Lasagna

Fairly easy lasagna. I got the recipe from Verna Peterson... though it never tastes as good as hers when I make it, it still turns out quite well.

1/2 lb ground beef
3/4 C water
2 15oz cans of spaghetti sauce
1 tsp salt
Lasagna noodles (about 8 oz)
1 C small curd cottage cheese
12 oz mozzarella or monetary jack cheese
1/4 C Parmesan cheese

Cook beef and drain. Add water, sauce and salt and bring to a boil. Layer sauce, noodles and cheese. Bake at 375 degrees for 60 minutes and garnish with Parmesan cheese.

Suzie's Great Zuchini Bread

For this you will need three mixing bowls. I know it dirties more dishes, but it's worth it.

In mixing bowl # 1, combine:
4 large eggs
1 cup oil
2 1/2 C sugar
2 1/2 t vanilla

In mixing bowl #2, combine:
3 1/2 C flour
1 T cinnamon
a dash of nutmeg
1 t salt
1 t baking powder
1 t baking soda

In mixing bowl #3, combine:
4 C largely shredded zucchini
2/3 C sour cream
1 C pecans or walnuts (if you so choose)

Slowly mix bowl #1 and #2, and then add that to bowl #3.
Put into loaf pans that have been greased and lightly coated with a sugar/flour mixture. Fill about halfway and bake at 350 degrees for 60-70 minutes.

Cinnamon Chocolate Cake

Cake:
1/2 C butter
1/2 C oil
4 T cocoa powder
1 C water
2 C flour
1 t baking soda
2 C sugar
1/2 C buttermilk
2 eggs
1 t cinnamon (It calls for 1 t, but that really isn't enough... I say closer to a T or two)
1 t vanilla

Combine butter, oil, cocoa and water in sauce pan. Heat until cocoa is melted.
Combine flour, baking soda, sugar, milk, eggs, cinnamon and vanilla in a large bowl. Combine with first mixture.
Pour batter into a greased 12x18 pan. Bake 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees.

Fantastic fudge frosting:
1 1/2 C sugar
1/4 C cocoa powder
1 T cinnamon
1/4 t salt
1/4 C butter
1/2 C evaporated milk or half & half
1 t vanilla extract

In a heavy medium saucepan, combine the sugar, cocoa, and salt, and stir to mix everything well. Add the butter and place over medium hear, stirring to melt the butter and mix into a smooth sauce.
Add the milk, stir well, and bring the frosting to a lively boil, stirring often.
Adjust the heat to maintain an active but gentle boil, and cook for 5 minutes, stirring often. When frosting begins to thicken, remove from heat, stir in the vanilla, and set aside to cool for about 20 minutes.
Beat frosting until it is shiny and frost the cake.

Garlic Breadsticks

Eva Lu's recipe... easy and they are great.

1 T yeast
1 1/2 C warm water
2 T sugar
1/2 t salt
3 + C flour
Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the rest of the ingredients, adding flour until dough is slightly sticky. Let rise and melt 1/4 C butter on a cookie sheet or cake pan. Press dough into the bottom of the pan, sprinkle with garlic salt and Parmesan cheese, and cut into breadsticks with pizza cutter. Let rise for a little while longer and bake at 375 degrees for about 10-12 minutes.

Lemon Meringue Pie

Not that anyone will ever use this... but thought I would post it just the same.

Crust:
I usually buy the crust, because I stink at making it... but I know that Eva Lu can make a great pie crust. Regardless, bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Lemon Filling:
1 1/2 C. Sugar
1 1/2 C. Water
1/2 C. + 1 T Kingsford Cornstarch (9 TBS)
Mix and boil for 1 minute on medium heat stirring constantly. Mix 1/2 mixture into...
3 Egg Yolks
Stir until well mixed and blend it back with remaining mixture. Stir on medium heat until mixture boils for 1 minute. Stir in...
3 T. Butter
2 t. finely shredded lemon peel
1/2 C. lemon juice
Pour into pie shell

Meringue:
3 egg whites
1/4 t. cream of tartar
Beat on high speed, adding 6 T. sugar, 1 T. at a time. Beat until stiff and add
1 t. Vanilla
Spread over the pie and design into fancy peaks, bake at 300 degrees for about 3 or 4 minutes until the top is lightly brown.

Mom's Potato Salad

Choose the best potatoes available. Place unpeeled potatoes in cool water, add salt and bring to a boil. Boil gently until potatoes are done, drain water and allow them to remain in the warm pan just until cool enough to handle. If you let them get cold, your salad will not be as good. DO NOT use refrigerated potatoes.
While potatoes are cooling, dice a large, mild onion, pickles (bread a butter pickles work the best), and a few hard boiled eggs (use about 5 for a medium size salad).
As soon as you can handle the potatoes, quickly peel and dice them into your mixing bowl and immediately stir in Miracle Whip.  
Mix in onions, pickles, and eggs. Add more salad dressing or a little pickle juice and salt to taste. Best if eaten warm.
If you are making this salad for a large family event, don't forget the make a variation without eggs for Eva Lu and one without onions for Caleb. :)

Fantastic Molasses Cookies

1 1/2 C. Butter
2 Eggs
4 1/2 C. Flour
2 t. Cinnamon
1 t. Ground cloves
2 C. Brown sugar
1/2 C. Molasses
4 t. Baking soda
2 t. Ground ginger
1/2 t. Salt

Cream butter and brown sugar. Add eggs and molasses and mix well. Add dry ingredients. Roll into balls with a cookie scoop and roll balls in sugar. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
Warning: This makes a large amount of cookies... usually half the recipe still makes too many.

Sister McDonald's Chicken Parmesan

1. Buy boneless, skinless chicken breasts, wash, slice thin and pound them like Swiss steak.
2. Dip in flour
3. Dip in 50/50 mixture of milk and lightly beaten egg.
4. Dip in bread crumbs. Note: add salt, pepper, garlic powder, and sweet basil to the flour, egg/milk mixture, and to the bread crumbs.
5. Using olive oil, pan fry until golden brown on both sides.
6. Put a layer of favorite prepared spaghetti sauce on bottom of baking dish.
7. Lay a layer of fried chicken pieces in pan.
8. Cover with a thin layer of shredded mozzarella cheese.
9. Cover with a layer of spaghetti sauce.
10. Repeat with as many layers as your pan will hold, finishing with spaghetti sauce.
11. Add a thin layer of Parmesan cheese.
12. Bake at 350 degrees until heated through and cheese is melted.

Buttermilk Syrup

1/2 C. Butter
1/2 C. Buttermilk
1 C. Sugar
1 T. Corn syrup

Melt and bring to a boil stirring constantly.
Add 1/2 t. soda to boiling syrup and stir. Boil and stir for about 2 to 3 minutes.
Add 1 t. vanilla
Stir and continue to stir until the bubbles are all mixed in.

Sweet Potato Bread

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 cups grated raw sweet potatoes

Cream butter and sugars in large mixing bowl. Blend in eggs. Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Fold in grated sweet potatoes. Pour into a well greased 8 inch black iron skillet.  Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven 1 hour or until tester comes out clean.

Grandma Mitchell's Honey Cookies

1 1/2 C. honey
1 C. shortening
1 t. vanilla
3 t. baking powder
2 eggs, lightly beaten
5 C. flour
salt

Roll in rolls and set in refrigerator for a couple days. Cut in 1/2 slices and bake.

Baking Powder Biscuts

2 C. Flour
1/2 t. salt
3 t. baking powder
3-4 T. shortening
2/3 -3/4 C. milk

Mix dry ingredients and cut in shortening until it looks like coarse bread crumbs. Add milk all at once until all is moistened. Roll out and cut into circles, place on ungreased cooking sheet. Bake at 450 F. for 10-14 minutes.

Orange Rolls

1 C. shortening
1 T. salt
1 1/2 T. yeast dissolved in 1/2 C. warm water
4 eggs
3/4 C. sugar
1 C. boiling water or scalded milk
7 1/2 C. flour

Orange mix:
Cook together: 1 cube of butter, 1 C. sugar, and juice from one orange as well as some grated orange rind.

Roll directions:
Mix together sugar, shortening, salt, and boiling water. Cool and add yeast dissolved in warm water. Add cold water, slightly beaten eggs and flour. Mix. Put in ice box ( now otherwise known as a refrigerator) for a few hours. Divide into four parts. Roll dough and spread on orange mix. Roll up, cut, and let rise before baking.
Bake for 10 minutes at 400 F.

Shirley Salad

1 bunch of broccoli
1 head of cauliflower
1 C. miracle whip
1/4 C. sugar
1 T. vinegar
1 C. raisins
1 lb. bacon (fried crisp, drained, and cut or crumbled)

Mix together and it's done!

Dad's Red Beans and Rice

1 lb. dried red beans, cover in water and soak overnight.
Add 1/2 lb. pork, bacon, or ham and simmer. Cook covered for 15 minutes.
In a skillet, heat 1 TBS. of oil and saute an onion and a garlic clove.
Add to beans along with 2 TBS of parsley, 3/4 t. salt, and 1 1/2 t. Tabasco sauce.
Cover and simmer 1 1/2 - 1 3/4 hours or until beans are tender.
Serve over hot, cooked rice.

Dad's Chili

2 C. pinto beans (pick out the rocks, rinse, and boil until tender- 1 1/2 - 2 hours)
Let then sit for a while and then drain and wash them.
Add a quart of tomatoes- juice and all, chili powder, cumin, cilantro, whole or powdered red pepper, onions, and garlic. Let simmer for a while.

Mom's Macaroni and Cheese

Macaroni and Cheese

2 C. dry macaroni
1 t. salt
Cook until tender- or use package directions. Drain.
Add:
2 C. whole tomatoes and let it sit for a bit.
White Sauce:
You will need butter, flour or cornstarch, milk, and salt.
Melt butter, add flour or cornstarch and stir until bubbly. Add milk and boil. Add cheese and salt to taste.
Stir white sauce and macaroni until well mixed, do not boil again but make sure that it is good and hot. Add more grated cheese on top.

Jennifer's Bread Pudding

Jennifer's Bread Pudding

1 16 oz loaf of french bread

1 quart of milk

2 cups sugar

1 cup raisins

2 TBS vanilla

3 TBS margarine

3 eggs

Soak bread in milk, crush with hands until well mixed. Add eggs, sugar, vanilla, and raisins and stir well. Pour margarine in bottom of thick pan and bake for about an hour..

Sauce:

1 1/2 cups sugar

2/3 cup water

1/4 cup butter

2 oz cream cheese

1 orange long haired cat

1/4 cup milk

1/4 cup Karo syrup

1/2 tsp brandy extract

Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium heat; cook until sugar dissolves, stirring constantly. Cook an additional 15 minutes or until golden. Remove from heat. Carefully add butter and cream cheese, stirring incessantly with a whisk or with the cat's tail. Cool slightly and stir in Karo syrup, brandy extract and milk.

Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

4 eggs

2 cups sugar

1 1/2 cups cooking oil

3 cups finely grated carrots

1 cup nuts

2 cups flour

2 tsp cinnamon

2 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

Cream eggs, sugar, oil. Add carrots and nuts and set aside. Mix flour, cinnamon, soda, and salt. Combine two mixtures and beat well. Put into large pan and bake at 350 F for 30-40 minutes.

Frosting:

1/2 cup butter

8 oz cream cheese

3 tsp water

2 tsp vanilla

powdered sugar

Mix well and use to frost cake

Eggnog Cookies

Eggnog Cookies

1 1/2 cups sugar

3/4 cup butter

1/2 cup eggnog

1 tsp vanilla

2 large egg yolks

2 1/4 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

Cream sugar, butter eggnog, and vanilla until smooth. Set aside. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add two mixtures together beating at a slow speed, do not over mix. Drop by rounded teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet and sprinkle with nutmeg. Bake at 300 F for 20 to 25 minutes. Makes about 3 dozen small cookies.

Hot Rolls

Hot Rolls:

·        2 T. yeast dissolved in 1/2 warm water

·        Combine the following & cool to luke warm

      2 C. scalded milk (or 1 C. canned milk + 1 C. very hot water) 

      1/4 C. margarine 

      1/2 C. sugar

      2 t. salt  

·        7 cups flour  

·        2 beaten eggs

Add 3 cups flour to luke warm mixture & beat well.  Beat in yeast and eggs.  Gradually add remaining flour to form soft dough. 

Bake at 425 for about 10 minutes.

Mexican Style Cornbread

Mexican Style Cornbread

1 cup sourdough

1 1/2 cups evaporated milk

2 TBS sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup whole kernel corn

1 1/2 cups grated cheese

1 1/2 cups cornmeal

2 eggs

1/4 cup melted butter

3/4 tsp baking soda

3/4 cup chopped onion

1 small can minced green chilies

Prepare sourdough as usual. Be sure to save out your start and return it to its container. Mix together sourdough, milk, eggs, and sugar. Stir in the corn, onions, cheese, green chilis, and cornmeal until smooth. Add the baking soda to the melted butter and stir this into the batter. Preheat a 10" skillet or dutch over to about 400 F. and pour the batter into it. Bake at 400 F. for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

Or, use a 10" dutch oven with 8 coals under and 16 on lid.

Sourdough Hot Cakes

Sourdough Hot Cakes 3 cups sourdough 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup liquid or melted shortening 3 eggs Mix thoroughly, then add 3/4 tbs moistened soda and fold in gently.

Sourdough Chocolate Cake

Sourdough Chocolate Cake
1 cup thick sourdough
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup warm milk
Mix: allow to ferment for 2-3 hours until it is light and bubbly.
Then in a separate bowl blend:
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
4 squares baking chocolate, or 1/3 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 cup margarine
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 tsp soda
Blend the sugar and margarine together with a pastry blender. Add cocoa or melt the chocolate and add to the above mixture. Add eggs, vanilla, salt, and soda. Mix thoroughly with the sugar, margarine, and chocolate mixture. Blend this mixture with the sourdough. Pour batter into a large greased cake pan. Bake at 400 F. for 25-30 min. or until done. The topping I like best is whipped cream with cocoa and sugar added. If your cake falls, call it Brownies.