Category Archives: Recipe of the Week

Ingredients:

• 1 lb dried pinto beans
• 6 cups cold water
• 1 lb lean chuck steak, cut into 1-inch cubes
• 1 red chili pepper or 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 (6 oz) can tomato paste
• 1 1/2 Tbsp. chili powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cumin seed
• 1/2 tsp marjoram leaves

Ingredients:

• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 1/4 tsp oregano
• 1/4 tsp basil
• 1/4 tsp seasoned salt
• 1 envelope onion soup mix
• 3 cups boiling water
• 1 (8 oz) can tomato sauce
• 1 Tbsp soy sauce
• 1 cup sliced celery
• 1 cup sliced carrots
• 1 cup macaroni, cooked and drained
• 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Directions:

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Ingredients:

• 1 (2 1/2 to 3 lb) Chicken, cut up
• 2 qts water
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cups cubed cooked ham
• 3 potatoes, diced
• 2 (16 oz) cans tomatoes, cut up
• 1 (10 oz) package frozen lima beans, partially thawed.
• 1 (10 oz) package frozen whole kernel corn, partially thawed
• 2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp seasoned salt
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1/4 tsp. pepper

Directions:

Makes 8 servings.

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This recipe is not mine, but I thought it would be of interest to your readers especially in a time when yeast is not readily available.

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce hops (seed hops are available online)
• 8 ounces flour
• 4 ounces white sugar
• 1 quart potatoes, mashed
• 3 ounces salt
• 3 quarts cold water

Directions:

– from “The Little Gem Cookbook” 1882

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The heat of the summer and the busy times call for something fast, easy, and tasty. Try this creamy pie. I highly recommend it. We tried and really liked a mixture of 1 cup blueberries and 1 cup diced strawberries. We also used some fresh cherries from the store for another version, but be sure and remove the pits.

Ingredients

• One pie crust, baked and cooled (empty)
• 1 small tub of Cool Whip
• 1 small package of “Fat free” cream cheese
• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
• Packets of Stevia
• 2 cups of fresh fruit (whole blueberries or pitted cherries, sliced strawberries or peaches, or some combination like blueberries and strawberries)

This is easy to make and excellent.

Ingredients:

• 2 quarts of cooked navy beans (undrained)
• 3 lbs potatoes (fresh is best, but you can substitute canned, though canned potatoes do not store well.)
• 1/2 stick of butter
• 3/4 cup of milk
• Flour

Directions:

There are a few variations of this recipe. Here’s mine. There’s a lot of food value in this recipe, and it’s ready in about 40 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground meat (turkey or beef)
• 2 or 3 cloves garlic (diced)
• 1 large onion (diced)
• 1 large bell pepper
• 1-10 oz can Rotel
• 1-4 oz can diced green chiles
• 1 can Bush beans (or equal)
• 1 can black beans
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp corn starch (optional)

Directions:

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Hang in there. Don’t gag on me. If you like yellow squash, you will love this. These are a low carb version of potato pancakes or potato hash browns. If you know me, I say that these are amazing! It’s much easier to pick squash than dig potatoes. When the squash are making, we are usually overrun with them. I usually cook six strips of bacon and use the grease from those to cook my squash pancakes.

Ingredients

• 12 cups yellow squash, grated
• 3 eggs
• onion powder, to taste
• flour (enough to make squash stick together; depends on how wet your squash is)
• salt and pepper, to taste
• butter or bacon grease (for pan frying)

Ingredients

• 4 oz. saltine crackers
• 1 cup of butter
• 1 cup dark brown sugar
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional)

I have been using this basic bread recipe for about 20 years and continue to experiment with different ingredients and techniques. My favorite is still using the basic ingredients, letting it cool overnight, and slicing it for toast the next morning. My neighbor’s like it also.

Ingredients:

• 4 to 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour *
• 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
• 1 to 2 teaspoons of granular yeast
• about 1 3/4 to 2 cups of warm water **

May also use the following items (examples):

Posole notes: My husband and I developed a blend of my mother’s tomato-based posole (a hominy-meat soup) that she learned in Mexico and his sister’s red chili-based posole. Neither of those recipes was a written recipe but more a method. My posole is significantly distinct from the other two and is our own creation. I have never printed it before and have not had it copyrighted. I use a church cookbook recipe for the red sauce, but it may be copyrighted. (Use whatever red chili sauce or recipe you have available.) This is a two-day process.

Posole Ingredients

• 1 large pork shoulder roast (or any pork roast that has a bone in it).

Soup Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp each black pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder
• ¼ tsp each cinnamon, ginger, cayenne, and salt
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Ingredients:

small chopped onion

• 1 lb ground venison (or beef, lamb)
• 1 1/2 cups uncooked white rice
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups salsa (my pint jars of homemade salsa are great)

Directions:

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I literally spent years working on this recipe, taking notes, and making changes after every less-than-stellar effort. (And there were a lot of these!) There were the years I served a brick of dressing (too many eggs), and the year I served green dressing (too much sage).Then I decided I needed to learn to make it in the crockpot to reserve the oven for the turkey and other dishes, and that was a whole ‘nuther learning experience. You get the idea. 

But I finally came up with what we think (and our family and guests seem to agree) is a really good basic bread dressing that comes out of the crockpot perfectly every year, every time. If you like an old-fashioned traditional bread dressing, and consider making homemade a “labor of love” as I do, I think you’ll like it.

Ingredients

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Give this Beans and Rice recipe a try now, so you can tweak it to fit your tastes for TEOTWAWKI (later). (Serves 4-6 people)

Ingredients:

• 4 cups rice
• 8 cups water
• 1/2 pound bacon, cut into small pieces
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 4 small cans chilliettes type chili beans

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds fresh, green beans
• 1 1/4 pounds flank steak
• 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated or 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
• 3 Tablespoons sesame oil
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 1/2 cups beef stock or bullion
• 3 Tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 Tablespoons sherry
• Salt and pepper to taste