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Pumpkin jack-o-lantern is the most essential tradition during Halloween. After Halloween these carved pumpkins becomes scrap in your porch. Best way to get rid of these pumpkin is to recycle it and go green, or use it as a Vase for your dining table or as a lantern. Recycling pumpkins are managed by many communities, either just put your pumpkins in recycle bin and they will pick from there or donate it to your local zoo as animal food.
Pumpkins usage becomes a great confusion as Halloween gets over. Million of pumpkins are shipped over and are latter used for decoration in fall holidays. Assort this season by making an innovatory usage or recycle your left-over pumpkins. Here we introduce you to use your pumpkins in 5 best ways. Instead of throwing pumpkins make it delicious using this blog and enjoy the pleasure of recycling and preserving wastage.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds :

Cooking Time - 10 minutes.

Ingredients:

• Pumpkin seeds
• 4 Tbsp melted butter
• ½ tbsp garlic salt
• 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp brown sugar

Directions:

• Clean and wash the pumpkin seeds and drain in colander. roast it and then scoop out the flesh.
• Mix with 4 tbsp melted butter, brown sugar, ½ tbsp garlic salt and 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce.

• Toss with seeds, coating well.
• Spread seeds on a foil lined pan. Bake at 275 degrees, toss every 5 minutes, until toasted and lightly browned.

Do not refrigerate…store in a sealed bowl.

Seek more ways to recycle your pumpkin or convert it into healthy yummy snack by referring this blog-

1. Use the left over Pumpkins as a decoration stuff for your home, check best ways to decorate from HowToDoThings blog.
2. Prepare few more nutritious cuisines of Pumpkin from GemsBlog.
3. For rotten Pumpkin use it as a Compost in your backyard or garden and view best way to do it from BackyardGardening.
4. Make it a wild Animal Feed and check its usage for animals or Recycle Center from WorldWildLife blog.

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Christmas is occasion of celebration with loads of candy, desserts, cakes and sweets. Baking cake could be much more varied and delicious at home. So start practicing all the varieties of fruit cakes, compiled for you in this blog and make your Christmas reinvented.

Baking could be great fun when you follow absolute directions. So make an smooth effort to bake best of Christmas Reinvented Fruit Cakes in wide varieties and delight your loved ones with this Christmas surprise.

Christmas Fruit Cake With Lemon Icing :

Preparation Time – 15 minutes

Cooking Time – 45 minutes

Yield – 24 serves

Ingredients :

• 125g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup apricot jam
• 3 cups (450g) fruit cake crumbs
• 3/4 cup self-raising flour
• 1/4 cup desiccated coconut
• 2 teaspoons mixed spice
• 1/2 cup milk
• extra mixed spice, to decorate

Lemon Icing :

• 100g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
• 1 1/4 cups icing sugar mixture

Directions :

1. Grease a 19cm x 30cm laming ton pan. Line base with baking paper.
2. Beat butter and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined. Beat in apricot jam. Transfer to a large bowl.
3. Stir cake crumbs into egg mixture until combined. Then stir in flour, coconut, mixed spice and milk, in two batches. Spread mixture into prepared pan.
4. Cook in a moderate oven (180C) for about 30 minutes, or until cooked when tested. Stand for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
5. To make Lemon Icing, beat butter and rind until pale in color. Gradually beat in icing sugar mixture until smooth.
6. Spread lemon icing over cold slice. Sprinkle with extra mixed spice before cutting into squares.

Serve this deliciously enticing fruit cake cool.

Learn to bake more varieties of mouth-watering Fruit cakes for this Christmas:

1. Taste.com serves you with delicious recipe of Classic Christmas Fruit Cake.
2. Bake Christmas Dark Fruit Cake with Bella on-line.
3. Cdkitchen invites to bake an amazing Beer Fruit Cake.
4. Prepare heavenly delicious Strawberry Dream Cake from Recipe4Cakes.

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Family get together, is really a time what we all wait for. Making best of the memories makes the occasion more special and perfect. Without wasting time pull out best cuisines on your table for an heavenly Christmas Family Brunch. Do not worry to cook at last moment, anytime surf this recipe blog and prepare your best brunch in lesser time.

Hash Browns with Goat Ricotta and Chorizo

Cooking Time- 15 minutes.

Yield- 2 serves.

Ingredients:

• 2 Yukon potatoes
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoons jasmine rice flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon white pepper, freshly ground
• 2-1/2 tablespoons goat ricotta cheese
• 6 teaspoons soy chorizo
• 1/2 yellow onion, thinly sliced
• 3 tablespoons canola oil,
• 1 tablespoon onion chives, finely snipped

Directions:

• Wash potatoes and peel, grate and place them in a bowl.
• Add little water and lemon in grate potatoes and keep for 5-10 minutes.
• Use a fine mesh colander to drain potatoes nicely.
• Place all grate potatoes in a cheese-cloth and remove as much excess water as possible. Pat dry with paper towels.
• Sprinkle rice flour and toss well.
• Add the onion, goat ricotta cheese and 2 teaspoons of chives, season with salt and pepper.
• Mix well with, food service disposal gloves greased with oil and form flat patties.
• Preheat oil in a heavy-bottomed skillet.
• Place the patties in the skillet.
• Add a teaspoon of soy chorizo in the center of each patties.
• Cover the soy chorizo with grated potatoes, brown for about 3 minutes.
• Cook until golden using spatula.
• Place golden hash-browns onto paper towel layered large platter.

Serve hot with ketchup and Garnish with chives or gallop of crème fraîche.

Bon appétit!

Delight your loved ones by catching best of recipes from this recipe blog. Enjoy the mouth-watering and nutritious Family Brunch. Merry Christmas.

Course your Christmas Family Brunch with added yummy cuisines, here comes more fun to cook recipes :

1. Prepare most favorite brunch Eggs Fantastic from Squidoo blog.
2. Bake Orange-spiced Fruit Bread from Delish.
3. Chowhound serves you Grand Marnier French Toast.
4. Learn a chilling Cranberry Mimosas from Recipe Girl.

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Thanksgiving is festive celebration with friends and family. Selection of unique and mouth watering dishes make you pull your old cooking recipe books. Forget old boring cooking style, Now visit straight to the recipe blog and decide an exotic menu for this season and surprise the guests with your warm, heartily and appetizing hosting.

Reckon up this season of Thanksgiving by styling your menu with variety of delicious turkey cuisines. Learn to cook best of turkey recipes and pamper your taste buds and relish guests with unique mouth-watering flavors.

Turkey Hashed Browns:

Cooking Time- 30 minutes.

Yield- 4 to 6 servings.

Ingredients:

• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 pounds boiling potatoes, peeled and 1/2-inch diced
• 1 1/2 cups chopped yellow onions (2)
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 pound cooked turkey, cut in 1-inch cubes
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 2 tablespoons minced scallions, white and green parts

Directions:

• Take large saute pan (10-12 inches).
• Melt the butter in large saute pan.
• Add potatoes, onions, salt, and pepper in pan.
• Cook the mixture over medium-low heat for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Turn occasionally with a flat, spatula until the potatoes are evenly browned and cooked through.
• Allow the potatoes to cook for 5 minutes before turning.
• Add the cooked turkey and heat for 1 to 2 minutes. Turn off the heat and add the parsley and scallions.

Serve hot Hashed brown turkey garnished with mint leaves.

Check more of sizzling turkey cuisines to make your Thanksgiving celebration healthy, low calorie and delicious:

1. Foodnetwork serves you worlds simplest Thanksgiving Turkey made in 3 hours.
2. Learn, cook and feast yummy Green turkey and cheese from Allrecipes and add a herbal soothing flavor.
3. Cook tender Roast turkey from Recipeforturkey.
4. Meals.com provides you a good recipe blog to cook Turkey veggie tetrazzini, an Italian style cuisine.

Make your meal for this thanksgiving with some new introduced delicious essence apart from regular traditional style recipes.

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Halloween coming again spreading smiles especially to kids. Scary pumpkin and funky costumes, traditional cuisines and candy collection with a sound “Trick or Treat”. Host your little guests on door this time with home made candies. Totally refreshing with wide variety and soothing flavors. All mothers let your kids, sugar conscious relatives and guests enjoy this season with variety of best candy treats made at home with these recipe blogs.

Generally parents yell on children when they eat excess candies. Let your kids free to eat lots of candies made at home. Do not worry you will get best of tasty, nutritious and low fat candy recipe in this blog. So feast your little angels with best surprise.

Chocolate Caramel Marshmallow Candy Bars:

Preparation Time- 25 minutes

Cooking Time- 20 minutes

Yield- 36 bars

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup powdered cocoa
• 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 14 ounces wrapped caramels, papers removed
• 6 Tablespoons heavy cream
• 10 ounces semi-sweet chocolate candy bars, broken into small pieces
• 6 Tablespoons heavy cream
• 1 cup mini-marshmallows

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease 13 x 9-inch baking pan with non-stick foil.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, and powdered sugar in medium bowl.
• Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended.
• Mix cocoa, graham cracker crumbs, flour and salt, add mixture, Mix until blended, Spread dough evenly into foil pan.
• Bake at 350 * F for 13 -15 minutes, or until edges are set.
• Cool it properly, Place 6 tablespoons cream and caramels in microwave bowl, Cook for 1 minute and keep stirring.
• Keep in microwave in 30-second increments until smoothen, Cool it.
• Spread thin layer of caramel mixture over the cookie bottom and refrigerate for 15 minutes until caramel firms up a bit.
• Follow the same procedure used for the caramels using 6 tablespoons cream and the chocolate chunks, mixing until smooth and creamy, Cool to lukewarm, but spreadable, Add marshmallows and stir gently until the marshmallows are coated.
• Gently spread the chocolate marshmallow mixture. Refrigerate for at least two hours until firm, then cut into bars with a long serrated knife. Dipping knife frequently into hot water will ease the cutting. Refrigerate bars until serving time.

Serve these delicious marshmallow candy bars and make Halloween a Treat-o-Treat occasion.

Capture some more caramelize candy recipes and make a good kid surprise this Halloween:

1. Prepare Peach Jelly Chew candies from Homecooking.
2. Celebrate this Halloween by making Candy corn fudge from Candy blog.
3. Serve Halloween Peanut Butter and Toffee Candy Bar from Epicurious.
4. Enjoy preparing Mummy Truffles from Glutenfreecooking at Candy.

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Are you also a fan of Apple cuisines! Then this is the best place to relish your taste buds with wide varieties of Meals and desserts made from Apple. The enticing flavor and essence of apple will take you to another world of delicious recipes. Check, view and learn best of apple dishes and introduce some good, new and refreshing menu to your friends and family. Apples create a very good essence when added in some dessert or cuisine, it is nutritious and calorie controlling diet as well. So select those you find to manage with your dinner or as a dessert.

Natural flavor always acts as an add-on to your routine menu. Learn to prepare these easy to cook mouth-watering dishes. No need to scroll or pull your grand-ma’s recipe book, you can directly access to recipe blog and find best of all cuisines. Easy to cook and delightful to eat.

Easy Apple Crisp:

Cooking Time- 15 minutes

Yield- 3 servings

Ingredients:

• 3 cooking apples
• 2 tablespoon sugar
• 175 grams (1 ½ cups) plain flour
• 85 grams (1/3 cup) butter
• 55 grams (1/3 cups) brown sugar
• ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Peel, core and slice 3 cooking apples.
• Place them in an oven proof dish and sprinkle over 2 tbsp sugar.
• Take a food processor to whiz together 1 ½ cups plain flour and 1/3 cup butter and batter till they resemble fine breadcrumbs.
• Alternatively, rub the fat into the flour by hand.
• Mix 1/3 cup brown sugar and ½ tsp ground cinnamon.
• Sprinkle this mixture over the apples and bake until the top is browned and the apples are bubbling.

Serve these sweet apples as a meal, could even use fine oats to roll apple instead of flour to make it more nutritious.

Grab more of nutritious collection of enticing Apple meals and desserts recipes:

1. Urbanext serves you exotic blend of Apple pan cakes with spicy yogurt and cider syrup recipe.
2. Prepare fresh Apple walnut cake with relishing apple topping from Southernfood.
3. Pull up some Irish home made Apple Pie from Yourirish.
4. Learn to cook Apple Muse at home with an essence of almond and honey from Godecookery.

An Apple a day keeps the doctor away. So add on these cuisines to your list of varieties and say good bye to your doctor with divine recipes.

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Graciously feast Thanksgiving Day, an occasion of lavish harvest with traditional mouth watering cuisines. Here come few easy to cook recipes from various cooking blogs for an add-on in your menu.
Select a unique and finest menu for Thanksgiving Day. Here, are some unique Thanksgiving recipes for an ambrosial celebration. Exotic Mexican cornbread, Pie bars, smoked salmon, barbecued oysters and mousse.

Pecan pie-bars:

Ingredients:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup margarine
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups light corn syrup
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 3 tablespoons margarine(melted)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups chopped pecans

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350*F.

• Grease 10*15 inches jellyroll pan.
• Mix flour, ½ cup sugar and salt in a bowl, add 1 cup of margarine until mixture dilute unrefined crumbs.
• Layer mixture in ready pan, preheat oven to bake it for 20 minutes.
• To prepare fillings till the crust is baked, Mix together eggs, corn syrup, 1 ½ cup of sugar, 3 tablespoons margarine and vanilla in a bowl till it gets smooth.
• Add chopped Pecans in the mixture and spread the filling on crust as soon as it is baked.
• Preheat oven to bake for 25 minutes till it sets, before slicing, allow it to cool.

Serve tasty Pecan pie-bars with chocolate syrup.

Here are some more enticing recipes, from various cooking blogs:

1. Indobase serves you best of lip-smacking cuisines as delicious Mexican cornbread.
2. Benefit yourself learning Maple Smoked salmon from Fish Recipe and add spice to your list.
3. Cook in 15 minutes Barbecued oysters from My Recipe and enrich your taste buds.
4. Learn to make Prune Mousse from Deliaonline, a soothing dessert.

Celebrate this season with gratifying meal as an expert chef.

Cooking Time: About 50mins
Yield: Serving for 6

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Ingredients:

• 2cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3-4 cups sugar
• 1-2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1-2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons butter
• 6 cups thinly sliced and cored apple

Directions to cook the pie:

• Pre-heating Oven to 425* F
• Mix well sugar cinnamon, nutmeg, flour and salt. Stir in the apples.
• Placing into pie crust with butter, cover this mixture with top crust and slit evenly to let the steam escape. Sealing the top crust to bottom & pinch edges together.
• Use 3 inch strip of aluminum foil to cover edge of crust.
• Bake this for 50minutes till the crust is brown and juice begins to bubble through the top.

Serve the deliciously made hot Traditional Apple Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream.

Here are varied 5 Apple Pie recipes you would love to cook in the shortest time with great taste:

• Food Network gives you the best recipe to prepare the most delicious Apple Tart with Hazelnut Frangipane that not only looks great, but also tastes very luscious and tempting.
• Applepie.org gives you the most mouth-watering Caramel Apple Pie to be garnished with a large spoon of whipped cream and served well.
• With spending only about 35mins of cooking, get the showstopper Rum Raisin Apple Pie from Epicurious paired with lightly sweetened whipped cream.
• Take privilege of cooking and gobbling the most scrumptious Fall Harvest Apple Pie from Recipe Cottage.
• Pie Chef gives you the ways to tang and crunch the excellent Apple Cranberry Walnut Pie that can be prepared with lots of fruits as well.

Go ahead and enjoy taste-buds stimulating homemade Apple Pies!

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These almond biscotti could make a good show-off when there are visitors at home. Serve it exotically with chocolate pudding to flavour the best.

Ingredients:

1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/3 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
10 tablespoons (1 1/4 stick) unsalted butter melted
3 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extracts
1 tablespoon orange liqueur
1 tablespoon orange zest
1 cup whole almonds toasted, coarsely chopped or sliced almonds

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and position rack in centre of oven. A baking sheet with parchment paper. Sift flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Mix sugar, melted butter, 3 eggs, vanilla, orange liqueur and zest in large bowl. Add flour mixture to egg mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until smooth. Mix the almonds.
2. Divide the dough in half. With floured hands, shape each half of dough into 13 1/2-inch-long, 2 1/2-inch-wide log. Transfer two newspapers with griddle, spacing. Whisk egg whites in a small bowl until frothy, brush top and sides of each dough log.
3. Bake until golden brown logs (logs will spread), about 30 minutes. Cool completely on sheet newspapers on rack, about 25 minutes. Maintain oven temperature.
4. Transfer logs to work surface and discard parchment paper. Use a serrated knife, cut the wood on the diagonal into slices 1/2-inch-wide. Place slices, cut side down, on the same plate. Bake 12 minutes. Return biscotti and bake until they begin to brown, about 8 minutes. Transfer to rack and cool.

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