Christmas Punch

Ingredients:

• 5 cups evaporated milk 
• ½ cup rum 
• 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg 
• 1 "Jijona" soft nougat 

 
Preparation: 

Blend everything.  Let cool for one week. 

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Rattlebridge Farms Foodie Friday 

Banana Lemon Pudding

Ingredients:

• 1 (12-ounce box) vanilla wafers
• 2 cans sweetened condensed milk 
• 2 cans evaporated milk 
• 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 3 medium bananas sliced with lemon juice
  

Preparation:


In a large bowl, combine sweetened condensed and evaporated milk.

mixure with milks

Add the lemon juice, beat well until it becomes a thick consistency.

mixture with lemon

Line pie plate with vanilla wafers, a layer of banana, pour mixture over the layers, alternate layer of wafers, layer of banana and continue until plate is full. Garnish with wafers and bananas.

Chill and serve, overnight is desirable.  Keep refrigerated.

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Yummy Healthy Easy Tasteful Tuesday 

Custard

Ingredients:

• 4 cups cold milk 
• 4 tablespoons sugar 
• 4 tablespoons cornstarch 
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon or 1 cinnamon stick 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla 
• 1/8 teaspoon salt 
• 1 beaten egg (optional) 
• 1 lemon peel

Preparation: 

1. In a saucepan combine milk, cornstarch, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, lemon zest and beaten egg. 
2. Mix well.
3. Place over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, for 15 to 20 minutes or until the mixture thickens.

 

Oatmeal Shake

Ingredients: 

• 3 cups cold milk 
• 2 cups ice cubes
• 1/4 cup or 4 tablespoon oats 
• 6 tablespoons sugar 
• 1 teaspoon white vanilla extract

Preparation: 

1. Place all the ingredients in the blender. 
2. It is very important to have oats crushed, so blend well for 5 minutes. 
3. Serve with danish cookies, if desired.  Four services.

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Strawberry Pancake

Pancake Mix


Ingredients: 
 

• 2 cups all-purpose flour 
• 1 cup milk 
• 1 cup water
• 4 whole eggs  
• 2 teaspoons sugar 
• 2 teaspoons butter 
• butter for frying

Blend or mix all the ingredients. 

Preparation:


Preheat a buttered pan over medium-high heat.  Pour the batter onto the hot pan (using 1/2 cup for each pancake) and fry. 

Brown on both sides and serve hot.  Eight services. You can also use this recipe for crepes.

Strawberry Syrop 
 

Ingredients:

• 3 cups strawberries
• 2 cups water 
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 lemon juice

Preparation:


Wash strawberries with filtered water and lemon juice.  Chop into large pieces,  reserve some. 

Blend all ingredients slightly.

In a small saucepan boil the liquid and the reserved pieces over medium heat, stirring frequently for 45 minutes.  Then, serve with pancakes.

Onion tea

Ingredients:

• 1 medium red onion, peeled and halved 
• 4 cups water 
• 4 large lemons halved 
• 8 tablespoons honey 
• 1 cinnamon stick or 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation:

1. Bring to a boil water, onion and cinnamon in a small saucepan over medium heat for 25 minutes.
2. Over time, remove from heat and strain. Then, add the honey and two lemons juice.
3. Serve in cups with lemons halves.  Four services.

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Yummy Healthy Easy Saturday Night Fever 

Dried plums shake

Ingredients:

• 2 cups cold milk
• 2 prunes 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 1 1/2 or 2 tablespoons sugar 

Preparation:

Blend well and serve.

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Lemon mint water

Ingredients:

• 6 large lemons or 1/2 cup lemon juice 
• 4 cups water 
• 1 cup mint leaves (you can use less)
  
• 10 tablespoons of sugar 
• 1 cup ice

Preparation:

1. Wash the mint leaves with filtered water and lemon juice. 
2. Blend everything on high speed for 5 minutes.

Cantaloupe Water

Ingredients:

• 1 cantaloupe melon
• 4 cups cold water
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 6 tablespoons sugar or to taste
• 2 cups ice cubes

Preparation:

1. Peel, remove seeds and rinds. Cut the melon into cubes.
2. Put the diced melon in the blender, add water, sugar, lemon juice and ice. Blend at high speed.
3. Taste to sugar.  Cool for an hour and serve.

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Bolognese Sauce

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup oil (I use canola)
• 2 red onions finely chopped
• 1 cup shredded carrots
• 2 tablespoons celery
• 1 pound ground beef
• 4 tablespoons spicy tomato sauce
• ½ cup white wine
• 2 cups beef broth
• 2 bay leaves
• ½ lemon peel
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• 2 crushed garlic cloves
• 1 pinch of pepper
  

Preparation:
 
In a pan, add oil and bring to heat and when hot, add onion, carrot, celery, lightly saute these ingredients and add the ground beef. Continue stirring until lightly browned all. Add tomato sauce, white wine, beef broth, bay leaf and lemon peel. Finally, add salt, pepper and crushed garlic.

Cover the pot and simmer over low heat for 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Serve with white rice, fill a lasagna or serve with any kind of cooked pasta: spaghetti, macaroni, corkscrews, etc.

Pineapple and coconut drink

 



Ingredients:

• 3 cups of frozen chopped pineapple
• 1 1/2 cups coconut milk
• 6 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 cup of ice cubes

Preparation:

Peel the pineapple, remove the core and cut into small cubes.  Refrigerate until frozen.

Mix all the ingredients and blend.   Add sugar to taste.  Strain.  Decorate with a slice of pineapple.  Two services.

Easy Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all purpose-flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2/3 cup salted butter
• 1 2/3 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 1/3 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degress F. 
2. Prepare the cake pan with flour and chocolate, after oiling.  I used 8 inch round.
3. Sift the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder into the bowl and mix until combined.
4. Beat butter, sugar and add the eggs one by one.
5. In another bowl, combine cocoa, milk and vanilla with the sifted dry ingredients, beginning and ending with flour.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 35 minutos until a cake tester come out clean.  After this time, remove the cake from the oven.  Cool in the pan for 30 minutes, then turn it out.
7. You can decorate the cake, sprinkling over a little powdered sugar or placing on top a heart cookie cutter with powdered sugar.

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Sweet curdled milk

Ingredients:

• 8 cups of milk
• 3 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 4 tablespoons lemon juice 
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 lemon zest
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Preparation:

1. In a large pot, combine milk, cinnamon, vanilla, sugar, salt, lemon zest and  beaten eggs.  
2. Then, bring to a boil to medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.   
3. Fifteen minutes later, add the lemon juice , bring to a low heat for 1 hour and 45 minutes.  "DON'T MOVE".
4. Below, you can see, the mixture is so clear and looks like a crater, milk is curdling.

Already here, the mixture takes a dark color because it has more than 1 hour on heat.

Let cool slightly, refrigerate and serve.

Brownies

Ingredients:

• 3 sticks of butter
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups white sugar
• 9 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons vanilla extract 
• 1 ½ cup chopped walnut 
• Salt to taste
• confectioner's sugar 

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8 inch square pan.
   
2. In a large saucepan, melt the butter.  Remove from heat, and stir in unsweetened cocoa powder, sugar and flour.  Move well. Then, add the eggs, one by one, salt, vanilla and nuts.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.  Do not overcook.
4. A time after, remove the pan from the oven and cut the dough into squares, sprinkling with confectioners' sugar on top.