Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Iowa Pork Vegetable Oven Stew

Makes: 6 servings Yield: 9 cups Prep: 20 mins Bake: 2 hrs at 325°F Cook: 10 mins

  • 1 1/2 pounds boneless pork shoulder or pork stew meat, cut into 3/4-inch cubes
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 3 medium onions, coarsely chopped (1-1/2 cups)
  • 2 14 ounce can cans reduced-sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth or 3-1/2 cups chicken stock
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano, crushed
  • 1 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 16 ounce package frozen whole kernel corn
  • 1 pound tiny new potatoes, halved
  • 2 cups fresh green beans, cut into 2-inch pieces or frozen cut green beans
  • Warm corn bread muffins (optional)
1. In a 4-quart Dutch oven, brown half of the meat in hot oil. Remove meat from Dutch oven. Add remaining meat and chopped onion. Return all meat to Dutch oven. Reserve 1/2 cup of the chicken broth. Stir in remaining chicken broth, thyme, oregano, lemon-pepper seasoning and salt. Bring to boiling; remove from heat. Cover tightly and bake in a 325 degree F oven for 1 hour.
2. In a small bowl, combine the reserved 1/2 cup chicken broth and flour; stir into stew. Stir in corn, potatoes and beans. Bake, covered, for 1 hour more or until meat and vegetables are tender and mixture is thickened. If you like, serve with warm corn bread muffins. Makes 6 main-dish servings (9 cups).

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Peach Upside Down Cake

 Makes: 8 servings Prep: 25 mins
Cool: 15 mins Bake: 45 mins at 350°F

  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 - 2 cups sliced, pitted and peeled peaches or frozen unsweetened peach slices, thawed and large slices cut in half lengthwise
  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 cup milk

1. Place 1/4 cup butter in an 8x8x2-inch baking pan. Warm in a 350 degrees F oven about 5 minutes or until butter is melted. (Be sure to watch carefully to avoid overbrowning the butter). Remove pan from oven. Add brown sugar, stirring until sugar is completely moistened. Spread sugar mixture evenly in pan. Arrange peach slices evenly over brown sugar mixture. Set aside.

2. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Beat in granulated sugar until well combined. Add egg and vanilla, beating until combined. Alternately add the flour mixture and milk to beaten butter mixture, beating on low speed after each addition just until combined. Spread batter evenly over the peaches in the pan.

3. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack for 5 minutes. Loosen cake from sides of pan; invert onto a large serving plate. Cool for 10 to 15 minutes more. Serve warm.

Makes 8 servings.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Peanut Butter-Fudge Pie

 From Midwest Living
You can double the recipe to fill a 13x9 pan and cut into squares to feed a crowd.

Makes: 8 servings Prep: 25 mins Freeze: 6 hrs
  • 1/4 cup light-colored corn syrup
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 2 1/2 cups crisp rice cereal
  • 1/2 cup fudge ice cream topping
  • 6 tablespoons light-colored corn syrup
  • 1 - 2 quarts vanilla or vanilla-fudge-swirl ice cream
  • 1/2 cup chopped peanuts
  • 1 cup fudge ice cream topping
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

1. For crust, in a medium saucepan, combine the 1/4 cup corn syrup, the butter or margarine, and brown sugar. Cook over medium heat until mixture boils. Remove from heat.
 
2. Add rice cereal and gently stir until combined. Press into the bottom and up the side of a buttered 10-inch pie plate to form a firm, even crust. Cool.
 
3. In a medium saucepan, combine creamy peanut butter, the 1/2 cup fudge topping, and the 6 tablespoons corn syrup. Heat and stir over low heat until smooth. Spread in cooled rice-cereal crust. Place crust in the freezer for 2 to 3 hours or until firm.
 
4. Scoop ice cream into the pie. Freeze at least 4 hours or overnight until firm.
 
5. Sprinkle evenly with half of the peanuts. Spread the 1 cup fudge topping over peanuts. Sprinkle with remaining peanuts. Store the pie in the freezer. Before serving, let soften slightly at room temperature. Makes

8 servings.



Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Tinted Angel Food Cake

 
Makes: 12 servings Prep: 20 mins Bake: according to package
 
  • 1 16 ounce package angel food cake mix
  • 1/2 0.16 - 0.23 ounce envelope Kool-Aid® tropical punch, pink lemonade, black cherry or your favorite flavor unsweetened soft drink mix (about 3/4 teaspoon)
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 tablespoons hot water
  • 1 tablespoon grenadine syrup, maraschino cherry liquid, or 1/4 teaspoon Kool-Aid® unsweetened soft drink mix
  • White baking chocolate curls
1. In a large mixing bowl, combine angel food cake mix and 3/4 teaspoon Kool-Aid® mix. Prepare cake mix according to package directions.
2. In a medium bowl, combine powdered sugar, hot water and grenadine syrup. If necessary, add additional water, 1 teaspoon at a time, to make icing of drizzling consistency. Drizzle icing over cake. Top with white chocolate curls.

Makes 12 servings.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Homemade Butter

Crispy Oven Fries - Salt-free

Another recipe I made for my dad so it's salt-free.

Large cookie sheet with sides, lined with foil.
PAM
4 baking potatoes, scrubbed.
Garlic infused Olive Oil
Pepper
garlic powder

Oven 425 degrees

Scrub potatoes. Dry and slice thin, Spread out on cookie sheet, drizzle with olive oil, toss to coat. Shake on some pepper and garlic powder.

Bake 25 minutes or until the edges get crispy.

Those who can have salt, will want to salt these when they are still hot.

Grilled Pork Tenderloin - 5 Star


1 (4 pound) boneless pork top loin roast
(single loin)
1 teaspoon olive oil
2 teaspoons paprika
1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder
1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

I made this for my folks for Mother's Day 2012 - very delicious. I made this without salt since my dad is on a salt restricted diet ...you could use garlic salt and onion salt.

Served with roasted broccoli and oven fries.

Place boneless pork loin on large cutting board or platter; brush oil over all sides. Set aside. Meanwhile, stir together dry rub seasoning. Rub over pork to cover. 


Preheat grill on high.


Place pork loin over medium high heat  (about 400 degrees F.) gas grill. Cook for 5 minutes on each side to brown. Move pork to area on grill over indirect heat. Cook, covered for 25 - 30 minutes with the lid down  or until internal temperature reaches 150 degrees F. On gas grill, move pork to one side of grill; turn off the gas directly under the pork. Leave the rest of the grill on medium heat. 


I used a gas grill with 3 burners.  Cooked the loins on the back  burner of the gas grill after they were seared... turned back burner to OFF
Turned the middle burner to Low 
Turned the front burner to Med High 

 Serve with your favorite sauce.