Tuesday, 30 April 2013

How To Make Guacamole Sauce

For the purposes of this Guacamole sauce, we will need the following ingredients to make 1½ cups:

  • 1 large avocado, peeled and mashed (1 cup)
  • 1 medium tomato, peeled and chopped (½ cup)
  • 1 teaspoon fresh grated onion or onion powder to taste
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice or to taste
  • 1 teaspoon garlic salt

How to make Guacamole Sauce

  • Mix all ingredients; chill.
  • Serve as topping on tacos, tostadas, as spread on toast, as sandwich filling, or as a dip.
Variation: Many Latinos add a tablespoon of olive oil and a tablespoon of minced cilantro (a variety of parsley)

How To Make Lemon Sauce

For the lemon sauce recipe we need the following ingredients:

  • ½ cup sliced carrots
  • 1½ cups diced potatoes
  • ½ cup saved cooking liquid
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon Ac'cent
  • 1 tablespoons oil
  • 1½ tablespoons lemon juice
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground cumin or sweet basil (or favorite herb)
  • 1 tablespoon food yeast flakes
How to make the lemon sauce 
  • Simmer carrots in small amount of water about 5 minutes; add potatoes; cook until carrots and potatoes are tender; drain (save liquid).
  • Whiz all ingredients in blender until smooth; add a spoonful more liquid if necessary for operating blender.
  • Heat and serve as sauce for hot entrees; over vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, or asparagus.


Fresh Peach Ice Cream Recipe

To make 6 servings of fresh peach ice cream you will need the following ingredients:

  • 1 cup mashed ripe peaches
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 cup chilled evaporated milk or soy milk
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 2-3 drops almond flavoring (optional)
How to Make the fresh peach ice cream
  • Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl or in blender.
  • Freeze in a 1-quart ice cream freezer, using 6 parts ice to 1 part coarse salt; remove dasher. Cover top of freezer with several thicknesses of wax paper; replace lid. Pack in ice and salt, using 4 parts ice to 1 part salt. Allow to ripen 1 hour. Or store in refrigerator tray.
Alternate Method: To freeze in refrigerator: beat the chilled evaporated milk with lemon juice until thick; stir in other ingredients. Pour into ice-cube trays; put into freezer. Beat thoroughly when about half dozen. Freeze until ice cream consistency.

Variation: Fresh apricots or cooked apricot puree may be used.


How To Make Yogurt Ice Cream

For the yogurt ice cream recipe we need the following ingredients for 6 servings:

  • 1 recipe Whipped Topping, except use only ⅓  cup evaporated milk in place of the ½ cup in the recipe
  • 1 carton (8-oz.) red-rasberry-flavored low-fat yogurt or strawberry, blueberry, lemon, or other flavors

How to make the Yogurt Ice Cream

  • Make Whipped Topping; immediately add raspberry yogurt; stir only until smooth.
  • Pour immediately into ice cube tray; other containers may take longer to freeze.
  • Put into freezer immediately.
  • Freeze  1½ hours or longer until desired consistency.
  • Serve frozen.
NOTE: This keeps well up to a day after freezing.

How To Make Peanut Butter Balls or Dandies

Below are the ingredients you would need to prepare 24 balls of peanut butter dandies:

  • ½ cup peanut butter
  • ½ cup honey or light molasses
  • ¾ cup toasted wheat germ or wheat flakes
  • ¾ cup nonfat dry milk
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla or maple flavoring (optional)
How to make the peanut butter balls or dandies:
  • Cream peanut butter and honey; add nonfat dry milk, wheat germ, and flavoring; mix well.
  • Form into balls about the size of a walnut.
  • Roll in additional wheat germ or fine, dried coconut.
  • Refrigerate until served.
Note: Young children like to make these. Dandies can be wrapped in small pieces of wax paper and twisted at the ends.

Variations: 
  1. Use sorghum in place of honey.
  2. Use dry soy milk powder in place of nonfat milk.
  3. Add ¼ to ½ cup raisins.

Fruit Punch Recipes

Below are the ingredients you would need to make 6 cups or 12 servings of a fruit punch:

  • 3 cups unsweetened pineapple juice, chilled.
  • ¾ cup apricot nectar, chilled
  • 2 bananas, chunked
  • 2 oranges, peeled and cut up
  • 2 cups cold water (optional)
  • A bit of orange rind
How to make the fruit punch
  • Whiz all the ingredients in blender.
  • Serve at once, garnished with a sprig of mint.
Variations: 
  1. Add 2 or 3 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate.
  2. Add a few strawberries.

GARNISH WITH PUNCH

  • Put a cherry, berry, grape, melon ball, wedge of orange, lemon, lime, or pineapple, or sprig of mint in each section of ice cube tray.
  • Fill with water and freeze.
  • Unmold and serve in glasses - or in the punch bowl
For the Punch Bowl
  • Fill ring mold ⅔ full of water and freeze (or 1½ inches in bottom of a bowl).
  • Arrange berries, cherries, thin slices of lemon, lime, orange, pineapple, et cetera, or sprig of mint, flowers, et cetera, on top.
  • Cover with water and freeze again.
  • Umold and float in punch bowl.

So there you have it; our two recipes for today. Do you have any variations of the cup, please feel free to provide yours below.


Banana-Date Shake Recipe

To prepare 2 servings of banana-date shake we need the following ingredients:

  • ½ cup ice water
  • A drop of vanilla
  • 4 pitted dates
  • 3 tablespoons soy milk powder or ⅓ cup nonfat dry milk
  • ½ frozen banana, chunked
How to prepare the banana date shake

  • Whiz water, vanilla, and dates in blender until smooth; while continuing to whiz add milk powder and banana.
  • Serve immediately as a dessert drink; makes a nourishing, quickie breakfast.