Beef and Cabbage Soup

Beef and Cabbage Soup

1 pound of lean ground beef
1/2 teaspoon of garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 - 16 ounce can of kidney beans, drained
1/2 of a head of cabbage, chopped
28 ounces tomatoes, chopped and liquid reserved
1 can water in empty tomato can
4 beef bouillon cubes
Chopped parsley

In a Dutch oven, brown the ground beef. Add all of the remaining ingredients except the parsley,
and bring to boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, covered for 1 hour. Garnish with parsley.

Cat Head Biscuits (as big as a cat’s head)

Cat Head Biscuits (as big as a cat’s head)

2 cups of flour
1/4 teaspoon of baking soda
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
5 tablespoons of lard or shortening
About 1 cup of buttermilk

Sift the dry ingredients together and cut in the lard or shortening. Add enough buttermilk to
make a soft dough. Pinch off about a lemon sized ball of dough for each biscuit and pat out
with your hands. Bake for 12 – 15 minutes at 450 degrees or until the tops are golden brown.
Remove the biscuits form the oven and rub butter on the tops of the hot biscuits to coat.

Some Of The Different Ways We Eat “Cat Head” Biscuits:

Cat Head” biscuit was and still is used in a great number of ways. In
fact this versatile bread can easily be eaten in different ways with every meal. Here are just a
few ways I remember eating them:

Aside from the usual biscuit filled with various homemade jams and jellies, we would some-
times eat them hot from the oven, filled with a generous amount of brown sugar and butter. The
butter melts over the brown sugar and creates a breakfast food that no store-bought brown
sugar and cinnamon toaster pastry can even touch.

Split open or torn into small pieces and smothered with one of the delicious southern gravies
such as Chocolate Gravy, Sausage Gravy, or one of the homemade “Fruit Jams”.

Not much in the world of food is as good as a sandwich made out of a big homemade biscuit
with a large slice of a ripe, red tomato and a little salt or with a slice of pork tenderloin or ham.

spoon bread

spoon bread

2 1/2 cups of boiling water
2 egg yolks
2 stiffly beaten egg whites
2 cups of cornmeal
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
1 1/2 cups of buttermilk
3 tablespoons of melted butter

Gradually stir the cornmeal into the boiling water. After the cornmeal mixture has cooled add
the egg yolks, baking powder, salt, melted butter, and the buttermilk. Fold in the beaten egg
whites. Pour into a greased baking pan and bake for 45 minutes at 425 degrees.
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Whipping Cream Biscuits

Whipping Cream Biscuits

2 cups of self-rising flour
2 teaspoons of sugar
1 cup of whipping cream

Combine all of the ingredients into a stiff dough. Knead the dough and roll out to about 3/8”
thick. Cut out the biscuits and bake in a greased pan for 10 – 12 minutes at 450 degrees.

Peas and Pasta

Peas and  Pasta

My husbands favorite quick  to make one our home town dishes healthy food for the kids they learn to eat vegetables this way

1 pound pasta of your choice. I prefer  small size or broken spaghetti. so you can eat with a spoon
	1 large clove of garlic, diced
	2-3 olive oil
if you want to make something fast hard day at work or late from work just use 2 cans of peas	1 medium to large onion, chopped
	2 cups frozen green peas, the tiny ones are best
	salt to tastes
	pepper to taste
	a splash (2-3 tablespoons)   water
	if you want you can add diced ham or bacon with the onions

Pasta with Lentils

Pasta with Lentils  was a favorite in our home kids love it and good source  of iron I always made sure that my children had legumes once a week best way to make it with pasta kids like pastas you can use any one you like with this dish or on its own my grandson loves it

 it

Ingredients

               

• 1 onion (chopped)
• 1 tomato (seeded chopped)
• 1 carrot (chopped)
• 1 celery (stalk chopped)
• 3 garlic cloves (chopped)

                        

• 71/2 cups water
• 13/4 cups lentils (rinsed drained)
• 500 gr         fusilli (freshly cooked)  or what you pasta               
• olive oil

 

Saute onion, tomato, carrot, celery, garlic In a large pot Saute 6 minutes. Add water and lentils; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium. Simmer until lentils are tender and mixture thickens, stirring often, about 45 minutes. Mix in pasta; simmering 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper

Stuffed Artichokes

STUFFED ARTICOKES WERE A FAVORET WHEN I WAS GOING UP MY MOM LOVE THEM AND SO DID I > WHEN MY CHILDREN WHERE GROWING UP I MADE THEM WHEN I FOUND GOOD ARTICOKES THERE ARE A GREAT HEALTH FOOD LOTS OF IRON AND TASTE GREAT  WHEN THEY WERE IN THERE TEENS I MADE IT A LOT THATS WHEN THEY NEED THE IRON THE MOST < THEY LOVE THEM EASY TO MAKE GREAT DISH

    Servings
4




       4 medium

fresh

artichokes

       2 -3 cups


Italian style breadcrumbs     


       2 -3 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese or 2 -3 tablespoons

        romano cheese


       1 tablespoon

        dried parsley

       1 teaspoon

       garlic salt   

       1/2 teaspoon
        fresh ground black pepper


       1/4 cup

         olive oil

       1 -2 tablespoon

        olive oil

(for drizzling)


 Directions:


   1 Rinse artichokes well, tugging leaves outward to loosen slightly for stuffing.

2 Trim off stems so artichokes sit on a flat surface.

3 Trim off the pointed tips of each leaf.

4 Set aside. I put them in bowl of( salt water and lemon juice
 they take bitter away,)
   5 In a large bowl combine bread crumbs, cheese, parsley, garlic salt, and pepper.

6 Mix well; slowly add the oil till the crumb mixture is moistened enough to stick together.

7 You may need to adjust the amount of oil depending on the type and amount of bread crumbs used.

8 Stuff each leaf of the artichoke, starting from the bottom and working your way around, with crumb mixture.

9 Stuff desired amount of leaves and shake off excess mixture.

10 Continue this step with remaining artichokes.

11 Place artichokes in a large baking pan and fill bottom of pan with 1/2 to 1 inch of water.

12 Drizzle olive oil over top of stuffed artichokes and cover tightly with heavy duty foil.

13 Cook on 375 degrees for approximately 50-60 minutes (depending on size of artichoke) or until leave comes out easily.

14 Cool for 10 minutes; serve and Enjoy!( tips) or you can put them in a crockpot for 6 to 8 hrs low, or on top the stove in a big stew pot with a lid on low  water and little oil cheese salt and pepper to taste 2 fresh or plum tomatoes sprinkle cheese  or add little stock  injoy

low carb Fauxtato salad

 Fauxtato salad



1/2 large head cauliflower

2 green onions 

2 stalks celery

2 radishes

2 hard boiled eggs

3 large tablespoons Hellman's lite olive oil mayo

1 tsp Mount Olive sweet relish (available from Ontario Nutrition Store)

1/2 tsp dried dill (can use fresh if you have it)

ground pepper

Steam cauliflower until just tender crisp.

Set aside and allow to cool. Cut into pieces

Chop onions, dice celery, and finely dice radish

Mash the eggs with a fork. Add just enough of the mayo to meld everything together. Unlike potatoes, you will use much less mayo.
you can add tuna to make a full meal or slice your eggs

Eggplant mushroom

Eggplant mushroom

The eggplant mushroom are a classic and tasty side dish to accompany the dishes both summer and winter. The name derives from the way to cut the eggplant into small pieces, and there are many variations of this recipe that is typical of the Apulian cuisine.

Ingredients

• 500 gr. egg plant
• 2 peeled tomatoes
• <
• 6 leaves basil
• salt to taste
• extra virgin olive oil to taste

Instructions

1. To prepare the eggplant mushroom, started washing under running water eggplants.
2. Then removed with a knife, the tip of the stalk and the final part, then cut the eggplant into slices about 1 cm along the length, cut them into strips and cut into cubes of 1.5 cm side.
3. Take a large skillet and pour plenty of oil, add the diced eggplant, peeled chopped tomatoes, basil, chopped garlic and salt.
4. Put to cook with a lid on low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
5. When all the water has evaporated expulsion from the eggplant, remove the lid and cook on high heat for another 20 minutes.
6. Then turn off the heat and enjoy your eggplant mushroom warm or cold, as a side dish or to add flavor to the pasta.

Blueberry Pound Cake

Blueberry Pound Cake

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of butter, softened and divided
2 1/4 cups of granulated sugar, divided
4 eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
3 cups of all-purpose flour, divided
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 cups of fresh or frozen blueberries, well drained

Grease a 10? tube pan with the two tablespoons of butter.  Sprinkle the pan with 1/4 cup of
sugar and set aside.

Cream the remaining 1 cup of butter, gradually add the remaining 2 cups of sugar and beat
well.  Add the eggs, one at a time.  Add the vanilla, mixing well.  Combine 2 3/4 cups of flour,
baking powder and the salt.  Gradually add to the creamed butter mixture, beating well.  Dredge
the blueberries into the reserved 1/4 cup of flour to coat well.  Fold the blueberries into the bat-
ter and pour into the prepared pan.  Bake at 325 degrees for 70 minutes.  Cool in pan for 10
minutes then remove.

Glaze:

2 cups of sifted 10x confectioner?s sugar
2 or more tablespoons of milk
1 tablespoon lemon extract

Mix until the right consistency and pour over the cooled cake.
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Did You Know?

Lettuce loves fat.  You can easily remove
excess fat from soups and stews by drop-
ping a few lettuce leaves in the pot.  The
fat will cling to the lettuce leaves.

Barley and lentil soup

BARLEY AND LENTIL SOUP


12 c/water
2 Sm potatoes cut small cubes
2 stalks celery chopped small
1 onion chopped small
1 small tomato minced
2 tabls veg eta soup mix or 4 bouillon cubes or any soup mix
1 can lentils drained
11/2 cup barley
1 tsp oil or butter
salt and pepper to taste
1teasp garlic powder
1 tsp oregano


directions

saute
celery, potatoes,onion,tomato,with oil in a big pan for 3 Min's, add water, let boil for 1/2 hr add  soup mix,spices, and barely, lentils last 10 min////.soup is done when barley is cooked