Fall/Holdiay Recipe Bonanza!!Woot, Woot!?!;p
So I have been "getting fancy w/the spices" lately and cooking up a storm.Given that I figured I'd post some of my recent endeavors both to share w/my fellow cooks out here in LJland as well as for my own future reference!;)
The first recipe I wanna share is something I brought to the Turkey day party we attended in leui of going out of town to visit family (not too keen on all that w/a newborn and whatnot).Suffice to say it was a slam dunk!
http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Warm-Up-with-Mulled-Wine-and-Cider/Detail.aspx
Aka Krys's version=
Everything but the Kitchen Sink Mulled Wine
(or Apple Cider can be substituted for the booze, which I made a batch of as well for the non-alcoholics!)
1 orange
1/2 pear
3 dried figs
1 stick of cinnamon
1 pinch pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup both reg and brown sugar
2 bottles red wine
3 cups Welch's dark cherry grape juice
1 shot of port
2 shots of spiced rum
2 shots of ameretto
Mix everything together to in a big pot.Bring to a boil, then simmer for 15 minutes.Server warm, w/a cinnamon stick if desired.
I also brought this (along w/the carrot recipe down below and some "semihomade", aka souped up, stuffing) and it was a went over fabulously as well...even Slater ate like 5+ of them!It seemed like every other time he went to the back of the house he had one in his hand?!?My preschooler, the little mini-gourment.LOL!
FYI, it is a bit labor intensive, but very much worth it if you have the time....
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sandra-lee/prosciutto-wrapped-figs-recipe/index.html
This was my inspiration, but again I 'doctored' it up a bit w/ingredients I had on hand and/or got on sale.My version had dried figs, 1/2 cream cheese & 1/2 gorgonzola, no spices and was wrapped in bacon then drizzled w/raspberry flavored honey.
After said party we had lotsa leftovers come home w/us, so I came up w/a few ways to use up said food schtuffs...
Thanksgiving Leftover Potato Pancakes
1/2 mashed potato leftovers
1/2 anything else you want to add (we had green bean casserole and cornbread sausage stuffing we added to the mix, I'm sure you could also add turkey, etc.)
1/2 cup preferred shredded cheese (we used chedder/jack mix but parmesan would work well also)
1 egg
1/2 cup (or more) of bread crumbs
3 splashes of olive oil
Sauce
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tbsp mustard (we used dijon but brown would work great as well)
2 splashes of cream or milk
1 splash of white wine
PANCAKES
Mix first three items together w/a palmful of bread crumbs.Form patties.Fry patties in olive oil until they brown on each side.Serve w/a spoonful of sauce.
SAUCE
Mix wet items in pan on med heat, scraping up browned bits on bottom.Add sour cream and mustard and cook until you get desired consistency.
A rather unusual, but very tasty, way to use up more leftover turkey (which worked out well since I just couldn't pass up the after Thanksgiving sale at my local market and purchased a 13pd turkey for under 5 bucks!!!Woohoo!!!)
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/turkey-posole-recipe/index.html
Served w/Beer Cornbread Muffins...
1 box cornbread mix
1/4 cup (or rest of bottle from above recipe) beer
1/3 cup shredded cheese
Follow box direction substituting beer for water/milk and adding cheese to mix.;)
There was a baker chick at the aformentioned party who brought an AMAZING pumpkin cheesecake.OMG, it was just heavenly!
While I could not duplicate hers even if I tried I did find a yummy recipe for said item and Steve liked this so much I am making one to bring to his family for Xmas...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Cheesecake-in-a-Gingersnap-Crust/Detail.aspx
And I will also be bringing (my fave potato 'casserole', btw can I just add I love that it is not SWEET!!!)...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Yam-and-Potato-Casserole/Detail.aspx
Along with...
Krys' version of Green Bean Casserole
4 cans of green beans
1 can Progresso portebello mushroom soup (or generic is fine)
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup french onion dip
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp grainy brown mustard (I used a german one w/white wine)
1 cup dried onion topping
Mix beans w/wet ingredients.Bake at 350 for 20m.Add topping, bake another 10m or until topping starts to lightly brown.Enjoy!
Another holiday staple (and my fave way to make carrots)...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Balsamic-Glazed-Carrots/Detail.aspx
And a fun variation on garlic bread I found during the Halloween holidays (and even Slater liked this stuff and it was a great way to get him to 'eat his greens'!Along w/the fact that the topping freezes really well for future use)...
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/green-gobble-ems-garlic-bread-chunks-recipe/index.html
Speaking of Fall, I've also been on a pumpkin/sweet potato kick lately and here are a few of my yummy creations (tweaked here and there of course)...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Bread-Puddin/Detail.aspx
I used day old french bread, vanilla soy milk and pumpkin pie spice.And I used the sauce from this recipe
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Bread-Pudding-with-Caramel-Rum-Sauce/Detail.aspx
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/cake/sensational_sweet_potato_cake_recipe.html
No pineapple, used pumpkin pie spice and leftover sweet potatoes (even more fun uses of LEFTOVERS...one was regular brown sugar glazed and one was a marshmellowy casserole style) from the Thanksgiving party we attended.Also did a bundt and hence didn't do frosting, just a light dusting of powdered sugar and nuked brown sugar sauce.
And lastly, for Slaters school Xmas party we were asked to bring a food, so I made mini-quiches for the occasion (which I love to do because they are ungodly easy to prepare, and look hella cute in their little cupcake sleeves).Recipe follows.....
Chorizo and Potato Quiche
1 link of ground chorizo sausage
1 onion, diced
1 can of diced potatoes
1 cup of milk
1 cup of shredded cheese (colby/jack blend, or could use blue, see recipe below)
6 eggs
1 pinch of garlic powder, onion powder, parsley, salt and pepper
Cook sausage, then add onion and cook through.Nuke potatoes for 2m.Set both aside.Whisk eggs, milk and spices.Fold in other items.Pour into baking dish (or in my case cupcake tins) and bake at 350 for 1/2hr.
Suffice to say these little guys were a HUGE hit (of course not to toot my own horn as anything geared towards the grown ups, or savory rather than sweets, is always gonna go pretty fast.Kwim), so much so that even though I made 24 of them, neither me nor his teacher got to sample any as they were gone w/in 5m!!!!
Which was just fine as...
A.I'm glad they went over so well and everyone enjoyed them so much
and
B.I ended up making a full size quiche for dinner the next night as Steve complained about me not "saving him any"!Pfft.:P
Btw, to elaborate on the blue cheese comment earlier I have included another one of my fave all time recipes...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Creolized-Stuffed-Chicken-Breasts/Detail.aspx
I took a reviewers advice and used chorizo and blue cheese crumbles instead and it always turns out awesome.Or as a good friends husband noted after I served them at a dinner party "You can't go wrong w/meat stuffed meat!!".Mwahahahaaa!!!!
Well I think that is plenty of recipes for now!:0
Man, you gotta love AllRecipes (esp. their recipe box and search engine, which rocks btw) and FoodNetwork!!Can you tell they are my new best friends??;)
The first recipe I wanna share is something I brought to the Turkey day party we attended in leui of going out of town to visit family (not too keen on all that w/a newborn and whatnot).Suffice to say it was a slam dunk!
http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Warm-Up-with-Mulled-Wine-and-Cider/Detail.aspx
Aka Krys's version=
Everything but the Kitchen Sink Mulled Wine
(or Apple Cider can be substituted for the booze, which I made a batch of as well for the non-alcoholics!)
1 orange
1/2 pear
3 dried figs
1 stick of cinnamon
1 pinch pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup both reg and brown sugar
2 bottles red wine
3 cups Welch's dark cherry grape juice
1 shot of port
2 shots of spiced rum
2 shots of ameretto
Mix everything together to in a big pot.Bring to a boil, then simmer for 15 minutes.Server warm, w/a cinnamon stick if desired.
I also brought this (along w/the carrot recipe down below and some "semihomade", aka souped up, stuffing) and it was a went over fabulously as well...even Slater ate like 5+ of them!It seemed like every other time he went to the back of the house he had one in his hand?!?My preschooler, the little mini-gourment.LOL!
FYI, it is a bit labor intensive, but very much worth it if you have the time....
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sandra-lee/prosciutto-wrapped-figs-recipe/index.html
This was my inspiration, but again I 'doctored' it up a bit w/ingredients I had on hand and/or got on sale.My version had dried figs, 1/2 cream cheese & 1/2 gorgonzola, no spices and was wrapped in bacon then drizzled w/raspberry flavored honey.
After said party we had lotsa leftovers come home w/us, so I came up w/a few ways to use up said food schtuffs...
Thanksgiving Leftover Potato Pancakes
1/2 mashed potato leftovers
1/2 anything else you want to add (we had green bean casserole and cornbread sausage stuffing we added to the mix, I'm sure you could also add turkey, etc.)
1/2 cup preferred shredded cheese (we used chedder/jack mix but parmesan would work well also)
1 egg
1/2 cup (or more) of bread crumbs
3 splashes of olive oil
Sauce
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tbsp mustard (we used dijon but brown would work great as well)
2 splashes of cream or milk
1 splash of white wine
PANCAKES
Mix first three items together w/a palmful of bread crumbs.Form patties.Fry patties in olive oil until they brown on each side.Serve w/a spoonful of sauce.
SAUCE
Mix wet items in pan on med heat, scraping up browned bits on bottom.Add sour cream and mustard and cook until you get desired consistency.
A rather unusual, but very tasty, way to use up more leftover turkey (which worked out well since I just couldn't pass up the after Thanksgiving sale at my local market and purchased a 13pd turkey for under 5 bucks!!!Woohoo!!!)
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/turkey-posole-recipe/index.html
Served w/Beer Cornbread Muffins...
1 box cornbread mix
1/4 cup (or rest of bottle from above recipe) beer
1/3 cup shredded cheese
Follow box direction substituting beer for water/milk and adding cheese to mix.;)
There was a baker chick at the aformentioned party who brought an AMAZING pumpkin cheesecake.OMG, it was just heavenly!
While I could not duplicate hers even if I tried I did find a yummy recipe for said item and Steve liked this so much I am making one to bring to his family for Xmas...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Cheesecake-in-a-Gingersnap-Crust/Detail.aspx
And I will also be bringing (my fave potato 'casserole', btw can I just add I love that it is not SWEET!!!)...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Yam-and-Potato-Casserole/Detail.aspx
Along with...
Krys' version of Green Bean Casserole
4 cans of green beans
1 can Progresso portebello mushroom soup (or generic is fine)
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup french onion dip
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp grainy brown mustard (I used a german one w/white wine)
1 cup dried onion topping
Mix beans w/wet ingredients.Bake at 350 for 20m.Add topping, bake another 10m or until topping starts to lightly brown.Enjoy!
Another holiday staple (and my fave way to make carrots)...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Balsamic-Glazed-Carrots/Detail.aspx
And a fun variation on garlic bread I found during the Halloween holidays (and even Slater liked this stuff and it was a great way to get him to 'eat his greens'!Along w/the fact that the topping freezes really well for future use)...
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/green-gobble-ems-garlic-bread-chunks-recipe/index.html
Speaking of Fall, I've also been on a pumpkin/sweet potato kick lately and here are a few of my yummy creations (tweaked here and there of course)...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Bread-Puddin/Detail.aspx
I used day old french bread, vanilla soy milk and pumpkin pie spice.And I used the sauce from this recipe
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Bread-Pudding-with-Caramel-Rum-Sauce/Detail.aspx
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/cake/sensational_sweet_potato_cake_recipe.html
No pineapple, used pumpkin pie spice and leftover sweet potatoes (even more fun uses of LEFTOVERS...one was regular brown sugar glazed and one was a marshmellowy casserole style) from the Thanksgiving party we attended.Also did a bundt and hence didn't do frosting, just a light dusting of powdered sugar and nuked brown sugar sauce.
And lastly, for Slaters school Xmas party we were asked to bring a food, so I made mini-quiches for the occasion (which I love to do because they are ungodly easy to prepare, and look hella cute in their little cupcake sleeves).Recipe follows.....
Chorizo and Potato Quiche
1 link of ground chorizo sausage
1 onion, diced
1 can of diced potatoes
1 cup of milk
1 cup of shredded cheese (colby/jack blend, or could use blue, see recipe below)
6 eggs
1 pinch of garlic powder, onion powder, parsley, salt and pepper
Cook sausage, then add onion and cook through.Nuke potatoes for 2m.Set both aside.Whisk eggs, milk and spices.Fold in other items.Pour into baking dish (or in my case cupcake tins) and bake at 350 for 1/2hr.
Suffice to say these little guys were a HUGE hit (of course not to toot my own horn as anything geared towards the grown ups, or savory rather than sweets, is always gonna go pretty fast.Kwim), so much so that even though I made 24 of them, neither me nor his teacher got to sample any as they were gone w/in 5m!!!!
Which was just fine as...
A.I'm glad they went over so well and everyone enjoyed them so much
and
B.I ended up making a full size quiche for dinner the next night as Steve complained about me not "saving him any"!Pfft.:P
Btw, to elaborate on the blue cheese comment earlier I have included another one of my fave all time recipes...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Creolized-Stuffed-Chicken-Breasts/Detail.aspx
I took a reviewers advice and used chorizo and blue cheese crumbles instead and it always turns out awesome.Or as a good friends husband noted after I served them at a dinner party "You can't go wrong w/meat stuffed meat!!".Mwahahahaaa!!!!
Well I think that is plenty of recipes for now!:0
Man, you gotta love AllRecipes (esp. their recipe box and search engine, which rocks btw) and FoodNetwork!!Can you tell they are my new best friends??;)