Kai's "Old-Fashioned" Recipe Thread

[Jolie Rouge]

Crawfish Dip

¼ cup light margarine
¼ cup flour
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 bunch green onions, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
1 (10 3/4 -ounce) can 99% fat-free cream of mushroom soup
1 (10-ounce) can chopped tomatoes and green chilies
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
1 lb. Crawfish tails, rinsed and drained

In skillet, melt margarine, add flour and mix well. Sauté all vegetables until tender, stirring constantly, to prevent sticking. Add mushroom soup and chopped tomatoes and green chilies; mix well. Add seasonings. Gently stir in crawfish tails. Cook until dip is thoroughly heated. Serve warm with Melba rounds.



Spinach Dip

1 (10-ounce) package frozen chopped spinach
2/3 cup light mayonnaise
1 cup non-fat plain yogurt
1 tsp. seasoned salt
½ tsp. dried dill weed
juice of half lemon
½ cup chopped parsley
½ cup chopped green onion

Thaw, squeeze, and drain chopped spinach. Blend spinach with remaining ingredients in bowl. Refrigerate. Recipe is best when made a day ahead. Serve with fresh vegetables.


Strawberry Bread

2 cups all-purpose flour
¾ cup sugar
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
1 large egg
1 large egg white
1/3 cup margarine or butter, melted
1/3 cup cranberry-strawberry juice
2 tsp. grated lemon rind
1 ½ cups strawberries, hulled and coarsely chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan with a nonstick cooking spray. In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda. Beat egg and egg white slightly in a small bowl; stir in margarine, juice, and lemon rind. Add to flour mixture, stirring until well combined. Stir in berries. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes until pick inserted in bread comes out clean; cover loosely with foil if it browns too fast. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.



Snack Mix

3 Tbs. Sesame oil
3 Tbs. Honey
1 Tbs. Soy sauce
½ tsp. Garlic salt
½ tsp. Onion powder
4 cups crispy wheat cereal squares
6 cups mini pretzels
1 cup soy nuts
1 cup dry roasted peanuts
1 cup candy-coated chocolate pieces

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Whisk together sesame oil, honey, soy sauce, garlic salt, and onion powder. Toss together cereal squares, pretzels, soy nuts, and peanuts in a large bowl. Drizzle oil mixture over cereal mixture, tossing gently to coat. Scatter mixture on a foil-lined jelly-roll pan and bake for 25 minutes, stirring often to prevent too much browning. Turn off oven and let cereal stay in oven for 1 hour to continue crisping. When cool, toss with the chocolate candies. Store in an airtight container for up to one week.

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[flute]

MOnday she'll be 5 months

I can't believe it....my bebe's growin up. *sob*sob

[jaybird]

DA! I can't believe it either! She scooting around yet, trying to get mobile?

[flute]

trying to get mobile yet? My she's been able to squirm outta her car seat since we last went down to the IL's.....that's been like..maybe a month ago? or more?

I found her getting her arm out of her car seat on the way back from granny & pa's...now that's just plain scary! Anyway, we're goin to the other car seat now, ready or not!

We're so proud She can flip from back to tummy...and on the bed can flip from tummy to back. LOL> I set her down Monday....turned around & be4 I could grab a diaper she flipped around...always knew she hated those diaper changes LOL

[Jolie Rouge]

Michael has perfected the "Marine Corps Crawl" ~ he is trying to follow me around the room & gets frustrated when he gets halfway only to find me coming back ! Don't worry Flute, Isabel will be crawling before you know it ! Michael is working on teeth #7 & #8 now ~ at 10 months ! Matthew had ONE tooth at a year !

I got a surprise package today - now I will KNOW just how much a pinch, dash & smidgen is! *T*Y* Jaybird ! Sure sign that great minds think alike : I just picked some up to use instead of a bow on a wedding gift (a cookbook, of course!) and I picked up a set to send my secret pal too !

Glad to hear you got the *bone* outa your throat.

So, Fugie ~ whats on your nightstand ?



Holly Clegg Cranberry & White Chocolate Treats

1 1/3 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 Tbs. Sugar
5 Tbs. Margarine or butter, melted
1 cup dried cranberries
1/3 cup white chocolate chips
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
½ cup natural wheat and barley cereal
1 (14-ounce) can fat-free sweetened condensed milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan, mix graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and margarine; press along bottom of pan. Sprinkle cranberries, white chocolate chips, walnuts, and cereal evenly over graham cracker crust. Pour sweetened condensed milk over top. Bake for 25 minutes or until bubbly.

[flute]

Now these times aren't perfect, you have to watch this. I was just foolin around in the kitchen, & got this

Quick & easy cheesy garlic bread
I pre-heated my oven to 150.
I spread butter on a slice of bread.
added about a smidgen & a half of garlic powder
& added cheese to suit my tastes.
turned oven off, and heated on the rack for about 5 or so minutes.

Enjoy

[jaybird]

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge
So, Fugie ~ whats on your nightstand ?

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ROFLMSAO! I'd rather know what's IN Fugi's nightstand!

[the fugative]

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge
So, Fugie ~ whats on your nightstand ?

Originally posted by jaybird
ROFLMSAO! I'd rather know what's IN Fugi's nightstand!

on?
2 Alarm Clocks

IN?
LOL lets See,

Well ther is A ******* & A ***** & **** ***** & ****** & ******** &
***** & ********* ****** & ****** & ******************** & ********
& **** & ****** & even More ****** & A couple of ***********
without ********* And Naturally Several ***** ******* .




Funny It Starred those Out

[jaybird]

TWO alarm clocks on your nightstand? I thought it was bad that dahubby has one on his side and I have one on mine. (we get up at different times)

Ya right...'it starred those out'

I believe you. Really I do.

Probably.

Maybe.

not

I told what was in my nightstand...

[the fugative]

Todays Ye Olde Fashioned Recipies


Cock-Ale


Take eight gallons of Ale, take a Cock and boil him well; then take four pounds of Raisins of the Sun well stoned, two or three Nutmegs, three or four flakes of Mace, half a pound of Dates; beat these all in a Mortar, and put to them two quarts of the best Sack: and when the Ale hath done working, put these in, and stop it close six or seven days, and then bottle it, and a month after you may drink it.

The Closet Of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digby Kt. Opened, 1677



Arterchoak Pie

Take the bottome of six Arterchoaks, being boyled very tender, put them in a dish, and put some vinegar over them, season them with Ginger and Sugar, a little Mace whole, putting them into a Pie, and when you lay them in, lay some marrow, and some Dates sliced in, and a few Raisins of the Sun in the bottome, with good store of butter, so close the Pie, and when it is half baked, take a dish of Sack, being boyled first with Sugar, and a pill of Orange, put it in your pie, and set it in the Oven again, till you use it.

From A True Gentlewomans Delight, 1653




FRIED CORN


Several ears sweet corn
Water
Salt
Pepper
Butter

The corn should be nearly grown, but the grains tender and full of milk; shuck and silk them nicely, cut about half of the grains from the cobs with a sharp knife, and with it scrape off the remaining part of the
corn; put it into a frying-pan with a very little water and enough salt, pepper and butter, or nice gravy, to season it well; cover the pan and fry it over a slow fire till done, raising the lid and stirring it
occasionally. It is fine for breakfast, and is sometimes introduced as a side dish at dinner.

From The Kentucky Housewife by Mrs. Lettice Bryan, 1839

[jaybird]

Originally posted by the fugative
take a Cock and boil him well

~isn't saying ONE word~