Tabouleh Recipe

Take half a mug of bourghal wheat (from health food store- there's lots of different spellings) and fill it with boiling water. Let it stand until the wheat is soft. (Best to put the mug on a plate in case it spills over)

Mix equal amounts of

Parsley
Chopped ripe tomatoes (Never refrigerate tomatoes- they lose their taste)
Chopped Celery

Then add the softened Bourghal wheat, and stir. Add lemon juice and salt to taste. Usually one lemon is enough, but it depends on how sour the lemon is, and how much you are making. Add a little at a time, just to be safe.

Witches Brew- Recipe

We like to do this for Halloween

Can of Fruit Punch
Can of Pineapple Pieces
Can of Fruit Salad
Peeled Lemon, cut into slices
Peeled Orange, cut up into slices
Assorted fizzy fruit flavoured drinks

Mix together a bit at a time until it tastes right. Make sure you put it in a big bowl with some room to spare. Then add a fist sized piece of dry ice. (Do not touch with your bare hands- wear winter gloves and use tongs) The drink will bubble and a fog will come out of the bowl. This is Carbon Dioxide. so it isn't poisonous- it's what you breathe out all the time. Still, have doors open to other rooms if you are worried. The fog can be scooped up with a ladle and poured into glasses- kids really have a lot of fun with this.

Obviously you'd want to be careful that you don't swallow the frozen dry ice. That's why you put big chunks in, rather than smaller ones. You can find dry ice by looking in the yellow pages- they give you way more than you need, but that's OK- just keep it in the freezer, and you'll have enough to use at night. By morning of course it will all be gone.

Dip recipes

Veggie Dip

Bowl of Sour Cream
2 Stock cubes, crumbled into it

Stir.


Tzadiki Dip

Bowl of Sour Cream
Finely chopped up Small chunk of cucumber without seeds (about the length of a finger)
1 chopped up clove of garlic (or a sprinkle of garlic powder)
1 crumbled up stock cube

Mix together and let sit a while in the fridge.

Bread Soup recipe

This is something I invented when I was ten, hence the strange name. Really this is a fondue.

Can of Campbell's Tomato Soup
Half a can of shredded cheese
Milk

Pour the soup into a bowl. Fill the empty can halfway with the cheese, then pour in the milk to fill it up to the top. Dump it into the bowl and heat until the cheese is melted. Done.

To eat, dip french bread (or any bread) into it. Usually half of a bowl is all a grownup can eat.

Taco Soup Recipe

big can of crushed tomatoes
lots of dried dill
two stock cubes
1/3 can of water

Boil together in microwave. Taste. Add V8 if it needs more tomato taste Add lemon if it isn't sour enough. Add more stock cubes if not salty enough.

Prepare separate bowls of the following:

shredded cheese
sour cream
chopped up avocado
chopped up cucumber (with seeds taken out- slice in half legnthwise= scrape out seeds with spoon)
taco chips

To serve, everyone puts some of the above ingredients into a bowl and then covers it with the soup. You can add Tabasco sauce if you want.

My kids like the soup hot, thought really it's supposed to be eaten cold.

Guacamole Recipe

2 ripe avocadoes, mushed up
diced up ripe tomatoes- amount equal to the avocado
1 onion finely chopped up
juice of 1 lemon
Salt

Mush together

Add more lemon if not sour enough, if it still tastes wrong, add a bit of salsa dip- it will taste great!

Potato Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

Potatoes
Granny Smith apples
Polski Ogorski Pickles
Celery
Green Onions
Non-Sweet Mayonaise
Pickle Juice

Take one potato for every two people and microwave them at the "Jacket Potato" setting. No need to peel them. Look out for green bits on potatoes- they are toxic. I know this from experience.

Let them cool. Take equal amounts of green apple, Polski Ogorki Pickles, and celery and chop them up. I usually put in one apple for every two people.

Add in one chopped up green onion per person.

Chop up the cooked potatoes, mix in Hellman's Mayonaise or Best Foods Mayonaise and mix in until it looks right. Wear disposable gloves and mix it with your hands.

Add a tablespoon or so of picklejuice to taste.

That's it!