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Adding New Side Dishes
Often on holidays and Sundays my family would serve the traditional mash potatoes, sweet potatoes and stuffing. Now I try to sneak one or two side dishesbeside these traditional ones. Usually, they are the first ones gone, and get the most compliments! Here are four side dishesfor you to add to your family table.
Orange-honey Acorn Squash
Ingredients: 3 small acorn squash 4 Tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate 2 Tablespoons honey 1 Tablespoon butter 1/4 tsp. nutmeg or cinnamon
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut squash in half. Remove and discardseeds. Place squash halves cut side up in a shallow baking dish. Combine juice and honey.Mix well. Add 1/2 tsp. butter to each squash half. Cover panwith lid or foil tightly wrapped, and bake squash with butter for 30 minutes. Removefoil, and bake 30 minutes more until tender. Scoop out and mash squash; add juice and honey mixture thenreturn to shells. Bake another 10 minutes.
Carrots Almondine
Ingredients: 1 pound baby carrots 1/4 cup golden raisins 1/4 cup butter or margarine 3 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1/4 tsp. ground ginger 1/4 cup sliced almonds
Cook carrots, covered in 1/2 inch boiling water for 8 minutes, drain.Turn carrots into a one quart baking dish. Stir in rainsins,butter,honey,lemon and ginger. Bake uncovered at 375 degrees for 35 minutes; stir occasionally.Spoon into serving bowl. Sprinkle with almonds.
Lemon Beans
Ingredients: 2 cups canned, frozen or fresh green beans 1 clove garlic 1 lemon 1 tsp. olive oil
Prepare beans until done. Drain. Over medium heat, saute the garlic in oil for one minute; add beans and saute another two minutes.Sqeeze the juice of one lemon on the beans and season with salt and pepper. For a crowd double this recipe.
Sauteed Mushrooms
Ingredients: 12 ounces fresh mushrooms 1 stick butter 3 tablespoons teriyaki sauce 1 diced garlic clove 1/2 tsp. pepper 1 tablespoon seasoned salt Pinch of red pepper flakes tsp. finely chopped parsley One green onion, finely chopped
Clean and rinse mushrooms in cold water. Cut into bite size pieces. Melt butter infrying pan. Add mushrooms to pan with butter. Add teriyaki, garlic,pepper,seasoningsalt, and red pepper. Let simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. The last 2 or 3 minutes addgreen onion and parsley.
About the author Brenda Hyde is a wife and Mom of three, a freelance writer, bookseller and editor of Seeds of Knowledge.For more recipes and cooking tidbits subscribe to Tea Time Tidbits by sending any email to teatimetidbits-subscribe@egroups.com
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Memorial Day: Backyard Grilling Memorial Day signals the start of barbecue season. Everyone wants to light that fire and charcoal that first meal. A few tips might pre- vent your entree from becoming a "Burnt Offering."
Read these tips for plenty of grilling ideas, make this year's barbecue perfect!
Growing and Using Garlic Chives Garlic chives, Allium tuberosum, is a hardy perennial (Zones 3-9) that will grow to about 12 inches high. The stems are skinnier and flat, instead of hollow as are regular chives, with greenish white blooms that are about an inch wide and not as rounded. They bloom in the summer rather than spring. The bloom stalks grow much taller than the leaves, sometimes up to 30 inches.
The stems and blooms are both edible and have a mild garlic onion taste. I've noticed many writers will list this as primarily as an Asian herb, as they are also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leeks, ku chai (China) or Nira (Japan), but it has many other uses as well!
The Perfect Porch Swing Perhaps it is the soothing rhythm or the reassuring creak of the porch swing that attracts us. Perhaps it is the companionable silence or quiet conversation. Or maybe swings simply remind us of more genteel times.
Although porch swings can be purchased in a wide range of materials, the most common are wicker and wood. You can also make your own porch swing from one of the myriad of woodworking patterns available at garden centers, hardware stores, or on the Internet.
Memorial Day: Backyard Grilling
Growing and Using Garlic Chives
The Perfect Porch Swing