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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Crown Lamb Roast Or Veal



Crown Lamb Roast always seem to be the best served roast of them all for a holiday entrees.You can impress your guest with this.... it so easy attractive Roasted Crown Pork Roast. It will really show a WOW!!!

When purchasing a crown roast, you usually have to ask your butcher to form it for you. Generally a Lamb crown is ordered ahead of time from a local butcher shop or gourmet market.

A crown roast is usually done with lamb,/ veal,.{ However sometime it is done with beef}. It is called a crown because it is two rib racks that are bent into a circle and then tied together with kitchen twine.


Let Get Started


3 tablespoon Salt

3 tablespoon black pepper

3 tablespoon dry thyme

3 tablespoon dry rosemary

3 tablespoon crushed garlic

Blend all together and rub on the roast... all over.


Place Roast on a rack upside down,this will  keep the bones from burning.


Cook on 350 at one hour checking temp at 145. Turn right side up and fill with your stuffing, spreading melted butter all over the roast and stuffing Roasting for one more hour.






Friday, December 19, 2014

Easy Red Velvet Cake For Christmas....





Red Velvet Cake Is A Great Christmas Cake...I don't like making it homemade.,I like using a cake mix.

It turn out the same to me without the worry.... When you uses the homemade icing, it really make it taste wonderful without the fuss in the kitchen. I like using Duncan Hines.



Go by the direction on the box.When it ask for a 1 cup water, I add half buttermilk and half water to the mix..I also add 1/3 cup plain flour to each box this make the cake like homemade. I also
add to each box, extra oil about two tablespoons this help keep the cake moist.


I like a tall cake this will serve more people so I get two boxes that mean everything is double


 I fill up three 9 inch cake pans

 Overage make cupcake


Red Velvet Original Frosting

5 tbsp flour

1 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup sweet coconut (only If you like too...you can also toast 1 cup coconut and 1/2 cup toasted pecans after you icing your cake you can sprkle on top,

1/2 lb Butter

1 cup Milk

  1. Blend flour into milk in the mixer. Cook until very stiff, first over a medium heat, but you can increase the heat as it gets thicker. Cool this mixture until it is room temperature. Do not attempt to mix in the rest of the ingredients unless the first mixture is truly room temperature. Cream together butter, sugar, coconut and vanilla. Beat the two mixtures together add the flour,milk mixture a little at a time to the butter,sugar,vanilla mixture until it is the consistency of whipped cream.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Apple Spice Caramel Cake

Oxtail Stew





3 pounds Up Cut- oxtails

1 large onion chopped

 water

1 garlic clove finely chopped

2 large carrots chopped into big chunks

2 large white potatoes chopped into chunks

3 sticks celery chopped

1 small can tomato paste

salt and pepper to taste

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1 bay leaf



Season the oxtails and coat them in flour. brown them with 1/4 cup oil in a large pot on high heat. in same pot add water to cover oxtail, adding salt and pepper, bay leaf and thyme and cook medium low heat for 2 hours.add carrots,celery, garlic and onion.cook one more hour.add potatoes and tomato paste stir very well. cook until potatoes are fork tender. There will be fat floating on the top just remove it with a spoon and let the stew sit for a while.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Chicken And Corn Bread Dressing

Chicken And Corn Bread Dressing


The Dressing is one of the highlights of Holiday Dinner. Folks just love that good favor chicken or turkey broth mixture of bread turn into a delightful cooked and season stuffing prepared just right with that touch of sage.

My Grandmother Sweetie make the world best Cornbread Dressing for us and we just love that rich taste she put in to it...When she pass away. my mother all most got it just right...and when she pass away in 1992 that was the end of that era...

I came up with a dressing almost like my mother and my grandmother and I will like to share with you. It;s kountry and have that taste we loved as growing up in the south. Back then my folk just went in the kitchen and came up with some mighty good eats with a dash of this and a pitch of that.

So that what I did and came out just fine for the recipe of Thanksgiving Dressing...my mother and my grandmother would be so proud. Plus I remember watching them when it was time to prepared for the dressing....and that made it a plus for me!

Always use good tasting cornbread my mother will always say and my grandmother use day old bread nice and cold and the broth had to be cold too... this will keep the dressing from being sticky and packy.

Let's Start

4 to 6 chicken leg quarter trim fat but not all. Use about 6 chicken backs  to make the broth richer and you can add 6 pieces raw clean chicken livers make sure that green skin off ( leg quarters are rich with broth when cooked).

1 cup celery chopped

2 cups white onion chopped

 Salt and Pepper and 4 cup chicken broth and place in a roasting pot.


Cook in an oven at 350 until done and brothy


Take the chicken out and put to a side. Drain the broth and spoon out 1/4 cup of chicken fat.

Gather Bread like

4 cups Cornbread cubes



2 cups dry France bread in cubes ( hold up better than white sandwich bread)



Mix them together 2 cups onions 2 cups celery and 1/4 cup fat from the broth add to a pan.


Saute until lightly tender pour over bread add your season at your choice like we love lots of black pepper and a little sage to our taste. you may like saute mushrooms or roasted pecans.



 Pour in about 3 cup or 4 cold broth and two beaten eggs too much broth made it to thin too less make it too thick).


Pour into a cooking dish and bake at 350 until golden brown








Sauteed Mushrooms

Freezing Sauteed Mushrooms is a plus in my cooking at home..my family love them on mash potatoes, steaks and soups. when ever I see them on markdown at the store I just stock up on them and sautéed them and freeze them for later.


Saute 1 lb. of mushrooms in butter with salt and pepper, using high heat for 1 or 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool, then store in small containers and freeze. Use frozen, or thaw to room temperature about one hour; use for omelettes, sauces or served on toast.

How to saute mushrooms

3 tablespoons olive oil


3 tablespoons butter

1 pound button mushrooms, sliced


clove garlic, thinly sliced

 1 large onion sliced

1 tablespoon red cooking wine


1 tablespoon teriyaki sauce, or more to taste


1/4 teaspoon garlic salt, or to taste


freshly ground black pepper to taste

Add butter and oliver oil to hot saute pan adding onion,  garlic and mushrooms. let cook down and add wine and teriyaki sauce .Adding garlic salt and black pepper to taste.