Old Fashioned Brownie Recipe

Good old fashioned brownies are the best. No one makes them like they used to. Betty Crocker has become a big part of the last few generations, but sometimes you have to look to mom's brownie recipe from when you were a kid. So here you go, the best old fashioned brownie recipe for you and your family.

Ingredients for Old Fashioned Brownie Recipe:
2 Squares of Chocolate
1/3 Cup of Butter
2 Eggs
1 Cup of Sugar
1/2 Cup of Sifted Flour
Dash of Salt
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
1 Cup of Walnuts


How to Make your Old Fashioned Brownies:
Melt the chocolate and then add the butter. Beat the eggs well and then add the 1 cup of sugar. Mix in flour, salt, vanilla until your mixture is really gooey. Spread brownie mixture evenly in a 8 x 10 pan. Add your walnuts to the mixture or place them on top of your brownies in the pan. Bake your Old Fashioned Brownies at 350 degrees for 25 minutes or bake the brownies at 325 degrees for 30 minutes. Let your brownies cool before serving. Depending on size of brownies cut, this recipe will serve 12-20 people.

Cherry Cheesecake Recipe

This amazing Cherry Cheesecake Recipe serves 24 people, and is sure to please the appetites of all your friends and family. One can always go to the Cheesecake Factory, and pick up some amazing Cherry Cheesecake, but you should really try this amazing Cherry Cheesecake Recipe from Ruma's Fruit.

Cherry Cheesecake Recipe Ingredients:
2 Portions of 8 oz Cream Cheese
3/4 Cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon of Vanilla
Cherry Filling
Vanilla Wafers

Cherry Cheesecake Recipe Baking Instructions:
Take a 2 1/2" tin foil cup and pit in vanilla wafer and 3/4 of the cream cheese mixture. Bake at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes. Spoon on your Cherry Pie Filling to finish this amazing Cherry Cheesecake Recipe.

Lime Pie Recipe for Dummies

For those who do not cook, bake, or even know where the kitchen is, this Lime Pie Recipe is for you.

Ingredients for Lime Pie Recipe for Dummies:
Graham Cracker Crust
1 Pint Vanilla Ice Cream (Vanilla Bean is best!)
1 Package of Lime Jello
1 Small Can of Crushed Pineapple
Whip Cream

How to Make for Lime Pie Recipe for Dummies:
Soften the vanilla ice cream, but make sure it does not melt. Then add your Lime Jello package and your drain your crushed pineapple. Pour all into your graham cracker crust, and then cover as needed with lots of whip cream. Walla! Lime Pie Recipe for Dummies!

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No Fail Chocolate Bars Recipe

In only 30 minutes, you too can have No Fail Chocolate Bars. This delicious No Fail Chocolate Bar Recipe serves 10 - 12 people and is perfect to bring to a summer party, Mother's Day, or birthday party.

No Fail Chocolate Bar Ingredients:
14 Double Graham Crackers (Crushed)
6 oz of Chocolate Bits
14 oz can of Condensed Milk
1/2 Cup of Chopped Nuts

No Fail Chocolate Bar Cooking Instructions:
Mix the above ingredients together and spread them into an 8 x 8 inch greased pan of try a 7 x 10 inch greased pan. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and bake for 30 minutes.

Dirt Cake with Gummy Worms Recipe

Kids love Dirt Cake with Gummy Worms! The laugh and giggle and think its wicked cool. The Dirt Cake Recipe is great for kids parties, birthday parties, summer events, bar-b-ques, pool parties, and family gatherings. Even those over 10 years old get a kick out of this amusing summer dessert. Dirt cake is very easy to make and adding the gummy worms just adds to the fun. So let's get starting and make some delicious Dirt Cake with Gummy Worms.

Dirt Cake Ingredients for our Recipe:
1 Medium size grated Oreos (16 oz)
2 Packs of French Vanilla Pudding
1 Cool Whip container (12 oz)
1 Stick of Margarine
1 Cup Confectionery Sugar
2 Cream Cheese (8 oz each)
3 1/2 Cups of Milk
Lots of Gummy Worms

Dirt Cake Recipe and Instructions:
To create the cream for your Dirt Cake, mix cream cheese, margarine, confectionery sugar, and pudding with 3 1/2 cups of milk. Add your cool ship, then add add the cheese mixture. Layer the chocolate Oreos, then pudding and end with more chocolate Oreos. Find tiny flower pots for single servings and add gummy worms and silk flowers for decoration. Refrigerate your Dirt Cake and Gummy Worms overnight. Serve with tiny trowels for extra Dirt Cake fun!

How to Make Blueberry Beer - Easy Shortcut

During the summer months, all over Maine one is able to go to any bar and find blueberry beer. For those of us in Massachusetts, we are restricted to only a few places. The only place that comes to mind is Boston Beer Works. As much fun as the line outside Fenway is, (especially during a Rex Sox game) I would rather make my own Blueberry Beer. I prefer the famous Watermelon Beer, but I don't have the faintest idea how to make it. I can, however, surmise how to make Blueberry Beer. Get ready, this may be a little confusing.

How to Make Blueberry Beer:
Buy beer. (Sam Adams Summer Ale is the best)
Open beer.
Take a swig or two of the beer.
Drop 10 - 30 blueberries into the bottled beer.
Drink Blueberry Beer.

Recycle, Reduce, Re-Use
is the best way to celebrate Earth Day!

• Recycle plastic, cans, and newspapers whenever possible.
• Reduce your use of electricity and water.
• Turn off the lights when you are not in a room, use a fan instead of an air conditioner.
• Take short showers and turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
• Re-use as many of your belongings as you can. An old t-shirt can be used as a rag.
• Re-use the back of computer paper, so that you do not waste a whole side.
  
  Earth Day is for celebrating our planet, and doing our part to keep it clean and healthy for our generation and for future generations to come.

Happy Earth Day!

Sincerely,
The Gift Basket Team

Ruma's Fruit & Gift Basket World

Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins

Good Morning! I've got my coffee and a recipe for Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins was airmailed over my cubicle onto my desk. I hope someone in blog world will enjoy this recipe. And hopefully someone will make some and bring them to work!

Jordan Marsh Blueberry Muffins

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• 2 cups of flour (unsifted)
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 2 and 1/2 cups of blueberries
• 2 teaspoons of sugar for the top
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla

(On low speed, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time; finally beat in vanilla. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk. Add 1/2 cup of mashed blueberries; mix by hand. Fold in remaining berries, coated with flour, sugar and a dash of cinnamon. Grease tops of cupcake tins; line with cupcake papers. Divide batter evenly, sprinkle tops with a little sugar. Bake at 375 for 30 to 35 minutes. The notes say make 12, because 24 makes too small of a muffin.)

Ok back to work now at Ruma Fruit & Gift Basket World.

Apple Crisp Recipe

Apple Crisp Recipe

Submitted by
Kelly Curry of Syracuse, NY


• 7 Mac Apples, peeled, cored and sliced
• 4 tspns fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 tspn vanilla
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tspn ground cinnamon
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup butter


Preheat oven to 375°F. In a mixing bowl, combine apples, lemon juice, and vanilla. Toss to combine. Layer sliced apples in a 9 x 12 inch baking pan. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, and oatmeal in a bowl. Cut in butter. Sprinkle sugar mixture over apples. Bake 45 minutes or until topping looks crunchy and apples are tender. Serves 8 people. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Apple Turnover Recipe

Apple Turnovers Using Mac Apples
Submitted by
Susan Karasami of Medford, MA
Apple Turnover Ingredients:• 3 - 5 Mac Apples
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1/2 cup of flour
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tbsp butter or margarine
• Puff pastry sheets

Apple Turnover Cooking Instructions:
Cut Mac apples into small cubes and mix all ingredients into a large bowl. Take the pastry sheets and cut each one into 3 sections. Apply the apple mix into each pastry slice and create a triangle and use a fork to press the turnovers closed. Set oven temperature to 400°F. Allow 8 - 10 minutes bake time or until turnovers are golden brown. Apply icing as needed. For the icing: Mix confectionery sugar, milk, 1 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp butter until the icing is creamy.
Mac Apples are available at Ruma's Fruit & Gift Basket World.

A Family Produce Business

About Ruma's Fruit & Produce
Since 1900, Ruma's has provided thousands of individuals and businesses throughout America with the finest and the freshest fruits available anywhere. Over 50 years ago, we designed our first fruit and gift baskets to rave reviews from our customers and recipients. Our gift baskets are overflowing with the finest chocolates, imported cheeses, cookies, biscuits, wines and delicious fresh fruit.

As good as our baskets look; we know the secret to your satisfaction is in the eating. That’s why we still hand selecting every piece of fruit for superior quality and taste. Then we personally pack each basket to order. You can be sure that this constant attention to quality from the moment your order is received until it is carefully packaged for delivery results in the best looking and the best tasting gift available anywhere. We guarantee it.

Whether you need one basket or one hundred, simply look through our catalog or give us a call. We'll help you pick the perfect gift basket, fruit basket, or create one for you on the spot. Special requests are never a problem. Give the Gift of Ruma's to someone special today.

Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back
We take pride in our work and set high standards for ourselves. We strive for perfection with every handcrafted fruit and gift basket we create. Our number one priority is you, our customer. So, if you are not 100% satisfied with your order, we'll replace it free or refund your money.

A Family Tradition
When Giacomo Ruma arrived in the United States from Sicily in late 1900, he had to find a way to support himself and send money back home to his wife and family. He decided to sell fruit and vegetables and did so from a pushcart in the Haymarket square section of Boston.

When his sons, Domenic and Joseph were old enough they joined the business until they were delivering produce to many of the finest restaurant and institutions in the city of Boston. Eventually they rented a small store and bought a truck with which to make these deliveries. Dom and Joe would get up at three in the morning, go to the market and buy the produce that was needed for the day. Then one or both of them would set out in the truck to make the deliveries.

Dom’s son, Jim, graduated from Holy Cross College in 1963 and joined the navy afterwards. He then came back to Boston in the mid sixties to help his father and uncle in the family business.

All fresh produce came into Boston by train and truck and was delivered to the New England Produce Center. The NEPC was originally located in Boston but it was decided that more space was needed and the produce center moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1969. Ruma Fruit decided that their company needed to make the move to be closer to the produce center and did so in 1970.

By this time Ruma Fruit & Produce was delivering fruits and vegetables to most of the local colleges. We were delivering to Harvad University,Boston College,Tufts University and most of the major Colleges and Universities inthe New England ares as well as many of the finest restaurants in the city includingThe Marliave and Jacob Wirths.

At one point, a customer asked Ruma's to design and make fruit baskets as Christmas gifts for one of their customers. Thus was born the fruit and gift basket division of Ruma’s. In 1986 Jim’s son, Mark, came into the business to help out and has remained as a vital part of the organization. He is carrying out the family tradition as the fourth generation to be involved in the fruit and produce business.

The company has grown under the leadership of Jim and Mark to where Ruma’s fruit and gift baskets are delivered nationwide as well as locally. Times have changed and technology has altered all businesses but Ruma’s has attempted to keep up with the times and maintain the personal touch. Ruma’s now offers online ordering through our own web site but we still offer our customers the opportunity to talk to a sales consultant and to design their own baskets if they choose to do so.

Carmelized Mango Slices with Ice Cream & FIRE! - Use Fire Extinguisher if Needed

Ok... so you've eaten 5 mangos every day for lunch this week, and you used 2 lbs of mangos for your Mango Chutney Recipe last night. Now its time for something a little sweeter. Lets use the last of the Mangos from your Fruit of the Month Club and make some Caramelized Mango Slices with Ice Cream.

Caramelized Mango Slices with Ice Cream

Ingredients:
Ripe mango, about 1 pound
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice
2 tablespoons orange liqueur
2 tablespoons rum
2 large scoops vanilla, strawberry, or lemon ice cream (vanilla bean is best)
Slice of lime or lemon

Cooking Instructions:
Cut your mango in half and peel. Cut each half into long slices that would be enough for 2 servings. Grab a large heavy skillet (9 inch if possible) and heat your butter over low heat. Add your brown sugar and lime juice to the pan and stir. Add your mango slices next and shake pan a little until your mango is soft and somewhat plump. This could take 2-4 minutes depending on the mango ripeness.

Now get your fire extinguisher ready:
Add the rum and liqueur and tilt the pan to flame. (This is why you need the big, thick pan.) So shake your stuff like Emeril and Wolfgang Puck do on their Gourmet Chef Shows until the flame dies out. Grab two dessert plates immediately and scoop your ice cream on each. Throw some lime down and serve right away.

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When I first saw this recipe, I was like "WOW...this looks really good."
I kept reading and got scared at the whole "Add liqueur and rum and tilt pan to flame." FLAME! Are you kidding me? You want me to purposely make a fire in my kitchen? As it is, I can make the smoke detector go off without doing it on purpose. Then I thought that it would be wrong to share a bland mango recipe, when this one is so good. My new rule for posting recipes will be to assume that my readers can cook even when I can't. (However if you are like me and only eat the good recipes, I suggest having a fire extinguisher handy if you decide to try this one out.)

Mango Chutney Recipe

Ingredients:
1/4 cup paked brown sugar, light or dark
1/4 cup sherry
1/4 cup distilled white vinegar
1/4 cup raisins, golden or dark
5 whole cloves
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 small) finely chopped onion
1 large or 2 medium (1 1/2 pounds) firm-ripe mangos, cut in small cubes or coarsely chopped to equal about 2 cups
2 tablespoons lime or lemon juice

Cooking Instructions:
1. Add all the ingredients except the mangos and lime juice into a medium size pan. Make sure you use a non-aluminum pan. Bring to a boil then reduce the heat and simmer for about 5 minutes.

2. Add the mangos and simmer/stir for another 5 mintues or until sause is a thick paste. Once thick, remove from heat and add lime juice. Place in a serving dish and cool for about 2 hours. Chill in refridgerator if necessary.

As stated in my previous blogs, April is the Mango month for Ruma's Fruit of the Month Club. So now that you have your mangos, what will do with them? You can take one to lunch everyday...a mango late night snack perhaps? 5-6 days of eating your mangos plain isn't very appetizing. Neither is dipping them in chocolate or cutting them in cute little shapes like a gourmet chef on one of those psycho cooking shows. (You know the chef tv shows that make 10 new chefs make a 7 course meal in the standard 30 minute sitcom time.)

Anywho...I love Indian food and I saw a recipe for Mango Chutney. Personally I always order Chicken Tikka Masala when I go out to eat, but Mango Chutney Recipe is fast becoming a favorite by me and my friends. Mango Chutney is great to put on beef, chicken, duck, turkey, and shrimp. I like it best with beef. I know its easier to buy Patak's Mango Chutney in a bottle at the supermarket, but that can get expensive. Also not many grocery stores carry those gourmet cooking sauces. In fact, some supermarkets don't even have an International Aisle at all! So of course we can't rely on the ready made option as much as we would like to. So I have found this great Mango Chutney Recipe and I hope that you and your family enjoy it. Enjoy!

The Mangos are Coming! The Mangos are Coming!

Attention all of our Fruit of the Month Customers



Ruma's Fruit will be sending our our Heavenly Exotic Mangos starting on Monday, April 7, 2008. If you are a Traditional Club or Deluxe Club Member, you will receive your April Mangos beginning Tuesday and all members will receive their Fruit of the Month selections by Thursday. All of our Fruit of the Month selections are shipped directly from Ruma's Fruit headquarters in Everett, MA. Depending on your recipient address, your April Mangos will arrive within 1 - 3 days. For those of you that would like to know more about our Fruit of the Month Clubs and Plans, please visit our website at www.RumasFruit.com