The Massive WoW Gold Blueprint is coming soon. What is it? A Massive guide to making a lot of gold in the Wold of Warcraft, even if you’re starting at level 1.

How’s it differ from the other gold guides that are out there? Well, there’s a lot of stuff for low levels characters, for one, and there’s over 10 hours of video for another. Plus you get a number of other goodies.

The author is also offering several videos as a preview of what will be in the guide. You’ll find that these videos go well beyond the “I’m rich, look at me” that you may have seen elsewhere. You’ll find good tips that even level 1 characters can do (and that I’m using before everyone else finds out about them.)

I suggest you sign up for his notification list, but even if you don’t you’ll find some great tips in these videos.

1.  Getting Gold the Fast Way
2. The Darkmoon Faire, for profit as well as fun.
3. The Prarie Dog Route

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Some of my fondest memories of my grandmother involve baking cookies on holidays. We would cut out sugar cookies with seasonally appropriate cookie cutters and have a great time decorating the baked cookies with colored icing, sprinkles, etc. We would then make up plates of cookies and distribute them throughout the neighborhood.

If you would like to create some fond memories like these, encourage your kids to eat better, or just get some variety and fun into your cooking and family meals check out Cooking With Your Kids, 10 Easy Steps for Great Family Memories.

Another suggestion I have, if you would like to encourage your kids to eat something other than hamburgers, pizza, and french fries, is to consider offering them main courses with names like Crocolisk Gumbo or Dig Rat Stew. They’ll probably be more interested in Savory Deviate Delight than baked fish.  And though it’s usually not a problem to get kids to eat dessert you might tempt them with Gooey Spider Cake, Strawberry-Murloc Pie, or Murloc Eye Pie just to enjoy some variety and fun after special family meals.

~Gwynne

P.S. See our free mini-cookbook for the Murloc Eye Pie recipe.

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Hi All,

We’ve put together a mini-cookbook that’s free for the download. It’s a sample of what you’ll find in our main cookbook and a preview of the recipes that will be in the enhanced cookbook.

What’s in the mini-cookbook?

• Skyguard Rations: Normally you have to be level 70 and have and honored rep with the Sha’tari Skyguard faction in Outlands to get these babies, but we sent the Rogues in to steal the recipe. You’ll find it in the mini-cookbook.
• Warp Burgers: Most characters who’ve been through Terrokar Forest know about the warp critters and that they make darn tasty burgers, which also buff agility and spirit.
• Murloc Eye Pie: Finally you have a use for all those Murloc eyes you’ve been collecting, something other that Westfall Stew.

What’s the catch? You need to join our mailing list to get your copy. You can leave the list at anytime, but then you miss any cool letters we send and any future freebies.

Just go to the Tauren Chef homepage, scroll down to the yellow box, enter your name and email, hit the button, confirm your subscription, and the mini-cookbook is yours.

Leave your thoughts in the comment area.

Thanks!

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Recently I have been leveling up a new character - a night elf druid. The other day, as I dealt with the Defias Brotherhood in Westfall collecting red bandanas, one of the Defias dropped some Darnassian Bleu.

Now, while Darnassian Bleu doesn’t have much in the way of benefits for a druid, as a Tauren Chef it made me think. Hmmm, wouldn’t it be great to know how to make your own cheese? Especially in the event of a life-as-we-know-it-is-ending apocalypse (such as the destruction of the Sunwell) that sort of knowledge would be nice to have.

During my research at the grocery store and on the internet I came across a site that gives easy to understand instructions for how to make your own cheese at home.

The recipes were written by David B. Fankhauser, Ph.D. who is Professor of Biology and Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College in Batavia, Ohio. He also has a very informative site on homemade cheese (and so much more) titled Fankhauser’s Cheese Page.

He has cheese recipes, cheese videos, recipes for home made root beer, ginger ale, limoncello (an Italian aperitif liqueur,) and other items of interest too numerous to list. And yes, he does have a recipe for Blue cheese, though I don’t believe it is Darnassian Bleu.

His cheese recipes use rennet tablets from the Junket Company, which sounds like a good idea. They are very inexpensive and apparently quite reliable. I bought some today, but I haven’t tried them out in any recipes yet.

Of course, if you are a purist, you can always do it the old-fashioned way and use a small piece of salted and dried abomasum. (According to Dr. Fankhauser, an abomasum is the last of the four chambers of the stomach of a ruminant animal. The abomasum from a suckling kid or calf was apparently very good for making cheese.)

Or, you can always buy cheese at the store . . .

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Here’s a quick and easy sweet biscuit recipe using Bisquick baking mix for the next time the gamer Horde descends on your home, whether it’s for Halo 3 or Rock Band.

Mix 2 1/4 cups of Bisquick mix with 1/2 cup of sugar.

Add 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla, lemon, orange, or almond extract to 1/2 cup of milk, then add the flavored milk to the Bisquick
and mix until soft dough forms.

Turn the dough out of the bowl onto a floured surface and knead about ten times.

Pat or roll out with a rolling pin into a square or rectangle shape about 1/2″ thick. Cut into squares with a sharp knife.

Place on an ungreased or parchment covered baking sheet and bake at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 8 to 10 minutes or until
lightly golden.

If you like you can add some sugar sprinkles to the mix. You can also add fruit bits, candies, nuts, chocolate chips, etc.

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Some of you may be familiar with the MMO Eve Online. I found
a recipe on the Eve Online forums (eve-online.com.) Since
everything “tastes like chicken” I suggest you substitute
chicken (or turkey) in place of the Hanging long-limb leg
quarters. You can find wheat flour at any grocery store,
though it might not be Armarian.

Here’s the recipe:

The eggs of the Hanging Long-limb are among the most sought after
delicacies in fancy restaurants. The main reason why the roe of the
Hanging Long-limb is so rare is because no one has succeeded in
breeding the species outside their natural habitat.

INGREDIENTS:

4 Hanging Long-limb leg quarters (legs with thighs)
1/3 cup Armarian Wheat flour
salt and pepper
2 tablespoons butter
1 medium onion, quartered, sliced
1 can or jar Long-Limb gravy (about 1 1/2 cups,
use your favorite gravy if you can’t find long-limb gravy)
4 potatoes, diced
1 pound canned or frozen cooked cut green beans, drained

PREPARATION:

With a sharp knife, cut Long-limb drumsticks from
thighs at joints to separate.

Combine Armarian Wheat flour with 1/2 teaspoon salt and
1/4 teaspoon pepper. Coat Long-limb with flour mixture.

Heat butter in a heavy deep skillet or Caldari oven;
brown Long-Limb pieces, turning to brown both
sides. Add onion and cook until lightly browned.

Stir in gravy and 2/3 cup water. Simmer for 35 minutes,
or until Long Limb is tender. Add potatoes and
simmer for 15 minutes longer, just until tender.

Add drained green beans and simmer until heated through.
Add salt and pepper to taste.

Serves 4.

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In a previous post we sent you to a video that shows you how to eat the infamous Stinging Nettle. As it turns out…

I looked around a bit and found out that Stinging Nettles are actually well known, in certain circles, as valuable herbs and for their nutritional value. They’re rich in vitamins, minerals, protein, make excellent fertilzer, and when they’re dried the make a great livestock feed.

Here’s another video on nettles and here’s an article by Euell Gibbons, with several nettle recipes.

Speaking of recipes, Mary sent us this one. She’s from Italy and it seems that the nettle is a pretty popular herb over there.

Stinging nettle Frittata

Time: About 30 minutes

Ingredients for 4 people: (Here’s a conversion chart for the units used)

• 6 eggs,
• 200 gr. of stinging nettle, basil and parsley finely chopped,
• 50 gr. of grated parmesan,
• 5 spoons of extra virgin olive oil,
• salt and pepper.

*Preparation*: Clean, wash, and dry (use clean paper towel) the stinging nettle (use a pair of gloves)

In a non-stick fry pan, heat up 2 spoon of extra virgin olive oil adding the fresh and dry stinging nettle, and let them to absorb the oil fragrance for 5 minutes (use gentle cooking.)

In the meantime in a large bowl put in the 6 eggs and beat them till become creamy.

Once ready, add the grated parmesan cheese, parsley, basil, a pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper. Mix everything well and add in the stinging nettle that you have previously cooked.

Once again, mix it all together and after you have heated it up add the remained 3 spoons of extra virgin olive oil, pour all in the fry pan and cook it well on both side. To cook it on both sides, use a large salad plate or the fry pan lead to turn it on the other side.

As an alternative, if you don’t want to fry it, you can bake it in a pre-heated oven for about 10 minutes. Use a non-stick oven dish and it works better if you have oiled the bottom part of the dish before poring in the ingredients.

The above “frittata” can be enjoyed with some mounded pears, fresh figs, and some soft blue cheese…some rye bread and some white wine will do the rest

A little secret…You can use stinging nettle as an alternative to spinach whenever “spinach” has been mentioned!

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Mmmm! Rich, chocolate or mocha, fudgey hot sauce on ice cream - the perfect compliment to a chilled dish of creamy vanilla smoothness!

Here are a couple of delicious sauces that are easy to make and that will be the perfect complement to that bowl of vanilla (or other flavor) ice cream, or to pour over pound cake, etc. Get creative and enjoy the bliss.

I hope you enjoy these sauces as much as my family does.

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Espresso Sauce

1 cup heavy cream
¼ cup finely ground espresso coffee beans (or substitute 1 Tbsp instant espresso or other coffee powder)
1 square unsweetened chocolate (or substitute 3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder + 1 Tbsp cooking oil or butter)
2 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp. sugar
Pinch salt
1 tsp vanilla

Pour cream and finely ground espresso beans into a saucepan.
Scald cream mixture (heat to just below boiling.)
Remove from heat.
Strain out the ground espresso beans by pouring through a strainer or cheesecloth. (If you are using instant espresso coffee powder there is no need to strain.)
Cut the chocolate into small pieces and stir it into the hot cream until it melts. If using instant espresso coffee powder just stir it in until blended.
Stir in the butter.
Add vanilla, sugar, and salt, and stir until blended.
Pour over ice cream or your dessert of choice.

Chocolate Sauce

6 - 1oz. squares semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
3 Tbsp butter
1¼ cups half & half
3 Tbsp light corn syrup
¾ cup sugar
dash salt
¼ tsp vanilla extract

Place the chocolate and butter in a small heavy saucepan.
Cook and stir over low heat until the chocolate is melted.

Stir in half & half, sugar, and corn syrup.
Bring to a slow boil over medium to medium-low heat for about 8 minutes until reduced.
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.

Sauce will thicken as it cools. Use this sauce warm or cool it to room temperature.

Chocolate-Peppermint Option: to make chocolate-peppermint sauce substitute peppermint extract for vanilla extract.

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Imagine doing this quest in the Worldf of Warcraft (and some of you have:) Collect 10 deadly plants and bring them back. In return you get this nice salad which will heal or buff you.

Now you can do it in the real world. The people at LearningHerbs.com have a video for you, in anticipation of their new site. The video shows you how to collect and eat Stinging Nettle.

No mention is made of what heals or buffs you get from eating this, and yes, he does recommend adding it to your salad. In place of the spinach.

Here’s the video

Here’s the site

Enjoy your salad.

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There’s a new Druid Bear Form Quest chain walkthrough on Squidoo. Go check it out. I am in the middle of this quest chain with a night elf right now, so I’ll finish it up and let you know how it worked.
Unfortunately, I didn’t find this guide until I had already finished Return to Darnassus. So far, it is right on.

As the guide points out, there are two buildings in Nighthaven that look exactly the same and when I tried walking back from visiting the Great Bear Spirit I went to the first one (the wrong one) and could not find Dendrite Starblaze.

When I went outside to try to get my bearings a high level Horde player ran right over my little level 10 Night elf and killed me instantly. I wound up releasing my spirit while hiding under a bridge and then immediately hearthing away, because he was camping my corpse.

Oh, well. Hopefully, by following the rest of the guide I will have fewer problems in finishing the quest chain. I’ll let you know.

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