Tomato Cream Sauce recipe

1 28 oz can diced tomato's

(I had 2 15oz cans, one was Italian flavor, so there was already onion & garlic flavor added)

2 Med garlic cloves minced

3 TBSP butter

2 TBSP chopped basil leaves

Salt to taste

1 Cup heave cream

Press garlic into small bowl, stir in 1 tsp water. Heat 2 Tbsp butter & garlic in med. saute pan- about 2 mins. Stir in tomatoes, simmer 10 mins. Stir in basil 1/2 tsp salt & cream. Simmer until sauce thickens 2-3 mins, adjust seasonings to your liking.

-Reserve 1/4 Cup of cooking water from pasta. Mix with sauce and remaining 1TBSP butter. Cook together over med. heat for 1 min. Stirring constantly.

This recipe goes well with 1lb of cooked pasta.

Pasta & Grilled carrots

Cooking show

I want to remind anyone interested, that the next cooking class at the DATC is Monday, May 17th @ 6:00. It will be about pasta & noodles. Learning techniques from Italy, Asia, and Germany. Cost is $35.00- Very excited about that.
I want to thank Tiffany, for going to the cooking show with me. I was able to get a few cooking tips & a lot of new recipes. I was looking through one of the recipe books when I noticed Tif's hand in the air point at both us of-- We'll do it.

Huh What???

YUP, she volunteered us for a competition. We went against another pair of ladies, we both had to decorate a trifle made by http://www.chefshamy.com/



It looked somewhat like this, except the top just had cool whip & we had limited fruit to decorate it. Each team had 1 banana, 2 kiwis, 7 strawberries, 10 pieces of mandarin orange & about 5-6 maraschino cherries. I must say, we totally handed it to the other couple. I only WISH I had taken a picture. We got fancy red aprons that say Chef Shamy, a bottle of his sauce- I got teriyaki & Tif got sweet and sour. His products are preservative free -yea for no hives- and peanut free -yea for Cassidy-. I went and bought his pot sticker sauce which is also fabulous. I would love to get his vanilla honey butter & his garlic butter too, still trying to find someone who sells the vanilla honey butter. Thanks again to Tif for going with me, I wouldn't have had that much fun on my own.

Tis' the season

CANNING

I have frozen

peas

corn

raspberry jam

I have canned

pears

peaches

green beans

apricot juice

peach jam

strawberry jam

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and for the first time ever I am going to attempt

SALSA

I will take any recipes and tips you have to offer. I have gotten a few recipes, but what I like to do is, look at like 5 & then make my own. Silly I know, but that is how I am.

Last year was my first year for apple sauce & apple butter. I tried a few different recipes all were good in their own way. I did enough, however, to cover me for this year.

LOOKING FOR A RECIPE

Hi everyone, I am looking for a recipe-
for a Spanish or Mexican rice.
Something that goes well with a chili verde sauce..
Box mixes won't do- no rice a roni or zatarans recipe's.
Thanks~

Waffles

1 cup flour (you can use 1/2 white 1/2 wheat if you want)

2 tsp baking powder

3/4 tsp cinnamon

1/8 tsp salt

1/8 tsp cloves

1 cup low-fat milk

1/2 cup canned pumpkin

1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar

1 T vegetable oil

1 large egg lightly beaten

~Combine first 5 ingredients (through cloves) in a large bowl, and make a well in the center of mixture. Combine milk and next 4 ingredients in a bowl and then add to flour mixture. Mix until moist. Coat waffle iron with cooking spray and preheat. Use approx 1/4 cup batter per waffle and cook 5-7 minutes or until steaming stops.

You can also substitute applesauce for the pumpkin.

CupCake Boquets

Here is a fun Valentines Day idea. Anyone wanting to order one, let me know. Or you can try it yourself. It's a fun thing to do especially if you want to save money & still give a cute little gift to your honey. Here is the first one I tried.

If you want to give it a try yourself, here is a link that will help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9qtZwHHmx4

Recipe of the week

Peanutbutter 'licious




Call it what you want but it's delicious!


1 box reeses puff cereal


1 box p-nut butter captin crunch cereal


( I got the largest size of both)


In a pan, compbine;


2 Cups p-nut butter


2 Cups Karo Syrup


2 Cups Sugar


stir until all melted togethere, & pour over cereal stirring until all is coated.


Side note:I ran out of Karo Syrup, so I used a few marshmellows- worked fine


Side note: for a little healthier snack-- but not by much, 1/2 the recipe & use 1 lg box of cherios or corn flakes insted of the p-nut butter cereals.

Side note: You can also change it up by adding chunky peanutbutter, or chopped nuts, cocoa puffs, or coconut,

Recipe of the week

My 2 favorites

Blue Cheese
1 pkg blue cheese
1 cube butter
1 pkg cream cheese
~ These should all be unwrapped, and placed in a bowl for a few hours until all are at room temp. You can use a spoon, but the easiest thing I have found it to mix them together with my hands-

Once mixed, form into 2 medium balls or 1 large ball.
You can also roll around in chopped nuts.
Wrap in saran wrap & place in fridge until ready for use.


Italian Cheese
2 pkg cream cheese
1 pkg good seasons itilian dressing (dry)
1 cup shreaded cheese (medium or sharp)

Mix together at room temp.
Once mixed, form into 2 lg balls or 3 med balls.
You can also roll around in chopped nuts.
Wrap in saran wrap & place in fridge until ready for use.

Here are some ideas on how to display your cheese ball. The pine cone one uses almonds.

For a large salad-

1 box barilla pasta-any shape Cook as directed on box

Grated carrots -I don't grate them, I buy them like that

Cut up celery

Peas

Cherry tomato's

1 can olives

Grated or cubed cheese

Few sprinkles of parm. cheese

Sprinkle on Lemon pepper, and Salad supreme- A must!

I use Kraft zesty Italian bottled dressing.

I find if the salad sits overnight, the flavor sinks in better. I also add more seasoning to it before serving. Seasoned to taste.

Possible additions- for the vegie lovers

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Green peppers

ham, or pepperoni cut up.

Egg noodles

1 egg

1/2 tsp salt

1 Cup flour

2 TBS water

- I mixed this in my mixer-can also be done by hand.

For such a small recipe, sure makes alot.

I tried doing them thin & they came out thick, which works great for soups.If you are making them for Spaghetti or Alfredo, try making them see through thin, or tell you husband you want a pasta attachment for your kitchenaid like me!

The dough was stiff, I did end up adding a little more water. & I cooked mine fresh, I didn't bake or dry them.

Chicken noodle soup

To feed my family of 5 & not having too much left over...

I startedwith;

6 cups water

5 Chicken boulion cubes

2 Cups cookedchicken

1/2cup of sliced celery

1/2 cup of sliced carrots

1/4 cupfrozen choppedonion

I sprinkled to taste the following spices,buthere is my estimateof how much.

1 tsp celery salt

1/2 tsp onionsalt

1/2 tsp whitepepper

1/2 tsp poultry seasoning

1/2 tsp groundpepper

1 tsp parsleyflakes

1/2 tsp salt

~This time I used homemade noodles-- my first timeever.that will be next weeks recipe.

Add about 1 cup noodles, depending on how many noodles you like. I used about 1 tsp corn starch to thicken justa little.

Chocolate cheese cake

-Crust-

1 1/2 cups crushed chocolate cookie

2 Tbs butter

~mix well, press mixture on bottom of springform pan

bake 8-10 mins @350. Let it cool

-CheeseCake-

3 pkg cream cheese softened

1 1/4 cup sugar

1 1/3 cup cocoa

3 eggs

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

~beat cream cheese and Sugar in large bowl until smooth.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Add Cocoa, stir in vanilla.

Pour into prepared crust.

Chicken Stir Fry

I like to have plenty of vegies. Ü

I start with chicken, cook that in a little oil, once done, I add a chicken gravy packet, along with soy sauce, poultry seasoning, If I have some, I add oyster sauce and a little pad thai sauce.

Once all in & mixes well,

I add:

peas in a pod

celery

carrots

chopped onions-Just a little

sometimes, chopped peppers

or the little corn cobs

& the best of all CASHEWS.

Yum Yum!If the sauce starts cooking away-- a good thing to add is a little white wine, or beer, it makes the sauce very carmelized- Otherwise, add a little water.I simmer that until the vegie's are to my likingI like to have them a little crisp.

Recipe of the week...

I have decided that I will now add my recipe of the week as a "post". That way if you want to look up past recipes, it will be possible.
So, Once I post a new Recipe of the week, the old one will become a post.