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noname2200:
Got a easy-but-time-consuming recipe that's great for an appetizer, main course, or dessert: Empanadas!
(For all empanadas)
1.5 cups all-purpose flour
0.5 cup Butter-Flavored Shortening
4 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
Pinch salt
4-6 tablespoons of COLD water
1 egg
1) Simply put all of the dry ingredients into a bowl and, with two knives, keep chopping up the mixture until the shortening and cream cheese are all smaller than a pea.
2) Add four tablespoons of water, then mix the whole thing by hand until you have a uniform dough (no dry portion remains). Work fast! The heat from your hands messes up the dough!
3) If you need a bit more water, add some, one tablespoon at a time. Do not add too much water, or the rolling step becomes extremely difficult!
4) Refridgerate, covered, for at least two hours
5) Flour a large, flat surface. Add the dough on top, then rub more flour over the dough's surface.
6) Flour your rolling pin, then flatten the dough to about 1/8 inch thickness.
7) Using a fairly large cookie cutter or similar instrument (I use the top of my blender), cut circular portions of the dough.
8) Repeat steps 5-7 with the remaining dough, until you've used it all up.
9) Fill the MIDDLE of the dough with whatever fillings you wish.* Make sure to ONLY use a tablespoon of filling at the most!
10) Moisten the edge of the dough.
11) Fold the dough over the fillings. Seal the edges by pressing a fork down on them
12) Put the empanadas on a greased cookie tray
13) In a separate bowl, scramble the egg with a spoonful of water, then brush the mixture on top of each empanada.
14) Bake at 375 for 15 minutes, or until the empanadas turn golden.
15) Let the empanadas cool for five minutes.
16) If you've made a dessert empanada, you can sprinkle them with a generous amount of cinnamon and white sugar.
*Be creative or conservative with the fillings: it doesn't really matter. My favorites are to fill them with Nutella or Fruit Jams (Both are huge hits). I've also used apple pie filling for a yummy, decadent treat. For a main course, consider ground beef that's been cooked in spicy salsa, or some garlic chicken. As long as the filling has a moderate to strong flavor, you can't go wrong!
ThePerm:
i just tried this, and its a little weird but it was pretty good
ok years ago i remember watching this show called the Frugal Gourmet
anyways i remember him making something really weird one time and it stuck with me
he took Parmasan Cheese + Nuts(not sure which type) + Honey and made a desert out of it
now tonight we had spaghetti for dinner, and we had some shredded parmasan. I had eaten some cashews last night, so i knew we had some of those. We always have honey for tea. So, i mixed them together. I told my mom about it, and she jsut thought it was weird. I tried it though, and it was good. It was sweet and nutty.
BlackNMild2k1:
Breakfast Scramble/Breakfast Pizza
Both of these are made basically the same way with slight preparation differences
Ingredients
Hashbrown patties x6
Eggs x6
Sausage Patties x6
Bacon Slices x6
Shredded Cheddar
Shredded Mozzarella
Onion
Green Bell Pepper
-Optional- (I would've used if I had it)
Red Bell Pepper
Mushrooms
Tomatoes
Ham
1.) Preheat our oven (425o)and pop your Hashbrown patties in in for about 15 minutes before you flip.
cook till golden brown but now not fully crispy.
2.) Cook your bacon, set aside to drain on an napkin and dump the grease
-2.5- fry up ham slices/dices if you got it
3.) Cook your sausages, set aside on napkin to drain the grease.
4.) Chop your vegetables, coat skillet with some vegetable oil and saute to liking.
5.) Chop up meat (sausage, bacon & ham) and chop up hash browns.
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This where Scramble can turn into pizza or vice versa
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~Breakfast Scramble~
6.) Put meat and hash browns together
7.) Add vegetables
Mix thoroughly
8.) Beat 8 eggs. (add milk if you like)
9.) add some more oil to skillet and dump entire mixture to skillet
Pour egg batter evenly over mixture. Let cook for a few minutes
10.) add your cheeses (Cheddar & Mozzarella)
11.) Stir and serve
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~Breakfast Pizza~
6.) Beat your eggs (add milk if you like to make them fluffier)
7.) Grease your pan with vegetable oil and spread your hashbrowns across the pan evenly. end to end. (Hashbrowns is your pizza crust)
8.) pour eggs all over the hasbrowns. This is what hold the crust together.
9.) place your meats and vegetables ontop of your pizza crust and then cover with cheese .
10.) cover with a top until cheese melts
11.) cut into slices and serve.
Dasmos:
My brother keeps bragging about how great his own version of a "Breakfast Pizza" is. I'm definitely going to have to show him this, this looks like it shits all over his.
Stratos:
Now I need to go buy some breakfast meat. I'm gonna make me a breakfast pizza this week.