Zucchini Boats!

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By Queenie1

This is a very simple, easy to do recipe! It’s one of my family’s favourite recipes!
You need to go to a farmers market, a food stand or else a grocery store and purchase some smaller zucchini’s no longer than 15 inches. If you have 6 adults eating then you will need only 3 zucchinis and less if you have small children but they are also good warmed up later for another meal. Take the zucchini home and wash them off. You will need to cut the zucchini lengthwise in half. One half can feed one adult or be cut into smaller pieces for children so that will help estimate how many zucchini’s you need to purchase for your family.

Ingredients:

Zucchini
1 lb Hamburger
1 16 oz can spaghetti sauce
1 Spanish onion
1 c Mozzarella cheese

Method:

Take a spoon and scoop out the zucchini centres of the zucchini halves to make the long zucchini's look like little boats. Put the scooped zucchini pieces into a bowel and cut into smaller pieces to use in the recipe.
Fry about 1 LB of hamburger with 1 Spanish onion. Drain the fat from the hamburger.
Get a 16-oz can of tomato or spaghetti sauce to add to the hamburger and onions. Now simmer on medium heat and add the scooped zucchini pieces so they soften. Cook for 10-20 min until the zucchini pieces are soft.
While this is cooking get some mozzarella cheese and grate it until you have about ½ - 1 cup.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and take a cookie sheet to put the zucchini boat shells on. When the mixture of hamburger, onions, zucchini pieces are soft scoop the mixture into the zucchini boat shells until higher than the sides of the boat. It's okay to be rounded up high in the centre of the boat. Take some of the grated mozzarella to sprinkle on top of the zucchini boats. Bake for 30 - 40 min until the outside zucchini boat shell is tender so you can eat it like a squash.
This is a great way to feed a family a low fat meal like pizza without the flour. It's also good for vegetarians too if you just substitute the meat for something that you can eat.

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Can You Eat Well On A Limited Budget?

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By : Judy Jantzen Submitted 2009-04-10 17:03:58
Learning to cook from basic ingredients is the big savings! Pressed for time? Cook extra and have it as fast food another day. Simple cooking is just that. It is a learned skill. If you can read, write and use a computer then you can teach yourself to cook. There is a wonderful amount of information including thousands of recipes for free on the web. It is a great family activity. Teaching your children to cook, helps them to appreciate the effort that it takes, as well as teaching them important life skills. You can learn together. Cooking is a great creative adventure! Please do not spend your food money on anything that does not give you good food for your nourishment. Sodas, chemical drinks and prepackaged foods are full of stuff you may not even be able to pronounce, hurt your health and your pocketbook. Yes, they taste good, but they do not nourish you. I like to make extra spaghetti, goulash, pizza sauces and soups to have on hand for fast food meals. A pot of old fashion oatmeal or cream of wheat will get you through several mornings of fast food, by micro waving a bowl full with some milk. It is a complete protein. Some raisins in it, will give you a fruit. Grits [ground cornmeal] with an egg stirred in and a couple of slices of cheese, is quick and easy. Stir fried rice with an egg added is both filling and a whole protein. It will fill you up and keep you going for hours. Vegetables that are easy on your budget are carrots, cabbage, celery and onions. Carrots and celery are so easy and give you lots of chewing, which is good for your need to chew and reduces your risk of strokes. Cabbage is a very versatile vegetable. Think of slaw, salad, leaves used as wraps for meat fillings, steamed and in soup. Onions and garlic are very good for your immune system as are a lot of herbs like oregano, dill, mint, rosemary and sage and they make a lot of foods taste great. Tuck a few of them in your garden or grow in a few pots. Use the web to find out all the medical uses for them. The very best in cutting your food bill, is an edible garden. Research has shown that a nicely set table with nice music gives the physiological perception of the food costing more and tasting better than the same identical food served on paper plates on a bare table. Just because your budget is pinched, does not mean that you can not treat yourself and your family well with the nice things you already have. You do not have to act poor! Try to make one dinner a week a special occasion with setting a fine table and playing some pleasant quiet music. Act as if important company was coming. It will also help your children learn how to do it, their manners and proper conduct, for their future years. Make it a very special occasion, regardless of your menu. It is a great time to talk with your family. Cloth napkins can save a fortune over the years and you are going to do the wash anyway. Biscuits, cornbread, pancakes, etc. are all good for you and easy on the budget. Making your own bread is good for working off stress. The kneading gives you good upper arm and breast muscles as well as saving money. Nothing matches the wonderful smell of fresh bread or cookies baking. Five cups of flour can make one batch of bread, which can give you a great homemade pizza, a pan of sweet rolls and another batch of rolls or small loaf. Fresh bread and homemade soup can make a feast. For desserts remember things like rice, bread and banana puddings. They taste great and are also full of good protein. The more protein you eat the fuller you will feel and the less food you will crave. Do not forget old fashion popcorn that you pop yourself. It makes a great snack for the family for a TV movie night. It is also a whole grain. Making a batch of cookies with your family will make pleasant memories for a lifetime. Author Resource:- Author: Judy Jantzen,is a freelance author who is actively engaged in writing articles for article marketing. Has spent many years in the kitchen cooking for a family of three.Article From New Ezine Articles

Easy No-Cook Meals

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By : Jimmy Cox Submitted 2008-03-17 09:02:56
It will help us little to eat a four- to twelve-course dinner, consisting of the best carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, starches, sugars and pill vitamins if the dinner is overcooked and all the nutrients destroyed. After years of eating overcooked and processed foods of the finest quality, the majority of us suffer assorted ailments, which vary from debilitating children's diseases to those of crippled maturity and old age. This state of our health has become accepted as the inevitable pattern of our destiny. Some of us however, will not give in and frequently, hopefully follow new fads in eating and are just as frequently led astray to some degree for a very simple reason: because no matter what foods or combination of them are advocated in these fads, and no matter how excellent the ingredients, they fail if they are cooked or processed to death and thus reduced to working against and not for us. It is, therefore, not what you eat, but how it is prepared. All foods, as nature produces them, eaten in any combination, are complete, chemically correct and vital, if prepared at body or, at most, at fever heat. It is my conviction that the whole span of our lives from conception on can be free from all ailments, barring accidents or external infections, if we carefully prepare our food so that the vital vitamins and minerals are retained Below are some tasty supper dishes which can be prepared in such a way as to preserve the important nutrients and thus keep us healthy.

Quick Supper Dishes Macaroni

Noodles And Spaghetti 1 lb. semolina type macaroni, noodles or spaghett

4 cups hot, but not boiling water

3 tablespoons coarse salt

2 tablespoons olive oil

A child's favorite. Fixed "al dente" it can provide much of the vitamins and minerals required for protection of body needs for growth and function. Place the noodles, spaghetti or macaroni into hot water with salt and oil, and let stand for about five minutes.

Quick Supper Dishes Italian Spaghetti

1/2 lb. semolina type spaghetti, Italian type excellent

2 cups very hot water

2 teaspoons coarse salt and fresh red pepper 6 tomatoes, liquefied

1 chopped onion or 1 scallion

1 diced green pepper

1 stalk celery with leaves

chopped 1 clove garlic

The vegetables enrich this dish with their respective vitamins and minerals especially Vitamin C in tomatoes. Prepare the spaghetti as indicated in recipe for spaghetti. Sear quickly over high heat on film of oil, tomatoes, garlic clove, onion, pepper and celery. Add the seasonings and olive oil. Meat balls may be added.

Spaghetti With Chicken

1 fresh young broiler, cut at each joint

3 teaspoons peanut, corn or olive oil

Dash oregano Basil leaves

2 cloves garlic,

minced Coarse salt and

crushed red pepper as desired

A fun and protein combo.

Quick Supper Dishes

Prepare the spaghetti as indicated in recipe above. Heat pan containing a film of oil and the garlic. Remove garlic when it is browned and saute the chicken which will be seasoned later with salt, pepper, oregano and basil leaves. Turn them over in 3 minutes and leave for another 2 minutes. Cover and remove from fire and serve immediately.

Noodle Chop Suey

1 pkg. noodles

1 chopped onion or scallion

1 green pepper, chopped

2 stalks celery with leaves, chopped

1 cup chopped fresh mushrooms

3 tablespoons olive oil

2 fresh tomatoes, mashed

2 teaspoons cornmeal

Dash oregano

Basil leaf Bay leaf

Coarse salt and crushed red pepper

Saute the vegetables over high flame (1 minute). Add the cornmeal. Remove from flame and add the mushrooms. Place the noodles, which are already prepared in manner described in first recipe, with the vegetables and serve. All these dishes are not only satisfying but healthy. Enjoy!

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Camp Cooking Recipes - The Fun Activity On A Camping Expedition

By Abhishek Agarwal

One of the interesting activities your entire family can be involved in, around the campfire, in the evening is trying out fun camp cooking recipes. Not only will this provide an opportunity for your family to bond together, but you will also relish the delicious food made as a result of this activity.

The best part about camp cooking recipes is that you can be as innovative as you like and can use tasty ingredients to prepare some simple dishes. You can cook some yummy dishes like s'mores, or even make a dessert without using any camp cooking equipment.

The best time to try out these fun recipes during your family camping trip is when you crave for something sweet, especially after dinner and that too around the campfire. Let us share with you some great camp cooking recipes that are a step-up on the traditional desserts at the campfire.

- Pour some chocolate syrup or put a chocolate bar broken up into pieces, in a cup you can make yourself, out of aluminium foil. Now place this cup near the fire so that the chocolate melts completely.

- Fill a plastic bag or place on a plate some graham crackers that you have crushed.

- Toast some marshmallows the way you usually do.

- Dip these marshmallows into the melted chocolate and then roll them into the graham crackers.

This is a yummy recipe that the kids especially enjoy and the best part is that it is not even the least bit time consuming. You can keep experimenting with these campfire treat of s'mores, by making slight modifications every time, like melting caramel chocolate bars or even melting chocolate bars with nuts in them.

If you find this too messy a way, you can even opt for another way to create the s'more by putting the chocolate bars, the marshmallows and the graham crackers together in an aluminium foil. Wrap this package up and cook over your campfire for just a minute and upon opening the foil, 'voila'- a lip-smacking, finger- licking treat.

Fun camp cooking recipes need not necessarily be those of desserts. You can play on any of your recipes by altering your fun foods like sloppy joes, a bit. Other camp recipes include something like tacos in a bag. All you need to do is take some plain tortilla chips in a bag and crush it up. Now you can add other ingredients like salsa, cheese and lettuce. Mix well and have it straight out of the bag for maximum fun.

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Really Inexpensive & Easy Recipes - Biscuit Hamburger Bake, Spoon Bread, & Pink Flannel Hash

With so many people out-of-work and almost all of us watching our finances, inexpensive family meals are becoming more and more important. Here are some old-fashion recipes that offer you meals that are easy, inexpensive yet tasty. These recipes should be a hit with the whole family while saving you money on your food budget. Biscuit Hamburger Bake is quick, easy, inexpensive, and has meat, vegetables, bread, and dairy all in one dish. Spoon Bread is an old recipe from Tennessee for a cornbread type bread baked in a casserole dish. Pink Flannel Hash uses tuna, potatoes, eggs, etc for a quick, inexpensive meal. So take heart, and give these recipes a try to help you save money on your trips to the grocery store.

BISCUIT HAMBURGER BAKE

This recipe is from an old community cookbook in Southern Indiana where I was born and raised.

1 lb ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 can condensed Vegetable Soup
1/2 tbsp oregano
dash of pepper
1 can refrigerated biscuits
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large skillet, cook ground beef with onion until meat is browned and onion is tender; drain well to remove fat. Stir in the can of soup, oregano, and pepper; heat to bubbling. Pour mixture into a 2-quart casserole dish that has been buttered. Top with the biscuits. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove from oven. Spread the sour cream over the biscuits then top with the cheese. Return to the oven and bake another 10 minutes.

SPOON BREAD

This is an old Tennessee hills recipe.

2 cups white corn meal
2 1/2 cups boiling water
1 1/2 tbsp melted butter
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 egg whites, beaten

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Add corn meal slowly to boiling water. Let stand for 3 minutes. Add butter to the corn meal mixture. Stir in salt, egg yolks, baking soda, and buttermilk. Fold in the egg whites and turn into a greased baking dish. Bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes.

PINK FLANNEL HASH

This old recipe was a clipping I found in a box of my late mother's recipes. I have no idea where this clipping originated.

1/3 cup butter or margarine
1 cup chopped onion (1 large)
2 cups finely chopped red bell pepper
1/2 tsp Tabasco sauce
2 cups Idaho frozen southern style hash brown potatoes
1 can (6 1/2-7 oz) tuna, drained and flaked
4 eggs

In a large skillet melt butter; saute the onions and peppers until crisp tender. Stir in Tabasco sauce and potatoes. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, until potatoes are tender and golden (about 15 minutes). Stir in tuna. Make four wells in potato mixture; break one egg into each well. Cover and cook 3 to 4 minutes or until eggs are set. Garnish with fresh parsley.

Serves 4.

Enjoy!

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2 Easy Homemade Carmael Popcorn Recipes

Several years ago, my great aunt sat down and shared her favorite Caramel Popcorn recipes with me. As a child, I had always looked forward to going to her home and digging into her popcorn container. After our visit was over, she would send my brother and I back home with little paper lunch bags filled with her delicious popcorn.

I hope these 2 recipes will be enjoyed by your family.

Classic Caramel

4 quarts popped popcorn
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Spread the popped popcorn in a large shallow baking pan. In a 2 quart saucepan, stir together brown sugar, margarine, corn syrup and salt. Cook mixture over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Cook for the final 5 minutes without stirring. Remove pan from the heat. Stir in vanilla extract and baking soda. Pour mixture over the popcorn. Stir until completely coated. Bake at 250 degrees for 1 hour, stirring every 10 minutes. Let cool to room temperature. Once cool, break into pieces and store in an airtight snack container.

Tip: If you are concerned about sticking, lightly coat your baking pan with margarine or nonstick cooking spray.

Caramel Nut

10 cups popped popcorn
1 1/2 cups peanuts
1/2 cup margarine
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a large baking dish, combine the popcorn and peanuts. In a 2 quart saucepan, combine margarine, brown sugar, corn syrup and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in baking soda and vanilla extract. Pour mixture over popcorn and peanut mixture. Bake in a 250 degree oven for 45-60 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. Let cool cool to room temperature. Once cool, break into pieces and store in an airtight snack container.

Optional - You can substitute the peanuts for sliced almonds or cashews.

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