Simple Cooking Ideas

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Raisin Cookies

Cookies are easy to make. They require minimum preparation and basically make the same ingredients – flour, butter or magerine or shortening,eggs,leavening, liquid and flavouring. Raisins are favourite ingredient.They are full of goodness such as Vitamin B, protein,iron, potassium and carborhyrates which makes it more reason to try out this recipe for the Christmas celebration.

Ingredients:

150 gm whole meal flour
50 gm plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 nutmeg
1/4 cinammon
Pinch of salt
100 gm butter
100 gm sugar
200 gm raisins
1 teaspoon vanilla
100 ml water

Topping:
200 gm rolled oats flakes or wheat … read more

Tuna Cheese Pizza

Nowadays kids love to eat pizzas. Simple pizzas can be prepared at home even to busy mother. Here is the recipe to try. It just take you less than an hour to prepare.

Ingredients:

1 frozen pizza base
1 tin tuna flakes, drained and mashed
6 button mushroom( the canned type)
100 gm mozzarella cheese, grated
2 tomatoes, sliced
1 small onion, finely chopped

Method:

Place frozen pizza base on a baking tray. Coat the base with tomato paste and sprinkle with chopped onion. Line with the mashed tuna and sliced tomatoes. Cover the top with grated mozzarella cheese. Bake in … read more

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Fish Fingers

Children today like to eat fast food more such as fried chicken, pizzas, burgers and hot-dogs. These foods are unhealthy and many parents end up treating their children to these foods in the restaurants or fast food chains. They can enjoy these foods occasionally but not too often. It may take a lot more effort to cook a good meal to bring up healthy kids. Do try this simple fish fingers.

Ingredients:

300 gm sole fillets
2 beaten eggs
100 gm flour
100 gm breadcrumbs
salt and pepper to taste
enough oil for frying

Method:

Cut the fish fillets into … read more

Peanut Butter Squares

An easy homemade peanut butter candies which can yield 3 dozens with this recipe. You can cut these sweet peanut butter candies into 3 cm squares. The kids will enjoy eating during this festive season.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
4 cups castor sugar
2 cups peanut butter
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
For the topping:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Method:

Melt 1 cup butter or margarine over low heat. Remove from heat and stir in castor sugar, peanut butter and graham cracker crumbs. Spread mixture in a jelly roll pan. Pat down evenly.

To Make Topping: Melt together 1/2 cup … read more

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