Wendy's Chili Recipe

My husband found this recipe and made this for us.  It does taste so much like Wendy's chili!  Give it a try!

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Ingredients:

2 pounds Ground beef
1 can (29 ounce size) tomato sauce
1 can (29 ounce size) kidney beans w/liquid
1 can (29 ounce size) pinto beans w/liquid
1 medium Onion, diced
2 Green chili, diced
1 Rib celery, diced
3 medium Tomatoes, chopped
2 teaspoons Cumin powder
3 tablespoons Chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoon Black pepper
2 teaspoons Salt
2 cups Water

 

Directions:

Brown the beef and drain the fat off. Crumble the cooked beef into pea size pieces. In a large pot, combine the beef plus the remaining ingredients and bring to a simmer over low heat. Cook stirring every 15 minutes for 2-3 hours.

This recipe from CDKitchen for Wendy's Chili serves/makes 8

Quick Fix Raspberry Chicken

Our recipe party theme with quick fix.  I pulled out one of my Mother's quick fix recipe cook books and found this easy chicken recipe.  The instructions 

Raspberry Chicken

To broil 5-6 inches from the flame, place chicken directly in broiler pan without the rack --

1 2.5-3 lb. cut up broiler fryer chicken OR your favorite pieces of chicken (I used chicken tenders)
vegetable oil
1 10 oz. package frozen red raspberries (*quick-thaw pouch)
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 cup sliced almonds

Preheat broiler.  Brush chicken with oil.  Season with some salt and pepper.  Place chicken, skin side down or remove skin, on broiler rack.  Broil 5-6 inches from heat 20 minutes or until browned; turn.  Broil 10 minutes more.  Meanwhile, thaw raspberries; drain, reserving syrup. (*I couldn't find a package with juice so I used some raspberry jam and water as the syrup).   In saucepan blend syrup into cornstarch; stir in cinnamon.  Cook and stir until bubbly.  Stir in butter and lemon juice.  Gently stir in berries and nuts.  Serve with chicken.  Makes 4 servings.  

What's Veal Mom?

Sunday we had a discussion about veal. I said it was beef, but they wanted to know why it's not dark like beef. They said it looks like pork, but doesn't taste like pork. Hmm, "What's veal Mom?"

OVEN BAKED VEAL PARMIGIANA

1 lb. thin veal cutlets
1/2 c. dry bread crumbs
1/2 c. Parmesan cheese
1 egg, beaten
1/2 c. chopped onion
1 sm. jar spaghetti sauce
1 pkg. shredded Mozzarella cheese
2 tbsp. Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp. chopped parsley

Mix bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Dip each piece of veal in egg and then coat with crumb mixture. Spread onions in bottom of 9 x 12 inch Pyrex dish. Arrange veal over onions. Preheat microwave/convection oven to 300 degrees. Put dish on lowest rack and cook 12 to 15 minutes. Pour sauce over veal and sprinkle on Mozzarella. Cook 5 more minutes. Sprinkle on Parmesan and parsley; serve.

For conventional oven, bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes. Add sauce and cheese. Bake 5 more minutes.

Hubby Makes Round Steak into Filet Mignon

My husband says you can make the toughest round steak into steak with the tenderness and moistness of Filet Mignon by marinating for a couple days using vinegar and oil. He grilled it to go with our peas and potatoes. Here's how he did it . . .

1/3 cup balsamic vineger

1/3 cup apple cider vinegar

1/3 cup olive or canola oil

2 Tbs. Montreal Steak seasoning

6-10 small "mock" filet minon steaks (made from inexpensive round steak)

Mix all in a sturdy gallon-size zip lock bag. Let it marinate for 2 days, in the fridge, turning the bag over and massaging the contents a little twice a day.

(The acid in the vinegar will tenderize the meat by breaking up the longer meat fibers, and the oil helps bring moistness to the meat that is far healthier than the high saturated fat in the animal-fat-marbling found in meat selected for it's natural (fat) moistness and tenderness.)

Then sear on high heat grill for a couple of minutes each side before finishing the grilling as you typically would.

The slightly tangier result in the meat is very popular with our kids, who do not care for the sweetness of nearly all BBQ sauces.

Enjoy!

Sarah's Impossible-to-Mess-Up-Lasagna

Most of our children really like lasagna and request it much more often than I make it.  Then I remembered that Sarah had shared her easy version of lasagna in our recipe exchange.  We like it and it IS so easy! Our sons are just returning from the Father Son's Camp Out and are hungry, so I'm glad it's ready to come out of the oven!   I hope you enjoy it sometime soon too.  

Sarah's Impossible-to-Mess-Up-Lasagna

Cook one package of lasagna noodles according to package directions (adding a small amount of olive oil to your boiling water will make the pasta easier to work with later).  

Drain hot water and allow noodles to cool. (I usually run pour cold water over them and then leave a little water over them so they don't stick together)

In a large skillet, cook 1 lb of hamburger or turkey burger and drain it.

Add 1 jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce,

Add 3-4 oz. of sour cream,

Add 3-4 oz. of cottage cheese,

Add 8 ounces shredded cheese of your choice,

Spread a small amount of sauce across the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Alternately layer noodles and 1/3 of sauce in three layers and top with more cheese.

Cook for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. You can put the oven on broil for the last 3-4 minutes, to bubble and brown the cheese.

If you're doubling or tripling the recipe, you can easily make THREE 9x13 pans with 2 packages of 16 ounce lasagna noodles.

You can also stretch the sauce by just adding another jar of spaghetti sauce, but not adding more meat.

Bacon Wrapped Dates

Tonight is our Recipe Exchange and we are to bring Hors d'Oeuvres.

Well, when my Mother served Hors d'Oeuvres at the Embassy, if she didn't serve this appetizer, one diplomat would say to her, "Nope I came for nothing"!  What was it he wanted?  It was a date wrapped in bacon!  She also wrapped chicken livers in bacon.

Bacon Wrapped Dates

Ingredients:
bacon
pitless dates
paprika
toothpicks

Directions:
Line up 1/2 strips of bacon on a cookie sheet.
Sprinkle paprika on them. 
Bake, then wrap a bacon strip around a pitless date and secure with a toothpick. 
Serve with a spicy dipping sauce. 

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Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Tonight's FHE before Christmas was an open house at friends.  We didn't know if we could make it since other friends from MN were due to arrive.  They were delayed so we went.  Boy were they delayed!!  See story below recipe.  It was such a fun evening with many friends and wonderful food and games.  I made 

Bacon Wrapped Chicken

Place chicken breast pieces (personally not fond of chicken livers) in a ziplock bag. Add some Italian dressing and marinate in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, precook as many pieces of bacon as you would need in the microwave, oven or grill until partially done.

Wrap each chicken piece with a piece of bacon and secure with a toothpick. I also put in a water chestnut or pineapple chunk before I wrapped each one.

Place on a foil wrapped pan in the oven at 425 for around 15-20 minutes or until bacon is done the way you like it.

This is very easy and as Kent said, "You can't go wrong with bacon!"

Meat Pies for Sale

Finnish Meat Pies are sold at the train stations in Finland. I remember buying them at the "kioski" to eat. Apparently so does another woman whose Mother is also Finnish. I ran into her at the grocery store and she said she most remembers the meat pies at the "asema" but has never made them since she doesn't have a recipe for them.

Well my Mother has the meat pie recipe and I grew up eating them -- especially at my brothers' teenage parties and other fun events. I guess since they could be considered a Finnish hamburger, my Mother would serve them to teenagers. I've never made them myself though as I remember them being time intensive -- at least in ratio to how quickly they are consumed. 

Recently our daughter has been asking me to make them, so I guess it's time to make them for my kids and to share the recipe.  (Now I make them once a year on her birthday or when requested.  Like anything different to you, they get much easier to make the more you make them.)

Finnish Meat Pies (Lihapiirakat)

from Finlandia Ranch

Dough:

2 cups milk, heated

1 Tbsp. dry yeast, dissolved in a little warm water

2 tsp. salt

4.5 - 5 cups flour

1/2 cup shortening

Mix as you would any bread dough, working in the shortening last with your fist, kneading well.( I have sweet memories of watching my Mother with you strong hands kneading dough, but I use a Bosch with a dough hook instead.) Cover and let rise 1 hour.

Meanwhile prepare the filling as follows:

In a quart size kettle, boil 1/2 cup Quick Pearl Barley in 2 cups water for about 20 minutes or until all the water is absorbed. Stir now and then during cooking.

In another kettle, prepare the following:

1 1/2 cups chopped onions

1 beef bouillon cube

1 cup water

Boil these together until onions have wilted; approximately 10 minutes.

Then add to onions, 1 lb. hamburger, stirring until hamburger is cooked. Take off heat and now add the cooked barley and the following spices:

1 tsp. onion powder

1 tsp. white pepper

2 tsp. dill weed

and salt to taste.

Now your dough should be ready, so roll it out real thin, using 1/4 of the dough at a time. Use an empty Crisco can as your cutter. Place a tablespoonful of meat filling in the center of each round, moistening edges with a little bit of cold water. This helps seal it. Fold it in two and pinch it to seal it. Place on counter top to raise. By the time you have all of them filled, the first ones are raised and you can star t deep fat frying them. Drop as many pies into heated oil as you can. Let cook on one side, then turn over and cook the other side. Keep turning over a few times until brown. Take out with a slotted spoon and place on a paper towel to drain. Place another paper towel on top and a heavy bath towel, to soften the pies. Then cool and heat before serving. And of course eat some as soon as they are cooked. That is when they are best. Make a slit in the pie and squirt mustard or ketchup in.

Handy and quick snack to have on hand. Goes well in a lunch box or take along on a picnic. They freeze well. You may reheat them individually in the microwave or put a batch in the steamer to reheat them.

Hope you enjoy them as we do.

Homemade Pizza

My husband was in the mood for his Mother's homemade pizza for lunch.  It's so easy to whip up the crust and we didn't even wait to let it rise.  Our youngest was my helper and he put half pieces of string cheese near the edges and folded over the crust so it was like a Pizza Hut too.  It really did taste oh so good!  I hope you'll give it a try.

Title: Mom Adams' Pizza Crust

Description:
Made overseas over the years when pizza was not available to her children.  Now requested of Grandma at every family gathering, especially for birthdays.

Ingredients:
1 c luke warm water
1 T sugar
1 T yeast
2 T olive oil
1 t salt
3.5 cups white flour

Hunt's Garlic and Herb Spaghetti Sauce

Directions:
Dissolve yeast in water with sugar. Add remaining ingredients and knead. Let raise 15-20 minutes.  Grandma just uses spaghetti sauce nowadays, but used to make her own sauce.

Add whatever toppings you enjoy.  She uses onion, green pepper, sausage, pepperoni, hamburger or ground turkey, mushrooms, cheese, etc. (I also like artichokes, black olives and tomatoes.)

Bake 425 about 15-20 minutes.

Sunday Dinner

It's so nice to have help with the Sunday meal by everyone in the family.  Today I had help with the Pork Roast and gravy by my hubby.  When I was eating it I suddenly realized it tasted so familar. It was!  He'd snuck onto our RS Blog to get the recipe used for Kahlua Pork. 

Dessert, fruit salad, veggies, and biscuits were made by our kids and I did the mashed potatoes.  Our guests set the table.  

Since it was "Fast Sunday", where we fast for 2 meals and give the money we would have used for those meals to the Bishop, who gives it to those who need it as a "Fast Offering".   I didn't want to make rolls, because of the smells, before church, so we tried Drop Biscuits. Here is the recipe we used.    

Drop Biscuits<-----click here to go to the link

2 cups All-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup shortening
1 cup milk
Preparation:

Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; cut in shortening with a pastry blender until mixture is course. Add milk, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened. Drop dough by heaping tablespoonfuls onto a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake at 425 degrees for 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Makes 1 dozen.

Our  youngest did a great job making his 1st fruit salad all by himself, as neither I nor Dad had much extra time to do much other than answer questions like, "Do we have more pears?" or "Can I add another banana?"  He was so proud of his combine fresh and canned salad of whatever we had on hand.  It was so worth the stickiness and peels on the table and floor:)

Casserole of Rice and Beef

I had a pound of hamburger thawing out in the refrigerator and with a green pepper from my neighbor's garden, and some food storage, I made a casserole dish my Mother often made us growing up.  She got it from Joyce, her neighbor during their Army days, and it's one I've always liked and that kids usually like as well.  

Casserole of Rice and Beef

1/2 cup dry rice

2 cups canned diced tomatoes or tomato sauce or a mixture of the two

3/4 to 1 lb. ground beef

1/2 green pepper, diced

1 medium onion, chopped (dehydrated can work as well)

dash of black pepper

1 tsp. salt

2 cans water from tomatoes

Sort rice, but do not wash.  (I love these older directions).  I also have heard now that you should wash the rice so that the arsenic comes off of it!  Melt 2 T butter (I still use this even in this Pam or EEOV era) in a frying pan.  Add dry rice, chopped onion, diced green pepper, salt, pepper and hamburger.  Brown to a rich golden brown.  Add tomatoes and water.  Let simmer in the covered frying pan (I only use cast iron nowadays) for 30 minutes.  Watch it so it doesn't dry out.  Serve with a dollop of sour cream.  

It also goes nicely with corn I think and/or green salad.

I given this recipe with canned goods when it is "food storage" bridal shower.  I give rice, canned tomatoes or tomato sauce with the recipe for their food storage.  Often I buy tomatoes that have diced green peppers in them so I can make it without buying a fresh green pepper. I've even given them canned corn too, so they'll have a side.  

NOTE:  Nowadays I like to make the rice in a rice cooker or use leftover rice.  I also often use already fried hamburger.  Just fry the rest together and then add in the rice and hamburger at the last. 

Olympic Size Salad and Salmon

Tonight we returned to our monthly Recipe Exchange dinner and invited our husbands. It's been extremely hectic, so little time to prepare, I made a quick salad.  My husband added the Olympic decorations pictured here. 

We also grilled salmon and the recipe for the marinade is below. Thanks to Jessica for sharing both recipes with me.  

You may also see other pictures and read about our husband's night out at the RS recipe exchange at http://rollinghillsrs.blogspot.com/2008/08/hubbies-night-out-relief-society-recipe.html

Craisins Salad

Head of red leaf lettuce
Head of green leaf lettuce
Head of iceburg lettuce
8 oz. pkg. shredded mozzarella
8 oz. pkg. shredded parmesean
1 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
8 oz. craisins (dried cranberries)
1 c. sliced toasted almonds

Toss together.

Dressing:
1/2 c. red wine vinegar
1 c. sugar
1/2 onion chopped
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp mustard
1 c. vegetable oil

Mix everything in a blender except for oil. Add oil, blend again.

Makes an Olympic sized salad!  Tonight I just used a huckleberry vinaigrette I'd purchased since it's also huckleberry season.  

Grilled Marinated Salmon

1 1/2 pounds salmon fillets
lemon pepper to tast
garlic powder to taste
salt to taste
1/3 C. soy sauce
1/3 C. brown sugar
1/3 C. water
1/4 C. oil

Season fillets with lemon pepper, garlic powder, and salt. In a small bowl, stir together soy sauce, brown sugar, water and oil until sugar is dissolved. Place fish in a large resealable plastic bag with the soy sauce mixture, seal and turn to coat. Marinate each side for 2 hours. Put in 9x13 pan lined with foil and bake at 425 for 20-25 min.

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Earliest Easter for the rest of our lives

Easter Menu March 23, 2008

Appetizer -- Veggie Rabbit (see recipe in previous post)

Leg of Lamb -- I fixed lamb for my Mother.  I found this recipe at http://www.recipezaar.com/55600 and like it much better than what I tried on my Easter 2007 post.  If I didn't cook last year's so long, it would have been much better.  

Spiral Ham (our kids haven't grown lamb tastebuds yet)

Small yellow potatoes with drippings from lamb

Karelian Rice Pastries (see recipe below)

Egg butter

Broccoflower and Carrots, steamed
Jello Eggs on bed of lettuce

Blueberry muffin bunnies

Peeps tulips
Dessert -- Strawberry Shortcake

Title: Karjalan Piirakka (Karelian Rice Pasties)

Description:
Comes from the Eastern part of Finland, Karjala, where Mummo was born. Nowadays they are popular all over Finland. Served often at our Finnish dinners. Always a part of our Christmas Eve dinner.

Ingredients:
For the Rice Filling, use the recipe for Rice porridge on this site (Dec. 2006).   Just omit the sugar.

For the crust:
1 c water
1 1/2 t salt
1 2/3 c rye flour
2/3 c all purpose white flour
Mix water in bowl, salt, stir, add flours slowly. It will be a sticky messy job. If too sticky to roll, just add a little more flour. Can make ahead and put in a ziploc bag and roll out when ready.

For egg butter:
1 cube slightly softened margarine or butter
2 hard boiled eggs, chopped,
a tiny bit of salt since butter already has salt
Mash and mix together.

Directions:
Roll out crust in a thin oval shape. Place rice porridge in the middle. 

Pinch sides of crust up around the filling. 

Place on cookie sheets close together. 

Bake at 375 or 400 depending on your ov

en, until light brown. When light brown, open 

your oven and lift up one to make sure the bottom isn't brown. They do not taste good if they are. One the stove top, melt a stick of margarine and some water in a kettle. Use tongs to remove each pastry and dunk it completely in the mixture. Prepare a couple of old towels laid out with wax paper on them. Place the dunked pastries on the wax paper and then wrap the wax paper and towel combination up over them to keep them warm. This process softens them. Mummo says to keep them under the towel as long as you can stand it. She samples them at many stages.

Serve with egg butter, or cheese or lunchmeat or plain butter on top of the rice part.