Cooking Lessons for Dad

Cooking Lessons for Beginners

Oven-Cooked Brown Rice

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Yield: 4 servings

Oven-Cooked Brown Rice

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup long grain brown rice
  • 1 1/2 cup boiling water
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a 1 quart casserole or baking dish combine boiling water, rice, and salt.
  3. Cover with foil.
  4. Bake 35 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed.
  5. Fluff with a fork and serve.

Notes

You could also make a rice pilaf in the oven. You can replace the water with a flavored broth.

© Karen Breyer

 

Toasted Nuts

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Yield: Varies

Toasted Nuts

Ingredients

  • Nuts, raw

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Spread nuts on ungreased cookie sheet.
  3. Toast the nuts until they are light brown and have a nutty aroma, about 8 to 15 minutes. Larger and denser nuts will take longer and smaller nuts will cook faster. See below for some specific cooking times.

Notes

Approximate cooking times:
Almonds: 12 -15 minutes
Walnuts: 12 -15 minutes
Cashews: 8 - 12 minutes
Pecans: 8 - 12 minutes
Slivered almonds: 4 - 6 minutes

Do not combine different types of nuts on a cookie sheet because of the various cooking times.

© Karen Breyer

 

Trail Mix

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Trail Mix

Ingredients

  • Potential Ingredients
  • Nuts (Raw, toasted, or roasted)
  • Peanuts
  • Almonds
  • Walnuts
  • Pecans
  • Macadamia nuts
  • Sunflower seeds
  • Dried fruit (Small pieces or bits)
  • Cranberries
  • Raisins
  • Pineapple
  • Papaya
  • Mango
  • Apricot
  • Coconut

Chocolates or small candies

  • Chocolate chips (dark, bittersweet, milk)
  • Other chips (peanut butter, butterscotch, white chocolate)
  • M & M’s

Instructions

  1. Gather the ingredients.
  2. Mix the ingredients together in a bowl or container.
  3. Suggested proportion is 1 cup of nuts to 1 cup other ingredients (like 1/2 cup fruit pieces and 1/2 cup chocolates)

Notes

You can put these in easy to grab sandwich bags.

Put them in your covered candy dish instead of candy.

Great snack!

© Karen Breyer

 

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