Flourless Chocolate Cake with Whipped Cream and RaspberriesDiet, Schmiet. Some foods are worth breaking New Year's Resolutions - and this cake definitely fits the bill. Delicious, decadent, and drop-dead gorgeous, this cake is one of my favorite go-to recipes whenever I need the perfect finale for a celebratory meal.
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Curried Shrimp Salad
This recipe is part of Linda Larsen's More Summer Salads article.
Lots of people will think this is a rice salad, but it's not. Orzo, or rosamarina, is a rice-shaped pasta. Try substituting chicken, turkey or ham for the shrimp for a flavor change.
1 12 ounce box orzo (rosamarina) pasta
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup low-fat mayonnaise
1/4 cup milk
1-3 tablespoons curry powder (to taste)
1/2 cup mango chutney
2 cups red grapes
1 cup celery hearts, chopped
2 cups medium shrimp, shelled and cooked
Chopped mango (garnish)
Toasted coconut (garnish)
Cashews (garnish)
Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, combine mayonnaise, yogurt, low-fat mayonnaise and milk; stir well. Add curry powder and chutney. Drain pasta, rinse briefly with cold water, and add to mayonnaise mixture. Stir in grapes, celery and shrimp. Chill well.
Serves 6
Linda Larsen is a freelance Home Economist with a degree in Food Science from the University of Minnesota and a degree from St. Olaf College. She has been on the Pillsbury Bake-Off staff since 1987, and was in charge of Internet Recipe Search in 2000. Linda has developed recipes for Pillsbury and Malt-O-Meal, presented food to taste panels, held cooking seminars, and owned her own catering business "The Perfect Occasion". She loves to cook and entertain, write about food, talk about it, plan parties, read cookbooks and develop recipes. She has a cookbook collection of at least 1000 books and reads them as though they were novels.
Linda's first meal was a Mother's Day dinner from the Betty Crocker Children's cookbook, prepared when she was 11. Since then she has hosted wedding and baby showers, birthday parties, business dinners and cocktail parties, and wonderful simple meals for friends. Join her and learn simple and elegant ways to entertain your family and friends during the week.
Linda can be reached at dlarsen@rconnect.com.
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