• All-purpose flour: 3, ½ cup
• Packed brown sugar: ½ cup
• Butter:1/4 cup
• Light corn syrup:1 tbsp
• Milk: 1 cup
• Pecan halves: ½ cup
• Active dry yeast: ¼ ounce
• Warm water: ¼ cup
• White sugar:2 tsp plus 2 tsp
• Vegetable oil:2 tbsp plus 2 tbsp
• Baking powder: 1, ½ tsp
• Salt: 1 tsp
• Egg: ½
• Butter, softened: 2 tbsp
• White sugar: ¼ cup
• Ground cinnamon: 2, ¼ tsp

Directions
1. Dissolve yeast in warm water. Let stand for ten minutes.
2. Heat milk in a saucepan.
3. Combine milk, sugar, yeast mixture, oil, baking powder, salt, egg and half of the flour.
4. Beat the mixture until smooth.
5. Add the remaining flour and knead.
6. Knead on a floured surface until smooth.
7. Put a little oil in a bowl and put the dough inside the bowl.
8. Coat the dough with oil and let it rise in a warm place until double in volume. Cover with damp cloth.
9. Heat brown sugar and add butter.
10. Remove from heat and add corn syrup.
11. Divide the mixture between two baking pans of 9 by 3 inches.
12. Add a layer of half cup pecans in each pan.
13. When the dough is double, turn it on a floured surface.
14. Roll out the dough into rectangular shape.spread with butter and cinnamon.
15. Roll the dough into a log starting from the long side.
16. Cut one inch wide rolls and place in the pans.
17. Wrap with aluminum foil and place in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
18. Remove from the refrigerator and keep in a warm place for half an hour.
19. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake uncovered for 30 minutes or until golden.
20. Turn the rolls on the heat proof dish.

• Black beans:1 can
• Whole kernel sweet corn:1 can
• Roma  tomatoes, seeded and chopped:3
• Small red bell pepper, diced:1
• Jalapeno pepper:1(seeded and minced)
• Chopped fresh cilantro:1/3 cup
• Red onion:1/4 cup
• Vinegar: 1 tablespoon
• Fresh lime juice:1/4 cup
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Ground black pepper:1/2 teaspoon
• Avocados, diced: 2

Directions

1. Drain all canned ingredients.
2. Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. Add avocados in the last.
3. Cover bowl and refrigerate for two hours before serving.

Directions
1. Mix corn, tomatoes, olives, onion, red pepper, and jalapeno pepper in a bowl.
2. Add diced avocado, olive oil, lemon juice, and salt.

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• oatmeal: ½ cup
• cottage cheese:1/2 cup
• vanilla:1 tsp
• egg whites: 4

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients in a blender.
2. Spray the pan with cooking spray and spread a little mixture and spread in the pan.
3. When golden brown on one side, change the side and cook the other side.
4. Add your favorite topping to the pancake.

• Flour: 2, ½ cups
• Unsweetened applesauce:1/2 cup
• Sugar:3/4 cup
• Baking powder: 1, ½ tsp
• Baking soda:2 tsp
• Cinnamon:1, ½ tsp
• Nutmeg: ½ tsp
• Salt: ½ tsp
• Canola oil:1/4 cup
• Carrots, grated:2 cup
• Crushed pineapple:1 cup

Directions

1. Mix flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and baking soda.
2. Mix baking soda and apple sauce in a separate bowl.
3. Add oil pineapple carrots and apple sauce mixture and mix well.
4. Put the mixture in 24 cupcake liners.
5. Bake at 325◦F for 30 minutes.
6. Top with icing prepared with sugar, butter, vanilla and water.

• Long grain white rice:1 cup
• Green bell pepper: ¼ cup green bell pepper,diced small
• Onion: ¼ cup, diced small
• Butter: 1 tbsp
• Chicken broth: 2 cups
• Tomato paste: 1, ½ tbsp
• Cumin: ¼ tsp
• Salt:3/4 tsp
• Chili powder:1 tsp

Directions
1. Sauté pepper and onion in skillet in butter until slightly softened.
2. Add rice, and coat well with butter.
3. Add other ingredients and bring to a boil.
4. Let the rice absorb broth for twenty minutes on low heat.

• Pastry: for a double-crust 9-inch pie
• fresh peaches:5 cups
• sugar:1 cup
• all-purpose flour:1/2 cup
• cinnamon: ½ tsp
• butter:2 tbsp
• sugar: 2 tbsp

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. Add sugar and cinnamon to the flour and set aside.
3. Peel and slice fresh peaches.
4. Mix together peaches with the flour and sugar mixture.
5. Place the mixture into pastry-lined pie pan and dot with butter.
6. Cover with crust, cut slits in it with a knife and seal the edges.
7. Sprinkle 2 teaspoons of sugar on the top.
8. Cover the edges of the pie with foil. It will not overbrown.
9. Remove foil in the last 15 minutes of baking.
10. Bake for about 35 to 45 minutes until the crust is brown and juice inside begins to bubble.

• all-purpose flour:1/2 cup
• chicken broth:2 cups
• potato: 1 cup(diced)
• onion:1 cup(diced)
• celery:1 cup(diced)
• carrot:1 cup(diced)
• butter:1/3 cup
• salt:1 tsp
• pepper:1/4 tsp
• chicken: 4 cups (cooked and chopped)
• pie crusts:2

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.

2.Sauté onion, carrots, celery and potatoes in butter for ten minutes.

3. Add flour in the pan and stir well.

4. Add broth.

5. Stir into vegetable mixture.

6. Cook over medium flame and stir constantly until thick.

7. Add chicken, salt, and pepper.

8. Pour the mixture into 2 quart casserole dish and cover with pie shells.

9. Cut slits with knife for steam to escape.

10. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until pastry is golden brown.

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Yogurt raita or dip is popular in almost every culture. Just with a little salt and pepper in a yogurt  bowl, raita is ready. To make it colorful and healthier, you can add vegetables and other seasoning in it like cumin, garlic, and caraway. The most popular yogurt raitas are spinach raita, potato raita, cucumber and tomato raita etc. In each kind, the small boiled cubes of vegetables are added to the yogurt. The juicier vegetables can be boiled or  grated and added to the yogurt. The vegetable yogurt raita makes great flavor and look with only a little seasoning added to the vegetables.