Quick Meals Planner: Lunch on the Porch
Caipirinha | Open-faced Crab and Artichoke Melt Sandwich | Pecan Bars
Caipirinha
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Misc |
| Meal: | Lunch on the Porch (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 0.5 | cup | lime juice |
| 1 | cup | water |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, brown |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 1 | cup | brandy |
| 4 | whole | limes, sliced |
| 0.5 | cup | club soda |
| 4 | cup | ice |
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Heat sugar and water in pan until syrup is combined and clear.
Put lime juice, sugar syrup, brandy and ice into blender and mix well.
Pour into tall glass; add lime slices and splash of club soda. Decorate with lime slice on rim of glass.
Open-faced Crab and Artichoke Melt Sandwich
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Fish Entrée |
| Meal: | Lunch on the Porch (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 2 | cup | cheese, grated parmesan |
| 1.5 | cup | mayonnaise |
| 1 | medium | onions, diced |
| 12 | oz | crab, white lump |
| 1 | 12 oz can | artichoke hearts |
| 0.5 | cup | parsley, flat leaf |
| 8 | slices | bread, sourdough |
| 8 | small | tomatoes, fresh |
| 8 | slices | cheese, monterey jack |
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Mix together first six ingredients. Transfer to an 8 by 8 by 2-inch baking dish and bake at 400 degrees until crab is hot and bubbling, about 25 minutes.
Preheat broiler. Place sourdough bread slices on cookie sheet. Top each bread slice with crab mixture, tomato slices, and Monterey jack cheese slices. Broil until cheese is melted, watch carefully. It doesn't take long for it to burn!
Pecan Bars
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Cooking for the Kids |
| Meal: | Lunch on the Porch (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 2 | cup | flour |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, powdered |
| 8 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 1 | large | egg |
| 14 | oz | milk, evaporated |
| 1 | tsp | vanilla |
| 1 | cup | heathbar bits |
| 1 | cup | pecans, halved |
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Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Combine flour and sugar in bowl. Cut in butter until a coarse crumb.
Press dough into bottom of a lightly greased 13 X 9 pan. Bake for 15 minutes. Mix egg, milk and vanilla, stir in heathbar bits and pecans. Spread mixture over crust. Bake an additional 25 minutes.
Cool and cut into bars.
