Archive for March, 2010

The Simplest Dessert Recipe

easy dessert recipes

quick and easy dessert recipes

By Mother

I believe that all people in the world love desert. Nobody is unable to reject the temptation of the sweet whipping cream, soft cake, the sweet chocolate, or cold and soft ice cream. When all of those delicious elements combine, it will give a mind blowing delicious taste. Dessert is a most wanted food in every event like Christmas, birthday, wedding, and many others. Watching uninteresting TV program can be a fun experience if we watch it while we are enjoying a dessert cake. The basic ingredients of all easy dessert recipes are only sugar, milk, and butter. If we thought that making delicious and tempting cake or pie need a hard work, then why don’t we try this creamy apple pie recipe? We need pie dough and apricot jelly. For the filling, just prepare butter, apple, and sugar. For the caramel, we need sugar, water, cream, and butter. Last, but not least, for the cover cream we need cream, sugar, and vanilla.

To make this one of the most popular easy dessert recipes, the first thing we should do is extending the dough and poking it carefully with fork. After that, we can bake it for about ten minutes until it has a crusty texture. Meanwhile, when the dough is in the over, we can boil our apricot jelly to be spread on the dough. When we have spread it, we can put it again in the over and wait for four minutes. For the filling, we can heat butter, sugar, and apple slice. When it already got softer, arrange the apple slice along the dough. Meanwhile, we can make a caramel with sugar an on the process, we can add cream and butter. Pour it over the apple slice.

For the cream cover, we can mix sugar and cream. After that we can cover the pie with it and bake the pie for about seven minutes. Let it cool and serve it. It is so easy and delicious. There are numerous easy dessert recipes that we can try.

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Which Salad Dressing Best for Us?

salad dressing recipes

caesar salad dressing recipe

By Mother

Salad dressing can be said as the “sauce” of salad. We can find so many types of salad dressing around the world, especially in United State and Europe. Some types of salad dressing that we can find are thousand island, mayonnaise, blue ranch, blue cheese, salad cream, vinaigrettes, miricale whip. Green goddess, and many more. However, the most popular dressing are mayonnaise, thousand island, vinaigrettes and of course the healthy olive oil. Salad is a free fat food that serves nutrients and vitamins. Therefore, we have to be selective on choosing the dressing so it will not ruin all the beneficial compositions. If we are not sure with the instant salad dressing recipes, then we can make it by ourselves.

On choosing the dressing, make sure than is light and low fat. Generally, salad dressing is divided into two types: vinaigrette and creamy dressing. The vinaigrette dressing is an oil based or vinegar dressing such as olive oil, soybean oil, apple vinegar, and many others. On the other side, creamy dressing is using buttermilk, cream, yogurt, and various the sour creams that we can find. All types of salad dressing are suit the salad, but based on a research, oil and vinegar based salad dressings are one that can give various benefits for body. The fresh salad dressing is the best one, and we can practice the salad dressing recipes in our home because it can be easily made.

Among all salad dressing recipes, this recipe can be the simplest one. ½ cup of vinegar, 1 tea spoon salt, ¼ cup of oil, ½ cup of lemon juice, 1 onion, 1/3 cup of ketchup, 2/3 cup of sugar, and ½ tea spoon of paprika. Mix all the ingredients and beat it. When it is perfectly mixed, we can directly pour it on our salad.

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