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lous cook and I hope to one day
cook as well as she does
½ pound of bacon
2 cups of rice
1 large onion
1 large pepper
2 cans of tomatoes
1 cup of salsa
Brown a ½ pound of bacon and
then set aside (optional). Cook rice
(one or two cups depending upon
amount needed) and set aside.
Chop a large onion and large pepper
and cook in skillet until tender.
Add two cans of tomatoes (drain)
and/or salsa (mild, medium or
hot, as you prefer). Add rice to the
skillet. If not enough sauce, add
another can of tomatoes or salsa.
Calories: 338; Total Fat: 12.2g;
Saturated Fat: 4.0g; Cholesterol:
31mg; Sodium: 853mg; Total Carbohydrates:
41.2g; Dietary Fiber:
1.4g; Sugars: 1.9g; Protein: 14.5g
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FRENCH TOAST
FROM: EMILY HENRY
Makes about 24 servings.
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10-12 slices of bread (heavy Italian
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3 eggs
2 cups half and half
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup sugar
Filling
8 ounces cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
¼ cup sugar
syrup or berries
Trim crusts from bread and
arrange half of the bread in a 1½ qt
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and pour half of it over the bread.
Mix the filling and spread it over
the moistened bread.
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Bake covered for 30 minutes,
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Let stand for 20 minutes and
then cut into rectangles. Top with
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Calories: 130; Total Fat: 7g; Saturated
fat: 4g; Cholesterol: 60mg;
Sodium: 110mg; Carbohydrate:
12g; Fiber: 0g; Protein: 3g
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From your pantry to your
table any day of the week
By LAUREN DALEY
ldaley@indianagazette.net
There are days that I approach
the grocery store like a country to
conquer, a new recipe as the army
to do so, and a belief that it will
change the culinary world and
surely earn the attention of Top
Chef, Next Food Network Star
and/or the executive kitchens at
the White House/Parliament/
U.N. Then there are the other six
days of the week.
Weeknight work obligations
often derail leisurely strolls
through my local Giant Eagle and
replace them with mad dashes, if
that. Oh, and looking at a recipe? I
don’t even look at my electric bill
during the week.
So I head to the pantry or fridge,
with a prayer that something,
anything is in there to make a
meal. I’d like to think my 25 years
as a professional eater, and seven
or so as a wannabe chef mean
that clever ingredients for
scrumptious bites are on-hand at
all times. Oh, the reality.
That’s when you got to get creative.
In a perfect world, I’d like to
have the following staples in my
kitchen at all times: some sort of
pasta, olive oil, sauces (barbecue,
marinara), soup, vinegar, brown
sugar, rice, peanut butter, cheese,
eggs, condiments, an onion, garlic,
meat and apple juice boxes.
But most of the times, it’s a
hodgepodge of items with a
chicken breast here, an eggplant
there, maybe some form of dip, a
slice of pizza and always peanut
butter. What on earth can you
make with that?
Thankfully there are plenty of
Web sites out there that do the
work for you and allow you to
type in your on-hand ingredients
for a recipe suggestion. The Food
Network, Recipezaar and All
Recipes all offers ingredient
searches. Granted, they might not
find something that incorporates
every ingredient aforementioned,
but they are able to get pretty viable
meal options for ingredients
hanging around. But here are
some of my favorite ingredient
databases that are good for ideas:
SUPERCOOK.COM
Has a broad search engine that
offers starters, entrees and
desserts. It will offer recipes for
just what you have on-hand, plus
those you can do with a few extra
ingredients. You can also type in
ingredients you’d like to exclude,
or search for general terms like
soups or salads. Says the Web
site’s overview, it has a “focus on
solving the practical problems of
modern home cooks: how to
waste less food, how to use up
perishable or seasonal ingredients,
how to keep track of everything
in the kitchen, how to save
time and money.”
RECIPEPUPPY.COM
Can type in multiple ingredients
in one search engine, and it
offers nice lists of recipes, but
most with other recommended
ingredients (though some are
things likely to be on-hand, but
that I’d never think of to add to
what I already have). It has a creative
database (example, typing
in eggplant, peanut butter and
garlic yielded suggestions for
grilled eggplant with spicy peanut
sauce, Kari-Kare or Casablanca
chicken.)
SEARCH.MYRECIPES.COM/
ENHANCED-SEARCH.HTML
Offers convenient checkboxes
for search for main ingredients,
exclusions, 39 types of cuisines,
conveniences (like make-ahead,
gifts, kid-friendly, no-cook), cooking
methods, dietary considerations,
publications, or brands and
sponsors. User warning: it seems
to get stressed out with the more
boxes you check for something
that should be a no-brainer.
CAMPBELLKITCHEN.COM/
ADVANCESEARCH.ASPX
Campbell Kitchen’s advanced
search allows you to search by
general search terms, plus a main
ingredient, recipe type, cuisine,
Campbell’s products, type, number
of ingredients or total time.
KRAFTRECIPES.COM
Allows you to search for three
ingredients, and a type of meal;
plus recipe collections for individual
meals, budgets, healthy living.
A unique feature is that it offers
a variety of suggestion within
one recipe. For example, “fast and
flavorful rice skillets” offers a
chart of mix-and-match items
like meat, liquids and add-ins, for
1½ cups of uncooked instant rice.
It also offers nutritional information
for the recipes.
FOODIEVIEW.COM
Its search engine pulls from
other sites on the Web, and you
can search by ingredient, cuisine,
chefs or diet considerations.
While the database didn’t always
offer the most impressive recipes,
it was one of the few sites that returned
viable recipes for the ingredients
eggplant, peanut butter
and garlic.
IDRINK.COM/DRINKRECIPES.
HTML
Mixed drink recipes can also be
daunting to come up with on the
fly. But iDrink.com has an expansive
ingredient list from 5-Hour
Energy to Zima where you can
click all available ingredients,
save the list and generate recipes.
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