ThriftyFun Recipes - January 18, 2008

Vol. 7, Num. 13, January 18, 2008 (Read It Online) Thanks to Melissa, Robin, Winnie, imama2many and Connie for today's recipes. Submit Your Favorite Recipe! Need a recipe? Submit a request Thanks for reading, Susan 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: Using Homemade Bisquick Recipes for Someone with Chronic Renal Failure Recipe for Homemade Taco Shells Today's Recipes: Marinara Potato Pancake With Egg Coconut Chess Pie Magdalen Islands Seafood Pizza Au Gratin Potatoes Bagged Omelettes Down South Barbecue Green Bean Casserole Butterscotch Pound 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: Using Homemade Bisquick When you make your own Bisquick how much do you use at a time? And if you are making pancakes how much do you use? Thanks for all who can help. Jamish from Ransom Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf32562527.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Recipes for Someone with Chronic Renal Failure Is anyone familiar with the CKD (chronic kidney disease) diet? My husband has just been placed on it. The information we've been given is too vague to me. I've requested a physician referral to a renal dietitian/nutritionist, but am still waiting to hear back on that. Any menu ideas and/or recipes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. Bonnie from Tuckerton, NJ Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf55938789.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Recipe for Homemade Taco Shells Years ago a friend of mine made homemade taco shells, and I lost the recipe. Does anyone have a recipe? It was so simple and the tacos were so soft. Thanks Antoinette J. from Cincinnati, OH Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf75251339.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 and 1 photo winner at the end of each week. Each winner will win $25! My Frugal Life Submit a My Frugal Life Essay! Today's Recipes: Marinara Potato Pancake With Egg I am not sure of the name of this dish. I just know my husband loves it. You make a potato pancake, then warm marinara sauce (spaghetti sauce), then an over easy egg, layer them. Top with Parmesan cheese and enjoy. Source: I got this recipe from an Italian cooking show on the food network. By Melissa from Greeneville TN Editor's Note: I believe this might be the original recipe: Eggs in Purgatory Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf56658921.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Coconut Chess Pie Ingredients 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 Tbsp. cornmeal 1/4 cup butter 1 cup milk 1 tsp. vanilla 1 can coconut 1 pie shell, unbaked (9 inch) Directions Mix ingredients by hand in order given. Pour into pie shell and bake at 350 degrees F for 50-60 minutes. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf35349708.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Magdalen Islands Seafood Pizza There is nothing more scrumptious then Magdalen Islands fresh seafood pizza, piled high with the most tender lobster, crab and scallops imaginable. No one knows more about seafood than the Island chefs. Although I don't consider myself a chef, I have played with a basic Magdalen Islands recipe, adding thyme, bay leaf , cloves and mushrooms and tweaking the pizza dough to make it rise better, yet taste less yeasty, and adding shrimp, therefore making it mine. The simple trick to this kind of pizza is in the slow cooking of the Bechamel Sauce. Pizza Dough Ingredients 3 1/2 cups flour 1 cup warm water, not hot 1 tbsp yeast 2 tbsp sugar 1/4 cup olive oil 1/2 tsp. salt Directions Pour warm water, comfortable to touch, into a bowl. Add the sugar and salt. Blend with a wooden spoon. Add the yeast and mix. Let this mixture sit for about 5 minutes. Add 1 cup of flour and the olive oil and mix until well blended. Add the rest of the flour and mix well. The dough should turn into a ball. If the dough does not ball up because it's too dry, add water one tablespoon at a time until it does. If your mixture is more like a batter, add flour one tablespoon at a time. Adding water or flour as needed to get the right consistency will assure you always get a perfect dough. Just remember to do it in small amounts. Once the dough is balled up, place the ball on a floured board and knead for about a minute. This helps the dough to rise and become fluffy when cooked. Place the dough in a plastic grocery bag or a covered bowl and store in a warm, dry area to rise. After about 45 minutes the dough should have about doubled in size. Punch it down and let it rise for another hour to an hour and a half. Repeat if desired. The dough is now ready to be rolled out. Bechamel Sauce Ingredients 1/4 cup unsalted butter 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 2 cups milk 1 cup chopped mushrooms, optional 1 small onion studded with 2 Or 3 cloves, optional 1 small bay leaf dash dried leaf thyme, crumbled salt and white pepper to taste nutmeg, to taste Directions In a medium heavy saucepan, melt butter over low heat. When butter starts to foam, add flour all at once, mixing well with a wooden spoon. Cook over low heat 3 to 4 minutes, stirring constantly to incorporate and cook flour. Remove pan from heat and let stand, up to 15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, scald milk (heating it until just below boiling point). Return saucepan with roux to medium-low heat. Add all of the scalded milk at once (to avoid the formation of lumps). Simmer, stirring gently with a wire whisk or wooden spoon. Add onion studded with cloves, bay leaf and thyme. A cup of mushrooms chopped into small pieces can be added to the sauce. Cook, stirring, over low heat, 15 to 20 minutes, until smooth and thickened. Strain sauce through fine-mesh strainer. Add salt, white pepper and nutmeg to taste. Set the sauce aside while you prepare the toppings. This makes about 2 cups of sauce. Cook lobster, shell and break into bite-sized pieces. Do the same for the crab and scallop. If desired a can of baby shrimp can also be added to the layers of toppings. Have plenty shredded mozzarella cheese or three cheese pizza mix. When prepared this should make two large 15" pizzas. Source: Although Magdalen Islands Chefs started the idea of a seafood recipe, this is my own because I have put my own flavours to the recipe, by adding bay leaves, cloves, mushrooms, bacon, a little thyme occasionally, tweaking the dough and Bechamel sauce. By Winnie from Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf10481982.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Au Gratin Potatoes 1 qt. boiled potatoes, cooked in jackets. Slice or dice. Cheese Sauce: Saute: 3 Tbsp. butter 1/2 onion 1/2 green pepper Add: 3 Tbsp. flour 1 pint milk Cook until thick. Add: 1/2 tsp. salt dash pepper 1/8 lb. Velveeta cheese 1 slice Cheddar cheese 1 Tbsp. canned pimento 2 Tbsp. chopped parsley Butter casserole dish and alternate sauce and potatoes until full. Or just mix the potatoes and sauce together and pour into casserole. Bake in moderate oven until heated through, 30 minutes at 350 degrees F. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf33895040.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Bagged Omelettes We like to make "bagged omelettes" when either cooking or with a large group. In a ziplock bag, we crack 2-3 eggs and add all the fixin's: cheese, onions, bacon or sausage bits, tomatoes, peppers, etc. Zip the top of the bag shut with most of the air squeezed out first. then "mush" the bag together with your fingers to mix all ingredients well. Then pop the sealed bag in a pot of boiling water. Within about 10-15 minutes (depending on altitude, we've found), you have the lightest, fluffiest omelette and NO clean up! The kids LOVE to help make this breakfast, and anything the kids help make, they are MUCH more likely to eat! :) By imama2many from UT Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf60599479.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Down South Barbecue 2 onions, sliced 4-5 lb. pork roast 5-6 cloves 2 cups water Put half of onions in bottom of crockpot. Add meat and other ingredients with remaining onion on top. Cover and cook overnight or 8-12 hours on low. 16 oz. barbecue sauce 1 large onion, chopped Remove bone and fat from meat. Put meat back in crockpot. Add chopped onion and barbecue sauce. Cook and cover additional 1-3 hours on high or 4-8 hours on low, stirring 2-3 times. Serve on large buns. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf20769705.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Green Bean Casserole Ingredients 1-1/2 Tbsp butter 3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour 1-1/2 cups milk (2% ok) 3 to 4 tsps. dry ranch style salad dressing mix 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. white pepper 1 cup chopped onion 2 cloves garlic, minced 1-1/2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms 1-1/4 pounds fresh green beans, cooked until crisp-tender 1 cup fresh bread crumbs toasted Directions White Sauce: Melt butter in small saucepan over low heat. Stir in flour; cook 1 to 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Using a wire whisk, stir in milk; bring to a boil. Cook, whisking constantly, 1 to 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in dressing mix and white pepper; set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray medium skillet with nonstick cooking spray; heat over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir 2 to 3 minutes or until tender. Remove half of the onion mixture; set aside. Add the mushrooms to onion mixture remaining in skillet and cook about 6 minutes or until mushrooms are tender. Combine mushroom mixture, green beans and white sauce in a 1-1/2-quart casserole. Combine bread crumbs with reserved onion mixture; sprinkle over casserole. Bake, uncovered, until heated through, about 20 to 30 minutes. Tip: Use this easy method for making bread crumbs. Using day or two old bread, remove crust, break bread into quarter pieces and put into a blender. Process the bread pieces by using the on-off pulsing method until bread is in fine crumbs. By Connie from Cotter, AR Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf93906843.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Butterscotch Pound Cake Ingredients 1 butter pecans cake mix 2 packages butterscotch pudding (3 oz. each) 1 cup water 3/4 cup oil 4 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. butter flavoring Caramel Icing: 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 1 cup half and half 3 Tbsp. butter 1 tsp. vanilla Directions Mix together and bake in a greased and floured tube pan at 350 degrees F for about 45 minutes to an hour. Do not overcook or cake will be dry. Pour caramel icing over cooled cake. For Caramel Icing: Boil to soft ball stage. Set aside until lukewarm. Beat until thick enough to ice cake. By Robin from Washington, IA Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf34556955.tip.html Email to a Friend | Get Responses | Bookmark | Link | Rate It: | Print Today's Sponsor: Crafting for Fun and Money! 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