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Cooking for Today offers the chance to prepare, cook and taste unique combinations of ingredients to create surprisingly simple dishes.

Perhaps you have something specialto celebrate or just a cosy evening in.For those days when you want to try something light and healthy, or need inspiration for something equallysimple, but more substantial.

A collection of dishes, which are nothing short of perfection for your palatte.

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CONTENTS

6 SPAM SHAKE

8 BLOODY EYEBALLS

10 RALPH’S RETCH

12 GHOULADE SWAMP

14 WATER PUNCH

10 MINUTES PREP.

SERVES 6

3 HOURS COOKING

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1 Can of Spam.1 Tin of Anchovies2 12oz cans of beer4oz Tomato juice1tsp Dijon mustard½c Chopped up parsley¼c Chopped scallions Dash of Tabasco Salt & pepper to taste

SPAM SHAKE

1 Put it in blender and blend until smooth. 2 Serve chilled with Celery stick.

13 HOURS PREP.

SERVES 10 PAGE 8

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12 Radishes 7oz Olives46oz Tomato juice 1c Olives

BLOODY EYEBALLS

1 Prepare these bloody eyeballs the day before your plan to serve them. 2 Peel radishes, leaving thin streaks of red skinon them for blood vessels. 3 Using thetip of the vegetable peeler or a small, knife, carefully scoop out a small hole in each radish. 4 Stuff a green olive, pimiento side out, in each hole. 5 Place 1 radish eyeballin each section of an empty ice cube tray. 6 You may need to pare your eyeballs down a bit to fit. 7 Fill the tray with water and freeze overnight. 8 Pour tall glasses ¼ full of tomato juice and add a pair of eyeballs to each glass.

3 HOURS PREP.

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3oz Box strawberry Jell-O 40 Ice cubes 24oz Strawberry soda12oz Watger

RALPH’S RETCH

1 Prepare Jell-O according to package directions. 2 Pour into shallow pan and chill until firm, about 3 hours. 3 Usinga dull knife, make as many cuts as possible across the length and width, forming tiny cubes. 4 Grind ice cubes in a blender. 5 Spoon alternating layers of crushed ice and gelatine pieces into tall glasses, filling them about 2” away from tops. 6 Slowly pour soda into each glass until full, then stir gently. 7 Serve retch with ice tea spoons,so your guests can see it at every chilly glob.

75 MINUTES PREP.

SERVES 6 PAGE 12

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3oz Cherry Gelatin Powder10 Lemons 7c Water 1c Sugar Green food Colouring

GHOULADE

1 Prepare a bowl of gelatin dessert according to the directions on the package. 2 Chill in the freezer for 45 minutes,or until partially set. 3 While the gelatine cools, squeeze the juice from the lemons into a pitcher, being careful not to include any seeds. 4 Add the 7 cups of waterto the lemon juice. Stir. 5 Add the sugar and stir again. 6 Add green food coloring until Ghoulade is the desired shade. 7 Pour Ghoulade into individual glasses, then spoon partially set gelatine gopher guts into glasses. 8 Include long spoons when serving this drink to help your guests eat their guts out!

3 HOURS PREP.

SERVES 10 PAGE 14

Orange juice Ginger ale, Alcohol of some kind Blue food coloring

SWAMP WATER PUNCH

1 Put some blue food coloring intothe orange juice punch until it turnsa disgusting swamp-green color. 2 The color is gross and the orange juice pulp floating around really adds to the effect. 3 People will realize that the punch tastes good, but it will take them awhileto figure out it is orange juice. 4 Freezethe water/orange juice and gummy worms in a clean rubber glove. Peel off the rubber glove and float the arm in the punch.

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28pp74 × 120mm

Graphic Design by Aaron Skipperwww.aaronskipper.co.uk

Illustration by Alice Vinewww.alicevine.co.uk

Set in the following typefaces:Adobe Caslon RegularLL Brown Regular

Other titles in this series:Tastes of Today —DrinkTastes of Today —MainsTastes of Today —Desserts

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