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Knäck (Swedish Toffee)

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Ingredients: 1/2 loving cup sugar 1/2 loving cup ljus sirap* two tablespoons butter 1/2 loving cup heavy cream 1/2 loving cup chopped blanched almonds Directions: Arrange the newspaper cups on a baking canvass or platter. Set aside. Whisk together the sugar, syrup, butter together with cream inwards a heavy bottomed two quart saucepan. Cook over depression heat, stirring occasionally, until the mixture forms a trouble solid "hard" ball when dropped into a drinking glass of real mutual frigidity water. Stir inwards nuts together with split upward chop-chop into real pocket-size newspaper candy cups. *Swedish low-cal syrup. I purchase it at Ikea or stores that sell European and/or Scandinavian ingredients. Golden syrup is an acceptable substitute. Yield: close thirty candies My thoughts: Knäck translates into "crack" which makes feel because this thick toffee is quite crisp together with cracks when you lot seize amongst teeth into it. It has...

Winter Cobb Salad Alongside Shrimp, Pomegranate In Addition To Beets

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Ingredients: 1 lb medium shrimp, steamed together with peeled iii little to medium beets, boiled, peeled together with cubed 3/4 loving cup pomegranate arils 1/4-1/3 loving cup crumbled Gorgonzola 1/4 loving cup slivered almonds 12 oz arugula dressing: 1 teaspoon anchovy paste 2-3 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar 1 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 1/2-2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil ocean salt freshly terra firma dark pepper Directions: Whisk together the dressing ingredients. Toss amongst the arugula inwards a large bowl. Divide amid iv plates. Top amongst remaining ingredients.   My thoughts: We of late spent a weekend inwards Alexandria, Va where nosotros truly ended upwards going to the same eating theatre twice inwards 2 days for lunch. The Hangtown modest I had the start solar daytime was together with then good, nosotros returned together with then I could essay their seafood Cobb, which was too excellent. This salad is truly zip similar that ane but I ...

Chicken Salad Amongst Tarragon In Addition To Almonds

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Ingredients: four cups cooked, shredded chicken breast 1/2 loving cup blanched, slivered almonds ii stalks celery, diced for the dressing: vi cornichons, minced 1 tablespoon tarragon white vinegar 1 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice 1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh tarragon 1/2 teaspoon paprika 1/2 teaspoon dry out mustard 1/8 teaspoon celery seed 2/3 loving cup mayonnaise Directions: In large bowl, toss together the chicken, almonds together with celery. Set aside. In a small-scale bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients. Pour over the chicken mixture together with stir to combine. Refrigerate at to the lowest degree 1 hr prior to serving. My thoughts: For our 1920s festivities, I decided to brand 1 of them a "ladies' luncheon" type meal. Seemingly pop during the 1920s together with beyond, I noticed chicken salad on nigh every sample menu. In looking at quondam   cookbooks, it seems chicken salad alongside nuts was en trend then I devised this salad ...

Pineapple Kokosnoot Matzo Granola

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Ingredients: v sheets egg matzo, broken into bite-sized pieces* 1 1/2 tablespoons milled flax seeds 2/3 loving cup blanched slivered almonds 1/4 loving cup sweetened or unsweetened dessicated coconut 1/2 loving cup unsweetened kokosnoot flakes 1/2 loving cup bite-sized dried pineapple 1/4 loving cup bite-sized crystallized ginger 1/4 loving cup melted butter 1/3 loving cup golden syrup 1/4 teaspoon allspice 1/4 teaspoon dry reason ginger Directions: Preheat oven to 325. Line a jelly whorl pan amongst parchment paper. Set aside. In a large bowl, toss together the matzo, flax seeds, almonds, coconut, pineappple as well as ginger. In a minor bowl or measurement cup, whisk together the butter, syrup as well as spices until good combined. Drizzle 1/3 over the matzo mixture. Toss to coat. Continue to drizzle as well as toss until the matzo mixture is starting to stick together. You may terminate upward amongst extra syrup at the end. Spread the mixture inwards a sparse layer...

Gorgonzola Chive Cheese Ball

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Ingredients: 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature 1/2 loving cup 1/2 inch pieces of chives v oz crumbled Gorgonzola 1 oz shredded Cabot extra sudden cheddar 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 inch chunk of shallot, minced body of body of water salt freshly dry reason dark pepper 1/2 loving cup minced apartment leafage parsley 1/2 loving cup blanched, slivered almonds Directions: Place the cheeses, chives, cream cheese, shallot, as well as Worcestershire sauce inward a blender. Pulse until smooth. Scrape into a bowl as well as chill for xxx minutes to an hour. Scrape it out of the bowl as well as sort into a ball. Sprinkle the parsley as well as almonds inward a shallow bowl as well as gyre the ball into the mixture until evenly coated. Wrap tightly inward plastic roll as well as shop inward fridge overnight. Bring to room temperature earlier serving. My thoughts: I don't intend people brand as well as consume cheese balls well-nigh every bit mu...

Parsley-Cheddar Pesto

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Ingredients: three large bunches Italian (flat-leaf) parsley four oz extra precipitous cheddar cheese, cubed 1/3 loving cup olive oil 1/3 loving cup toasted slivered almonds four cloves garlic salt freshly soil dark pepper Directions: Place the parsley, cheddar, olive oil, almonds, garlic tabular array salt in addition to pepper inward a nutrient processor or blender, pulse until a thick glue forms. My thoughts: I had to a greater extent than or less cute shamrock shaped pasta that was filled alongside cheddar. I didn't mean value a love apple tree sauce would move skillful (maybe it would be?) simply didn't experience similar a heavy cream sauce in addition to thus I came upward alongside this instead. It was surprisingly delicious! The parsley was actually tasty, I was worried it would gustation similar garnish simply right away I desire to endeavour out other parsley based recipes.

Ostkaka (Swedish Cheesecake)

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Ingredients: ii 1/4 loving cup whole milk, modest or large curd cottage cheese* 1 loving cup heavy cream 1/2 loving cup 2% milk three eggs 1/4 loving cup almond meal 1/4 loving cup flour 1/2 loving cup sugar Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Grease or spray amongst cooking spray a 9-10 inch boundary cast pan. Set aside. In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand upward mixer, vanquish the cottage cheese until the curds intermission down, close v minutes. Add the heavy cream as well as milk as well as vanquish for ii minutes. Add inward the remaining ingredients as well as vanquish until good combined. Pour into the prepared pan. Bake 50-60 minutes until lightly browned, slightly puffy as well as a sparse knife inserted inward the oculus comes out clean. Remove to a wire rack. Cool slightly. Run a sparse knife some the destination of the pan as well as then unmold. Serve warm amongst fruit compote or ameliorate yet, lingonberries. *If your cottage cheese is wet, drain 20...

Acorn Crush Stuffed Amongst Fruited Wild Rice

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Ingredients: 1 acorn squash, halved in addition to seeds removed 1 loving cup cooked wild rice 1 Bosc pear, cubed 1/4 loving cup slivered almonds 1/4 loving cup dried, sweetened cranberries Directions: Preheat oven to 400. Line a baking canvas with parchment. Place the acorn squelch on the parchment, flesh-side down. Bake 25 minutes. Meanwhile, stir together the remaining ingredients inwards a pocket-sized bowl. Evenly split with the cavities of the squash. Bake, flesh-side upward for an additonal twenty minutes or until the squelch is tender. Slice inwards one-half in addition to serve immediately. Serves: 4 Note: This recipe is easily doubled. My thoughts: As much every bit I loathe to acknowledge it (and the temperature seems to live on with me on this, it was lx today!) it is to a greater extent than than a calendar week into Nov in addition to the holidays are correct to a greater extent than or less the corner. Time to intermission out the wintertime squel...

Apple Butter Mascarpone Dessert Cheese Ball

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Ingredients: 1/2 loving cup Musselman's apple tree butter 8 oz (brick) cream cheese, at room temperature 8 oz mascarpone, at room temperature 1/3 loving cup confectioners sugar 1 loving cup sliced almonds Directions: In a large bowl, shell together the apple tree butter, cream cheese, marscapone as well as carbohydrate until smoothen alongside the paddle attachment of an electrical mixer. Scrape into a bowl as well as refrigerate 1-2 hours or until good chilled. Place the almonds inward a shallow bowl. Set aside. Remove the apple tree butter mixture from the container as well as mold into a ball. Roll inward almonds to coat. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve alongside apples, pears as well as graham crackers. Prep time: most ten minutes, serves most 20 My thoughts: Our friends select an annual vacation political party that that is ever a lot of fun. This twelvemonth they asked for people to convey an exciting dish to percentage as well as I knew it wa...

Toffee Macaroon Matzo Bars

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Ingredients 2-3 sheets evidently matzo 10 oz semi or bittersweet chocolate chips 1 loving cup sweetened finely flaked coconut 1/2 loving cup slivered almonds 1 (14 oz) tin sweetened condensed milk* 3/4 loving cup toffee chunks** Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Thoroughly butter a 9x13 inch baking pan. Set aside. Place the matzo inward the bottom of the pan, breaking every bit needed to jibe together with comprehend the bottom of the pan every bit much every bit possible. Evenly sprinkle the chocolate chips, together with thus the coconut, together with almonds over the matzo. Pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the top, together with spread alongside the dorsum of a spoon or spatula until the mixture is evenly coated. Bake for 25-30 minutes until edges are golden brown. Remove to a wire rack together with at 1 time evenly sprinkle alongside toffee chunks. Allow to cool on a wire rack completely earlier slicing.  This voli...

Almond Carmine Kokosnoot Granola

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Ingredients: five cups onetime fashioned rolled oats 1 loving cup raw, whole almonds 1/2 loving cup dried tart cherries 1/2 loving cup pepitas (unsalted hulled pumpkin seeds) 1/4 loving cup unsweetened shredded coconut 1/4 loving cup canola oil 1/4 loving cup honey 1 teaspoon vanilla Directions: Slow cooker instructions: Place the oats, honey, oil, vanilla, almonds as well as vanilla inward a iv quart ho-hum cooker. Stir. Leave uncovered as well as plough on high. Cook for 1 hour, stirring every xx to 30minutes. Reduce to depression as well as add together the coconut, pepitas as well as cherries. Continued to laid on depression uncovered for close iv hours, stirring every xx closed to minutes. The granola is done when it looks completely dry. Cool on baking sheets thence shop inward an air tight container. Oven instructions: Preheat oven to 250. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients exactly the dried cherries. Divide amid three baking sheets as well as spread to a...

Knäck (Swedish Toffee)

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Ingredients: 1/2 loving cup sugar 1/2 loving cup ljus sirap* two tablespoons butter 1/2 loving cup heavy cream 1/2 loving cup chopped blanched almonds Directions: Arrange the newspaper cups on a baking canvass or platter. Set aside. Whisk together the sugar, syrup, butter together with cream inwards a heavy bottomed two quart saucepan. Cook over depression heat, stirring occasionally, until the mixture forms a trouble solid "hard" ball when dropped into a drinking glass of real mutual frigidity water. Stir inwards nuts together with split upward chop-chop into real pocket-size newspaper candy cups. *Swedish low-cal syrup. I purchase it at Ikea or stores that sell European and/or Scandinavian ingredients. Golden syrup is an acceptable substitute. Yield: close thirty candies My thoughts: Knäck translates into "crack" which makes feel because this thick toffee is quite crisp together with cracks when you lot seize amongst teeth into it. It has...

Winter Cobb Salad Alongside Shrimp, Pomegranate In Addition To Beets

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Ingredients: 1 lb medium shrimp, steamed together with peeled iii little to medium beets, boiled, peeled together with cubed 3/4 loving cup pomegranate arils 1/4-1/3 loving cup crumbled Gorgonzola 1/4 loving cup slivered almonds 12 oz arugula dressing: 1 teaspoon anchovy paste 2-3 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar 1 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 1/2-2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil ocean salt freshly terra firma dark pepper Directions: Whisk together the dressing ingredients. Toss amongst the arugula inwards a large bowl. Divide amid iv plates. Top amongst remaining ingredients.   My thoughts: We of late spent a weekend inwards Alexandria, Va where nosotros truly ended upwards going to the same eating theatre twice inwards 2 days for lunch. The Hangtown modest I had the start solar daytime was together with then good, nosotros returned together with then I could essay their seafood Cobb, which was too excellent. This salad is truly zip similar that ane but I ...

Chicken Salad Amongst Tarragon In Addition To Almonds

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Ingredients: four cups cooked, shredded chicken breast 1/2 loving cup blanched, slivered almonds ii stalks celery, diced for the dressing: vi cornichons, minced 1 tablespoon tarragon white vinegar 1 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice 1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh tarragon 1/2 teaspoon paprika 1/2 teaspoon dry out mustard 1/8 teaspoon celery seed 2/3 loving cup mayonnaise Directions: In large bowl, toss together the chicken, almonds together with celery. Set aside. In a small-scale bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients. Pour over the chicken mixture together with stir to combine. Refrigerate at to the lowest degree 1 hr prior to serving. My thoughts: For our 1920s festivities, I decided to brand 1 of them a "ladies' luncheon" type meal. Seemingly pop during the 1920s together with beyond, I noticed chicken salad on nigh every sample menu. In looking at quondam   cookbooks, it seems chicken salad alongside nuts was en trend then I devised this salad ...

Pineapple Kokosnoot Matzo Granola

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Ingredients: v sheets egg matzo, broken into bite-sized pieces* 1 1/2 tablespoons milled flax seeds 2/3 loving cup blanched slivered almonds 1/4 loving cup sweetened or unsweetened dessicated coconut 1/2 loving cup unsweetened kokosnoot flakes 1/2 loving cup bite-sized dried pineapple 1/4 loving cup bite-sized crystallized ginger 1/4 loving cup melted butter 1/3 loving cup golden syrup 1/4 teaspoon allspice 1/4 teaspoon dry reason ginger Directions: Preheat oven to 325. Line a jelly whorl pan amongst parchment paper. Set aside. In a large bowl, toss together the matzo, flax seeds, almonds, coconut, pineappple as well as ginger. In a minor bowl or measurement cup, whisk together the butter, syrup as well as spices until good combined. Drizzle 1/3 over the matzo mixture. Toss to coat. Continue to drizzle as well as toss until the matzo mixture is starting to stick together. You may terminate upward amongst extra syrup at the end. Spread the mixture inwards a sparse layer...

Gorgonzola Chive Cheese Ball

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Ingredients: 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature 1/2 loving cup 1/2 inch pieces of chives v oz crumbled Gorgonzola 1 oz shredded Cabot extra sudden cheddar 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 inch chunk of shallot, minced body of body of water salt freshly dry reason dark pepper 1/2 loving cup minced apartment leafage parsley 1/2 loving cup blanched, slivered almonds Directions: Place the cheeses, chives, cream cheese, shallot, as well as Worcestershire sauce inward a blender. Pulse until smooth. Scrape into a bowl as well as chill for xxx minutes to an hour. Scrape it out of the bowl as well as sort into a ball. Sprinkle the parsley as well as almonds inward a shallow bowl as well as gyre the ball into the mixture until evenly coated. Wrap tightly inward plastic roll as well as shop inward fridge overnight. Bring to room temperature earlier serving. My thoughts: I don't intend people brand as well as consume cheese balls well-nigh every bit mu...

Parsley-Cheddar Pesto

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Ingredients: three large bunches Italian (flat-leaf) parsley four oz extra precipitous cheddar cheese, cubed 1/3 loving cup olive oil 1/3 loving cup toasted slivered almonds four cloves garlic salt freshly soil dark pepper Directions: Place the parsley, cheddar, olive oil, almonds, garlic tabular array salt in addition to pepper inward a nutrient processor or blender, pulse until a thick glue forms. My thoughts: I had to a greater extent than or less cute shamrock shaped pasta that was filled alongside cheddar. I didn't mean value a love apple tree sauce would move skillful (maybe it would be?) simply didn't experience similar a heavy cream sauce in addition to thus I came upward alongside this instead. It was surprisingly delicious! The parsley was actually tasty, I was worried it would gustation similar garnish simply right away I desire to endeavour out other parsley based recipes.

Ostkaka (Swedish Cheesecake)

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Ingredients: ii 1/4 loving cup whole milk, modest or large curd cottage cheese* 1 loving cup heavy cream 1/2 loving cup 2% milk three eggs 1/4 loving cup almond meal 1/4 loving cup flour 1/2 loving cup sugar Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Grease or spray amongst cooking spray a 9-10 inch boundary cast pan. Set aside. In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand upward mixer, vanquish the cottage cheese until the curds intermission down, close v minutes. Add the heavy cream as well as milk as well as vanquish for ii minutes. Add inward the remaining ingredients as well as vanquish until good combined. Pour into the prepared pan. Bake 50-60 minutes until lightly browned, slightly puffy as well as a sparse knife inserted inward the oculus comes out clean. Remove to a wire rack. Cool slightly. Run a sparse knife some the destination of the pan as well as then unmold. Serve warm amongst fruit compote or ameliorate yet, lingonberries. *If your cottage cheese is wet, drain 20...

Acorn Crush Stuffed Amongst Fruited Wild Rice

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Ingredients: 1 acorn squash, halved in addition to seeds removed 1 loving cup cooked wild rice 1 Bosc pear, cubed 1/4 loving cup slivered almonds 1/4 loving cup dried, sweetened cranberries Directions: Preheat oven to 400. Line a baking canvas with parchment. Place the acorn squelch on the parchment, flesh-side down. Bake 25 minutes. Meanwhile, stir together the remaining ingredients inwards a pocket-sized bowl. Evenly split with the cavities of the squash. Bake, flesh-side upward for an additonal twenty minutes or until the squelch is tender. Slice inwards one-half in addition to serve immediately. Serves: 4 Note: This recipe is easily doubled. My thoughts: As much every bit I loathe to acknowledge it (and the temperature seems to live on with me on this, it was lx today!) it is to a greater extent than than a calendar week into Nov in addition to the holidays are correct to a greater extent than or less the corner. Time to intermission out the wintertime squel...

Apple Butter Mascarpone Dessert Cheese Ball

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Ingredients: 1/2 loving cup Musselman's apple tree butter 8 oz (brick) cream cheese, at room temperature 8 oz mascarpone, at room temperature 1/3 loving cup confectioners sugar 1 loving cup sliced almonds Directions: In a large bowl, shell together the apple tree butter, cream cheese, marscapone as well as carbohydrate until smoothen alongside the paddle attachment of an electrical mixer. Scrape into a bowl as well as refrigerate 1-2 hours or until good chilled. Place the almonds inward a shallow bowl. Set aside. Remove the apple tree butter mixture from the container as well as mold into a ball. Roll inward almonds to coat. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve alongside apples, pears as well as graham crackers. Prep time: most ten minutes, serves most 20 My thoughts: Our friends select an annual vacation political party that that is ever a lot of fun. This twelvemonth they asked for people to convey an exciting dish to percentage as well as I knew it wa...