Sunday, November 16, 2008
Buffalo Chicken Salad
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Cilantro Salsa and Cheese dip
Friday, November 7, 2008
Cabbage Rolls
This recipe is loosely based on Oma's recipe for stuffed cabbage.
Ingredients:
8-10 cabbage leaves
large pan with boiling salted water
filling:
1/2 lb. ground beef
1/2 lb. ground turkey
1/3 c. diced onion
2-3 tbsp. water
1 c. cooked rice
salt and pepper to taste
sauce:
1/4 c. diced onions
1 tbsp. corn or canola oil
1 c. water or broth
1 28 oz can pureed tomatoes
1/2 c. shredded apple
or
1/2 c. chopped raisins
3 tbsp. sugar
salt to taste
To make the filling brown the onion and ground meat until well cooked. Stir in the rice, salt, and pepper. Add just enough water that it will stick together. Set aside to chill.
For the sauce first carmelize the onions then add the other ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer for 30-45 min.
First remove the outermost 1 or 2 cabbage leaves and use a paring knife to remove the core. place the whole cabbage in the pan of boiling water, this will make it possible to remove the leaves without them ripping. As soon as the leave start to soften and lossen use a pair of tongs to remove them one by one. I would recomend using a larger pan than this because things got kind of crowded.
As you get farther down into the cabbage you may need a paring knife to seperate some of the leaves.
Boil the leaves for 5-8 minutes or until soft.
Once the leaves have cooled enough to handle use a paring knife to remove the hard rib from each leaf.Put about a 1/3 c. filling on each leaf.
Fold up the bottom and then fold over the sides, then roll upwards and place seam side down.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Halloween
A close up of my Haunted Gingerbread House.
Mark as a cross dressing zombie!
The devil having no luck tempting an angel.
Michael was a serial killer, I was an evil faerie, and Nikki was a pimp, but our camera ran out of batteries. :(
The Menu
Mummy Hand Cheese Log
Boneless Bat Wings
Undead Nachos
Ghost Dinner Rolls
Bubbling Swamp Mud
Drinks
Blood and Body Parts
Graveyard Mud
Watch for some of the recipes under different names. My mom is addicted to my spinach artichoke dip (bubbling swamp mud) and has been begging/threatening me to publish the recipe.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Camping trip to the Smokies
Mark and Nikki in the Smokies
This is the view walking into our campsite.
Mark and Nikki by their new tent
Me making breakfast
While we were driving around and exploring we found a little dirt road that wound about 20 or 30 miles down a mountain. We stopped at a little creek for an hour to walk around and let the brakes cool off.
That is Mark (Michael's cousin) almost going over the bridge.
This is Wonderworks "an amusement park for your mind" no the picture is not upside down :
And Michael in a spacesuit.
A big sculpture, also at wonderworks.
All in all it was a great trip. I'm sorry it took so long for me to get the pictures up. Now that my computer is working again I will continue updating recipes etc.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Friday
I will post some pictures of our camping trip when we get back.