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July 23 - National Vanilla Ice Cream Day - National Hot Dog Day
July 24 - National Tequila Day
July 25 - National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
July 26 - National Coffee Milkshake Day
July 27 - National Scotch Day - National Cream Brulee Day
July 28 - National Milk Chocolate Day
July 29 - National Lasagna Day - Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
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Last week’s recipe recap:(July 16th thread)
Appetizer* 63 Sweet and Spicy Almonds
Dessert* 4 CHEESECAKE BRULEE
Dessert* 13 Fudgy Brownies
Dessert* 21 Bert’s Krispy Creme grilled doughnuts
Drink* 47 Texas Tumbleweeds.
Ingredient* 30 Maple Syrup Marinade
Ingredient* 43 Vanilla Paste
Ingredient* 46 rhubarb syrup
Meal* 6 Monte Cristo Hot Dog
Meal* 15 Ol’ Potty Mouth’s Ultimate Hamburger
Meal* 32 Curry Chicken Salad
Meal* 40 Paula Deen’s Deep-Fried Lasagna.
Side* 33 Creamy Potatoes Au Gratin
Side* 44 green pea salad
Side* 60 Spinach pomegranate salad
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This is more of a winter dish, but a working mother’s dream (and even just a busy SAHM dream, heee)
Put roast beef in the crockpot with package of onion gravy (premade with cup of water) and sliced vidalia or sweet onions for about 8 hours until pull away with fork tender.
Take onion rolls and cut a ‘bowl’ out, keeping the bowl ‘top.’
Place the bread bowls on a cookie sheet and scoop the roast beef in the bowl with some gravy drizzled in to soak into the bread. Not a ton, but enough.
Slice provolone cheese and place over top of beef, replace bread top (or just kind of lop it on, it won’t fit) and bake at 400 for about 15 minutes.
With some baked potato slices or french fries... it is DIVINE!
QUICK IN A PINCH CHEATER SALSA.
I came up with this when I was making Mexican food for company and realized at the last minute what I thought was salsa in the fridge, was shrimp cocktail sauce.
1 can diced tomatoes with green chilies OR 3 fresh tomatoes chopped and one small can of diced green chilies.
2 cloves garlic finely minced or run through garlic press
3-4 slices of pickled jalapeno peppers diced or 1 TBS diced fresh jalapeno
Salt to taste (I use about a 1/8 tsp).
Combine all ingredients and pulse in the food processor/blender/hand mixer until blended but still chunky.
I just put together a couple of easy, fast and tasty summer type salads.
They’re easy to prepare, have few ingredients, and can be whipped up quickly.
First: Antipasto type salad
Ingredients: Boar’s Head salami (lower fat), Havarti cheese, a cucumber, cherry or grape tomatoes, and Wish Bone “House Italian” Dressing.
Cut the salami and cheese into bite size pieces, about 1 cup of each. Cut a cucumber in half or quarters, and cut into bite size pieces. I found that if I left the skin on, the cucumber held its shape longer. If you leave the skin on, remember to wash it really good with soap and water before cutting.
Cut the cherry or grape tomatoes in half - about 1 cup or more if you like tomatoes.
Stir everything together and then add the salad dressing and stir again. The amount of dressing you use is up to you.
The salad is ready to eat. You can chill it first if you prefer. It tastes good either way.
This is a hearty salad and holds up well in the fridge for several days. Because it’s so hearty, you can actually serve a little smaller portion (I really like that).
Second: Fruited Chicken Salad (for one person)
Ingredients: cooked chicken breast (or dark meat if you prefer), 1 green apple, Craisens (original) - or you can vary the salad by using the cherry, pomegranate or blueberry type, walnuts (or your favorite nut - almonds, pecans), but I liked walnuts best, and Best Foods Mayonaise with Olive Oil.
Cook the chicken your favorite way for salads, and cut into bite size pieces. Wash and then cut green apple into bite size pieces. Add 1/2 cup of walnut pieces and stir. Add 1/2 cup of Craisens and stir again. Add 1/2 cup mayonaise and stir. The salad is ready to eat. The sweet and sour fruits go great with chicken.
I eat these salads often.
I use brand names in my recipes because they’re the brand I use - sometimes that makes a difference in the taste of a recipe and sometimes it doesn’t. Of course, use the brand you like best.
I usually make these salads on Sunday afternoon - and then I have a ready meal for several days after I get home from work - AND .. NO COOKING.
I’m going to be putting some of these in the freezer this week.
http://blogs.babble.com/family-kitchen/2011/07/19/lattice-top-peach-pies-in-a-jar/
Old Family Recipe
RANCH HOUSE SUPRISE
2 med onions cut fine and Cooked
8 OZ egg noddles semi cooked
1 teaspoon dry mustard
2 teaspoons worsi sause
2 tablespoons brown mustard
1 8oz chili sause
1 8oz water, wash out chili sause
1 lb hotdogs cut up
2 Tablespoons lemmon juice
Mix in casarol dish and cook about an hour 350 degrees
I always use extra lemmon juice, brownsuger, you can also add some V-8 and a good shot of ketchup before cooking to give it a better kick..
this is really good and part of my family.. They call it Ranch house suprise as it always comes out different.
As a former ice cream parlour employee during my high school and college years in the 1970’s, that was always an ice cream addict, I had to jump in and address the National Vanilla Ice Cream Day on July 23rd, National Hot Fudge Sundae Day on July 25th, and National Coffee Milkshake Day on July 26th. Here are a just a few ideas for some of my personal and family favorites. If you are on a diet, you really should skip this post! LOL!
Vanilla Ice Cream Desserts: My family loves Vanilla Ice Cream for its versatility, since it can be dressed up with almost any flavor topping.
For a special dessert we like to dress up vanilla ice cream up with a piece of pound cake or a short cake on the bottom of the dish, top with vanilla Ice Cream and then our favorite fresh fruit or ice cream topping or syrup, whipped cream and sometimes nuts, sprinkles, or a maraschino cherry on top.
Another great way to enjoy Vanilla Ice cream is to cover it with a chocolate Shell or other shell topping while sprinkling it with your favorite nuts, totally encasing the ice cream in the shell topped with the nuts. My family always thought this was a gourmet dessert and it only took me about 5 minutes!
Hot Fudge Day brings to mind all the wonderful flavors of ice cream that go really well with Hot fudge syrup: Vanilla of course, but so does Chocolate, Coffee, Peppermint, Chocolate Chip Mint, Butter Pecan, Cookie Dough, Peanut Butter, Cookies and Cream, Caramel, Moose Tracks, etc. Nuts, and fresh raspberries, strawberries and bananas also are great with Hot fudge.
My family loves some fun sundae combinations, most of which we top with whipped cream, nuts or sprinkles, and perhaps a maraschino cherry:
A scoop of chocolate ice cream with marshmallow topping and a scoop of vanilla ice cream with hot fudge.
For a three scoop treat we top chocolate ice cream with marshmallow, Coffee ice cream with the hot fudge and vanilla ice cream with butterscotch or caramel topping.
A really decadent combination is chocolate ice cream topped with hot fudge topping and topped with fresh strawberries or my favorite fresh raspberries.
Make your Hot fudge sundaes even better by putting a chocolate brownie or a piece of chocolate cake underneath it!
Coffee Milkshakes: Since Coffee milkshakes have been my favorite flavor of milkshake since the 1970’s, I have come up with many ways to make them:
I often found myself out of coffee ice cream or out of milk when I was single, but I always seemed to have plenty of vanilla ice cream in my freezer, so I came up with my own recipe for making a coffee milkshake with vanilla ice cream and regular brewed coffee or espresso. Mix it up by hand or in a blender and you have a quick and easy coffee milkshake.
Using the same method as above, try making your shake with chocolate, butter pecan, or any other flavor ice cream you think sounds good with coffee for a nice variation. I tried using egg nog flavored ice cream one year during the holidays and it is wonderful too! Think about what flavors you like for your expresso coffee and you can come up with some wonderful combinations all on your own.
For those of you who want a treat that has fewer calories, try making an ice cream soda instead. A scoop or two of coffee ice cream in a glass and filled up with soda water makes a refreshing summer indulgence with a lot less calories. If you aren’t concerned about calories you might also like to make it a mocha soda by adding a little chocolate syrup before adding the soda water.
If you have vanilla ice cream, another wonderful summer ice cream soda is to put vanilla (or coconut ice cream) with some crushed pineapple in a glass and top it off with soda water.
For alcoholic versions of the milkshakes and soda’s think about what liquors you enjoy with coffee or vanilla and add a shot to your drink. I like things like Kahlua, coffee or chocolate flavored liquors, Baileys, and Irish Cream with the coffee milk shakes and sodas, and Rum works great with the pineapple or pineapple and coconut sodas.
I hope this gives some of you a few ideas for beating the heat, since I think the entire country will be fighting the heat this weekend.
Emergency (out of eggs or butter or allergic) or cheap (out of money) cake.
Wacky Cake
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/wacky-cake-viii/detail.aspx
My lazy version:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice
6 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup water
In a 4 cup meas. cup add sugar, baking soda (stir), flour (stir).
Pour it in an ungreased 8 x 8
In the meas. cup add almost a 1/4 cup of veg. oil, lime juice, water.
Pour it in the 8 x 8 and stir.
bake at 350 for 35 min.
Very pleased with this recipe: good, super cheap, easy making and easy cleanup (just meas. cup, stirring fork and pan).
Not a ‘light’ cake, a little doughy. Like my lime version better than their chocalate.