Garlic Butter

You can do so many thing with this little dot of garlic butter...

Recipe

2 cloves garlic
1 stick butter
1/2 cup canola oil
herbs of your choice
mince garlic in a food-processor. add softened butter and mix. pour in oil in a steady stream while the processor is running. add herbs and pour into a clean jar and refrigerate.

Steak With Garlic Butter

Put It On Corn On The Cob

Make Garlic Toast

Garlic Lime Shrimp Recipe

Recipe From
http://www.gourmetdaytoday.com/2011/03/23/day-3-garlic-lime-shrimp-pasta/

Ingredients
1 pound uncooked large shrimp, peeled and deveined
5 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 cup butter
3 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
1 lb Hot cooked pasta

Flavored butter “finishing” sauce
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 tablespoon feta cheese crumbled
1 clove of garlic minced
1/2 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 teaspoon olive oil

Directions

In a blender or food processor, combine all ingredients for the flavored butter finishing sauce and pulse until well combined. If you don’t feel like pulling out a machine for this, just whisk well in a small bowl until incorporated. The softer the butter the easier this will be. Set aside.
While pasta is boiling, start your shrimp.
In a large skillet, saute the shrimp, garlic, salt and cayenne in
butter until the shrimp turn pink, about 5 minutes ( DO NOT OVER COOK! The shrimp will become rubbery and tasteless. turn off the heat once they become pink). Once shrimp are cooked add the flavored butter, coat shrimp. Next, stir in lime juice and parsley. Serve with pasta. (or toss together with pasta)
Yield: 4 servings.

Soulfoodqueen.blogspot.com Zucchini Fries

Some kids will not eat zucchini if they life was not to have dessert after each meal forever. My kids love potatoes fries and a lot of kids do as well... One meal I added batted fried zucchini with the hamburgers you know it easy to get them to eat something fried. guess what??? those soft and crisps zucchini fries was gone in no time.Try this zucchini fries recipe and see what happen.

4 green zucchini cut up in strips

canola oil for frying

1/2 cup self-rising corn meal

1/2 cup self-rising flour

3/4 cup milk

black pepper to taste

dash thyme

teaspoon creole seasoning

dash cayenne pepper

Toss Zucchini with creole seasoning and a set for 5 min

In a bowl mix the flour and corn meal, thyme, cayenne pepper and black pepper blend together than add milk.

the mixture must be not too thick nor too thin. just make zucchini strips coat very well.

 frying until crisp and golden

soulfoodqueen.blogspot.com Turkey Necks And Dumpling And Gravy

Turkey neck stew or Turkey neck gumbo is often served at large gatherings such as Mardi Gras parties in Louisiana and serve with a lot hot sauce. One Good reason turkey necks are serve because the meat is inexpensive and very flavorful and  guess what???,there’s a lot of meat on those turkey necks, not like > "chicken necks" Not knocking chicken neck because the chicken necks make a rich broth for chicken and dumplings.

I came up with this recipe Turkey Necks and Dumpling Gravy....because sometime you don't want to get too full on dumplings < > just the taste of those season meaty turkey necks with a little flour season gravy.

When buying turkey necks they normally available in packs of 6 in the poultry section of your supermarket. The necks are usually cut into 2 (6-inch) sections but if they are packaged whole, cut them in half for easier handling.

Recipe

8 or 12 turkey necks

2 cups onions, sliced

1 cup diced

1/4 cup garlic, minced

Place turkey necks in pot filling all way with water covering the turkey necks.

Adding onion, celery ,garlic and black pepper and salt to your taste.and other ingredients you like.

Cover and cook on low med heat for 2 hours or until water is half gone

Adding ¼ cup parsley, chopped

and 1 cup green onion

salt and black pepper to taste cover and cook until green onions are tender

Then mix ¼ cup flour

1 cup chicken stock mix well add salt and pepper to taste.

 Pour over Turkey Necks and stirring lightly and in two seconds it will look like this.simmer for few mins.

Tuna Salad

Here my recipe for a great healthy tuna salad. I love this salad with a great wheat bread and a good glass of ice tea with lemon.

3 – 5 ounce albacore Tuna in package

¼ red bell pepper finely chopped

¼ green pepper finely chopped

¼ onion finely chopped

½ rib celery finely chopped

1 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley finely chopped

2 tablespoons herb mayo

2 tablespoon chopped sweet pickles

1 tablespoon sugar

Juice of 1 lemon

Sea salt and ground black pepper to taste

dash cayenne pepper to your taste

In a medium bowl combine all ingredients and mix together thoroughly
Serve over Romaine lettuce

Apricot Onion Chutney

Sweet and savory kounry fresh apricots chutney with onions taste so good on pork and chicken and plus good as a side dish for spreading on foods..go wild and have some fun with chutney.

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 cups dice white onion

salt to your taste

1 pound ripe apricots

1 clove garlic

2 tablespoons bourbon

2 teaspoons honey

1 teaspoon whole grain mustard

1/2 to 1 teaspoon cider vinegar

Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-low heat. Add the onions,salt and cook until soft and translucent.

add the garlic and cook about 1 minute. Stir in the bourbon and cook 2 minute.

Stir in half of the apricots, the honey, mustard and vinegar. Cook  until the apricots start to soften, about (30 seconds depending on the ripeness of the apricots). Remove the skillet from the heat and allow chutney to cool.

Stir in the remaining apricots. Season with more salt, if needed. Serve warm or at room temperature. Refrigerate the leftovers in a covered container.

Peach Pound Cake

I love to eat a sweet peach...I love baking a great peach cobbler.I thought how about a peach pound cake that has all the same as a sweet peach and the great peach cobbler as well.

Recipe

2 stick sweet butter- room temperature

1/2 crisco shortening

3 cups sugar

6 eggs

1 3-oz box kroger peach flavored instant gelatin

1 teaspoon vanilia extract

31/2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup buttermilk

4 medium peaches peeled and chopped


Preheat the oven to 350 F. Spay a Bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray. in a bowl use a stand mixer, cream the butter, shortening and sugar. add the eggs one at a time, and then add the gelatin and vanilla.

In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk to the butter mixture and stir well.

Stir in the peaches and pour the batter into the prepared pan.


Bake until a wooden toothpick inserted into the center of cake comes out clean, 1 hour. transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely before inverting onto a serving plate.

Adding Peach glaze on top

Recipe

1 big can peaches... I love kroger peaches!!!!

1 cup brown sugar

1/2  cup sugar

1 table lemon extract

1 stick butter

2 tablespoon cornstarch

1/4 cup water

In sauce pan add butter and sugars cook until melted. adding peaches blending all together. mix water and cornstarch together and a bowl. pour in to the peach mixture until it get thicken. add lemon extract and stir well. let peach glaze cool. adding peach slices and glaze around the pound cake.