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Food and Recipes
This page has:
- Recipes organized into the following catagories: breakfasts/breads, lunch, dinner, dessert, fruit, vegetables.
- How to cook certain foods such as mashed potatoes or pasta
Hopefully, this page is helpful to you if you are seeking to plan a meal or try a new recipe.
Recipes
Breakfasts / Breads
A complete breakfast has the main dish (pancakes or something like that), fruit, and a drink. If you are doing eggs, then muffins, scones, biscuits, or toast goes with it. Along with eggs, you can also do hashbrowns, bacon, or sausage.
- Pancakes/Waffles - serves about 10 people
4 eggs
4 cups buttermilk
4 TBS melted butter
(If doing waffles) 2 tsp. vanilla
***Mix***
4 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. salt
2-4 TBS sugar
***Mix***
- Blintzes (or Crepes) - serves about 4 2 eggs 1 cup milk ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup flour 2 tablespoons melted butter 2 tablespoons sugar Cook like pancakes, using a ¼ or 1/3 cup for each blintz. The only difference is to spread each one out to make it thinner and about to the size of a small frying pan. (On our griddle, only 2 blintzes fit at a time- you can also cook in a frying pan.) Blintzes (or Crepes) – Quadrupled - serves about 12-19 people 8 eggs 4 cups milk 2 teaspoons salt 4 cups flour 8 tablespoons melted butter (a whole cube) 8 tablespoons sugar - Baking Powder Biscuits (or "Buttermilk Biscuits) - makes about 1 dozen biscuits Mix in the rest of these ingredients: Bake 450. F. for 10 min. - Blueberry muffins 1 to 1 1/2 cups blueberries Sift together flour and baking soda; set aside. Beat butter and sugar together until fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Alternately fold in flour mixture and sour cream. Fold in blueberries. Oven Temperature: 450 degrees F. - Banana Date Bran Muffins ___________________________________ ½ cup boiling hot water 1 ½ cups wheat bran Blend together and let sit for 5 minutes to soften bran. ___________________________________ 1 egg ¼ cup honey (OR ½ cup sugar) ¾ cup buttermilk 1 banana, mashed ½ cup date dices or chopped dates Blend together thoroughly in large mixing bowl. ___________________________________ 1 ¼ cups whole wheat flour 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup chopped walnuts Blend together in separate bowl. ___________________________________ Stir softened bran into liquid ingredients. Blend dry ingredients into liquid ingredients just until mixed. Fill muffin cups almost full. Bake @ 350’ F. for 20-25 minutes. - French Toast - Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins 1 c. butter, softened ---Cream together 6 mashed bananas 4 c. flour 1 tsp. salt 2 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. vanilla 2 c. chocolate chips ---Mix Bake @ 350 degrees F. for 25 minutes Makes 2 dozen normal sized muffins - Bread I have put instructions for stirring it by hand or using a mixer. 2 TBS yeast 3 TBS sugar 2 3/4 c. warm water ---stir, let sit 10 min. Add: 3 c. flour 4 TBS melted butter 2 tsp. salt ---If you're using a mixer: mix 2 minutes on low level If you're stirring by hand: stir 200 times ---Slowly add flour up to five more cups, [switch to dough hook (if using a mixer) when it gets thick]. ---Once thick: Mixer: Knead with dough hook 5 min. By hand: stir for 10 minutes ---Let rise 1 hour (covered) ---Punch down dough and seperate into two equal chunks. Grease two 1.5 quart loaf pans and place one chunk of dough in each pan. Cover; let rise 30 min. (*Note: now is a good time to turn on the oven to let it have enough time to preheat.) ---Bake @ 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes *Note: If you let it rise too long while it is in the pans, the bread might fall.* Lunches Lunches can have more than just sandwiches. They can also have fruit or vegetables (if you do vegetables, then fresh with dip is good). - Macaroni and Cheese - serves about 10 people Pour over top of elbow macaroni and serve. *To cook elbow macaroni, see the Cook Your Food section.* - Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich - Tuna Sandwich - Turkey/Cranberry/Cream cheese Sandwich - Leftovers from a previous dinner - Burritoes (see dinner section) - Salad (see dinner section) Dinners - Spaghetti Sauce -4 cans (8 ounces each) Tomato Sauce (we use 2 16 ounce cans) -1 TB olive oil -3 TB brown sugar -2 TB instant chopped onions -½ tsp. whole dried oregano -¼ tsp. garlic powder Mix all the ingredients together in a pan, over medium heat, with 2 pounds of hamburger meat (cook the meat in the pan first). Put over spaghetti noodles or elbow macaroni. Serves about 10 people - Tartar Sauce Mix the following together in a bowl: 1 cup mayonnaise (The tartar sauce goes with fish sticks and french fries.) Serves about 8 people - Salad - Do any or all of the following: Put the ingredients you have chosen on tortillas and wrap them up. Or, you can use taco shells. One more ingredient to add if you want is refried beans. - Meat Loaf 2 lbs. hamburger (raw), softened all the way Put the mixture in two 1.5 quart* bread pans (you do not have to grease the pan first) and bake at 350 degrees F. for 1 1/2 hours. Serves about 10 people *Although the mixture could fit in a bigger pan, we do not do it that way because in that size of pan, the meat doesn't cook all the way in the middle. - Sour Cream Potatoes 6 large potatoes, peeled, boiled, and cubed Desserts Yummies to eat after your meal!!! - Chocolate Cake without a mix - all by scratch http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Buttermilk-Chocolate-Cake - Frosting - Chocolate Chip Cookies - Blackberry Cobbler Mix in bowl with pastry blender: Put over blackberries. Bake @ 375 degrees F. for 30 minutes. Yield: 12-16 servings Below is a list of fruits. Some of them can be served canned, fresh, or dried. At the end of the list is a five cup fruit salad recipe. Vegetables As with the fruits above, the following list of vegetables can be served more than one way: fresh (with dip
Mix the following ingredients together:
1/4 c. sugar
3 c. flour
2 TBS baking powder
1 tsp. salt
Cut in 1 cube softened butter.
1/2 c. milk
1/2 c. buttermilk
1/3 c. sour cream
Pat out on floured board. Cut out with glass.
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup sour cream
Time: 15 min.
Makes: 1 dozen
Cool 5 minutes before removing muffins from pan
2 c. sugar
4 eggs
Melt 4 TBS butter in sauce pan.
Add 4 TBS flour and stir.
Gradully add 2 cups of milk (will be like a thick paste at first). Cook until it is a little thicker.
Add about 4 cups of cheddar cheese (you may use other kinds of cheese if you like). Once the cheese is melted, add about a teaspoon of garlic powder and 2 tsp. of cellery seed.
Spread cream cheese over bread; spread jellied cranberry sauce over the other slice of bread and place turkey in between to make the sandwich.
2 TBS minced onions
3 TBS relish
- Burritos or Tacos
Use any of the ingredients listed in the salad recipe above.
Mix the following in a bowl (with your hands):
2 eggs
2 c. oatmeal
1/4 c. ketchup
2 TBS. dried onions
1/2 c. milk
2 c. sour cream
1 1/2 c. shredded cheddar cheese
cooked diced ham
Mix together in bowl. Salt and pepper to taste. Serves about 10 people.
Note: I do not use the recipe for frosting that goes with this cake. For frosting, see below.
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Easy-Vanilla-Buttercream-Frosting - Tells how to add different things to make different flavors, including chocolate.
2 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
----cream together
Add:
4 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
----beat
Add:
4 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
4 cups chocolate chips
----mix
Oven Temperature: 375 degrees F.
Baking Time: 10-15 minutes
Makes 5-6 dozen
- Chocolate Pudding
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Homemade-Chocolate-Pudding
Mix-
8 cups fresh blackberries
2 cups sugar
Spread in bottom of 9x13 pan.
2 sticks of butter, softened
2 cups flour
Add and mix:
1 cup sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1 cup milk
dash salt
- Applesauce Cake
Mix the following in large bowl:
-1/2 cup butter, softened
-2 cups sugar
-1 egg
-1 1/2 cups applesauce
-2 1/2 cups flour
-1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
-1/2 tsp. salt
-1/2 tsp. cinnamon
-1/2 tsp. cloves
-1/2 tsp. nutmeg
-2 tsp. baking soda
-1/2 cup water
Pour into greased 9x13 in. baking pan.
Bake @ 300 degrees F. for 40 minutes
Dust top with powdered sugar (optional)
Serve warm or cold
Fruits
), boiled (rinse off the fresh vegetable and then boil on stove in sauce pan), and canned that has been heated up (either on stove or in microwave).
Cook Your Food
To cook noodles:
You will need 1/2 of noodles for every person that will be eating. Doing a few extra servings is a good idea.
Put water in a sauce pan and boil. You will have to estimate how much water to do (just eye-ball it). See how much noodles you have and then just make sure you have enough water in the pot to completely cover all the noodles. Once the water is boiling, add the noodles and boil for 10 minutes. Make sure you stir the noodles right after you put them in or else they will stick to the bottom of the pan. Stirring several more times throughout the cooking time is a good idea also so that the noodles won't stick together (this is especially true of spaghetti).
How to make mashed potatoes:
Rinse the potatoes, peel them, and then rinse them again. Cut them up into chunks and put in a sauce pan. Fill the sauce pan with water until it covers the potato chunks. Put over medium heat on the stove. Boil for 7 minutes.