Wednesday, December 2, 2015

GRANNA AND ADDISON'S APPLE STACK



  • 1 can Pillsbury Grands honey butter flavored refrigerated biscuits
  •  
  • Filling:
  • 2 granny smith apples, very finely diced
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • ⅓ cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
  •  
  • Glaze:
  • 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
  • ¼ cup half and half 
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Optional: one half cup pecan pieces. Sprinkle these on 5 minutes before taking out of oven.
 
Add all filling ingredients to a large saucepan over medium heat.
Cook, stirring occasionally, until apples have browned and softened and sauce has thickened.
Set aside to cool. Can be refrigerated and used the next day to assemble the apple stacks.
Heat oven to 350°  Grease a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan
Using a paring knife, cut each biscuit in half horizontally to make 16 biscuit halves
(you should be able to cut them slightly and then pull them apart the rest of the way).
Flatten each biscuit half with your hand to thin them out.
Spoon about a tablespoon of the apple filling onto each biscuit half.
Stack the biscuit halves on top of one another to form four stacks with four biscuit halves each.
Place the stacks in the loaf pan, arranging so the ends of both sides have biscuit without filling touching the pan. (You'll have to sandwich two filling-sides together in order to do so, and that's fine.)
Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes.
Remove the aluminum foil and bake until golden brown and cooked through,
checking every 5 minutes or so. Let the loaf cool for 5 minutes in the pan and then remove from the pan.

Whisk together the powdered sugar and half and half, adding more if necessary to reach the desired consistency. Add the vanilla and whisk again. Drizzle liberally over fritter loaf.

WAFFLES



1 cup flour
½ TB baking powder
½ TB sugar
½ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp salt

1 egg/split into yolk and white
2 TB oil
½ tsp vanilla
1 ¼ cup buttermilk


Mix dry ingredients with whisk.

Add egg yolk and other wet ingredients to dry ingredients.
Mix thoroughly.

Beat egg white until soft peaks and then spoon
into mix and fold gently.

Add batter to hot waffle iron.
This is a short recipe that makes about 3 standard size round Belgian waffles.
Double the recipe for more.

RED SAUCE



28 oz can crushed tomatoes
Small can tomato sauce, 8 oz

2 TB tomato paste
¼ cup red wine
1 package no sodium beef broth
1 tsp each salt and pepper
1 TB sugar
2 cloves minced garlic
1 cup chopped onion
½ cup chopped green pepper
1 bay leaf
1 ½ tsp Italian seasoning
Olive oil for sauté 


Sauté garlic, onions and green pepper in olive oil

Add all ingredients to slow cooker or large sauce pan.
Stir well.
Cook on low heat for most of the day, at least six hours,
stirring occasionally.

Remove bay leaf before serving.

Leave thick and chunky or puree in blender for a smoother sauce.This makes a small batch, double for a larger batch. It freezes well. 

SEX IN A PAN


1 stick of butter, melted
1 cup flour
½ cup chopped pecans

8 oz Philly Cream Cheese, softened
8 oz Cool Whip
1 cup powdered sugar
2 small packages of instant
chocolate or butterscotch pudding
3 cups milk

Topping Choices: Shaved chocolate
                               Grated chocolate
                               Chocolate chips
                               Chopped nuts


Blend melted butter, flour and chopped pecans.
Press into an un-greased square pan and bake at 350°for
about 15 minutes or until the crust is pale beige.
Watch carefully so it doesn’t burn. Remove and cool.

Using a mixer, blend cream cheese, one cup of Cool Whip
and powdered sugar. Gently spread this over the cooled crust.

Mix pudding and milk according to pudding box directions and
then spread this over the cream cheese mix. Top with remaining
Cool Whip then top with desired topping.
Cool in fridge several hours or overnight.  




BEEF STEW



1-1/2 pounds boneless beef chuck, cut into 1-1/2-inch pieces
2  tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
3 TB olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 TB tomato paste
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup red wine
2 cups beef broth
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp savory
1/2  tsp parsley
1 tsp sugar
3 carrots cut into chunks
2 ribs celery cut into chunks
Frozen peas
Loaf of good French bread
Optional potatoes

Salt and pepper beef pieces.
Heat oil and sauté in small batches making sure all sides of beef are browned.
Remove beef from pan, set on a plate.

Add onions, garlic and red wine to pan and stir briskly,
scraping any beef bits from pan. Add tomato paste and continue stirring.
Put beef and juices back in pan, sprinkle flour over mixture and stir until flour is dissolved.

Add broth, bay leaf, savory, parsley and sugar. Stir until well thickened.
Cook on low for 2 hours. Add carrots/celery and cook another hour,
until vegetables are tender.
Remove bay leaf, add frozen peas in last five minutes.
If you want potatoes in this cook them separately
and add in the last ten minutes, they get too mushy otherwise. 

BURNT ORANGE CAKE



















2 sticks butter, softened
2 c. sugar
3 eggs
2 c. flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2 (8 oz.) cans Mandarin oranges, drained

Glaze:
3/4 c. brown sugar
3 TB milk
3 TB butter

Cream butter and sugar.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating after adding each egg.
Add the rest of the cake ingredients and beat well.
Pour into a greased bundt pan.
Bake 350° for 30 to 35 minutes.
While the cake is still warm, but slightly cooled, poke holes all over
the cake with a chopstick.
Bring to a boil in small saucepan; the brown sugar, milk, and butter.
Pour over warm cake, slowly over the poked holes so glaze will
drizzle down in the holes










                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

MINT HOT COCOA MIX





1 cup powdered nondairy coffee creamer
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
8 mint hard candies or some broken candy canes, crushed
½  cup miniature marshmallows (optional)
½ cup chocolate chips (optional)

Combine all ingredients; store in an airtight container.


Three tablespoons of mix to one cup hot water