My Personal Recipe Binder

I recently found a very old blog I had on msn spaces. Since I do not update that one anymore nor care to, I hate everything microsoft.

But anyway, enough on my ranting about microsoft, I was reading old entries and found a lot of recipes that I posted there and thought I would create a recipe binder blog of all the recipes that I tried a while backa nd that I may want to try again.

Just to keep everything together for future use, you never know when you will want to try a recipe that you made some time ago and quite liked.

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Recipe #12: Dragon Fruit Pizza Recipe

A pretty dessert for any occassion. Servings: 12. Serving Description: 1 pie slice. Prep Time: 10 minutes. Cook Time: 10 minutes Ingredients 1 package of ready to use pre-made sugar cookie dough 8 ounces cream cheese 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 3 dragon fruit, peeled and sliced 3 kiwi, peeled and sliced 1 cup strawberries, hulled and cut in half 1/4 cup apricot glaze Directions Roll out cookie dough into a 12 inch round. Bake 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool completely. Meanwhile, prepare fruit by washing and slicing it into 1/4 inch slices. Cream together the cream cheese, powdered sugar and lemon juice. When the crust is cool, top with the cream cheese mixture. Lay fruit in a circle on top of the cream cheese mixture. Chill until ready to serve. *Any combination of fruit can be used for this recipe.

Recipe #1: Curried Couscous

Ready in: 30 minutes Serves/Makes: 2 Ingredients: 1 1/3 tablespoon pecans 1 teaspoon olive oil 1/3 onion -- finely chopped 1 1/3 clove garlic -- minced 1/2 cup chicken or vegetable broth or water 1 teaspoon butter 1/2 teaspoon curry powder 1/3 teaspoon red pepper flakes 2/3 Celery 2/3 Carrots 1/3 cup couscous Directions: Saute nuts in olive oil until they begin to turn color. Reserve Saute onion and garlic in remainder of olive oil until golden. Add chicken or vegetable broth and butter. Bring to a rapid boil. Add remaining ingredients, including nuts. Cover, remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork before serving. ** You can add other veggies if you like and the original recipe I found called for garam masala (indian spice) btu since I didn't have any I replaced it with curry, tastes good. I should get some garam masala though and try it, should be good too.

Recipe #10: Fried Rice with Pineapple (Khao Pad Sapparot)

Serves 4. Takes 30 Minutes. Ingredients 2 Onions 300g (13 fl oz) canned pineapple pieces 3 tomatoes 300g (10oz) rice 2 tb oil 2 tb fish sauce 1 tb ketchup 1 ts sugar Preparation In a pot bring water to a boil and add rice. Cook for ten minutes and pour off water. Let rice cool down. Dice onions and tomatoes. Drain pineapple pieces. Heat oil in wok and add onions. Stir fry onions unti golden. Add tomatoes and pineapple. Continue to stir fry. Stir in rice and heat. Season with fish sauce, ketchup and sugar.

From Fancy Nancy's Kitchen

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