Black Eye Peas

Tell me who don't love Black Eye Peas and cornbread??? Well I know>>> I do and I always like mine a little spicy. Let me share something with you...I have a friend who love them but she can't cook them too well.

When she buy the dry black eye peas in the package, they always get too soft . I came up with this recipe I am posting today.

My friend was happy, when I help her with the peas and I believe you will be too.

Recipe

6 cans Black eye peas. I always uses kroger,they never let me down.

 1 pound smoke raw bacon

Cook bacon and keep dripping...please don't burn the bacon and the dripping.

Adding to a pot 6 cans of water, 6 cans of peas and cooked bacon broken in pieces and adding a large chopped onion (red bell pepper if you like) or 1 green hot pepper.

Salt and Black Pepper to taste

Cover and cook on low med heat for 40 mins.

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.

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.

Apple Spice Caramel Cake

I Got Another Great Cake For The Holiday Meal.I found It @ http://joanne-eatswellwithothers.com/2010/11/apple-spice-layer-cake-with-caramel-swirl-icing.html