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Sweet Heart Dinner Menu

Sweet Heart Salad

Spring Greens or Romaine

Chicken Breasts (baked or grilled) and sliced

Red Onions

Dried Cranberries or Fresh Strawberries (or both)

Feta Cheese Crumbles (or your favorite cheese shredded)

Raspberry Walnut Vinegarette

World's Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake

1 small coffee mug

1 tablespoon flour

1 tablespoon sugar

1/2 tablespoon baking cocoa

1 whole egg

2 teaspoons milk

2 teaspoons vegetable oil

9 chocolate chips

Add dry ingredients to mug and mix well. Add egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add chocolate chips and mix again. Put your mug in the microwave and cook 50 seconds on HIGH. The cake may rise over the top of the mug, but don't worry it will fall as it cools down. Top with sliced strawberries, ice cream or whipping cream and drizzle with chocolate sauce.

Add a bottle of wine, some candle light, some soft jazz music a loaf of crusty bread and some oil to dip it in and think ROMANCE!

Hundreds of Recipes Available On-Line

Did you know that Pies & Plates' has 100s of great recipes available on-line? Our recipe bank is part of our On-line Store! Click here to go our Shop On-line web page! Enter our On-line Store and click on the RECIPE tab at the top of the page! To find Pies & Plates' recipes type Pies and Plates in the search box .

Learn to Cook at our Culinary Academy
If you enjoy cooking then be sure to check out Pies & Plates' Culinary Academy offering Cooking classes for the "not so serious" cook! It's all about good food, good friends and good fun! Click here

Visit our Cookbook Library
Pies and Plates' has a large collection of cookbooks available in our Cookbook Library located in the Culinary Academy classroom! The library is open during our regular business hours except when a class is in session! Grab a cup of coffee and a Gooey Butter Cake and come browse through our collection! Free recipe cards available for jotting down recipes and check out is allowed! If you'd like to donate your old cookbooks to our libary just bring them on in! We'll be glad to accept them!

Articles from Pies & Plates' Culinary Academy:
Going With The Grain
We're Wild About our Mushrooms
Melting and Tempering Chocolate
Growing Herbs at Home

Hurricane Charley Recipe Collection Project
After Huricane Charley struck in 2004 we all became experts in cooking without power!
We hope we never need these recipes again but just in case (and because these recipes are too good to keep secret) we are compiling them in a collection we're calling Recipes We Hope We Never HAVE to Use! If we end up with enough recipes, maybe we'll even publish a cookbook! If you have a recipe you'd like to contribute click here and fill out our easy submission form!

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