Re: Southern Recipes

[BSIGrimreaper]

How about Grandma's Carmel Cake???

I love Chocolate Cake, but Carmel rules.

BSIGrimreaper

[wittzo]

BSIGrimreaper said:

How about Grandma's Carmel Cake???

I love Chocolate Cake, but Carmel rules.

BSIGrimreaper

CarAmel, maybe that's why you can't make it ? ;D

Potato cake rules. I'm going to find a recipe for it. It was one of those things I looked for before I was on the 'Net and I just remembered to look for it.
I got Mrs. Wittzo a RED 5 quart Kitchenaid stand mixer so she can make the Hell out of some mashed taters and stuff.

[TF Admin]

mercyme said:

Call me when it's done! ;D mercyme!

NONO! Call us both! I want a glass of fresh lemonade with mine please!

TFADMIN

[BSIGrimreaper]

Well, if I could cook worth a darn, I would do it.
Well I guess I will have to just beg my mother-in-law
to make me one sometime. She does make a good
caramel cake.

BSIGrimreaper
(who likes his caramel cake frosting to be hard, but soft
to cut into)

[wittzo]

My wife made her first pineapple upside-cake awhile ago and then she made a batch of chocolate chip cookies from scratch. She was going to make up a batch of mashed potatoes, even though I'm taking her to Harvey's in a little bit, but we didn't have enough taters. She really likes her new stand mixer! This was the first time she used it.

I got burned out on pineapple upside- down cake when I was growing up, my Mama made it every week. It turned out she was making it wrong! Mrs. Wittzo's cake was so good, it had that buttery, brown sugar crust on the top and edges..

[BSIGrimreaper]

;D
I agree post it.

BSIGrimreaper

[wittzo]

It's the recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, she liked that one better than the one in Bell's Best 1 & 2. There's some tips and substitutions we had to do at the end of the instructions.

2 TBs butter
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 8-oz can pineapple slices, drained and halved
4 marashino cherries halved
1 1/3 cups A-P F
2/3 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
2/3 cup milk
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla

1. Melt the 2 TBs butter in a 9 X 1 1/2 inch round cake pan. Stir in brown sugar and 1 TBs water. Arrange pineapple slices and cherries in the pan. Set pan aside.
2. In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, sugar,and baking powder. Add milk, the 1/4 cup butter, egg, and vanilla.Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until combined. Beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Spoon batter carefully over fruit in the prepared pan.
3. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30-35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Loosen cake from pan; invert onto a plate and serve warm.

MsMagnolia76, aka Mrs. Wittzo, couldn't find halved maraschino cherries, she used whole ones, they were fine. She also didn't halve the pineapple slices. She used a glass 8 X 12 rectangular pan instead of a round pan. I think she may have also doubled the recipe, too so it would last through the weekend for the rest of the kids to have some Monday. The cake broke in half when she flipped it over onto a rectangular serving plate. Either it was the size of the pan she used or she didn't let it cool long enough. It tasted okay anyway ;D. She was worried that the cherries might have gotten knocked out of the center of the pineapple slices, but they were okay, also.

The chocolate chip cookies were made with the recipe on the bag of Nestle chocolate chips. We have a digital display on our oven, we found out that the middlin' time made perfect cookies. 9 minutes were too soft, 11 minutes were too brown and hard, 10 minutes were just right.

[wittzo]

MsMagnolia fixed me some homemade mashed potatoes and cornbread dressing. The dressing had shredded chicken in it. She also made some chicken gravy. I chopped up the onions and celery and shredded the chicken for her. I also washed the dishes while it was all cooking.
The dressing is rather complicated and intertwined with the gravy recipe. She's just perfected the way she makes it, it's at the perfect consistency, not too dry, not too moist. It took her years to get there.

[beastmanjack]

Boy I see some great recipies out there which I will try. But just reading them I gained twenty LBS. ;D ;D ;D

[BSIBetterHalf]

I tried a recipe that was in a recipe & I just loved it.
It was Parmesan Garlic Chicken.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup of Parmesan Cheese
1/2 Tsp of Garlic Powder
6 Boneless & Skinless Chicken Breast Halves

Moisten chicken with water & then coat with the Dry Mixture. Bake for 25 minutes in a 350 Degree Oven uncovered.

IT IS GREAT!!!!!!

I don't know if my husband liked it or not; all he would say is "IT'S O.K."

BSIBetterHalf
;D ;D ;D

[BSIGrimreaper]

BSIBetterHalf said:

I tried a recipe that was in a recipe & I just loved it.
It was Parmesan Garlic Chicken.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup of Parmesan Cheese
1/2 Tsp of Garlic Powder
6 Boneless & Skinless Chicken Breast Halves

Moisten chicken with water & then coat with the Dry Mixture. Bake for 25 minutes in a 350 Degree Oven uncovered.

IT IS GREAT!!!!!!

I don't know if my husband liked it or not; all he would say is "IT'S O.K."

BSIBetterHalf
;D ;D ;D

Don't Tell her I said this, "I loved it, but I am too proud to tell her I loved it."
It was GOOD EATS, I loved the cheese & Garlic flavor. I am proud of my Lady for finding a recipe that PICKIE EATER me would eat.

BSIGrimreaper ;D

[wittzo]

For something real simple with chicken breasts or thighs

Preheat your oven to 375
Put the chicken pieces in a 9 X 13 baking pan and pour a bottle of Italian Salad Dressing over them. Add a quarter to one half inch of water. Bake for 45 minutes or until they aren't pick inside(cut one open while it's still in the pan to check or use a meat thermometer)

That's it, it's the same way we make QD-BBQ chicken(Quick and Dirty BBQ). Try other salad dressings, go ahead, try them, I dare you!)

[wittzo]

Beef and Rice "Stuff"

Prepare some white rice, following the intructions on the bag for servings but add a chicken bouillion cube for each cup of water while it's boiling. This will make the rice more flavorful. I use 3 cubes for 4 cups of water and 2 cups of rice so I can feed the seven of us and have leftovers for lunch.

While that is cooking, brown 1 to 2 pounds of ground beef in a large skillet, drain and take off heat.

While all that other stuff is cooking, you can make "gravy" by:

Make 2 cups of gravy(or more depending on how much rice and beef your making) with gravy mix and mix it with a cup of beef bouillion.

Take one or two cans of Cream of Mushroom soup and mix it with one or two cups of beef bullion and a can of milk or water or two.

Whatever cream of whatever you might have mixed with whatever will work well...
The other week I used some onion soup mix mixed with some cream of mushroom and some beef boullion. Sometimes I throw some dried onions in there. Last night I used cream of chicken, cream of mushrooms, and a cup of beef bouillion..You should end up with 2 or 3 cups of gravy. If you're short, the bouillion in the rice or the beef will make up for it.

When the gravy is ready, mix it with the browned beef and serve over the rice.

My kids love this, I was making it once a week until I got tired of it. When you are able to multi-task all of these things, you can cook and stir all these with two spooooooooooooons and talk on the phone at the same time...sort of..

Edit: You can't say the word "sp**n"? It replaced it with "sthingy".

[TF Admin]

Who wants dessert??

My wife makes this and while not exactly on the light side, it is so unbelievably yummy!

It's called "I Don't Know"

Ingredients:

2 Cans Crescent Rolls

1 8oz Cream Cheese

1 Stick of butter

1 & 1/2 Cup Sugar

Cinnamon to Taste
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Preheat oven to 350^o

In a 9 X 13 pan, spray with Pam Cooking Spray, unroll one can of Crescent Rolls for the bottom layer.

To make the second layer use a mixer to cream 1 Cup of Sugar and the Cream Cheese. Spread on top of the first layer of Crescent Rolls.

Unroll the second can of Crescent Rolls for your top layer, then melt the stick of butter and pour on top.

Use the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar to sprinkle on top of the butter and sprinkle with Cinnamon to taste.

Bake until the center rolls appear done. Approx 15-25 minutes

Enjoy!

TFADMIN

[BSIBetterHalf]

Oh Yeah!

On my recipe for the Parmesan Garlic Chicken,
You also need to add to the dry mixture, 1 packet of Good Seasons Italian Dressing Mix.

BSIBetterHalf