Sunday, January 24, 2010
Yorkshire Pudding
To serve 6
3/4 c of flour
1/2 t salt
2 eggs
3/4 c milk
3-4 T Canola Oil
Preheat oven to 400F. In food processor mix flour and salt. Add eggs and blend. Add milk and blend for a minute. Put oil into the bottom of the muffin tin, put tin into oven to warm up. Put mixture into muffin tins, cook 25 minutes until golden brown.
Instead of putting oil in the pans, I put the mixture in the muffin tins and put about 1/2 t of butter on the top of each muffin.
To serve 8-10
My Mom's Recipe
1 c flour
1 t salt
3 eggs
1 1/2 c milk
4-5 T Canola oil
Preheat oven to 400F. In food processor mix flour and salt. Add eggs and blend. Add milk and blend for a minute. Put oil into the bottom of the muffin tin, put tin into oven to warm up. Put mixture into muffin tins, cook 25 minutes until golden brown.
The only problem with my Mom's recipe, the oil in the pans always spilled over into the oven, making a big mess.
One time my Mom wanted to clean up the mess before my Dad came in. She turned on the self cleaning oven. We were sitting down to dinner. My son, Brett about 7 years old at the time, said very innocently, "Grandma is there suppose to be a fire in the oven?" Oh the good old days!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Potato, Broccoli, Cheese Soup
6 Potatoes
1/2 Broccoli head
1/2 cup total Cheddar and Swiss Cheese
6 cups of Chicken Broth low in sodium
1 - Onion chopped
1 teaspoon of Salt
1 teaspoon of Pepper
1 teaspoon of Rosemary
I steamed the potatoes and broccoli last night when I cooked our dinner. Chop and fry the onion, then put it into the crock pot. Also chop the potatoes and broccoli in the food processor. Add enough broth to make a good liquid. Add the graded cheese. I used leftover cheese that we had in the fridge, normally I don't put Swiss Cheese in the soup.
Here is the funny part and I saw this on TV this morning, use low sodium chicken broth, but add a teaspoon of salt! While there you go, great for the heart. If you have heart problems, leave out the salt, you don't need it!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Veal Cutlet
In the picture you will see veal, potatoes, broccoli with lemon wedges.
You can pound the livin' daylights out of the veal, this is suppose to make it tender. I don't have a sludge hammer, so I don't! You know veal is the young, tender part of the cow, it should be tender. My Mom always got out the hammer, (for cooking) and you know the legs on the table would jump right off the floor when she pounded the meat. That always made me laugh.
To pick a good piece of veal, look at the marbling in the meat. That simply means the gain, and fat content of the meat. Veal will not have a lot of fat content because it is a young animal. It should be light pink in colour. Check the dates on the package of the meat. If you see gray in the meat it is getting old, don't buy it. I find that grocery stores are sneaky when selling meat. They stick big labels over the fatty pieces of meat, they don't put on the dates the meat was packaged, only a sell before date. If veal is not fresh, don't buy it! Also the packages they put meat in now, makes the meat rot. If you can put meat in freezer, or take out of packaging when you get home and put in other containers.
After you have taken your stress out on the veal. Get two bowls. In one put some bread crumbs, and in the other scramble the egg with salt and pepper. Dip veal in the egg, and then coat the veal with breadcrumbs. Put a little bit of olive oil, and butter into a frying pan. Place the coated veal into the frying pan. Fry until brown on both sides then serve with lemon wedges.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Soup for a cold day.
1 Sweet Potato
1 Turnip
4 Carrots
1 Onion
2 - 14oz. cans of Chicken Broth
pinch of Salt
pinch of Pepper
pinch of Tarragon
pinch of Basil
Chop the onion. Peel and cut up the vegetables.
I steamed the sweet potato, turnip, and carrots first in my steamer but you can put them into the slow cooker and slowly cook them all day. I used my new food processor to chop everything up. I added the spices, and the chicken broth, and even a bit of water. It's not rocket science! Put into slow cooker...........smells so good.
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