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Four Cheese Quiche

1 pastry shell (use pie crust recipe or pastry crust from the tomato tart recipe.

3.5oz st nectaire (soft, ripened cheese) without the rind
3.5oz chevre
1oz blue d'Auvergne or Roquefort
2oz of grated emmental cheese
2 eggs
2 egg yolks

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Bernice's Fried Eggplant

Slice the eggplant (the round way) into 1/2" rounds.

Sprinkle flour on both sides.

Dip into the egg batter which has a little milk, and any spices you want. I usually use garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, basil, oregano. Depending on the size of the eggplant, one large egg with enough milk should do it.

Then put your breadcrumbs in a plastic bag (or bowl) and shake. Don't put too much bread crumbs at one time because it gets too wet and then doesn't adhere to the eggplant. Just keep adding more bread crumbs.

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Quick Tomato Olive "Salsa"

I whipped this up to go with grilled salmon. It was easy and delicious!

2 parts cherry tomatoes, halved or quartered (depending on size)
1 part chopped kalamata olives
1 part diced red onions
1 part feta, crumbled
lemon juice
olive oil (if possible, from a jar of sundried tomatoes)

Combine and enjoy!

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Crab Rangoon

All I can say is this crab rangoon recipe is ... delicious!! Shamelessly stolen.

Obviously, this is a "notional" recipe.

Ingredients
Roughly equal parts cream cheese (at room temperature) and imitation crab meat (chopped up)
(Go a little heavy on the cream cheese)
Chopped green onion
Dash garlic powder
Smaller dash soy sauce
Enough won ton wrappers (recommend cutting them in half and makings smaller pouches)

Process
Mix ingredients together (except won ton wrappers).

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Pickled Beets

Yield: 5 pints

~12 medium sized beets (ideally, your beets are the same diameter as your jars)
1 cup water
1 cup white vinegar
1 cup sugar

Wash beets well. Trim roots, but leave attached to vegetable so the beet doesn't bleed too much when cooked.

Put beets in boiling water for 30-45 minutes (until they peel easily).

Peel beets. Put in cold water to cool.

While beets are cooling, mix water, vinegar, and sugar. Warm on stovetop until hot, but not boiling.

Meanwhile, warm jars and lids. Use mandolin to slice beets ~1/8-1/4" thick.

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Japanese Pickles

This is the recipe I used for our annual batch of canned Japanese/sweet pickles.

Yield: 3+ pints (I saved some in the fridge for a quick pickle with dinner)

~6 small Kirby (pickling cucumbers), sliced 1/8" thick
1 medium white onion, thinly sliced
2 cups vinegar (split between white vinegar and rice vinegar)
1 cup sugar
Salt

Sprinkle sliced cucumbers with salt. Let stand for 5 minutes. Wash off salt and drain.

Heat jars and lids.

Warm vinegar and sugar on the stove so that sugar dissolves and mixture gets hot but not boiling.

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Carmelized Onion and Apple Pizza

Adapted from http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&... , we replaced the filo dough with a thin pizza crust, baked it as one large sheet, and cut it apart after baking. This cuts down on a lot of the per-piece work.

We also spread some olive oil on the crust before placing the topping on top.

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Foams

A holding place for all things foam, thanks to my iSi Creative Whip.

First up, a blue cheese foam to top steak with:
1 oz blue cheese (Roquefort)
1 oz cream
1 T milk
blend until perfectly smooth, whip, chill, serve.

Next up, a raita-yogurt foam
1.5 oz raita (yogurt, raita spices, lemon juice)
1.5 oz cream
mix, whip, chill, serve. Great on cucumber slices.

Chimichurri foam
oil/vinegar mix from chimichurri, strained
a tad of Stubbs mopping sauce (or other vinegary BBQ sauce)
apple cider vinegar for volume

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Sauteed Fresh Chickpeas

Fresh Chickpeas

Delicious and easy ... if you can find fresh chick peas (garbanzo beans).

2 cups fresh garbanzo beans, washed
olive oil to coat pan
pat butter (if desired, for flavor)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water

Heat oil and butter in sautee pan. Add garbanzo beans in a single layer. Add water and lemon juice. Cover. Cook about 4 minutes, or until undersides of bean start to brown and burn. Only shake side to side while cooking.

Pour into a bowl (with oil/juices) and serve. Eat sort of like edamame. Lick fingers.

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Smoked Salmon Crepe Pinwheels

A delicious and fun twist on Kevin Dundon's salmon cake recipe.

These are crepes, layered with cream cheese and smoked salmon (lox), rolled and cut into pinwheels. Great for a party!

1/3 cup plain flour
1 small egg
about 1/2 cup milk
4-8oz smoked salmon slices
4-8oz whipped cream cheese (with herbs/chives if available)
1 tbsp snipped fresh chives
juice of 1/2 lemon

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