ThriftyFun Recipes - May 2, 2008

Vol. 7, Num. 87, May 2, 2008 (Read It Online) Thank you Maepearl, Tami, Robin, sbb1, Gary, Wallace, Wayne and Mythi for today's recipes and tips! Do you have an Cinco De Mayo tips to share with the ThriftyFun community? Submit Your Favorite Recipe! Need a recipe? Submit a request Thanks for reading, Susan Send to a Friend! Edit Your Subscriptions: To edit your ThriftyFun subscriptions, click the Update Profile/Email Address link at the bottom of this newsletter. Today's newsletter contains: Recipe Requests: Storing Leftover Nacho Cheese Grandma Brown's Baked Beans Today's Food Tips: Lemon Juice To Whiten Potatoes French Fry Appetizer Count Protein To Help Control Diabetes Cook Bacon In Oven For Less Fat Today's Contest Recipes: Cake Mix Peach Cobbler Simple Spinach Quiche Coffee Creamer Recipes Robins's Recipe Corner: Tyler Pudding Noodle and Hot Dog Casserole Chicken Brunch Frozen Salad Unusually Good Corn Casserole Louisiana Yum Yum Today's Sponsor: Crafting for Fun and Money! If you are an avid crafter, capable writer and own a digital camera, you are eligible to participate. Submit your craft projects to ThriftyFun and we will pay $15 for any crafts that we publish. More Information: Click Here: http://www.thriftyfun.com/post_craft.ldml Recipe Requests: Storing Leftover Nacho Cheese Is there a way to "can" nacho cheese? I bought a gallon can of it and we can't eat it all at one time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Francene from Bremerton, WA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf57253365.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Grandma Brown's Baked Beans I live in the Daytona Beach, Florida area for 6 months out of the year and am originally from New York State. I LOVE Grandma Browns Baked Beans, and would like to know if there is anywhere in Florida that I could purchase this product. Thanks so much. Junie S. Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf224570.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Contests: Tip Contest Submit a Tip or Recipe! Photo Contest Submit a tip with photo! The above contests are weekly. We pick 2 tip winners and 1 photo winner at the end of each week. Each winner will win $25! My Frugal Life Submit a My Frugal Life Essay! Today's Food Tips: Lemon Juice To Whiten Potatoes A few drops of lemon juice in the water will whiten boiled potatoes. By Gary from NJ Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf68650567.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print French Fry Appetizer Fill their stomachs on this frugal tasty salad while they wait for the main course and I guarantee no one will come back for seconds. Place hot french fries (store bought or sliced potatoes) over a bed of lettuce with a biscuit or slice of toast on the side, topped with your favorite dressing or a splash of your own home blended dressing, salt and pepper to taste. This is a great tasting and cheap appetizer. By sbb1 from Umm al Quain, UAE Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf80252876.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Count Protein To Help Control Diabetes Did You Know? Very often, diabetics are told to not worry about counting the grams of protein they eat, with the exception of making them as low-fat as possible. But protein grams do count! Protein does affect the blood sugars, but not as quickly as complex or simple carbohydrates. Most medical personnel believe that because protein takes so-long to break down into blood-sugar, it is inconsequential. First-hand experience has taught me (a 24 year, juvenile-onset, insulin-dependent diabetic) that in the typical Western diet, with a much higher protein content, high-protein meals will not only raise your blood-sugars (and blood-pressure, too), but will keep them elevated over time, and makes the diabetic more insulin-resistant! This is why people with hypoglycemia (low blood-sugars), are recommended to eat protein, to help stabilize their blood-sugars! If you have hard-to-control diabetes or blood-sugars, keep a close eye on the amount and types of proteins you eat. Red meats have the longest digestion times, followed by pork, poultry, fish, seafood and vegetable (beans, lentils, legumes, nuts, and seeds.) In contrast, the easier it is for the body to digest, taking into account the amount and type of protein, the better the long-term control of your blood-sugars. For example, you will see the end results of eating that bowl-of-beans much sooner than that steak, but your blood sugars will also come down sooner, more like the normal physiologic action of the body. That steak will raise it slower, but keep it elevated over a much longer, period of time. Just be informed. By Wallace from Little Rock, AR Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf66495833.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Cook Bacon In Oven For Less Fat For superior oven cooked bacon, DON'T PRE-HEAT the oven. Place thick strips of bacon on a rack, place in oven. Turn oven to 360 degrees F. The cooking time will longer because the oven needs to warm up. The longer time gives the fat more time to come out. You will have a crisper, better textured bacon. Source: just science By Wayne from Bloomfield Hills, Mi Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf30629147.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Today's Contest Recipes: Cake Mix Peach Cobbler Ingredients 1 full-sized box of spice cake mix 2 cans peach pie filling 1/2 cup quick cooking oats 1/4 cup melted butter 12 ounces lemon lime soda (Sprite, Seven-Up, etc.) Directions Spray a 13x9x2 inch cake pan with Pam. Spread the pie filling in the pan. Dump the dry cake mix over the pie filling. Sprinkle the oatmeal over the cake mix. Pour the butter all over the top of the oatmeal. Pour the soda over the butter. Bake at 375 degrees F preheated oven for 45 minutes. Cool and eat with ice cream. Source: I made this recipe up. It is super delicious. By Maepearl from Houston, Texas Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf39593384.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Simple Spinach Quiche Here is a recipe from Real Simple Magazine Simple Spinach Quiche By Tami from St Augustine, FL Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf23137475.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Coffee Creamer Recipes French Vanilla 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups nonfat milk 1 Tbsp. vanilla Almond Orange Cappuccino 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups nonfat milk 1 tsp. almond extract 1/2 tsp. orange extract Amaretto 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups nonfat milk 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. almond extract Almond Cappuccino 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups nonfat milk 1 tsp. almond extract 1/2 tsp. orange extract Chocolate Almond 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups nonfat milk 1 to 2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp. almond extract Chocolate Truffle Mint 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups nonfat milk 3 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp. peppermint extract Directions Mix all ingredients in a glass container. It is best stored in glass mason jar. Remember to shake before pouring, as the condensed milk will settle to the bottom. This will keep for 2 weeks in the refrigerator. Tip: substitute low fat sweetened condensed milk for regular for a healthier alternative. Liquid coffee creamer base can also be made by mixing 1 cup of dry coffee creamer with 1 cup of hot water. Mix until dissolved. Add 1 cup of cold water. Store in a mason jar in the refrigerator. Try creating a powder from your favorite candy. Candy canes now come in many flavors. By adding bits of candy to your food processor and processing until the candy bits are a powder, you can add new flavors to your coffee creamer with a fraction of the cost of commercial flavored creamers. Simply add the powdered candy bits to your liquid coffee creamer and shake well to dissolve. Source: Sent to me by a friend By Mythi from Silverdale, WA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf001230.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Robin's Recipe Corner: Tyler Pudding Ingredients 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, softened 1 1/4 cups sugar 2 eggs 1/4 cup half and half 1 1/2 cups grated fresh coconut pastry Directions Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in half and half and coconut. Pour into pastry shell. Bake at 300 degrees F for 55 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Cool before chilling. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf59695686.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Noodle and Hot Dog Casserole Ingredients 1 pkg. (6 oz.) noodles 1 pkg. hot dogs, sliced 1/2 cup water 1/2 lb. cubed Velveeta cheese pinch pepper 1 onion, chopped 1 Tbsp. butter 1 can tomato soup 1/2 tsp. salt Directions Cook noodles until tender. Drain. Brown onion and sliced hot dogs in the butter. Add other ingredients and heat until cheese melts. Combine with noodles and place in greased casserole. Bake in 350 degrees F oven for 30-35 minutes. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf50893123.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Chicken Brunch Ingredients 4 cups chopped cooked chicken (about 1 chicken) 1 cup blanched almonds 1 cup mushrooms (drained) 1 small can pimento (chopped) 1 green pepper (cut fine) 1 large onion (cut fine) 1 cup chopped celery 1 cup rice (not Minute) in 2 cups of broth 1 can mushroom soup Directions Parboil peppers, onions, celery for 5 minutes before adding it to the chicken mixture. Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees F. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf76383691.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Frozen Salad Ingredients 1 package cream cheese, softened (8 oz.) 3/4 cup sugar 1 package frozen strawberries, partially thawed (16 oz.) 1 large can crushed pineapple, well drained 2 bananas, sliced 1/2 cup chopped nuts 1 medium size container Cool Whip (8 oz.) Directions Cream together cheese and sugar; add remaining ingredients. Mix well and freeze. Serves 10-12 By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf45715558.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Unusually Good Corn Casserole Ingredients 1 stick margarine (melted) 1/4 tsp. butter flavoring 1 cup sour cream 1 can cream corn 1 beaten egg 1 can whole corn Directions Mix all together and stir in 1 Jiffy corn bread mix. Bake 45 minutes in a 350 degrees F oven in a 8x8 inch pan. Ingredients can be mixed up ahead of time. Keep in refrigerator. Corn bread mix added just before baking. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf78475300.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Louisiana Yum Yum First Layer: 1 1/2 cups flour 1 cup chopped pecans 3/4 cup margarine Mix and spread into a buttered 9x13 inch pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes in a 350 degrees F oven. Cool 15-20 minutes. Second Layer: 8 oz. soft cream cheese 1 cup powdered sugar 1 cup Cool Whip Beat cream cheese in mixer; add powdered sugar and Cool Whip. Spread on first layer. Refrigerate while mixing next layer. Third Layer: 1 pkg instant vanilla pudding (4 oz.) 3 cups milk 1 pkg. instant chocolate pudding (4 oz.) Mix and spread over second layer. Fourth Layer: remaining Cool Whip chopped pecans Spread remaining Cool Whip as topping. Sprinkle with chopped pecans. Refrigerate until ready to serve. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf14255727.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Today's Sponsor: Crafting for Fun and Money! If you are an avid crafter, capable writer and own a digital camera, you are eligible to participate. Submit your craft projects to ThriftyFun and we will pay $15 for any crafts that we publish. More Information: Click Here: http://www.thriftyfun.com/post_craft.ldml More Stuff: Coupon Swap! Swap coupons with other ThriftyFun.com users.