tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8733790866742039712024-03-20T01:40:56.162-07:00Tiffany, child, you will never be no Julia Child.Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-17483717799926831222012-08-19T19:05:00.000-07:002012-10-07T13:55:24.808-07:00Super Simple Turkey Club Wrap<br />
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So I quickly wanted to share this super simple but super delicious recipe.</div>
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Burrito size tortillas</div>
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Mayo or Miracle Whip</div>
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Deli style thin sliced turkey lunch meat (I used Oscar Meyer Delifresh Smoked Turkey)</div>
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Bacon (I used the microwave kind)</div>
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Take a tortilla and lay it out flat. Spread mayo and ranch dressing over the tortilla. Sprinkle shredded cheese all over tortilla. Place one or two layers of the turkey on top of the cheese. Take two pieces of bacon and break them in half. Place them onto of the layers of turkey; parallel to the edge you will be rolling the wrap - it will roll much easier this way. </div>
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Roll the wrap up tightly; gently to keep toppings inside wrap. Enjoy!</div>
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I think this wrap would be great as a Chicken Caesar Wrap also. Make the same as above but substitute chicken for the turkey and Caesar dressing for the ranch!</div>
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Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-69111316384205645482012-08-16T19:08:00.001-07:002012-08-16T19:11:18.666-07:00Strawberry Shortcake Snake<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage">So this recipe popped up on my FB from Monoprix - so unless you are a French junkie like me you have no idea what this is. They are a French retail chain combining </span>grocery items with hardware, clothing, and household items. Like Wal-Mart but better!! <span class="translationEligibleUserMessage">Check out their website here :) <a href="http://www.monoprix.fr/" target="_blank">http://www.monoprix.fr/</a></span><br />
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<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage">I have not tried this recipe yet - but it looks delicious and I hope to try it soon!</span><br />
<span class="translationEligibleUserMessage">Please check out the link at the bottom of the page for the recipe - it is in English! </span><br />
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This dessert melts under all languages, even the forked! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.LY%2FNG2Zsr&h=2AQFM0chvAQHnfaEu-H3CeEu11MgyYF8G4GYRXEG-J8zRag&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.LY/NG2Zsr</a><span class="fcg"> (<a class="fcg" href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbing.com%2Ftranslator&h=uAQEty4ju&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Translated by Bing</a>) </span></div>
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Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-29553616329998614012012-08-16T18:58:00.001-07:002012-08-16T18:59:06.946-07:00Ultimate Brownies<div style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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<span class="hasCaption">I never really seen an official name for this recipe either so I have dubbed it "Ultimate Brownies." </span></div>
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filling 3/4 full. Bake for 18 -20 minutes.</span></div>
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Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-38824998817484668952012-08-16T18:31:00.002-07:002012-08-16T18:31:31.080-07:00Fiesta? I would rather Siesta!<div style="color: #990000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
So I know that it has been forever since I have been on here. We bought the house and have spent most of the past year remodeling and so much has been happening. So tonight I am going to "quick-post" some of the most exciting things that I have cooked this year...and a few that I would like to try in the near future :)</div>
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First I will start with Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes. So my bosses birthday was earlier this year and the theme for the potluck \was FIESTA. I typically bring my signature chocolate cupcakes with PB icing as that is Sherry's favorite but I wanted to go along with the theme and spice things up a little bit. So I did what all masterchef's do...turned to Google!! Of course googling Mexican desserts delivers the typical flan, churros, and fried ice cream. So I googled Mexican cupcakes (I mean cupcakes are my thing) and I stumbled across one of the greatest cupcakes I have ever tasted. And I have tasted a lot of cupcakes :)</div>
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First lets talk about the flavor behind the cupcake: the drink - Mexican Hot Chocolate. This is also known as Mayan Hot Chocolate. It was a thick chocolate drink (dating back to 460-480 AD) originally served cold. It was made from grinding cocoa beans into a thick paste and mixing with water, cornmeal, and chili peppers. Sounds appealing doesn't it?! It was considered a luxury drink and eventually came to Europe and then to America. You can still find this drink but over time it has been thinned like the hot chocolate that we drink today and is mixed with cinnamon and cayenne pepper. It you haven't ever had this drink, I highly recommend you try it or better yep - make your own! (Didn't know you were in for a history lesson did you - it's like sneaking vegetables in the the kids pasta!!)</div>
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So now we take this wonderful combination of flavors and turn them into a cupcake; chocolate, cinnamon and cayenne. </div>
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3 cups flour<br />
2 cups sugar<br />
1/2 cup cocoa powder<br />
2 tsp baking soda<br />
2 tsp cinnamon<br />
1-2 tsp cayenne pepper (depending on how spicy you want them to be)<br />
1/2 cup canola oil<br />
2 cups water </div>
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3 tsp vanilla extract<br />
2 tbsp apple cider or white vinegar</div>
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together all dry ingredients, then add in all liquids. Mix together gently - a few lumps are ok. Pour into lined cupcake pan. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Let cool thoroughly before frosting.</div>
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Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting<b><i>:</i></b> (this frosting is amazing!)<br />
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2 tsp cinnamon<br />
1/2 cup vegetable shortening<br />
1/2 cup butter</div>
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2 tsp vanilla extract<br />
1/4 cup milk</div>
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Blend the cinnamon into the powdered sugar.<br />
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This recipe made me nervous because you never know how new recipes will turn out and how people are going to react to chili peppers in their dessert; but I definitely give this recipe "2 spatulas up." And will be making this recipe again soon :) </div>
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Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-13812417246607955372011-04-01T15:30:00.000-07:002011-04-01T15:30:57.691-07:00Is it a fruit? Or is it a vegetable?<div style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last week I made a batch of sugar loaded cupcakes, so this week I decided to make something slightly more healthy, so I decided on Zucchini muffins. So my motto of the week has been, "Well it has to be somewhat healthy, it has a vegetable in it!" But now that I think about it, is zucchini a fruit or a vegetable? While you ponder that or google it, here is the recipe...</span></div><div style="color: #38761d;"><br />
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</span>Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-50113336250788479122011-03-11T15:14:00.000-08:002011-03-11T15:14:17.697-08:00I made this for you...<h1><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRhcCJnx2aqf_JM-1JlpfXFKpbTRwqdVe5yhMeYTxbYkLDrT1h5-RGr8JHgmFZwl3IKwKuJJb9h7WKMCYnoIEKVoXiDk4rHmexO761MuH8gJ3idn3EpTuSzHNzVFHhRo0eoEfeOi6n2JF/s1600/heather.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRhcCJnx2aqf_JM-1JlpfXFKpbTRwqdVe5yhMeYTxbYkLDrT1h5-RGr8JHgmFZwl3IKwKuJJb9h7WKMCYnoIEKVoXiDk4rHmexO761MuH8gJ3idn3EpTuSzHNzVFHhRo0eoEfeOi6n2JF/s200/heather.jpg" width="112" /></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h1><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><h1><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></b></h1><h1><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[[this is dedicated to my beautiful, intelligent, humorous, but sometimes mean sister heather. i love you!]]] </span></span></span></b></h1><h1><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h1><h1><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></h1><h1><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This past weekend Matt and I went to spend the weekend at Mom & Dad's. On Saturday morning, Mom asked us what we wanted for breakfast. Now, typically Dad would make his famous pancakes, however he had ran out of the baking mix he uses as base for his batter. [Of course, it then became a debate, if Dad had not told Mom and let them run out of mix or if Dad had told Mom and she had forgotten to buy it. Lol. Another unsolved mystery.] However, I told them that I could make pancakes or waffles from scratch if they had the ingredients. So I went upstairs to Heather's room and asked her which she would like, because I know she is a picky eater and I wanted to make something she would like. She told me that she wanted waffles, who knew those waffles would almost be the start of WW3.</span></span></span></h1><h1><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I went down stairs and got out my favorite cookbook of Mom's. Her Better Homes & Garden's cookbook. I'm not sure what edition it is, but it's been around since I was a kid so I am assuming it is from the early 1980's. Mom got me the 15th edition for Christmas this year, but of course, it has been updated so it did not have the same recipe in it. So I did my best to look it up online and here is basically the same recipe from the 1962 edition.</span></span></span></h1><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Waffles</span> </h1><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[from the </span><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, </i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1962 edition]</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Makes about 8 waffles.</span><br />
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<div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 tsp baking powder</div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 tsp salt </span><br />
<div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 beaten egg yolks</div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 1/3 cup milk</div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 cup oil</div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 stiff-beaten eggs</div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-2UY0VysuEEAbYT6VZFKet2AECA46ieDhWdWDmcFwbyiX47uImioiSPY9S1PP7s0SoZwRhxJPHGf6VQJ6Ik8jX793AQ2OgPjfVViAX9BqmwXhjvB2uHcgDvkC5-hw7p3DJw4YzqzX6PT/s1600/eggs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-2UY0VysuEEAbYT6VZFKet2AECA46ieDhWdWDmcFwbyiX47uImioiSPY9S1PP7s0SoZwRhxJPHGf6VQJ6Ik8jX793AQ2OgPjfVViAX9BqmwXhjvB2uHcgDvkC5-hw7p3DJw4YzqzX6PT/s200/eggs.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, in the recipe I had it did not tell you up front that you had to whip the eggs until stiff. So I was like oh this looks like a simple recipe. So I started the preparing the batter, then I got to the part about whipping the eggs and I got a little nervous. The only recipe I had, had to do this for was in college with a commercial mixer. Obviously, I now know that it's not really that difficult, just time consuming, but worth while.<br />
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</div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now for those of you who do not know who Julian Smith is you should definitely watch these videos and look up some of his other ones, so you can understand that epic hilarity of this situation through the eyes of Heather and I.</div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
<b>www.juliansmith.tv</b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.juliansmith.tv/2009/07/hot-kool-aid/</span><br />
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</div><b style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm Trying to Cook Me - Parody by Julian's Mom </span></b><br />
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</div><div style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>All Time Favorite: Jelly Fish </b></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iubJ-XSL9go</span><br />
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</div>Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-66779121567727301902011-02-21T18:40:00.000-08:002011-02-21T18:41:23.430-08:00Easy on the Cayenne Pepper<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My husband likes tacos. Correction: he loves tacos. Every single time I ask him what he wants for dinner he says, without hesitation, you guessed it...tacos. I, however, am not a big fan of tacos. Unless it's Taco Bell, El Charro's, Mexican Villa, or Senor Peppers, I'm really not a fan. But being the good wife that I am, I still make them for him. So last time we went to the store, Matt decided to "compromise." He decided that this week we would have tostada bowls instead of just tacos. So tonight was tostada bowl night. And I decided that it I was going to have to make these, I might as well document it. So obviously the ingredients are simple:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">hamburger or chicken</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sour cream</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">lettuce</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now that seems short and sweet doesn't it? But I have a delicious recipe for homemade taco seasoning:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 tsp chili powder</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 tsp minced onion or onion powder</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 tsp sea salt [I prefer Himalayan Pink Sea Salt]</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 tsp cumin</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 tsp garlic powder</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 tsp oregano</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dash of cayenne pepper to taste</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dash of black pepper to taste</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mix together and use like normal taco seasoning. Makes approximately the same amount as 1 store bought packet.</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6AfSfLzcpNtAuQWOY0bvq_xMpWTt_-5IujhCrQd5OKK9FzBpWVo_cAt0kCRFO-woJluSrmS7WtOHoFV6QGYJ9Fe0DZEyi6g_uU3-O12a2ZmlNl18o9vgbY6YXMOgX767SV05g2VxVxCsq/s1600/taco2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6AfSfLzcpNtAuQWOY0bvq_xMpWTt_-5IujhCrQd5OKK9FzBpWVo_cAt0kCRFO-woJluSrmS7WtOHoFV6QGYJ9Fe0DZEyi6g_uU3-O12a2ZmlNl18o9vgbY6YXMOgX767SV05g2VxVxCsq/s320/taco2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, funny story about the first time I made this seasoning. Matt had been sick all week. He hadn't been eating much of anything. So I knew when he was feeling better when he asked me to make him tacos. However, when I went to the cabinet I realized that I did not have any taco seasoning. But Matt really wanted tacos, so I found a recipe for taco seasoning. I was going down my list, a little of this, a little of that. Mixed it all up and it looked great. So I added it to the meat and went to put the recipe into my recipe box. As I looked at it again, I stopped and read it again. I then realized that I had added too much cayenne pepper, way too much cayenne pepper. I had some how read the line above it, which was for 1/2 teaspoon. Plus on the original recipe, it said that this was for mild seasoning so if you like it spicier to add a little more. So I had put more than a half a tsp, where it called for a "dash." And cayenne pepper is not like oh I added to many onion flakes. So I tasted the meat and it felt like the tip of my tongue burst into flames. I warned Matt but he still wanted them, so I dished them up. He ate several and I'm sure his nasal passages were clear after that!</span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">"After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps." ~Miss Piggy</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span>Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-26708567106755205812011-02-19T18:39:00.000-08:002011-02-19T18:48:54.559-08:00Southern Fried Valentine's<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So this past week we all celebrated Valentine's Day, right? Some of us went out to a fancy restaurant, others preferred McD's, while others cooked a romantic dinner and still others had a meal prepared for them. Well, as Valentine's Day fell on a week day we decided to wait until the weekend for our annual Olive Garden outing. [Matt's not a fan so that's the only time I get to go. Lol. But seriously though, how can someone not like spaghetti??] Anyway, so on the actual day, we decided to cook a meal together. Now, when we think of a typical romantic meal we think of what? Steak and baked potato? Chicken Alfredo? Pot Roast? Oh no, we had Fried Chicken, Fried Potatoes, and garlic cheddar biscuits. Southern Fried Valentine's! But that's what Matt requested, so that's what we had. Not that I would said no to fried chicken any way. You can blame that on my mother and grandmother, who gave me and Heather the love for some good ol' KFC! Which means, I must tell the story of when Heather was sick and Mom had to take her to the emergency room. So Matt and I rushed down to see her in the hospital and as sick as she was and couldn't hold down nothing and was as pale as a ghost, all she kept asking me for was to get over to KFC before they closed and get her some mashed potatoes and gravy. Good food can fix anything. Lol. Now, back to dinner. We did tweak our recipes some from the typical. And since Matt made the chicken, it wasn't really 100% from scratch but he did do a fantastic job. To batter our chicken, we just cut it up in to small strips, dipped it in egg, and then in Uncle Buck's Chicken Fry Mix. They sell it at Bass Pro. It is kinda spicy, but is so delicious. Then, so that it was "healthier" we baked it instead of frying it. It was very simple and turned out great. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, for the fried potatoes. Fried potatoes are pretty simple to make, but can be difficult to get crispy without burning. I melted a few tablespoons of butter in a skillet. Then peeled and sliced my potatoes then. Then, I put them in the skillet, poured a small amount of olive oil over the top and sprinkled with salt, pepper, minced garlic and minced onion. [I buy my spices at the Amish Store here in Branson and you can tell they are fresh and have the best flavor.] It's all about finding the right temperature to cook at. Not too hot that they stick and burn, but not to low that they take forever and get mushy. A delicious variation is to sprinkle your favorite variety of shredded cheese and crumbled [cooked] bacon over the top just a few minutes before taking out of the pan, just long enough to melt your cheese. And Voila, Loaded Fried Potatoes! Now for those garlic cheddar biscuits [also known as Red Lobster biscuits]. Here is a very simple recipe for them:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 cups buttermilk baking mix </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2/3 cup milk</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 cup melted butter</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 tsp garlic salt</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thoroughly stir milk into baking mix. Then, incorporate the cheese into the dough. Now scoop dough into spoonfuls and put onto a greased cookie sheet or a sheet covered in aluminum foil, I find this works best. Melt the butter into a liquid, stir on the garlic salt, and brush over the top of biscuits. Bake at 400 degrees until tops brown and they are not doughy. Should be around 8-10 minutes. Make 6-10 biscuits depending on the size you make them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you want an easier biscuit, Wal-Mart now sells a mix that only requires water mixed in. It's called Bisquick Complete Garlic-Cheddar Biscuit Mix. It is very scrumptious. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now for dessert. I almost forgot about dessert. I don't have any idea how that almost happened! Like I said before Matt loves anything chocolate and a few months ago I introduced him to Nutella. Now if you haven't had Nutella, I recommend you make a special trip to the store right now and get yourself a jar. Or at least put it on your shopping list for next time. For those of you who some how don't know what it is: it is comparable to peanut butter but flavored like chocolate and hazelnuts. [Yes, Heather I know you are cracking a joke about hazelnuts [nasalnuts] right about now.] So, I have been trying to come up with recipes that I can use Nutella in.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My first experiment was Nutella No Bake Cookies:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 1/2 or 3 cups sugar</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3/4 cup butter</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3/4 cup milk</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 tsp vanilla</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 1/2 cup Nutella OR Peanut Butter</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bring to rapid boil for 1 to 2 minutes.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and Nutella OR Peanut Butter.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mix in oats, stirring until mixture just begins to cool.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drop batter by spoonfuls onto wax paper.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They turned out great but did not have strong Nutella flavor like I had hoped. They kind of taste like plain chocolate no bakes. Next time I am going to try mixing chopped hazelnuts into the batter. Any suggestions?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, I wish everyone a safe, wonderful week and Happy Cooking!</span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">Tidbit for the Week:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">Mise en place:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #e06666;">[MEEZ ahn plahs]</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #e06666;">A French term referring to having all the ingredients necessary for a dish prepared and ready to combine up to the point of cooking.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br style="color: #e06666;" /><span style="color: #e06666;">Read More </span><a href="http://www.epicurious.com/tools/fooddictionary/entry/?id=3523#ixzz1ESi5GRX8" style="color: #e06666;">http://www.epicurious.com/tools/fooddictionary/entry/?id=3523#ixzz1ESi5GRX8</a></span></div>Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873379086674203971.post-49855516908699207122011-02-11T11:22:00.000-08:002012-10-07T14:40:18.999-07:00Here it is...<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well I have been thinking about writing a blog of my cooking adventures but was not confident that anyone but me would be interested in reading it. Recently, I have been encouraged to actually do it. So here it goes...</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have know that I have a passion for cooking since I was a little girl. Somewhere I have a picture of me learning to cook pancakes with Dad, probably around age 3 or 4. I will try to find that and post it. From then on I have gotten a joy from cooking a successful dish of any sort. I find it fascinating to start with so many different single ingredients and then some how you incorporate them and get a fantastic (hopefully) end product. I love to try to create new dishes, usually from parts of several recipes spliced together. I like to learn from failure but however, I do not like to fail. My husband can attest to this, as he has seen the result of many failed projects. Lets just say it winds up with a big mess and I usually raise my voice and stomp my feet a few times. Lol. I really have two goals in an earthly sense. #1 to make people laugh and #2 to please people's taste buds with my culinary endeavors. Hopefully with this blog, I can do both...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My latest adventure was to make my "famous" chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter icing. I have to thank my dear great aunt Wanda for sharing this wonderful creation with us as kids.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I remember going to her house as a kid, </span></span><span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">usually on Halloween</span></span><span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, and she would have a delicious chocolate cake, smothered with thick peanut butter icing. Now, I never knew this wasn't a common dessert staple that every person enjoyed until I got married. I knew my husband loved chocolate and peanut butter almost equally. (Chocolate always wins). So I decided to make him this cake. When he saw the icing, he was like what is that? Confused, I said peanut butter icing. Equally confused, he said he had never heard of that. I'm relatively sure I almost passed out to that statement. He then ate a piece and told me that it was the best cake he had ever eaten and something about how no other kind of icing should ever be allowed on chocolate cake. (At this point, if there was any doubt, which there wasn't, but if there had been, I was 100% sure I had married the right man.) So after this confusing experience, I was curious. I began to ask around, to my co-workers, etc if they had, had pb icing. One after another, I got an astounding <u>no</u>. So I took a batch of cupcakes to work and now they are requested at least once a month. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So recently our church family had a party for the Superbowl at our church member and co-worker Dawn's house and I was requested to bring them to the party. So of course I agreed. However, every time I had made them I was bothered by how thick the icing was. It was like working with modeling clay, lol, and does NOT go on smoothly. So my goal over the next few weeks was to tweak the recipe to make it go on smoothly and look more aesthetic. So, I wound up making the recipe relatively the same but as a butter cream. It worked fabulously, creamy, beautiful icing. However, it was much paler in color and when I tasted it, it was delicious but paled in comparison to the original. The pb flavor was much weaker. But they were still delicious so I decided to give it a try and see what people thought.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Result: Mistake...</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The people that had never had them before said they were great, however, the people that had been spoiled by the rich peanut butter flavor were not content with this new recipe. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two morels to this story:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#1 Looks, apparently, do not matter.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#2 If it's not broke, don't fix it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(((Ok looked for picture of me cooking pancakes, could not find, must be at Mom & Dad's )))</span></span>Mrs.Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08890882713091715909noreply@blogger.com8