Which dishes do you love to prepare to Labor Day? Actually it can be whatever you just want, right? But however there are some special diches you kove the most. Which one?

Perhaps this is Spinach-Stuffed Portobellos, Orzo-Stuffed Tomatoes, Chicken with Mango-Raspberry Salsa or Strawberry Tiramisu Trifle? Would you share with your recipes?

I prefer such recipes that make for easy labor like tomato salad and quick Italian-style burgers.

1 pound of ground beef
1/2 pound of hot or mild Italian sausage removed from casing.
1 small red onion, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1/2 cup of seasoned bread crumbs
¼ cup of freshly grated Romano cheese
1/4 cup of fresh parsley, chopped
1 egg
1 tsp of liquid smoke
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp of fresh ground pepper

Toppings

6 slices of provolone cheese
1 small red onion, sliced thin
1 beefsteak tomato, sliced thin
1 jar of roasted red peppers
10 fresh basil leaves
8 small loaves of foccacia bread sliced in half

PREPARATION

Mix all the burger ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
Shape into burger shaped patties.
Place directly on grill for 10 minutes.
Turn once and grill the other side for 10 more minutes.
Top with provolone cheese until melted, about 1 minute.
Remove burgers and toast the foccacio face side down for I minute or you can use regular hamburger buns.
Top with sliced onion, tomato, roasted red peppers and fresh basil leaves.

You may top with other favorites but it’s delicious just like this. Serves 8.

Cold soups are best choice for summer! All my family love cold soups especially during these heat summer days. No doubt it’s satisfying and healthy dish may be prepared at any season you want it but it’s the number one at summer of coirse:) So, today you can find incredible number of recipes of cold soups from around the world. But I love the most cold soups my grandmother prepared, I remember tastiest Strawberry cold soup, beer soup -( zupa piwna in Polish), Creamed Beet Barszcz (Barszcz Zabielany in Polish), Cold Rhubarb Soup.

It’s so pity that I didn’t note my grandmother’s recipe but I found online the one that can really be up to the mark as a good Rhubarb soup by it’s quality and taste.

•1 pound rhubarb, trimmed, peeled, if necesssary, and chopped
•5 cups water
•2 tablespoons cornstarch
•1/2 cup whole milk
•1 tablespoon seedless strawberry preserves
•Sugar to taste
•Cooked “kluski” egg noodles or croutons
•Sour cream for garnish
Preparation:
1.Place rhubarb and water in large pot. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer until rhubarb is tender, about 15 minutes. Remove pot from heat. Puree with an immersion blender or in a conventional blender or food processor.

2.Dissolve cornstarch in milk, temper and whisk into hot soup. Add strawberry preserves to improve the soup’s color (or add a drop of red food coloring) and sweeten to taste with sugar. Return to heat, bring to a boil and simmer 3 minutes.

3.Chill soup in an ice bath and refrigerate until ready to serve. Portion “kluski” (or croutons) into bowls, ladle soup over and add a dollop of sour cream.

I’ve found a video on how to make frozen yogurt without special machine but just with a help of regular mixer. Step by step – it’s really easy!

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Frozen yogurt,a super delicious dessert is similar to ice cream, but made with yogurt and other pure dairy products. Sugar-free and fat-free frozen yogurts is the ideal alternative for fat content and calorie count ice cream. Similar to ice cream, frozen yogurt can be made in any flavor that you can think of instead of limiting your taste buds to a few varieties in your grocer’s freezer and finally homemade frozen yogurt is even easier to prepare than ice cream.

Low Fat Frozen Yogurt

2 cups plain low-fat yogurt
2 cups strawberries
1 medium sized banana (peeled and cut into chunks)
4 teaspoons sugar substitute
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
2 tablespoons water

Just combine a small saucepan,gelatin and water then heat slowly and stir constantly till gelatin dissolves completely. Remove it from heat and cool down. Then take your electric blender, add what you want – strawberries, banana chunks and whatever you just want, add gelatin. Blend it all together for 2 – 3 minutes, or until you get a consistently smooth paste. Add yogurt, sugar substitute and vanilla extract, and process for another 2- 3 minutes. Pour it in ice cream maker and freeze according to directions.

French Vanilla Frozen Yogurt

1/2 cup of evaporated milk
2 teaspoons of unflavored gelatin, softened
2/3 cup of raw sugar
pinch of salt
2 egg yolks, beaten
2 cups of plain, whole milk yogurt
2 tablespoons of vanilla
2 egg whites

Heat the milk to just below boiling in the top of a double boiler. Next, add the gelatin, sugar, and salt, and stir these ingredients until they’re dissolved.

By the way you have not yet ice cream maker it’s not expencive to buy. Right now I’ve found wide choice of ice cream makes – from $26 to $36, for instance – Hamilton Beach 68330R 4 QT Bucket Ice Cream Maker for $26, new, makes ice cream, frozen yogurt, custard, sherbet & gelato. Fully automatic. plus over 20 recipes included you can buy on google.com/products.

it’s interesting that many people are unaware of the humble origins of the name for this popular Italian food. ‘Lasagna’ got its name from the Greek lasanon, which means “chamber pot.” The Romans borrowed the word to refer to cooking pots of a similar shape, and eventually the word came to be used to refer to the noodles which were traditionally layered in a lasanum, a Roman lasagna dish. Here is one of various recopes to prepare Lasagna easy and quick:

Ingredients
1 lb lean ground beef
1/2 medium sweet white onion, diced
1/2 large green bell pepper, seeds and veins removed, diced
1/2 lb dry lasagna noodles (requires 9 lasagna noodles – unbroken)
1/4 cup sugar
1 28 oz can tomato sauce
1/2 28 oz can (16 oz) stewed tomatoes
1/2 6 oz can (3 oz) tomato paste
1 lb Ricotta cheese
1 1/2 lb Mozzarella cheese (large flat square slices)
3/4 lb freshly grated parmesan cheese
Garlic Powder
Oregano
Italian Spice
Salt
Garlic Salt
Parsley diced (fresh flat leaf preferred)
1 Garlic Cloves, minced
White wine vinegar

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