Family Dinner May 2009: Taste of Summertime Pound Cake

Taste of Summertime Pound Cake
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1/4 teaspoon salt
Zest of 1 orange
5 large eggs
3 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup Jarritos pineapple soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon orange extract
Instructions
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 12-cup tube pan. Combine flour, salt and orange zest in a bowl. With a mixer, cream butter and [...]

Family Dinner April 2009: Quiche Lorraine

Since we are getting a lot of eggs from our chickens, now, we thought we’d make something to take to this month’s family pot luck dinner that would use a lot of eggs.
So, here is my take on…
 
 
Quiche Lorraine
makes 2 9-inch pies
Ingredients
2 9-inch deep dish pie crusts
8 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled
4 green onions, [...]

5-Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

My sister-in-law shared this on Facebook. I’m saving it here for my own personal reasons…
4 tablespoons cake flour 
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla
1 coffee mug
Add dry ingredients to mug and mix well. Add the egg and mix well. Pour in the milk and oil [...]

Family Dinner February 2009: Sweet Potato Cobbler

Every month, my family has a pot luck dinner.  February’s dinner was held this past Friday and I tried a new recipe on my family: Sweet Potato Cobbler. No one in my family had heard of it before but we enjoyed it.
I used canned sweet potatoes for this because that is what I had on hand. [...]

Valentine’s Day Menu 2009

Apéritif: Kir

Starter: Spicy Cheese Rounds with cream cheese

Soup: Shrimp Bisque

Citrus Sorbet

Entree: Chicken Gruyere with Sauteed Mushrooms and Steamed Green Beans

Salad: Cucumber Dill Salad

Cheese & Fruit: Watermelon, Red Grapes, Emmental and Provolone

Dessert: Chocolate Mousse garnished with sliced almonds

Cheese Biscuits

This is a treat that my mother’s family had for breakfast every Christmas morning. I now make these for Matthew from time to time.
2 cups self-rising flour
3 tablespoons lard (or shortening)
3/4 cup milk (or buttermilk)
8-12 cubes cheddar cheese (depending upon how large you make your biscuits)
Cut the lard into the flour until it resembles coarse [...]

Banana Pudding

I decided to make banana pudding on Monday since we had some really ripe bananas to use up. I used the recipe off the Nilla Wafer box with a couple exceptions. I substituted 1/2 cup honey for 1/2 cup of the sugar and I substituted a tub of lite cool whip for the meringue.
Modified Nilla [...]

Coconut Lime Tilapia with Mango Pineapple Salsa

Last night, I was going to make broiled tilapia (with just salt, pepper and lime juice) with mango pineapple salsa until I came across Coconut & Lime’s Blogiversary Contest. Since the recipe I was making up in my head was close to matching the requirements for the contest, I decided that I’d add in some [...]

Fried Shrimp

This past weekend, I thought I’d try Grandmama Morton’s method for frying shrimp to take to our monthly family pot luck dinner.

I started with shrimp, salt, pepper, cornmeal and vegetable oil.

The seafood market we bought the shrimp from took the heads off for me. But, I had to peel and devein them (with the help [...]

Making Fondant

Every month, my mother’s family has a family reunion. This month, it’s the day before Easter so my mother and I planned to make a carrot cake and decorate it with an Easter theme.
Her job in all of this was to make the cake. We found a recipe in one of my cake decorating books, [...]