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Today’s Squidoo recipe lens is a delight.  To be honest, I’d never even thought about Amish Recipes until I saw this lens and now I’m dieing to try a few.

Talk about home made goodness, Amish Recipes explores Amish foods, recipes and cooking techniques.  You’ll find fabulous recipes for Corn bread, Pot Roast, Harvest Casserole, Amish Muffins, Amish Noodles, Pumpkin bread, Lemon Sponge cake, Shoo Fly pie, Amish Pretzel pudding, and many other Amish treats.

In and among the many, many amish recipes you’ll find Amish product recommendations and wonderful pictures of the Amish lifestyle. 

You’ll also find a fun recipe for Amish Friendship Starter Bread  that you can pass on and share on day 10.

If you are looking for some really good home made recipes, or if you are just curious about what the Amish folks like to eat take a look at this great lens today.

Quick Link to the Recipes:

Amish Recipes

You might also like this cookbook, The Amish Cook: Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family

 

If you love rhubarb today’s featured lenses will be a real treat for you.  Rhubarb Pie - 3 Great Recipes serves up recipes for good old-fashioned Rhubarb Pie, tasty Strawberry Rhubarb Crostata , and the chef’s favorite Rhubarb Custard Pie.  And it contains not only delicious recipes for Rhubarb pie but also a terrific recipe for low fat but still flaky pie crust.

If you are interested in making more than just pie with your rhubarb, check out  Rhubarb Muffins, Cakes, Sauces and More where you’ll find several scrumptious rhubarb muffin recipes in addition to a whole slew of rhubarb dessert recipes, rhubarb stuffing and even a refreshing rhubarb cocktail.  We’re talking rhubarb heaven here!

The wonderful chef who brought you all of the rhubarb recipes listed here also created a lens to help you grow more of the good stuff.  Visit  The Rhubarb Patch to find rhubarb gardening tips and to learn the proper way to freeze your rhubarb so you’ll be able to prepare all these wonderful recipes well past the harvest date.

Quick Links to the Recipes:

 Rhubarb Pie - 3 Great Recipes 

Rhubarb Muffins, Cakes, Sauces and More

If you love rhubarb you might want to take a look at this great cookbook. Joy Of Rhubarb: The Versatile Summer Delight

The beautiful rhubarb photo appears courtesy of FotoosVanRobin and was found through a Creative Commons search.

I recently discovered one of the most delicious looking Squidoo lenses I’ve ever seen. The Best Peach Cobbler Recipe not only contains one fabulous cobbler recipe but also step by scrumptious step photos demonstrating exactly how to make this fresh peach recipe.

I’m telling you, you can virtually smell it baking in the oven.  And best of all this peach cobbler is really good for you too!  No sugar here.  The chef’s beautiful wife has replaced the sugar with Agave Nectar.  (Don’t worry.  You’ll find the best place to buy Agasweet at the lens too!)

The fun doesn’t stop with the pictures either.  You’ll also find polls and places to share your opinions and recipes too!

Warning:  Viewing The Best Peach Cobbler Recipe lens will make you dream about this heavenly dessert until you follow the recipe and make some of your own!

Quick Link to the Recipe:

The Best Peach Cobbler Recipe

Don’t you think your favorite dessert deserves a dish of its own?  Check out this beautiful Cobbler Bowl.

Photo appears courtesy of Purdman1 and was found using a Creative Commons search.

Here in the Carolina’s we’re already suffering through our first heat wave of the (not even yet) summer so I thought it would be a good idea to feature some recipes for the grill.  (Who wants to cook indoors when the temperature is hovering around the 100 mark?)  

So, in honor of the unusual weather, I’m featuring a lens about unusual burger recipes.

 The Tastiest Hamburger Ever takes the hum drum out of hamburgers with surprising burger taste combinations such as a recipe for Sage and Onion Turkey Burgers topped with Cranberry Orange Sauce and The Uncow Burger served with Yogurt Feta Sauce.

The “chef” also shares a unique recipe for “the real deal” which contains an unusual ingredient, rolled oats, and a recipe for Buffalo Burgers for the more daring among us.  Instead of ketchup you might want to try out the Green Tomato Salsa recipe instead.

My plans for this evening include firing up the old grill and slapping a few of those tasty turkey burgers on it.  Care to join me?

Quick Link to the Recipes:

The Tastiest Hamburger Ever 

Recommended Reading: The Great Big Burger Book: 100 New and Classic Recipes for Mouthwatering Burgers Every Day Every Way

Links to More Unusual Burger Recipes:

Hamburger-Recipes.com

Hamburger Recipes - Grilled Burger Recipes of all Kinds

Turkey burger photo appears courtesy of wickenden and was found through a creative commons search.

First off I have to say that finding the following recipe lens at Group Headquarters this morning really made my day. 

You Say You Don’t Like Salad not only contains an awesome chicken salad recipe but it’s really a lot of fun to read too!  “The chef” has ingeniusly mixed an easy to follow delicous recipe with a bit of humor (and some great photos) and by doing so has created something out of this world. 

You Say You don’t Like Salad  truly exemplifies why I love Squidoo food and cooking lenses and is a prime example of my slogan:  Cabaret Squidoo - the most fun you’ll ever have with recipes! 

Stop by this lens today.  You’ll leave it with a super salad recipe and a huge smile on your face!

Quick Link to the Recipe:

You Say You Don’t Like Salad

Looking for more chicken salad recipes?  Take a look at  Chicken Salad: 50 Favorite Recipes.

Chicken salad photo appears courtesy of Jessicafm and was found through a creative commons search. 

You can make gorgeous professional-looking cakes at home (and save big time on bakery costs) if you know a few cake decorating tricks.

The secret ingredient that takes your ordinary looking decorated cake to the next level is called fondant and I found an excellent lens that explains everything you need to know about making and using this fun ingredient.

Fondant Cake  Decorating:  It’s Play Doh for Grown Ups contains fondant recipes, easy to follow  directions for “playing with” and using fondant which includes both photo and video instruction, fabulous photos for inspiration, tools to make your cake decorating a snap, and for those of you who aren’t feeling all that adventurous, you can even find out where to buy your fondant, pre-made. 

Another great place to find fondant decorating information is How to Make Iced Roses to Decorate Cakes where you’ll find detailed guidelines and several different methods of using fondant to make beautiful iced roses that are so pretty you might even be tempted to try making your own home made wedding cake.

My only word of caution to you if you are a fondant decorating beginner is to make (or purchase) more fondant than you think you might actually need so you’ll have plenty on hand to practice with.  Once you get the hang of it, it’s addicting!  You might even start using this fun frosting on all your cakes and cupcakes!

To make a floral cake similar to the one pictured here, take a look at the Wilton Fondant Floral Collection Flower Making Set .
 

Floral cake photo appears courtesy of Ginamig and was found using a creative commons search.

I was recently asked by DAD1104 to find some Gluten Free Recipe lenses.  I found a couple that I think might be very helpful for those of you with Celiac disease.

The first one I found is called How to eat Gluten Free and contains some great recipes for Gluten free fruit and nut bars and Gluten free muffins.  Although I haven’t tried either of them yet myself, they look pretty tasty!

I also found a fabulous lens about a Gluten Free Recipe Blog.  The lens is called Gluten Free Godsmacked - Cooking and Living and was created to help promote the “chef’s” blog of the same name that shares ”Everyday Recipes From a Gluten Free Kitchen.”  From what I saw at the blog on my quick little tour, I think you’ll find plenty of really wonderful gluten free recipes there.  Be sure to bookmark it!

Quick Links to the Recipes:

How to eat Gluten Free 

Gluten Free Godsmacked - Cooking and Living

You might also be interested in: The 125 Best Gluten-Free Recipes

Photo appears courtesy of Gudlyf and was found through a creative commons search.  Includes a link to the gluten free pizza recipe.

Whether you like it grilled or fried, in soup or in stew, all on its own or piled high on top of spaghetti, you have to admit that zucchini is one cool veggie.  Its light taste blends well with all other vegetables while it’s natural sweetness stands out from the crowd. 

My Absolute Best Zuccini Recipes lens contains all of my family’s most favorite zucchini recipes.  You’ll find my recipes for Zucchini Linguine, Zucchini Pie, Grilled Zucchini, Fried Zucchini, and Ratatouille, along with links to some of the best zucchini recipes I’ve found online.

I’ve included some great zucchini related product recommendations, information on zucchini nutrition, a very cute zucchini video, zucchini cookbooks to help you find even more zippy zucchini recipes and even some information about this versatile vegetable’s own special holiday.

With summer on its way you’re going to want to save this great zucchini resource page for future reference.  Once those beautiful green babies start growing in your garden, you’re going to want all the zucchini recipes you can find!

Quick Link to the Recipes:

Absolute Best Zuccini Recipes

Have you seen one of these?  I have to admit that it’s new to me but I want one!  World Cuisine Upright Cucumber/Zucchini Peeler 

Photo appears courtesy of Ned Raggett and was found through a creative commons search.

 

At Flip the Pancake and Sing About Waffles you will find not only the best pancake recipe ever, but also the best waffle recipe and a pretty darn tasty French toast recipe as well!

There’s even a surprise recipe included for Irish Potato Pancakes!

As the title implies, you’ll also find songs about waffles at this adorable lens.  In addition to all of that, the chef shares video, pictures of some of the cutest pancakes you’ll ever see, product reccomendations, and a place for you to sound off about your preference for pancakes over waffles, or vice versa!

If I were you I’d visit this great lens before breakfast tomorrow!

Quick Link to the Recipes:

Flip the Pancake and Sing About Waffles

Have you seen this?
VillaWare V2009 UNO Petite Flower Gravity Waffle Maker

 Photo appears courtesy of Jslander and was found through a creative commons search for commercial usage.

Are you looking for something special to serve at your next party? 

The party appetizers have always been my favorite part of the party.  I mean, you could just toss some chips and pretzels into a bowl and be done with it but a really great party, the kind your friends keep talking about for weeks afterwards, always has a great assortment of appetizers available.  I think that’s what keeps the fun going well into the night.

I know there are bunches of frozen appetizers on the market today but they just don’t compare to home made when it comes to taste.  And home made dips and appetizers are usually cheaper in the long run too! 

If you agree with me then I’ve got a couple of lenses you just might be interested in.  My own Party Dips lens contains a list of recipe links to my all-time favorite party dip recipes.  You’ll find easy to make, tried and true, both hot and cold party dips perfect for your next gathering or get together.

My Party Appetizers lens contains quick links to some really great appetizers and places to find even more appetizing Party appetizer recipes.

Be sure to visit both before planning your next party!

Quick Links to the Recipes:

Party Dips

Party Appetizers

 You might also like: The Big Book of Appetizers: More Than 250 Recipes for Any Occasion

 Penguin Party Appetizer  (made with olives, carrots, and cream cheese) photo appears courtesy of Nightthree and a Creative Commons commercial usage search.