Spring Break

Spring break is the perfect time to try some of the grade 6 recipes from the home economics web site. Be sure to add a post and a photo to let me know what you tried, and how it turned out.

Green Eggs and Ham

We certainly DID make green eggs and ham. By adding food coloring to the usual Breakfast Fajita we celebrated St. Patrick's Day.

After eating, we went on a Mystery Tour where our Mystery Reader (Mr. Norris) read the Dr. Suess book, Green Eggs and Ham.

Aisling's breakfast buritoes

Ingredients: Method:

1 Tortia, Step 1: Dyfrost 1 tortia.

1 Egg, Step 2: Crack egg into a bowl and whisk the egg.

1/4 Green pepper, Step 3: Turn on pan on medium heat.

1 Drop of tabasco, Step 4: Scramble egg until they look yellow and white all curled up.

1 sprinkle of cheese Step 5: Turn off pan.

Step 6: Chop 1/4 of a pepper into cubes.

Step 7: put egg and pepper into the tortia and roll it up.

Step 8: Add a drop of tabasco (optional)

old fashioned doughnuts

Ingredients
2 eggs
2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons butter
6 cups flour or more
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups buttermilk
2 teaspoons nutmeg
2 teaspoons ginger

Method
With mixer, beat the eggs, sugar, and butter until light and fluffy. Add buttermilk and mix well . Sift and add flour, soda, nutmeg, and ginger. Roll out on floured board and cut with doughnut cutter. (Save holes --don't re-roll.) Fry in pure lard in iron skillet. Drain on brown paper lined with paper towels. Roll in plain white sugar or mixture of cinnamon and sugar while still warm.

Karen's Favorite Icing

Ingredients

• Butter
• Icing Powder
• Food Coloring

Method

1. You mix the butter until it gets creamy
2. Then, you mix it with the Icing Powder until the powder dissolves in the butter
3. Then if you want add food coloring to it
4. Then put it on a cup cake or a cake
   

And. . .

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ITS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sara's Nachoes

ingredients:
shredded cheese
olives
salsa
corn chips

method
put the corn chips on a microwavable plate
sprinkle the cheese on the top
heat it up until the cheese is melted
sprinkle the olives and pour some salsa on the top.
FINISHED

Croque Ofstedal

Ingredients

• 2 slices of bread
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup of milk
• Cheese

Method

1. Measure 1/3 cup of milk
2. Crack the egg
3. Pour the milk into the bowl with the egg
4. Mix it well
5. Dip the bread in to the mixture
6. Put cheese onto the bread. add a top layer of bread
   
7. Turn on the pan
8. Cook until cheese starts to melt.
9. Use a pancake turner to turn it over.
   
10. Share in with your family

muffins!

hi this is hana! I make this with my grandma alot and I LOVE it!
Try it!

Here are some of my FAVORITE muffins

Banana chocolate chip

Ingredients list:

1 medium egg.
1 ½ cups of flour.
¾ cup of milk.
¾ cup of chocolate chips.
½ cup of brown sugar.
½ cup of puréed banana.
¼ cup of vegetable oil.
3 teaspoons of baking powder.
½ teaspoon of salt.
½ teaspoon of cinnamon.
¼ teaspoon of nutmeg.

Instructions:

Blend all of the ingredients together thoroughly.

Pour the mixture into greased muffin tins, about two-thirds full.

Bake at 400°F (205°C) for twenty minutes.

Peanut butter muffin

Ingredients list:

2 medium eggs, beaten.
2 cups of sifted flour.
1 cup of milk.
½ cup of peanut butter.
¼ cup of sugar.
2 tablespoons of butter, melted.
3 teaspoons of baking powder.
1 teaspoon of salt.

Instructions:

Sift together the flour, sugar, baking power and salt.

Add the peanut butter and mix throroughly.

Combine the eggs and milk, then pour into the mixture.

Add the butter and stir until mixture is moistened.

Fill greased muffin pans about two-thirds full and bake at 400°F (200°C) for 25 minutes.

My grandma's chicken cheese dish

INGREDIENTS

4 large chicken breasts

onion

celery

2 cups of cream of chicken soup

cheddar sharp cheeses

cashew-nuts (optional)

cheese cracker

HOW TO MAKE IT

Cook 4 large chicken breasts in onion celery.

Save stock and debone chicken.

In a large casserole, put 2 cups of cream of chicken soup and add about 2/3 cups of stock.

Add chicken, 8 oz pkg. (1 1/2 cups) of cooked elbow macaroni, 1 cup cheddar or sharp cheese , and 1/2 cups crushed roasted cashew-nuts.

Mix all together and then put some crushed cheese cracker on top.

Bake 350F for 30 min.

Gracey's Questdias

INGREDIENTS
- shredded cheese (any type)
- tortillas
- salsa (optional)

METHOD
- put the cheese on the tortilla
-put another tortilla on top
- then turn the oven on to LOW HEAT
- cook the questdia untill the other side goes brown
- then flip it
- cook the other side untill it goes brown
- then take it out of the pan
- if you like you can add salsa

NOW EAT IT!

sundried tomato pasta (serves 5)

Times:

Prep

15 min

Inactive Prep

--

Cook

12 min

Ingredients

nocoupons

• 1/2 pound fusilli (spirals) pasta
• Kosher salt
• Olive oil
• 1 pound ripe tomatoes, medium-diced
• 3/4 cup good black olives, such as kalamata, pitted and diced
• 1 pound fresh mozzarella, medium-diced
• 6 sun-dried tomatoes in oil, drained and chopped

For the dressing:

nocoupons

• 5 sun-dried tomatoes in oil, drained
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 6 tablespoons good olive oil
• 1 garlic clove, diced
• 1 teaspoon capers, drained
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan
• 1 cup packed basil leaves, julienned

Directions

Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water with a splash of oil to keep it from sticking together. Boil for 12 minutes, or according to the directions on the package. Drain well and allow to cool. Place the pasta in a bowl and add the tomatoes, olives, mozzarella, and chopped sun-dried tomatoes.

For the dressing, combine the sun-dried tomatoes, vinegar, olive oil, garlic, capers, salt, and pepper in a food processor until almost smooth.

Pour the dressing over the pasta, sprinkle with the Parmesan and basil, and toss well.

the recipe is from, http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/pasta-with-sun-dried-tomatoes-recipe/index.html

by: chessy p.

Annika - Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookie

I found this site from my friend [Karin]. It has all scrumptious looking recipes. My favorite recipe is Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookie. These are the ingredients.

INGREDIENTS

3/4 cup butter,softened

3/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 cups rolled oats

1 2/3 cups butterscotch chips

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 735 degrees F [190 degrees C].

2.In a large bowl beat the butter or margarine,white sugar brown sugar together. Add the eggs and vanilla.

3. Stir together the flour,baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Gradually add the flour mixture and stir until blended. Stir in the oats and the butterscotch chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.

4. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges begin to brown.

Renee's Nachoes

INGREDIENTS:
- shredded cheese ( cheater)
- corn chips
- salsa (optional)
-avocados

METHOD:
-first put corn chips on a plate ( do not use plastic plates)
-then put the cheese on top
-after that put it in the microwave for about 1min
- then wait until it is done, if the cheese is melted then it is done if not put it back in the microwave for a few minutes
-cut the avocados in to little piece after that put a little bit of salsa on the side for dip


Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

Karin - Chocolate Chip Muffins

I found this recipe from this really useful website last year. The website is allrecipes.com, this site where you can find all sorts of really cool recipes. And the good thing is that you can see reviews of other people that used the same recipe. I use this recipe all the time!

Ingredients:
-2 cups of all-purpose flour
-1/2 cup of white sugar
-3 tablespoons of baking powder
-1/2 teaspoons of salt
-3/4 cup of milk
-1/3 cup vegetable oil
-1 egg
-3/4 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

Method:
1. Heat oven to 205 degrees C. Grease bottoms only of 12 muffin cups or line with baking cups.
2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, chocolate chips, and salt; mix well. In a small bowl, combine milk, oil and egg; blend well. Add dry ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened (batter will be lumpy.)
3. Fill cups 2/3 full, and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick is inserted and comes out clean.

Victoria's Texas Sheet Cake

• Ingredients:
• 2 cups flour ,
• 1 cup sugar, > sift into bowl
• 1/2tsp. salt
• 2 cubes butter
• 1 cup water
• 3t. cocoa > bring to a boil
• 1 tsp. soda Frosting: 1 cube butter,3 tablespoon cocoa, 6 tablespoons milk, 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 cup milk

Method:

pour hot mixture over flour, mix add 2 eggs unbeaten, then soda, vanilla, &milk. Beat together. Pour in cookie sheet. 350 degrees for 20 min.

Frosting:

Bring to boil, pour over 3 1/2 cups powder sugar ( 1 box ), add 1tsp. vanilla and beat. Frost cake as soon as it comes out of oven.

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ENJOY YOUR TEXAS SHEET CAKE !!!!!!!!!! :)

Caroline's way of making a pakcake

Ingredients:

*1 box of pancake mix
*2 or 3 eggs
*cinnamon
* butter
*milk

Procedure:
1. Crack the eggs into a small bowl
2. Mix the eggs until it is all orange kind of color
3. Take a big bowl and pour in milk, pancake mix and eggs
4. Mix it carefully and scrape the powder of the sides of the bowl
5. Put a frying pan on the stove
6. Heat the stove to
7. Pour out some pancake mix onto the frying pan
8. Ask a parent to do the heating up and flipping
9. Put it onto a plate
10. Put syrup and sprinkles on
11. Eat it while it's still hot!

Hana's fruity salad

INGREDIENTS

apples
cucumber
carrots
grapes
strawberry
any other fruit you can find
carrot dressing

HOW TO MAKE IT

Cut half a carrot quarter of apple quarter of cucumber four strawberries and grapes.
chop them all up till they are small cubes except for the strawberry and the grapes
mix them all up
cut the strawberry and the grapes in half
put them on top
put carrot dressing on

YUM!

Crepes

Ingridients

4 eggs 500ml of milk 250gr flour
Materials
1 big bowl 1 blender balance 1big spoon 1 pan

Steps
1. First break four eggs into the blender 2.then pout the milk in the blender with the 250gr of flour 3. Put the lid on the blender and let it mix for 1-2 minutes 4. Now you finished the liquid doe all you have to do is put a good amount in the pan 5. After the crepe has been there for less than a minute you flip it over and let the othere side cook. 6. Now put the crepe on a plate and put what ever you want to put on it. 7. Eat the crepe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Caroline's Favorite Food!

Anju's T.K.G( Tamagokakegohan)

T.K.G (Tamagokakegahan) is a Japanese food. Tamago means egg, kake (kakeru) means pour something, and gohan is rice. Usually, soy sauce is mixed to the egg and nothing else is added. But for Anju's T.K.G, sesame oil is added. It is going to be yummy is you put it!!

How to make T.K.G (Tamagokakegohan):

INGREDIENTS:

1 egg

Rice ( Put it in the ochawan )

2 teaspoon of Soy Sauce

1/2 teaspoon of Sesame Oil


PROCEDURE:

1. Prepare the ochawan with rice in it.

2. Crack an egg and put it in a separate bowl.

3. In the separate bowl, also put, soy sauce and sesame oil.

4. Mix that well.

5. Pour it to the ochawan with rice as you eat it. As you eat, mix it.

Claire's Orange Popsicle

INGREDIENTS:

• Oranges
  
• Mikan
• Orange Juice

Material:

• Popsicle Stick
• Wrap
• Popsicle Mould

Method

1. First,cut the oranges into small pieces.
2. Then put Orange Juice and the Oranges that you cut,and the Mikan.
3. You even it out.
4. You put it in the freezer.
5. After,about 2 hours take it out of the freezer.
6. Plop it out .
7. Wrap it with Wrap.
8. EAT IT!
   

Grilled Shitake Mushrooms With Cheese

Grilled Shitake Mushrooms With Cheese
Created by: Joyce Skeete

INGREDIENTS:

1. shitake mushrooms
2.mayonnaise
3.cheese

METHOD:

1. cut the stem of the shitake
2. add mayonnaise on the inside of the shitake
3. turn the shitake around and add the cheese
4. put the shitake in a grill for 5-10 minutes


READY TO EAT

Linna's Hot Chocolate

Ingredients:
Chocolate Bar
marshmallows
milk

Method:
1.put the chocolate bar in the cup and in the oven until it melts
2.Mix in the milk with the melted hot chocolate
3.put lots of marshmallows on the hot chocolate
4. FINISH!!!!

Mr Norris's Burrito Pizza's

INGREDIENTS:
*Burritos
*Tomato salsa
*Grated cheese


PROCEDURE:
1. Turn your large fry pan on a medium to low heat. ( Sugggestion from the BOSS)....
Mr. Norris I would suggest that you do step #1 after step # 3
2. Spread the salsa on the burrito.
3. Sprinkle cheese on top.
Do Step #1 Now Mr. Norris
4. Place the burrito on the pan. There is no need to add oil or butter.
5. Cook until the cheesy is just about melted or the base is brown.
6. Remove from heat and cut into quarters.


For a tasty alternative, add extras to the toppings, herbs and spices. You can even substitute the salsa with pesto, yum!

i want some moreeeeee!!!!

I really Do want some more s'more!

Teehee!:)

I remember making this!

Unfortunetly i felt sick that day so i didnt get to eat it
:(

Maybe next time!

From,

Dion, Karen, and Yoko

a.k.a DKY

Sarah V. and Caroline F: Peanut Butter Cookies

Recipe:
1 cup of peanut butter
1 cup of sugar
1 large egg

First preheat you oven to 175 C. Put the egg, peanut butter, and sugar in one big bowl. Mix it thoroughly for ten minutes. Then make your cookies into balls and put onto a tray. Bake for ten minutes. Makes 30 cookies.
ENJOY!

HI!!!!!!!!!!

We made a yule log at my house (Maddie's house)!!!
We decorated it and then we got to eat it!!!!
We decorated it in Chocolate and Vanilla whipped cream!!!!
We made the whipped cream our self!!!!!!

By:Caroline and Maddie