Becca Cooks

FRIED RICE

2013-01-01T23:00:00.000-08:00

2 ½ Tablespoons vegetable oil
½ Teaspoon sesame oil
4 Green onions sliced
1 Cup frozen baby peas
1 Medium carrot grated
1 Cup baby shrimp or chopped ham
3 Large eggs whisked
1 ½ Tablespoons soy sauce
3 Cups cooked cold rice*
* It is very important it be well chilled Heat oils in a large sauté pan or wok.Add the scallions, peas, shrimp/ham and carrots. (Take care to avoid being splattered with hot oil.) Stir-fry for 1 minute. Add the rice and stir occasionally for 2-3 minutes as it heats.Push the rice to edges of pan creating a hole in the center of pan.
Pour ½ tablespoon of oil in center of pan and pour in whisked eggs. Scramble until softly done and then incorporate into the rice. Add soy sauce and heat stirring.

Frozen Pumpkin Parfait Squares

2012-12-28T23:00:00.000-08:00

1 1/2 Cups graham cracker crumbs
1/4 Cup sugar
1/4 Cup melted butter

1 1/2 Cups pumpkin
1/2 Cup brown sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon cinnamon
`/4 Teaspoon ginger
1/8 Teaspoon cloves
1 Quart softened vanilla ice cream Mix ingredients and press into the bottom of 9x9 pan.

Mix the pumpkin, salt and spices together. Fold in the ice cream. Pour onto the crumb crust and freeze. Cut into 9 squares and top with Whipped Cream and pecans.

I like this better than pumpkin pie

Household Cleaner

2012-12-24T23:00:00.000-08:00

1 cup ammonia
1/4 cup baking soda
1/2 cup vinegar
1 gallon boiling water Mix all ingredients together. Cleans kitchen appliances, furniture, floors, carpets, painted surfaces and varnished surfaces. Can be used on windows, but they will need rinsed.

Graham Cracker Crust

2012-12-20T23:00:00.000-08:00

8 graham crackers crushed
6 tablespoons melted margarine
3 tablespoons sugar Mix and put in pie pan. Chill for 45 minutes.

Glass Candy

2012-12-16T23:00:00.000-08:00

2 cups sugar
1 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup water
Grease a cookie sheet or put in layer of powdered sugar
Heat to a boil while stirring. Lower heat and cook to a hard crack stage (300º) without stirring. Remove from heat and add coloring and flavoring. Be careful that the steam from adding flavoring does not get in eyes. Cinnamon oil is very good but will severely burn your eyes if not you are not careful.

SPICY ORANGE CHICKEN

2012-12-12T23:00:00.000-08:00

2 tablespoons corn oil
2 tablespoons corn starch
1 lb boneless skinless chicken cubed
1 cup cool chicken broth
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup slivered orange peel
1/4 cup dry sherry
1 clove garlic minced
1/4 cup orange marmalade
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon crushed dried red pepper In wok heat corn oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken 1/3 at a time. Stir fry 3 minutes or until browned. Return all chicken to the wok. Add orange peel, garlic and ginger. Stir-fry l minute. Stir together remaining ingredients. Stir into chicken. Stirring constantly bring to boil over medium heat and boil 1 minute. Serve over rice.

Cooked Frosting

2012-12-08T23:00:00.000-08:00

1/2 cup canned milk
1 tablespoon margarine
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
pinch of salt Combine all ingredients in a heavy pan. Cook to soft ball stage, cool. Beat until smooth and the consistency to spread on cake.

Cream Cheese Frosting

2012-11-29T21:20:00.000-08:00

1 3 ounce package cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup margarine Cream softened cream cheese, margarine, and vanilla. Add powdered sugar, beat until smooth.

Pickled Beets

2012-11-26T23:00:00.000-08:00

1 cup sugar
1 cup water from beets
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup vinegar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice Cook beets in pressure cooker at 5 pounds pressure for 1 hour. Cool, skin, and cut in quarters. Put beets in bottle. Mix above ingredients, boil, pour over the beets in the bottles. Seal, and cold pack quarts for a 5 minutes. Just bring pints to a boil.

Pumpkin Roll

2012-11-22T23:00:00.000-08:00

3/4 cup flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3 eggs
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 cup walnuts
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ginger
1 sprinkle salt
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
powdered sugar Sift together dry ingredients and set aside. Beat egg yolks 5 minutes or until thick. Beat egg whites until stiff, set aside. Gradually beat 1 cup of sugar in egg yolks, stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. Fold in dry ingredients and egg whites. Spread on greased and floured jelly roll pan. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake at 375 degree for 15 minutes. Loosen edges and turn out onto a dish towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Roll towel and cake together, cool. Unroll towel, fill pumpkin roll with filling.

Filling: 1 cup powdered sugar, 4 tablespoons margarine, 3 ounces cream cheese, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.

Roll up pumpkin roll, wrap in foil, chill.

A Quilter''s Eggs and Fried Rice

2012-11-18T23:00:00.000-08:00

Pan Fry Pre Cooked Rice
Olive Oil
Egg
Colorful Fruits (black berries, orances, walnuts) Your favorite things an fry pre cooked rice with a little olive oil. After the rice is hot, make a hole in the center of the rice for the egg. Add the egg. Squish the yoke. Season however you would like. I add a little pepper, but I do not add salt. I don't like to add salt.Flip the egg and break the egg up into pieces. Mix the egg with the rice. Serve hot with colorful fruits and nuts.

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Tuna Noodle Casserole

2012-11-14T23:00:00.000-08:00

2 Cans well drained tuna
2 Cups cooked narrow noodles
(I like to use 2” lengths spaghetti)
3 Hard cook eggs chopped
1 Cup diced onion
1 Cup diced celery
2-3 Tablespoons sour cream
2 Cans Cream of Mushroom soup
Grated Parmesan Cheese
Crushed potato chips or bread crumbs
Preheat Oven to 350º

Make a sauce of the soup and sour cream. Combine sauce with noodles, eggs, and diced vegetables.

Top parmesan cheese and crushed chips. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until it browns and is bubbly.

You kids grew up on this. It was a real budget extender, especially because tuna was 17 cents a can.

Notes: Spices that go good with tuna are thyme crushed or dried rosemary. Try them.

For a variation use cheddar cheese soup for the sauce.

Perfect Pumpkin Pie

2012-11-10T23:00:00.000-08:00

1 15oz can pumpkin
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 Teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1 Ready made graham cracker crust ..or
1 9 inch pie crust
Preheat oven to 425º
Beat all ingredients and pour into crust. For either type of crust bake 15 minutes Reduce heat to 350º and bake 35 to 40 minutes or until set. Cool.
Note: protect edges of pie with strip of tin foil

Potato Soup

2012-11-06T23:00:00.000-08:00

8 cups
4 cups water
2 tbsp dry oninon
3 chicken bouillon
1/2 cupbutter
1 can cream of mushroom or chicken
1 cup cream
1 cup milk
pepper to taste Pill and dice pottatoes

Perfect Pumpkin Pie

2012-11-02T23:00:00.000-07:00

1 15oz can pumpkin
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 Teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1 Ready made graham cracker crust ..or
1 9 inch pie crust
Preheat oven to 425º
Beat all ingredients and pour into crust.
For either type of crust bake 15 minutes Reduce heat to 350º and bake 35 to 40 minutes or until set. Cool.

Note: protect edges of pie with strip of tin foil

Boiled Raisin Cake

2012-10-29T23:00:00.000-07:00

1 Package raisins
1 cup nuts
2 cups sugar
1 cup shortening
2 cups hot waterº
Boil the above 5 minutes, let cool.

Add:
4 Cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon cloves
Bake 1 hour in 325 degree oven

Chicken Broccoli Casserole

2012-10-25T23:00:00.000-07:00

2 cups cheese
4 cups bread crumbs
2 cups cubed chicken
2 cups milk
1 cup chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup margarine
1 pound tender broccoli or frozen broccoli
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup margarine Mix together bread crumbs, margarine, and cheese. For sauce, melt margarine, add flour, stir. Add milk, broth, and salt. Stir with a wire whisk until thick and smooth. Layer in a buttered casserole pan. Crumbs, broccoli, chicken, sauce, repeat. Top with remaining bread crumbs. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Can use turkey instead of chicken.

Pear and Raspberry Jam

2012-10-21T23:00:00.000-07:00

10 medium pears
juice from 1 lemon
1 pint frozen red raspberries
5 cups sugar
1/2 package pectin
1 small raspberry jell-o Put pears in blender, cook pears, sugar, and lemon juice 20 minutes, or until thick and transparent. Add pectin, cook a few minutes longer, add berries and jell-o.

Jello Dumplings (Grandpa R's Special Recipe)

2012-10-17T23:00:00.000-07:00

3 cups water
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
light cream
1 package red jello
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 egg Combine flour, baking powder, salt. Add beaten egg and enough cream to make a batter. Boil water and jell-o, drop dumplings into boiling syrup by spoonfuls. Cook 20 minutes.

Pecan Pie

2012-10-13T23:00:00.000-07:00

3 Eggs
1/2 Teaspoon salt
2/3 Cup of sugar
1/2 Cup of butter melted
1 Cup corn syrup
1 1/2 cups pecan halves Heat oven to 350º
Beat eggs, sugar, salt, butter and syrup with hand beater. Stir in pecans. Pour into pastry lined pie pan. Tent a piece of tin foil over the top of pie. Bake for 40-50 minutes or until set. Remove the foil the last 10-15 minutes so the crust and pecans will brown.

Divinity Candy

2012-10-09T23:00:00.000-07:00

4 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon cream of tarter
1 cup corn syrup
4 egg whites
1 cup chopped nuts Beat egg whites, set aside. Boil sugar, corn syrup, add cream of tarter to a soft ball stage. Pour half into beaten egg whites. Cook the rest of the syrup to crack stage. Pour it into egg whites. Beat until it stands alone. Add food coloring and flavoring of your choice. Add nuts just before it sets up. Drop by a spoon on wax paper or a buttered pan.

Bread and Butter Pickles

2012-10-05T23:00:00.000-07:00

4 quarts sliced cucumbers
2 large garlic cloves chopped
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/2 cup salt
4 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric
3 cups vinegar
1/2 teaspoons ginger Mix together cucumbers, garlic, onions, and salt. Cover with ice. Let stand for 3 hours.
Tie in a a bag, 1 1/2 teaspoons celery seed, 1 1/2 teaspoons mustard seed. Combine sugars, vinegar, cinnamon, and turmeric. Add bag of celery and mustard seeds. Heat just to boiling, let stand 30 minutes. Add cucumbers, cook until cucumbers are clear. Bottle and cold pack for 5 minutes.

Pickled Cucumbers

2012-10-01T23:00:00.000-07:00

4 quarts large cucumbers peeled and chopped
2 green peppers
3 large onions chopped
1/3 cup salt
5 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
3 cups vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
2 mustard seed
2 cups water Chop vegetables, add salt. Cover with ice, let stand 3 hours, drain.

Mix sugar, turmeric, vinegar, and water. Tie celery seed and mustard seed in cheese cloth, add to vinegar mixture. Bring to a boil, and cucumbers and stir well. Put pickles in bottles, seal, cold pack 10 minutes.

Potatos and Bacon

2012-09-27T23:00:00.000-07:00

5-8 Potatos
1-2 Onions
1 lb Bacon
Salt and Pepper to tast Cook onions and bacon. Once cooked add potatos and cook tell done. You can dice or slice potatos its up to you.

Broccoli Cheese Soup

2012-09-19T23:00:00.000-07:00

3/4 cup margarine
1 onion
3 cups chopped broccoli
1 cup flour
3 cups hot water
2 tbsp. chicken broth granules or 6 cubes
2 cups milk
2 cups half and half
1/2 lb Velveeta cheese Melt butter in a large heavy pan, add broccoli and onion. Saute covered until broccoli is tender(about 10 min.)Add four ,stir it up.then add hot water, chicken seasoning and milk. Stir with wire whisk. Cook until thickened, stir in salt and pepper to taste. Add half n half. Don't boil. Add velveeta-let it melt. Serve over baked potato or wit bread bowl.