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Recipes
GOOD COOKS NEVER WASTE ANYTHING!
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GOOD COOKS AREN’T AFRAID TO EXPERIMENT!
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A GOOD COOK MAKES A RECIPE HIS OR HER OWN BY
TWEAKING THE INGREDIENTS!
French Fries (Tip)Save leftover French fries by frying them in a small amount of oil and a handful of chopped onions: tastes like home fries. Salt & Pepper to taste.
Bread Pudding Variation
Add chocolate milk to your favorite bread pudding for a new taste.
Hot Chocolate Variation
Make your hot chocolate with eggnog for a nice rich taste.
Carrot Glaze
A great glaze for carrots: mix peach preserves with butter and toss with cooked carrots just before serving.
Fruit Drink (Tip)
When serving limeade, lemonade, or orange juice, add slices of the corresponding fruit to the beverage. It improves the taste and looks good as well.
Dough Handling (Tip)
When handling dough for breads, pasta, etc. Dip fingers lightly in cooking oil to prevent your hands from sticking to whatever you’re making.
Easy Breakfast (Tip)
An easy way to serve a one dish breakfast: put scrambled eggs & cooked bacon or sausage into a warmed pita pocket, or tortilla. It will be easy to eat & won’t get cold as fast. Great for kids!
Meatloaf (Tip)Jazz up your next meatloaf with a center layer of sausage –chorizo, Italian or Kielbasa. A layer of cheese and/or mushrooms gives meatloaf an interesting flavor as well.
Spaghetti Sauce (Tip)Add 1 lb. cooked sweet/mild Italian sausage and 1 tsp. sugar to your favorite spaghetti sauce for a richer taste.
Gravy (Tips)
- For a more brown gravy, use a small amount of instant coffee to your pork or beef gravy.
- For a quick gravy, use cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup, using 1 /2 the amount of milk/water called for on the can’s directions.
- Add cooked crumbled sausage to the cream of mushroom soup for quick country sausage gravy.
Cornbread (Tips)
- For moist cornbread, add a small can of creamed corn to the batter before baking.
- For an almost dessert-like cornbread, add a small can of whole kernel corn and a tablespoon of sugar to batter.
- Add slightly chopped cooked red or green peppers and an extra tablespoon of canola or vegetable oil for colorful cornbread.
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Brownie (Tips)
- For yummy peanut butter brownies, add 1 bag of peanut butter chips to the batter before baking.
- Add vanilla/white chocolate chips to the batter before baking.
- Use 2 tbls of any flavor or original Kahlua to brownies
- Chop maraschino cherries (1 small jar, drained) into your brownies before baking. Add 2 tbls cherry Schnapps as well.
Oatmeal Cookie variations
- Mix into batter a small jar of orange marmalade.
- Add a jar of butterscotch topping to batter.
- Use dried cranberries or cherris for color and extra taste.
- Add butterscotch, vanilla chips or chocolate chips/chunks to recipe.
Cookie-baking (Tips)
- For softer cookies, use white or yellow cake mix instead of flour.
- An extra tablespoon of oil, an extra egg, or 1 teaspoon baking powder added to your favorite cookie recipe will make cookies softer.
- Lower the baking temperature by 20 degrees and lessen baking time by 4-6 minutes for a better cookie.
- Add peanut butter chips to your chocolate cookies!
- Too add a little kick to the taste of your cookies calling for vanilla (or any dessert with chocolate), make vanilla rum. Start with a large bottle of rum (which is a lot less expensive than the cost of real vanilla), add one tablespoon of real vanilla extract per year plus add 1 vanilla bean cut into 1/2 inch snips. The oil from the bean will infuse into the rum for the vanilla taste. Add 1 bean every 6 months or so. Add more rum when you get down to about 1/4 of a bottle of rum left. Leave vanilla bean snips in bottle indefinitely. If a recipe calls for 1 teaspoon vanilla, use 2 teaspoons of vanilla rim for best flavor.
Cooking (Tips)To keep from losing your batter or coatings on fried foods, use non-stick pan, gently shake pan back and forth, especially when beginning the cooking process at a higher temperature. The most important thing to remember is not to cover the pan as it will hold moisture in and coatings will separate from the foods. A spatter screen is recommended.
A great-tasting coating for pork chops or cubed pork steak is as follows:
- 1 cup Drake's fry mix with 2 tbls flour added
- 1/2 cup dry grated parmesan cheese
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Beef Stew (Cooking Tip)Use your favorite recipe, but add one grated peeled apple and one grated peeled carrot. The apple and carrot will dissolve into the stew's gravy during the final simmering and the resulting taste will be delicious but subtle.
Tasty Pumpkin Pie (Tips)
- For a richer but very subtle taste, omit milk ingredient in your pie recipe and use the same amount of egg nog instead.
- If you are adventurous, add 1 teaspoon of rum or vanilla!
- Use ½ brown sugar and ½ white sugar
Fruit plates (Tip)Put various types of fruit on a tray, contrasting the colors for a healthy dessert that will appeal to kids and adults alike. The green of sliced kiwi fruit next to the orange slices or black grapes next to bright red strawberries will make any table interesting.
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