Recipes

Steak and Gravy Made So Easy

Janice — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:04:30 +0000

Steak And Gravy Made So Easy

This recipe is for melt in your mouth good and extremely easy steak and gravy.

Put everything in the slow cooker in the morning set on low and by dinnertime all you have to do is the sides. It is truly wonderful with mashed potatoes. Once you make this your family will want more. Coming home to the aroma is delightful. If you don’t want to heat up the house, set the cooker in the garage or on the back porch. Serve with a glass of wine.

Cooking time: 8 hours
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Serves: 6

Ingredients

Steak And Gravy Made So Easy Ingredients

2- 2 ½ pounds sirloin steak
Sprinkle of dried beef seasoning
1 can of cream of onion soup
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
¼ cup chardonnay, or wine of your choice

Method

1. Cut into 6 steaks.

2 Sprinkle seasoning over the steaks.

3. Place three steaks into slow cooker.

Steak And Gravy Made So Easy - In Slow Cooker

4. Add one can of soup.

5. Add the other 3 steaks.

6. Add second soup, and wine.

7. Cover and set on low all day.

8. Serve with mash potatoes or noodles.

Steak And Gravy Made So Easy

Slow Cooker Pot Roast

Janice — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:00:37 +0000

Slow Cooker Pot Roast

You don’t have to wait for a cold winter day to enjoy a homemade beef pot roast.

Yes, baking a pot roast in the oven can really warm up the house on those cool fall and winter days. But in the warm months you can put your slow cooker out on the porch, or in the garage and leave the heat outside. The best thing about a slow cooker pot roast is, you have a melt in your mouth beef roast cooked to perfection, with no burning or dryness. The beef broth and vegetables provide the finishing touch to this this a great comfort food.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 8 hours
Serves: 4-5

Ingredients

2-3 pound sirloin beef roast
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 cups beef broth
4- 5 carrots
4-5 potatoes
1 onion
1 tablespoon beef seasoning
½ teaspoon salt
¼ tablespoon pepper

Method

1. Brown roast on all sides in pan with oil.

Slow Cooker Pot Roast - Brown on all sides

2. Place browned roast in slow cooker.

3. Peel and cut carrots and add to cooker.

4. Peel potatoes and place in cooker.

Slow Cooker Pot Roast - In Cooker

5. Peel onion, slice in half and add.

6. Pour beef broth over meat and vegetables.

7. Add salt and pepper according to taste.

8. Sprinkle with beef seasoning, cover.

9. Cook on high for 6-8 hours.

Slow Cooker Pot Roast

Creamy Potato Salad

Janice — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:59:52 +0000

Creamy Potato Salad

Potato salad is one of the cool side dishes many prefer.

It is a salad not only for picnics in warm weather, but it is good served as a side dish all year. This recipe is simple to make and has that homemade flavor.

Cooking time: 12 minutes
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Serves: 8-10

Ingredients

Creamy Potato Salad Ingredients

5 pounds potatoes
8 eggs
1 onion
2 cups sweet relish
2 cups mayonnaise
Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. Boil potatoes for about 12 minutes, rinse with cool water, and allow to cool.

2. Bring eggs to a boil, cover, turn off heat, and wait for 12 minutes, rinse with cool water.

3. Peal, and chop potatoes & eggs into bite size pieces.

4. Cut onions into small pieces and add to potatoes and eggs.

Creamy Potato Salad - Mixture

5. Stir in relish, mayonnaise, and salt and pepper, mix well.

Creamy Potato Salad

Chicken Caesar Salad

Janice — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:39:21 +0000

Chicken Caesar Salad

A Caesar salad doesn’t have to served plain.

Dress up your next Caesar salad with a few easy touches. Try adding extras, for example, chicken, and a touch of bacon, to create a salad recipe fit for a meal .

Cooking time: 0
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Serves: 2

Ingredients

4 cups torn salad greens
½ pound grilled, skinless, boneless chicken
¼ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
¼ cup real bacon pieces
¼ cup prepared Caesar salad dressing

Method

1. Place salad greens in serving bowls.

Chicken Caesar Salad - Salad on serving bowl

2. Place Chicken on top.

3. Add cheese.

Chicken Caesar Salad - Chicken on top of salad

4. Sprinkle bacon pieces on top.

5. Lightly pour dressing on salad.

Chicken Caesar Salad is ready to serve

Buckeye Bars

Janice — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:25:35 +0000

Buckeye Bars

Buckeye Bars are a bar version of the famous Ohio made buckeye balls.

It is made of all the ingredients, the only thing different is this recipe is made into candy bars instead of buckeye balls. What you have is a simple, fast, easy way of making the same candy. The candy is made of peanut butter and chocolate. This is a delightful way to satisfy any chocoholic.

Cooking time: 5 minutes
Prep time: 20 minutes
Serves: 20 bars

Ingredients

2 sticks butter (1 cup)
1 cup peanut butter
1 pound package of powdered sugar (3 ½ cups)
12 package of chocolate chips

Method

1. Melt butter in microwave.

2. Stir peanut butter into butter.

3. Add sugar, stir until smooth.

Buckeye Bars Mixture

4. Press mixture down flat into a 13X9 inch pan.

Buckeye Bars - Mixture On Pan

5. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave until smooth.

6. Spread chocolate on top of the peanut butter mixture.

7. Refrigerate for a few minutes.

8. Cut before completely set because then the chocolate will be harder to cut.

Buckeye Bars

As Easy As Cherry Pie

Janice — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:37:43 +0000

As Easy As Cherry Pie

Why go through all the time and hard work grandma did when it comes to baking a pie.

Today you can bake a beautiful pie in a fraction of the time she spent. Most of all you will not loose the flavor and quality. Start with a prepared crust that you can’t go wrong with, Pillsbury. Do not try “off brands”. Come on, every one will be impressed.

Cooking time: 40 minutes
Prep time: 15 minutes
Serves: 8

Ingredients

1 Pillsbury pie crust
2-21 oz. cans cherry pie filling

Method

1. Let pie crust come to room temperature.

2. Place one crust into pie pan.

As Easy As Cherry Pie - Pie Crust on Pie Pan

3. Fill crust with pie filling.

As Easy As Cherry Pie - Pie Filling

4. Press edges together as shown on box.

5. Bake at 425 for 15 minutes, then 350 for 25- 35 minutes, or until golden brown.

6. Let cool before cutting.

7. Enjoy!

As Easy As Cherry Pie

Pumpkin Pasties

Mixed Vegetable Weaning Recipe

sofia — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:11:08 +0000

Butternut squash is a very healthy diet as it is highly rich in antioxidants and phytonutrients. It boosts up to have a good immunity and fiber to the children It helps the in better absorption of calcium.

Parsnips have the fiber, iron, and rich in vitamin. They provide sufficient minerals such as magnesium, manganese and niacin which will help children to grow healthy.

Most probably everyone knows the efficiency of carrots. It improves the appearance of skin, hair and nails.

Ingredients

Butternut squash 50g
Carrot 50g
Parsnip 50g

Method

Peel and chop the vegetables into small pieces.

Boil or steam until it gets tender.

Mix all the cooked vegetables well.

Mash it well as puree and it should be little watery.

If it is hard, adjust the consistency with a little water from the saucepan used for the steaming.

Also try this weaning recipe from recipes site.

Chicken Cordon Bleu

Rita — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:52:56 +0000

Chicken Cordon Bleu

You may think chicken cordon bleu is too difficult to prepare.

But this recipe is made easy. Start by using precooked chicken breast fillets. I prefer the frozen, Tyson Grilled & Ready Breast Fillets. While microwaving make your creamy white sauce to pour over the chicken. In just a few minutes your dish will be done.

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Prep time: 10 minutes

Serves: 2

Ingredients

2 Tyson chicken fillets
1 tablespoon butter
¼ cup wine
½ teaspoon chicken bouillon granules
1 teaspoon cornstarch

Method

1. Cover fillets and microwave for 3 ½ minutes.

2. Uncover, and place 1 slice of ham, and 1 slice of swiss cheese on each fillet.

Chicken Fillet

3. Microwave uncovered for 15 seconds more. Let stand in microwave for 1-2 minutes.

4. While chicken is in microwave, melt butter in small pan.

Make White Sauce

5. Add wine and chicken granules.

6. Stir in corn starch.

7. Put chicken on serving plate, and cover with white sauce.

Chicken Cordon Bleu

Mutton Haleem

Rita — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:10:17 +0000

Mutton haleem is a popular festive dish especially during Ramzan. Haleem is served as a starter at Muslim weddings, festivals or special occasions. Muslims help themselves break the fast during Ramzam with a plateful of delicious haleem. Meat and dal are cooked till soft in generous amount of ghee. Though the recipe is time consuming, it is worth trying out because of its mouthwatering taste.

Prep time: 25 min

Cook time: 2 hrs

Serves: 6-7

Ingredients

1 kilo mutton
4 large onions, chopped
25 g each of urad dal and Bengal gram dal
100 g whole wheat
15 g each of toor dal and masoor dal
500g ghee
1 cup limejuice
2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
200 g haleem mix (available in the market)
Ginger juliennes for garnish
Chopped coriander, copped green chillies for garnish
1 cup onions, chopped and fried in ghee for garnish
1 small bunch of mint and coriander leaves
Salt to taste

Method

Soak all dhls overnight along with whole wheat. Pressure-cook the dals with some salt and keep aside.

Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed kadai. Fry onions till brown, add pieces of mutton and haleem mix. Mix well and saute for sometime.

Then mix chopped mint and coriander leaves, ginger-garlic paste and fry. Pressure-cook this mixture with about 10 glasses of water till the meat is soft.

After cooling, add the cooked dal and boil for at least 2 hours. Stir constantly so that the mixture does not stick to the kadai. Add salt if necessary (Haleem mix contains salt).

Haleem is done when the mixture thickens and meat is soft. Dish out and garnish with green chillies, ginger juliennes, fried onions, chopped coriander and limejuice.

Idli Fry with Gravy – Idli Manchurian

Rita — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:47:31 +0000

Idli is a very popular dish in South Indian and most often it is taken regularly as Breakfast. This Idly fry is prepared with leftover ingredients and topped up with delicious and spicy gravy. Children love this dish. Serve it with Tomato Sauce or Tomato Chutney.

Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes
Serves: 2

Ingredients

4 Idli
1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste (or make paste by grinding 1 garlic and 2 cms ginger)
2 tbs Corn Flour
2 tbs of All Purpose Flour (Maida as Known by Indians)
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1 Large Onion (Chopped)
1 Capsicum (Chopped)
1 tbs Tomato Sauce
1 tsp Soya Sauce
1 tsp Mustard
Salt to taste
Finely Chopped Coriander leaves to Garnish

Method

In a Bowl, mix Corn Flour, All purpose Flour, Ginger garlic paste and Chilli powder.

Add Salt and make it as a semi solid paste

Cut Idlis into pieces, like small cubes

Dip Idli Cubes into the semi solid paste and leave it for 5 minutes

In a pan, heat oil and deep fry the Idlis.

Heat some oil, Fry Mustard.

Add Onion and Capsicum, Ginger Garlic paste and Sauté it.

Add Fried Idlis, Tomato Sauce, and Soya Sauce and mix well.

Garnish with Coriander Leaves and Serve it hot.

You can find more Idli and south Indian recipes on Indian recipes site.