New Bloggers

I am adding a few new blogs from other fine chefs and people who like to cook as well.  hope you enjoy what they have to say and the recipes they present to your dining pleasure. And as always when trying any new recipe ...Please Dont Burn The Kitchen Down

Hun... What's for Dinner?: Healthy Peanut Butter Balls

Hun... What's for Dinner?: Healthy Peanut Butter Balls: Part of my healthy eating plan is to seriously cut down on sweets and dessert. The thing is, I find that most nights (especially after din...

Beef Tips and Gravy

This is a recipe that many of us older people our moms have handed it down from generation to generation.Its what I call a Tried and True recipe you can vary it up however you choose.

1 1/2 pounds of beef tips
1 sliced yellow onion
1 pkg of onion soup mix (doesnt matter i its generic times are tough )
1 can of mushroom soup
1can of beef broth
1pkg of egg noodles

 Cook the beef tips first on low heat until tender use that for your 1 can of beef broth then add the rest of the ingredients to this. Cook on med to low for a hour or so.

1 variation is you can use sour cream in this too and it really good.



  make sure when you cook your beef tips cook until they are done and not mooing anymore  it will taste better and follow direction on your egg noodles to cook those.

Food

We are going to talk about food today. Who doesn't like food? Its obvious that we have to have it to survive.But why be afraid of it ,it wont bite it doesn't talk back , it tastes great well some of it.So why be afraid of it.
Here is why if its not cooked right it will make you very sick if you dont cook it right big sick. Check your cooking temps if your not sure ..the next blog will have cooking temps for your meat so you can stay alive. Wash your veggies its a must the farmers and lord knows who else handles your food Wash it good too. Above all WASH YOUR HANDS there is alot of unmentionables on your hands germs some start with P and end with OO.Keep those hands clean that will make you sick. Cook your meat thoroughly check it with a meat thermometer .The cows themselves may not be sick but the processing can make a person turn green. Handle veggies with care  some of them bruise tomatoes can bruise very easily. Otherwise have fun with your food  look at it  check for  green spots (mold) smell it make sure it smells fresh it wont bite your nose off I promise.
 Its food its good for you makes you healthy and strong. It does a body good to eat your fruits and veggies  grains meat try not to eat the processed stuff and yes Im talking to myself as well that stuff will kill you if you eat to much of it.
 Basically have fun with it you will be surprised  how fun it is to cook with it and eat it after it is cooked well.
                                   

Snowmobile Soup

I must say when I first saw this I passed it up it just didn't sound good .The name doesn't it at all. But what I did what take the recipe original one and changed 2 things and made it a whole lot better. So here it is enjoy.

Snow Mobile soup

1 can of mushroom soup+ one can of milk

1 can of cream of chicken + one can of milk

1 pkg of 8oz cream cheese

1can of corn dont drain

1/2 chuck beef roast

1tsp celery salt

1tsp of old bay

2can of whole potatoes chopped

add salt and pepper to taste

this recipe is rich but very tasty and it kind of stick to your ribs kinda soup

Salsa

There is a story behind this recipe that will be told at the end..

Salsa

6cans of stewed tomatoes

4cloves of garlic

2 jalapenos seeded unless you want it hot and spicy

1 large red onion

1/4 bunch of cilantro

juice of 2 limes you can add zest too

salt to taste 1/2 tbl sugar

put in food processor or about a minute or 2

Now as I said earlier in one of the blogs I got a new food processor and I hadnt opened it up yet. Well the day I decided to try it out on salsa took it out of the box. Took out all the carboard stuff in it I guess I was excited because 1 I didnt get all the cardboard out and 2.Forgot to wash it before I used it. So while I was making the salsa of course I saw wet cardboard I thought it was cilantro and used a fork to get it out and it wasnt cilantro soo make sure you take out all the cardboard even under the blade and wash it all..

A New Beginning

Its 2012 January as a matter of fact ,what can I say I was in a depressed mode when the job went down the toilet but my life didn't it goes on and on. Im going to start this again because after reading what I wrote it didnt sound bad at all so here it goes again .It will give me something to do and hopefully someone will read it and it will bring a smile to their face and that is all that matters in this life. I have learned alot since I started this blog .Ive gotten alot smarter not really smarter just learned alot by trial and error mostly error and learned from them all. I like to write always have grammer skills isnt a great thing in this but I try to use spell check now I know where it is on this page. I have not lost my sense of humor my mind has slipped a few bars but the humor is still there.

Alright lets begin here for Christmas I got a brand new wide mouth food processor and Ive alot of ideas on a few selling items that I might try at a garage sale or something of that kind. Salsa is a big idea and a few other things I am going to try and will post on this page all tried and people really like . For Christmas I made for the first time peppermint and white Chocolate candy turned out great could of been better but people really liked it alot. Salsa was another thing these are easy recipes that I will post in the next couple of day. Im sure there will be alot more Im going to post some of them recipes and some are life happenings. So as the title states for this blog it is true .. A NEW BEGINNING has started.

A Old Invention With A New Attitude

A old Invention with a New attitude. What a great name for the Mixer seems its been around since the days of Ms Betty Crocker and beyond. I loved my mixer it was a hand me down from my mom until it croaked the other day. I was making a never before done Butter cake .Well it started out good but then the mixing spinners went haywire.It wasnt pretty they seemed like they wanted to get to close to each other and was knocking each other out. So now looking for a new and improved Mixer. One that doesnt have separate mixing spinners it has just one .Ohh Did I get the cake done the answer is yes I never claimed Im a baker of any sorts but this time I did a pretty good job on it. First Cake ever been done by this ole Coot. I made Butter Cream frosting too but talk about Rich .

Okay new recipe this one I took off of a bottle minus the chemicals with real Nice flavor.

Teriyaki Sauce

1 bottle of favorite soy sauce
Brown Sugar
1Tbl spoon of garlic either out of a jar or fresh
Ginger

Depending on how much sauce you want it how much you mix for me I use about 1cup of soy sauce and add the brown sugar until I get it right .
Adding the garlic aprox 1 Tbls spoon of garlic yes its alot but garlic gets sweet when cooked. Ginger just a tad for taste I dont use it but I have heard its in the original Sauce. make sure you do the taste test to make sure its what you want it to taste like.
When using this for chicken make sure you spread it on thin and baste as you cook . Its real good for grilling as well

Tick...When using Ginger ..this is a very strong spice so use just a tiny bit and its good for you has very nice health properties to it.


Well Folks that is it for today..Enjoy

You can use this for Steak Shrimp

Sloppy Dogs

Strange name for a great taste..And the Kids will like it alot and if your a kid at heart like I am you will too. First thing Wash the ole hands make sure you get all the spaces in between never know what germy might be lurking any where on the hands.

What you will need is a pound of hamburger whatever is the cheapest if your on a budget and 1 can of manwich or make your own..1 pkg of your favorite hot dogs I use always save they aren't always good but which what your adding it will be good..Now you need a small pan to cook or brown the hamburger I know some of you get really hungry and want to hurry this up..Well Don't you will burn the kitchen down and your hamburger wont be any good.So turn the heat on Medium to medium low brown that hamburger being very careful not to spill the grease or on yourself its not pretty when you burn you.. Ive done it several time. I try to find a old can and put the grease in it being very careful. Are we done yet almost there..open up the can of manwich put it slowly in the hamburger leave the burner turned down a notch or two . Now get a sauce pan put your hot dogs in it and get them a cookin.when they are done your manwich stuff will be done too.put hot dog in a bun or on bread or on a plate and then add your manwich on top. You can add mustard or onions or whatever your little heart desires.
That's it..

Don't forget to wash your hands again And Don't Burn the Kitchen Down.

Cleaniness is next to Godliness

Alright now will shall conquer the art of cleanliness..First of all I know that there are several things you can do to keep things clean . Alot of popular items especially the hand sanitizer ..you know the stuff that dries your hands out if you use too much.
This is what works for me I run a sink of hot soapy water. I wash my hands first the way I see it is this back in the days when we didn't have chemicals we did just fine nobody got hurt or died. You can use what you want but it is important not at least wash your hands. Alot of dish soap has antibacterial stuff in it that is very inexpensive on the market. Okay done washing your hands ..Great lets get started on One recipe that is very easy to do. Guess you will have to read the next blog to find it its called Sloppy Dogs.

Recipe of Life

The Recipe of Life is..Well there isn't one.. I started this blog because I have worked in alot of restaurants.I have heard over and over I cant Cook I will burn the kitchen down or have burned the kitchen down..Now if you have burned your kitchen down dont bother with this..actually yes bother it alot. First let me tell you about myself then we will move on. Im 49 soon to be 50 woman who works in a casino in the Bistro. I have done alot of fast food work most of my life with the exception of the military. Yes I found time to do that and I wasnt a cook either. I was a medic . I am in a relationship with a woman of 10 years with 2 cats and 4 dogs all small with the exception of one of the cats he is a baby Huey. I love to cook my Idols are Julia Child the Two Fat Ladies Rachael Ray and Paula Dean. Each one of them holds something close to me,which is humor and food.I must say a great combination. The blog just isn't about recipes and how to cook them but humor in doing them and what to watch out for .They are not hard recipes not even a little bit and they have food in them that you will find in the cabinets. Nothing fancy at all not even close. We are all on budgets right now and close ones at that. Alot of the blogs that you will find here are mistakes that I have made or someone else made which I'm allowed to tell.

The recipes are mine with original names but you have my permission to do whatever you want to them to make them better for you. Just Don't Burn The Kitchen Down

The last thing I would like to say is this Anybody can cook with help and patience and some breathing exercises and last of all laugh a little that's the recipe of Life.