Memorial Day recipes from Tidbits
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Recipe: Watermelon Cooler
Ingredients:
2 cups cubed watermelon
1/4 cup cranberry juice
1 Tablespoon lime juice
1 Tablespoon honey
1 cups ice
Slices of fresh lime for garnish
Optional: Add fresh mint
Directions:
Place all the ingredients in a blender, blend until smooth. Garnish with lime slices and fresh mint.
Recipe: Chili-Honey Shrimp Kebabs
Ingredients:
2 pounds shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 Tablespoon olive oil
Clara’s seasoning or salt & pepper
½ cup honey
2 Tablespoon Asian chili sauce
Optional: Add Fresh Herbs
Dipping sauce:
¼ cup Honey
2 Tablespoon Asian chili sauce
Dash of Clara’s seasoning
Directions:
Soak Skewers in warm water 15-30 minutes
Mix honey, Asian chili sauce, and fresh herbs (optional), Clara’s seasoning. Prepare in 2 bowl, one for coating shrimp and one for dipping.
Place shrimp in a bowl, add seasoning and add olive oil toss together.
Thread 2 shrimp per skewer.
Place kebabs on hot grill,
Cook 2 minute, turn kebabs, and brush with sauce
Cook 1 minute, turn kebabs, and brush with sauce
Cook 1 minute, turn kebabs, and brush with sauce
Cooking time all together is 4 minutes.
Serve with sauce on the side.
Summer Pesto Pasta
Ingredients:
1 pound tri-color pasta, cook according to al dente directions, rinse in cool water and drain.
1 each, diced Red and yellow bell pepper
Artichoke hearts, quartered
¾ teaspoon Clara’s seasoning or salt & pepper to taste.
Pesto: Fresh Basil, walnuts, parmesan cheese and olive oil
Directions:
Place basil, walnuts, parmesan cheese in food processor, slowly pour in olive oil.
In a large mixing bowl, toss all ingredients together.
Garnish with fresh Basil.
Pulled Brisket Sliders
Ingredients:
2-2 ½ lean beef brisket (trimmed if needed)
2 teaspoon cumin
1 ½ teaspoon Clara’s seasoning or Salt & pepper to taste
1 bottle BBQ sauce
1 medium onion, sliced thin
Directions:
Cut brisket crosswise 2 ½ inch pattern
Rub Cumin and seasoning all over
Place in crock pot with onions
Pour BBQ sauce
Cover, cook on high 5-6 hours or low 7-8 hour
Options: cook in the oven overnight 250 degrees or pressure cooker
Make sure meat is tender and can be pulled apart.
Use 2 forks, shred beef and place back into sauce in pot.
Serve on Rolls topped off with your favorite Coleslaw.
Simple Alternative BBQ Sauce Recipe:
1 -8 oz can tomato sauce
¼ cup molasses
1 Tablespoon Chili Powder
¼ cup Cider vinegar
Grocery List:
Produce
Watermelon, Seedless
2 Limes
Fresh Mint, Basil, Parsley 1 pack each or from your garden
Red and yellow bell pepper, 1 each
Onion, 1 medium
Garlic, add to your liking
Juice
Cranberry juice, 1 small bottle
Pantry
Honey, orange blossom or your favorite
Olive Oil, cold pressed
Asian chili sauce, 1 small bottle
Tri-color pasta (pasta of your choice), 8 oz box
Canned or jarred Artichoke hearts, 8 oz can or jar
Walnuts, 1 cup
BBQ Sauce, 1 bottle
Spices
Clara’s Seasoning
Salt
Pepper
Cumin
Protein
2 pounds shrimp, Large or extra large
2-2 ½ lean beef brisket (asked to be trimmed)
Dairy
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