Recipes

Decorated Sugar Cookies

Finding an unusual and unique gift can be a real challenge for most of us. Flowers or candy are great at times, but if you want to send someone a present that expresses your adoration for them or shows that you are sweet on them, consider sending decorated sugar cookies in the form of a …

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Mexican Food Recipes Are Surprisingly Similar

Being from Texas, I have practically grown up on Mexican food, and I absolutely love it more than anything else. What I have found over the years, however, is that Mexican food recipes are surprisingly similar in that many of the dishes use essentially the same ingredients. Tacos are probably my favorite food off all. …

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Italian Cooking Recipes Are Still My Favorite

Italian food is my favorite of any cuisine in the world, and the Italian cooking recipes I have are still my favorites of all the different dishes I make on a regular basis. They are usually simple, quick, and most important, absolutely delicious. When I was in college, I dated an Italian girl who loved …

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The Best Way To Cook Your Freshly Caught Fish

A freshly caught fish can be cooked in a thousand and one ways. Any fisherman worth his salt has his own unique way of cooking a freshly caught trout, salmon or whatever fish he caught. So fisherman all across the country has been handed down methods of cooking fish. Here are some tips to get …

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Beef Recipes From The Caribbean

Beef Recipes From The Carribean

When you think of Caribbean cuisine most people think of seafood and bean dishes, not necessarily beef recipes, but especially in Cuba, beef has been a traditional staple of the populace since before the 20th century. In Cuba these days however regular citizens can’t afford beef. A pound of ground beef costs over $20 dollars …

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Quick And Healthy Summer Desserts Your Family Will Love

When we envision that end-of-meal treat, the dessert, a sweet, sinfully delicious and typically high-calorie dish comes to mind. During the cold months, a piece of cheesecake or chocolate cake makes a lovely, albeit filling, ending to the meal. As the warm days of spring and summer come, we’re not quite so hungry for such …

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Summer Scallops Recipes For Easy, Tantalizing Meals

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With summer just around the corner, it’s time to leave those hearty, heavy, winter dishes behind and get in to the summer mode of quick and easy, lighter menus that suit our more active months. It’s difficult to contemplate spending hours preparing elaborate meals, requiring you to stand before a hot stove for what seems …

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Healthy Smoothie Recipes

 One of the most beautiful things about a smoothie is that it is really hard to mess up. Fruit and vegetable smoothies are among the healthiest things you can consume, and healthy smoothie recipes abound these days. What I have basically found with fruit smoothies is that you want to combine a sweeter fruit, such …

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Irish Food Recipes: A Little Colcannon Goes A Long Way!

Every St. Patrick’s Day, my family and friends get together for a huge party with music, drinking and food. Living in a country that has such a wide variety of cuisines, I am always a little reluctant about sharing my family’s Irish food recipes, because to me, Mexican, Italian and Chinese food are all much, …

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French Food: The World’s Premiere Cuisine?

French food is often considered the worlds premiere cuisine, which is something that has always kind of boggled my mind. The reason isn’t because I don’t like french food – as a matter of fact, I happen to love it. Whether it’s fisherman’s soup, or escargots, or moulle frittes (mussels and fries), french food is …

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