Corn bread

Rhubarb quick refrigerator pickles

Rhubarb refrigerator pickles

Ingredients: 

• 2 1/2 pounds rhubarb stalks
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 3/4 cups cider vinegar
• 2 1/2 tablespoons coarse sea salt
• 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
• 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
• 4 small dried chiles, such as chile de árbol
• 4 bay leaves

Method: 

·         Have 4 pint (16-ounce) jars with lids ready. Split rhubarb stalks lengthwise and use a vegetable peeler to remove the tough stringy skin. Cut rhubarb into lengths that fit into the jars with just a little space at the top; fill jars evenly with rhubarb.

Combine sugar, vinegar, salt, coriander, peppercorns, chiles, bay leaves and 3 cups water in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer 3 minutes. Remove from heat and ladle liquid into the jars, placing 1 chile and 1 bay leaf in each. Cool, cover and refrigerate for at least 1 day. Will keep refrigerated for a month or more.

·         Nutritional Info: 

·         Per Serving:Serving size: about 2 pickles, 10 calories (0 from fat), 0g total fat, 0g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 45mg sodium, 2g carbohydrate (0g dietary fiber, 1g sugar), 0g protein

Cast iron skillet cornbread recipe

IMPORTANT:

While prepping ingredients, preheat oven to 425 F and heat the skillet. 

1. Combine dry ingredients in first bowl

1  1/4 cups of cornmeal
3/4 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar ( I always put less sugar in all of my recipes)
1 tspoon of salt
2 tspoons of baking powder
1/2 tspoon of baking soda

2. Combine moist ingredients in 2nd bowl

1/3 cup of milk
1 cup of buttermilk ( I just add 1 tablespoon to regular milk)
2 eggs
*8 tablespoons of melted about (about 1/2 cup) BUT RESERVE 1 TABLESPOON FOR THE SKILLET.

 3. Combine all ingredients except for the 1 tablespoon of melted butter into the first bowl.

4. Reduce heat to 375F

5. Coat the bottom of the skillet with butter.

6. Pour the ingredients into the skillet and bake between 20 and 25 minutes.

Enjoy warm or cooled with jam or jelly!!

Julia's healthy homemade granola

1/2 to 3/4 cup of liquid honey
1/2 cup of oil
1 tablespoon natural vanilla
1/2 teaspoon of salt

1. Melt these 4 first ingredients over stove in a small saucespan.
2. Pour into a large roasting pan (a big one like for roasting a turkey!!)

3. Add these ingredients to large roasting pan:
1/2 cup of sesame seeds
1 cup of wheatgerm
2 cups of unsweetened coconut
7 cups of uncooked oatmeal flakes
*Now here is what I love: Add anything but the kitchen sink: raisins, chopped up dried apricots, cranberries, nuts, sunflower seeds, peanuts, etc. Whatever you have in the pantry. You get a different reicpe every time.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees. Stir every 10 minutes for about 45 minutes.

Enjoy as your main cereal, on other cereals, yogourt, etc.

holiday brunch ideas

http://www.thecookbookcritic.com/archives/2005/12/christmas_brunc_8.html

Doris' TV snacks

These irresistible coffee table snacks are absolutely delicious!
I make 2 or 3 recipes of these snacks every Christmas. I have them on hand for before dinner snacks or après snowshoeing.
Turn on oven to 225 F.
Sauce:
1/2 cup of butter or margarine (I use butter)
2 tablespoons of Worcestershire
1 teaspoon of Tobasco sauce
2 tablespoons of garlic powder
1 tablespoon of onion powder
1 and 1/2 teaspoons of celery seeds

Melt these 6 first ingredients in a small saucepan.

Snacks:
1 box of regular Shreddies
1 box of regular Cheerios
1 pound (500 g) of ssalted, shelled peanuts
1 medium size bag of pretzels

Mix these last ingredients into a large roasting pan.
Pour the melted sauce mixture over and cereals, peanuts and pretzels.
Mix well.

Roast uncovered for 90 minutes, stirring every 20 minutes.

Doris' rum balls

My friend, Peter, and I used to steal as many of these as we could off the buffet table, pop them in our mouths and try to act drunk. We had no idea that for all their flavour, there was only a quarter cup of rum in a whole recipe.

I found Mom's recipe last week and made them for the first time today. They taste like a part of my childhood. What does that say about my chilhood? I have no idea but here is this easy to make awesome recipe.

1 cup of vanilla wafers finely crushed (I live in the country so I had to make do with honey graham crumbs
1 cup of confectioner's sugar
1 and 1/2 cups of nuts (chopped our ground) I used my coffee grinder.
2 tablespoons of cocoa

Combine these ingredients in a bowl.

Add 2 tablespoons of corn syrup
and 1/4 cup of rum to the mixture.

Shape into 1 inch balls and roll into granulated sugar.

Enjoy!