Dinning Alone

November 21st, 2006, 01:22 PM


I just made some and I forgot an ingrediant

1/2 cup sugar

let it set a day or 2 it tastes best that way

November 24th, 2006, 02:03 AM

Im just getting home after dogsitting again for 3 days. I took advantage of her kitchen and baked some cookies (butterscoth morsels, choclate chip and oatmeal/cranraison) and made wine jelly with plum wine for gifts for Yule. I made liver and onions for me but couldnt manage to eat it. Holidays suck dining alone.

November 24th, 2006, 01:18 PM

Wine Jelly

3 cups sugar
2 cups wine (I used plum wine......as Rachel Ray would say "Yummo")
1/2 6 oz bottle liquid fruit pectin

Paraffin

Measure sugar and wine into top of a double boiler: mix well. Place over but not touching rapidly boiling water. Stir til sugar is desolved. 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat. At once stir in fruit pectin and stir (gently) well. Skim off foam if necessary. (if you stir gentlt there wont be any) Place a metal spoon in hot sterilized wine glass (to prevent glass from breaking) Quickly pour hot jelly into glass to within 1/8 inch from top. Remove spoon. Cover at once with 1/8 inch hot paraffin. repeat with 5 more glasses.

November 24th, 2006, 01:33 PM

Tam's Own Oatmeal Cookies

2 sticks butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

cream together

in a seperate bowl add the following:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamin
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
mix and combine the two mixtures well

add to the combined mixture the following

3 cups old fashioned oats
1 cup cranraisons
1 cup walnuts (optional )

preheat oven to 350 take a teaspoon of mixture and set on cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 mins

November 24th, 2006, 10:13 PM

Heres a little tip, if you have a migrain try a bit of dark choclate to get rid of it. If your allergic like I am it wont work lol so I try a guiness before I reach for the hard meds. Sometimes it works........not tonight.

November 24th, 2006, 10:41 PM

Quote:

I try a guiness

Try 3 or 4 of them...

November 26th, 2006, 06:50 AM

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!! Wish my budget could afford it!!! Your cute!

November 26th, 2006, 12:20 PM

OK NOW Im hungry! LOL Im watching a program on Gilroy Calif. Garlic capital of the world! YUM!!! I think I'll have shrimp tonight lightly sauted in fresh garlic and basil in butter mmmmmm mmmmmmm GOOD!

November 26th, 2006, 07:32 PM

Well it took 3 hours to finish lunch LOL I made a nice plate of veggies and salmon. My wee Scottish friend in England got me stuck on it LOL I think I'll skip dinner. I started my new site and I'll develope it more tomorrow. Im really excited about it and hope it takes off the way I intend it to. It'll keep my mind busy if nothing else.

December 1st, 2006, 06:34 PM

Hi Nikki,

I pulled this off a frano-american womans institute

http://www.fawi.net/

it sounded delicious


Memere/maman's recipe for tourtiere:
(pronounced as you like, but it can be touchay for those who are in a big hurry like me...)
1 beef roast
1 pork roast
of equal poundage, I buy approximately 6 to 8 lbs. of meat each, with more pounds in beef slightly
10 to 12 potatoes in proportion to the meat
3 or 4 medium onions
salt/pepper
nutmeg
cook roasts together till done
peel and cook potatoes, and make tasty mashed potatoes with margarine, (or butter, or sour creme, or my latest, crême fraiche sent to me from a new-found Franco women in California who markets this traditional condiment from Western France,) salt and pepper to taste as well.
Ground up the cooled roasts with onions added to the grinding process using either a food processor or hand-crank grinder. The consistency is not too fine, but not too coarse either.
Mix the meat and potato mixture together in a large pan, adding a dash of nutmeg and salt/pepper to taste.
You can then bag and freeze this for up to 6 months.
Also you can make a tourtière/tourtiere immediately to taste your wares.
This makes enough for up to 6 or 7 pies. Tourtière requires a two-crust pie, top and bottom. Cook for 45 minutes to an hour, depending on how long it takes for crust to brown. Serve with green tomato ketchup or for breakfast the morning after with a sunnyside egg on top. C'est'assez bon!
This is so Good!
(literal translation: this is enough good!)

December 1st, 2006, 06:40 PM

Green tommy ketchup?...ah I remember it being in the shops here for a couple of months.

otherwise, ur making my mouth water!!!.

December 1st, 2006, 06:41 PM

That sounds good. Here is the one I found.

Tourtiere

1 lb Lean ground Pork
1/2 lb lean ground beef
1 onion (diced)
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 tsp dried thyme, crushed
1/4 tsp ground sage
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1 recipie pastry for a 9 inch double crust.

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 C)
In a saucepan, combine pork, beef, onion, garlic, water, salt, thyme, sage, black pepper and cloves. cooke over med heat until mixture boils; stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to low and simmer until meat is cooked, about 5 mins.
Spoon the meat mixture into the pie crust. Place top crust on top of pie an dpinch edges to seal. Cut slits in top of crust to steam can escape. Cover edges of pie with stripes of aluminum foil.
Bake in oven for 20 minutes, remove foil and return to oven. bake for an addition 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown. Let cool 10 min.

I will let you know how it turns out.

Man i cant belive I didnt see this thread before.

December 1st, 2006, 06:50 PM

I LOVE having company for dinner! LOL I dont have a stove but when I get the chance (once a year) I cook at my sisters. Its soooooo fun cooking for Irishmen LOL My bro in law will go nuts over this one!! Im glad you found us ok. I think Daz was getting lonely LOL

December 1st, 2006, 06:54 PM

OMG!!!! You don't have a stove!??? I couldn't live without a stove. I love cooking!!!!

Next week I am going over to my mom's house to do all her christmas baking. And I can't wait... Yest I am a dork but I don't care.

December 1st, 2006, 07:06 PM

Your too cute!!! LOL I love cooking too, I just had to get creative I doo that well! Check out my oatmeal cookie recipe its the BOMB! great dunkers

December 1st, 2006, 07:19 PM


I did see it there. I think well I am bored at work tomorrow I might go through a bunch of these threads.

I can be creative but I don't know if I can be that creative. I can't live without my stove lol.

December 1st, 2006, 07:24 PM

Its just me here and a hotplate, toasteroven and my crock do very well. I catch good sales and at 242 lbs Im not starving LOL I do eat fairly healthy and Im at an altime personal low (used to be 333) Lifes good when you look forward to your own cooking

December 1st, 2006, 07:26 PM

I wish I could cook. My girlfriend is an excellent cook though. I survive on K-D and chicken. Thank God for my girlfriend. I do the dishes, she cooks. It's win, win.