This is for Myron D. in Lake Forest, CA
I have plenty of male friends that cook on food web sites..... you just have to
speak up once in a while so we hear you!
A few have their recipes featured occasionally in magazines. What is your
specialty, let us know here more often. I have found some great ideas here,
readers with all kinds of good ideas in reply to my requests.
Linda in Patterson, NY
Nancy here is a recipe that a lady was asking for,
hope this works.
Orlena in Illinois
Crescent Rolls
2 pk Active Dry Yeast
3/4 c Warm Water (105 degrees)
1/2 c Sugar
1 ts Salt
2 lg Eggs
1/2 c Shortening
4 c Unbleached Flour
Butter Or Regular Margarine, Softened
In a large mixing bowl, dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Stir in the sugar,
salt, eggs, shortening and half of the flour into the yeast mixture.
Add the remaining flour blending until smooth. Scrape the dough from the sides
of the bowl and cover with a cloth dampened in warm water. (The cloth should
feel wet, but not be so wet that water drips onto the dough.) Let rise in a warm
place (85 degrees F.), until doubled, about 1 1/2 hours. Divide the dough in
half, rolling each half into a 12-inch circle 1/4 inch thick. Spread with the
soft butter and cut each circle into 16 wedges. Roll up each wedge beginning at
the largest end. Place, point side down, on a greased baking sheet. Curve to
form crescents. Cover and let rise until double, 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 400
degrees F and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until they are a rich golden brown.
Brush with soft butter.
Makes 32 crescent rolls.
Hi Everyone!
Just wanted to say thank you to all those who sent advice on why my
chocolate chip cookies are flattening out while
baking. I will try the
different reasons and see which one is the culprit!!! Thank you for your
support!
Maha
Melissa requested a Coney Island Hot Dog Sauce. I
found this one and think it tastes the most like the A & W sauce.
Coney Island Sauce
1 Tlbsp. shortening
1 Tblsp. Butter
1 1 /2 lb. ground chuck
2 med. onions, ground fine
1/2 tsp garlic powder
2 Tblsp. chili powder
6 oz. tomato sauce
4 or 5 hot dogs ground
salt & pepper to taste
1 Tblsp. prepared mustard
6 oz. water
cumin
Melt shortening & butter in fry pan. Add remaining ingredients. Simmer 1 hour or
until thick. Blend in blender when cool.
I modify it by omitting the fat and it does not seem to alter the taste. I
believe the ground up hot dogs is what gives it the original A & W taste. The
sauce is thick. I add additional water to make it a thinner consistency.
Shirley from Indiana
Other Coney Island Sauces were in
yesterday's newsletter.
To Carolyn in wheelchair:
This is a recipe I received from a co-worker, it is very simple with few
ingredients. She gave me a sample of her version of a sloppy joe, it was
delicious. Quite honestly if she had only given me the recipe I probably
wouldn't have made it because it sounds too simple. If anyone tries this let me
know what you think. My kids even liked it.
Sloppy Joes
1 lb ground beef
1 can vegetable soup
sliced American cheese
buns
Brown ground beef and drain, add soup (do not dilute). Heat thoroughly.
Put meat mixture on bun and top with cheese.
Alicia, New York
Here is my favorite French Silk Pie Recipe
French Silk Pie
1/2 c. butter or margarine
3/4 c. sugar
2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
1 baked pastry shell
Cream butter and sugar. Add melted chocolate and vanilla. Add 1 egg and beat 5
minutes at medium speed. Add second egg. Beat another 5 minutes. Pour into a
baked pie shell and refrigerate. When ready to serve, top with whipped cream.
Lisa
There is a French Silk Pie Recipe on
Cooks.com
Emma
HI, Nancy I really am enjoying your web site. Keep up
the great work. The lady who was wondering about her
cookies. I used to have that problem. A lady at the grocery store asked
me what kind of sugar did I buy. I use to buy the store or cheapest brand of
sugar. I didn't think anything about sugars being different. She told me to buy
a well known brand. I get the sugar in the yellow bag. I'm having a Junior
Moment and can't remember the name brand. So I bought it. Since then all my
cookies stay puffy. I do buy the cheap sugar for coffee and tea.
Hope this will help. K.G.
Thanks Nancy for the Almond Joy
Cups. Now I can get the rest of the ingredients I need to make this. When
I had wrote down this recipes the first time, either the recipe wasn't complete
or I didn't write it all, so I began to look thru all my recipes and could not
find it, I even called my neighbor to see if she had it and no luck until I had
seen it on the web here, but again the recipe was not completed, so again Thank
you so much for your time on getting me this recipe and I know I will enjoy this
recipe.
Thank You Nancy
Wanda
I wonder if what the lady's husband remembers is
simply pie crust rolled out thin and sprinkled with
cinnamon and sugar. My mother use to do this for my children with left over pie
dough. They loved it. MJC
I also wondered about Arvilla saying that she sit her
crockpot at 200 degrees. I was just reading an article that said at temp.
below 350 allowed bacteria to grow.
Howdy Do from East Texas
I have finally got a copy of a recipe from your website
without getting the whole newsletter. Thank you for giving out that
information on how to do it. I love to cook and try new recipe's and you are the
lady that comes thru with a lot of good recipe's.
Have a great day. Mary
Someone was asking for a recipe for Cracker
Barrel's Beef Stew. Check out
RecipeGoldMine
then click on to Restaurant and Copycat Clones, click on to C for Cracker
Barrel, there you will find the Beef Stew recipe.
LaVerne - Alabama
This is for the woman who was wanting a dressing for
her turkey! This is a good one.
Old Fashioned French Meat Dressing
This has become a favorite of most of our family, since I started making
it, years ago. The Desaires made it with mashed potatoes but I learned to make
this way from my mother-in-law, Aldea Knipp, from Palco, Kansas. We like it
better this way
2 pounds--ground beef
1 pound--pork sausage
2 cups--dry bread crumbs
1/3 teaspoon--cloves
1/3 teaspoon--cinnamon(more or less to suit taste)
1/2 cup--chopped onion
1/2 cup--chopped celery
1 can--cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup
2 cups--water
1 tablespoon--sausage seasoning
Boil meat, onion and celery in water, until all pink is gone. Add the remaining
ingredients and allow to simmer for 30 minutes, stirring often. This can be
made, several days ahead of time and seems to only get better!!! I have been
known to make it as much as 4 or 5 days before Thanksgiving or Christmas, so I
am not so rushed at the holiday. Heat in a crock-pot before serving.
Phyllis Knipp
Hi Nancy, I've been reading the recipes for vegetable
soup and they all sound good. During the winter months my mother-in-law would
make a big pot of beef vegetable soup, which we all loved, and along with a good
bread would make a great meal in itself. She always added two or three bay
leaves to her soup which gave it a wonderful flavor. They were removed before
serving, but if she forgot we just removed them from our bowls. She would make
enough to send a container full home with us. Along with the great recipes, your
newsletters bring back many happy memories. I love the old recipes Thanks! Doris
in Southern Indiana
I would like the coleslaw recipe from a Florida based
restaurant named Tib's.
It is sooooo good.
Thanks, Mary
Vinegar Pie
2 egg yolks
1 cup boiling water
1 cup sugar
2 Tablespoon butter
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 Tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
1 baked pie shell
Beat egg yolks. Mix sugar and flour. Add egg yolks to flour mixture. Add vinegar
and butter then pour in boiling water. Cook until thick.
Add flavoring and salt. Pour into baked pie shell. Cover with meringue. Bake
until light brown.
enjoy Emm NE Texas
In reply to the lady who asked why her
chocolate chip cookies baked so flat. I have found,
it depends on how large the eggs are, you may have to add a little flour to get
the right consistency to have a firmer cookie. Larger eggs can give too much
moisture to the dough.
Mary
Hi Nancy
This is for Mary Sue who wanted a recipe for Sugar Pie.
If she'd go to Food Network and Paula's Home Cooking on the Sept. 16th episode
she has a recipe for Mae Dawson's Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie. Sounds like this
might
be something she's looking for. And thanks for this wonderful site. I do like
the newsletter being posted online too. Thanks too for all the "recipe nuts"
like me who send in such
wonderful recipes.
Lynn from Las Vegas and Wisconsin
When you have time, Nancy...I've spent the last hour
looking for a post that listed a site for conversions of measurements while
cooking. It was in the last couple of days. My computer locked up and I couldn't
get back to it.
Sorry to put you to the trouble. Thanks. Need to convert Italian recipes to U.S.
measurements.
Anna B.
I looking for a Weight Watchers recipe that I use to
make. The recipe is for a pie that taste like egg custard but doesn't use a
crust. As I remember it you use low cal bread, egg substitute &butternut
flavoring along with some other things. The bread goes to the bottom to form a
crust like bottom. I got this at a Weight Watchers meeting back in the 70's.
Vicky
I also forgot to mention using onion soup, instant or
canned...though I honestly prefer instant. Yep, garlic really brings out the
"wild" taste and most people really don't like it.
hugs from anbsmommy
My mother also made butterscotch pie and it was my
favorite. For years I tried using different recipes but none of them were like
my mothers. Finally after talking to my older sister and she remembered helping
my mom make it. So she started looking for the recipe. She finally found this
one that works. Most recipes I have found call for brown sugar. This one you
brown white sugar to make the Carmel flavor. Hope this is what you are looking
for. 3/3/4 cup sugar & 1/2 cup brown sugar. 5Tbs. flour 1 1/2 cups sweet milk 3
egg yolks 2Tbs butter 1tsp. vanilla. In a pan melt slowly and brown 1/2 cup
sugar. Add remaining sugar mixed with flour, pour in milk and egg yolks. Cook
and stir until smooth and thick. Add butter and vanilla. Cool. Pour into a baked
pie shell and top with meringue and brown.
Enjoy Dorothy from Texas
Ooie Gooie Cake
submitted by Joanie
1 yellow cake mix.
1 stick butter (melted)
1 egg
Mix and pat into 9 X 13 inch baking pan.
Next mix
1-8oz box powdered sugar
1-8oz cream cheese
2 eggs
Pour over the first part in the pan. Bake at 350 for 40-45 min.
This recipe has been used by my family for 50 years.
It's a winner all the time. Hope you enjoy!
Spaghetti Sauce
1/4 cup olive oil
3 stakes celery, chopped fine
1 medium onion, chopped fine
3 cans (28 oz.) tomato sauce
1 Large can tomato paste
1 cup parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon each, salt and pepper
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon each: basil, marjoram and oregano
1-2 tablespoons sugar
3- 6-inch PORK Italian sausage links
Meatballs if desired
Saut?celery, onions and garlic in olive oil till soft. Add the rest of
ingredients mix well. Cook for 3-4 hours stirring frequently. Serve with pasta
and enjoy!!!!!
It's that simple.
Helen B
Hi Nancy,
You could never be too long winded! I recently retired after 47 years and am
trying to adjust to not being surrounded by people everyday. How I look forward
to your e-mails and reading the recipes from people all over the country
including Canada and Mexico. It makes me feel I am not alone. Thank you for all
you do. Here is a Spaghetti Sauce recipe that has been in our family for years.
Its very simple and easy to make but delicious. Jackie, Las Vegas
Spaghetti Sauce
1 Large can of tomatoes
Diced and peeled, Del Monte Brand is what I use
3-12 ounce cans of tomato paste
1 Large yellow onion, chopped
1/3 cup olive oil
3 fresh large carrots, peeled
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons Italian seasonings
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon crushed red peppers
In a large pot, saut?onions in the 1/3 cup of olive oil until tender. Add
garlic. Do not let garlic brown and it can make it bitter. Add tomatoes and
gently simmer for about 10 minutes (this helps to cut acid in tomatoes). Not add
tomato paste and using the tomato paste cans, add 4 cans of water. Add Italian
seasoning, salt, sugar, and crushed peppers. Last add the carrots (this removes
the acidity in the tomatoes). Simmer for at least 2 hours or until it is the
thickness you like for your sauce. I like a thicker sauce for pasta and thinner
if I am making Lasagna or Eggplant Parmesan. If you want to add more salt and
pepper, don't do it until sauce is cooked. Enjoy!
My daughter and I went to DENNY'S restaurant the
other day and had the best chicken noodle soup.
Does anyone have a a copycat recipe for it? I am desperate because she orders 3
bowls at a time. She's going to burst! lol.. help.. thanks
CBJK
Nancy. thanks for a really great site. I have been
enjoying it for several years. Now I have a request. My new job requires me to
come up with weekly menus. Does anyone know of a
site where I can get these. I would appreciate it.
Pat in MO
Fresh Apple Cake
3 cups flour
3 eggs
1 cup nuts [chopped]
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. nutmeg
2 cups sugar
1 1/4 cup oil
3 cups diced apples
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
Mix sugar, eggs and oil. Mix the flour, soda, nutmeg, salt and cinnamon.
Add dry ingredients to sugar mixture then add the apples. Bake in slow oven
until done
Icing
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar packed
1/4 cup milk
2 cups powdered sugar
Melt butter in sauce pan Add brown sugar. Boil over
low heat for 2 minutes stirring constantly. Stir in milk. Bring to a boil
stirring constantly.
Cool to luke warm and add powdered sugar.
Beat until thick enough to spread. If it becomes too stiff add a little
hot water and beat again.
Rich but Good. EM NE Texas
Hi Nancy,
A couple of years a go everyone was sending Red Velvet Cake recopies. Now that I
want one for birthday tomorrow I can't find one. Can the ladies who have
recopies please send them again? Please don't stop. I don't know what we would
do without you.
Carole with an "E"
Red Velvet Cake
1 tsp. vinegar
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 c. shortening
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
2 oz. red food coloring
2 1/4 c. cake flour, sifted
1 c. buttermilk
Mix vinegar and baking soda and let settle. Beat shortening, sugar, salt, eggs,
cocoa and vanilla until light. Beat in food coloring. Alternately beat in flour
and buttermilk. Fold in vinegar and baking soda mixture. Pour into 2 greased 9
inch round pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.
CAKE ICING
1 stick margarine
8 tbsp. Crisco
1 box powdered sugar (10X)
3 tbsp. flour
1/2 c. sweet milk
1 tsp. vanilla
From the Recipe files of Betty Rogers.
She made this cake a lot when we lived in Dalhart, Texas
Nancy
Old-Fashioned Vinegar Pie
1/2 cup softened butter
3 eggs
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoon vinegar
1-8 inch unbaked pie shell
Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vinegar, eggs and
vanilla; beat well. Pour into pie shell.
Bake in 350 degree oven 45 minutes or until knife blade inserted halfway between
center and edge of pie comes out clean. Cool on rack. Makes 6-8 servings.
Cathy
Thanks to all that send in the company cheesecake
recipes. The same recipe or one very similar was posted in
yesterday's newsletter.
Nancy
Hi Nancy
I found this on the web & it sounds totally yucky. lol
Something kids would like. :)
Hugs, Rosie in Pa
Dirt Dessert
20 ounces crushed Oreo's
12 ounces Cool Whip
8 ounces cream cheese
4 ounce box vanilla pudding
3 1/2 cups milk
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine
Cream butter, cream cheese, sugar all together- set aside. Mix pudding and milk
together and then add cool whip (use large bowl). Add cream cheese, mix.
Fill in a flower pot, starting with pudding mixture, cookie crumbs, worms. End
with cookie crumbs so it looks like dirt in the pot. Refrigerate 1 or 2 hours.
Insert some plastic flowers, if desired, so it looks like the flowers are
growing in the pot. Top off with gummi worms.
When I was a child, my Mother would take the leftover
pie crust, roll it out then cut it in long strips about 1/4-1/2" wide. She then
sprinkled it with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon, and rolled it up in wheels,
like you would a cinnamon roll. She baked them (I don't know how long, or how
hot), and they made wonderful little cookies. The sugar and cinnamon would get
hard, or caramelize, the harden as the cookies cooled. I thought of these for
the first time in years after reading the request from Mary Sue aka Suzy Q.
Mary in Oregon
For Suzy-Q regarding Sugar Pie, My husband's
grandmother from Ohio also made this pie, although she called it Rub Cake and
when my Father in law comes for a visit, I always make this for him. It's like
picking up a piece of brown sugar candy with a crust and eating it. It's
delicious and very rich.
Rub Cake
9 inch unbaked pie shell
1 cup flour
2 cups light brown sugar
1 cube butter or oleo
Mix all together then put into unbaked pie crust. Bake at 350 degrees until pie
crust is done and top of sugar is golden brown. I usually set the timer for 30
minutes then watch carefully after that. Take out of oven and wait five minutes,
then cut into small wedges while hot, if you don't cut it while it is hot, you
might not be able to cut into small wedges. I usually then put this pie into a
round cookie tin and it keeps for a week.
Hubba in Nebraska
Easy Sloppy Joes
2 lbs. lean ground beef
1 26 oz. jar pasta sauce
1 small can tomato paste
garlic powder, pepper to taste
1/4 - 1/2 c. grated parmesan cheese
Cook beef and drain. Add the sauce, tomato paste and spices. Simmer until sloppy
Joe consistency. Stir in cheese. Serve on
hamburger buns
Nancy,
I tried the Micro Bread Pudding that was
recommended. I found out that the low setting on my Micro Wave oven was too slow
and when the 30 minutes was up my pudding was still very wet. I reset it for
Medium and an additional 15 minutes and it came out great.
Phyllis from Massachusetts
Spud n Spice Cake
1 3/4 cup sugar
1 cup mashed potatoes
3/4 cup shortening
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3 unbeaten eggs
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
1 teaspoon soda
2 cup plus 2 teaspoons cake flour
3/4 cup chopped nuts
Cream thoroughly sugar, mashed potatoes, shortening, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg.
This process takes about 4 minutes. Add eggs and combine well. Combine soda and
milk. Add the soda mixture and 2 cups flour to creamed mixture, beginning and
ending with flour. Coat the nuts with 2 teaspoons flour. Stir into batter. Turn
into a 13x9x2-inch pan which has been greased well and lightly floured on the
bottom.
Bake at 350 for 50 to 60 minutes.
Quick Caramel Icing
3/4 cup margarine
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
3 tablespoons milk
2 cup confectioners sugar
Melt margarine in saucepan. Stir in brown sugar. Combine cooking on low heat for
2 minutes. Add milk and bring to a full boil. Cool to lukewarm without stirring.
Add confectioners sugar. Beat until smooth and of spreading consistency.
Ice cooled cake.
Chef Raymo
Hi Nancy I really appreciate all the great work you
do on the recipe page. I can't wait each day to receive. I have a lot of
Jalapeno peppers. I would like to have a quick & easy way to use them. Either
diced or sliced in vinegar or oil solution.
Thanks, Glen
My husband loves Applebees
Bourbon Street Steak with potatoes and onions. Would anyone happen to
have a recipe?
Dawn
Cabbage A La Rowena
1 large head green cabbage
3 or 4 good sized potatoes
1 or 2 cans Spam
Salt and pepper
Catsup
Cook potatoes, until nearly done. Add cabbage.
When tender, add Spam, salt and pepper. When cooked to doneness, add enough
catsup to give slight tinge, or to taste.
Chef Raymo
Granny's Casserole
1/2 stick margarine
1 large onion, chopped
2 green pepper, cut in long, thin strips
2 pound ground chuck
1 large can tomatoes, diced
2 cup water
1 (15 ounces) can tomato soup
1 tablespoon sugar
Salt and pepper
8 ounces uncooked noodles
8 ounces Mozzarella cheese
In large Dutch oven or skillet, saut?onion and pepper with margarine. Add
chuck. Cook until it loses it color. Add tomatoes and water, then tomato soup,
sugar, salt, and pepper.
Spoon over uncooked noodles and cover with cheese. Bake in 9x13 inch pan at 350
for 1 hour Cover with foil.
Chef Raymo
Hi again,
In response to Myron's question about Huli Huli sauce
- it is a commercially packaged teriyaki type marinade, similar to the recipe I
posted. I have found it in California at the Hawaii Store in San Francisco and
at Oto's Market in Sacramento. I like it because it isn't too sweet.
Karen in California
Taco Pie
1 lb ground beef
1 pkg. taco seasoning mix
1-1/4 cup milk
3 eggs
1/2 cup chopped onions
3/4 c. chopped green chilies, drained
3/4 c. Bisquick mix
2 tomatoes, sliced
1 c. cheddar cheese
Shredded lettuce
Grease a large pie plate. Cook beef until brown, drain and then stir in
seasoning mix package. Spread in plate. Top with chilies. Beat milk, Bisquick,
and eggs until smooth. Pour in plate. Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool; top
with cheese tomatoes, and lettuce.
Nancy
In response to your question about Friendly Freezer newsletter.
Yes, it is an on line news letter. You can either get the "digest" or each
message as they come in (like "fly lady" I assume you are familiar with her
site)
There is also a Monday night and a Friday ngith chat associated with this group
as well.
Below are the links to get to the site. Sorry I didn't include them yesterday.
Barb in Kansas
Visit
Robbyn's Friendly-Freezer website at
The list
FAQ and other great things can be found in the shared files
To contact the list moderators:
Friendly-Freezer-owner@yahoogroups.com
I don't have a recipe per se But my grandma used an
unbaked pie crust, Put a cupful of sugar in it, about 2 tbs flour and a dash of
salt and
mixed it up with her fingers. Then she poured a cup of rich country milk
carefully over it, added a few shakes of cinnamon and several dabs of
butter. It was baked at probably 350 to 375 degrees until it bubbled up and
browned slightly and looked done to her. It was allowed to cool, and turned a
little crusty on top but was creamy underneath. This is not a deep pie but oh,
so good !! Hope this helps you. BTW, I am almost 84 years old. This is an old
recipe!
Vida from Ohio, and yes, it may have Amish roots !
Hello Nancy, thank you again for such a wonderful
site. I want to thank Zelda from TX for the Dreamsicle
Mousse recipe. It is wonderful.
For Mary Sue aka Suzy-Q who is looking for a recipe for Sugar Pie.
I used to make what we called Sugar Piecrust Cookies for my kids years ago. I
would just roll out the left-over crust and spread liberally with butter and
than shake on sugar or sugar and cinnamon. Bake at
about 350 until just barely brown. The kids loved it that way. Thanks.
Rose in Wi.
Dear Nancy-
Sometime this month you gave instructions to make adjustments to the computer
settings/on cookies. I followed them but mislaid my printed instructions. I
wanted to go back into where ever and return them to the original settings. I
thought I got the instructions from an Alicia's recipe online newsletter. I
would appreciate if you could direct me as I think I've gone through every one
posted. Thanks for your service and great recipes . Barb
Comment
It is in the
September 11th newsletter.
Have a nice day
Nancy Rogers
http://www.nancyskitchen.com
