Egg-cellent Egg Fried Rice!

Check out Briah's dish for Egg Fried Rice.  Briah and her Dad sure make a dynamic duo!  

Thanks Briah!
-Team Spatulatta

EGG FRIED RICE  INGREDIENTS 

• a pot of cooked rice
• 3 eggs
• 7 strips of bacon
• a half of onion
• 5 table spoons of oil
• salt
• pepper

DIRECTIONS

1. heat the oil in a skillet . 
2. chop your onion and bacon.
3. put the onion and bacon in the skillet. 
4. after the bacon and onion gets a little cooked add the eggs salt and pepper. 
5. let the eggs cook then add the rice. 
6. last let the rice get a little brown then serve.

Briah adds:
"You can add shrimp and make it shrimp fried rice.  My daddy always teaches me recipes."

Best Wishes on Your Exam, Yun!

Yun, from China, emailed us with her latest update:

MY Dear friends :

I was happy to receive the e-mail from you. Recently, I am busy
reviewing my lessons. We will have an ex-am next week, it is very
important for us. Everyone is working hard in order to get a good
score. I also work very hard. By the way , tell you the truth, I
can'ot cook very well by myself. However, I love cooking and
enjoying cooking, it's enough, isn't it?

Happy Halloween!

Yours,
Yun

Spatulatta answers:

Dear Yun,

Spatulatta wishes you all the best during your exams next week!
Study hard, and keep us updated on the results :)

Here is a recipe for a Banana Orange smoothie. It's a simple recipe
and the vitamins will help you keep focused on your studies!

You will need:

• Ice
• 1 cup of orange juice
• 2 peeled bananas
• A blender
  

Directions:
1. Fill the blender jar about 1/3 full of ice.
2. Pour the orange juice into the blender. Put the lid on tight!
3. Starting with a slow speed on the blender, chop the ice and then using
a higher speed, mix the orange juice and ice until they are slushy.

4. Take the lid off the blender and add the bananas. Put the lid back on.
5. Blend until the bananas have completely disappeared into the slush.
6. Pour your smoothie into a glass and enjoy the cool taste.

Good luck, Yun!

-Team Spatulatta

P.S. Yun, after completing your exam, feel free to email us any video footage
of you cooking in the kitchen with your family. We would love to display
the video on Spatulatta for everyone to see. We'd love to hear your family
speak Chinese while making one of your favorite recipes! :)

BizyMoms.com Halloween Scrapbook Contest

Spatulatta Fans: Enter the latest Halloween contest from Bizymoms.com! Read more below...
-Team Spatulatta

Halloween is around the corner and we at Bizymoms have something special
for moms and the kids!

Mummy's Goblins and Ghouls Scrapbook Contest

Send in photos of your little trick or treaters
from November 1 - November 10, 2008

Three cash prizes will be awarded.
1. $100 Grand Prize
2. $50 runner up
3. $50 most original costume idea

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Winners will be chosen based on votes, comments and a bizymoms.com
management panel.

Contest URL: http://bizymoms.com/halloween/

Marisa's Banana Smoothie

Mmmm, we're going "bananas" over this recipe!  Thanks, Marisa.
-Team Spatulatta

1  banana  cut  in  half,1 tsp  of  vanilla, 
4 oz.  of  milk,3  ice  cubes  and  a  blender. 
 
hope  you  enjoy  my  banana  smoothie!!!! 
 
                  bye!!!!  
 
p.s. my  grandma   taught  it  to  me. 
plus  you  can  add   strawberries  to  make  a  strawberry  banana  smoothie! 
love  your  recipes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Briah's Macaroni Noodle Recipe

Thanks for sending us your delicious recipe, Briah!
- Team Spatulatta

Macaroni Noodles

Ingredients:

1 pound of ground beef or turkey
1 tablespoon of onion powder
1 tablespoon of garlic powder
1 tablespoon of salt
1 tablespoon of pepper
5 cups of tomato sauce
5 cups of shredded cheddar cheese

Directions:

1. boil your macaroni noodles until soft.
2. brown ground beef in a skillet.
4. add garlic powder,onion powder,salt,and pepper.
5. take the browned meat of of heat.
6. drain macaroni noodles in shrainer and put back in the pot.
7. turn heat up to hi add the browned meat to the macaroni.
8. then add tomato sauce and let it come to a boil.
9. final add cheddar cheese let the cheese melt in and serve. 

Delectable Dessert: Sweet Sushi

Our friend Donald sent us his recipe for sweet sushi. Thanks Donald, this looks so much fun to make!!
-Team Spatulatta

Sweet Sushi:

• Use Coconut milk with the water to make the sushi rice, usually 1/2 to 1/2 to 1.
  Meaning 1/2 cup of water 1/2 cup of coconut milk & 1 cup of sushi rice
  

• Cook the rice like you would sushi, then instead of adding vinegar you add coco, Lopez coconut cream, a little cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg, not to much.

• For the wrapper I use a little cocoa in a crepe batter to make chocolate crepe and that's the nori wrap.
  

• For the fillings you can reconstitute some figs, dried cranberries etc, and for the wasabi fine ground pistachios until the were like peanut butter.
  

• Serve on a bed of sugar raked to look like a Japanese cloud garden with a few chunks of chocolate to be the mountain tops and there you go.

*Image from Family Fun Magazine

How Team Spatulatta Chooses Recipes

hey how do u come up with 5 new recipes?
-Hannah

Spatulatta answers:

Dear Hannah,

How do we come up with 5 new recipes? Sometimes it's really easy. Our
friends, Miss Karina and Zara, from Language Stars collected the Peruvian
recipes and we tweaked them with the help of our mom, Miss Gaylon and Miss
Janet.

Sometimes we chose a theme, like Doggie Appreciation Day and think up
recipes that we think fit the theme. Some are family recipes, some are
recipes that kids and their families send in, some are classic recipes
that get an update. The adults on our team not only make sure everything
is edible but they go over the recipes to make sure the 5 dishes are
balanced, so their aren't 5 dessert recipes and there's not too much fat
or salt.

Thanks so much for your question. I'm sure other kids were wondering the
same thing.

Team Spatulatta

Hong Bang Bang Wire!

Our pal Yun, from China, sent us this amazing recipe.
Thank you Yun!!

Your friends at Spatulatta

Yun writes:

My dear friends:

This is a Chinese food Hong Bang Bang wire ,you can try to cook it

Materials: 
150 grams-scented tea, a cucumber 100 grams, 50 grams of bean
sprouts, carrots 50 grams, a Fenpi, 1 tablespoon sesame oil.

Sauce: 
1 tablespoon Zhima Jiang, cream 1 tablespoon soy sauce, sugar 1 / 2
tablespoon, 1 tablespoon broth, 1 tablespoon sesame oil, vinegar 1 / 2
tablespoon, Layou 1 / 2 tablespoon (or more seasonings to Draw Frame).

Practice:
1, scented tea-cut, cut cucumber, carrots cut.

2, bean sprouts into boiling water you picked up in the hot, let cool.

3, Fenpi Yongkaishuitang about cold-water washed, cut, Banshang sesame oil
(do not stick together).

4, Fenpi disc release at the end of Zaipu other materials on top, applying
Banhao of sauces, edible material and then before and sauces to mix well.

Note: Zhima Jiang transfer of skills in the water will have to join in Zhima
Jiang stressed thin and flavor.
                              

Your friend,
Yun