easy Waffles

Ingredients:
2 cups Bisquick mix
1 1/2 cup of milk
2 Tbs oil
1 egg

Stir ingredients until blended

Pour into a hot griddle

Bake about 5 minutes or until steaming stops

Easy homemade BBQ sauce

2 cups ketscup
3 Tsp Worchestershire sauce
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
salt
pepper
garlic powder
paprika

Janice's Pumpkin cheesecake = A+

Janice’s Pumpkin Cheesecake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INGREDIENTS

 

Crumb Crust

            ½ cup graham cracker crumbs

            ½ cup ginger snap cookie crumbs

            3 tablespoons margarine or butter (melted)

            2 tablespoons sugar

 

Pumpkin Filling

            2 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese at room temp

            1 ¼ cups sugar

            1 can (15 oz) pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)

            ¾ cup sour cream

            2 tablespoons bourbon or 2 teaspoons vanilla (I use vanilla)

            1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

            ½ teaspoon ground all spice

            ¼ teaspoon salt

            4 large eggs

 

Sour Cream Topping

            1 cup sour cream

            3 tablespoons sugar

            1 teaspoon vanilla

 

            Top with whipped cream and ginger snap cookies

 

 

DIRECTIONS

 

            Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  In a medium sized bowl stir together graham cracker crumbs, ginger snap cookie crumbs, butter and sugar until moistened.  Pour into 9 inch springform pan, using a spatula to press the mixture into the bottom evenly.  Tightly wrap outside of pan with heavy-duty foil to prevent leakage when baking in water bath later.  Bake crust 10 minutes. Cool completely in pan on wire rack.

 

            In a large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat cream cheese until smooth; slowly beat in sugar until blended, about 1 minute, scraping bowl often with rubber spatula.  With mixer at low speed, beat in pumpkin, sour cream, bourbon or vanilla, cinnamon, allspice and salt.  Add eggs one at a time beating just until blended after each addition.

 

            Pour pumpkin mixture into crust and place in large roasting pan.  Place pan on oven rack. Carefully pour enough boiling water into pan to come one inch up the side of the spingform pan.  Bake cheesecake 1 hour 10 minutes or until center barely jiggles.

 

            While cheesecake is baking, prepare the sour cream topping.  In a small bowl with wire whisk, beat sour cream, sugar and vanilla until blended.  Remove cheesecake from water bath, leaving water bath in oven, and spread sour cream mixture evenly over top.  Return cheesecake to the water bath and bake 5 minutes longer.

 

            Remove cheesecake from water bath to wire rack; discard foil.  With small knife, loosen cheesecake from side of pan to help prevent cracking during cooling.  Cool cheesecake completely.  Cover and refrigerate cheesecake at least 6 hours or overnight, until well chilled.  Remove side of pan to serve.  Top with whipped cream and ginger snap cookies.

           

French onion soup

Baked chicken breast with cream soup and (left over onion soup)

on the shelf: Carla Hall - Cooking with Love

 

Hootie Hoo....

 

I have always known of Miss Carla Hall but never had the opportunity to watch her

take over TopChef. As a co-host of The Chew, Carla brings all of her cooking style to

afternon TV.

Thanks to Miss Carla Hall - I will never hike to the burbs for a bloomin onion - I can fryem up in my own kitchen.

So far, the "hamburger helper" from scratch and skillet cornbread are the top.

 

This Top Chef's book has a place on my top shelf.

 

Again...Hootie Hoo

on the shelf: The Chew - food life and fun

on the shelf: Cooking with love/The Chew

My favorite chef, Miss Carla Hall. Loves to cook southern food, used to be an accountant, lives in DC ...and used to model...she could be my twin sister.

 

 

Easy and tasty french toast

1/4 cup flour or bisquick

3 eggs

salt

sugar

1 cup milk

bread

cinnamon

 

Using a large bowl, wisk flour, eggs and milk together

Add salt, sugar and cinnamon

 

coat bread on both sides

Using a spatula - tranfer to greased heated pan

 

Brown on both sides and top with butter

 

minced garlic
chopped chives
pinch sea salt
2 qtrd onions
1 copped bell pepper
2 Tsp soy sauce
2 Tsp sugar
mushrooms
1 diced squash
sauce
salt
pepper
pinch red pepper flakes

rice

Cheese Scalloped potatos = APLUS

6 potatoes (slices)
2 onions sliced/diced.
sea salt
can broth
dry onion soup mix
1/4 cup flour
milk
butter
garlic powder
pepper
paprika
cheddar cheese

350 cover and bake for 2 hours

Baked Chicken - chives

Ingredients:

chicken

chives

onion

garlic

olive oil

butter

brown rice

Prepare chicken for cooking, empty insides and wash

fill cavity with salt, pepper, garlic, onion and chives

Place pats of butter under the skin, cover chicken with olive oil

Place in roasting pan.

add 1 cup of rice and 2.5 cups water

Bake 350 for 90 minutes

Juicing

Juicing #1

Carrots

watermelon

Red Grapefruit (peeled)

apples (cored)

Smoothies

smoothie #2

Frozen strawberries

Equal

oatmeal

6 ice cubes

pineapple

diet cranberry juice

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Yogurt smoothie #1

Greek vanilla yogurt

orange juice

oatmeal

frozen fruit

banana

equal

6 ice cubes

Smooth and filling = A+

This one will be repeated

BBQ Chicken and rice (leftovers day 2)

What to do with the last bit of left over BBQ chicken?

Leftover chicken

Rice

onion

butter

garlic

mushroom

rosemary

mushroom

Remove chicken from bone (set aside)

Saute diced onion, garlic and mushroom in butter

Add shredded chicken

                         Mix in BBQ sauce (amount to taste)

                                                        Serve over rice...."tony danza"

Sweet potatos (add to the leftovers)

The star of this picture is the sweet potato!

Wash and dry the sweet potato
cover in salt
place in oven @350 for 2 hours

Let rest -
slice open and mash with fork

ADD BUTTER

Ribs on the Grill

Burning meat on the grill is passable for a few hotdogs and burger patties but for an $$$$$$ cut of meat - it aint happening.

For the ribs I opted to precook them in the oven.

Season with liquid smoke, salt , pepper, garlic salt and paprika - cover with sliced onions and wrap in foil.

Place in oven @350 for 2 hours -
remove from foil, place on grill (mainly for the grill marks and the flavor
Flips
Sauce and close the lid for 20 minutes

Chicken on the Grill

Same procedure -

chicken drumsticks work better precooked (boiled) with paprika,salt and pepper
added to the water.
The place chicken on grill -skin side down for grill marks and taste
Turn and coat with BBQ sauce

Chicken breasts, thighs or combo I precooked (baked) with paprika, salt and pepper

Grilling tips

Although the instructions state pile the coals in the middle, light and spread... My LeeDub gave me

some great advice and it has been repeated by Iron Chef Michael Symon on the Chew.

Create 3 heating stations in the pit - Hot, medium heat and a cooling spot

This method worked AMAZINGLY.

Now I have to decide which "flava" of charcol to use

Garlic Shrimp

shrimp
1 cup mayo
minced garlic
parsley
lemon juice
ole bay seasoning

Mix ingredients, then coat shrimp - refrigerate for at least 30 minutes