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Chicken · chicken pot pie · Recipes

Chicken Pot Pie

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This is my go to version…I have varied it several times.  Use what you have…and it will be wonderful.

I used two Pillsbury (rolled) Pie Crust (top and bottom).  2 cans of chicken, 2 cans of Vege-All (this is a genius can of vegetables – onions, celery, carrots, peas, lima, green beans – and is great in a stew as well), and a can of Cream of Celery.  Also, fresh thyme (use the leaves from 4 twigs), salt and pepper, and 1 cup of sour cream.  Drain the cans of chicken and vege’s.  Mix together the sour cream, and soup.  Add the chicken, and vege’s.  Roll out the dough (if you don’t like the bottom crust -don’t use it), use your favorite pie dish, and place your chicken mixture in it. Cover with dough, and poke holes in it using a fork (4 or 5 should do).  Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes or the crust is a nice golden color. 

I served it with a cucumber/tomato/onion salad.

This was mine…and I added extra ground pepper. 
Enjoy!
Oh, my 13 year old decided he didn’t like pot pies, 
until I had him try it…then it was “can I have some?” 
No, was my answer, and David had seconds. ha.
Recipes · white beans and sausage

Sausage and Beans

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Another version of White Northern Beans.

 Beans
 Cover in cold water and soak for at least a hour.
 Chop an onion.
 And some celery (excuse my hands).
Conecuh Hickory smoked sausage.
 Yes, jar garlic (two/three teaspoons), and Cavender’s Greek Season (about a tablespoon).
 Chop the sausage into bite size pieces.
 Saute the onions, garlic and celery until translucent.
 Add the sausage and brown (browning brings out the sweetness of the meat).
 Add chicken broth (I used 1 and 1/2 containers).
 Drain the water, and rinse.
Add the beans, and simmer for at least 2 hours.
And I forgot to take the picture of this yummy soup.
Try it.  I hope you like it.
Enjoy!
Recipes · stromboli

Strombolis…

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Well…kind of?

Pizza dough…most grocery stores carry premade dough and have it for you in their frozen section.

Roll it out into a rectangle.  I used Ragu sauce (it was there – and ready) for the bottom sauce layer.  Then
pepperoni, six-Italian cheese, sausage (browned), more cheese, pepperoni.  Keep everything down the center (it helps with the folding).

Begin with the opposite end, folding it over the pile of Italian goodness.
Cut about 2 inch strip (not too deep), and fold over in a braid like manner.  

Keep doing this almost to the end.
Folding and overlapping the other side of dough. 
Press the dough together as you go (it helps keep everything together).

At the end, cut your strips before folding all of them, crisscrossing  each strip.
Fold over the very end cut, and then place the 2nd to last piece over it.  

It’s not perfect, but it is ready for the oven.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown, and oozing.
Yes, most of the cheese came out.  

But it was yummy!
Enjoy!
chocolate · Recipes

Serenity Chocolate Cake

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Yes!
It is wonderful.
Flour less Chocolate Cake…it is wonderful.  I will have to post pictures later…mainly I need to upload, and secondly, I am sitting in my chair not wanting to connect the camera.

Truth.
Yes, truth.

8 oz dark/semi-sweet chocolate
2 sticks butter (Yes, real butter, sweet cream no salt added!) softened, at room temperature
4 eggs (at room temperature)
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup Grand Marnier
6 tablespoons corn starch

Melt chocolate, and set aside.  Beat butter until fluffy, add cooled-melted chocolate.
In another bowl, beat eggs, slowly add sugar.  Beat 6-8 minutes or until thick.  These should be the same thickness.
Add the chocolate mixture to the egg mixture.  Beat in Grand Marnier.  Sift in corn starch.
Pour into a greased 9″ spring form.  Cover with buttered parchment.  Put in shallow dish, fill 1/2 way with near boiling water.  (water bath)
Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.  Remove from water bath, let cool 15 minutes.  Invert onto a serving plate.  Let stand 30 minutes and then remove pan.
Top with Ganache.
Recipe for the Ganache to come soon.  =)
Enjoy. 

onions · Recipes

Sauteed Onions and Mushrooms

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London broil is most certainly fine without sauteed onions and mushrooms, 
but when your wonderful hubby brings home baby portobello
and button mushrooms, you just have to cook them.
3 sweet Valida onions, sliced
d
 1/2 container each: mini portobella mushrooms 
and button mushrooms pre-sliced.
Salt and pepper
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 or 3 dashes of Worcestershire Sauce
Heat oil.  Add onions and pepper. Cook until translucent.
Add mushrooms and butter.  
Do not add salt until the mushrooms turn somewhat brown. 
Then a bit of salt, and Worcestershire.  
Cook until brown and moisture is evaporated.  
 Serve with medium-rare London Broil, and maybe a Caesar Salad.
 Enjoy!
Caeser Salad · Recipes

Caeser Salad

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Sort of…
Romaine lettuce, chopped.  
Green onions, chopped.
 Croutons (see below)
Dressing:
1 cup oil (vegetable)
1/2 vinegar
1 to 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
salt and pepper
1/2 dry mustard
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
I combined several recipes I found on allrecipes.com.  
I like anchovies but I don’t have any on hand. 
Also, raw eggs and I don’t get along very well with the auto immune.
Every recipe called for blending the ingredients. 
I loaned my mini blender to a family with a little one.  
So, what to do?  Whisk, baby, whisk.
Croutons:  2 teaspoons olive oil, 2 teaspoons butter, salt and pepper to taste, 
and any leftover day or two old bread, tear or chop.  
Heat oil and butter, toss in bread and seasonings.  
Toast until golden brown.
Assembly:
Lettuce – green onions – spoon over dressing – cheese – croutons.
Enjoy!  

birthdays · Mother · Recipes

Happy Birthday Mom!

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My mother’s birthday is today.  
June 30, 1936.  
Lore Mayer David Thurman.  
Mom, Mommie, Oma.
 
Lore sitting on her hill in Germany around 1956.
 Moms passport visa picture for her trip abroad (Chicago, Illinois).
Oma with her kint.  Chocolate cake being shared with Carmen and Stephen, 2002.
In honor of my beautiful German Mom:
 Rouladen.  
My mothers wonderful recipe.  
She submitted this for a cooking contest.
I don’t remember her winning anything, but she was published. 
Enjoy!  
And, Happy Birthday Mom!  I love you so.
Chicken · gluten free · leeks · Recipes

Chicken with Leeks

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Doesn’t sound real appealing does it?

It really is good, and lighter than you would think.

Start with sauteing chicken (4 small breasts) in olive oil, season with salt and pepper.  I also used Herbs de Provence, and  fresh thyme.

Once the chicken is browned, remove and let rest.  
Add the leeks (3 large leeks, chopped and washed -thoroughly wash), and saute until limp.  

 Add 1 cup white wine ( I used Chardonnay), and 1 to 2 cups of chicken broth.  
Place the chicken in the mixture, and reduce by half.  
 
Add 4 pats of butter, and 1 cup cream (I had whipping cream…use what you have).  

Simmer until thickened.  Serve with rice…noodles…whatever you have on hand.  
 
 I had asparagus, roasted in the oven with a little bit of olive oil and salt and pepper.

Enjoy!
desserts · Recipes · strawberries

Shana’s Strawberry Trifle

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My dear kindred spirit made this recipe several years ago for Easter.  It was wonderful, then and now.  She gave me the simple recipe, and of course, I have misplaced it.

I don’t know why this is happening…my mind that is.

ha.

Okay –
1 large tub of strawberries, hulled and cut up into bit size pieces.
1 large package strawberry jello – not sugar free.
1 large package of vanilla pudding – follow directions
1 Angel Food cake (I used store bought) torn up into bite size pieces.
1 large tub cool whip or other whipped topping.  

Tear the Angel Food into bite size pieces.  Sprinkle the strawberry jello over the cake.  Keep dry, and stir to coat the pieces of cake.

Layer into a glass dish as follows:

Angel Food cake, vanilla pudding, strawberries, cool whip.  Repeat and top with a few strawberries for decoration.

Enjoy!

kale · low-carb diet · Recipes · zuchini boats

Sauteed Kale

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Sauteed Kale.  Another dish that is, of course, low carb.  I have tried the dried Kale that several bloggers rave about…but I did not like it.  Yes, it was crunchy.  It was also bland, bitter, and just yuk, to me anyway.

I so prefer this…

I have this wonderful garlic infused olive oil. I love the flavor it gives without the burnt garlic (yes, I burn it).
I added a 1/2 of a large purple onion (I love the color contrast).
Saute until translucent
Add a bag of rinse and dried kale.  

Saute until wilted.  Add kosher salt and pepper.

I serve this with many dishes, but recently the zucchini boats.
 
Enjoy!