Banana-Chocolate Chip Biscotti

    Prep: 30 min; Bake: 47 min; Cool: 15 min *32 cookies
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter or stick margarine, softened
1/2 cup mashed very ripe banana (1 medium)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour (not self-rising)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

   1. Heat oven to 350. Grease large cookie sheet.
   2. Beat sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Beat in    banana, vanilla and eggs until smooth. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in chocolate chips.
   3. Divide dough in half. Shape each half into 10 x 3-inch rectangle on cookie sheet with greased hands (dough will be sticky).
    4. Bake about 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on cookie sheet 15 minutes.
   5. Cut crosswise into 1/2-inch slices. Turn slices cut sides down on cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown and dry on top. Turn cookies. Bake about 10 minutes longer or until golden brown. Remove from cooking sheet to wire rack.
       Betty Crocker's Cookbook

Fettuccine Alfredo & Roasted Bell Peppers

By,
Kate High and Ryan Walla

Fettuccine

Ingredients:
4 tbs. Unsalted Butter
1/3 cup Flour
1 cup Chicken Stock
          Milk
          Parmesan Cheese
1/8 tsp. Salt
1 lb. Pasta (Spaghetti)

Procedure:
1. Boil water in a large pot, add a pinch of salt and then add pasta.
2. Melt butter in a separate pan.
3. Add flour to melted butter and stir* until the flour taste goes away (you may need to taste with a spoon every so often).
4. Add chicken stock after the flour and butter has thickened.
5. Add milk and salt, then stir till it becomes a thick sauce.
6. Add in and stir cheese.
7. Drain the pasta and then add sauce.
*A whisk is best

Roasted Bell Peppers

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Olive Oil
1/4 cup White Balsamic Vinegar
1/2 tsp. Salt
            Onion Powder
            Garlic Powder
1/4 tsp. Dried Mustard Powder
            Pepper
1 tbs. White Sugar
Roasted Bell Pepper(s)

Procedure:
1. Place pepper(s) on an open flame.
2. Put all ingredients for vinaigrette and whisk together.
3. Make sure bell pepper(s) is completely black.
4. Clean bell pepper(s) and then chop pepper(s) into about 1/4 inch slices.
5. Put pepper(s) into vinaigrette.

mac and cheese (not the kraft stuff!)

• 1/2 pound elbow macaroni
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 tablespoon powdered mustard
• 3 cups milk
• 1/2 cup yellow onion, finely diced
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1 large egg
• 12 ounces sharp cheddar, shredded
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• Fresh black pepper

Topping:

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup panko bread crumbs

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large pot of boiling, salted water cook the pasta to al dente.
While the pasta is cooking, in a separate pot, melt the butter. Whisk in the flour and mustard and keep it moving for about five minutes. Make sure it's free of lumps. Stir in the milk, onion, bay leaf, and paprika. Simmer for ten minutes and remove the bay leaf.
Temper in the egg. Stir in 3/4 of the cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Fold the macaroni into the mix and pour into a 2-quart casserole dish. Top with remaining cheese.
Melt the butter in a saute pan and toss the bread crumbs to coat. Top the macaroni with the bread crumbs. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and rest for five minutes before serving.
Remember to save leftovers for fried Macaroni and Cheese.


Directions taken from: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/baked-macaroni-and-cheese-recipe/index.html

ET's Fruit Salad

Taylor Loosli and Erica Moen

ET's Fruit Salad
Ingredients: a can of Carnation condensed milk, 4 bananas, a can of Lucern sour cream, and four apples.
Procedure: cut the apples and bananas into slices and add the sour cream and condensed milk. Bon appetite!

American Studies Class Cookbook

After studying the Progressive Movement and linking such muckraking journalism as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair to Robert Kenner's Food Inc., we as class decided to put together a cookbook of simple, organic, good-tasting, and cheap recipes that everyone can make.  Check out the recipes, make em, let us know how you like it and as always, be responsible and vigilant.  Live your life according to your values.

-Mr. Shawn
History, American Studies

Students - please post your recipes with the same label as mines - American Studies Cookbook.  Be sure to title your Recipe, include Ingredients, and the Procedure for making the dish.

The Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement inspired many other movements of our generation. Today we still have racism today but there has been much of progress in the last few decades. Today in society racism a frowned upon and not looked as a progressive way of thinking. the civil right started with the idea that all Americans should be treated equal no matter one color of there skin. With that idea things started to move. the first major event what showed America that we needed to change, was the The events in Birmingham when children ran threw the streets and walked threw the line were blacks and whites were separated. They protected and were thrown into jail in groups. later the president had to jump in and make a announcement about what happened and suggested that segregation needs to end. After that many Other events followed like the march to Washington which was a major and conic move towards civil rights.

Martin Luther King practiced non violent protests to have equal rights amongst blacks and whites. He stressed the fact that he was not about violence or city riots. Even though there were some activist like Malcolm X who were pro violence and even promoted the fact the blacks should take affirmative action "By any means necessary." There were also freedom Riders who lit buses on fire. The civil rights movement was a huge success for the black community in America.

The civil right movement inspired many other movement in the future. The Farm worker union what wanted fair wages and better conditions for the workers and they used the same tactics that Martin Luther king used. Know in today society because the the civil right people are fighting for same sex-marriage and equal rights.