Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Snacky stuff

Pumpkin seeds, cleaned, baked, fried?
Wheat kernels, cooked, then fried & seasoned
Nasty Emergency Crackers buttered, cinnamon sugared and baked

Veggie Tray

Green Olives
Black Olives
Celery Sticks, sometimes stuffed with peanut butter or cheese (Affiliate link)
Carrot sticks, peeled and finger length
baby sweet pickles
baby dill pickles
Broccoli
Ranch dip in center
Ocassionally radish's
Cauliflower

Served while we waited for the turkey to be done on Thanksgiving and Christmas day. No breakfast served because you didn't want to "spoil your appetite", just grazing on the veggie tray, usually a cookie sheet covered with foil.

Mulled cider

Take a couple of jugs of Apple Juice and heat on pan on stove.

Add Cinnamon Sticks, Clove Seeds (unground),

keep warm on back burner (or crockpot) throughout the day and enjoy.

Enchiladas!

Canned Enchilada sauce
Ground beef, cooked

Wrap mixture in flour tortilla. Cover with sauce. Sprinkle onions on the top of a few because only a few people liked them.

Add grated cheese to top and cook until hot, 20 min. or so (just until cheese is melted)


Fried potatoes

Cube raw or cooked potatoes

Fry in oil stirring with a wooden spoon until cooked through

Can add onions if you are being fancy

Cinnamon Sugar Toast

Toast bread
Butter Bread
Sprinkle sugar/cinnamon mixture on bread

Eat

Mom's Lasagna

Spaghetti sauce with hamburger
Cottage Cheese
Cooked lasagna noodles
Motzarella cheese

Layer and top with remaining sauce and cheese

Cook covered with foil for 60 minutes at  350 degrees, Uncover for the last 15 min. to brown

Liver and potatoes?

I remember my least favorite meal was Liver. Mom and Dad used to make it fairly frequently, probably because it was cheap. It took alot of ketchup to make this go down.

Trying to remember what was served with it.

Liver, dredged in flour and salt/pepper, then fried in pan until browned.

If overcooked it became quite hard and could be substituted for a hockey puck.

Soggy French Toast

lots of milk
1 egg
a loaf of bread

mix egg with lots of milk. Dip slice of bread in milk and cook in a tiny bit of oil until heated through, tho still soggy.

Top with homemade maple syrup. (Mapleline affiliate link maybe?)

Nasty stuff.

Rice and Peaches

I don't have the recipe for this, but I remember Mom using this as a way to use up a bunch of leftover rice.

Take day old rice, and heat in on the stove with milk and sugar and cinnamon until it reaches the consistency of pudding.

Remove from heat and top with sliced canned peaches.

It was one of my favorite recipes growing up, something about the contract of the sweet warm rice mixture and the cold peaches.