Brownies

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
• 3/4 cup sweet ground chocolate
• 2/3 cup unsifted flour
• 1/4 tsp. baking flour
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)
• 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips (optional)

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
2. Using a spoon, stir eggs with sugar and vanilla.
3. Add butter.
4. Sift ground chocolate with flour, baking powder, and salt.
5. Stir into egg mixture.
6. If you want, add nuts and chocolate chips
7. Spread into a greased 8" or 9" square pan.
8. Bake 20-30 minutes. For extra chewy brownies, use 8" and less baking time. For cake-like brownies, use 9" pan and longer baking time.
9. Cut into squares.

Sticky Rice Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 box Mochiko sweet rice flour
• 3 cups milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 6 tbs. butter

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 375°.
2. Beat eggs together in a large mixing bowl.
3. Mix sugar in with the eggs.
4. Slowly mix in the flour.
5. Slowly mix in the milk.
6. Mix in the vanilla.
7. Place butter in baking pan and melt in oven.
   
8. Mix batter with butter in baking pan.
9. Bake for 1 hour.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 1 ¼ cups brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. of vanilla extract
• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 2 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Mix butter and sugar until light.
3. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
4. Put in flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
5. Stir, mix, and blend well.
6. When blended, put in chocolate chips and keep stirring until blended.
7. Shape into balls of 1 ½ inches in diameter and place 2 in. apart in an ungreased cookie sheet.
8. Bake for 12 minutes or until the edges are light brown.

Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup sugar
• ½ tsp. salt
• 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 1 tbs. baking powder
• 1 large egg
• 1/3 vegetable oil
• 1 ¼ cup milk
• ½ cup buttermilk
  
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• ¾ cup fresh or frozen blueberries
• ¼ cup diced dried apples

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 400°
2. Combine all dry ingredients in one bowl and all liquid ingredients in a separate bowl.
3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add liquid ingredients, blueberries, and dried apples.
4. Mix with fork until it forms loose batter.
5. Lightly coat a muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray.
6. Use a spoon to put the batter into the pan until they’re ¾ filled.
7. Bake for 18-20 minutes.

Mixed Juice & Juice Cubes

Mixed Juice:

Ingredients

• 2 cups Sparkling Apple Juice (Martinelli's)
• 1 ½ cups Pomegranate Green Tea Lychee Juice (Or just pomegranate juice)
• ½ cup Grapefruit Juice [optional]

Steps

1. Mix the juices together and serve cold.

Juice Cubes:

Ingredients

• Pomegranate Juice (or any other kind of juice)
  

Steps

1. Pour juice into an ice cube tray.
2. Freeze for at least 3-4 hours.
3. Pop into a drink (like Mixed Punch) and serve!

Lemon Bars

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup margarine or butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbs. all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp. finely shredded lemon peel
• 3 tbs. lemon juice
• ¼ tsp. baking powder
• powdered sugar (optional)

Steps

1. Beat margarine with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
2. Add ¼ cup of the sugar. Beat till combined.
   
3. Beat in the 1 cup flour till crumbly.
4. Press into the bottom of an ungreased 8x8x2 in. baking pan.
5. Bake in a 350º oven for 15 to 18 minutes or just till golden.
6. Meanwhile, combine eggs, the remaining sugar, the 2 tbs. flour, lemon peel, juice, and baking powder. Beat for 2 minutes or until thoroughly combined.
7. Pour over hot baked layer.
8. Bake in a 350º oven about 20 minutes more or till lightly browned around the edges and center is set.
9. Cool on a wire rack. If desired, sift powdered sugar over top. Cut into bars. Makes 20.
   

Sushi

Ingredients

• japanese short-grain rice
  
• rice vinegar
• dried seaweed sheets (nori)
  
• bamboo mat (makisu)
• fillings - cucumber, avacado, tuna, etc.
• sesame seeds (optional)

Instructions

1. Cook the rice and let cool. While the rice is cooling, mix rice vinegar into the rice.
2. Cut fillings into thin strips.
3. Place a sheet of dried seaweed on the bamboo mat.
4. Spread cooked rice evenly over the seaweed, leaving a 1-inch border at the far edge.
5. Arrange small portions of your chosen fillings in a horizontal line down the center of the rice and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
6. Roll up the sushi tightly with the sushi mat to form a neatly packed cylinder.
7. Squeeze firmly to make sure the sushi roll is tightly packed.
8. Cut sushi roll into rounds using a sharp, damp knife (it's important that you re-moisten the knife after each cut).
   
9. Serve sushi with the optional soy sauce, wasabi, or pickled ginger.