4th of July Recipes (Vanity)

[proudofthesouth]

The 4th of July weekend will be here in a week and I thought that its now time for Freepers to post their favorite summertime recipes.

Here's mine:

Crock Pot Pork Shoulder

1 or 2 pork shoulders (depending upon the size of your crockpot )

*Maple Grove Farms of Vermont Low Carb Sugar Free Hickory Marinade and Basting Sauce

Place pork in a greased crockpot and pour entire bottle (if using 2 shoulders; half bottle if using 1) over the pork.

About twice an hour spoon the sauce over the pork. Cook for about 6 hours (approx).

*For those of you who don't like the sugary sweet bbq sauce made by the major brands, this is a GREAT sauce. I stumbled across it at Target. Its not sweet at all even though it contains Splenda. If you would like their website address, email me.

BTW, if you have a good creamy coleslaw recipe, please email it to me. I'm looking for one without sugar.

[P8riot]

Frog (er..ah French) Toast

1 quart gallon French Vanilla or Butter Pecan ice cream melted
1 or 2 loaves (depending on size) of Pepperidge Fahm (or similar) Cinnamon Raisin Bread
1 quart Pralines & Cream ice cream (frozen)
Caramel or Butterscotch Topping or Maple syrup

Preheat oven to 250F
Soak the bread in the melted ice cream thenbrown it in a large flat skillet or griddle. Place on cookie sheet and keep warm in oven until all of the bread is browned

Serve immediately topped with a scoop of the Praline & Cream ice cream, and drizzle (or drench depending on taste) with the Caramel or Butterscotch topping or syrup. Serve with a rich roast coffee.

Then go visit your cardiologist.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Whip two eggs and a cup of milk together. Add to that chicken bouillion, Accent, and pepper.

Now make two separate bowls of flour, paprika, thyme, oregano, black pepper, and Lawry's Seasoned Salt. Toss your fryer pieces into the first bowl of flour.

From there, dip them in your mixture of eggs and milk. Then place them in your last bowl of flour. Fry until golden brown.

This is Tre's Slap Yo Mama fried chicken. Of course, I would have marinated the chicken first. Oh, save some grease for your gravy.

That's precisely my grandmother's Sunday chicken dinner recipe. Fried chicken, "smashed" potatoes and gravy.

[StarFan]

4 garlic toes grated

Honey wing recipe sounds delicious but what are garlic toes and how does one grate garlic? I've minced, chopped, diced and put through a press but have never grated it. Are you using a microplane?

[Ignatz]

Here's mine for Buffalo Wings:

Heck, just call that numbskull Simpson broad for a recipe.

[Ignatz]

Is that the one from TopSecretRecipes.com?

[StarFan]

Oops I should have gone to bed hours ago as it just occured to me that toes was a typo.

[CaliGirlGodHelpMe]

"ALABAMA WHITE TRASH CAKE"

I LOVE it!

[freedom moose]

Thanks MistrX. Looks like i've got 3 test batches to cook. A radically different 4th variation might be fun (hint hint freepers)

[Ignatz]

That sounds delicious!

Note on pork and temperature: first, the tenderloins will keep cooking a bit after being removed from heat. Second, anyone who follows the USDA diktat about 165 F will wind up with VERY overcooked and very dry pork tenderloin. By removing at 140 F, you will have lightly pink and very juicy tenderloin.

If you leave the thermometer in the meat and let it sit after you take it out of the oven, you'll find that the temp inside the meat will reach 165F in about ten minutes.
Perfectly hot and juicy, and the built-in alarm that alerts the Socialism...er, ...Nibsh!t...uh, er, ...I mean Science in the Public Interest crazies will never sound!

[cherry]

I love these threads too....they often get pulled too quickly .....

I made brussel sprouts a few months ago from a recipe found here and I would love to see it again.....so if anybody knows it, please let me know....thx

[Ignatz]

6 drops Tabasco sauce
1 grain salt

Like one more grain of salt will make a difference?
Oh, I get it...it's homeopathic!

[garandgal]

Here is a really EASY recipe for a side dish that is great for summer. My husband is a fabulous cook, and makes all sorts of complicated dishes...we always laugh because this simple thing actually gets the most "wow" comments:

2 cartons small curd (4% milkfat) cottage cheese
2 small bell peppers diced (we use one red, one yellow for color)
1/4 cup celery diced
1-2 tablespoons diced scallions
2 tsp. dillweed

It's best if it can be refrigerated for at least a few hours.

[AzNASCARfan]

Have you ever tried Popeyes chicken? Have not been back to KFC since we tried it...

[b9]

Have you ever tried Popeyes chicken?

Nope, not yet.

Is it fried in spinach & Olive Oyl?

";^)

[Rte66]

Good heavens! My mother used to do that to cottage cheese and eat it by the gallon, practically. I wouldn't touch the stuff, but I might now. It sounds good.

[tiredoflaundry]

I found it here.
http://www.recipegoldmine.com/

[miss marmelstein]

My mom's cole slaw recipe:

1 cup of Hellman's Mayo
3 tsps of red wine vinegar
6 cups of shredded Savoy cabbage (a beautiful dark green fancy cabbage)
1 cup of shredded carrots
1 diced sweet pepper (splurge and buy yellow or orange)
2 packets of Splenda (or to taste)

Mix it together and voila!

Simple, but pretty and godd.

[Brytani]

garlic toes - the individual pieces of garlic, not the entire head.

And yeap, use a microplace to grate it, or mince the garlic very fine. You don't want big chunks on the wings, instead you're looking for the flavor of the garlic and the ginger to really mix into the marinade.

[SAJ]

Didn't know the internal heat would rise **that** much. Thanks for the info.

As you know, I was referring to 165 F while **in** the oven. Should've been more specific, rats.

;^)

[StarFan]

So toes wasn't a typo? Always referred to them as cloves thus assumed it was a typo. Will definitely try the recipe.