Friday, June 24, 2016

Blackberry Cobbler

6 small containers of blackberries
1 stick melted butter
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tblsp.vanilla
1/4 cup evaporated milk

Mix the ingredients together and allow to sit for 30 minutes.
Place 1 pie crust in an 8x8 pan.  Place 1/2 of the mixture in the pie crust  and create a pie crust lattice over the top.  Sprinkle with sugar.  Repeat for the second cobbler.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Peach Pie

Place a premade pastry in a pie pan - roll it out and crimp the edges.

Boil some water in a pot and place 6-8 peaches in the water for 2-3 minutes.  Remove and peel the peaches and slice them.  Place the peaches in the pie shell.  Spoon lemon juice from 2 lemons over the top of the peaches.  In a pot, stir together 1/2 stick of butter, 1 1/2 cups of sugar and 1 tsp. vanilla and 1 tsp. salt.  Add 1/4 cup flour and mix until well blended.  Spoon on top of the peaches in the pie shell.

Sprinkle the top of the peaches with pumpkin pie spice.  Then cover with a brown sugar crumble with pecans.  Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees.  Scrumptious with vanilla ice cream!

Ingredients:
6-8 peaches
pie shell
1 lemon squeezed
1/2 stick of butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

Brown sugar crumble:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1/2 stick of butter
Use a patry blender to crumble the mixture and add 1/2 cup of chopped pecans.


Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Strawberry Shortcakes

Cream:
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
Add:
2 eggs
6 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
3 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 cup milk
1 cup brown sugar
Cut up:
1 1/2 quarts fresh strawberries
whip real cream

Spaghetti Sauce

Saute:
6 cloves garlic
2 vidalia onions,diced
1 tsp. sage
1 tsp. rosemary
1 tsp. oregano
salt and pepper
 1 bunch Italian parsley, diced
1 pkg. oregano, fresh, diced
1 pkg. basil, fresh, diced
4 bay leaves
Add and saute:
1 pkg. fresh ground chuck
1 pkg. mild Italian sausage
Put in the crock pot:
2 large cans petite tomatoes (28 oz.)
1 jar spaghetti sauce
2 cans Italian stewed tomatoes
1 can stewed tomatoes
10 freshly diced roma tomatoes
2 carrots grated
Add meat and herbs to crock pot. Simmer 24 hours!

Friday, March 4, 2016

Pecan Pie

1 cup pecan halves
1/2 bag brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
3 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup light Karo syrup

Mix the ingredients.  Place the pecans in concentric circles on the pie crust.  Pour the mixture over the pecans and bake for 1 hour.  Turn the oven off and let pie continue to bake for 15-20 minutes longer.  Too good to be true!!!!!!

Flaky Crust

2 cups sifted flour
1 tsp salt
1/3 cup Crisco shortening
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup ice water

Cut in the butter and shortening.  Add the cold water and roll into a ball.  Roll out on wax paper and make the crust!  Yummy!

Monday, February 8, 2016

Spring Rolls

Ingredients:
1 red onion diced
2 cloves of garlic diced
Fry in two pans I melted butter.
In frying pan, sauté two pork chops until browned on both sides. Slice very thin and sauté in the onions and garlic.


In the other pan, add:
Carrots, sliced thinly and julienned
Bean sprouts
Celery diced
3 orange peppers diced
Pea pods sliced thinly
Cabbage sliced thinly
Salt and pepper
1 tsp. ginger
Teriyaki low sodium
Add the pork chop mixture and mix well.
Put spoonful of mixture on an egg roll wrapper and roll up.  Fry on both sides until brown.
Serve with Asian noodles.  Gung Hay Fat Choy!