New Recipe

I tried a new recipe tonight....Cheesy Tater Tot Casserole....   click on the photos for the link.

to go with the casserole I cooked hoe cakes....they are so good. The lady that shared the recipe
said some people eat these with syrup. They are that good and that bad for you. I am going to enjoy them tonight.

My Easy Chili Recipe

My Easy Chili Recipe. So Simple You may laugh at me....but so good.

1 pack hamburger meat, mine was 1.195 in weight
brown in pot you are going to cook it in.
2 cans diced tomatoes with green peppers, celery, onions
3 cans luck's pinto beans
4 level teaspoons chili powders and 2 heaping teaspoons chili powders ....I was guessing.

Just writing it the way I did it .....no recipe... it turned out just right.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Cooked it until it was done to my liking.

I know you all have your own recipe for chili. Someone ask me to post mine so I did.
You may just want to try it.

                                                   Today was our 29th Anniversary.

Whats For Supper

What is better then a good bowl of chili on a cold day. 

 

 

I say nothing.  Hubby is sleeping so I will

wait until he gets up for work before eating. 

Cooked in my new TRAMONTINA

cook ware.

Made In USA

                                                          
                                                                 What I am reading.
                                                                               

 

Not as good as my last two books I 

shared . When I start a book

I do tend to finish it.

This one I won't

recommend. 

Linking up with.

Friday Favorites

 

 

Easy Pot Pie

Happy Valentines Day!

My Valentines Day Supper Is In The Oven!

The Recipe I Used. My Grand Daughter Told Me This Recipe When She Was Living With Me.
First Time I Have Made It. She Made It For Us Then.

I Had To Look It Up, Had Done Forget It.
Found It On Cooks.Com. Now Hers Didn't Have  The Sage, I put It In There, Have To Wait To See If It Helped It Or Hurt It. Anyone Else Every Made It This Way.

EASY CHICKEN POT PIE  
1 can chicken
2 cans mixed vegetables
1 can cream of chicken soup
3 dashes sage
salt and pepper to taste
2 deep dish frozen pie crusts

Drain chicken and vegetables. In a large bowl, mix the first five ingredients.
Place mixture into pie crust and top with second.
Crimp edges together. Make 2 or 3 slits in top crust and bake according to pie shell directions.
How easy is that for a valentine supper.

Question

I would like to ask a question of you...if you don't mind answering. I have let a Betty Cocker cake mix set here until it is out dated from Sept 23 2014. Also a  frosting  out dated Nov 12 2014.Would you still use either.             

I have to tell you I called the company and asked the question. They said not to use it because of the quantity of freshness they
couldn't tell me to use either.

Taco Soup For Lunch

What's for lunch today. My granddaughter and her boyfriend got in yesterday. They are moving here.
Going to try out a new recipe on them. I have fixed it twice already and my sister and hubby liked it....oh me too.


I cooked a hole pack of hamburger meat. We like lots of meat.
Brown it in skillet, drain.

3 cans chili beans
1 can rotel or wal-mart brand
1 can whole kernel corn, drained 
1 can diced tomato's
3 teaspoons taco seasoning
1/2 onion cut up

                                  
                                Cook in Crockpot. I cook it a couple hours.

                          
                               then eat....with what ever you like we like crackers or corn bread.

Sunday Dinner

Hello to all
I tried a new recipe for Sunday Dinner. Turnip Green Soup
My dear husband doesn't like the word soup!
Can't get him to eat any soup but my homemade, nothing I repeat nothing out of a can.

He ate this and liked it. He said it was not what he thought of as soup.

He said maybe he could eat It If he had cornbread............
                                                                                

After its all cooked.................looks like soup to me......so good.

                                                                              

 What I put in mine....

 2 cans great northern beans
 1 lb.  Polska Kielbasa  cut up
 2 cans chicken broth
 1 can diced tomato's
 1 can ro- tel diced tomato's with green chilies
 1 can whole kernel corn drained
 1 large can turnip greens..... I only used about 3/4
 of the can.
 very little salt, pepper to taste
 cooked until I thought it was done....... recipe called for 30 min I cooked a little longer don't like a lot of juice in mine.


Cooked the other 1/4 of turnip greens for my little dog Abby. She ate three helping with corn bread and wanted more. I said no. 

My Banana Pudding

  1 Cup Sugar
  4 Heaping tablespoons flour ( and I mean heaping)
  add together, mix well so there is no lumps of flour.

  4 Eggs separated, save whites for Meringue
  2 Cups of milk
  1 Cup of water ( my mom used water and I do )
  1 Teaspoon Vanilla flavoring
   beat egg yolks a little
  add the above to pan
  add sugar and flour mixture
 cook slow stirring all the time until thick
 pour over.......

  As many vanilla wafers as you like
  3-4 bananas 
  I use corning ware bowl so as to put it back in oven.

 
 To make my meringue I start by adding a dash of salt
 beat a few seconds add a 1/2 teaspoon of sugar beat a few more seconds like a minute
add another 1/2 teaspoon of sugar.
Beat until its stiff enough it won't fall out of your bowl, its done.

Place on top of pudding.... I preheated oven to 350 bake until the meringue is browned to my satisfaction.    

The meringue won't make if you get one speck of yellow in the white when separating.
     
Please let me know if you try  my version......

Quilt Block & Pudding

My Aunt Marbrey has another one of the carpenters wheel blocks finished.

 


This is the lady that I have shown her quilts here on my blog. You can look under quilts in my labels or under my pages at the top of the blog... to see them all.






I shared the first blocks in my last post. I really like this one.

I have not started another quilt. I did get Emma's quilt taken apart, now I am going to put borders on it and have it quilted.
What else I have been up to today. I made banana pudding. One of my Hubby's
favorites. It may be number one, it or the chocolate drop cookies.

I make mine from scratch. If anyone wants the recipe,  I have it in my head so I could
tell you close enough how I make it.

 

My mother gave me this bowl.

She gave all her girls one for Christmas one year.

She also showed me how to make the banana pudding. 

She will be gone three years in January.

Today's Menu

                                         Hello Everyone. What was on today's menu.
                                         Pork Chops, Cream Potato's, Purple Hull Peas
                                         From my garden. Love these peas.

   Hubby works nights and seldom gets a good home

cooked meal. I do cook sometimes during  the week and he takes

 it to work, while he was out side working

I decided to cook.

Made homemade biscuit.

For dessert his favorite

Banana Pudding

He was working on my rose bed in front of the house.

It seems that when I get ready to cook

there is never any milk or I should say good milk

because it doesn't get used until it already bad

around here. So I decided to buy dried milk

and today was my first time using it. It worked fine 

in my potato's, biscuits and banana pudding

and it was skim milk....I didn't know this when I

got it but it worked great and saved me a few calories. 

                                                                 
                    On line juke box http://upchucky.us. I am listening to the Bee Gees as I type. Enjoy

Chow Chow

Hubby made his green tomato relish today. I did help. I am going to show his work and share his recipe. I did go to the grocery store and get what he needed.
It was last year he showed his interest in making a relish. He had looked it up on line then told me he was going to try making it himself.

First he cut up his green tomato's and then used my little electric chopper to chop them up fine.
While he did that I cleaned the green bell peppers and red pepper and onion, then chopped them up fine.

                                          All placed in a large pot..........

next two cups of sugar

2 cups of cider vinegar

1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons yellow mustard seed

1 tablespoon celery seed

1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons of kosher salt 

we just used Morton salt 

Hubby only used 2 green bell peppers

22 smaller tomato's

1 large onion

Morton salt

We didn't do a water bath instead, we put our jars in boiling water for a few minutes to sterile and also placed the lids in boiling water put hot relish in hot jars and put the lids on and they sealed in no time. This is my way of canning.

We didn't have to skim off anything.

Green Tomato Relish aka Chow Chow

12 large green Tomatoes (cored)
(I used about 20 small to med size)
4 - green bell peppers, seeded
4 - medium yellow onions (I used one very large one)
1 - red bell pepper, seeded
1 - tablespoon + 2 teaspoons yellow mustard seed
1 - tablespoon celery seed
2 - cups cider vinegar
2 - cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons kosher salt

Chop the tomatoes and peppers very finely. Either by hand or in small batches in a food processor. I diced up all my veggies only because I like a chunkier relish. Put the chopped vegetables in a large pot (heavy bottom non reactive pot) add the mustard seed, celery seed, vinegar, kosher salt and sugar. Stir well and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook stirring often and skimming as needed. ( I did not have to skim off anything) Simmer until the relish/chow chow cooks down and thickens into a relish, about 2 hours. Turn into hot sterilized jars and process in a hot water bath.

No Bake Cookies

Hubby decided he wanted to make some no bake cookies tonight. I was on the computer he came in and said there was no milk. I looked up recipes for the cookies, they all called for milk, he only needed half a cup.

I searched on Google for a recipe without milk and found that cream cheese and water mixed would make a substitute. It worked just fine.
I asked him to cut back on the sugar so I could eat one or two. He put one and a half cups instead of two....didn't hurt them a bit.

I liked these better... 

                      
                              he ate one.... 

You see the big one on the right I ate it!

See I told you he loves these cookies.

                                 

My Day

Happy Valentine Days to all my readers.
What did you do for your special day!
I spend my morning with Jesse.
I kept her for her Mom and Dad to go to court today.
Yes I know I hear that...not a good place to be.

Hubby and I exchanged cards this morning before he left at four o'clock for work he had to work from five to five today.

This is what I had waiting for him when he got home...I had already given him the card...wanted you to see it. His favorite cookies...no bake chocolate drop cookies. I used one of my special plates to display them just for you...

I have never use these plates.....I only have a few pieces to this set  what you see here and three more plates no cups

I have two saucers.

I found these at a estate sale two years ago for 5 dollars. 

they are Federal shape SYRACUSE CHINA made in the America.

Back to my day..... this is what I did for my self.

I took a picture with my little old camera that doesn't always work and you guessed it, it didn't turn out. lol oh well  I will never learn.

It was a subway.

That's what my treat was today. I didn't cook.

Shore was good!

Life & Chow Chow

Life has been in the fast lane this whole week..... so much so that I still have not gotten to see all the Rooster's from Shelia's Rooster Party that started on Tuesday. You wouldn't be disappointed if you go and see all the different roosters,hens, chicks. I just love seeing them.


I had a Dr.'s appointment myself Tuesday....he did a biopsy and ordered a mammogram....then Wed I took one of my little older lady friends (this one's name is Carol) to the Dr. then to therapy for her shoulder and then on to get a perm......this was going to take a couple hours so I went home and the hair dresser took her home.


We did not have time to go to Wally World as they call it.......... I get a kick out of some of they're saying.....so I went back Thursday and carried her to Wally World for grocery's and then to get a manicure.


I  didn't even know this place was in town it's the school for training....you can get hair cuts, massages, pedicures and manicures (now I did know there was a beauty school but not located where this one was) wow they took walk ins so I got me a manicure for six dollars..... are you shocked ......I was...... the last time I went to get a manicure and pedicure they charged me sixty five dollars and I never went back.....you know I'm all about being thrifty .......now I made me a appointment to get a pedicure next Tuesday they are just fifteen dollars.


Today  I went for my mammogram. I go back to the Dr. on Wednesday to get the result's.

While I was gone my Hubby was working  ( the power just went out and I'm sitting here thinking on no after writing all this it's going to be gone....think goodness it wasn't) here's what hubby was doing...........

Making chow chow. He looked it up on the web and found this recipe and so while I was gone he went to town and got what he needed and has this done before I got home on Wednesday.

It taste good too....how neat of him to do this all by himself...only thing I told him was to boil his jars and lids.

Green Tomato Relish AKA (Chow Chow)

12 large green Tomatoes (cored)
(I used about 20 small to med size)
4 - green bell peppers, seeded

4 - medium yellow onions (I used one very large one)
1 - red bell pepper, seeded
1 - tablespoon + 2 teaspoons yellow mustard seed
1 - tablespoon celery seed
2 - cups cider vinegar
2 - cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons kosher salt

Chop the tomatoes and peppers very finely. Either by hand or in small batches in a food processor. I diced up all my veggies only because I like a chunkier relish. Put the chopped vegetables in a large pot (heavy bottom non reactive pot) add the mustard seed, celery seed, vinegar, kosher salt and sugar. Stir well and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook stirring often and skimming as needed. ( I did not have to skim off anything) Simmer until the relish/chow chow cooks down and thickens into a relish, about 2 hours. Turn into hot sterilized jars and process in a hot water bath.