Carnival of the Recipes

...he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Proverbs 15:15

Welcome to the 74th Carnival of the Recipes!!

Pride of Place goes to J. Quinby of Me Autum Minui, because this is the first time I've hosted a carnival and his is the first entry I received (and only the second he's attempted to contribute to a carnival): Rustic Meat and Tomato Sauce- he says it's hearty and good the second day. I think it looks delicious and very easy to prepare.

Breakfast:
Mensa Barbie presents fruity breakfast toast, and calling this divine sounding delight 'breakfast toast' is about as understated as referring to the Pacific Ocean as the wettish blue area at the edge of California. It's bigger, more beautiful, and encompasses far more that those words would indicate.

Grains:
Our good friend Mama Squirrel at Dewey's Treehouse has a recipe for kasha-vegetable pilaf, along with links to pages with information about it. Because kasha is made from buckwheat, which is not a grain, it's useful for those on low-carb diets as well as though who are trying to eliminate gluten from their diets.

Salads:
KeeWee's Corner presents Aztec Chili Salad, a main-dish salad with meat, beans, jicama, cilantro and more goodies. It looks like our taco salad all dressed up to be presented to company- and she has a nice picture of it all in its best duds, too.

Keep reading this post for a link to winter salad recipes

Main Dishes:
the Technogypsy offers a post with photographs that will offend all PETA members and prompts me to set out the venison to defrost: Hacienda Chicken Fried Venison. Looks like a keeper, as do these breakfast burritoes .

The next recipe also has hunting connections. Pathfinder at Third World Country says he stole or borrowed it from his brother who whips a batch for his hunting buddies several times a year. We have plenty of corn-fed deer around our place, and a friend who hunts in exchange for some meat, so we shall be giving Pathfinder's False Alarm Venison Chili a try in the very near future.

Over at Signaleer you can have a touch of supper table social studies by serving Afghan Lamb Kebabs, or you can skip the studies and just enjoy what looks like a completely delicious dinner entree.

I can tell just by reading her directions that Romeocat at CatHouseChat combines artistry with practicality- she shares Beef with No Barley soup (because she had no barley, of course), and it looks very tasty indeed.

Everything and Nothing has a recipe for meatballs with sweet and sour sauce. Meatballs freeze very well, so those of you who think making meatballs is too much trouble could just make a large batch and freeze them. This would make a nice dish at a buffet or potluck, and a few [dozen] meatballs with sauce in a lunchbox would surely be welcome treat to the Headmaster.

In The Headlights not only cooked up a tasty teriyaki entree, and she took a picture too. Her homemade teriyaki sauce looks fantastic, and so do those teriyaki steaks!

In a post rated at least a PG-13 for language (we are a family blog and must note these things), Blog d'Elisson presents Duck Breast Sammitches complete with with your own homemade aioli (or garlic mayonnaise).

Dave at The Glittering Eye made Pork with Curry, Squash, and Mushrooms recently and it turned out so well that he's sharing this gem of a recipe with the rest of us. He says it only took about ten minutes to prepare, although I suspect he must be rather more competent at cutting the hard winter squashes than we are. The mushrooms are portabella mushrooms, and upon reading that, the more discerning palates will have already clicked on the link and abandoned us.

Gradual Dazzle is a dazzling beautiful blog- luscious, vibrant colors splashed everywhere. Our hostess there has a lovely recipe, too- Scallops Provencale, served over hot rice. We will be trying this with brown rice. I can smell the savory herbs and garlic even now.

More seafood is being served over at A Weight Lifted, and this, oh be still my heart, has cilantro in it. We adore cilantro, and I am sure we will love this recipe: Seviche, shrimp with lemons, cilantro and other delights.

Side-dishes and Salads:

OzarkLad at GetALifeSoon shares a recipe for Pineapple-Cheese. He says it disappeared rapidly at a recent potluck, is deceptively simple to make because nothing this easy should taste this good.

Desserts:
In the 'looks jaw-droppingly delicious category' we must have Audrey's Swiss Coffee from Coffee Sage. I'm still salivating just from reading the recipe... several days ago.

I always look forward to reading recipes from Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea, and she does not disappoint me this week. Bailey's Chocolate Chip Bars look like all it should be and then some, rich, decadent, evil, delicious. And chocolate and sour cream, they're natural foods, right? Sounds like health food to me, oh, baby.

Thank-you, Oasis of Sanity!! Joan shares a recipe for LOW-CARB cinnamon shortbread. It looks delicious, and for those not interested in low-carb, she explains how to crank up the carbs. The original recipe is very low-carb, and as she says, it's nice to be able to splurge while sticking to a diet. This really looks quite yummy.

Triticale shares a tasty recipe for that wonderful classic, the chocolate chip cookie. This is the real deal from Mrs. Fields. You can never have too many chocolate chips, or too many chocolate chip cookie recipes, either.

Our own entry includes several healthful recipes in one post. We've included a full day's worth of meals and snacks, including a crock-pot warm winter cereal, some winter salads, two soups, snacks, bread and dessert. We include recipes for the vegetarian, the vegan, the low-carb dieter and the low-cal dieter as well, everthing from breakfast to a bedtime snack. Plenty to choose from, so take your pick.

Next week's carnival will be hosted by Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea. Please send in your recipes that include coffee or tea- the place to mail them is:
recipe-dot-carnival-at-neversendspam-gmail-dot-c0m, or you can use the Conservative Cat's Carnival Submission Form. The deadline is Saturday, noon Central time.

Folks interested in hosting should send an email to the address with the word host in the subject line.
The current schedule is posted here for folks who are interested.

Thank-you all for participating, and thank-you to Punctilious for letting The Common Room host. This was fun, and not nearly so much work as I thought it would be.

"This Carnival of the Recipes can also be found at The Truth Laid Bear's ÜberCarnival."

...Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
~Isaiah 55:1-2


Updated to add links to the main page of each blog. If there is anything else I overlooked, please feel free to let me know in the comments, or email heartkeepercommonroomATyahooD0Tc0mma.