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My Best Clam Chowder

February 13, 2025 by Serena Leave a Comment

This delicious clam chowder is cream-based and calls for the traditional chowder ingredients: onion, celery, potatoes, diced carrots, cream, and clams. A little red wine vinegar is added before serving for extra flavor.

Clam Chowder Ingredients

These are the easy-to-find ingredients you’ll need to make the best clam chowder of your life:

· Vegetables: You’ll need potatoes, carrots, celery, and onion.
· Clams: Use canned minced clams. Don’t forget to reserve the juice!
· Butter and flour: Make a roux with melted butter and all-purpose flour.
· Cream: A quart of half-and-half cream creates a thick, smooth, velvety texture.
· Red wine vinegar: Two tablespoons of red wine vinegar add welcome acidity.
· Seasonings: This clam chowder is simply seasoned with salt and pepper.

Easy Goulash Recipe

August 24, 2024 by Serena Leave a Comment

This ground beef Goulash Recipe is a quick and easy one pan dinner that’s pure comfort food.

1 tbsp olive oil
1 cup onion, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
2 lbs ground beef
3 tsp garlic, minced
2 15 ounce cans of tomatoe sauce
2 15 ounce cans of petite diced tomatoes
3 cups beef broth
3 tbsps Worchester sauce
2 tsp seasoned salt
2 tbsp Italian seasoning
3 bay leaves
2 cups macaroni noodles, uncooked
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Instructions:

Add olive oil to large pot over medium heat. Add in the onion, bell pepper, and ground beef then cook until beef is no longer pink. Drain any excess fat and return to the stove top. Add in garlic and stir until fragrant (about 30 seconds).
Pour in the tomatoe sauce, diced tomatoes, beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, seasoned salt, Italian seasoning, bay leaves and dried macaroni noodles. Stir and bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to a light boil and stir occasionally until the pasta is tender, about 20 minutes.
Remove bay leaves and stir in the cheddar cheese just before serving.

taken from https;//iwashyoudry.com. Easy-goulash-recipe. Author Shawn
prep time 5 minutes, cook time 30 minutes, Total time 35 minutes
Main dish, American, Servings 10
kaywords: classic, comfort, goulash, ground beef, pasta, elbows

Carter’s Blonde Cinnamon Rolls

February 25, 2024 by Serena Leave a Comment

Made a half batch of Carter’s Blonde Cinnamon Rolls to test out a different recipe. Had joined a Facebook Group for Cinnamon Rolls and many of the posters referenced this recipe. 10 cups of flour makes a lot of dough and is more than I wanted to try for a new recipe so just cut the recipe in half.

Carters Blonde Cinnamon Rolls

Honey Roasted Carrots and Parsnips

January 13, 2024 by Serena Leave a Comment

Ingredients

4 medium carrots
4 medium parsnips
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons butter, melted
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
fresh thyme sprigs or parsley if desired

Instructions

preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a try with parchment or alum foil.
scrub carrots and parsnips well, and slice off the root and stem ends.
Cut the vegetables in half, then cut each half lengthwise in half or into thirds for the thicker ends. Optional – cut into round thin slices.
spread the carrots and parsnips ina single layer of a parchment lined baking sheet and put the honey mixture over them. Toss with hands to coat well. (use a plastic bag and shake to evenly coat and then pour on the baking sheet for less mess)
Sprinkle with thyme, salt, and pepper
Roast for 30 minutes, turning halfway through, or until the vegetables are fork tender and beginning to brown.
Serve hot, garnished with more fresh thyme springs or parsley if desired.

HELPFUL TIPS

Try to cut the vegetables into equal sized pieces to ensure that they cook evenly.
Make sure the vegetables are spread in a single layer on the baking pan. This will allow the pieces to cook evenly, and also let’s them brown instead of steam.
You can easily double or even triple this recipe.
You can use just carrots for honey roasted carrots, or parsnips for honey roasted parsnips.
For a vegan version of these glazed parsnips and carrots, substitute maple syrup for the honey and replace the butter with more oil.
If you like a little bit of spice to balance the sweetness, try adding a pinch of red pepper flakes to the honey mixture before coating the veggies.
Store leftovers in the fridge in an airtight container for up to three days.

Lemon Loaf 2023

December 31, 2023 by Serena Leave a Comment

Ingredients

½ cup unsalted butter softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
4 tbs lemon juice freshly squeezed
2 tbs lemon zest
1-½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
½ cup buttermilk*
Lemon Glaze
½ cup powdered sugar
2-4 tbs lemon juice freshly squeezed

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and line the bottom of a 9×5″ loaf pan with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, gently whisk flour, baking powder and salt together. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, lemon juice and zest until combined. Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk and mix well after each addition. Be sure to not over-mix.
Pour batter into prepared baking pan and bake for 30-35 minutes in 9×5″ pan. Bread is done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with just a few moist crumbs. Don’t be alarmed at how the outside of this ;e
Allow bread to cool for 10 minutes in pan before inverting onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
For the lemon glaze
Whisk all glaze ingredients together in a small bowl. While lemon loaf is on the wire rack, poke holes into the top of warm bread with a toothpick or other small object. Drizzle half of the glaze on top of the bread and spread it around into the holes. Allow this layer to set for a minute or so before adding another layer on top.

Notes
To make your own buttermilk: Stir in ½ tablespoon of white distilled vinegar to the milk. Allow to sit for 5-10 minutes until thickened.
Storage Instructions: Store at room temperature for up to 5 days in an airtight container.
Freezing Instructions: Wrap loaf without icing tightly in a layer of plastic wrap followed by a layer of foil. Place in a resealable, freezer-safe bag. Freeze for up to 3 months. To Thaw: Thaw overnight in the refrigerator or on the counter. Prepare glaze and drizzle on top before serving.

Notes: 2023 – made this recipe from https://sprinklesomesugar.com/lemon-loaf/ and used the new long bread pans that I purchased from Amazon. First loaf – followed recipe as written. Second loaf – used dry buttermilk powder with water instead of vinegar and milk method. Did not notice any difference. This recipe only filled the pan so the slices were only a couple of inches thick and the batter did not rise as much as I thought it would in the new pan.

Blueberry Muffins

July 20, 2023 by Serena Leave a Comment

The painters were here working on the house so I thought I would make some muffins to put out at break. Could not find my recipe for blueberry muffins so did some internet searching. Used up the bag of dried blueberries that were starting to crystalize in the bag.

Muffins came out OK but were not the greatest. It’s been a while since I made muffins so maybe I was must out of practice.

Had mixed up two boxes of Jiffy brand raspberry muffins as well as the stratch blueberry muffins.
The Jiffy muffins had a strong “fake raspberry” flavor and will not be something that I buy again.

The blueberry ones were okay – but the muffins could have been alot better and more tender. Not sure if it was because the berries were dried and somewhat crystalized but they were acceptable.

Used the recipe found searching below
https://www.inspiredtaste.net/18982/our-favorite-easy-blueberry-muffin-recipe/

Sandwich Rye Bread

July 20, 2023 by Serena Leave a Comment

I bought some King Arthur Rye flour in an order from Amazon to have more whole grain bread options. Tested out the Sandwich Rye Bread recipe from the KA website and baked it off in the unglazed baker that I had bought earlier from another package deal.

The bread came out fine but found that I really was wanting a stronger rye flavor that this first attempt made. Will have to explore making a rye bread loaf again that is darker and stronger in flavor. There was nothing wrong with this recipe. Will have to try with a Pumpernickel or darker flour.

Sandwich Rye Bread Recipe _ King Arthur Baking=pdf

Old Fashioned Rhubarb Pie – my verison

July 20, 2023 by Serena Leave a Comment

Rhubarb Custard Pie on table with red napkin This is an old fashioned rhubarb pie that is tangy sweet with the classic custard style base.

1 9 inch deep dish pie crust, unbaked
3 cups diced rhubarb, cut 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick (can go up to 5 cups)
1 and 1/4 cups granulated sugar (adjusted up or down based on your preferred sweetness)
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup heavy whipping cream
3 tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Mix the sugar and chopped rhubarb together and spread into the unbaked pie shell.
Whisk together the eggs, cream, flour and salt.
Pour over the rhubarb in the unbaked pie shell.
Bake at 375 for 50-55 minutes or until the filling is set.
Cool completely before slicing. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

Amount of chopped rhubarb can vary based between 3 and 5 cups (depending on how much rhubarb desired in pie and the size of the stalks and pieces during chopping.

Be sure to use an catch pan underneath for any spill over while it it baking or use a small extra pie dish.

Suet Pudding – Mary Cary

February 8, 2023 by Serena Leave a Comment

This one us from Mary (Runyan) Cary, our grt., grt. grandma or this could be from grandpa Cary’s wife Mary (Bradley). It just says Mary Cary.

1/2 lb suet (ground)
1 cup boiling water
Put on suet after it has been chopped with 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup molasses

1/2 lb raisins

1 Tsp soda

Flour to make a stiff dough.
Steam 3 hours or until is done when tested.

Suet Pudding – Delia McPherson

February 8, 2023 by Serena Leave a Comment

1/2 lb suet, shopped or ground (1 cup)
1 cup boiling water
Put on suet after it has been chopped.

1/2 tsp salt
1 cup molasses
1/2 pound raisins
1 tsp soda

Add enough flour (3 cups??) to make a stiff dough.
Pour into greased pan or you can spray with PAM.
Steam at least half hour or until done. Test with toothpick

The 1st one is Delia (Shafer) McPherson (Great grandmother) who mom and dad bought our house from on 32 Tyler.

This is the one mom used and I have used before (Per Connie).

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