[libertarian27]

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[libertarian27]

Weekly FReeper Recipe Thread Ping List
(to be added/deleted - please contact me)

Last week’s recipes:
Beef _ Post#` 14 _ Bacon, Blue Cheese Hamburgers

Pancakes _ Post#` 7 _ Nigella Lawson’s Pancake Mix

Pork _ Post#` 11 _ Latin-American Pork Steak

Poultry _ Post#` 22 _ Chicken Salad with Pecans & Fruit

Sauce _ Post#` 6 _ Bad News BBQ Sauce
Sauce _ Post#` 8 _ Roast Marinade
Sauce _ Post#` 9 _ Slippery Chinese Meat Coating Sauce
Sauce _ Post#` 19 _ French Fry Sauce

Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2888275/posts?page=23#23

[randita]

Crispy kale chips. A great way to prepare kale. Even kids like it.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/melissa-darabian/crispy-kale-chips-recipe/index.html

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Chinese style fried green beans;
Pop the ends off
Cut in half if they’re long
Chop some pork into crumbs, some ginger too.
1 cup of oil in your wok, heat to 375
Add DRY green beans, and fry until they wrinkle up, and get a bit of blackening
Pour into colander or sieve to drain oil
Put 1 to 2 tablespoons of oil into wok. add green beans and pork and ginger
Stir fry until pork is done
Add a little Black Bean Garlic sauce
Stir and serve.
Yum!

[Aliska]

I'll share two (main course and dessert). You can improvise the main course to taste. I make corned beef and cabbage but cb is expensive. This is a little cheaper and feeds a lot, is good for you (except maybe the meat). I love kielbasa and rinsed sauerkraut in the crockpot but it's a little salty so I improvised this instead.

Get my turkey roaster down and take out the insert.
Cut up the rings of sausage into chunks (whole it will crack), cover not quite all the way with water and bake at 275 for an hour or so.
Shove the meat to one end and add cut up carrots (lots), potatoes (4 premium Idaho or yellow or red, doesn't matter, and an onion or two, no garlic. Pile sliced head of cabbage over the top, cut into wedges with ribs removed.
Add one packet of Swanson's new beef flavor booster and stir in the liquid. Or boullion, or broth. I got some of that English OXO cubes which seem good but only used it once so far.
The flavor booster is super salty concentrated and so is the meat so I only add ground pepper.
Return to oven and cook until the veggies are done.
Use the cover the whole way and I close the steam vent.
The broth is tasty and you can kind of tell when it's done and it smells really good.

You could try some other veggies but this is more traditional spinoff of cb and cabbage.

I cook a lot like this in the oven at 275, takes awhile but can do other things while it's going. I even make my soups and chili in the oven this way in a covered soup pot.

Would be good with corn bread but this fills me up.

The meat I've got to use tomorrow if my stomach settles down is all Hillshire Farm. Polska Kielbasa, Cheddar Wurst (in rings) and Turkey Pepper Jack shaped like hot dogs.

Then I'm learning how to roll pie crust in my old age as I gave up when I was young and just patted it in. I need more practice, but this you can roll, fold in quarters and center nicely in the pie plate without breaking up.

Use purchased dough if you like or your own favorite for lemon meringue pie. I use the Jello cooked lemon pie filling which cooks up nice, thick and tasty when cooled. For the meringue, I used a tip to mix 2 tablespoons of corn starch mixed well with the sugar you slowly add while beating the egg whites. It tastes a tiny bit different but doesn't weep. Meringue will weep in the fridge and meringue pies should be stored in the fridge if any left over.

I have to keep trying with the crust. This turned out too tough which I'm told is because I added too much water. But otherwise it was nice. Have everything cold, even the rolling pin. I wanted to be able to roll right on the counter although I have a pastry cloth and sock also a silicone mat. I watched tons of videos of different ways to do it.

[FrdmLvr]

I was just on Pintrest, checking out the recipes, when I came upon this recipe for marshmallow frosting. Back in the 60’s and 70’s, my grandma would sometimes bring the most delectable white cupcakes piled a mile high with this creamy Swiss meringue frosting and covered in sweet shredded coconut. She picked these up from one of the downtown department stores that had a bakery department by one of the front entryways. That store always had the most wonderful smells, from the bakery to the perfume counter to the dining room on the second or third floor. Anyway, I think I’ll make these cupcakes soon and cover them in coconut.
http://veronicahurly.blogspot.com/2010/09/marshmallow-frosting.html

[Alissa]

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[ChocChipCookie]

I made these Refrigerator Pickled Vegetables yesterday. Carrots are especially good to use.

6 cups sugar
6 cups vinegar
1/4 cup each celery seed and mustard see
2 T. Canning salt

Bring to a boil in a large pot. Pour over cut up vegetables, such as carrot sticks, red bell peppers, onions, and cucumbers. Refrigerated overnight. Keep chilled.

[Captain Beyond]

bflr

[sockmonkey]

Oh, as a PS to my Chicken Fried Chicken.

It would work equally well with venison ham steaks, or round steak..I would probably use wondra flour for those, and add a little ground black pepper.