Irish Soda Bread

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups buttermilk

1 cup sour cream

2 large eggs

1 1/2 tsp. salt

1 Tblsp. cinnamon

3/4 cup sugar

2 1/2 cups raisins

4 2/3 cup flour

1 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. baking powder

Combine the ingredients in order.  Knead on floured board.  Place on buttered pan.  Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 55 minutes.  Rub the bread with butter while hot.  Serve warm!

 

Irish Shepherd's Pie

 Ingredients/order:

1 Tblsp. olive oil

1 onion, diced

3 cloves of garlic, diced

3 celery stalks, diced

4 sprigs fresh thyme, finely chopped

1 pound of beef chuck, small pieces

4 carrots, diced

1 cup of early frozen peas

2 Tblsp. flour

2 Tblsp. butter

1 cup red wine

2 Tblsp. tomato paste

4 Tblsp. Worcestershire sauce

1 cup stock

Combine the ingredients in order. Reduces.  Top with mashed potatoes and sprinkle with shredded cheddar cheese.  Bake for 30 minutes.

Beef Bourguignon

Ingredients:

8 slices of bacon, cut

3 1/2 Tblsp. olive oil

3 lbs. beef

6 carrots

1 white onion

3 green onions

1 tsp. salt, pepper, thyme

2 Tblsps. flour

3 cups wine (rose)

3 cups beef stock

2 tblsp. tomato paste

5 cloves of garlic, minced

2 crumbled bay leaves

pearl onions, frozen

6 Tblsps. butter

1 lb. mushrooms, sliced

1.  Simmer bacon until crisp, remove and drain.

2.  Dry beef and cut in small squares. Sear on all sides in the bacon grease.  Set aside.

3.  Saute onions, celery, and carrots in bacon grease.

4.  Add bacon and beef. Add flour, salt and pepper.

5.  Add wine and beef stock, tomato paste, garlic, thyme and bay leaf.

6.  Bake at 325 degrees for 4 hours with the lid off.

7.  Melt butter and saute pearl onions for 10 minutes.  Add green onions and mushrooms and warm for 10 minutes.

8.  Add to beef mixture.  Bake for an hour.

9.  Serve with cornbread!

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 Pork Stir Fry

Ingredients:

4 thick pork chops, cubed

1 zucchini, julienned

4 colorful peppers, julienned

broccoli crowns

red onion, chopped

garlic cloves, minced

Sauce:

1 tblsp. cornstarch

1/4 Cup of water

1/2 cup vinegar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup ketchup

2 Tblsp. soy sauce

2 Tblsp. sesame oil

Soak pork cubes in soy sauce for 10 minutes.  Salt and pepper them.  Toss in flour and fry until crispy brown in wok.  Add the vegetables and continue to fry.  When ready toss in the sauce and sprinkle with sesame seeds!  Delish!  Serve over white rice - get your chopsticks!

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1 cup cocoa

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup whole milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 large eggs

3 teaspoons vanilla

1 cup boiling water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Prepare 2 9-inch pans with Crisco and lightly flour.

Add the ingredients in the order stated and pour evenly in the cake pans.  Bake for 30-35 minutes until the toothpick check is clean. Cool and frost with a chocolate buttercream frosting!  Really delicious!

Frosting

1 1/2 cups butter

1 cup cocoa

5 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup milk

3 teaspoons vanilla

Mix until light and fluffy and frost the cake when it is cool!  Be sure to put plenty in the middle!  :)

 

Chicken Chowder soup

Boil a whole fryer with salt, pepper, and garlic powder,


Saute in bacon grease:
5 stalks of celery chopped
1 onion diced
10 cloves of garlic diced
4 small red and yellow peppers, diced
4 tomatoes, diced
4 carrots, diced
2 ears of corn, kernals removed
4 red potatoes, diced
1 lime squeezed
1 lemon squeezed
1 tsp. Italian seasoning
1/2 tsp. paprika
1 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. salt


In skillet, use bacon grease and 3 tblsp. butter melted and 1/4 cup flour - mix well - add 1 cup of milk - stir well.  add to sautéed mixture.


Pour chicken broth into the mixture.  De bone chicken and chop chicken.  simmer for 1 hour. 
Serve with homemade croutons.  Yummy!

Chilly Chile

Ingredients:
Saute-
3 stalks of celery, diced
7 cloves of garlic, diced
3 large firm tomatoes, diced
2 yellow onions, diced
2 carrots finely grated
1 large sirloin roast, cubed
1 Tblsp. coriander
3 Tblsp. chili powder
1 tsp. saffron
3 bay leaves
1 tsp. Italian seasoning
1 Tblsp. pepper
1 tsp. salt
1 Tblsp. cocoa
1 Tblsp. sugar
1 tsp. crushed red pepper
2 boiled, blended, sieved Mexican chiles
1 can stewed tomatoes
1 can diced tomatoes w/garlic and basil
3 cans chili beans
1 can tomato sauce

Add water to thin to likeness
Serve with cornbread!  Delicioso!

Year of the Rooster Chicken Spring Rolls

Ingredients:

1 package of chicken tenderloins
5 cloves of garlic, minced or diced finely
1/2 stick of butter
1 tsp. freshly grated ginger
1/2 lime, squeezed
3 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons soy sauce, less sodium
salt/pepper/paprika

Saute on low and turn the tenderloins frequently to moisten and gather the flavor of the sauce.
Pour one tenderloin in blender with the sauce and grind.  Pull the chicken in fine shreds and set aside.
Pour the sauce over the chicken and place in the refrigerator.

Ingredients:

1 set of green onions, finely diced teeny tiny
2 carrots, finely diced teeny tiny
1/2 head of cabbage, finely diced teeny tiny
3 stalks of celery, finely diced teeny tiny

Mix the vegetables with the chicken and microwave for 2 minutes.  Place in the refrigerator until ready to roll the egg rolls.

Mix 1 tsp. cornstarch with water to create a slurry to seal the egg rolls.  Place tablespoon of mixture on egg roll and roll up, sealing with the slurry mixture.  Place in hot oil to fry and then cool on a rack.
Gung hay fat choy 2017!!!

Apple Brown Sugar Bundt Cake

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 stick butter
3 eggs
1 Tblsp vanilla
1/2 cup oil
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp big soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
4 chopped and diced Granny Smith apples
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

Grease bundt pan. Bake at 350 for one hour.

Top with:
1/2 stick melted butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup half n half
1 Tblsp vanilla
1 tsp salt

Banana Pudding

Ingredients:
3/4 cups sugar
2 Tblsp. brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups evaporated milk
3 large egg yolks
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 stick of butter
8 ounces vanilla wafers
4 large ripe bananas
1 heavy whipping cream, whipped with sugar

In a large saucepan, mix sugar, brown sugar, flour, salt and milk in a saucepan stirring constantly.
As it warms, pour a small amount over the eggs and whisk until well blended.  Add them to the warm mixture and continue to stir constantly.

Bring to a gentle boil and continue to stir until mixture thickens.  Remove the pan from the heat and pour in the vanilla and put in the 1/2 stick of butter.  Let it rest and stir when it is warm.

In a bowl, place the vanilla wafers in a wrapping pattern in the circle.  Then, cut 2 bananas,  Add 1/2 pudding mixture.  Top with 1/2 whipping cream mixture.  Add bananas, pudding and top with the whipped cream.  Add a few vanilla wafers on top for decoration! Honestly, the best banana pudding in the world!  Enjoy!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

Blueberry Muffins

Modified from Internet
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1/3 cup oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 tblsp. Vanilla
Small plate of blueberries smashed
1 cup blueberries, folded in batter
1/4 cup melted butter

Mix all the ingredients together and put loaded spoonful in muffin cups.  Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

Jambalaya

Ingredients:

1 diced white onion
5 cloves of garlic, diced
1 kielbasa, cut in small pieces

Saute in a pan until browned

Add to the pot:
2 bay leaves
1 tsp. cumin
1 tsp. italian seasoning
sprinkle of creole seasoning
salt and pepper
2 tblsp. salsa casera
6 new potatoes, cut in small pieces
peppers diced
can of corn, drained
tomato sauce
2 tomatoes diced
6 filets of tilapia, cut in small pieces
shrimp
Chicken shredded

Simmer for 2 hours and serve over rice.

Basic Homemade Bread Recipe

Modified from Taste of Home
Ingredients:
1 package of dry yeast

2 cups warm water

3 eggs
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoons oil
6 - 6 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 stick melted butter

Mix the ingredients in a mixer, very slowly using the dough hook.  Add melted butter last, coating the ball of dough.  Set aside to warm and rise.  Then, punch down and divide into two bread loaves.