Recipes for Meals

Title: Orange Pineapple Smoothie
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 2

Pineapples offer a unique sweet taste that is great in smoothie mixes with other ingredients. Pineapples are also full of Vitamin C, omega-3 fatty acids, beta carotene and other nutrients as well.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup fresh pineapple, fresh peeled and chopped
• ¾ cup ice cubes
• ¾ cup fresh orange juice
• Sugar to taste
• ½ cup whole milk

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Title: Butter Cookies
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

Butter cookies formerly emerged with coffee and tea. Today, this kind of cookies are one of the favorite candy of the smallest as well as rich are very simple and fun to make.

Ingredients:

• 125 grams butter
• 50 grams sugar
• 170 grams flour

Directions:

In a bowl put flour, sugar and butter

With clean hands mix everything very well to obtain a homogeneous and consistent. At first it seems you have to curdle due to the large amount of flour, but after working the dough for a while takes shape and consistency.

Once the dough is ready is divided equally and given the desired shape by ensuring that each biscuit has a thickness of about half a centimeter.

Then each cookie is placed carefully on a previously floured tray.

Place the tray in the oven and bake for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

At the time that the cookies begin to be withdrawn from the oven roasted and cooled. After cooling can be removed from the tray and are ready for testing.

Personal Suggestion: These cookies can be modified by adding a teaspoon of cocoa, nuts and cinnamon in mixing the dough giving it a unique flavor and characteristic.

Title: Cherries port wine
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

Port wine, wine belongs to the genre known as fortified wines. These wines were born in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a result of the addition of brandy to the wine when fermentation is underway.

Ingredients:

• 650 grams cherries
• 1 cup water
• 125 grams sugar
• 1/2 cup white port wine
• 1 unit lemon rind
• 1 stick cinnamon sticks

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Title: Seafood and spinach lasagna
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

This Seafood lasagna is a wonderful dish to serve guests either at a lunch or for a dinner party. I have served this dish to my best friends, and they have all asked for the recipe always.

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 3 cups milk
• 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 paquetede washed chopped spinach, drained
• 1 cup cottage cheese
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 9 sheets of pasta for lasagna, cooked and drained
• 1/2 pound medium shrimp, fresh or frozen, cleaned
• 2 cans of crab meat (crab), drained, crumbled

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Title: Spaghetti with walnut sauce and cheese
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

The pasta dishes are healthy, energetic and very digestive complaints (if not abused sauces). Italy is the kingdom of pasta, but the entire Mediterranean culture has taken in its popular recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 package spaghetti
• 50 g walnuts
• 50 gr grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 clove garlic
• Milk
• A piece of butter
• Pepper
• Salt
• Oil

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Title: Tenderloin with Wine Sauce and Chocolate
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 2

In the third century Rome, a time when Christianity was persecuted, marriage between the soldiers  was prohibited because it was believed that single men performed better on the battlefield than married men because they were emotionally attached to their families. It is in these circumstances when there is the figure of St. Valentine, a Christian priest at such injustice decides to marry couples under the Christian ritual secretly acquired Romano’s. Valentine protect and sponsor wedding secret lovers throughout the city.

Ingredients:

• 1 tenderloin medallion
• 1 ½ cups red wine Merlot
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 jalapeno pepper, chopped
• 1 piece of dark chocolate, chopped
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• Salt and pepper

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