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Recipes - Appetizers & Snacks
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 25, 2009, 01:33:53 pm ---Waaaa! No Trader Joes here in the heartland! I may have to make a TJ run to the coast over the holidays! To compensate, I'm trying a new appetizer of red grapes, bulgar wheat, mint and orange dressing on romaine spears.
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Or you could come visit me! There are two within 10 minutes of here, and a third is a half-hour drive away. Here's a petition asking TJ to locate a store in Denver:
http://www.petitiononline.com/JimTJDEN/petition.html
Front-Ranger:
Our figs are getting ripe!! We have a fig tree that spends most of its time in our sunroom. We put it outside for the summer but it turns out that nights are too cool for fig trees in Colorado, even in the summer. So, back it went into the sunroom and finally the green figs are turning fig color one by one. I celebrated by buying some prociutto and soft cheese, so now we're ready to have a wonderful appetizer!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: All Pawed Out on November 07, 2010, 04:48:02 pm ---Our figs are getting ripe!! We have a fig tree that spends most of its time in our sunroom. We put it outside for the summer but it turns out that nights are too cool for fig trees in Colorado, even in the summer. So, back it went into the sunroom and finally the green figs are turning fig color one by one. I celebrated by buying some prociutto and soft cheese, so now we're ready to have a wonderful appetizer!!
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Yuuuuummmm!
Lynne:
I've just finished helping bake, bag, and tag 213 pounds of homemade granola. It is an annual fundraiser for our Meeting at $6.50/bag. I don't think I posted the recipe last year. This makes a very large tray, so you probably want to quarter it, minimum, or you'll be rotating cookie sheets in and out of your oven all day.
I gave some away last year and had much of the rest atop yogurt.
It also saved my bacon because I was supposed to show up somewhere with a dessert, and I ran out of time.
My friend Colleen had sent me apple pie filling she had canned that was ultra-yummy. So I spread that out in a casserole dish and added this for topping. Heated it up and - apple crisp! People seemed to like it.
If I make this at home, I believe I will vary the nuts some and either use golden raisins or chocolate chips or craisins.
14 cups rolled oats
2.5 cups cashews
1.5 cups sunflower seeds
1 cup flour
2 tsp salt
1.25 cups honey
1.5 cups canola oil
2 tsp vanilla
1.5 cups raisins
Mix dry ingredients.
Add wet ingredients and stir well.
Spread loosely on cookie sheet(s).
Bake, turning every 10 minutes, until uniformly brown. (There's controversy about the temperature - between 350 and 450 degrees Fahreinheit - I believe 450 gives you browner, crunchier granola.)
Cool and add raisins.
Meryl:
Sounds delicious, Ms. di Licious! 8)
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