BIZZY BAKES

I found this in scheduled recipes with a date months down the road.  I have no idea what it is doing there.  I know we gobbled these down when I first made them, the summer of 2013.  I decided to share them with you. Swedish Sausage and Potato Cakes (adapted from  Food.com) Ingredients: 2 chicken sausages 1 1/2 cups mashed potatoes 1 egg, beaten 1/2 red onion, thin sliced and cut in half 1 pinch black pepper Method: Crumble and brown the sausage. Add browned sausage, potatoes, egg, onion and about a tablespoon of drippings in a bowl. Form into 6 patties, and fry in some of the reserved drippings, browning both sides . Serve hot. This is a guilty pleasure.  Eat and enjoy. Linked to Friday Favorites        See Ya in the Gumbo     Two Cup Tuesday           In and Out of the Kitchen         Fat Tuesday      Hearth and Soul Hop ...

In our group My Kitchen My World , we are traveling to Israel. In my search for recipes, I found similarities between Israel and other countries in the Mideast. I decided on something I have made for years but not recently, Israeli salad. (Hebrew: סָלָט יְרָקוֹת יִשְׂרְאֵלִי‎, salat yerakot yisraeli, "Israeli vegetable salad") is a chopped salad of diced tomato and cucumber.  It is usually made of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and parsley, sometimes with green or red peppers, and with a simple dressing of fresh lemon juice, olive oil and black pepper. It is common for the cucumbers to remain unpeeled.  Israeli Salad Ingredients: 2 medium tomatoes, cubed 1  English cucumber, cubed 1/2 medium red onion, sliced thin 3 tablespoons finely minced fresh, flat-leaf parsley Juice of half a lemon 2  tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper, to taste Method: In large bowl, toss all the vegetables. Combine le...