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Mocha soy pudding
- 1 Cup or 6 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
- 1(12-ounces) package firm tofu, drained
- 1/4 cup soy milk or whole milk
- 2 tablespoons strong coffee or espresso
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- pinch salt

- Melt chocolate on a saucepan or in the microwave.
- Add to a blender, tofu, milk, coffee, vanilla, and salt. Blend for 30 seconds.
- Add the melted chocolate and blend again. Put the mixture in a bowl, and place in the fridge until completely chilled. Serve with fruit or by its self.

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Meringues
- 3 Egg whites
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 Cup superfine sugar

- Add the cream of tartar, salt, and vanilla to your bowl of foamy egg whites. Beat the egg whites with a stand mixer, or eggbeaters until you can make peaks that stand upright.
- Slowly add the sugar by sprinkling a tablespoon at a time. Continue beating while adding the sugar. Using a piping bag, pipe your meringues onto your cookie sheet, and place in the oven at 250 degrees for 1 hour or until the texture is crispy.
- After taking them out of the oven let set for a few minutes to cool and enjoy!

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Ice Cream Taste Test!
This week I did an ice cream taste test, to determine what is the best ice cream?
I had 3 different people try 4 different vanilla ice creams, without discussing or looking at each other(mind over matter). The 1st ice cream was a very cheap brand, the 2nd a vanilla frozen yogurt, the 3rd a Ultra Premium ice cream, and the 4th a premium ice cream. All 4 ice creams and frozen yogurt were vanilla! And here are the results⬇️




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Sausage Empanadas
Taste like breakfast!
- 1/2 small red onion chopped
- 3/4 lb sausage
- 1/2 tbsp chili pepper flakes
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/2 cups chredded cheese
- 2 Tbsp oil

- Heat up 2 tbsp oil in a skillet.
- when the oil is heated add the onion and saute until they are soft
- add the sausage and red chili flakes and cook until done
- once the sausage is cooked add the cream
- after the cream has thickened, take the skillet of the stove and add the cheese.
- Add the mixture to your empanada dough and fold to cover the filling completely.
- put in the oven at 350 degrees and cook until golden brown.
- let cool for a few minutes and enjoy!

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Orange marmalade!
- 4 Large Oranges
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 Tbsp of lemon juice
- 1/2 Cup of water
Wash and cut your oranges, put them in a blender until there are no big chunks of orange peels. Then transfer the oranges to a sauce pan with the rest of your ingredients. Simmer over medium heat until the mixture becomes thick. Make sure you stir mixture so it doesn’t burn! After it thickens, put into a container and set aside until it cools down. After it has cooled, it’s safe to put a lid on the container and store in the fridge. Can be refrigerated for about 3 weeks. I hope you enjoyed the recipe!


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Homemade butter!
This week’s recipe is going to be short, because there is only one ingredient!
- 1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
Put heavy cream in a jar with a lid. Shake the jar for 5 minutes or until the cream has become thick. You might notice that it doesn’t look like butter, well…. You gotta shake it longer, your halfway there! The longer you shake it, the more the butter will separate from the buttermilk. After the butter form’s, separate the butter from the buttermilk. You can save the buttermilk if you’d like! Put a little bit of cold water in the jar with the butter in it, so it will get rid of any excess buttermilk. Take the butter out of the jar and run it over cold water, Press out any extra buttermilk from the butter with your hands. Form the butter however you’d like and put in a container with a lid. Store in the fridge for up to a week. I hope y’all enjoy this week’s recipe!


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Roasting the Garden.
This week’s recipe is very simple, basically just grab all your veggies and roast em’!
- 2 large, sweet onions, peeled and scored across the top.
- 1 whole red pepper
- 1 Zucchini
- 1 yellow squash
- 4 plum tomatoes
- 3 large whole carrots
- 4 asparagus spears
- 1 head of garlic
- Extra Vergin olive oil
- Sea salt
- Thyme sprigs and basil for garnish
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Cut all veggies into strips or cubes and then place them on a pan with olive oil and seasonings. Feel free to add more seasonings than directed. Place the pan in the oven and cook for 50 minutes to an hour. Take the pan out of the oven and let cool for a few minutes, enjoy your veggies on top of toasted bread with butter or by themselves!

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Sausage gravy!
This week’s recipe is very simple but delicious! I don’t have actual measurements, but you can’t mess it up!
- Ground sausage
- Milk
- salt and pepper
- flour or corn starch for thickening

Biscuits and gravy, with sausage and blueberry pancakes!🫐🥞 - Cook the sausage on medium low heat until completely done!
- Then add your milk, salt and pepper.
- Let thicken a little bit, then add your flour or cornstarch.
- It should thicken within a few minutes depending on how much your making!
- After completely thickened pour it on your biscuits and enjoy!

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Basic Turkey or chicken gravy.
I used chicken for my gravy, and I didn’t use celery or carrots. I made a change in the flour also I used gluten free flour instead of all-purpose flour.
- Turkey or chicken
- 1/2 cup each of chopped onion, celery, and carrots.
- 1/4 cup fat from the roasting pan
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour(or gluten free)
- juice from the pan
- About 2 cups turkey or chicken broth
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Prepare the turkey or chicken for roasting. Before placing in the oven, add the chopped onion, celery, and carrots to the roasting pan.
- Roast the bird according to your recipe(I just used a pre roasted chicken)
- Make the giblet broth while the bird roasts.
- When the turkey or chicken is done, remove it to a platter to rest while you make the gravy.
- Pour all the juices into a glass measuring cup. Measure 1/4 cup fat and return it to the roasting pan.
- Measure and reserve the brown liquid. Discard the remaining fat or set it aside to make additional gravy for leftovers.
- Scrape the bottom of the pan to loosen the vegetables and bake on bits.
- Add flour to the roasting pan.
- Blend the fat and the flour with a wooden spoon, making a thick, smooth mixture.
- Over low heat, let the pan’s contents bubble and cook for 2 minutes. Theirs eliminates the taste of raw flour.
- Slowly whisk in the reserved brown liquid and enough broth to bring the gravy to the consistency you like, about 2 cups of liquid in all.
- Simmer for for barely 5 minutes longer, until the gravy is thick and smooth. season with salt and pepper!
- Enjoy it on any food you’d like!

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Strawberry Bombe
Materials & Equipment
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 4 1/2 tablespoons cold water
- 1 1/2 tablespoons boiling water
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- (9- or 10- ounces) frozen strawberries, defrosted
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- A spoon
- An electric mixer or eggbeater
- Measuring cups
- small cup
- 3 small bowls
- a rubber spatula
- 2 ice cream container’s

- Put the gelatin in a small dish or cup and add 1 1/2 tablespoons of cold water.
2. Put the strawberries in one of the bowls and add the sugar and lemon juice. Mix well and then pour half the strawberry mixture into a second bowl.
3. When the gelatin has softened and absorbed all the cold water, add the boiling water and stir until all the gelatin dissolve’s. Add the gelatin mixture to one of the strawberry mixture’s and stir well. Stir the remaining 3 tablespoons of cold water into the other strawberry mixture as a control. Label the bowls so you know which one contains the gelatin.
4. Refrigerate the strawberry mixtures until the gelatin starts to thicken. It should not be firm, only slightly gelled. Start checking after 15 minutes. When the gelatin mixture is ready, remove it from the refrigerator.
5. In the third bowl, whip the cream with a mixer or eggbeater until it stands in soft peaks when you raise the beaters. Put half the whipped cream into each strawberry mixture.
6. Gently combine the strawberries and cream by using a rubber spatula to bring the mixture from the bottom of the bowl to the top. Repeat this motion again and again, until the whipped cream and strawberries are well mixed.
7. Pour one strawberry-and-cream mixture into each pint container. Be sure to label the one containing gelatin. Put the containers into the freezer for about 12 hours. When the desserts are frozen, taste them.
OBSERVATION!
is there a difference in texture between the dessert containing gelatin and the one without?

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