Recipes 4 Canada

Home-made Gingerale -For What Ails You! [Recipe Link Up]

2011-12-29T15:38:00.000-05:00

What's Your Favourite Gingerale Recipe?

Please post a comment with a link to either your recipe for home-made gingerale,or a recipe that uses gingerale.

Making Gingerale is something I think of each time I see fresh ginger in the grocery store. Years ago, I made some when I was visiting a family in Germany,and it turned out quite well. The last few weeks I've been living on Canada Dry Cranberry Gingerale -on sale at the grocer for .99.as nothing much has wanted to stay in my tummy. I often wondered why ginger helps tummies and this Homemade Gingerale Recipe post on the Life From Scratch blog has some great info about the benefits of gingerale.

Did you know Ginger is a miracle food?
Ginger is naturally: anti-microbial, anti-viral, and anti-biotic. It’s high in potassium and manganese which builds resistance to disease, protects lining of heart, blood vessels and urinary passages. It has silicon which promotes healthy skin, hair, teeth and nails. It helps assimilate calcium and also contains Vit. A, C, E, B-complex, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, iron, zinc, calcium, beta-carotene. Even Gravol started marketing a natural ginger ant-nauseant.

Here are some Ways Ginger can help you:

Eliminates congestion
Morning sickness remedy
Motion sickness remedy
Reduces inflammation and pain
Alleviates heartburn
Cold and Flu Prevention and Treatment
Migraine Relief
Menstrual Cramp Relief
Prevention of Diabetic Nephropathy
Prevent and treat cancers
Relieves nausea and improves digestion
Improves circulation and can help Prevents heart attacks
Cleanses the colon and relieves digestive distress
Promotes menstrual regularity
Improves lung capacity and can reduce asthma symptoms

Wow! All from a relative of
The Homemade Gingerale Recipe on the Life From Scratch blog calls for:

unchlorinated water (leave it on your counter for 24 hours)

fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped or grated
fresh lime juice
raw organic cane sugar
sea salt
whey

See the amounts and directions on the Homemade Gingerale Recipe on the Life From Scratch blog
What are the ingredients in your Gingerale Recipe? Leave a comment listing your ingredients as above,and a link to your recipe. You can also ad a teaser as well . Looking forward to reading your recipes!
Suzanne-aka YrHelper Infonut.

Healthy Popcorn Balls?

2011-10-31T14:41:00.002-04:00

Healthy Popcorn Balls?
Here's a different take on a traditional Halloween treat from the Marilyn Dennis Show! We used to make popcorn balls with corn syrup,and butter, but then found my daughter was sensitive to corn products. This version from the Marilyn Dennis site, includes almond,sunflower or peanut butter and brown rice syrup. I'm not sure how much healthier this recipe is than the regular recipe.You may want to use the food finder nutrition calculator to compare your version with this one.

(Makes approx 28)

Healthy Popcorn Balls Ingredients :

7 Cups Popcorn (air blown or in a pot old fashioned style
1/2 Cup Almond, Sunflower or Peanut Butter
1/2 Cup Brown Rice Syrup (found at most health food stores)

Healthy Popcorn Balls Directions

1. Place nut butter and rice syrup in a saucepan and warm over medium heat about 1 minute till it becomes spreadable.

2. Pour mixture over the popped popcorn (make sure to take out any unpopped kernels) in a bowl and with a rubber spatula or using your hands, coat the popcorn with the nut butter mixture.

3. With damp hands, roll into 1 1/2 inch balls, or leave the mixture loose for a great snack.

Source: www.marilyn.ca/HealthFitness

Knorr Vegetable Spinach Dip Recipe Twist

2011-06-23T11:35:00.000-04:00

What's Your Knorr Vegetable Dip Twist?

One of our favourite Family recipes is Vegetable Dip. The recipe is based on the Knorr Vegetable Dip Recipe, with a few of our own personal tweaks. Here is the Knorr Vegetable Dip Recipe, followed by our adaptation. What personal twist do you put on this recipe?
Ingredients:

1pkg. Knorr® Vegetable Soup Mix
500 mL sour cream 2 cups
125 mL Hellmann's® Mayonnaise 1/2 cup

Method:

Combine all ingredients in medium bowl. Chill 2 hours. Serve with your favourite dippers

Our Family’s Twist on Knorr Vegetable Dip

Ingredients:

1pkg. Knorr® Vegetable Soup Mix
500 mL Low Fat Balkan Style Yogurt 2 cups
1pkg. frozen spinach thawed, and drained
1 large round day old pumpernickel loaf of bread

Method:

Combine all ingredients except bread in medium bowl. Chill 2 hours. Meanwhile, cut the top off the loaf of pumpernickel bread, and cut the inside of the loaf into 1 inch to 2 inch cubes. Remove the bread cubes to form a bowl,and arrange around the empty bread bowl on a platter. When the dip is ready, scoop into the bread bowl, and top with the lid. Use bread cubes as dippers, along with a variety of veggies.
Knorr Dry soup mixes are a staple in our home, as they are really handy to have on hand if someone pops in unexpectedly. What do you keep on hand as staples?
You can find more great recipes in the Knorr Recipe Collection.

New Twist on Devilled Eggs from Bicks

2010-05-13T09:51:00.004-04:00

Found this new version on Bicks pickles while entering their contest to win a
Trip to LA.
My devilled eggs would never come out of the shell. Then a member of our women’s church group gave me this great tip – don’t use fresh eggs to make devilled eggs – they’re too hard to peel.

Bick's Deviled Eggs

Preparation: 10 minutes
Makes: 16 appetizers
Ingredients:
8 hard boiled eggs
¼ cup (50 mL) mayonnaise
¼ cup (50 mL) Bick’s® Mini Crunch'ems - Garlic, finely chopped
1 tsp (5 mL) dijon mustard
salt, black and cayenne peppers to taste
Method:
1. Cut eggs in half lengthwise.
2. Remove yolks and mash and place in a separate bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients. Mix well.
3. Refill egg white halves with yolk mixture.
Tip:
1. Sprinkle eggs with paprika and garnish with a sliver of BICK’S Mini Crunch’ems Pickles.
Sounds yummy! What do you think? Rate their recipe HERE

How to Write Recipes with Nutritional Information

2009-10-05T16:30:00.001-04:00

List each ingredient
Look up each ingredient in the Food Finder on iDivine Click HERE to go to the Food Finder.
Add your numbers using a spreadsheet program or do it by hand.
Use your spreadsheet to divide the amounts by the number of portions.

Well, off I go to find or create the spreadsheet!

P.S. Anyone have suggestions for Meatless Monday?

Great Dinner Decision Making Tool

2009-10-01T17:18:00.001-04:00

Tired of deciding what to make for dinner?

Use Maple Leaf's "One click to dinner" tool. Give those worries the old 1,2 .

1.One click &your main dish, veggie & side dish are chosen

2.Click & print the recipes & shopping list.

Now all they need to add is a chef & delivery service!

Try Maple Leaf's One Click to Dinner!

Quick 'n Easy Crab Dip

2009-09-20T16:57:00.001-04:00

from Tickled Pink Cookbook

in support of for breast cancer research

100% of net proceeds from the sale of this cookbook will be donated to the hospitals & foundations in Canada & U.S.A. that focus on breast cancer research

See more Recipes Here

Crab Dip

Ingrid van Kimmenaede
Breast Cancer Survivor
Brantford, Ontario

Ingredients

1 package cream cheese
1 can tomato soup
1 envelope gelatine
1 cup celery, finely chopped
1/4 cup green onion, finely chopped
2 cans crab meat, chunk style in water base
1 cup Miracle Whip

Method
1. In a double broiler, soften cream cheese. Once softened, using a whisk, stir in tomato soup and gelatine, mixing until smooth.
2. Drain crab meat and rinse with tap water. Using fingers, separate chunks of crab meat and place in large bowl.
3. Add chopped celery and green onions.
4. Add warm mixture of cream cheese, tomato soup and gelatine to ingredients in bowl, mixing well.
5. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours (overnight is better).
6. Once mixture has set, fold in Miracle Whip and refrigerate once more for approximately 2 hours.
7. The dip is now ready to serve, and can be refrigerated for up to 2 weeks.

Recipes with links for non-profit foundations welcome!

Submit yours today!

Ziploc Omelette

2009-09-07T07:07:00.002-04:00

From Mary Ann
(This works great !!! Good for when all your family is together. The best part is that no one has to wait for their special omelette !!!)

Ingredients:
2 eggs per person
Variety of chopped ingredients: cheeses, ham, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc.

Tools:
Large Ziploc bag per person
Large Pot of Boiling Water

Have guests write their name on a quart-size Ziploc freezer bag with permanent marker.
Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) into the bag (not more than 2) shake to combine them.
Put out a variety of ingredients such as: cheeses, ham, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc.
Each guest adds prepared ingredients of choice to their bag and shakes. Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up.
Place the bags into rolling, boiling water for exactly 13 minutes [we did 15 minutes]. You can usually cook 6-8 omelettes in a large pot. For more, make another pot of boiling water.
Open the bags and the omelette will roll out easily. Be prepared for everyone to be amazed.

Nice to serve with fresh fruit and coffee cake; everyone gets involved in the process and a great conversation piece.

Imagine having these ready the night before, and putting the bag in boiling water while you get ready. And in 15 minutes, you've got a nice omelette for a quick breakfast!!!

Flourless (Gluten-free) Pancakes

2009-09-07T07:00:00.000-04:00

A quick, easy recipe to remember. Great if you're low on flour or have bananas to use up. It sounds odd, but works great!

Mash together: 1 ripe banana & 1 egg until smooth.

Pour into hot, greased frying pan and cook over medium heat.
Flip when surface is dry.

Enjoy as you would regular pancakes!