Linguine with Clams
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Linguine with Clams
Picked by Dora Cheok, Editor

Ingredients

1 package linguine pasta
8 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 medium white onion, chopped
225 g fresh mushrooms, sliced
4 cloves garlic, pressed
1 cup dry white wine
4 cans chopped clams, drained and rinsed with juices reserved
2 tablespoons sour cream
freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup chopped flat leaf parsley


Directions

1 Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes, or until al dente. Drain and set aside.
2 Melt butter over medium-high heat in a large skillet. Add onions, mushrooms, and garlic, and saute until tender. Pour in wine and simmer for 10 minutes, reducing heat if necessary.
3 Stir in clams, reserved clam juice, sour cream, pepper, and parsley, and simmer another 20 minutes. Toss with linguine, and serve.

Taken from allrecipes.com

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Homemade Chicken Soup 
Picked by Siti Rohani, Managing Editor

Ingredients

1 whole chicken

4 carrots, halved

4 celery stalks, halved

1 large onion, halved

Water to cover

Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Directions 

1 Place the chicken, carrots, celery and onion in a large soup pot; cover with cold water.
2 Heat and simmer, uncovered, until the chicken meat falls off of the bones (skim off foam every so often).
3 Take everything out of the pot and strain the stock. Pick the meat off of the bones and chop or shred. Chop the carrots, celery and onion. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
4 Return the chicken, carrots, celery and onion to the pot, pouring back the stock. Reheat and and serve.

Taken from allrecipes.asia

 

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Cheesecake Tart Lemonade Cheese Tart 
Written by Debbie Lau, Health Editor

Ingredients

Crust

2 cups digestive biscuits - blend to crumbs

85g butter, melted 

Filling

1 box Philadelphia cream cheese (250g)

1/3 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon of lemon juice

3/4 packet TORTALLY lemon jelly (about 65g)

1 cup boiling water

 Directions

1

Crust

Blend digestive biscuits till fine sand texture

Add butter, combine till it resembles wet sand

Press biscuit mixture into pie tray (disposable aluminum type)

Place in freeze till rock hard

2

Filling

In big bowl, use whisk or electric mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice till well-combined 

In another bowl, dissolve lemon jelly crystals with boiling water - then leave to cool for a while

Then gently add the the lemon liquid into the cream cheese and stir

3

Assemble

Take crust out from freezer 

Very slowly pour the filling mixture into the pie crust

Return the pie to the fridge 

Refrigerate for a few hours or until firm

 

 

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1 Comments

Victor O. on 09 February 2011 ,02:54

I printed this to soon cook it. THANK YOU L.U.O.

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