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Ingredients
- 1 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup pickled ginger, packed, drained
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1t Dijon mustard
- 1/2t sambal chili paste
- salt, pepper, garlic to taste
- 2 1/2 cups vegetable or salad oil
Preparation
- In food processor or with immersion blender, combine vinegar, pickled ginger, honey, mustard, chili paste, salt, pepper and garlic.
- While food processor or blender is running, add oil slowly until combined.
- Taste and fine tune the seasoning as needed.
Notes
- This recipe will make approximately 1 quart of dressing.
- We use this dressing on our grapefruit salad and also for a marinated vegetable salad.
- You can substitute crushed red pepper flakes for the chili paste or omit if need be.
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Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 T Dijon mustard
- 1 T horseradish
- 1/2 t sambal olek (chili paste)
- granulated garlic to taste
- lawry's season salt to taste
- kosher salt and black pepper to taste
Preparation
- Hard boil eggs (this is typically 10 minutes once it starts boiling). Cool in ice water and peel.
- Cut eggs in half; place yolks into a food processor and display whites onto a serving dish.
- Add the remaining ingredients to the food processor with the yolks and puree until very smooth.
- Place yolk filling into a pastry bag with tip of choice and pipe the filling back into the whites.
- Sprinkle with chopped herbs, green onion, smoked paprika or all the above for garnish.
- Makes 12 halves and can be completed in about 20 minutes.
Notes
- Rule of thumb is the older the egg, the easier they are to peel; this is a good reason to stock up a week or two ahead and let them "age."
- There are many variations on deviled eggs; have fun and play around! Once you get the basics down, try folding in chopped crab meat, fresh pesto, or garnishing with blanched asparagus tips.
- If you do not want the spice, substitute a little lemon juice for the mustard, horseradish and chili paste
- Enjoy with your cookout this summer or save for the holidays - just make plenty.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup cornmeal (not cornbread mix)
- 2 T brown sugar
- 2 T baking powder
- 1/2 t salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 t vanilla
- 1/2 t vinegar
- 1 3/4 cups milk
- 1 cup blueberries (if frozen then thaw and drain)
- oil or spray for greasing pan to cook pancakes
Preparation
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk all dry ingredients together.
- In a separate medium bowl, combine all wet ingredients.
- Combine wet with the dry and mix well with whisk.
- Heat griddle or pan to medium heat.
- Grease griddle or pan with non-stick spray or desired oil.
- Ladle or pour batter onto greased cooking surface to desired size.
- Sprinkle blueberries onto each pancake.
- Flip pancake once the edges begin to dry and batter is bubbling (1 minute).
- Cook until browned on the second side (less than 1 minute).
- Remove pancakes and keep warm.
- Repeat with remaining batter.
Comments
- You may use butter for greasing your pan for cooking, but be careful, as the butter will burn and scorch quicker than vegetable oil so you may find you want to lower heat.
- The batter consistency can be adjusted by adding a little more or less milk to achieve a lighter/thinner or thicker/denser pancake.
- The blueberries may be added to the batter before cooking, but this may cause a need for adjusting the liquid in the batter.
- This recipe will make approximately 24-30, 3" pancakes. I find that it will feed about 10 folks.
- Serve with maple syrup, whipped cream, home-fried potatoes, and Benton's bacon! We do!
- Have fun experimenting and enjoy!
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Ingredients
- 7 ripe avocados, peeled and cut into bite size pieces (not too small)
- 1 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2t fresh chopped garlic
- 1/2 cup red onion, rough chop (about 1/2 onion)
- 1 cup+ fresh chilies, rough chop (mild, medium, hot...you decide)
- 1t ground cumin
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro, rough chop
- kosher salt and cracked black pepper
Preparation
- combine all ingredients in a large bowl...easy!
Comments
- Look for black skin avocados that are not mushy, but just gives under a little pressure.
- I like to use a variety of chilies both in color and heat, but you can make it as hot as you like.
- Keep all your pieces of avocado large enough that they do not just turn to mush when mixing; I like a nice chunky dip that you can identify what is in there. Use a rubber spatula and fold together.
- This is great with tortilla chips as a dip or is a wonderful side or sauce for quesadillas, grilled chicken and shrimp.
- This recipe takes maybe 10-15 minutes to make and creates approximately 6-8 cups depending on the size of the avocados.
- Art by Melissa Sarat
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Ingredients
- 1 cup melted butter
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 cup honey
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 t vanilla extract
- 4oz moonshine or other spirit of your choice, or none at all
Preparation
- In medium sauce pan, combine butter, sugar and honey.
- Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to medium low and allow to simmer.
- Continue to simmer for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally and checking that it does not boil over.
- Remove from the heat and away from open flames.
- Add the moonshine. Take care that it does not boil over or splash on you when doing this as boiling sugar will leave a blister.
- Add vanilla in the same manner and then add the cinnamon stick to flavor caramel while cooling.
- Enjoy!
Comments
- This recipe will make approximately 3 cups of sauce.
- Make this recipe your own by experimenting with different spices or spirits.
- Refrigerate covered for up to two weeks.
- We serve this on bread pudding, bake on apples with streusel topping, over cheesecake, chocolate cake and anything else that will be still.
- BE CAREFUL WITH HOT SUGAR MIXTURE! Last warning, it is tempting to stick your finger in and taste before it is cool, but it is not worth it - trust me.
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Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1t corn meal
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 1t vanilla
- 1t white vinegar
- 1 9" pie shell
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Combine eggs, butter, sugar, corn meal, vanilla and vinegar in mixing bowl until smooth.
- Pour into pie shell, place in oven and bake for approximately 45 minutes or until just set.
Comments
- Place pie on a baking sheet to protect from overflows.
- This was my favorite dessert as a child and no one could make them like Granny.
- We usually pull this one out around Thanksgiving but it was always a staple at a family reunion too.
- Simple, Sweet and Southern; just like Granny.
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2T unsalted butter
- 1t light corn syrup
- 8 oz chopped semi sweet chocolate, and 4oz. for dipping
- 1/2 t vanilla, or flavored liqueur (optional)
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar and 1/4 cup cocoa powder combined and sifted for coating truffles
Preparation
- Mix cream, butter and corn syrup together in saucepan.
- Over medium heat, bring to a full boil and then turn off heat.
- Add 8oz chopped chocolate and vanilla or liqueur if using and gently swirl pan. Do not stir.
- Allow to sit for 5 minutes and then whisk slowly to combine.
- Refrigerate for 45 minutes, stirring every 10-15 minutes.
- Once mixture is firm but before it is hard, scoop and form into 1" balls onto parchment lined pans using a small ice cream scoop and hands.
- Chill until firm and in the meantime melt the remaining chocolate and prepare the cocoa mixture for dipping in two separate bowls.
- Remove balls from the fridge. Using one hand, dip a ball into the chocolate, allowing excess to drip off then place in the bowl of cocoa mixture. With the other hand, roll ball around in cocoa until coated and then place back onto the parchment lined pan.
- Repeat with the remaining balls.
- Chill for a few minutes until set. Store in an airtight container once completely set.
Comments
- This recipe makes 12-24 truffles depending on whether they are actually 1" or not. It is challenging to make them that small.
- I sometimes use finely chopped nuts or crushed candy canes to roll these in too - the possibilities are endless!
- These are pretty easy to make, just a little time consuming with the chilling and rolling out the balls; you are probably looking a 90 minutes from start to finish.
- The better the chocolate you use the better the truffle will be - so don't be cheap on the chocolate!
- These are a great way to impress or mend fences! Enjoy!
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