Cook and Brew.

Did these pictures get you drooling for strawberries and ice cream?  Well, these are actually cufflinks  and not some sort of candies or jellies that can satisfy your sweet cravings.  Cute, right?

If you’re needing new unique gift ideas for your husband, brother, or any guy friend, these make great gifts on any occasion.  These are great alternatives to the traditional and formal looking engraved cufflinks.  These novelty cufflinks are excellent gifts for men of all ages.  But don’t forget to remind the recipient that these aren’t edible.

If there are two courses that I’d like to take up when I’ve got the time and resources, that would be culinary and cosmetology.  I can cook but there’s still a lot that I wish to learn.  The menus I can cook are very limited and it’s something that I want to improve.  I’m actually tempted to buy the discounted cooking class offered by The Academy For International Culinary Arts over at Metrodeal.  Unfortunately, I’m so much tied taking care of my soon to be 3 months old daughter. 

On the other hand, I yearn to study cosmetology so I can learn how to apply great make up on me by myself.  I know I can learn from watching tutorials from youtube and other online sources but I think enrolling in a cosmetology school would be better.

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Pasta is absolutely one of my son’s favorite food.  Spaghetti, Lasagna, Baked Macaroni, Macaroni Soup..serve him any of these, it’ll be gone in a minute.  That’s why I’m constantly in search of easy, no baked macaroni recipes for him.  This is one of my recent recipe finds from squidoo.  I’ll try to cook this one of these days and if I get a thumbs up sign from the little one, this will definitely be included in my compilation of my favorite recipes. 

I’ll search for more no bake pasta recipes since googling online is so easy similar to scouting for rv insurance quotes.

For the Red Sauce:
1/2 tbsp. garlic, chopped diced
1/2 tbsp. onion, chopped diced
1 kilo ground beef
4 pcs. tomato, chopped diced
1 small can mushroom
1/2 tsp. thyme
1/2 tsp. dried oregano

For White Sauce:
1 3/4 cups milk
2 tbps. margarine
3 tbps. flour
1 cup cheese spread
1 cup grated cheese

Other Ingredients
8 ounces (2 cup) cooked elbow macaroni noodles
1 tbsp. parsley, chopped
2 tbsp. bits of bacon

Directions:

1. For the red sauce, saute onion, garlic, ground beef, tomato diced, mushroom, thyme and dried oregano. Simmer then set aside.
2. Meanwhile for the white sauce, heat the margarine, flour, cream or milk in a pan then stir and then set aside first.
3. Now bring all the sauce together, put the cooked elbow macaroni pasta in a glass pan then pour red sauce plus the white sauce on top.
4. Then put some more macaroni pasta for another layer plus again the red sauce and the white sauce to make another layer.
5. For the final finishing, sprinkle chopped parsley and bits of bacon on top. Now you are already plate.

Source: http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/naizaaoclares

I have greatly noticed that cooking show hosts often use deep fryers when cooking.  They have become popular now because of the advantages and benefits one can reap from them as highlighted and recommended by celebrity chefs and pro cooks.  Number one factor is its safety consideration.  Safety factors must always be considered when cooking in the kitchen.  Since these fryers are enclosed and come with lid, hot cooking oil is prevented from splashing on to the cook thereby preventing injuries like serious burns.  A pair of Zeal Goggles isn’t necessary to keep your eyes protected from these oil splashes.

With Deep fryers, cleaning is also easier compared to other types of fryers.  Since it’s deep, there’s not much cooking oil splashes and oil spills around, thus, there’s not much to clean.

Deep fryers speed up cooking so precious time is greatly saved.

Automatic deep fryers also produce an accurate fry so the food is cooked evenly.

It’s just 6 days to go before Christmas and yet, I still haven’t finalized the menu for our Noche Buena.  One thing is for sure, we’ll have spaghetti as per request of the little one.  It’s his favorite and we’re pasta lovers, too, so there’s no objection to that absolutely.  After studying about these cd annuities that my insurance agent asked me to consider, I’ll really work on my menu list and finalize them before it gets too late.  We don’t want to do brave the crowd in the grocery store later this week so there’s really a need for us to finalize everything and buy the ingredients either tom or Wednesday.  Any easy Christmas recipes that you can share with me?