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A Divine, One Pot Sweet Stew for the Holidays that You Can't Refuse. This recipe has almost every vitamin and mineral known to man in it. The dried fruit is especially rich in vitamin A, beta carotene and all manner of trace minerals, including an iron that will ease, rather strain your bathroom habits. The more... Australian BBQ Recipes Australian bbq recipes What makes a great outdoor party? Grilling, of course. And the Australians sure have some awesome bbq recipes that you are sure to enjoy. This first Australian bbq recipe is for shrimp. This is a very unique recipe that... Celebrating Diwali Stir Fry Sauces For Fast And Festive Foods (NC)—Diwali, the five-day fall 'Festival of Lights', begins on October 25 and Canada's Hindu communities will celebrate in the traditional manner - decorating their homes with lights, handing out sweets and sharing festive meals with their... Choosing Mail Order Gourmet Meat Cuts Buying meat is one of the finest delicacies left in gourmet food. There are so many cuts, tastes, and styles of preparation, filets, and seasoning to delight and tingle all senses. Saving money on gourmet meat can be easy, just follow the few basic... Fusion Cooking - Blended Cuisines What do you get when you cross hot Indian food with the English love of tomatoes and all things creamy? Chicken Tikka Masala is a famous combination of chicken tikka and masala.Chicken tikka is a marinated piece of meat cooked in a tandoor, an...         Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts. No.2 of 8 - Shortbread Traditional Scottish produce and ideal in a box or tin for a christmas gift. Christmas recipe makes: 2 to 3 dozen Calories per biscuit: 180-270 Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Not suitable for freezing Christmas recipe ingredients: * butter, 450 g (1 lb) * sugar, caster 225 g (8 oz) * flour, plain white 450 g (1 lb) * rice, ground or flour 225 g (8 oz) * salt, pinch * sugar, colored granulated or golden * sugar, caster for sprinkling All these recipe ingredients must be at room temperature. Christmas recipe instructions: 1. Mix the sugar and butter until a creamy and fluffy consistency. Mix together the salt, rice flour and flour. Now blend with the creamy mixture and mix until it is breadcrumb like. 2. Take some mixture in your hand and form a ball shape that can be rolled into a 2-3 inch (5-7.5 cm) tube shape. Enclose in cling film and cool till hard. 3. Cut the tube of dough into half inch slices (10 mm) and coat the edges with the golden or granulated sugar. Bake until slightly golden at 190 degrees centigrade(gas mark 5, 375 F) for about 25 minutes. Sprinkle with caster sugar after removing from the oven. 4. After 10 minutes transfer to a wire rack for complete cooling. Changes you can make to the recipe: * Add a spice such as 'mixed spice' to the flours to make a Spiced Shortbread. * To make a Ginger Shortbread add ground ginger to the flours and crystallized ginger to the dough from step 1. * For Chocolate Chip Shortbread blend chocolate pieces into the dough. * For Lavender Shortbread, add half a dozen lavender flower tops into the dough. This time roll the dough into thin pieces, cut intobiscuit shape and bake for about quarter of an hour. * For Rosemary Shortbread, just replace the lavender with fresh chopped rosemary and carry on as above. About the author: (c) Paul Curran, CEO of Cuzcom Internet Publishing Group and webmaster at Gifts-for-Christmas.com, bringing you christmas recipes and unique gifts for christmas including their online home collectibles, russian gifts, cookies, jewelry. This article may be re-published in its entirety as long as the author bylines in the resource box are included and urls kept live.