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Andrew Krause - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Andrew Krause is a Chef and Pastry Chef for over 30 years, at present I own a Gourmet Bakery called The Cheese Confectioner. You can visit my site at For Free Recipes.net
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- Christmas Cheesecake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This is a cheesecake that I have been making for over 20 years if you follow the recipe to the tee you won't have any problem. It is also colorful as well as the most luscious piece of pastry that you ever put in your mouth...
- Zucchini Pancake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] I know that almost everyone has had potato pancakes but did you ever try zucchini pancakes? When I was a child I was a very picky eater and there was very little things that I would eat; my favorite was potato pancakes. I just loved them so much I could eat them every day, so one day I came home from school and my mother had potato pancakes or so I thought. I sat down to dinner and began eating my favorite food but something seemed a little strange.
- Cheesecake and Other Dishes
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] Cheesecake, do you think that cheesecake is hard to make? Well if you do then you are wrong. Cheesecake is one of the easiest deserts to make as far as I am concerned; it is even easier and less messy than making cookies. Just go to any search site and take a look for yourself, just make a search and you will probably find that it is not hard to make cheesecake.
- Traditions For a Polish Easter Lunch - Swieconka
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] The word Swieconka comes from the polish word "swiecic" which means, "to bless". On Easter Sunday, Polish families prepare an Easter basket, filling it with traditional polish food and Easter delicacies and then taking it to church to be blessed by the priest. The blessed food is then laid out on the table on Easter Sunday after mass and the meal that follows is called Swieconka.
- How to Buy Fresh Fruit & Vegetables
[Food-and-Drink] Experience is the best teacher in choosing quality but here are a few pointers on buying some types of vegetables. When giving someone a gift give them a fresh fruit & vegetables basket.
- Grandma's Fruitcake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This is the recipe that my grandmother brought with her when she and her family left Russia in the early 1900's. As a child around the 1920's or so, while living on a farm in Pennsylvania which at that time there were a great amount of people coming from Europe, you needed to be able to do things for yourself. She learned from her mother how to make a most delicious white fruit cake a white fruitcake is a fruitcake that does not have any molasses, molasses which is very bitter, not having the molasses in the fruitcake gives it a ...
- Jewish Coffee Cake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Now here is a coffee cake that will make you want no other coffee cake, and once you prepare this coffee cake and get a real working idea about this cake you can become very creative and use some different jams, jellies, fruits and so on. Always remember that there is a lot that you can do with a recipe providing you don't exceed the parameters of the original recipe.
- Old Time Banana Cake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] As a child this was and still is my favorite cake, it is a really a moist and a tasty cake as well. I have never had a cake as good as this before.
- My Special Blueberry Muffins
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This is my special blueberry muffin recipe that I created over 30 years ago and I like it so much that I have never stopped using it. It has a magnificent flavor and a wonderful texture...
- Old Fashion Bread
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This is a bread for bread lovers. It's a bread similar to what people had made in the old fashion brick oven that was found in most peoples back yard many years ago...
- Crescia Bread Or Italian Cheese Bread
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] If you don't like locatelli cheese then don't even bother making this bread; this bread has such a great aroma and flavor that you will eat an entire loaf by yourself, it is also perfect for gift giving and the best part is that you can freeze it weeks in advance and everyone will think that you just made it that day. Remember all ingredients should be at room temperature.
- Double Decker Pastry
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This recipe is an experience for anyone, it's kind of unique and very different from today's baking. Today all you need to do is go to the market and pick something off of the shelf, put it in the microwave and you have it. Well I'm...
- Clams a La Du Chef
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Are you a seafood lover well if you are here is something different, this recipe will tantalize your taste buds and make you scream for more, this is a great appetizer as well as a wonderful dinner. In this recipe you must use your judgment and use as much of a particular ingredient that you like or as little of each that you don't like but you will find that by adding all the ingredients gives a nice balance to this dish.
- Shrimp Cheesecake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Time after time I wondered about making this particular cheesecake; will it be good or will it be a fly by night idea? After all, who ever heard of putting shrimp into cheesecake? Well it turned out to be a fantastic idea and you just can't believe how good it really is...
- New York Cheesecake and Beyond
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] In this article we're going to cover the more modern era of cheesecake making, starting off with the most popular New York Cheesecake, which many people say is to die for. You can come to your own conclusions on that comment.
- Different Types of Cheesecakes
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] If you think that cheesecake is cheesecake, then you're either not a baker or have been living under a rock for your whole life. There are more kinds of cheesecake than Carter has liver pills, and he's got plenty of them to go around. We're not going to cover every type and style of cheesecake in this article but just try to give you some idea of why a cheesecake is not just a cheesecake...
- Flavoring Your 10-Inch Cheesecake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] The 10-inch cheesecake recipe is the most common size found both in cookbooks and on recipe Web sites, and it's a big canvas on which to write a flavor signature. While the base recipe is a marvel of creamy goodness, it's natural to want to branch out and add your favorite flavor into the mix...
- Making the Baked New York Style Cheesecake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] The baked New York style cheesecake recipe, on its surface, looks like one of the more simple dessert recipes. It's a fairly simple set of ingredients, and the mixing and baking is fairly straightforward.
- Is the Baked New York Style Cheesecake Recipe Best?
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Looking for shortcuts in the kitchen is a time-honored tradition. Almost everyone, whether they are a rookie cook or a lifelong kitchen wizard, wants at some point to find a better, quicker way to get the results they're looking for. The baked New York style cheesecake recipe draws more than its share of shortcut seekers, for two main reasons.
- Common Baked Cheesecake Recipe Problems
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] My Aunt Wendy was one of the greatest cooks I've ever known. Any time we went to her house, even just for a quick visit, there was something great to eat happening in the kitchen. She made chicken and dumplings with dumplings that were like little clouds.
- Why Should You Use a Baked Cheesecake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] There are few desserts in the world of sweets more alluring that cheesecake. A good baked cheesecake recipe can provide a dessert that will make a bad meal into a good memory, and make a good meal into an event that will be talked about for years. A slice of baked cheesecake, especially New York style, is perfection itself. The creamy texture, the subtle flavors and the richness combine on the palate to make dessert truly the great finish to the meal.
- Crust Options For the 10-Inch Cheesecake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] So often, home cooks creating their favorite 10-inch cheesecake recipe devote all their energy to getting the body of the cake just right that they neglect the crust. They tinker and tweak, adding flavors and changing ingredients incessantly to get just the perfect balance of taste and texture.
- Modifying Your Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Just like the traditional New York cheesecake, the chocolate chip cheesecake recipe is ripe for modification. It basically involves just one modification to the traditional recipe: adding chocolate chips. Once you've broken that "addition barrier," the dam can break.
- Finding a Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] Sooner or later, everyone who's made a New York cheesecake starts getting bored with the same old perfection every time. They start looking for variations, and frequently that's where they start to go horribly wrong. The chocolate chip cheesecake recipe is one of the first most people try, and it's one that can be fraught with peril if you don't choose your recipe carefully.
- Why Are There So Many Free Recipes For Italian Desserts?
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] Turn on any food show today and you'll find a huge assortment of ethnic offerings. From Chinese and other Asian cuisines to French, German and even British cooking, every corner of the globe where people put food to fire is represented. Most of these are relative newcomers to the global food scene, whereas Italian food has been on every cook's slate for decades. This explains why there are so many free recipes for Italian desserts around: they're delicious, and there is a dizzying variety available.
- Changing New York Style Cheesecake Recipes
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] The variety of New York style cheesecake recipes exists mainly in the slight variations in the base ingredients of the recipes. Some may have a touch more cream, or a touch less. Some others may split between cream and Neufchatel cheese. I've even seen some that attempt to use ricotta cheese, although not with great success.
- Composition of the New York Cheesecake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] The New York cheesecake recipe is one of the simplest recipes in any dessert cookbook, but it's one that demands complete attention to detail and use of the highest quality ingredients to get the premium result. If you are the sort of cook who likes to save a few pennies here and there by skimping on the quality of your ingredients, you might not want to venture into the cheesecake world.
- Evaluating Free Recipes For Italian Desserts
[Food-and-Drink:Desserts] Lurking beneath the surface of many recipes, however, is disaster more ferocious and inevitable than a hurricane over warm Gulf of Mexico waters. Poorly written or shakily tested recipes can turn a counter full of expensive, high-quality ingredients into a bowl full of meaningless goo unfit for human consumption.
- What's So Special About the Recipe For Cheesecake?
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] In the world of desserts, baking and food in general, there is nothing quite like the recipe for cheesecake. I am speaking here of the recipe for baked cheesecake, not any of the refrigerated or "no-bake" versions. Nowhere else does the home cook find the peculiar combination of sweetness, smooth texture, velvety mouth feel and overall sweet perfection. The spring form pan can give birth to wonders, if the cook is even moderately skilled and the ingredients are of proper quality.
- Where Can I Find the Best Recipe For Cheesecake?
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] The search for the right, or best, recipe for cheesecake can be a long one if you don't know where to look. With the explosion of recipe content available on the Internet, along with the dizzying array of cookbooks available that cover cheesecake either exclusively or as part of a larger theme, the number of options are nearly limitless. However, it's good to consider who is providing the recipes and what their reasons for doing so might be.
- History of the New York Cheesecake Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Cheesecake in its present form is a relatively "young" culinary invention, but cheesecake itself goes back for centuries. With the natural sweetness of young cheese, it was natural that it wouldn't take long before some smart cookie started playing around with it in desserts.
- Making New York Style Cheesecake Recipes Your Own
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] So you've done your research on the Web or through cookbooks and finally, after much trial and error, you've settled on one recipe that not only produces the results you want, but provides the taste you've looked for. You've made it a dozen or so times, and are fairly confident you know the ins and outs and all the potential pitfalls.
- Do You Love Cooking, Food Or Italian Recipes?
[Food-and-Drink] A couple of centuries from now, this will be referred to as the Golden Age of the Foodie, without a doubt. Never before have so many cuisines, ingredients and cooking methods been so readily available to so many people. Even the most exotic ingredients can be found, the most obscure of kitchen gadgets located. If you're into cooking, food or even Italian recipes, you'll find a wealth of information available.
- What Are Some Easy Italian Recipes?
[Food-and-Drink] A lot of the cuisine of Italy can be intimidating, with multiple techniques used to produce a dish, expensive ingredients and complex construction. Many new cooks take a look at some of the more classic "gourmet" Italian recipes and decide such cooking is better left to Olive Garden or Macaroni Grill. This is a mistake, as there are plenty of easy Italian recipes around.
- What's the Secret to Cooking Recipes Successfully?
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] It should be the simplest thing in the world, right? You get a recipe, follow it and come out with something delicious (or at least edible) at the end. Unfortunately, cooking recipes can be a frustrating process to rookie cooks unable to recognize when the recipe they're using is destined to fail before they heat up their first pan.
- American Food History - A Work in Progress
[Food-and-Drink] It's a cliche, although a true one, that America is a nation of immigrants. A huge proportion of the country's population either was not born within its borders, or has parents or grandparents who were not. Thus, American food history is as yet a fairly short book, with the exception of Indian fry bread and certain other Native American dishes.
- Can You Make a Career Out of Food History?
[Food-and-Drink] Everyone knows the stereotype of historians ... they're dusty old fellows with patches on their jacket elbows who smell faintly of book mold and are forever squinting at something tiny scribbled in the margin of an old book. Let's face it; historian is not one of the sexiest career choices in the world. Whatever kind of history you pick, be it military history, government history or that popular catchall "world history," there's just not a lot of glamour. Food history, however, is a different kettle of (poached) fish entirely.
- Most Common Foodborne Illness
[Food-and-Drink] Foodborne illness are one of the leading causes of emergency room visits in the United States, and account for millions of dollars in expenses and thousands of days of lost work time every year. What are some of the most common bugs?
- Food Handling Safety For Home Cooks
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] For the home cook, food handling safety can be a huge issue. Lack of proper care can lead to a variety of food-borne illnesses, even death. Nationwide, thousands of people end up in emergency rooms every year suffering from illnesses that could have been avoided had basic food safety rules been followed.
- Practice Food Home Safety
[Food-and-Drink] Home safety is a hot topic, with innumerable TV shows, books and DVDs available to teach you how to keep yourself and your family safe from everything from burglars to house fires. One thing that gets overlooked, though, is food home safety. Poor attention to food safety and lack of knowledge about it contribute to food-borne illnesses, which cause more hospitalizations every year than other home dangers combined.
- Where to Find Ethnic Food Recipes
[Food-and-Drink] Most home cooks at some time or another find themselves getting interested in ethnic cuisine. The impetus might come from their heritage ... maybe grandma was a German immigrant or grandpa came from Vietnam. Or it could just be simple cook's curiosity. All of us get tired of cooking the same old recipes over and over, and decide to move beyond, frequently into ethnic food recipes.
- Teach Kids Food Safety at Home
[Food-and-Drink] When it comes to cooking, there aren't many kids who at one time or another don't get curious about what goes on in the kitchen. It is not at all uncommon for a boy or girl to want to try their hand at preparing a meal or dessert, and parents should be very encouraging about it, as knowing how to cook is a life skill that the kids will use forever. It's also a good time to teach them about food safety at home.
- Food Safety Tips For Rookie Cooks
[Food-and-Drink] Cooks who are new to the kitchen are usually far more concerned with making sure their recipes turn out right than with making sure they follow all food safety rules. In their desperation to make sure their cake, sauce or roast turns out right, they can create a bacterial danger zone that will leave their diners fondly remembering a time when their intestines didn't feel like they were tied in knots. A few food safety tips can help prevent such disasters.
- You Don't Have to Go Out For Good Food!
[Food-and-Drink] So here you are, a typical urban or suburban couple on a typical evening. The conversation goes something like this: "What do you want to eat?" "I dunno. What's in the fridge? We have any leftovers?" "I want some good food for a change. Let's go out!"
- Where Does Italian Food History Begin?
[Food-and-Drink] Italy is one of the oldest countries in the world, and thanks to the geographical boundaries of the Mediterranean Sea and the Alps it has remained largely unchanged throughout history. Even during the Roman Empire, Italy was set apart. Legions that had been abroad always knew when they had returned to the mother country. Italian food history, however, reaches far beyond the country's borders.
- Basic Ingredients For Italian Recipes
[Food-and-Drink] So you've decided you're going to start doing some more Italian cooking. You've found a great database of Italian recipes and you're excited about wading into the world of pasta, pesto and parmagiana. It would be helpful to have on hand some staple ingredients that are found in a lot of Italian cooking. That way, you'll be able to get your fix of Italian food any day, without extensive grocery shopping. Let's look at some of them!
- Need a Romantic Picnic Idea?
[Food-and-Drink] Ah, spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to romance, and visions of things like moonlit strolls, quiet walks in the woods and picnics in a secluded spot look even more alluring. With today's fast-food culture, though, a romantic picnic idea can be hard to come by. Let's see if we can't help you out a little bit there, Romeo (or Juliet). First off, you'll want to make sure you've got the right sort of munchies. I'm not talking about the main dish, here, I'm talking about those tasty nibbles you'll hopefully be feeding each other while looking deep into each other's eyes, or some such scenario.
- So You Want to Cook Italian Food
[Food-and-Drink] When it comes to ethnic cuisines, there are none more popular than Italian food. From your local pizza joint (debatable as to whether that's truly Italian food) to the four-star places found in major cities, Italian food is one of the top choices when families are deciding where to go to eat out.
- An Elizabethan Madrigal Dinner (Part 2)
[Food-and-Drink] My Lord Lumley's Peas Potage Most of the peas in the soup are strained. The reason for leaving some of them whole, say's Digby, "is only to show that it is peas potage."
- An Elizabethan Madrigal Dinner (Part 1)
[Food-and-Drink] A madrigal dinner is a wonderfull way of going back in time, it shows just how people lived during the Elizabethan era and here is how it goes. The Great Hall is where the dinner is held. Ye Order Of Feaste The wassail is to be used as a toast. Please refrain from partaking til the appointed time. Although the cost was shocking, there was keen competition among Queen Elizabeth's subjects to entertain Her Majesty when she passed through their counties on one of Her numerous summer progresses.
- Taste Of Honey
[Food-and-Drink] Honey Is Probably The Best Source Of Natural Sugar.
Honey has been around since before the age of man, somewhere in the beginning man found that honey in the comb of the beehive is truly pleasant to the taste and also useful. In Ancient times it was called the nectar of the gods.
- Sweet Crescia Bread
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This bread is for the people that do not like crescia bread that is made with locatelli cheese.
- Oysters Casino
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] If you are an oyster lover then this recipe is for you to enjoy.
There many different varieties of oysters Eastern oysters...
- Polish Easter Cake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This polish easter recipe is sure to please.
- Chocolate Rasperry Cake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This is a moist chocolate cake recipe, it is a 3 layer cake with 2 layers of raspberry cream filling and topped with a chocolate raspberry butter cream icing.
- Italian Rum Cake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This cake has won several arards for me over the years.
- Pumpkin Bread
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Now here is a recipe that can be used during the Thanksgiving season as well as the Christmas season although when it comes to food and of course I know how to prepare all the recipes that I share with everyone everyday can be a holiday for me depending on what my taste is for a particular day.....
- Bubble Bread It Can Be Satisfying
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Bubble bread is one of the breads that I have found to be kind of unique and definitely different, but good.
- The Original Old Fashion Paczki Recipe
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] This is the original recipe for making punczki that was brought from Europe by my wife’s grandmother when she first arrived at Ellis Island and then onward to Pennsylvania - where she finally settled...
- Paczki! The Original Polish Donut
[Food-and-Drink] Paczki, is what is known as the original Polish donut, no one will ever agree on how to pronounce them, but everyone will agree that you cannot eat just one or even two.
- Cheesecake - Can It Be Frozen?
[Food-and-Drink] Yes cheesecake can be frozen and it freezes very well! If you are having a party next week and you won't have time to prepare your cheesecake at that time, as I'm sure you won't, you can bake your cheesecake a week or so in advance...
- Italian Biscotti So Delicious
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] I’ll bet that you never had biscotti as good as mine! Just kidding I know that you probably make a biscotti that is very good but I wish you would try this recipe and see what you think of it, this recipe is as good as they come...
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