My adoptive Mexican family in Guadalajara used to serve this coffee with a Quesadilla or other small snack for supper.
Café Ceballos
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 teaspoons chocolate syrup
1 1/2 cups strong hot coffee
chocolate for shaving
4 cinnamon sticks
Combine cream, nutmeg, sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon of the cinnamon. Whip and set aside. Put 1 teaspoon chocolate syrup into each of 4 small cups. Stir remaining cinnamon into coffee and pour into cups. Stir to blend. Top with spiced whipped cream and shaved chocolate. Cinnamon stick rests in the whipped cream.
Serves 4
Also consider mixing the cream, sugar, chocolate and spices to keep in a small jar for use without whipping.
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Great milk chocolate nut bars are enriched with egg yolks for the most luscious hot chocolate ever. If you’re going all out, dollop with whipped cream!
Candy Bar Hot Chocolate
2 egg yolks
2 ounces milk chocolate candy bar with fine nuts (such as Toblerone)
1 cup milk
Beat the egg yolks in a small bowl, and set them aside. Coarsely chop the chocolate, and place it in a 2-cup microwave-safe glass measuring cup with a spout. Add the milk. Place the measuring cup, uncovered, in the microwave. Whisking once or twice, cook at medium-high power (70%) until the chocolate is melted and well blended, 2 1/2 to 3 minutes. Remove the cup from the microwave and slowly pour the chocolate into the reserved egg yolks, whisking constantly. Return the mixture to the measuring cup and cook in the microwave until heated through, 1 minute. Pour into mugs and serve.
Serves 2 portions
This recipe was cooked on medium-high (70% power) in a carousel microwave (650 to 700 watts) using microwave-safe containers. If your microwave is less powerful, you will have to allow for more cooking time (approximately 1 1/2 times the amount called for-but watch carefully); if it does not have a carousel; you may have to rotate the dish while it is cooking.
Reprinted from The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso & Sheila Lukins. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins. Reprinted by permission of Workman Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
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A centerpiece to weddings, showers, anniversaries and other celebrations of life, champagne brings luck and prosperity. You will need a large, festive crystal bowl for this one.
Champagne Punch
1 large ripe pineapple, peeled, cored and cubed
1/2 pound powdered sugar
1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup curaçao
1/4 cup maraschino liqueur
1 cup brandy
1 cup light rum
2 bottles chilled champagne
Place the pineapple chunks in the punch bowl and cover with the powdered sugar. Cover and let stand 2 hours. In a separated mixing bowl, stir together the remaining ingredients, except for the champagne. Pour over the pineapple and let stand at room temperature for at least 6 hours. Chill thoroughly. Just before serving, slowly pour the champagne over the other ingredients. Serve in small cups. This is a potent cup.
Makes a gallon
Ice should not be necessary. However, if the punch will stand long enough to warm, you might add larger pieces of ice. I have frozen rosebuds into a bundt pan of water. Float the ring of ice in the punch bowl.
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Quick, healthy, versatile and smooth as silk. They bring back memories to an aging hippie chick.
Fruit Smoothies
3/4 cup yogurt
3/4 cup apple juice
1'4 cup milk
1/2 cup sliced strawberries
1 ripe banana. sliced
2 tablespoons honey
a few drops vanilla extract
Place all ingredients in a blender. pulse a few times until the ingredients are blended, but the fruit is not pulverized. Take a few spoons out into glasses. Blend the smoothie on high until it is frothy. Pour into glasses over the chunkier portion. Serve immediately. When you reach the bottom, you have a slightly chewy, fruity surprise.
Serves 2
Use any fruit or combination you would like. Try blueberries, or raspberry and orange, or even peanut butter and chocolate.
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When I first met Jo, she was not much interested in the kitchen. She now owns the Groundskeeper Coffee House and is a superb cook. We must have known that's where she was headed. We experimented with ingredients one night until we came up with this one. I think most of the chocolate accidentally "fell" into our mouths. It's an astonishing way to end a gourmet meal and well worth the effort.
Kahlúa Coffee, the Rowdy Girl Way
1 ounce Irish whiskey
1/2 ounce Kahlúa liqueur
6 ounces very strong coffee
1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons whipped cream
1 Godiva chocolate liqueur cup
1/2 ounce Kahlúa
Warm a mug or large coffee cup with hot water. Pour in Irish whiskey, first half ounce of Kahlúa, and sugar. Do not stir. Slowly pour in coffee. Top with whipping cream. Pour second half ounce of Kahlúa into the chocolate liqueur cup and float on whipped cream. As the coffee is sipped, the chocolate melts releasing the liqueur into the coffee.
Serves 1
If the liqueur cups are not available, shave very fine dark chocolate onto whipped cream and drizzle the second half ounce of Kahlúa over the top.
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Serve this traditional New Orleans favorite in large stemmed glasses or punch cups. Warning! It goes down real easy.
Milk Punch
(part of Mardi Gras Breakfast)
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
6 cups milk
1/2 cup bourbon
1/4 cup crème de cacao (optional)
ice cubes
about 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly-grated or from a jar
Mix sugar and 1 cup milk in a large serving pitcher. Add remaining milk, bourbon, and crème de cacao. Stir to blend. Serve at once, or cover and chill. Put three or four ice cubes in each glass. Fill with Milk Punch and top with a little grated nutmeg.
Makes about 7 cups, 14 1/2-cup servings
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Reprinted with permission from Breakfast with Friends by Elizabeth Alston ©1989 by Westport Publishing Group.
The gentle, spicy aroma of wassail greets holiday guests or chilled skiers with the promise of relaxing warmth. My sister Kathy keeps a pot on the back burner all through the holidays. I always know I am home.
Old Virginia Wassail
2 quarts sweet apple cider
2 cups fresh orange juice
1 cup cranberry juice
1 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1 teaspoon aromatic bitters
2 sticks whole cinnamon
1 small orange, studded with whole cloves
3/4 cup sugar, or honey to taste
light rum to taste (optional)
Put all ingredients in a large pot. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour, then simmer on low for 4 to 8 hours. Serve warm from pot.
Makes about 12 1/2-cup servings
Wassail does famously well in a crock pot.
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My first glass of Sangría was poured for me from a bulbous pitcher with a dozen or so different fruits swimming among the ice cubes. Even though we were at a campsite in Madrid, it was served on linen tablecloths from crystal glasses. I try to recapture that feel each time I make it. The following suggestion is only one idea. Be creative with your own combinations.
Sangría
2 parts cheap hearty burgundy or other red wine
2 parts ginger ale
1 part orange juice
1 part any other fruit juice (cranberry, pineapple, lemon, etc.)
fruits for floating in pitcher (melon, pineapple chunks, cherries, etc.)
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orange wedges for glasses
Mix all ingredients except strawberries and orange wedges in a pitcher. Chill at least one hour. Serve over frozen strawberries with orange slices as garnish on glass rim.
Serves few to many
White wine coolers are a calming summer drink. Just substitute white wine for the red.
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Many women in the family...many ideas about tea. I learned how to make iced tea in two distinct ways while I was still in high school. They both yield a fresh and refreshing drink which all good Southerners consider an essential part of the meal. My mother's sister Patsy Joan goes to the kitchen to brew the best iced tea for the holiday table. My father's sister Sibyl goes outside for the sun to do her brewing. Grandmothers from both sides occasionally liked to put a crushed mint leaf in the glass.
Southern Iced Tea
8 tea bags, orange pekoe
8 cups of fresh water
ice
sugar
lemon wedges
Patsy's version:
Place the tea bags in a tea[pt. Boil the water for a few minutes. Turn off and let rest for 1 minute. Then pout over the tea bags and let steep for 5 minutes. Remove the tea bags and chill the strong tea or pour immediately over lots of ice. Provide sugar and lemon for individual taste.
Sibyl's version:
Place the tea bags in a large glass jar with a lid and cover with fresh, room temperature water. Put in the warm, summer sun and let rest 8 hours. Serve over ice with sugar and lemon for individual taste.
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