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With many, it seems the problem is not how to make a certain dish but to actually figure out what to serve.
Join me and others as we list a few ideas to help you organize your dinner plans in a stress free , enjoyable and economical manner!!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

All Easy World Recipes: Italian Dessert, Lemon drop cookies

All Easy World Recipes: Italian Dessert, Lemon drop cookies

Italian shrimp salad recipe

Ingredients:
serving size: 4-6

1 1/2 lbs. shrimp
1 tbs. salt
2 lemons cut into 1/4

Directions:

in a pan of boiling water, mix the lemon and salt, add the shrimp and cook about 3 minutes not more than that. place in ice cold water to cool down and clean the shrimp.

Dressing recipe for Shrimp Salad

1 cup mayonnaise
1 tbs wine "white"
1/2 tsp mustard
1 tsp pepper
3 tbs dill "chopped"

Mix all together and pour over cleaned shrimp, about an hour let it chill, and then add,

1/2 cup chopped celery
1 chopped onion
serve on butter lettuce.

Cold pasta salad from Italy


Ingredients:

Serves 10-15
1 package of medium shell pasta (16-oz)
1/4 lb hard salami, cubed
1/4 lb slice pepperoni, cut in half
4 oz. provolone cheese, cubed
4 medium tomatoes, seeded/chopped
4 ribs celery, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1/2 cup green stuffed olives, sliced
1/2 cup black olives, sliced
1 8/oz bottle Italian dressing
2 tsp dry oregano
1 tsp pepper

Directions:

Cook pasta according to the package, drain and rinse in cold water until cool, and drain the water again.
In a large bowl put pasta, salami, cheese, pepperoni, vegetables and olives.
Stir and combine, dressin, oregano and pepper, stir well to coat all.
cover and leave it in the fridge overnight.
Before serving stir well.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Italian Dessert, Lemon drop cookies

lemon Drop cookies from Italy also know as Anginetti.

When most people think of a "Italian Cookies," they're usually referring to these Lemon drop cookies, they are light, frosted treats.

Our family has always frosted them pure white, but feel free to add a few drops of food coloring to the frosting or sprinkle the moist frosting with colored sprinkles.

Ingredients:

3 Eggs
1/2 cup milk
2 Teaspoons lemon extract
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 cups flour
8 teaspoons baking powder

Direction:

.Preheat owen to 350F.
.In an mixer on midium speed, beat eggs, milk, lemon extract, sugar and oil untill well blended.
.On low speed, add flour and baking powder. Mix untill just blended. The dough should be soft and sticky.
.Lightly dust the dough and your fingers with a little additional flour.
Drop the dough from a teaspoon onto a lightly greased cookie sheet, spacing the cookies 2" aprt.
.Bake immediately for 8 to 10 minutes, or until slightly browned.
.Remove cookie sheet from oven. Using a metal spatula, remove cookies from sheet onto a wire racks.
.Cool on wire racks.
.Frost with lemon Confectioners Frosting (see the following recipe).
If it is necessary to freeze cookies, use heavy-duty plastic freezer bags and freese the cookies unfrosted.

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Friday, August 14, 2009

Coconut Pound Cake / Num Tirk Doung

Coconut Pound Cake known as Num Tirk Doung.

Ingredients:

-4 Eggs.
-2 Cups all purpose flour.
-½ Cup melted butter.
-½ Cup coconut milk.
-¼ Cup fresh or frozen unsweeted, shredded coconut.
-1½ Cup sugar.
-2 Tablespoons pure vanilla extract.
-½ Teaspoon baking powder.
-¼ Teaspoon salt.

Direction:

-Preheat oven at 325 degrees.
-In a mixing bowl, creamed butter and sugar together.
-Add egg, one at a time with butter sugar. Mix well.
-Add vanilla, baking powder, salt and coconut milk.
-Blended all purpose flour and shredded coconut.
-Greased cake pan with cooking oil and sprinkles some flour at the bottom of cake pan.
-Pour the cake batter in to the cake pan.
Bake for 1 ½ hour.
-Removed from the oven, wait till cake cool off before take it out the cake pan.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Armenian Dessert Recipe (Gurabia)

Easy Recipe from Armenia (Gurabia)

Makes about 4 dozen

Ingredients:

-1 Pound unsalted butter
-2 Cups Confectioners Sugar
-3 Cups All-Purpose Flour
-Shelled Pistachio Nuts for Decorating

Instructions:

-Pre-heat the oven to 300 F. degrees.

-Soften the butter and cream well with the confectioners sugar.

-Gradually add the flour and knead/mix until all the ingredients are well

-incorporated and the dough is soft and pliable.

-Take about a walnut-sized piece of the dough and roll into a cigar shape
(about ½ inch in diameter).

-GENTLY curve the (cigar) around, to form a circle and place on the cookie sheet.

-As the cookies tend to expand during baking, place about an inch apart on the sheet.

-At the place where the two ends of the roll meet, place a pistachio nut.

-Bake for 20 minutes, or until the cookies are showing some color around the edges, but have NOT yet browned.
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Afghan Dessert, Khatai Cookies

Khatai cookies from Afghanistan

Ingredients:

-1 1/2 cups White Flour

-1 cup Sugar

-3/4 cup Corn Oil

-1 tablespoon crushed Cardamon

-Pistachios


Directions:

-Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

-Mix the white flour with the sugar, and crushed cardamon.

-Next, add the corn oil and mix well.

-Make the dough into two inch round balls and put them on a cookie sheet

and bake for 15min, or until lightly browned.

-Sprinkle finely ground pistachios on top of the cookies while they are still hot.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Albanian Dessert (Kadaif)


Albanian dessert, khadif

Ingredient:

-Shredded Wheat
-Ground Walnuts
-Sugar
-Melted Butter

-Syrup:

-1 cup sugar
-1 cup water
-Cinnamon to taste

Directions:

-Separate shredded wheat squares into halves.
-Arrange halves on bottom of medium size ungreased deep baking pan.
-Sprinkle the ground walnuts and sugar over halves, pour melted butter sparingly over them.
-Cover with other halves of shredded wheat.
-Bake at 20 minutes at 325°.
-Cool.

Prepare syrup:

-Boil the sugar, water and cinnamon about 5 minutes and pour hot over cooled shreddies and let soak until completely absorbed.
-Serve with whipped cream on top.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Welcome

Have you ever wonder what others eat?

On diner table with a family of 5, conversation came up that what others are having for dinner?

I'm not sure about you but when we were going for grocery shopping every time we had the same items over and over, until kids start noticing and complaining and wanting something new.

Joy of cooking was a choir for me and my wife, but now it is a JOY.

Why not try to cook something from other countries? (My oldest daughter, she is 14.)

So we came up with few recipes and yes there are really great dinner ideas or simple soup and salad recipes out there that you can find the ingredient in your local stores or even in your kitchen. Just how you are going to add it together.

Make the story short, Now enjoying our meals and we have something new to talk about every time when we sit on dinner table or we have company.

So our website was born AllEasyWorld.com to keep our records and recipes together, and why not share with other people.

If you like to add a recipe or story from your country in few simple step you can have your own page, go to our submit your recipe page, and I will include it to site and here at the Blog of course with your name and credit to you. Don't worry no information needed from you, not even an email address.

Thank you and hope you will enjoy all this free recipes and ideas that submitted by visitors like you.

H.T