Holiday recipe thread

[sparkey]

Sorry i have not been on the last few days as i have been called to the nursing home about a hour from my home each day as my grandmother has only a few days left of life. She would be 99 in Feb. and the nurses all think she may not make it to the end of this week.

She is a very alert, wonderful woman that is a tough fighter for life and refuses to give up as she says her family is what she is here for. We have been trying to convince her it is okay to pass on. She is not having any output of urine and looks very dehydrated and will not drink anymore at this point. They have her on morphine to keep her comfortable. Also i have had to go pick out an apartment for hubby and I to rent while we work two hours away from our home. We finally found one and it is beautiful. We are going to still keep our log home here as we have had it 7 yrs and still have not completed it. It is our dream home so we can take our time. My daughter will house sit with my two grandkids.

Anyways, i owe you guys a recipe!!! It could not come at a more perfect time to tribute this to her life. Hope everyone enjoys, as this recipe you will not find anywhere. It is a true family recipe from my loving grandmother.

Enjoy!!

[sparkey]

Grandma's Homemade Crullers ( dessert)

Ingrediants:

5 cups flour
3 egg yolks
1 egg white
1 tbsp. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup mashed potato's ( from night before's supper)
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup milk

Mix eggs , butter, vanilla, and baking powder together to cream. Add mashed potato's and one cup at a time of the flour, using the milk to moisten in between each cup you add to the mixture as it will get thick making sure you only use the one cup of milk in the ingrediants.

In the end it will look like dough. Take a 1/4 of the dough and roll out like you would a pie crust, and cut oblong squares out. With the oblong squares cut a slit in the middle of it and stuff one end of the square through the slit and pull till it is stretched. It should look like a bow tie. Continue making these until all your dough is used up.

Put a big frying pan on the stove and add oil ( enough for crullers to float ) Cook them in the pan till golden brown on one side and then flip to do the same to the other side. Take cruellers from the pan when brown and put on a paper towel to dry. Sprinkle confectionary sugar on them while they are still hot. UMMMMM.

These are to be eatten right away as if you were to bring to a party they would get soggy and the sugar would be all melted. Best to serve right away as a dessert.

PS....if you did not liike making them look like bowties, it can be formed in any shape you want to make them. The bowtie style is the old fashion way my grandma made them. May she rest in peace when she passes and i hope she does not get mad i passed this along...LOL

[sparkey]

My fav. recipe :


Chicken Divan

one whole broccoli bunch
3 large chicken breast
1 can of cream of chicken
1 med. container of sour cream
1 large bag of shredded chedder cheese
1/2 cup italian bread crumbs
1 tbsp. butter
1 tsp. lemon juice

In a deep pot boil chicken breast till cooked. Remove from pot and let cool and break off chicken meat into small bite size pieces into a 13x9 baking glass dish. In the same pot of water cook broccoli cut up with stem and all until soft and tender with a fork. Drain and add on top of cut up chicken in baking dish.

In a seperate bowl add one can of cream of chicken and one container of sour cream. Add lemon Juice. Mix this all together and spread on top of the chicken/broccoli in the baking dish. Add the chedder cheese all over the top of the mixture in dish till completely covered.

In a microwave dish add the bread crumbs and butter and cook till it melts. Remove from microwave and use a fork to mix it all up till it is crumbly. Sprinkle on top of the cheese.

Cook in a 325 oven till you see it bubbling and the cheese is all melted. You will be able to see the sour cream mixture through the glass dish bubbling.


Enjoy!!!!!!!!! This is MYYYYYYYYY FAVORITE DINNER!!!!! ( besides lobster ) LOL.

[sparkey]

One more for the people that are on diets and love lobster...
I actually got this recipe from the Atkins diet book. I love it!!

Lobster soup

2 lbs lobster meat
3 tbsp. butter
1/4 cup cooking sherry
3 cups whole cream
1 cup water
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. seasoned salt

Cut up lobster into bite size pieces. Melt butter in skillet and add lobster pieces. Cook 5 mins on low.

Seperatly mix cream, water and add to the skillet. stirring constantly as to not scorch. DO NOT BOIL!!! Add salt, onion powder and sherry.

I like to also add shrimp and other types of fish into the soup also. You can be creative and add other seafood such as clams, shrimp, haddock. This is wonderful and suppose to be good from what ATKINS diet said in their book. I do not see how that is possible with that cream and butter...LOL the sherry part i would agree.......

[sweet tooth]

so sorry about what your about to face ,may the lord bless and carry you thru .been thru it know its not easy all i have keft (other than hubbie and kids)is a sister in kentucky its been over a year since i seen her and we hardly ever phone
i will copy and enjoy your recipes when are you moving ?

[sparkey]

Thank you sweet. We are moving in Oct. 10th and i will be staying there the week while hubby and i work as it is a two hour drive one way. It is a beautiful one bedroom apartment that they just built in Mass. We will be able to still come home on the weekends to our log home in the woods. My hardest part now is getting rid of the chickens and duck. I will not be here during the week to feed them and do not want to leave the burden on my daughter with the kids to walk out in the woods to feed them during a snow storm.

Thank you for your kind words. They mean alot. Hope you enjoy the recipes.

[sweet tooth]

your place in the woods sounds so good , i would love to winter somewhere like montana and see snow again but bodie would tell me to get my but back to ga where it never gets cold i remember the winter of 78 back in that holler of ky,the kids got out of school for christmas and didnt go back till after valintines the road crews couldnt even get that holler road clean to get us out i never got so tired of beans and fried bread now i crave it god gets us out and we want rite back in it sorry im rambling if i was close to you id care for you duck and chickens will my buggie roll thru your woods ?lol