ThriftyFun Recipes - April 9, 2009

Vol. 8, Num. 70, April 9, 2009 (Read It Online) Thank you Raymonde, mkymlp, Lanky Liz, Robin, Misty, Jan Lee, Sally54 and Karen for today's tips and recipes! Submit Your Favorite Recipe! Need a recipe? Submit a request Thanks for reading, The ThriftyFun Team Send to a Friend! Edit Your Subscriptions: To edit your ThriftyFun subscriptions, click the Update Profile/Email Address link at the bottom of this newsletter. Today's newsletter contains: Recipe Requests: Making Creamed Corn Homemade Garlic Extract Icing for Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes Today's Food Tips: Strain Heated Cooking Oil to Reuse Craft: Easter Gingerbread House Craft: Buttered Lamb For Easter Today's Contest Recipes: Leek and Red Pepper Salad Hamburger Potato Casserole Cullen Skink Coffee Shop Corn Muffins Buttermilk Dressing Robins's Recipe Corner: Fried Potatoes With Cheese Quick Cheese Ball Chef's Delight Tenderloin Caramel Apple Salad Applesauce Cake Today's Sponsor: Crafting for Fun and Money! If you are an avid crafter, capable writer and own a digital camera, you are eligible to participate. Submit your craft projects to ThriftyFun and we will pay $15 for any crafts that we publish. More Information: Click Here: http://www.thriftyfun.com/post_craft.ldml Recipe Requests: Making Creamed Corn Does anyone know where I can get a wooden bowl to make creamed corn with? I know it's an old item but I don't know where to get it from. Thank you. Cheryl Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf41786720.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Homemade Garlic Extract How do you make homemade garlic extract? By Sksweeney from WY Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf80214317.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Icing for Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes Does anyone have a recipe or the name of a store bought icing that will really 'stand up' without that melting look? My daughter-in-law is planning my grand baby's first birthday party. I bought her cupcake molds in the shape of ice cream cones, so she's going to use cake mix to make the 'cones' then slice off the tops. She wants to pipe the icing on top of the cupcake ice cream cones so the icing will look like ice cream on top of the ice cream cone cup cake. Today we tried Duncan Hines Whipped vanilla icing and within about 20 minutes those cupcakes were a sad site. They looked like the icing just melted in the sun. Any ideas out there please? The birthday party is in early May, so the sooner your suggestions, the better, please. Thank you! By Metroplex from Houston, TX Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf11481906.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Contests: Tip Contest Submit a Tip or Recipe! Photo Contest Submit a tip with photo! The above contests are weekly. We pick 2 tip winners, 2 photo winners (1 photo and 1 pet photo) and 1 recipe winner at the end of each week. Each winner will win $25! My Frugal Life Submit a My Frugal Life Essay! Today's Food Tips: Strain Heated Cooking Oil to Reuse I have a fry-daddy (small fryer) and like reusing the oil week after week. I found a frugal way of cleaning the oil. First, I heat the oil up to about 200 degrees F, then turn off. The oil has to be a bit thinner to strain properly. I put a large pot in the sink, put a metal strainer in side of it, and then a paper towel in the strainer. Pour the grease into the paper towel and strainer and it goes into the large pot (crumbs and such will stay in the paper towel). You will need to be cautious doing this! It's very hot and dangerous. Do not use plastic anything! Plastic melts. If you do not feel comfortable doing this, don't! I'd rather have people unharmed and wasting oil than harmed to save a buck or two! I was scared of doing it in the beginning, but got better at it each time it's done. Source: I've had to work in restaurants during a lot of my adult life and learned how to clean the fryers. Took that experience and figured out a frugal way of cleaning my own grease/oil at home to save money. By Misty from Ohio Editor's Note: Please use extreme caution whenever working with hot oil as the burns can be very serious, even possibly fatal. Keep children and pets out of your way to minimize accidents. Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf67522726.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Craft: Easter Gingerbread House We have always made Ginger bread houses at Christmas time. I've had so much fun making them over the years that I decided to carry it over to Easter. Here is my first creation, the house of Mr. Easter Bunny himself. Source: the idea just came to me By Jan Lee from L.I. NY Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf10667415.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Craft: Buttered Lamb For Easter I found a cheaper way for a Buttered Lamb. I used Margarine! Here is the Margarine Lamb I made for pennies. Peppercorn for eyes, red tie and a stick of margarine! By Sally54 from NY Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf67423439.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Today's Contest Recipes: Leek and Red Pepper Salad Ingredients Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste Pinch dry mustard 3 Tbsp. olive oil or corn oil 1 Tbsp. wine vinegar 1 lb leeks, washed, trimmed and sliced 1/2 red pepper, washed seeded and sliced into rings. Directions Make a french dressing by combining salt, pepper, mustard, oil and vinegar in a screw-topped jar. Shake well. Blanch leeks in boiling salted water for 5 minutes. Drain and allow to cool. Arrange leeks on a serving platter and top with rings of red pepper. Spoon french dressing over. Serve with roast beef or even chicken with a baked potato. By Raymonde from North Bay, Ontario Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf47685807.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Hamburger Potato Casserole Fast, easy, good and, of course, comes from Grandma! Ingredients: 1 lb hamburger 1 can drained green beans 1 can condensed tomato soup approx 4 cups mashed potatoes cheese, bacon bits (optional) Directions: Cook and drain grease off hamburger. Put cooked ground beef in bottom of casserole dish. Take can of drained green beans and mix in bowl with can of tomato soup, yes mix soup and green beans right out of can. Don't add water or heat up, just dump both cans and mix. Take that mixture and layer on top of hamburger. Next take mashed potatoes and layer on top of green bean mixture. Cover and reheat in an oven at 350 degrees F, for approx 30 minutes, or until bubbly. I would always make this after a night where we had mashed potatoes, I would use the left overs. Instant also works just fine. You can add cheese or bacon bits to top of mashed potatoes. Use your imagination. This tastes great and will feed at least 5, and has all your food groups, except the desert one. Servings: 5 Time: 15 Minutes Preparation Time 30 Minutes Cooking Time Source: All I know is that my Grandma made this a lot, don't know if it is a copy or not. By Karen from Greeneville,TN Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf86628984.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Cullen Skink This is a very tasty soup. Ingredients: 2 large smoked haddock fillets 1 chopped onion 1 bay leaf 1 pint (16 oz.) milk 800g mashed potatoes half pint (8 oz.) of cream parsley (chopped ) salt and pepper Directions: Place haddock, onion, and bay leaf in a heavy pan, cover with milk. Simmer until fish is cooked and breaks easily into pieces, season to taste. Add mashed potato and cream. Serve garnished with parsley. Source: This is a traditional Scottish recipe. It is named for the fishing village of Cullen on the north east coast of Scotland. By Lanky Liz from Scotland Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf98987736.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Coffee Shop Corn Muffins This is one of my family's favorite. I do have a question that I'm hoping someone can advise me. I would like to use mini-muffin pans but don't know if the temperature should be changed and also what the bake time should be. I would appreciate any help. Thank you. Ingredients 1 1/4 cup cornmeal 1 cup flour 1/3 cup brown sugar 1/3 cup sugar 1 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 egg 1 cup buttermilk 3/4 cup oil Directions In large bowl, combine first six ingredients.In another bowl, beat egg, buttermilk and oil. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.Fill 3/4 full greased or paper-lined muffin cups. Bake at 425 degrees F for 12-15 minutes. Instead of using buttermilk, add 1 tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice in a measuring cup and fill with milk to measure one cup. Let stand 10-15 minutes. Cool about 5-8 minutes. For high rising, rounded tops on muffins like you see in the bakeries, preheat your oven to 500 degrees F. As soon as you put the muffins into the oven, decrease the temperature to whatever the recipe calls for. Remember to decrease the baking time. This may take a bit of watching and practice but the result will be worth it. The increased temperature causes the muffins to rise quickly giving them that nice dome-shaped top. By mkymlp from PA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf42186360.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Buttermilk Dressing Ingredients 1/2 cup buttermilk 1 clove garlic, minced 1/4 tsp. sugar 1/4 tsp. dry mustard 1/4 tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. pepper Directions Combine all ingredients. Store in refrigerator until ready to use. Source: Our family favorite. By Raymonde G. from North Bay, Ontario Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf35565662.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Robin's Recipe Corner: Fried Potatoes With Cheese Ingredients 1 lb. potatoes, peeled, sliced thin 1 Tbsp. butter 1 Tbsp. oil 2 slices bacon, fried, crumbled 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 tsp. salt dash pepper dash nutmeg 1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese Directions Dry potato slices. Heat butter and oil in heavy skillet. Add potato slices, bacon, garlic, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Saute' over high heat until potatoes are tender. Lower heat, cover pan; cook for 15 minutes. Uncover, raise heat and cook, pressing down with spatula until browned. Turn and brown other side. Sprinkle on cheese, heat until cheese melts. Serve hot. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf80922231.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Quick Cheese Ball Ingredients 16 oz. cream cheese 16 oz. sharp cheddar cheese 1 tsp. lemon juice 1 Tbsp. minced onions 1 Tbsp. green pepper, olives, or pimento (opt.) Directions Mix cheese until soft and smooth. Add remaining ingredients. Roll into ball and in pecans or walnuts. Set in refrigerator for approximately 24 hours. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf78404524.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Chef's Delight Tenderloin My father in-law loves tenderloin and when they come to visit, we always have to have one for him! Very easy and so good! Ingredients: 1 beef tenderloin mayonnaise garlic salt lemon pepper, to taste Directions: Preheat oven to 500 degrees F. Coat cold tenderloin with mayonnaise; sprinkle generously with garlic salt and lemon pepper. Place on baking sheet; do not cover. Bake 15 minutes for rare, 20 minutes for med. rare, 25 minutes for medium or 30 minutes for well done. Turn oven off. Let tenderloin stand in closed oven for 1 hour; do not open oven door. 4-6 servings. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf17732768.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Caramel Apple Salad This is one of my favorites! Creamy and good! Ingredients: 1 pkg. butterscotch instant pudding mix (3oz.) 1 cup dry roasted nuts 1 can crushed pineapple (8oz.) 1 cup mini marshmallows 3 cups chopped unpeeled apples 1 container whipped topping Directions: Combine all ingredients in bowl; mix well. Chill until serving time. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf925086.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Applesauce Cake Ingredients 4 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 cup butter 2 cups raisins 1 cup nuts 2 level tsp. soda 2 Tbsp. warm water 2 cups applesauce 1 tsp. ground cloves 1 tsp. cinnamon Directions Cream butter and sugar together. Dissolve soda in warm water. Then mix creamed mixture, soda, flour and applesauce together well. Add raisins, nuts, cloves and cinnamon. Bake in tube pan approximately 1 hour at 350 degrees F. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf613390.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Today's Sponsor: Crafting for Fun and Money! If you are an avid crafter, capable writer and own a digital camera, you are eligible to participate. Submit your craft projects to ThriftyFun and we will pay $15 for any crafts that we publish. More Information: Click Here: http://www.thriftyfun.com/post_craft.ldml More Stuff: Coupon Swap! Swap coupons with other ThriftyFun.com users.