Sophie, Mom, Grandma, Robbie and I all went on an adventure tonight. We spent the evening poking through Salvation Army and Goodwill! Sophie found an amazing cookie jar at Goodwill that had a bunch of recipes stuffed in it. She decided someone must have died and someone else was going through their house getting rid of things and the cookie jar was expendable. I agree. Anyways she didn't really like any of the recipes but I found quite a few that look interesting. I don't really want to copy them all over by hand (cause the paper is kinda icky and smelly) and I also don't want to save them on my husbands computer because he re-formats ALL THE TIME. The next best thing is to post them here, on our cooking blog that never gets used! Here goes.
Chicken and Cheese Casserole (Weight Watchers - 6 points per serving)
2 cups cooked macaroni
2 cups coarsely chopped cooked skinless, boneless chicken breasts
2 cups canned condensed cream of mushroom soup
2 cups fat-free milk
8 ounces low fat cheddar cheese, cut into small cubes
Preheat oven to 350°F. In large casserole, combine all ingredients, mixing well. Bake, covered 35-45 minutes. Remove cover, bake 10-15 minutes longer. Serve immediately.
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Shredded Chicken (Slow cooker for sandwiches)
4-5 chicken breasts
1 can chicken broth
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/4 onion
1 clove garlic
salt & pepper
potato chips (med bag)
((Cook in crock pot on low for 8-12 hours, makes 8-12 sandwiches))
put chicken breasts in crock pot, add salt, pepper, garlic and onion. cook for 8-12 hours. pull chicken apart with fork. add broth and soup and chips (yuck?), cook for another half hour in crock pot until desired consistency.
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Urban Legand Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe
(Recipe may be halved):
2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal and blend in blender to a fine powder)
24 oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
1 8 oz. Hershey bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanilla
Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet..Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.
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Pumpkin Crunch (by Rose Fitz)
1 large can pumpkin
1 can evaporated milk (large)
3 eggs
1 t. salt
1 T. cinnamon
1 cup white sugar
1 box yellow cake
1 cup chopped nuts
2 sticks margarine, melted
beat eggs. mis first 6 ingredients together. pour into a greasted 9x13 pan. sprinkle cake mix over top and sprinkle nuts over cake mix. pour melted margarine over nuts. pake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.
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Pumpkin Pie Squares (by Rose Fitz)
1/2 c quick oats
1 stick margarine
.5 c. brown sugar
1c flour
1 can pumpkin
1.5c sugar
1 can evaporated milk
2 eggs slightly beaten
.5t salt
1t cinnamon
pumpkin pie spice
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped nuts
2t margarine
mix first 4 ingredients and spread in greased 11x13 pan. bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
mix other ingredients and pour over oat mixture. return to oven for 20 minutes.
make a topping by mixing brown sugar, nuts and margarine and crumble over pumpkin. return to oven again for 15-20 minutes. cut in squares and serve with whipped cream.
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((I have no idea what this is, but it sounded cool))
3 10.5oz cans of bean dip
1 c sour cream
2/3 c mayo
1 pkg taco seasoning
4oz can chopped green chile peppers
4 med sized ripe avocados
2T lime juice
1/4 t garlic pwd
8oz shredded sharp cheddar cheese
6oz can pitted, chopped olives
2 c diced tomatoes
tortilla chips
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"Grandma's Raisin Cookies"
2 c. flour
1.5 t baking powder
.5 t salt
.5 c butter
1 c sugar
1 egg well beaten
1 t vanilla
1 T milk or cream
mix dry and liquid, chill at least 1 hr, bake at 375, 8-10 min. use a glass to cut a top and bottom. put raisins on bottom, place top and pinch top and bottom together.
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Death by chocolate cookie
16 squares of semisweet baking chocolate, divided
.75 c brown sugar
.5 c butter
2 eggs
1 t vanilla
.5 c flour
1/4 t baking pwd
2 c chopped nuts
preheat oven to 350. coarsely chop 8 squares of chocolate, set aside. microwave remaining 8 squares in large bowl on high 1-2 minutes. stir till melted and smooth. stir in sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla. stir in flour and bking pwd. stir in reserved chocolate and nuts. drop by 1/4 cupfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. bake 12-13 minutes or till cookies are puffed and feel set to the touch.
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bread pudding
2 c bread cut into chunks
1 t vanilla
2 T butter, melted
4 c whole milk
2 eggs
.5 c sugar
.5 t salt
bake in .5 qt casserole dish
in a large bowl, beat eggs and add milk, sugar, vanilla and butter. mix well. pour over bread. bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
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sweetheart trifle
1 package chocolate cake mix
1 package peanut butter chips
4-1/4 c cold milk, divided
.5c whipping cream
1/4 t vanilla
2 packages (5.9oz each) instant chocolate pudding mix
1 carton frozen whipped topping, thawed
4 nestle crunch candy bars, crumbled
Prepare cake mix according to package directions. pour batter into greased 9x13 pan. bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes. cook on wire rack. in a heavy saucepan combine chips, 1/4c milk and cream. cook and stir over low heat till chips are melted. remove from heat, stir in vanilla. cool to room temp. place remaining milk in new bowl, beat in pudding mixes on low speed for 2 minutes. to assemble, crumble half of the cake into 4 qt trifle bowl. layer with half of the peanut butter sauce, pudding, whipped topping and candy bars. repeat layers. cover and refrigerare for at least 3 hours before serving. 12-15 servings.
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chocolate chip cheese ball
1 8oz pkg cream cheese
.5 c butter
1/4 t vanilla
2 T cocoa
1 c pwd sugar
4 T brown sugar
1 c choc chips
extra chips to go around ball
chopped walnuts
mix first 7 ingredients, roll into ball shape and coat with chocolate chips and nuts.
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apple pound cake
1.5 c oil
2c sugar
3 eggs
3 c sifted flour
1 t salt
2 t vanilla
1 t cinnamon
3-5 large apples, cubed
1 c walnuts
combin oil sugar and eggs. beat for three minutes. blend in flour, salt, soda, cinnamon, and vanilla. fold in chopped apples and nuts. bake in greased bundt pan 350 for 1 hr and 20 minutes. when done, remove from pan and cool 20 minutes.
brown sugar sauce
1 stick butter
.5 c brown sugar
2 T vanilla
mix together, cook over low heat. bring to boil and cook 2 minutes. pour over cake while hot.
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Parmesan crusted fish
4 4oz fish fillets
nonstick spray coating
1/3 c mayo
2 T grated parmesan
2 T chives or green onions
/5 t worcestershire sauce
thaw fish, rinse and pat dry. spray a baking dish with spray. mix mayo, parmesan, onions and worcestershire sauce. spread mixture over fish. bake uncovered at 450 for 12-15 minutes.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Cooking and all...
I've been doing a lot of cooking lately, I just haven't posted about it. We'll start somewhere...
WEll, Sophie and I have actually been doing all of our cooking together, so it's her fault she hasn't posted yet. Mom left chicken breast out thawing the other day and we thought we'd make something for dinner cuz she decided she wasn't going to do anything with it. Well,we looked through some cookbooks and finally just decided on classic Chicken Dumplings. Now, all of us girls have known how to make dumplings probably since we could breath. They're really simple, but we decided to use a recipe just to say we did. The only thing that was different was that we added carroits, onions, and celery to the chicken as it was boiling. It added more flavor, but it was subtle, cuz it was just a little bit.
That same night I also made Chocolate Lava Muffins from the Alton Brown cookbook. I started off by melting bittersweet chocolate chips and 4oz of butter in a double boiler. After that I poured it into a mixing bowl and added 3 eggs, one at a time till it was all mixed in good. Sugar, salt, cocoa poweder and flour were next, then I let it whip the batter for about 5 minutes till it was SUPER fluffy, almost like chocolate mousse. Stuck it in the fridge for 30 minutes while I coated the muffin tin's with butter and cocoa powder. Baked them straight from the fridge so they were still really cold so the tops baked firm but the center was still all gooey and hot and delicious... My grandma ate, like, 3 in one night! They were suuper rich but they were incredible. I was supposed to make a sauce to go o top our of melted vanilla ice cream and espresso powder, but I liked it just how it was.
A couple days later I made som homemade pizza with Sophie, and our two bff's Katie and Sarah. We started off making the dough. After it was all mixed together we let it knead in the mixer for 10-12 minutes. I let it rise in a warm oven for about 30 minutes and then turned it out on a floured board and began to stretch it. I even tossed it up in the air!! It was so cool! Katie made the pizza sauce, cuz I just accidentally bought tomato sauce. She added in some oregano, italian seasoning, crushed garlic, minced onions and plenty of salt and pepper and let it heat for a little bit. We topped the pizzas with cheese, peppers and onions for mom, ham for dad, and anything we felt like for us girls. I've never been a fan of homemade pizza, but this was SOO good that we made it again the next day! (this time with Bacon XD) We had a little left over dough, so we ended up making garlic knots like they have at Palace Pizza in downtown Lakeland. They were good but not incredible or anything. The crust of the pizza was awesome though!!
Finally caught up!! lol, Yesterday I made doughnuts. I've been making doughnuts for a while, so I don't think this is odd at all, but everyone that i've told seems to find it very strange. Apparently they didn't know that you could make doughnuts at home?? idk. Silly kids... Well, I used an old recipe that we've had for a while, except we didn't have the nutmeg it called for, so I left it out and honestly I think I think I like them better without the nutmeg. They have a much more versatile flavor without it. After they came out of the oil I topped them with cinnamon sugar and dipped them in chocolate syrup. They were really yummy! I think it'll be one of my favorite snacks to fix for the "guys" when they come over to visit.
My goal was to pick a cookbook and cook through it in the 6 months before teh wedding, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be doing that. I just weighed myself and I've gained 8 pounds since I've been home (1 month...) Plus, we're down to almost 5 months I think I'd have a hard time going through a cookbook in 5 months. I think instead I'm going to aim to cook/bake at least 150 recipes. I'm going to keep track of it by copying down the recipes on an index card after I've made it. This will help me build up a recipe box of recipes that I've actually MADE and know I like. So, I'm excited!! So far I'm up to 5.... lol, better get cracking! Time to go make something!
WEll, Sophie and I have actually been doing all of our cooking together, so it's her fault she hasn't posted yet. Mom left chicken breast out thawing the other day and we thought we'd make something for dinner cuz she decided she wasn't going to do anything with it. Well,we looked through some cookbooks and finally just decided on classic Chicken Dumplings. Now, all of us girls have known how to make dumplings probably since we could breath. They're really simple, but we decided to use a recipe just to say we did. The only thing that was different was that we added carroits, onions, and celery to the chicken as it was boiling. It added more flavor, but it was subtle, cuz it was just a little bit.
That same night I also made Chocolate Lava Muffins from the Alton Brown cookbook. I started off by melting bittersweet chocolate chips and 4oz of butter in a double boiler. After that I poured it into a mixing bowl and added 3 eggs, one at a time till it was all mixed in good. Sugar, salt, cocoa poweder and flour were next, then I let it whip the batter for about 5 minutes till it was SUPER fluffy, almost like chocolate mousse. Stuck it in the fridge for 30 minutes while I coated the muffin tin's with butter and cocoa powder. Baked them straight from the fridge so they were still really cold so the tops baked firm but the center was still all gooey and hot and delicious... My grandma ate, like, 3 in one night! They were suuper rich but they were incredible. I was supposed to make a sauce to go o top our of melted vanilla ice cream and espresso powder, but I liked it just how it was.
A couple days later I made som homemade pizza with Sophie, and our two bff's Katie and Sarah. We started off making the dough. After it was all mixed together we let it knead in the mixer for 10-12 minutes. I let it rise in a warm oven for about 30 minutes and then turned it out on a floured board and began to stretch it. I even tossed it up in the air!! It was so cool! Katie made the pizza sauce, cuz I just accidentally bought tomato sauce. She added in some oregano, italian seasoning, crushed garlic, minced onions and plenty of salt and pepper and let it heat for a little bit. We topped the pizzas with cheese, peppers and onions for mom, ham for dad, and anything we felt like for us girls. I've never been a fan of homemade pizza, but this was SOO good that we made it again the next day! (this time with Bacon XD) We had a little left over dough, so we ended up making garlic knots like they have at Palace Pizza in downtown Lakeland. They were good but not incredible or anything. The crust of the pizza was awesome though!!
Finally caught up!! lol, Yesterday I made doughnuts. I've been making doughnuts for a while, so I don't think this is odd at all, but everyone that i've told seems to find it very strange. Apparently they didn't know that you could make doughnuts at home?? idk. Silly kids... Well, I used an old recipe that we've had for a while, except we didn't have the nutmeg it called for, so I left it out and honestly I think I think I like them better without the nutmeg. They have a much more versatile flavor without it. After they came out of the oil I topped them with cinnamon sugar and dipped them in chocolate syrup. They were really yummy! I think it'll be one of my favorite snacks to fix for the "guys" when they come over to visit.
My goal was to pick a cookbook and cook through it in the 6 months before teh wedding, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be doing that. I just weighed myself and I've gained 8 pounds since I've been home (1 month...) Plus, we're down to almost 5 months I think I'd have a hard time going through a cookbook in 5 months. I think instead I'm going to aim to cook/bake at least 150 recipes. I'm going to keep track of it by copying down the recipes on an index card after I've made it. This will help me build up a recipe box of recipes that I've actually MADE and know I like. So, I'm excited!! So far I'm up to 5.... lol, better get cracking! Time to go make something!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Mashed Potato's and Spaghetti
Well, my first blog is about two meals. One I only kinda helped with and one I made practically by myself! Last night (01/04/10) Grandma wanted some real food so she fried country steak, or something like that. She floured cubed stake and fried it in the skillet. Meanwhile I peeled and cubed Idaho potato's (cutting my thumb in the process) and put them on to boil. The end product of the night was Country fried steak with mashed potato's and gravy. It was amazing!
Today I took Mom to ORMC for her doctors appointment and on the way out she must have read my mind because she suggested that we have spaghetti for dinner, yum! I always love me some spaghetti but I had been wanting it for the last week or so. So on the way home we stopped at Publix and picked up noodles, and the salt-free ingredients to make spaghetti sauce and ground beef as well. (Because of the iodine treatments Mom can't have and salt, or something like that.)
When we got home Momma left me to the kitchen (giving instructions from the living room :D) I made the sauce, we used diced tomato's, crushed tomato's and tomato puree, all salt free, combined them in a pot with garlic and kosher salt (which is okay because it doesn't have and iodine) as well as some Italian seasoning. We only put a tad in each but as things progressed we added more because it tasted too tomato-y.
The end result, Spaghetti with meat sauce and toasted french bread with garlic butter. Mom praised over and over again *blushes* and I think Dad enjoyed it. Now to top the whole experience off I have a lovely chocolate eclair from the Publix bakery!
Sophie (Ski)
Today I took Mom to ORMC for her doctors appointment and on the way out she must have read my mind because she suggested that we have spaghetti for dinner, yum! I always love me some spaghetti but I had been wanting it for the last week or so. So on the way home we stopped at Publix and picked up noodles, and the salt-free ingredients to make spaghetti sauce and ground beef as well. (Because of the iodine treatments Mom can't have and salt, or something like that.)
When we got home Momma left me to the kitchen (giving instructions from the living room :D) I made the sauce, we used diced tomato's, crushed tomato's and tomato puree, all salt free, combined them in a pot with garlic and kosher salt (which is okay because it doesn't have and iodine) as well as some Italian seasoning. We only put a tad in each but as things progressed we added more because it tasted too tomato-y.
The end result, Spaghetti with meat sauce and toasted french bread with garlic butter. Mom praised over and over again *blushes* and I think Dad enjoyed it. Now to top the whole experience off I have a lovely chocolate eclair from the Publix bakery!
Sophie (Ski)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Banana Bread!
So I have a massive amount of bananas that have been sitting in my pantry for exactly a week now and they're getting ready to go bad. I found some walnuts this morning while I was making pancakes for my husband's breakfast and had a thought.. I should make banana bread! I've never made it before and I don't really think we have a "family recipe" for it so I went online and found this one.
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Banana Bread Recipe from FoodNetwork.com.
Ingredients
* 1 cup granulated sugar
* 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
* 2 large eggs
* 3 ripe bananas
* 1 tablespoon milk
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan.
Cream the sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a small bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. Mix in the milk and cinnamon. In another bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Add the banana mixture to the creamed mixture and stir until combined. Add dry ingredients, mixing just until flour disappears.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Set aside to cool on a rack for 15 minutes. Remove bread from pan, invert onto rack and cool completely before slicing.
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I doubled the recipe cause I had a lot of bananas that I wanted to use and added 1 teaspoon of nutmeg to the recipe. (If you wanted to add that to a single loaf it would be 1/2 teaspoon.)
I waited patiently for it to cool completely and then sliced off a bit to toast in the toaster and slather with butter. I was a little nervous about tasting it because the pumpkin bread I'd made earlier this year flopped bad.. I doubled THAT recipe as well.. everything except the spices! It tasted alright it was just really, really bland.
So anyways... this banana bread was freaking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never had banana bread that rocked this much... it's moist, its tasty, its crunchy on the top... gosh, I love it! I am definetly gonna add this one to the "family recipes to pass down and down and down"... It was sooooo good. I'm not sharing it with anyone! Except maybe my husband... Maybe I'll send a slice with him for lunch tomorrow. :)
Later!
Katelin (new)
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Banana Bread Recipe from FoodNetwork.com.
Ingredients
* 1 cup granulated sugar
* 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
* 2 large eggs
* 3 ripe bananas
* 1 tablespoon milk
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan.
Cream the sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a small bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. Mix in the milk and cinnamon. In another bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Add the banana mixture to the creamed mixture and stir until combined. Add dry ingredients, mixing just until flour disappears.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Set aside to cool on a rack for 15 minutes. Remove bread from pan, invert onto rack and cool completely before slicing.
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I doubled the recipe cause I had a lot of bananas that I wanted to use and added 1 teaspoon of nutmeg to the recipe. (If you wanted to add that to a single loaf it would be 1/2 teaspoon.)
I waited patiently for it to cool completely and then sliced off a bit to toast in the toaster and slather with butter. I was a little nervous about tasting it because the pumpkin bread I'd made earlier this year flopped bad.. I doubled THAT recipe as well.. everything except the spices! It tasted alright it was just really, really bland.
So anyways... this banana bread was freaking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never had banana bread that rocked this much... it's moist, its tasty, its crunchy on the top... gosh, I love it! I am definetly gonna add this one to the "family recipes to pass down and down and down"... It was sooooo good. I'm not sharing it with anyone! Except maybe my husband... Maybe I'll send a slice with him for lunch tomorrow. :)
Later!
Katelin (new)
Julie and Julia..
My dad bought the movie "Julie and Julia" for my grandma for Christmas, which was like the coolest thing ever! It was based on two true stories and after watching it my sisters and I decided we wanted to try something similar! Hence the blog. I have no idea if we'll actually go through with it or not buuuuut that is just a little explanation of this blog!
Katelin (new)
Katelin (new)
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Post One
This is the Keskale blog, Crabapple Kitchen! Specially for the cooking of foods.
Katie (new)
Katie (new)
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