In a hurry for a really quick meal or snack? Just open a can of refried beans, a jar of queso, and a jar of salsa. Serve in small bowls with tortilla chips, and you have your home-made version of a fast food restaurant’s popular food item! Kids think it’s cool because it’s like eating something from a Mexican fast food place.
#1. Anele’s question. Do you have a natural ability to cook or do you feel you just “get by?”
I think cooking is something I learned to do by watching my mother, grandmother, and mother-in-law cook. It feels natural to be in my kitchen cooking. I enjoy cooking for my family, but I don’t cook elaborate meals unless it’s a holiday.
#2. Why do you buy the size eggs that you buy?
I’ve bought large eggs for so long just because I like that size. The small eggs seem too small and the extra-large eggs seem too large. I will buy medium eggs sometimes if they’re on sale for a good price.
#3. Do you have any cooking “rules”?
Do NOT lift the lid on rice while it’s cooking.
#4. Fresh corn. Yellow, white or bicolored?
I buy frozen organic yellow corn most of the time. During the summer, I’ll buy fresh corn-on-the-cob.
#1. Do you celebrate Memorial Day with a picnic, cookout, road trip or some other way?
The past couple of years, we have taken a road trip. This year, we might have hamburgers &/or hot dogs.
#2. What are staples at your summer time cookouts?
Just the usual things that go with hamburgers or hot dogs.
#3. What drink do you find most refreshing on a hot summer day?
Iced tea. What’s really good is to buy a bag of crushed ice from Sonic or someplace, and have iced tea over crushed ice!
#4. Share a recipe for a picnic side dish.
My family doesn’t care for potato salad or cole slaw, so it would be beans. A friend fixed some delicious beans: 1/2 pinto beans & 1/2 black beans seasoned with Lipton’s Onion Soup Mix and Liquid Smoke.
This is a simple, healthier version of a barbecue sandwich that we really like. Or you might call it barbeque, BBQ, Bar-B-Que, or Bar-B-Q. Whatever you call it, here’s the recipe:
INGREDIENTS:
* 16-20 ounce package ground turkey breast
* Your favorite barbecue sauce
* Buns
* Butter
Cook ground turkey in a pan with 1/2 cup barbecue sauce. Chop turkey up with a spatula and mix in barbecue sauce well, allowing sauce to infuse the turkey as it’s cooking. Add more sauce as needed.
Heat a litttle butter on a griddle. Toast bun halves on griddle, inside of bun face down on griddle. Heat until toasted lightly.
Serve barbecue turkey on warm, toasted buns. Add more sauce on top of turkey.
This is so good and such an easy recipe with a great homemade taste! This would be perfect for Mother’s Day or any special occasion or dinner. (Someone made this for our daughter and s-i-l recently after the birth of their second baby, and we all really liked it.)
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Chocolate Chip Pie
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
½ cup margarine, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs, beaten
½ cup flour
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup chopped pecans (opt.)
1 unbaked (9-inch) pie shell
Cream the sugar, margarine and vanilla in a mixer bowl until smooth. Add the eggs, beating until blended. Stir in the flour, chocolate chips and pecans. Spoon into the pie shell.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
I saw this delicious sounding lemonade recipe from GooseberryPatch.com and wanted to share it with you. It’s from their Summer in the Country cookbook. Wouldn’t this make a nice treat on Mother’s Day?
INGREDIENTS:
Process watermelon in a blender until smooth. Set aside. In a large pitcher, combine sugar and lemon juice. Stir until sugar is dissolved and then add in the water. Add in the watermelon and mix well. Serve chilled. Stir well before serving. Makes 8-10 servings.
#1. Blueyes’ question: What’s your favorite seafood recipe?
Very simple: Put a little olive oil in the skillet. Place a salmon filet in the skillet. Sprinkle with fish seasoning. (My favorite is Colorado Spice’s Salmon & Trout Seasoning.) Cook 10 minutes for each inch of filet thickness.
#2. Italian Ice. Like it, love it or leave it?
I like it OK.
#3. What’s your favorite crunchy food? (anything – pickles, chips, fruit, etc.)
Hmmm….is popcorn considered crunchy?
#4. Have you ever eaten so much of something that you felt or got sick?
Not that I can remember.
With spring already here and summer fast approaching, it’s nice to have a light dessert or snack such as fresh fruit. And since this is the time of year when fruit is at its best, this is just too good to pass up. Kids will think it’s fun eating fruit off skewers. Our 20 month old grandson loves to dip food into sauces, so even young children will have fun eating fruit.
This healthy recipe comes from Coming Home With Gooseberry Patch at GooseberryPatch.com
INGREDIENTS:
Arrange fruit on skewers. For Poppyseed Dip, mix remaining ingredients. Serve dip alongside fruit kabobs.
We’re thankful that Val’s surgery went well! She’s the author of Four Foods on Friday.
#1. What’s your favorite flavor of yogurt?
Blueberry
#2. Got a recipe for a smoothie?
Fresh Pineapple Smoothie
#3. Got a recipe for split pea soup?
My mother made a very simple split pea soup that was delicious. I wish I had asked how she made it. Seems like she would cook the peas with some diced onion in water until the peas thickened the water to a creamy soup consistency, and then she would add milk, butter, salt, and pepper.
#4. What’s your favorite kind of pudding?
Tie – banana pudding and chocolate pudding
This is a very healthy salad with the dark green, leafy Romaine lettuce which is a great source of vitamins K, A, & C, folate, manganese, and other nutrients.
The tuna and walnuts provide essential fatty acids which the body needs for many things, including healthy skin and hair.
Apples are the best source for the mineral boron which is good for bone growth and a great source of fiber. Apples are also rich in quercetin, phytonutrients, and flavonoids which may reduce the risk of certain cancers. The best way to get all of the health benefits of apples is to always eat organic apples with the peeling!
Cherries are considered to be a “Super Food,” containing beta carotene, vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, iron, folate, melatonin and also fiber. They help with inflamation and cholesterol as well.
INGREDIENTS:
Place lettuce in bowl and top with tuna, apple, cherries, and walnuts. Drizzle with olive oil and add salt & pepper to taste.