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Best Recipes: Orange Fruity Smoothie
Orange smoothies are really delicious and this fruit-filled recipe for Orange Fruity Smoothie is one of the reasons why. You’ve gotta love a drink that has wonderful fruits like banana, peach, raspberries and mixes them with nutritious orange...
Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.5 of 12 - Turkey Meatballs with Cranberry
Christmas recipe serves: 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Calories per serving: 875 Suitable for freezing after step 3. Christmas recipe ingredients * Sherry or balsamic vinegar, 15 ml (1 tbsp) * Caster...
Honey Dijon Glazed Ribs
Makes 4 Servings 3-4 pounds pork back ribs 1 cooking onion (chopped) 1/4 cup Maille Red Wine Vinegar 1 stalk celery (chopped) 1 bay leaf 1 tsp. peppercorns Maille Honey Dijon Mustard Place ribs in a large pot and add...
How to Enjoy Your Favorite Christmas Recipes
Christmas is a time of holiday and festivity. And delicious food is integral part of the celebrations. You relish food and have fun with your friends and relatives. In this excitement you hardly give sufficient attention to how much you should...
Pasta Recipes – Three delicious easy recipes!
These pasta recipes are excellent for dinners or parties. In this article, I’m going to share with you three delicious pasta recipes that you can prepare for any occasion that suits you. The recipes are very easy and can be prepare in less...
Cucumber Salad RecipesOrange smoothies are really delicious and this fruit-filled recipe for Orange Fruity Smoothie is one of the reasons why. You’ve gotta love a drink that has wonderful fruits like banana, peach, raspberries and mixes them with nutritious orange...
Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.5 of 12 - Turkey Meatballs with Cranberry
Christmas recipe serves: 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 10 minutes Calories per serving: 875 Suitable for freezing after step 3. Christmas recipe ingredients * Sherry or balsamic vinegar, 15 ml (1 tbsp) * Caster...
Honey Dijon Glazed Ribs
Makes 4 Servings 3-4 pounds pork back ribs 1 cooking onion (chopped) 1/4 cup Maille Red Wine Vinegar 1 stalk celery (chopped) 1 bay leaf 1 tsp. peppercorns Maille Honey Dijon Mustard Place ribs in a large pot and add...
How to Enjoy Your Favorite Christmas Recipes
Christmas is a time of holiday and festivity. And delicious food is integral part of the celebrations. You relish food and have fun with your friends and relatives. In this excitement you hardly give sufficient attention to how much you should...
Pasta Recipes – Three delicious easy recipes!
These pasta recipes are excellent for dinners or parties. In this article, I’m going to share with you three delicious pasta recipes that you can prepare for any occasion that suits you. The recipes are very easy and can be prepare in less...
Cucumbers are a good source of vitamins' C, A and K. They are loaded with potassium and low in cholesterol, sodium and saturated fat. That's all the information you are going to get from me on that subject. These are my own home recipes and I wouldn't know where to start counting their calories. Relax, enjoy the fruits of your labor!
Greek Salad Recipe
1 or 2 fresh-picked cucumbers 1 head of iceberg lettuce, torn into bite sized pieces 3 medium sized fresh tomatoes, sliced 1 small red onion 1 green pepper, diced 1 red pepper, diced 1 pound Feta cheese ½ cup pitted Greek olives ½ cup pitted black olives Italian herbal style dressing
Combine the first 6 ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Crumble the Feta cheese evenly over the top of the salad and then
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add the olives on top of that. To keep the salad from wilting, don't add the dressing until you are ready to serve.
Makes 4 large or 8 small servings.
Simple Cucumber Salad
2 or 3 Fresh picked cucumbers, sliced 1/3 cup of red wine vinegar 1/4 cup granulated sugar
Combine the vinegar and sugar in a medium sized bowl and mix until sugar is dissolved. Toss in the cucumbers and voila! This recipe can also be used with fresh tomatoes or for a real taste treat, use both together.
About the author:
Robin Svedi is the contributing editor for Fresh Cooking from your Garden, www.gardenandhearth.com/gardencooking.htm , where you will find more delicious recipes for your fresh vegetables along with gardening tips to help you grow your own.