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December 29, 2013 at 10:49 am
· Filed under Eggs, Food Fun, Kids, Recipes, Rice-Beans-Grains-Seeds
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Who can resist this edible bear? Photo
courtesy LittleInspiration.com. |
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We love this brown rice bear in an omelet blanket. What a fun dinner idea for this quiet week, along with a colorful side salad. Have the kids help make it!
Bear in a Blanket was created by Angie Ramirez of LittleInspiration.com, who shares yummy food, easy DIY crafts, adventures of motherhood and everything in between on her blog.
The recipe takes only 20 minutes of prep time, 50 minutes of cook time.
RECIPE: BEAR IN A BLANKET
Ingredients For One Bear & Blanket
1 cup brown rice
2 scrambled eggs (for the blanket)
Small, thin slices of cheese (for the ears and nose)
Small, thin slices of black olive (for the eyes and nose)
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Preparation
1. COOK brown rice on stove top as directed on package, or about 45-50 minutes.
2. SCRAMBLE eggs with a pinch of salt over medium/high temperature in a lightly buttered skillet pan.
3. ASSEMBLE the bear in a blanket: Place about 1/2 cup of rice in the middle of the plate to form the bear’s body. Then scoop a medium size ball of rice to form the head. To form the bear’s ears, use a small amount of rice by shaping it like a half circle. Place the omelet on top of the bear’s body to form the blanket. Attach the olive and cheese slivers to form his ears, nose and eyes.
Serve to happy diners!
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December 29, 2013 at 8:22 am
· Filed under Cooking & Baking, Fish-Seafood-Caviar, Food Holidays, Tip Of The Day
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We love the food at Petrossian in New York City. It doesn’t have to be caviar (the restaurant’s most famous offering) to be wonderful, as we discovered when we ordered crab cakes.
The chef stuffed sections of the crab legs with fresh crab and sea urchin and topped them with caviar: very upscale sashimi!
We’ve ordered crab cakes countless times at countless restaurants, but no one ever served us the stuffed legs of the crab with our crab cake. We loved it, and it inspired today’s tip:
Before you toss out shells—be they crab legs or shells, lobster claws or shells, scallop shells, juiced citrus halves, de-seeded pomegranates or other fruits or vegetables—consider how to repurpose them. You don’t need caviar to make it fun.
IDEAS FOR STUFFING THE SHELLS
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Petrossian turned the empty crab legs into gourmet sashimi. Photo courtesy Petrossian Restasurant | NYC. |
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Condiments: chutney, dipping sauces, mustard, etc.
Dessert: fruit salad, ice cream/sorbet or pudding in fruit shells
Garnishes: chopped chiles, herbs, onions, nuts and other items that people can choose to add or not
Salads: chopped greens, egg salad or protein salads (chicken, shrimp, etc.), slaws, vegetable salads
Sides: applesauce, fruit compote, mashed potatoes, rice or grains, vegetable purée
What kind of leftover shells do you typically have, and what would you do with them?
NOT ENOUGH SHELLS FOR EVERYONE?
Simply freeze them until you have enough.
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December 28, 2013 at 8:27 am
· Filed under Christmas, Halloween & Fall, New Year's Eve, Thanksgiving & Fall
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Hot raspberry cider. Photo courtesy Driscoll’s Berries. Here’s the recipe. |
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A few months ago we created a feature on party food bars:
Breakfast & Brunch Bar
Drinks & Snacks Food Bar
Desserts Food Bar
Lunch & Dinner Food Bar
Our drinks bars included the different ways to serve Bloody Marys, lemonade and iced tea. Around Thanksgiving, we realized we had left out another “essential,” and created an Apple Cider Bar.
We liked it so much for Thanksgiving that we did it again for Christmas and we’re planning it for next Halloween as well. So today’s tip is: Don’t wait until then: Set up an apple cider bar for New Year’s Eve.
Serve the cider cold and hot, so people can customize their drinks. Heat the cider on the stove with a ball of mulling spices, then serve it in a pitcher. If you have a hot plate or other device to keep the cider warm, so much the better.
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APPLE CIDER BAR INGREDIENTS
Juices & Mixers
Apple cider
Hard cider
Pomegranate juice
Club soda
Ginger ale/diet ginger ale
Spirits
Bourbon
Gin
Rum and/or spiced rum
Whiskey
Vodka
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Sweet Toppings
Ice cream: cinnamon ice cream, rum raisin or vanilla ice cream
Sorbet: apple sorbet, cranberry sorbet
Whipped cream (try these recipes for Bourbon Whipped Cream an Five Spice Whipped Cream)
Garnishes
Apple or pear slices, berries, red seedless grapes
Cinnamon sticks, cloves, star anise
Ground cinnamon and nutmeg
Honey
Orange and lemon wheels and curls
Plus
Butter pats*
Glasses and mugs
Ice cubes
Napkins
Spoons & stirring sticks, jiggers for alcohol
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Add your favorite spices. Photo courtesy Ruth’s Chris Steak House.
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Related Snacks
Cake & Pie: apple bars, apple pie, ginger bars (recipe), pound cake, spiced bundt
Cheese & Fruit Plate: cheddar and washed rind cheeses with apples, pears and grapes, prosciutto
Cookies & Donuts: butter cookies, cider- or cinnamon-sugar donuts, gingersnaps, oatmeal raisin cookies, shortbread
Light Fare: chicken/turkey/ham sandwiches, grilled cheese, mac & cheese, quiche
More: flavored tortilla chips†, granola bars, spiced nuts (recipe)
*To float atop hot cider.
†We like Food Should Taste Good tortilla chips in Kettle, Pumpkin and Sweet Potato; Laurel Hill tortilla chips in Pumpkin Seed; or Way Better Snacks tortilla chips in Zesty Sweet Potato.
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