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Carnival of the Recipes: International Edition

Maureen at Trinity Prep School has gathered together a great assortment of recipes for this week's Carnival of the Recipes: The International Edition. The Carnival is now up for your culinary enjoyment!  Top of the list for me to try:

• Shawn, a girl after my own heart, offers another recipe for Cinco de Mayo - South of the Border S'Mores.  I only have 1 word for you: lordyhelpmythighs.  And do I have any tortillas in the house?
• Martin the Egoist has a recipe for Langos ,  which I must try. Apparently it's a type of potato bread and he says it goes great with cappuccino, so... I'm there. I'm not sure though, this might be a 3 dot recipe.
• Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry from World Famous Recipes sounds yummy.
• I think the hubs would like this one: Kerikeri Corn Salad, from KeeWee's Corner, is New Zealand dish

There's lots more, I've only skimmed the surface here.  Go have a look see and get cookin'!

Next week will be a special Macaroni and Cheese Edition of the Carnival of the Recipes. Submit your favorite mac-and-cheese recipe  to the form at the CotR page, or send your link to recipe.carnival@gmail.com by 12pm CST Saturday.

Carnival of the Recipes #131

This week's Carnival of the Recipes is up for viewing, hosted at Slow Cooker Recipes.  Lots of great crockpot recipes to try!

Next week's Carnival will be hosted at JamiLeigh.  I can't tell if there's a theme or not.  Holler at Jami and ask, and then let me know, wouldja?  Be sure to get your recipes in by Saturday noonish, via email: recipe(dot)carnival(at)gmail(dot)com or use the online form.

Valentine's Day Carnival of the Recipes

Welcome, welcome, welcome, to the Hearts-Full-of-Love Pre-Valentine's Day Carnival of the Recipes

This week for your gustatory pleasure we have a bevy of treats guaranteed to make your heart go pitter pat, whether you to cook, or to eat, or both!

Sweets for Your Sweetie (or your own Sweet Tooth)

Starting with chocolate, which is the staple of love ...

Shawn of Everything and Nothing ensures we won't go into chocolate withdrawal with her recipe for Chocolate Syrup Cake.  This sounds absolutely decadent.

Anne-Marie gives us the ultimate in chocolate desserts: Valentine's Day - Julia Child's chocolate mousse. Anne-Marie suggests adding some coffee or vanilla-flavored liquor. Sounds like a MUST to me!

Kathy of startcooking.com offers up a recipe (with plenty of pictures and destructions) for Home-Made Chocolate Fudge.  Heh, is there any other kind?

And be sure to check out my offering, a story of what went wrong, or the heart tart that never was: Ganache with Panache.

Marsha of A Weight Lifted presents 10 Minute Fresh Berry Dessert with Yogurt & Chocolate, shown in the picture here, giving us all a way to indulge without compromising our healthy living lifestyle. 

Next is a special dessert recipe from KeeWee's Corner for Pavlova.  I've never tried meringue and this recipe makes me wanna try.  The photo sure looks delish.

Poor Stephanie of Stop the Ride! nearly lost her friend's recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake.  Thank goodness she found it, and shared the recipe with us! Now if she loses it again, we can all send her a copy.  :)

Here are some fun sweets, for when your sweeties are kids, or just the kid in your sweetie.  More4kids presents Valentine Recipe Ideas - Heart Cookies, Valentine Pancakes and more.  I love the pancakes!

Ideas for Romantic Meals and Such

For Valentine's Day breakfast, this recipe from Maureen at Trinity Prep School for Raspberry-Cinnamon French Toast Bake sounds LOVERLY! It's not your average french toast nor is it your plain egg bake.

Riannan from In the Headlights offers us a tasty dish: Grouper, Shrimp and Artichokes in Tarragon Cream.  This recipe could serve 6, she says, but I bet you and your sweetie could feast, and then have leftovers at 1am.

Broke and busted?  Make your Valentine's evening special, no matter your budget, by making spaghetti with love, and Cheap Homemadish Spaghetti Sauce from triticale, the wheat/rye guy. 

Something to replenish body and soul, and that of your loved one, is Seriously Good Kevin's recipe for Pastitsio, a Greek meat and pasta pie Kevin refers to as "peasant food".  Whatever it is, it sure sounds good.

DeputyHeadmistress at The Common Room has posted a great recipe for "tangy-sweet salad":  Honey-Orange Bean Vegetable Slaw with good explanations and commentary. I love it when folx explain how they used or modified a recipe and why. For one-dot cooks like me, this is so helpful!

Erika over at Tradition offers three recipes in Cold Weather Recipes: Mulligatawny Soup, The World's Best Ever Biscuits, and last but not least, Fudgy Brownie Pudding. Sounds like a warm meal from the heart!

You could really WOW your sweetheart with this recipe for Succulent Lamb Kebabs from Daryl at Authentic Malaysian Cuisine & Food Recipes.  Wonderfully exotic, and yet, so easy!

Party Fare!

Jennifer Miner of Travel Articles says this is The World's Best Artichoke Dip: A great recipe for artichoke dip that'll be the hit of the party. This is a hot dip that Jennifer spruces up by sometimes adding crab, red peppers, and eggplant.

Now here's an idea from Andrea of Wisebread Frugal: Tortillas and Chilaquiles: Romance him with sports bar food?. If you met your hunny in a sports bar, what better way to celebrate the occasion!

The Hermit of The Ziggurat of Doom is whipping up some very special iced coffee.  This is a MUST for after dinner, with a warm desert.  I'm so THERE.

That's all for me on this one folx!  I hope you all have a delicious and love-ly Valentine's Day!  Next week's Carnival will be hosted at Techno Gypsy.  Submit your recipes via email to recipedotcarnivalatgmail.com, or use the Blog Carnival submit form.

Carnival of the Recipes #128

I don't have a lot of time for blogging this week, but I wanted to get a couple of quicky posts in before that big boulder called "work" rolls over me.

Thrifty Mommy has posted this week's Carnival of the Recipes, and WHOOPS, I missed the fact that the theme was Mexican food.  Oh well.  My Cream Cheese Fruit Tarts will make a nice soothing dessert for those spicy meals.  Heheh.  A couple of other notables:

• The hubs will probably like Slow Cooker Mexican Beef Stew from World Famous Recipes. 
• KeeWee's Chicken Mole looks delish.  What's a mole, anyway?  I mean, other than a small brown burrower.
• I wanted to have a look at Peggy Hall's six-layer dip, but the link seems to be dead right now.  I'll leave the link here in case it resuscitates later.
• Here's a great, sooper easy, sooper quick dip recipe from Michele at Meanderings: Super Bowl Taco Dip.  Definitely gonna try this for my next party.
• Boy do these look good: Cocoa Candied Pecans from Men in Aprons.  I wonder how this would taste using cashews?
• Best is last: Triticale - The Wheat/Rye Guy has a recipe for gooey chocolate chip cookies that WILL be tried this week, absolutely, no doubt.

Coming up - I will be hosting the pre-Valentine's Day Carnival right here, so get your favorite Valentine's Day recipes out and post them here or by sending email to recipe(dot)carnival(at)gmail(dot)com by noon CST on Saturday!

Carnival of the Recipes #126

I just realized why I blocked out this last week's Carnival of the Recipes.  It's hosted at Diabetic Recipes, and the theme is, naturally, recipes for diabetics. 

Well, there you go, ain't that just a shiny bit of Freudian lingerie, typical subconscious mental block.  Firstly, I was married to a diabetic, and for years I watched his diet way more diligently than I did my own.  Classic co-dependent behavior, which thankfully I evolved out of.  Secondly, I have no diabetic-safe recipes in my recipe box.  In fact, most of my recipes are guaranteed to KILL a diabetic.  So it's probably best that I didn't post something.  Heh.

Anyway, go have a look-see, there are plenty of recipes to try!  And, interesting, the authors Kathy and Bill were snowed in here in Arizona.  I didn't get to see any of the snow we got - hugely disappointed about that! - but then there was one year (about 12 years ago) when I saw it snow in the wee hours and nobody else saw it.  In some weird way, I guess that evens things out.

Carnival of the Recipes #124

I totally spaced and forgot to mention that this week's Carnival is up for viewing at Elementary Chef.  Lots of good stuff to try, go check it out! 

Two recipes I'm gonna add to my must-try list are Shawn's Frozen Berries with Hot White Chocolate, and Julie's Chocolate Chess Pie.  Julie doesn't say why it's called "chess".  Maybe you can play a game of chess in the time it takes to cook. 

And for a change, a non-chocolate recipe has caught my eye.  I am definitely going to try Meanderings' Mince & Tatties recipe!

Carnival of the Recipes #123

The "Say Goodbye to 2006" edition of the Carnival of the Recipes is up for viewing at Booklore! 

I don't know if I have time, but I'm wanting to add Start Cooking's  Cranberry Pinwheels to my New Year's menu.  This recipe sounds so good!  Unfortunately, Riannon's Amadeo Chocolate Bomb recipe (ohmigod!!), and KeeWee's pumpkin bars will have to wait for another day.  So many recipes, so little time!

Bernadette has gifted us with a lovely collection of quotes throughout the carnival.  I've often thought books and food go together, as evidenced by the smudges on the pages of some of my favorite books.  Check out this lovely tea quote from Rebecca, one of my all-time favorite books.

Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandiwches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion busting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week. I never knew what happened to it all, and the waste used to worry me sometimes.

—Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

Isn't that delectable?  delicious?  way mouse-waddling??

Happy New Year everybody!

The (Last Minute) Christmas Carnival of the Recipes

Welcome, welcome to the Last Minute Christmas Carnival of the Recipes, otherwise known as CotR Edition #122.  We have many wonderful dishes for your Christmas cookery and beyond.  To steal a phrase from Triticale the wheat guy, "Dom Eatimus, Eatamus" - which I gather loosely translates to "while we eat, let us eat".  Amen! 

Now, on with the Carnival!!

Christmas Drinks (the best way to start any holiday...):

Maureen of Trinity Prep School presents Christmas Wassail - (shown at the right) a traditional holiday drink that warms the tummy and makes your home smell scrumptious.

Gerry at DiseaseProof presents Shake Some Soy - soy fruit smoothies, so your holidays may be healthy.

Slow Cooker Recipes offers a great recipe for Hot Mulled Cider.

Lionel of Lookin at Cookin gives us the latest coffee tip: Wet or Dry Coffee Milk Foam?

And to round out the holiday beverages - my offering: From Grog to Nog - recipes for Chocolate Orange Coffee Grog, and homemade Chocolate Egg Nog.

Christmas Sweets (jump right to dessert, don't waste time...):

In the too cute category, Shawn Lea of Everything & Nothing racks up mommy-points with Not a Creature Was Lurking ... Except My Chocolate Mice.  Aren't they just too too?

Christmas Recipes presents English Christmas Trifle Recipe. I always wanted to know how to make a trifle.

Riannan of In the Headlights brings us Chocolate-Covered Gingerbread Cake. In a word - YUM!

Jennifer Kelly of Keewee's Corner presents Pineapple Ginger Surprize. "An elegant easy dessert to whip up for your Christmas Eve party"  Yes, indeedy, I'm gonna try this!

Mama Squirrel at Dewey's Treehouse keeps it clean and easy with When it's time to change... Chocolate-Apricot Confections.

Kathy Maister of startcooking.com presents Holiday Cookies. These easy-bake holiday treats should go perfectly with your morning coffee and afternoon tea throughout the festive season. I love the full array of photo destructions.

El Capitan of the Baboon Pirates presents Forgotten Cookies. No, really. You go away and forget them. How cool is that? Just don't forget to turn the oven off.

Appetizers & Salads

World Famous Recipes presents Festive Cranberry-Pineapple Salad and Italian Christmas Seafood Salad. Hmm, decisions, decisions...

Chicken Recipes presents Chicken Rollups.

Main Dishes (make sure to leave room for ... ):

Gillian Polack of Food History presents Chanukah #5 - fried fish. Gillian also offers The strangeness of food history - a few foul anecdotes, "in case everyone has too much Christmas cheer".

Elisson presents his YOU ASKED FOR IT (Peerless Potato Pancakes) Delish.

David Needham of Third World County presents What’s Red and Green and Delicious All Over? Hominy Stew. To tell the truth, I'm not sure what hominy is, but it sure is fun to say. What do I want for Christmas? Peas and hominy for all da world.

muse of me-ander presents Yes, it's true. There is an easy way to make lasagna!. That's very good news indeed, I'll have to try this!

IB of Gluten-Free By The Bay presents Confetti Latkes: Parsnip and Carrot Pancakes shown in the photo here.

cehwiedel of Kneadle Work presents White Bean and Beef Soup - an easy slow-cooker recipe for bean-lovers. This time of year, a crock pot is my best friend!

Triticale the wheat/rye guy presents Fettucini Alfredissimo - the real deal, not the "fred". Bellissimo!

Here's a recipe for Baked Salami With Sweet Mustard Sauce from Deborah of Eat Your History. She says "I got the recipe from Scott Johnson and his wife (Scott Johnson of Power Line). I'm submitting this recipe because it is included in the blogger cookbook I just self-published. The book is called "BLOGALICIOUS" ... and here's how you can discover all the rich, bloggy goodness about it: Blogalicious Cookbook.

Diabetic Recipes presents Roasted Sherry Duck. Wow. I'd love to be able to tell my guests we were serving that!

There you have it.  Hope I didn't forget anybody, but feel free to holler at me if I did. Next week's Carnival will be hosted at Booklore.  Submit your recipes via email to recipedotcarnivalatgmail.com, or use the Blog Carnival submit form.

Enjoy the holidays, everybunny!

Carnival of the Recipes

What number are we on now?  I've lost track.

Anyway, this week's Carnival is up for viewing at The Common Room, and it's chock full of goodies.  I'm not sure I'll have time to try all the recipes I want to try, but these are at the top of my list:

• Mama Squirrel's Chocolate Hazelnut Crescents made my mouse waddle for sure.  Dipped in melted chocolate, rounds or crescents, I might have to try all variations!
• Two delish-sounding "Gramma's bread" recipes that would be great for morning coffee or on an afternoon tea party tray: Virginia Apple Orange Bread from the Headmistress at the Common Room, and our favorite blogdaddy, David Needham of Third World County offers his Grandmother's Date Nut Bread.  Scrummy!
• Chocolate Snowflakes and Thumbprint Cookies - I gotta try the snowflakes, also called chocolate crinkles, from this Geezer's Corner.
• Amish Sugar Cookies from Joe at Mom's Favorites.  Not sure about this one, but I want to try it.  How many recipes do you see that call for oil AND oleo.  Umm, that's margarine, right?

Be sure to have a gander and check out all the recipes.  And next week (which is looming FAST), I'll be hosting the very last minute Christmas edition of the Carnival.  Yep, you heard right, last minute Christmas stuff, get yer recipes out!  Submit to the carnival form, or send by email to recipe.carnival@gmail.com before Saturday noon (CST)

Tonight We Have Chx a la ...

The CHICKEN edition of the Carnival of the Recipes is up for viewing at Chicken Recipes.  I'm always looking for new chicken recipes, and there's plenty here for chicken fans, plus a bunch of stuff for non-chicken fans too.  Top of my list to try for this week:

• Orange Slice Bars from EclectEcon - Yeegod this sounds good.  Must try with cranberries.
• Hot Fudge Cake from Chocolate Recipes I love.  I have to try this altho the destructions sound kind of strange.  Hot water over all?  Must try and see.
• Wheatless Christmas Blossom Cookies - I don't care about the wheatless part, but it's made with 48 chocolate kisses!