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Wed05302012

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Cooking at Home

Great Recipes by I AM Modern Magazine
for Northern Virginia and Metro DC

Great recipes from local experts and women that love to cook.


Speedy Sangria : easy and quick to make at home

Ingredients:
• Pint glass of ice
• 6-oz of wine (2 Brothers Big Tattoo ® Red Cabernet / Syrah)
• Orange juice
• Splash of Sprite®
• Orange and cherry for garnish


Preparation:

• Take a pint glass and fill with ice
• Add wine
• Fill pint glass almost to rim with orange juice
• Add splash of Sprite
• Shake or stir and garnish with orange and cherry.

Spinach-Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe

This rolled chicken makes an elegant plate when sliced and served. It is really healthy, tender and full of flavor. I served this with Jasmine rice and ceaser salad. We all love this chicken. I hope you enjoy, too.

What you need:
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 cup chicken broth (99% fat free and low sodium)
1 tbs tomato paste
2 tbs olive oil

For Spinach Filling:
1/2 stick butter
2 small cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 cup white onions, chopped
1 Lbs frozen spinach, chopped
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper

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Chicken for Dessert? You Betcha!

The name of this dessert in Turkish is Tavuk Gogsu which literally translates to "chicken breast". The original recipe of this pudding actually does contain chicken breast as one of the ingredients. Chicken for dessert? I know it sounds weird : ) but as strange as it sounds, the chicken is undetectable and the added protein creates a beautifully balanced and hearty dessert. I promise, you don't taste the chicken.
 
Today, I cooked this pudding without chicken breast, which in Turkish cooking, anytime you opt out an original ingredient, the dish is named "fake". When a dish is coined "fake" it is still real, but not the original.
 
In my opinion, it is easier to cook this dessert minus the chicken.
 
Ingredients:
2 tbs unsweetened butter
1 ¼ cups of all purpose flour
1 cup of sugar
4 cups of milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract or 1 tsp vanilla sugar

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Twin Color Cookies

Mmmmm... It is yummy.. You can make this easy to follow recipe with your kids.. I am sure they will have fun and also love the taste of the multi color cookies...Basically, any sugar cookie dough recipe would be good. Just add whatever colors you want with food coloring or if you don't want to use food coloring, just add cocoa powder.
Here is my favorite recipe:
3 cups all purpose flour
2tbs cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 sticks unsalted butter ( room temperature)
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract OR Vanillin Sugar
1/8 teaspoon lemon extract OR 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest ( hiimm , I like the lemon flavor cookies)
1 large egg

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The Bang Bang Theory for Shrimp

"The Reverse Food Engineer William McKee"

A favorite local restaurant of many Northern Virginia families is Bonefish Grill. Their Bang-Bang Shrimp appetizer dish is a very popular item on their menu. For us, and even our 5 year old daughter who is the pickiest of eaters – this dish is a must-have every time we go to this family friendly restaurant. We decided to investigate this dish further and impress our guests by replicating this delicious appetizer in our kitchen. We call this process reverse engineering and here’s our recipe.

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Bill Mckee Cooks Houston’s Artichoke Spinach Dip

In the last issue, we featured a current popular restaurant dish, Bang Bang Shrimp from Bonefish Restaurant. This time, we take a look back at another family favorite of ours, Houston’s Spinach Artichoke Dip. Before moving to Virginia, we lived in the southwestern desert of Phoenix, Arizona and back then this was one of our favorite restaurants. In fact, this was the very first recipe I ever tried to duplicate, i.e. reverse engineer.

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What to Make for Dinner: Lemon Orzo Tomato Soup Recipe

Hi Everyone,

In the midst of a tomato scandal, I grew my own tomato garden in my backyard. It wasn't premeditated, nor did I have a psychic moment where I could predict that tomatoes would one day kill us all.

Sheerly luck!

Well my garden is raging, so many tomatoes, I can't make enough tomato-ee stuff to eat. And you know how much kids love tomatoes. My 7 year old gags when I show him one.

I came up with this recipe: he never knows he is eating them...

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February 2012 Thank you for producing such a fun, current magazine full of great information. Wishing you continued (and BIG) success. Pamela Steuart.Fine Art
October 2011 Just picked up a copy at my daughter's Little Gym class and found myself reading it instead of my Kindle! Enjoyed many of the essays, particularly the first year teacher at an inner-city school...and so many other articles. Kristine Meldrum Denholm, freelance journalist
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