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No Cholesterol Chocolate Chip Cookies

(For people on a cholesterol diet)

     INGREDIENTS:

  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2 egg whites
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 1/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips

       DIRECTIONS:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
  2. In a medium bowl, stir together the canola oil, honey, sugar, egg whites, vanilla and water. Sift together the whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon, stir into the wet ingredients. Mix well, then fold in the chocolate chips.
  3. Drop cookies by rounded teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets. Flatten with a fork dipped in flour. Bake for 8 to 9 minutes in the preheated oven

DonnaB

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Spotted Dick
English Desert
 
INGREDIENTS:
 
Yield: 6 servings

8 oz self-raising flour
1 pinch of salt
4 oz margarine
2 oz castor sugar (superfine)
4 oz to 6 oz sultanas (big -raisins)
6 tb water

DIRECTIONS:

1) Have ready a sheet of foil or a double thickness of grease proof paper
brushed with melted margarine.
2)Sieve the flour and the salt. Rub in the margarine. Add the sugar and
sultanas. Mix in the water to make a soft dough.

3) Put the mixture in a medium-sized (1.1/2 pint) pudding basin with a round
of grease proof paper in the bottom and brush all round inside with
melted margarine. Smooth the top. Cover with foil, or double grease proof
paper brushed underneath with melted margarine and steam for 1.1/2 to 2
hours. Serve with hot Custard sauce or sprinkle with castor sugar.
 
CT Karishma

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Delesa's (Mavis IW)
Homemade Hamburger Vegetable Soup
 
INGREDIENTS:
You will need a 3 gal. Stockpot to cook this in because it makes at least
2-2-1/2 gal.

1-lb. Ground round hamburger, I usually use less cause I don't like much
meat, or you can use more.
1 lg can V-8 juice or generic brand.
1- 3.75 ounce jar beef bouillon granules
1 - bag of frozen whole kernel corn
1-bag of whole baby carrots
1-can of cut green beans drained
1- can of mixed vegetables drained
6 or so potatoes sliced and cut up
1-1/2 large sliced and diced Vidalia or sweet onion if available, if not use
another kind
2 -yellow squash sliced and cut up
1-stick of butter or margarine
1-package of beef stew seasoning mix
2- 3 packages of brown gravy mix (Depending on how much you want the
thickness of your stock.) I prefer thinner juicier stock myself.
 

DIRECTIONS:

Mix ground round in water (enough to more than cover the meat, but not
overkill on the water) in pot cook on low.
In a very large microwave dish add potatoes, carrots, squash, and onion in
water about half to ¾ full. Cover with lid and steam cook for 30-40 minutes or
until very tender.
Mix whole jar of bullion with 5-6 cups of hot water
Mix the gravy mix with about 1-2 cups of cold water (hot makes it lump).
Pour all this in pot with cooked meat, do not drain the meat, ground round
doesn't make much grease and you will need what it does make for flavor.
Don't drain the micro waved veggies either. Add it all.
Add the DRAINED green beans and mixed veggies and bag of frozen corn and can
of Vegetable juice. (The juice from these two adds to much of a bitter
taste, that's why I drain these.)
Add the stick of butter and the beef stew seasoning mix.
Add salt and pepper to taste and a couple dashes of garlic powder or salt
and any other seasoning you like, such as accent. Stir and simmer on med or
lower stirring occasionally for a few hours the longer it simmers the better
it tastes.

You can add any other vegetables you like too! Occasionally I add a can of
diced tomatoes, green peas, or black eye peas. These do not have to be
drained. I am not much of a green pea or diced tomato fan though.

Oh yeah and make it with love! Enjoy.

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Flemish Beef Stew
A Traditional Belgian Dish
 
Ingredients for 2 people :

500 gr. or 1 pound of Beef (preferably meat off the ribs)
1 pint of dark beer ( Guinness or brown ale)
mustard
flour
vinegar
1big onion
1 big carrot
Salt
Pepper
sage
Butter
 
DIRECTIONS:
 
Cut the beef in big dice.
Put it in a bowl, add salt and pepper and pour flower and a big tablespoon of mustard over it.
Mix it well so they meat gets coated.
Melt butter in a cooking pot and when melted,
fry the chopped onion until it looks glaced (not brown)
Add the meat and stir well.
Fry meat lightly until it looks brownish. 
Add a little extra flour.
Add the beer and a teaspoon of vinagar to the meat.
Also slice the carrot into the pot and add a little sage. 
Let all this simmer with closed lid on low temperature for about an hour,
until the meat is tender and the sauce is as thick as gravy.
 
Best served with French Fries or Fried potatoes.
Beer is prolly good to drink with it too but that's up to you...
 
Have waffles for desert !!!
 
Enjoy ;-)
 
Pol (AprilSky)
 
 
 
 

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