Welcome to Ruth’s Food
Recipes to share and enjoy.
Well I am in AZ right now for a few days and ate at a wonderful Greek Restaurant called My Big Fat Greek Restaurant. It was a very friendly atmosphere. My husband Dan and I went with my grandparents and Sophia. There seemed to be no problems with kids and they even had a kids menu with crayons and highchairs.
Cream margarine and sugars until fluffy; add egg, milk and vanilla; beat well. Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture, mix well. Chill for 1 hour in refrigerator.
Date Filling:
Combine 2 cups chopped dates, sugar, salt and water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, then cover and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often. Add the 2 tbsp. lemon juice after it's cooked and let cool.
Madagascar Vanilla (purchase at Chefs Catalog) Of all the vanilla's I've used this is my favorite. Once you've tried it you won't go back!
Baking Sheet mat I love these cooking mats! I use them for all my cookies. The clean up is a breeze and it saves your pans.
Mix flour, salt and cream of tartar in a pan, then add water, oil, and food coloring. Heat for about 3 minutes. Or until mixture pulls away from pan. Remove and knead.
- Hours of fun awaits!
When I was a child one of my fondest memories was making homemade play dough. I would make a batch, then color it and play with it for hours. Carefully when I was done storing it in baggies until the next time I got it out. It never did last long with brothers and a sister wanting to play too, but we did have many fun hours with it.
This is the recipe I used. Try it and enjoy it with your kids. I think Sophia is finally getting old enough to give it a go, at least she won't be constantly eating it. :)
2 cups flour
2 cups salt
2 tbsp. cooking oil
4 tsp. cream of tartar
2 cups water
Mix together and spread over pizza crust, or noodles.
Sprinkling garlic salt over the pizza crust is very yummy too.
Mix the 1 1/4 cup sugar, 3 tbsp. flour and corn starch together. Put in a 13x9" baking pan. Then mix the oats, brown sugar, flour, melted margarine and cinnamon together and pour evenly on top.
Bake at 375 for 45 minutes.
This is a wonderful summertime dish.
Combine the sugar and Karo syrup in a sauce pan and bring to a boil, stir in peanut butter and Rice Krispies. Put into a 13x9" pan patting down.
Melt the 2 kinds of chocolate chips in microwave for 3 minutes. After it's melted pour over the Krispy mixture. Cool and enjoy!
Cream together the margarine, 1/2 sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar until well mixed. Then add egg yokes, water and vanilla, mix throughly. Last add the flour and baking soda.
Spread the dough mixture into a 9x13" pan until even. Next spread 1 cup chocolate chips over the dough pressing them into it.
Next mix the 4 egg white till stiff peaks form, then adding 1 cup of brown sugar a little at a time.
Madagascar Vanilla (purchase at Chefs Catalog) Of all the vanilla's I've used this is my favorite. Once you've tried it you won't go back!
With your mixer cream the butter until it is light and fluffy. Next cream in powder sugar, then the vanilla. Now mix in the flour. You want to do this quickly and as soon as you get pea sized balls stop mixing. Lightly spray a ceramic shortbread pan with Pam then pour the pea sized crumbs into the pan and smooth level. With the palm of your hand, firmly press down on the dough.
