Category: Recipe of the Week

Hugh, I saw the biscuit recipe posted on the blog, and I suppose for a survival situation it’d make do, but here’s a recipe that I developed, which has critical customers telling me these are the best biscuits they ever ate. I usually serve this with my scratch recipe sausage gravy. Anyway, here’s my biscuit recipe. (In Texas, biscuits either have to have buttermilk or sourdough in them to be considered authentic, but then Texans don’t put beans in their chili either. LOL) Big Ben’s Buttermilk Biscuits Everyone’s got a traditional biscuit recipe these days. The ingredients aren’t nearly as …

Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 1/4 cup butter or margarine 3/4 cup milk Directions: Combine all dry ingredient and blend well with whisk. Cut in butter until resembles coarse bread crumbs. Stir in milk until all comes together to form a dough ball. Turn out dough ball onto a heavily floured surface. Let set for a couple of minutes and then knead for about a minute and then re-flour surface and pat out to about 1/2? thick. Cut biscuits with floured biscuit cutter or thick drinking glass or a …

Ingredients: 2 cans chicken broth 14.5 oz (chicken or vegetable) 1 cup lentils (uncooked) 2/3 cup brown rice,or rice medley, and I’ve used white. (Not instant) 1/3 cup chopped onion 1/2 chopped celery and carrots (Optional) 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (or to taste) 1 cup grated cheese (cheddar or a blend is preferable) Use more if you like. Directions: 3Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. . Mix all ingredients EXCEPT cheese in a baking dish. (I use an 11 x 7 pan) .Cover with foil and bake for 50 minutes. 3Then remove the foil, add the …

7 chicken breasts, diced into bite-sized pieces 1 whole garlic, cloves separated & crushed 1 teaspoon oregano, crushed 4 teaspoon cumin, ground 1 teaspoon sage, crushed 2 onions, either sweet and/or purple, finely chopped (Remember, purple onions are stronger flavored.) 2 bell peppers, finely chopped (For added color, use bell peppers of different colors.) 2 bunches fresh cilantro, VERY well washed and finely chopped 6 large cans posole or hominy, drained & washed 2 small cans niblet corn, drained & washed 1 jar chunky salsa, mild or medium (Old El Paso brand is a good choice.) 2 large cans (1 …

Arizona Cowgirl’s Potato Sausage Skillet Recipe. We really enjoy this dish, and it’s a delicious ‘comfort’ food on a cold wintry day! Ingredients are: 4 large baking potatoes, peeled & sliced thin. 1/2 diced sweet onion 1/4 Red or green Bell Pepper, diced Combine the above veggies in a large 12″ skillet with cooking oil. Cook covered on low heat, stirring occasionally. While these cook, add the following ingredients as you prep them: 1 whole smoked kielbasa sausage, sliced thin. 1 small can of diced green chilies. Fresh cut Broccoli, as much as you like. Salt and pepper to taste. …

This is a recipe for Comfort Food that is simple and yummy. 1 Rump or Chuck Roast Lawry’s Seasoned Salt 2 Onions, sliced 1/2 cup water Roasting pan Aluminum foil Place the roast in roasting pan. Sprinkle the seasoned sale heavily over the roast. Lay onion slices on top of roast. Pour water into the pan (not over the roast). Tight cover the roast and roasting pan with foil, sealing the edges around the pan. Place in an oven at 300 degree Fahrenheit. Cook all night (at least 8 hours). Peeled potatoes, halved Carrot pieces, large chunks In the morning, …

This bread freezes beautifully in a freezer ziploc bag. (I recommend storing without the icing. Just defrost the bread and make the icing before serving.) It’s yummy! 1 cup sugar 8 ounces sour cream 2 eggs 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. In large mixing bowl, beat above ingredients on low speed until thoroughly combined. 2 cups flour (I use half whole wheat and half bread flour) 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 tsp baking soda pinch cream of tartar 1/2 tsp salt Combine the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Gradually add dry ingredients into large mixing …

A few years ago I spent months experimenting with various online recipes for “Soup in a Jar,” wanting to perfect something for holiday gifting. I think I was entirely successful with the following recipe. It fits in a pint jar, serves four people, doesn’t require much more in the way of ingredients to have on-hand, and is pretty tasty! I now make a point of doing up a batch of these jars every fall for our home pantry. I “dry can” them (look for instructions online) and seal them with an oxygen absorber packet inside. I have every confidence that …

In response to requests for the Sweet, Southern Cornbread recipe Mrs. HJL makes to season our cast iron skillet, here’s her recipe: Pour about 1/3 cup of vegetable oil into a cast iron skillet. (It should be enough oil to cover the skillet with roughly 1/4 inch of oil.) Place skillet and oil in the oven and turn oven on to 425 degrees. 1 cup freshly ground corn meal 1 cup bread flour (or use finely ground Hard White Wheat flour for a healthier, but heavier cornbread) 1 tsp. salt 1/3- 1/2 cup sugar (Yes, we like it SWEET!) 1 …

Margaret R’s Pig Pickin’ Cake: 1. Grease and flour two cake pans and pre-heat your oven to 325 degrees. 1 box of cake mix (lemon, yellow, or white– in my order of preference) 1/2 cup of vegetable oil 4 eggs 1 11 oz. can of mandarin oranges (undrained) 2. Mix the above ingredients together until well blended. Pour into prepared cake pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until tooth-pick comes out clean, when cake is tested. 1 large carton Cool Whip (or 1 pint Heavy Cream, whipped, as a more fluid alternative) 1 pkg. instant pudding (Banana Cream, is our …

Kathy H.’ s One Pot Stuffed Pepper Stew: 1 lb. burger 1 small onion, chopped  3 bell peppers cut into 1″ pieces (I like all different colors) 1 T. olive oil 1. In 5 qt. Dutch Oven. Saute all above ingredients until meat is browned about 5 min. Do not drain meat.    1 c. rice (I used Mahatma Jasmine) 1 1/2 c. beef broth 1 14 oz. can diced tomatoes (don’t drain) 1 tsp. seasonings of your choice.  basil, oregano, etc.   2.  Add rice, broth, tomatoes, and seasonings. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cover.  Cook rice …

C.B.’s Potato Soup Plus Several years ago while shopping at a Sam’s Club warehouse store, my wife and I picked up a can of “Johnny’s Creamy potato” soup mix. It’s a 2-pound can of dehydrated soup mix that serves 24 with a good shelf life. The can on my stove top is at least a year old and has a 2014 date on it. Follow the instructions for a good potato soup or do what I do I make a serving for 8 (8 cups water boiling and 2 Cups of mix) and then when almost done add a small …

Debra P.’s Homestead Beans With the shorter and colder days of winter, our thoughts here out in the country turn to making sausage, preparing for deer camp, readying the barns for winter & finishing the fall harvest.  One recipe that we like uses the last bits from the garden, allows us to use some of our food storage items and makes use of whatever meat leftovers we might have at hand. This is a great item to practice using your cast iron dutch oven or any large heavy pot.   You will use both the cooktop and the oven or bury …

Linda U.’s Cream of Peanut Butter Soup The peanut, goober  peas, salted roasted and butter. Good stuff. Packed with protein. But the peanut is really not a nut. It is a legume in a shell that grows in the dirt. Originally from South America the lowly peanut made its way to Spain via Spanish explorers then went to Africa. From Africa it was sent to America as food on the slave ships.  Not much was done with peanuts until the Civil War. Oil and food shortages meant a new appreciation for the little legume.  Around the same time, the people …

R. in Colorado’s Strudel A lady of German ancestry at my church gave me a strudel recipe which had no measurements and can be varied according to what is on your pantry shelf.   I estimated and measured to replicate and came up with this basic recipe:   Chopped dried fruit – 1/2 cup of each: apricots, prunes (or what you have).   1 cup apples – fresh, dried or canned.   Rehydrate dried fruit in a small amount of water until soft.   You can use fresh apples. I used canned with the liquid, and mixed with the chopped …