heat.
In addition to the recipes, the cookbook also offers background information about the ingredients used, Dutch/French ovens, the cooking process, why different cuts work better than others and lots more.
The emphasis of the cookbook is on slow cooking and the various cooking methods like roasting, braising and stewing. Slow cooking allows the flavours to be more concentrated and the end result will be tender meats and beautiful flavors. The book offers advice on simple, fuss-free but nevertheless delicious recipes.
If you would like to experiment with slow-cooking, this book is a superb introduction to the advantages of slow-cooking and slow-cooking methods.
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Apple and Apricot Bake Recipe
Ingredients:
1 lb cooking apples, peeled, cored and chopped
Juice of 1 lemon
1 can (14 oz) apricot halves in natural juice, drained
Sugar to taste
4 slices bread (preferably whole wheat)
1 ½ oz butter or margarine
½ tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions:
Place chopped apple pieces in a large saucepan. Add the lemon juice and 1 tbsp of water and toss well. Slowly bring to a boil, cover and simmer for about 5 minutes, until the apples are soft.
While the apples are cooking, slice the apricots and add to the apples for the last few minute. Add sugar to taste and set aside.
Preheat the grill to hot and grill the pieces of bread until deliciously golden brown. Butter the slices of bread on one side and sprinkle with cinnamon (and if desired some more sugar). Place under the grill again until hot and bubbly. Cut the bread into bite-size pieces.
Serve the hot fruit in bowls and top with the toasted bread. A delicious and quick dessert.
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The Benefits of Slow Cooking
Slow cookers, or crock pots, are small appliances used by many families around the country. A look around will provide a myriad of cookbooks or websites on the internet with recipes for use with the crock pot. The benefits of slow cooking go far beyond the ease of finding recipes, however.
One of the main benefits of slow cooking is how easy it is. Unlike traditional cooking methods, you don’t have to stand over the stove to ensure the dish cooks properly. You can place everything into the slow cooker, set it, and then walk away. In fact, you don’t even have to be at home while your meal cooks as most recipes require four to eight hours cooking time.
Depending upon the recipe, you can place the ingredients into the cooker and the meal will be ready to eat either when you get up in the morning or when you return from a day at work. What could be easier than that? And the slow cooker did all of the hard work for you!
Saving time is another benefit of slow cooking. The major portion of the meal is done by the slow cooker, which leaves a side dish or salad and your meal is done. If you have more than one size of slow cooker, you can make a different component of the meal in each one.
Another benefit of using a slow cooker is how versatile they are. You can cook nearly any style of recipe in a crock pot. Do you need something special for breakfast? There are slow cooker recipes for that. How about a casserole for dinner? There are many ethnic recipes. The fact is you can find recipes for any meal of the day, even dessert.
Slow cooking is also nutritious. Use fresh or frozen ingredients rather than ingredients which are full of chemicals or preservatives. You can use fruits that are in season rather than canned ones which have fewer nutrients. Cooking foods on low heat over a longer period of time also helps the foods retain more of the vitamins and minerals.
Some people think slow cookers can only be used during the cooler months. The truth is, however, you can use a slow cooker at any time of the year. Slow cookers won’t heat up the kitchen the way an oven will, but will provide you with delicious food your whole family will enjoy.
Finally, the benefits of slow cooking can also improve your pocket book. You can find ingredients which are on sale at your grocery store to use in your slow cooker. You can also use cheaper groceries such as dried beans, noodles, and rice.
It’s obvious the benefits of slow cooking are many. If the ease of use isn’t enough to convince you to get one, think about the time you can shave off of preparing meals or how much money you can keep in your wallet. Why not give it a try?
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