July 2010 Weddings
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Tasty Tuesday- The Thanksgiving version
Share a recipe you are making for the holiday or would like to try sometime for the holiday.
Re: Tasty Tuesday- The Thanksgiving version
We had thanksgiving, part 1 with the inlaws this past Saturday. The two most requested recipes were my mom's stuffed jalapeno peppers and MIL's corn pudding.
Stuffed Jalapeno Peppers (Appetizer)
You need approx 50 medium-sized jalapeno peppers, cut lengthwise; 2 (8 oz) bars of cream cheese; 2 tubes of breakfast pork sausage; 3/4 cup of Parmesan cheese.
1. Slice, remove seeds, and rinse peppers while wearing gloves.
2. In saute pan, brown sausage, crumble and drain. Keep on low heat.
3. Add cream cheese and Parmesan cheese. The cream cheese will soften and mix in with the sausage.
4. Stuff peppers and bake on a cookie sheet at 375 for 25-35 minutes, until brown.
Corn Pudding (Side dish- it's at every holiday at their house)
1 cup butter, melted; 4 eggs; 6 Tablespoons brown sugar, packed; ? tsp salt; 16 oz. sour cream; 2 (8.5 oz.) boxes Jiffy dry corn muffin mix; 2 (15 oz.) cans whole kernel corn, drained;
2 (15 oz.) cans creamed corn
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease a 9X13?
and a 7 X 11? baking dish. In a large bowl, combine butter,
eggs, brown sugar, salt and sour cream with a whisk. Blend in muffin mix with a whisk. Stir in corn and pour mixture into pans.
Bake for 45 minutes or until the top is golden.
pumpkin fluff dip (dip w graham crackers or 'scooby snacks' they're graham cracker cookies)
Ingredients
Directions
Cari- That sounds amazing!
I'm making the "Pumpkin Lust Cake" I found on pinterest with a slight change in the crust.
1 ? c. graham crackers crushed
1/3 c. sugar
6 Tbs. butter, melted
? tsp. cocoa powder
1 (8oz) package of cream cheese, soft
1 cup powdered sugar
2 (8 oz) containers cool whip (or one 16 ozz container)
1 package of Jello Instant Vanilla Pudding
1 can pumpkin
3 cup cold milk
Nutmeg for sprinkling
For the crust:
1. Combine butter, graham crackers, cocoa powder and sugar and press into a 9 x 13 in baking dish. Bake at 375 for 10-15 minutes. Let cool completely.
For the Cream Cheese Layer:
1. Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, and 1 1/2 cups cool whip until smooth. Spread over crust.
For the Pumpkin Layer:
1. Mix pudding mix with cold milk, whisking for several minutes. Set it in the fridge for 5-10 minutes to let it thicken. Add in pumpkin, whisk and then spread over the cream cheese layer. Top with remaining container of cool whip. Sprinkle with nutmeg.
Cut into squares and serve. Keep refrigerated.
I'm getting hungry already!!!
Stuffed Mushrooms
http://www.food.com/recipe/delish-stuffed-mushrooms-gluten-egg-free-247683
Cranberry Cheesebake Pie
http://www.createdby-diane.com/2010/11/cranberry-cheesecake-pie.html
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Bacon Brussels sprouts!
saute four to five strips of bacon in a large skillet. Remove when crisp and crumble onto a plate. Lower the heat a bit and add four whole cloves of garlic (five if they're small). Sautee a few minutes, don't let them get too brown.
Wash your 3/4 to 1lb of Brussels sprouts. Then make sure your sprouts are trimmed (the stem is gone) and halved if they're huge. Place them cut side down in the pan to caramelize for a minute or two in the bacon grease. After those sides are browned, add about a cup or so of chicken broth and about 3-4 tablespoons of brown sugar. Stir, cover and let cook until just tender. Takes me 5 or so minutes if you keep it simmering. Take off the lid, let the liquid reduce a bit to a glaze, then serve with the crumbled bacon on top! YUM!
Sorry for my non-use of measurements when I cook. I need to get better at that so when people ask for recipes I can give them to them.
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Pumpkin Crunch Cake
Ingredients:
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease bottom of 9 x 13? pan. Mix pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Pour mixture into greased pan. Sprinkle dry cake mix over pumpkin mixture and top with pecans. Drizzle melted butter over pecans. Bake 50-55 minutes.
This is the only new recipe I am making. Otherise, we are bringing mashed potatoes and green bean casserole to the In-Laws. Well, that is the plan anyway. If things with my mom don't improve I will fly to CA.
I just made 2 stuffings for tomorrow. One is traditional, one is jazzed up with apples and dried cranberries.
To start...
2 bags of unseasoned hard bread cubes
1 onion
1/2 bag of baby carrots
4 cups of chicken broth/stock with about 3 tsp of butter melted in
salt and pepper
poultry seasoning
2 apples, diced (I used granny smith)
bag of craisins
Chop the onions and carrots (you could include celery too, but no one in my family likes it). I use a pampered chef food chopper. Saute the onions and carrots with some salt, pepper and olive oil until they start to soften.
Meanwhile pour each bag of bread cubes into its own large bowl. In one bowl, add the diced apples and about a cup of craisins (do more if you like more).
Once the carrots and onions are soft, add about 1/3 to the apples/craisins bowl and 2/3 to the plain bowl.
Pour 2 cups of broth into each bowl and mix well.
Pour the stuffing mixture into casserole pans (I bought foil ones this year. So much easier!)
Bake at 375 for 45 minutes to an hour. Mine will be in the fridge overnight and may need closer to an hour to bake.
Haha, this is me too! I was kind of guesstimating in my recipe I just posted.
I just made a Toll house cookie pie which is super easy and very good!
1 stick butter, melted and cooled
2 eggs
1/2c white sugar
1/2c packed brown sugar
1/2c flour
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup walnuts or pecans
mix it all together, pour into an unbaked pie crust and bake for 1 hr at 325.
The other is the pumpkin roll on the Libby's label. It is also delicious!