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How to make BUTTER ...By: Keith
from Trout Fishing
in America
This is an easy and fun
way to make butter while waiting for that big family
dinner to be ready.
Ingredients
Heavy whipping cream at
room temperature.
Mason jars with lids.
Wiggly kids. (salt or seasoning-
optional)
Directions
Fill Mason jars half way
with whipping cream. Put on the lids. Hand to wiggly
kids. Wiggly kids shake jars until cream starts to
thump. Pour lump into bowl and mash out extra moisture
with a spoon. The extra moisture is buttermilk. Give
it to the cat. The solid part is butter. (You can
add salt to taste) Refrigerate until time to eat.
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Monkey Brains ...By: Kenny
Curtis of XM
KiDS
(NOTE: Kids love to cut
the biscuits and roll them in the sugar mixture. A
grown up should work with the hot ingredients. )
Use 4 tubes of canned biscuits.
Cut each biscuit in quarters. Roll quarters in a mixture
of sugar and cinnamon. Lick fingers repeatedly
Drop biscuits in a bundt
pan, then pour 1/2 cup of brown sugar mixed with 1
stick of melted butter over the biscuits. (If you
like, you can have your adults cook this while stirring
to carmalize it a little.)
Wipe sticky hands on the
back of Mom or Dad's clean shirt.
Bake at 350 degrees for
30 minutes or until the top of biscuits are brown.
Repeat the question, "Is
it ready yet? Is it ready yet? Is it ready yet?" over
and over for a minimum of 25 minutes.
After it is cooked, let
cool a little and turn upside down over a platter.
Pull pieces off and eat!
Some people call this "monkey
bread", but our little ones think it looks like a
brain when it is finished... so we re-named it "Monkey
Brains"... Enjoy!!
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Peanut Butter Skyscrapers
...By: Bill Harley
A recipe from the story
"Zanzibar" ( Ps – Zanzibar is on Bill’s recording
called Cool in School)
Ingredients: One sleeve
of saltine crackers Peanut butter (smooth or crunchy,
depending on what you like)
This is a very complicated
recipe, so follow closely.
1)Take one saltine.
2) Open the jar of peanut
butter. Take a dollop of peanut butter from the jar
with a knife that spreads well (NOT a sharp one!)
3)Spread peanut butter
on the top part of the cracker.
4) Put another cracker
on top of the peanut butter. Be careful that the crackers
line up well. Otherwise, it won't be a skyscraper.
5) Put peanut butter on
top of that cracker.
6)Put another cracker on
the peanut butter.
7)Put peanut butter on
that cracker
8)Put another cracker on
the peanut butter.
9)Repeat this until it
doesn't fit in your mouth or all the crackers are
used up.
Enjoy with a large glass
of milk. Make sure to leave everything out on the
kitchen counter to annoy your parents.
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mr. RAY's Fruitastic
Toastastic Morning Zinger! ...By: mr.
RAY
I'm the morning guy (and
have always been a health nut), so Layla, (who's 18
1/2 months) and dad (who's way older) start the day
off with a small bowl-of-fruit combo of raspberries
or blackberries (she LOVES either!), bananas, grapes
and pineapples... then I make her a sprouted grain
raisin slice of toast and orange juice.
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Daria's Gross Out Graveyard
(Dessert) Pizza ...By: Daria
It's Pizza - but it's not
for dinner!!!! This recipe is fun to make around Halloween
or as a special party treat.
You will Need: 18 ounce
roll refrigerated sugar-cookie dough, Four 3.5-ounce
containers vanilla pudding, 2 cups chocolate cookie
crumbs or 20 chocolate sandwich cookies with white
filling, finely crushed
Assorted whole vanilla
wafers, graham crackers, and/or chocolate-filled oval
shortbread cookies Black, green, red, and white decorator
gel icing
Assorted candies, such
as fruit-flavored jelly worms, candy-coated, chocolate-covered
peanuts, and gumdrops
Make the "crust" with the
cookie dough. Roll it out or make a few small "pizzas".
Cook on a cookie sheet until the edges turn brown.
Allow to cool.
Make your favorite pudding.
Chocolate and vanilla are cool. Pistachia - a lovely
green color- is really fun, too!
Now, pretend the pizza
is a graveyard. Crush your oreo bits for dirt. Add
gummy worms. Make tombstones out of graham crackers
or cookies. Use your icing to make arms, legs, skeltons
or to write "RIP" on the tombstone (cookies).
Be creative - have fun
and then - EAT IT UP!
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Cwazy - dillas ...By:
Kim Adlerman
Quesadillas (or as we like
to call 'em, Cwazy - dillas)! Quesadillas are exotic,
fun, versatile, really easy to make, and best of all,
de-LISH!
What you'll need:
Tortillas, veggie oil,
refried beans, cheese (mild cheddar and/or monterey
jack)-shredded* basting brush pizza cutter help from
a bigger person * Shred the cheese yourself, or buy
it already shredded; one way really adds to the fun,
and the other is really easy!
Oil outside of tortilla
with brush - just a few drops is fine. On inside,
spread a layer of beans. Sprinkle on shredded cheese
- enough to cover most of the beans, but not too thick!
Put another tortilla on top. Brush some oil on top
of this tortilla. Quesadillas can be cooked in many
ways (make sure you have an adult to help you here!!!):
-Microwave for about 35
seconds or -Grill on low for a couple of minutes,
then flip and cook for a couple more so outsides get
tan lines from the grill, or -Cook in preheated oven
(350 degrees) for about 7 minutes (again, when tannish),
or -Cook on stovetop in pan like a pancake. Medium
heat. Flip after a couple of minutes and cook for
a couple more (you don't need extra oil on the pan
because you have already oiled the tortilla, but we
find a non-stick pan works best and is easiest to
clean).
Optional: Add some or all
of the following! (Okay maybe not all, but try mixing
different ingredients!) tomatoes (diced) chicken (cooked
and chopped or in small strips) ground beef (cooked
and drained of oil) shrimp (cooked - either cocktail
size, or pieces of larger size) onions (chopped) Use
the pizza cutter to cut into whatever size you like,
depending on the size of the tortillas. We like to
use large ones and then cut into eighths. Serve with
sour cream and/or salsa. Enjoy (our favorite part)!
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Jammin' Joe's Flap Jacks
with Walnuts ...By: Jammin'
Joe (A Superdad)
(A Non-Sugar, Non-dairy
treat)
1 & 1/4 Cup Flour,
1 & 1/4 Cup Rice Milk, 1 Tbsp. Oil, 1 Tsp. Salt,
1 Egg, 2 packets of Splenda or (8 drops of Stevia
Sweetner, or 1 Tsp. of Vanilla Extract), 2 (rounded)
Tsp. of Baking Powder
Wisk to mix.
Warm skillet (medium temp.)
Pour mix. Add walnuts.
Flip. Flap. Enjoy!
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"Toaster Pizza"
...By: Fran Grauman at About
Kids Music
(I've made this with classes
of Kindergarteners and Pre-Kinders)
Ingredients:
Sliced Bread Jar of Spaghetti
Sauce Shredded cheese of your choice Pepperoni or
toppings of your choice. Use regular bread. You can
toast it first (my preference) but you don't have
to.
Have the kids spoon 1-2
TBSP of sauce on the bread and spread it out. Top
with shredded cheese Each child can choose their own
toppings or you can leave it with just cheese.
Bake or broil until the
cheese is melted. Enjoy! ===========================
Eric
Herman's "Where's Waldorf Salad"
Ingredients: - Exactly
"some" romaine lettuce - An apple and a stalk of celery
cut into little pieces (be nice about it) - Roughly
27 raisins - A handful of walnuts, broken into little
bits (unless you don't like walnuts or are allergic
to walnuts, in which case you probably shouldn't include
any walnuts) - Ranch dressing (or barbecue sauce,
if you like, but I prefer Ranch dressing) - One bowl,
regular kid's haircut size - A fork, or spork, or
your hands if you want to be uncivilized about it
Retrieve the bowl from
the cupboard. Fill the bowl with the lettuce. Aesthetically
place (because half of food enjoyment is how it looks,
don't you know) the pieces of apple and celery and
the raisins and walnuts on top of the lettuce (for
some reason it doesn't work quite as well to have
the lettuce on top of everything). Dribble the Ranch
dressing oh so delicately over everything so as to
maximize the proportional relativity of DPB or "dressing
per bite" (many scientific studies have been done
about this).
Eat it, already. Say things
like, "Mmmm" and "Hey, this isn't bad, except for
these walnuts which I don't like". Rinse and repeat.
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Eric
Herman's "Hippy Hippo Shake"
Ingredients: - Some ice
cubes (the frozen kind) - A cup or two of yogurt (anything
but plain yogurt, which is yucky) - A banana (with
the little sticker still on it, for added texture)
- A couple of heaping scoops of ice cream (either
Ben & Jerry's or Ben & Jennifer's) - About a cup or
so of milk (for health and for life and for doing
a body good) - Some walnuts (unless you used them
all in the "Where's Waldorf Salad")
Blend it till it hurts,
then serve it up. Be sure to keep a paper towel on
hand to wipe off your shake mustache. After finishing
it and giving a resounding, "Ahhh!", you must dance
like an animal for several hours to have any hope
of working off the calories you just consumed.
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Israeli Hamburgers ...By:
Yosi
1 lb lean ground beef,
1 egg,1 medium onion (finely chopped), 1 tbsp garlic
powder, 1 tbsp paprika, salt & pepper, 1/3 to
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Mix well. Make into patties.
Cover Patties in (more)
bread crumbs.
Heat skillet with 1/2 inch
of corn or canola oil.
Cook until dark brown on
each side.
Serve with Israeli Salad
(below) & rice. No buns!
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Schlurpknopf
(Alien food. What else?) ...By: Yosi
3 Oz. Nutmeg
1/2 Zlar of Ruolf
4 Eliptical Ova
2 Stems of Nomannic
Toss mixture in braids
Boil for 20 nanoseconds
in Sonic Reducer
Cool in hydro-subatomic
chilling bowl (285K)
Serve immediately. (If
not sooner.)
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Apple Pie in a Paper
Bag ...By: The Blackin Family (Mama & three cute
daughter's)
2 Tbs lemon juice, 1/4-1/2
Cup Sugar, 2 Tbsp flour, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 5
large green apples peeled cored & sliced, 1/2 cup
sugar, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 stick butter cut into small
pieces, 9 inch unbaked pie shell
Preheat oven to 425. In
a large bowl place lemon juice, the first 1/2 cup
sugar,2 Tbs of flour and the cinnamon. Mix the ingredients
together, add the apples and gently toss. In medium
bowl place the second 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup flour
and mix together add the butter and cut in with a
pastry blender til mixture is crumbly. Place apple
mixture in pie shell and sprinkle crumble mixture
on top. Place pie in a paper bag and fold opening
over twice and paper clip shut. Place paper bag in
center of oven and bake for 1 hour (DO NOT OPEN OVEN
DURING THIS TIME) Remove the pie from oven and cut
open paper bag and let pie cool on a rack
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NO BAKE SUPER CHOCO-MEAL
COOKIES ...By: Dianne
de Las Casas, Author & Award-winning Storyteller
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar, 1 stick butter (1/2
cup), 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk, 1 teaspoon
vanilla, 2 1/2 tablespoons cocoa, 1/2 cup peanut butter,
3 cups oats
In a medium saucepan, combine all
the ingredients except peanut butter and oats. Cook
over medium heat. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter and oats.
Quickly spoon out approximately one tablespoon onto
wax paper or aluminum foil. Cookies will harden as
they set. Yum!
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BUCK'S BLACKBERRY CRISP ...By:
Buck Howdy
( preheat oven to 375 )
With your kids pick fresh
blackberries. Pick five cups because your kids will
eat one cup while you're pickin'.
Then Mix 4 cups of the
fresh picked blackberries, the juice of one lemon,
a half cup of sugar, two tablespoons flour. Stir well
and pour into a deep dish pie plate.
Mix one half cup brown
sugar with one half cup flour and one stick of softened
butter.
(DO NOT let your kids anywhere
near this mixture or they will eat it and you'll have
no topping!!)
Stir until you have a crumbly
creamy paste. Take this paste in your clean hands
and crumble bits of it to spread all over the top
of the berry mixture.
Cook 30 minutes until berries
are bubbling.
Let cool completely - if
you want to eat it warm, it's best to let it cool
all the way first so it sets up just right, then reheat
in the microwave or over a campfire - top with vanilla
ice cream and savor the flavor!
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Mover Pizza ...By:
Smitty from Imagination
Movers
Ingredients
2 ½ cups flour, 1 package
yeast, 1 cup warm water, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 ½ teaspoons
olive oil, ½ teaspoon sugar
To make the dough Gently
stir yeast and sugar into warm water and let sit for
a few minutes. Measure the flour into a mixer, then
add the yeast/water mixture along with salt and 1
teaspoon of the olive oil.
Mix for 3 to 5 minutes
or until the dough clears the sides of the bowl and
forms a ball. (If it’s too dry, add water 1 tablespoon
at a time; if it’s too wet, add a pinch of flour at
a time.) Coat dough in remaining olive oil and place
in a warm, dry place to rise for an hour.
To make the pizza Roll
or hand-press dough into one huge pizza or two medium-sized
pizza. (Either use a pizza pan or a pizza peel.) Top
with sauce, cheese and the toppings of your choice.
Bake on pizza stone in 500 degree oven for 8 minutes.
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Celtic Pancake Art
...By: Steve
Weeks
Ingredients: 1 cup of the
Celtic music CD “Solas” 1 cup Swedish pancake mix
(or crepe mix) 1 ½ cups of water 1 egg Butter 1 Broom
1 Dustpan Kitchen aprons for everyone Real maple syrup
Powdered sugar Lemon juice
Instructions: Put the CD
in and begin to play. Turn the volume up so you can
hear it in the kitchen. Combine pancake mix, water
and egg in a large bowl and mix well. If your mix
calls for different ingredients or quantities, ignore
what I’m saying and trust them. The batter should
be fairly thin so that it pours easily. If it’s too
thick, it’s hard to “draw” with it! Use broom and
dustpan to sweep up the pancake mix that inevitably
spills on the floor. Have a parent heat up a griddle
really hot. Like 400º! While the griddle is heating
up, dance around kitchen. This is very important!
The pancakes will not taste the same if you don’t.
Put a little bit of butter on the hot griddle to grease
it. Use a ¼ cup measuring cup to scoop out some batter.
Slowly pour the batter onto the griddle, but not in
spot. Move it around and draw something with it. Make
loops and lines and designs! When your parent says
it’s time, carefully flip over the pancake and cook
the other side. Remove your masterpiece when it’s
cooked and put it on a plate. The adults will probably
want to stand around the kitchen a bit talking about
the piece of art. They’ll debate whether it’s Dadaist
or Impressionist and discuss the artist’s use of lines
and color. This is where the kids must take control!
Quickly put syrup on the pancake art and eat it before
it cools down. Or drip a little lemon juice over it
and then sprinkle powdered sugar on top… yummy! Scoop
out more batter and make another one!
Tips: It takes a little
practice, so don’t worry if the first few don’t work.
They taste great anyway. You can thicken up the batter
by adding some mix if it’s too runny. Another technique
is to draw with circles. You can pour a little batter
in one spot to create a small circle, and then pour
more in another spot to create another circle. By
overlapping these, you can make interesting shapes.
We’ve gotten pretty good at shamrocks, butterflies
and even footprints!
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MOM WILCHA's SPECTACULAR
SIX LAYER COOKIES ...By: Daria
Super-simple and great
for holidays!! ½ stick butter, 1 – 2 cups vanilla
wafers (crushed to bits), 1 can coconut, 1 bag chocolate
chips walnuts, 1 can sweetened condensed milk
Use a 9 x 12 pan. Melt
the butter in the pan or in the microwave. Crush the
vanilla wafer cookies and sprinkle in pan. Add a layer
of coconut. Add a layer of chocolate chips. Add a
layer of walnuts. Some people add a layer of butterscotch
chips or substitute the chocolate chips for butterscotch.
Bake at 350 for aboout
25 – 30 minutes. Cool and refrigerate (cuts better
when cooled). Cut in small squares and enjoy!
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Gary’s Famous Pickle
Barrel Pickles ...By: Gary Hoffman- aka G-Whiz
(A Superdad)
5 pounds pickling cucumbers
of uniform size (aprox 4 to 5 inches) 6 bunches dill,
washed well 6 Cloves garlic peeled (some folks toss
in the garlic with peels on) use more if you like.
1 cup white vinegar 2/3 cup of kosher salt 2 quarts
water ½ teaspoon powdered alum- or if you have grapes
leafs, six will do. 1 Tablespoon pepper corns 1 Tablespoon
yellow mustard seeds 1 medium onion cut in small rings
4 or 5 Cloves Red hot pepper flakes (try a pinch or
two and adjust to preferred hotness.)
1. It is best to buy from
local farm market or ask your local farmer when he
can pick you garden fresh pickling cucumbers and yes
there is a difference between regular cucumbers and
the one’s you pickle.
2. Inspect for any bruised
pickles and discard any spoiled pickles. Remove stems
where they once blossomed from.
3. Scrub with vegetable
brush and rinse with cool water, let dry.
4. In a large 5 gallon
stoneware crock or a non-reactive tub add half the
spices: dill, mustard seeds, pepper corns, red hot
pepper flakes, garlic, clove and onion.
5. Layer pickles in the
tub.
6. Mix 2 quarts of water
(spring water) with vinegar with salt and alum.
7. Pour over cucumbers
to cover and add the other half of spices.
Make sure cucumbers are
weighed down and completely submerged. You can use
a rock that has been boiled or a sanitized wood block.
Cover tub loosely with cheesecloth or saran wrap or
a lid if you have one. Check pickles each day and
skim off scum as it forms. It may take to the 5th
day to form pickles. Do not stir pickles but make
sure they are complexly submerged in brine at all
times. You may have to add more salt or vinegar brine
according to how pickles form. If you leave them in
for 15 days or more they start to sour... The taste
is in how long you pickle the cucumber and the spices
you use...Pickles turn an olive-drab color and texture
will be soft-crisp and uniformly translucent. Let
stand for a month to develop full flavor, replacing
brine if necessary.
Thank you and Happy Pickling!!!
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Warm Peanut-Carmel Dip
...By: Laura Robbins MS, RD, CDE (AKA -Nutritionist)
¼ cup reduced fat peanut
butter
2 Tablespoons caramel topping
2 Tablespoons milk (1%
or skim)
1 large apple, thinly sliced
4 large pretzel rods, broken
in half
1. Combine peanut butter,
caramel topping and milk in a small saucepan. Heat
over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture
is melted and warm. Can be warmed in the microwave
for 20 seconds.
2. Serve dip with apple
and pretzel rods. *Recipe can be doubled
Breaking the pretzel rods
and mixing the peanut butter mixture can involve children.
Encourage children to help arrange the pretzel rods
and apples on a platter. Enjoy.
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Dirt Pudding ...By:
Fran Grauman at About
Kids Music
Ingredients
Chocolate pudding, Dark
cookies such as Oreos, Gummy worms or bugs, Clear
plastic cups
Prepare chocolate pudding
Put cookies into a plastic sandwich bag and let kids
bang on them to crumble. Mix 1/2 of the cookie crumbs
into the pudding. Fill cups 1/2 - 3/4 full of pudding
mixture. Top with more cookie crumbs and gummy worms.
Variation You could also
make this in a new, clean sand pail and use the shovel
to serve it.
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"PBJ Mixture" ...By:
Dawnie
Here is one of my kids
favorite and mine too!
Ingredients: Smooth Peanut
Butter Grape Jelly or (my favorite) Grape Jam, 2 slices
white bread, two eggs, 1/4 cup milk butter ( for melting)
Syrup optional, (makes one sandwich)
cooking tools: small mixing
bowl, med frying pan, plates and utensils Make a peanut
butter & jelly sandwich, (don't cut it in 1/2 yet!)
on white bread. Put to the side. Whip your eggs and
milk together. Melt some butter (or margarine) in
a frying pan. (while this is getting hot) dip your
pbj sandwich into the egg and milk quickly all around
but don't soak it! and add it to the frying pan "Just
like French toast" Flip & fry on both sides to your
liking! then serve. you can add syrup but it might
be too sweet!
I like to add sliced bananas
& fruit around my pbj mixture Enjoy! from "Dawnie
& Peanut Butter-n- Jammin"
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Dump Cake ...By:
Dave Loftin, WAWL - The
Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl (radio show)
This is a fun dessert for
kids to help make because there's virtually no measuring!
And it's potentially messy!
What do I need?:
1 can of cherry pie filling
1 can crushed pineapple with juice 1 box yellow cake
mix 1 stick of butter
Now what?!?:
In a square cake pan (8x8x2)
empty the cans of cherry filling and pineapple. Sprinkle
the cake mix over the fruit. Cut the stick of butter
into small squares and place on top of cake mix. If
you like 'em, sprinkle a 1/2 cup of your favorite
chopped nuts on top. Bake for one hour at 350 degrees.
Let the cake cool and enjoy
with a huge glass of milk! ...or Silk. Or whatever
you drink if you think milk is yucky. Enjoy!
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Frozen Yum! ...By:
Erin Solej, Pompton Plains, NJ
-Stir 1 12oz tub of Cool
Whip and one cup of peanut butter together.
-Scoop into silver cupcake
wrappers.
-Learn the importance of
taking turns with your little sister.
-Drizzle chocolate syrup
on top.
-Freeze!
-Lick the bowl for all
it's worth.
-Serve Frozen Yum with
a spoon and enjoy!
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Israeli Salad (This
one is super simple.) ...By: Yosi
Have an adult dice up the following:
3 Large Tomatoes, A few Scallions,1 Cucumber,
1 Green Pepper,1 Red Pepper, 2 tsps canola oil
Have child pour each ingrediant into
a salad bowl.
Add salt to taste. Done!
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Yosi's Famous Chili
(Famous in Yosi's house anyway) ...By: Yosi
Note: This is what I like
to call "garbage stew." You take all the
various veggies & other ingrediants in the fridge
& the cupboard that would be ready for the garbage
in a few days (but are still good) & you mix them
all together. Caution: please use reason. Black onions
are probably past their peak. Probably. - Yosi
2 Tbsp. Canola or Vegetable
oil (or for a smoky flavor, start with 2 strips of
bacon, diced)
1 & 1/2 Lbs of lean
Beef (cubed), 3 med Onions, 8 Garlic cloves, 3 stalks
Celery, 1 Red Pepper, 1 Green Pepper, 2 or 3 Hot Peppers
(Jalapanos, Habaneros...you choose the heat level),
1/3 cup Chili Powder, 1/2 tsp. Cayenne Pepper, 1 Tbsp.
Cumin, 1 Tbsp. Coriander, 2 Cans (16 oz each) Beans
(Black, Pinto or Red Kidney), 28 oz can of tomato
puree, 28 oz can of diced tomatoes, salt & pepper
to taste
Get creative! Add anything
you like. Here are things I've tried: chocolate, espresso,
carrots, paprika, honey, worcetershire sauce, wine,
brown sugar, curry, limes, little brothers (just kiddin').
Have fun! Get kids to measure, add &/or mix ingrediants.
Keep kids away from knives, forks & ovens. The
kitchen is a great place to teach safety & hygiene.
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