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Avocado Salsa

5 / 28 / 095 / 28 / 09
By lizziejank | Filed under Uncategorized | Tags: From (Rachel) Lizzie, Recipes

img_2119.JPGIt is like the best of guacamole plus the best of homemade salsa – and both of those are pretty rockin’ good! I got the recipe from a friend (thanks Jennie) a long time ago, but only recently remembered how much I love it when I busted it out to pair with chicken tacos.  Try this at home, it is sooo nice and fresh.

  •  2 large shallots
  •  3 garlic cloves
  •  2 T. chopped fresh cilantro
  •  1/2# of tomatillos
  •  2 medium avocados
  •  1 T. lime juice

Chop shallots and garlic, and add to bowl with cilantro. Discard husks of tomatillos and rinse off the sticky junk in warm water. Chop those and add to bowl. Chop avocados and add. Drizzle lime juice and stir. Eat half the bowl trying to decide if you need salt or pepper. End up just sprinkling a little kosher salt. Yum.

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Pretty Homestyle

5 / 4 / 095 / 4 / 09
By lizziejank | Filed under Uncategorized | Tags: Recipes

img_2072.JPG So, if you don’t already have a Texas sheet cake recipe that you adore, let this one be it. I am not a sheet cake enthusiast, but I actually look for reasons to make this one! Today we are celebrating Grandma Bessie’s 90th birthday, so I am making this to fill in the dessert cracks. I will simply assume that you are all making Mexican food tomorrow (and probably spending the whole day making pinatas and crepe paper flowers), so you will need a theme appropriate dessert. This cake has a dash of cinnamon in it, making it nicely coherent with a Mexican meal. Enjoy!

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Speaking of Easter Recipes

4 / 8 / 094 / 17 / 09
By rebekah | Filed under Uncategorized | Tags: Easter, Recipes

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This is what I’m making this year . . . a tried and true success from last Easter. I decided last year to go zooming out onto the skinny branches and make leg of lamb for Easter dinner. The reason this is definitely skinny branch level is that I have no real clear idea of what lamb is supposed to taste like. This is an ok situation on a normal experimental family dinner night – but when you’re having company and it’s Easter and you’re cooking something you’ve only had once or twice before and you aren’t totally sure what it’s supposed to turn out like . . . that’s some stress. Last year I was further thwarted by having an oven that had no clear identifying marks to tell you what the temperature was inside there. So as I was shopping around for recipes and I came across a grilled leg of lamb – I jumped at it. And as it turned out it was supremely good! Plus it had the added Read More

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Oxford Roast with Gravy Galore

3 / 7 / 093 / 7 / 09
By Nancy Ann | Filed under Uncategorized | Tags: Recipes

When it comes to the challenges of putting on a Sabbath Feast each Saturday night, the biggest help I have found is to keep the menu simple. Once I find something that is easy, stress-less, and delicious, I serve it up regularly, and so far no one has complained. I love cooking things that the men in particular love because they are so expressive about their joy when they fill their plates. My seven-year-old grandson is just like the rest of them. When he arrives, he always comes barreling into the kitchen, gives me a hug, and then starts reconnoitering the kitchen to see what’s coming. It blesses me no end!

So here is my latest easy-peasy roast-in-a-crock-pot-with-loads-of-gravy recipe that I brought back from Bekah’s kitchen. I think I will call it Oxford Roast with Gravy.

Rub down a roast (nothing too specific here…this week I bought two chuck roasts to fit in my big crock pot) with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Brown it up in some hot olive oil on the stove. Remove to the crockpot. Using the leftover oil in the pan, stir up some sliced onions and garlic until tender. Put them on top of the roast.

Then combine one can of cream of mushroom soup, 1/4 cup red wine, 2 T. worchestershire sauce, 3/4 c. hot water, 1 T. beef bouillon granules. Pour that over the roast, shut the lid and let it cook 8 hours on low.

When you take it out, you will have loads of gravy material. Strain out the onions and thicken it with some flour and water and you will have a jug full of delicious gravy to send around with the potatoes.

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Chicken Soup for Hungry People

2 / 3 / 092 / 3 / 09
By lizziejank | Filed under Uncategorized | Tags: Recipes

jan09-007.jpgThis recipe was born of an accidental mix up of a legendary family recipe (I mixed it up because it was my husband’s family and I did not know better), but the mix up was so delightful that we have never done it right since! Here is the basic concept – chicken soup (with or without noodles), served right on top of a pile of smashed potatoes. Besides being delicious (first you’re just eating soup, then it gradually starts turning into more of a potato soup, then you are eating potatoes with a fabulous chicken gravy… you get the point), it is also exceedingly practical. This makes it possible to have chicken soup as a man’s man meal. Unless I am greatly mistaken about the nature of hearty foods for serious eaters, I don’t think that chicken soup was formerly allowed into that category! Anyway, this is a simple and successful way to feed people. It is pretty too, and with a baguette and maybe salad on the side, it makes for great comfort- company food.  Try this out, and I’ll bet you that the children eat more than you knew they could!  Read More

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But when you’re up on your luck…

1 / 16 / 091 / 16 / 09
By lizziejank | Filed under Uncategorized | Tags: Recipes

picture-004.jpg …sometimes you want to make brownies! I haven’t shared a recipe in a while, and so when a friend asked for a copy of this one, I realized that if I was typing it up, I may as well share it with you! This is one of those very low key recipes that is actually pretty handy for entertaining because they manage to look maybe a tiny bit more fun than a usual pan of brownies. My personal favorite Read More

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