November 12, 2007

ThriftyFun Recipes - November 12, 2007

ThriftyFun Recipes
Volume Three, Number 219, November 12, 2007 (Read It Online)

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Corn Pudding/Casserole That Can Feed 40-50 People

I need a good recipe for Corn pudding/Casserole that can easily be expanded to feed 40-50 people. I need to use a large (111 oz.) can of corn, so preferably with only or mainly corn, not creamed. This is for my church Thanksgiving dinner. Thanks in advance!

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Cooking Red Beans Azuki From Oriental Trading Co.

Are ALL Orchids brand RED BEANS-AZUKI sold by the Oriental Trading Co as hard to cook as my mother (r.i.p.) discovered they were?

I gave her a pack several years ago and found several packages while moving. I recall she said she cooked them and cooked them and they were STILL not tender!

So I wonder if it's the variety of the bean or the method used or WHAT?
Anyone who has experience with these PLEASE HELP!

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Fun Corn Recipe for Thanksgiving Feast

Need a fun recipe using corn to send to 1st graders Thanksgiving feast!

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Baking a Frozen Apple Pie

How to bake a frozen apple pie? Thaw first? Temperature? Time?

ELAINE from Trenton, NJ

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Recipe For Mock Crab Cakes Made With Zucchini

Searching for the recipe for mock crab cakes made with zucchini?

Janice from Eastern NC

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Tasty Sugar Free Cookie or Cakes

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Today's Recipes:

Janet's Hamburg Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 lb lean hamburg
  • 1 med onion cut up, (eighted)
  • 1 lg can diced tomatoes
  • dime size diameter of vermicelli, broken into inch pieces
  • salt and pepper

Directions Bring big pot of water to a boil leaving 5 inches from top. break up hamburger and drop pieces in water along with onion, Keep an eye on this because it will get frothy and try to boil over, lower heat and cook 20 minutes add salt and pepper. Froth disappears and becomes a nice broth. get spaghetti pieces and drop in, cook for 10 minutes than add tomatoes with juice cook another 10 minutes or so. I like to cool and keep until next day. After being in the refridgerator, the flavors blend, and any fat will be at the top of soup can to be removed.

By Janet from Bangor, Maine

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Fresh Vegetable Pizza

Ingredients

  • 2 tubes refrigerator crescent rolls
  • 2 packages. cream cheese (8oz. each)
  • dill weed
  • garlic salt
  • black or green olives (or both)
  • onion flakes
  • 1/3 cup mayonnaise
  • vegetables, fresh, bite-sized

Directions Unroll crescent rolls, pat onto a large cookie sheet to make dough. Bake at 350 degrees F for 10-15 minutes. Cool. Mix remaining ingredients. Spread on crust. Spread on sliced olives and vegetables.

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Peach Pudding Bread

Ingredients

  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup butter or margarine
  • 1 pinch cinnamon
  • 1-1/2 cups baking mix
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 can (15 oz. size) Peaches

Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Melt butter, set aside. Drain peaches; reserve juice. Grease 13x9x2-inch pan, place drained peached in pan. Pour can of sweetened condensed milk over peaches. Combine baking mix, cinnamon, vanilla, milk and saved juice in a bowl. Pour over peaches and condensed milk. Add melted butter. Stir only THREE times. Bake 15 minutes and score; continue baking for a total of 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Serve warm or cold with vanilla ice cream.

By Connie from Cotter, AR

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New Orleans Pralines

Ingredients

  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup half and half
  • 2 cups chopped pecans
  • pinch soda
  • pinch salt
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 3 Tbsp. butter

Directions Cook sugar, cream, pecans, soda and salt together in a 3 qt. heavy saucepan that has been greased with butter until it reaches 236-238 F degrees on candy thermometer. Begin by using high cooking heat, then reduce heat enough after it reaches boiling point to maintain rolling boil; stir frequently. Remove from heat and add vanilla and butter. Cool slightly, and beat until correct consistency for dropping. Working rapidly, drop by teaspoonfuls on waxed paper. The first pralines may seem too thin, but the candy thickens very fast and remaining patties will be firmer.

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Stove Top One Dish Chicken Bake

Ingredients

  • 1 package Stove Top Stuffing Mix for chicken
  • 1 1/2 cups hot water
  • 1/4 cup butter or 1/2 stick margarine, cut up
  • 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
  • 1 can (10 oz.) cream of mushroom soup
  • 1/2 cup sour cream

Directions Mix contents of vegetable/seasoning packet, hot water and butter in large bowl until butter is melted. Stir in stuffing crumbs just to moisten. Let stand 5 minutes. Place chicken down center of a 9x13 baking dish. Mix soup and sour cream; pour over chicken. Spoon some of the stuffing over chicken. Spoon remaining stuffing around chicken. Bake at 375 for 35 minutes or until chicken is cooked through.

Source: This was in a newsletter that mary's freebies sent me.

By imaqt1962 from Illinois

Editor's Note: It appears to be originally from Kraft Foods. Here is a link to their recipe page.

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Fish Fillet Spanish Style

Ingredients

  • 2 lb. fish fillets
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 1 stalk celery, chopped
  • 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
  • 1 Tbsp. flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1/8 tsp. pepper
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 1/2 tsp. thyme
  • 1 Tbsp. minced parsley
  • 2 cups canned tomatoes

Directions Pat fish fillets dry with paper towel. Place fish such as sole, cod, halibut, or haddock, in greased shallow baking dish. Saute' onion and celery in butter until tender. Add flour and stir well. Add all other ingredients and simmer about 5 minutes. Pour over fish and bake uncovered at 400 degrees F for 30 minutes.

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Bible Cake

Probably the last place you'd expect to find a cake recipe is in the Bible. The ingredients are there in its pages. You'll enjoy hunting up the references and the mixing is simple. It's a delicious fruit cake.

Ingredients Start here: Reference No. 1: Judges 5:25 "She brought forth butter in a lordly dish."

  1. 1 lb. Judges, 5:25 (last clause)
  2. 1 lb. Jeremiah, 6:20
  3. 1 Tbsp. I Samuel, 14:25
  4. 3 of Jeremiah, 17:11
  5. 1 lb. I Samuel, 30:12
  6. 1 lb. Nahum 3:12, chopped
  7. 1 cup Numbers 17:8, blanched and chopped
  8. 4 cup I Kings 4:22
  9. Season to taste with II Chronicles 9:9
  10. A pinch of Leviticus 2:13
  11. 1 tsp. Amos 4:5
  12. 3 Tbsp. Judges 4:19

Note: Leaven means baking powder.

Directions Beat 1, 2 and 3 to cream; add No. 4, one at a time, still beating, then 5, 6 and 7. Beat again. Add 8, 9, 10 and 11, having already mixed them together, and lastly, 12. Bake in a slow over at 275 degree F for 1 hour.

Hint about II Chronicles: I use clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger or I use allspice to taste.

Source: I've had this recipe for over 30 years and found it in an old church cookbook.

By Carolyn from Nashville, Tennessee

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Fabulous Fudge Frosting

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. light brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • pinch of salt
  • 4 egg whites
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions Mix sugar, water, salt and egg whites thoroughly. Cook in double boiler over rapidly boiling water for 7 minutes, beating constantly with electric beater. Take off heat and blend in vanilla.

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Salisbury Steaks with Mushrooms

Ingredients

  • 2 onions, divided
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1/2 cup soft bread crumbs
  • 3/4 tsp. salt
  • Dash nutmeg
  • 1-1/2 cups sliced mushrooms
  • 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine (stick)
  • 1 tsp. cornstarch
  • 1 beef bouillon cube
  • 1/2 cup hot water
  • Pepper to taste

Directions Mince half an onion; mix with beef, bread crumbs, salt and nutmeg. Shape into 4 steak-shaped patties and saute in a skillet for 4 minutes. Remove patties from skillet and keep warm. Drain fat from skillet.

Slice remaining onion. Saute with mushrooms in butter until tender. Dissolve bouillon in the 1/2 cup of hot water. When dissolved and slightly cooled, add the cornstarch and mix until well blended. Add the cornstarch, bouillon water mixture to the onion mixture. Cook and thicken. Add pepper and spoon onto steaks.

Serves: 4

By Connie from Cotter, AR

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Wild Rice Casserole

Ingredients

  • 1 cup wild rice
  • 3 cups boiling water
  • 2 tsp. salt
  • 1 small onion, minced
  • 2 Tbsp. butter
  • 1 can mushrooms with liquid
  • 1 can mushroom soup
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1/8 tsp. dry tarragon
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/8 tsp. dry basil
  • 1/2 tsp. curry
  • 1/4 tsp. black pepper

Directions

Wash rice before cooking. Cook rice in salted water until tender; drain. Brown onion in butter and add mushrooms and liquid, mushroom soup and chicken broth. Add seasonings. Boil 10 minutes and mix with rice in 1 1/2 quart casserole dish. Heat at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes. Freezes well.

By Robin from Washington, IA

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