Recipes Rewind

INGREDIENTS 1 cinnamon stick, broken into pieces 4 whole cloves 3 allspice berries 6 black peppercorns 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 1/2 pounds beef pot roast, trimmed of excess fat 1 yellow onion, finely chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 celery stalks, sliced 2 carrots, peeled and sliced 1 cup hearty red wine 1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste chopped fresh parsley for garnish METHOD 1.Combine the cinnamon, cloves, allspice and peppercorns in a mortar or coffee grinder and grind to a fine powder. 2.Heat a large sauté pan over medium-high heat and add the oil. Add the meat and cook, turning, for 10-15 minutes, until browned on all sides. Using tongs, transfer meat to slow cooker. 3.Add the onion to the sauté pan and sauté, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Add the garlic, celery and carrots and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until lightly browned. Add the spice mixture and cook for 2 minutes. Add th...

INGREDIENTS 3 pounds chuck roast salt and pepper to taste 1 TBSP minced garlic 1 packet dry onion soup mix, 1 TBSP dry Basil, 1 Bay Leaf 1 cup tomato sauce (or Red Wine) -- if you don't have enough, add a little water 4-6 carrots, 2-3 inch lengths 2-3 onions, quatered 4-6 potatoes, peeled and cubed 1-3 stalks celery, chopped METHOD 1.Take the chuck roast and season with salt and pepper to taste. Brown on all sides in a large skillet over high heat - at the last minute add 1 TBSP of minced garlic to the frying pan to flavor the beef. Turn off heat. 2.Place beef in the slow cooker 3.Put tomato sauce / Red Wine, soup mix and spices in pan to "rince" out the garlic and other flavors of the beef. 4.Add carrots, onion, potatoes and celery to crock pot - then pour tomato sauce over all. 5.Cover and cook on low setting for 8 to 10 hours.

Grocery Plan Just a warning - Thanksgiving can be very expensive. Consider having instant mashed potatoes, canned sweet potatoes with marshmallows, a frozen vegetable, Turkey, canned cranberries and pie. It might be cheaper to buy a ready-made pie. This avoids buying sugar, flour, and all the expensive raw materials – you only need to use a little of each and then you have a bunch sitting around. If you won’t use it all – don’t buy, go instant. Remember to leave enough time for your Turkey Breast to Thaw!! Below, I have listed each menu item with its ingredients and substitutions. Toward the bottom I have added a grocery list. What You Need For Each Recipe Golden Corn Cake Small box of corn meal – I like the round box that has a fitted lid. Small bag of white flour Small bottle cooking oil 1 Egg Baking Powder (not baking soda) Milk Turkey Turkey breast – 2 to 6 pounds Tin Foil (Fresh rosemary, fresh thyme, fresh oregano, olive oil, dry garlic, pepper, chili flakes, paprika) Gravy ...

This is an inexpensive bread, good to go along with any soup or regular hot meal. Growing up we often had it with Chili and we like to put cheap pancake syrup on it. Make a double recipe; you can bake it in muffin pans. You can also add lots of different things to it e.g. cheese and chilies or left over cranberry sauce. Think of your own specialty. INGREDIENTS 1 Cup Flour ¾ Yellow Corn Meal 2 Teaspoons baking powder 1/3 Cup Sugar 1 Cup Milk or Butter Milk 2 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil 1 Egg METHOD Mix everything together in a bowl. Pour into a small baking pan e.g. if you have a round pan for a layer cake, that’s about the right size. Bake at 400 for about 20 minutes – the very edge of the top will turn a crisp brown color when its done.

Once I invited a lot of people for Thanksgiving. I rented a table and table cloth, people brought their favorite dishes. I roasted the turkey -- but it wouldn't get done. I still am not sure what I did wrong --either the oven wasn't working or the turkey was somewhat frozen. Dinner was two hours late -- for Christmas my friend gave me a meat thermometer. Be sure to have your turkey thawed and if you have never used your oven try it out ahead of time. Bake some prepared cookie dough and see if they get done in the time specified. If the burn, your oven is hot -- if they don't get done, your oven is cold. You can also buy an oven thermometer. But then you don't get to eat the cookies. Thaw Turkey The best way to thaw the bird is in the refrigerator on a tray, allowing 24 hours for each 5 pounds; a 16-pound bird, therefore, will take a little more than three days to defrost. If you've just bought a frozen bird, use the cold-water method -- in your ba...

I like gravy. It is something someone should show you how to make if you have never done it. Use flour to thicken gravy, mix the flour with cold water first. Then add a little bit of gravy drippings to the flour mixture and stir it in so that there is some oil in the mixture -- that will help prevent lumps. Don't let the heat get too high -- that causes the flour mixture to bake in blobs. Instead let the drippings rest while you make the flour mixture, then add it to the drippings, stir it all in and then gradually heat it up. If you drippings are pretty dried up, add water and cook them off the bottom of pan, stirring. Then turn off the heat and begin making your flour mixture etc. You can add a little white wine to turkey gravy - red wine to beef. But for your first few times, try a short cut method - INGREDIENTS Turkey Pan Drippings 1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup Pepper to Taste Parsley (optional) METHOD Scrape pan drippings into saucepan, add a ½ to 1 whol...