RECIPE: Orange Beets-Carrots
Recipes| No Comments »Recipe for Orange Beets/Carrots:
(I use fresh organic goodies from my garden, but you could also use a drained 1-pound canned beets, or carrots)
Boil your beets and/or carrots until soft (in separate pans). Peel the beets after boiling…
"Secret Sauce"
In a large frying pan, combine:
3 Tablespoons Sugar (or alternative)
1-1/2 teaspoons Cornstarch
1 Teaspoon Salt (or substitute)
Slowly stir in 1/2 cup Orange Juice (I squeeze a fresh orange).
Cook over medium heat, stirring, until thick.
Add 1 Tablespoon Butter (or margarine).
Add cooked veggies, and serve warm! YUM!
I multiply the "Secret Sauce" per each 2 cups of cooked beets.
Makes 4-5 servings.
Sheryl Roush
Inspirational and Business Speaker
Author of Heart of a Woman, and now an organic gardener
Christmas Website Links
Christmas, Heart of the Holidays, Website Links| No Comments »
EASY CHRISTMAS LINKS
Aristotle’s Christmas on the Web
www.wassail.com
Carol Garretson’s Christmas Stories
www.geocities.com/Heartland/1510
Christmas Traditions around the world.
www.santas.net/ aroundtheworld.htm
Christmas ’round the World (Wide Web)
http://eclecticesoterica.com/christmas.html
Hundreds of Christmas cookie recipes
www.christmas-cookies.com
WorldView! Christmas.com around the world!
Cultures and Customs
NORAD’s tracking of Santa
www.noradsanta.org
CLAUS.COM is the oldest and most popular Christmas website on the Internet
www.claus.com/village.php
Lots of neat Christmas information from the people at HowStuffWorks.com
www.howstuffworks.com/christmas
Holiday stories, recipes, traditions, games, etc.
www.merry-christmas.com
Reader’s Digest Christmas
www.rdchristmas.com
Games, a letter from Santa, Mrs. Claus and Rudolph, and you can write to Santa
www.northpole.net
Heart of the Holidays: Yuletide Treasures and Traditions, book by Sheryl Roush
Heart of the Holidays book
Heart of the Holidays book with Music CD
RECIPE: Non-Dairy, Low-Fat Pumpkin Pie (Vegan)
Christmas, Heart of the Holidays, Kwanzaa, New Year's, Recipes, Thanksgiving| 4 Comments » NON-DAIRY, LOW-FAT PUMPKIN PIE |
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| Ingredients 1-1/2 packages Mori-Nu Silken Lite Firm Tofu* 2 cups canned or cooked pumpkin 2/3 cup honey 1 tsp. vanilla 1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice or next 4 ingredients 1-1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 3/4 tsp. ground ginger 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg 1/4 tsp. ground cloves 1 unbaked 9" pastry crust * For firmer texture, use Mori-Nu Silken Extra Firm Tofu |
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| Method Drain tofu and blend in a food processor or blender until smooth. Add remaining ingredients; blend well. Pour into unbaked pie crust. Bake in preheated 350 degree F oven for about 1 hour. Filling will be soft, but will firm as it chills. Chill and serve. |
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| Nutritional Notes Provides 2g of fiber per serving |
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RECIPE: Butternut Squash Soup
Christmas, Heart of the Holidays, New Year's, Recipes, Thanksgiving| 1 Comment »Butternut Squash Soup (serves 8)
Ingredients:
1 butternut squash-peel and cut into chunks
1 leek-wash and chop
2 tbsp unsalted butter
6 cups chicken or vegetable stock, salt, pepper, nutmeg
(optional: 1 cup of heavy cream)
Melt butter in large pot; add leeks and sauté about 6-8 minutes; add squash and cover with chicken or vegetable stock; bring to a boil and cook until squash is very tender; remove squash with a slotted spoon and put in a blender with a little stock; puree until all soup is pureed; season with salt, pepper and a dash of nutmeg.
Add heavy cream (optional).
RECIPE: Wisconsin Cranberry Relish
Christmas, Heart of the Holidays, New Year's, Recipes, Thanksgiving| No Comments »Wisconsin Cranberry Relish
INGREDIENTS:
1 bag fresh whole cranberries (12 oz)
2 Oranges
Grate the peel. Cut off membrane and remove seeds. Cut into small sections.
1 Lemon
Grate the peel. Squeeze remaining juice.
1 cup sugar (and ½ more to taste)
1 and 1/2 cup pecans slightly crushed
PREPARATION:
Combine cranberries and orange sections in a cuisine art or mixer/chopper. Add juice of 1 lemon and zest of lemon. Add zest of 2 oranges. Mix well then add pecans and stir by hand. Chill then drain and serve.
This may be made ahead and refrigerated, covered, for up to 1 week before serving. You can also freeze extra until Christmas!
Makes 4 cups.
Recipe by: Jane Henning
Submitted by: Liz Mohler (her daughter)
Wisconsin is the nation’s leader in cranberry farming and produces more than 300 million pounds of fruit annually – more than half of the estimated 575 million pounds of cranberries that Americans consume each year.
Cranberries are one of only three fruits native to North America–the other two are blueberries and Concord grapes. This tasty little berry was a staple in the diets of American Indians long before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
