Sugar Cookie Recipe 2012 - Perfect for your whole family

You will need:

3 cups flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butter (softened at room temperature)
1 cup sugar
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt

First, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, beat softened butter and sugar with electric mixer until it becomes light and creamy. Next, beat in the egg and vanilla extract until fully blended.

By hand with a spoon slowly stir in the flour and salt.

If you'd like rounded, "drop cookies", spoon about 1.5 inch balls of dough onto your cookie sheet, then immediately bake in oven for about 10 minutes, or until the edges of the cookie are golden. The dough will expand in the oven, so leave about 2 inches of space in between each drop.

If drop cookies are too plain and you're feeling creative, roll the dough onto a floured surface instead. Use a rolling pin to smooth the dough and use cookie cutters to shape figures about ¼ to ½ inch thick.

The rolling pin should be lightly floured as well to prevent the dough from sticking. With a variety of cookie cutters, your dough can be shaped and decorated for any occasion.

As with the drop cookies, after placing the dough on cookie sheets, bake at 350 degrees F for about 10 minutes or until the edges have turned golden.

When the cookies appear ready, carefully remove the sheet from the oven and immediately sprinkle them with sugar, or powdered sugar. Cookies can also be decorated with frosting, sprinkles, or melting chocolates.

Free Healthy Green Smoothie Recipes for Weight Loss

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2 cups honey dew 2 cups, 1 cup spinach, 1 cucumber, 1 tablespoon hemp powder, add some ice or a little water. Blend it in your Vitamix

Honeydew is a great water base and natural sweetener and an excellent source of Vitamin C and Foliate. It is a great base to add to a green smoothie. The honeydew and cucumber together has an incredible refreshing taste.

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cranberry or orange juice, 1 orange, 1 banana, 1/2 cup of kale, 1/2 sprig of celery, 1/2 carrot, 4-6 pieces of Ice

Best Green Smoothie Recipes Tips 2012 -

(1) Use one or two fresh or frozen fruits as natural sweeteners. Bananas, sweet ripe mangoes, pineapple, kiwi, pear, berries. The choices are endless.

(2) Cucumbers, honey dew, watermelon are great as a base for extra water content.

(3) Adding half a carrot or half of a celery stick one way of sneaking in some extra veggies. Again experiment with other veggies.

(4) Add ice and/or water to make your smoothie to the consistency you like. I like thinner consistency so I can easily sip with a straw.

(5) Choose a leafy green such as spinach or kale, or parsley and cilantro. Herbs have great detoxifying properties so don't forget those. Rotate your greens and try different ones. Add about one cupful of a leafy green of your choice or start with a smaller quantity if you are new to making smoothies.

30 Minutes Dinner Recipes - When you have this type of time limit

3 Meal Ideas for When You Only Have 30 Minutes

Here are 3 easy dinner recipes for when you only have 30 minutes before getting supper onto the table.

Baked Fish with Pecan Coriander and Parmesan Crust -

For this Easy Dinner Recipes, Need total 25 minutes time for Preparation and Cooking.

You can serve 4 to 6 Persons.

Ingredients:

(1) 1¾ lb / 800g firm white fish fillets - cut into 4 - 6 portions
(2) 3 tablespoons oil

Topping:

(A) ½ cup fresh breadcrumbs
(B) ½ cup chopped almonds or pecan nuts
(C) ¼ cup fresh coriander, chopped
(D) ¼ cup parmesan, grated
(E) 1 tablespoon unwaxed lemon rind, zested
(F) Salt and Pepper to season

Let's start cooking -

Heat the oven to 350° F / 180 ° C.
Lightly grease a baking tin or oven-proof dish.
Place the fish fillets on the baking tray and smother them with the oil.
Mix together the topping ingredients. Pack this mixture onto the top of the fish fillets. Some of it may fall onto the pan. Don't worry, but try to

get most of the crust on top of the fish.
Bake, uncovered, for about 20 minutes. The topping should be slightly browned and the fish should be just cooked - if it is translucent in the

middle, give it another few minutes.
Serve this with rice and a large salad.


Chicken Curry Recipe

For this Easy Dinner Recipes, Need total 20 minutes time for Preparation and Cooking.
You can serves 4 to 6 Persons.

Ingredients:-

(A) 1 whole cooked chicken
(B) 1 can coconut milk
(C) 2 - 3 tablespoons red curry paste
(D) 1 fresh stalk lemon grass, cut very finely
(E) ½ cup raisins
(F) 1 cup loosely packed coriander leaves

Method:-

Carve the chicken off the bone. Shred or sliver the slices.
Add the coconut milk to a pan over a medium heat. Add the finely chopped lemon grass and red curry paste.
Add the raisins and coriander leaves.
Add the chicken. Simmer until the chicken has heated through and the raisins and lemon grass have softened. Allow the coconut milk to

reduce so that it is has a thick consistency - about 10 minutes.
Serve this easy Chicken Curry recipe with rice and green vegetables or a salad.

Garlic Chicken Pasta Recipe

For this Easy Dinner Recipes, Need total 22 minutes time for Preparation and Cooking.
You can serves 4 to 6 Persons.

Ingredients:

(A) 1lb / 450g fresh pasta
(B) 1lb / 450g boneless skinless chicken breasts
(C) 1 cup fresh basil leaves (1oz / 30g), finely chopped
(D) 2 cloves garlic, crushed
(E) 2 - 3 tablespoons lemon juice
(F) oil for shallow frying

Let's start cooking :-

Boil the pasta in plenty of salted water, according to the instructions on the packet.

Fresh pasta cooks much more quickly than dry pasta - about 7 minutes.

Heat a little oil in a pan. Slice the chicken breasts into slivers. Fry in 2 - 3 batches until they are golden brown.

Add the basil leaves, garlic and lemon juice. Cook for a further 2 minutes.

Stir the chicken through the pasta. Serve this Garlic Chicken Pasta recipe with a big green salad.