Making Love in the Kitchen
By George Snyder
1st Breakfast in Bed
Mom & Dad
At the young age of 6 years old, living on the Coker Ranch, I rose out of my bedroom early in the morning to find myself in the Kitchen...
The night before I got in trouble, because as a young Kid I refused to eat chocolate ice cream. I wined and cried until my father gave in and ended up making me a bowl of Vanilla Ice Cream. Well as the night moved along I got caught in the kitchen eating out of the tub of chocolate ICE CREAM. My father was yelling at me that I did like the Chocolate even know I said I did not as the melted ice cream was allover my face and shirt.
After my mother and father cleaned me up and putting me back to bed. I awoke early that next day!
.... To find myself cooking breakfast for my parents. I cooked scramble eggs mixed with shells, cut up hotdogs with an orange, and ketchup.
Parents were kind enough to pick through the shell's and surprised I did such a thing at my age.
Cooking Addiction
In the Beginning
What is it that fuels each and every one of us in this world? For me there are many things in life and one of them is Making Love in the Kitchen. Since I was a kid, Cooking has been a hobby of mine. I have through out the years been designing, practicing, and performing a dish for family, friends, and even stranger's. And so the adventure begins...
Eggs and Hot Dogs
4 whole brown eggs
Break over pan
Scramble
4 beef hot dogs
Sliced thin
Salt and pepper evenly spread over the ingredients.
Serve with slice oranges
Not Sure how I Won the Chili Cook Off but there was a 30 Rack of Budweiser involved.
Chili
George W Snyder (Dad)
Chili
Chili Cook Off
Starting around 6am crack open a can of Bud and begin your prep work for the Chili. As my father tells the story.
4 green Bell Peppers
4 red Bell Peppers
4 Jalapeno Peppers
4 Cayenne Peppers
6 Habanero Pepers
Pop open a second can a Bud and begin to clean all the seeds out of the peppers.
Its important to remove all the seeds of the peppers before dicing them for the chili. This makes the dish have full taste and authentic.
1 bag of chili powder
8 Tomatos diced
1 whole red onion diced
10 cups of water
6 cans of beer.
Slow simmer for hours feeding a half a can a beer every hour.
4 pounds of ground beef after hour 1
6 hours serve
In the midst of his day he doesn't recall how much beer was added but the 30 rack was gone by the time he won the award. I have taken this recipe and came in second place at two events. White chili is the faze now days.
Mom
Pork Chops
My mother stems from the south. She has a unique love and passion for southern foods to the sweets. Growing up as a child I was introduced to fried chicken, masher's, and southern style treats and asian food.
Growing up we were a poor family that never went out on the town so we found coking in the house hold to keep us close through the years until I was 14 when my parents separated. Moms favorite dish that I loved as a kid was her Pork Chops
Pork Chops on the Fly
First off find the Pork Chops that suit your Fancy. I prefer the Center Cut Pork Chops with the bone imbedded in the meat
First Step get a table Spoon and sprinkle each side of the desired meat with.
Pepper Medley
Mediterranean Sea Salt
Garlic & Herbs (Rustic Style)
Local Honey
Yellow Mustard rubbed into the meat
First step- Rub in the dry Herbs by massaging the meat(Both Sides) Second step pour the mustard and honey over your meat and smear each side than take a fork and matter the meat so the flavor can reach the core of the pork.
This method is good for BBQ or Frying pan (Prep Time 15 minutes)
Flip only Twice in BBQ or Frying Pan.
about 15 to 20 minute cook time
Serve with stem Broccoli & Carrots
a good starch is bake potato or french bread.
Grandma Love
Expressing love through Food
Where to begin. As far as my memories goes there is not a day I can not think of when Grandma wasn't in the Kitchen. Even today at 90 she still cooks 3 meals a day.
So many memories of peeling potatoes, prepping food, cutting ingredients and more. Us grandchildren loved going to grandmas. I even recall the day grandma was cooking spare ribs in the oven in a glass pan and cold water fell onto the glass and shattered over the ribs. Us kids for so sad for the lost we cried.
But the one dish that stands against time is her Spaghetti that was passed down from one of her friends back in the late 1950's...
Grandma's Spaghetti
Eyes are bigger than the Stomach!
Cooking supplies = one Blender, one extra large Pot, 2 glass pans, and one roast pan.
10 cans of tomatoes
10 pounds of white onions
2 whole celery stalk
1 whole garlic bulb (peeled)
6 table spoons of sea salt
3 table spoons bayleaves
3 table spoons of time
5 table spoons of Basil
1 table spoon of Cayenne Powder
Blend together into a fine sauce
pour sauce into pot and set low to simmer.
Add 1 cans of sliced tomatoes
add 6 fresh tomatoes
1 cup of olive oil
3 cans of tomato paste
Simmer for 6 to 8 hours (Add a cup of water if needed) Throughout the day make sure to stir the sauce and do not let it boil until the end of the day.
Next steps is to make the meat sauce. Use chuck roast and salt and pepper the meat by hand to rub it deep into the pours.
Set Oven to 350
Place meat into oven for 30 minutes
take meat out and slice deep cuts into the meat but do not cut all the way through.
Add another around of salt and pepper
At hour four of cooking the sauce place meat into the pot of sauce
Cook until meat threads by the fork.
Now its time to add the pasta (a thick pasta is called for or homemade pasta)
boil pasta for about 10 minutes
Once you make your pasta of choice you will use the glass pans. Step by step you will lay sauce down than pasta and repeat until glass dish is full.
Fresh parmesan heavily sprinkled over the top of each dish
Cook in oven for 20 minutes at 350.
Now Serve.
Grandma's Spare Pork Ribs
Cook Ware needed is one glass pan
Chopping Board
Knife and cutting sizers
Full Rack pork Spare RibbsHal
Half White onion Diced
1 table spoon Sea Salt
1 table spoon Pepper
1 table spoon of powder garlic
1 cup of water added to the glass pan.
Set Oven to 250.
Take the ingredients and spread evenly over the ribs. Place in oven. Cook for 1.5 hours.
Pair with garlic mash potatoes and green tossed salad.
Grandmas Biscuits & Gravy
Grandma! She a native from NEWFOUNDLAND. She is 1 of 23 brother's and sister's. She just turned 90 this January 2021! Her youngest sister just turned 63. Her cooking comes from a traditional style of mom and pop cooking. Just about everything is from scratch and is filled with love. She loves to cook breakfast and one of her favorites is Biscuits & Gravy.
Start with Bacon or fresh ground sausage.
Extract the grease as you cooking into a frying pan.
1 cup of Powder,
1/4 cup of milk
1 table spoon of crushed pepper
1 tea spoon of sea salt
A pinch of baking soda
Stir in sauce pan, add water as needed. Goal is to have a thick sauce that spreads evenly over the biscuits
Biscuits can be made from Biscuit or pre-made for a timely manner. Cooked in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Grandmas Turkey
Thanks Giving in the family is a time when everyone gathers to yell across the table about life, politics, and difference of religion and at the same time come together because Blood is thicker the ideals in this crazy world.
1 20LB pound Butterball Turkey
After Cleaning the Turkey rub it down with spices
Sea Salt
Pepper
Garlic Powder
Stuff the bird with Turkey Stuffing
Place in Metal Pan and pour a cup of water and 1 beer in the base of the pan. Cover with Foil!
Slow cook for 6 hours at 225 degrees
Check turkey through out the day
Cut and Serve
Cooking For Friends
Joy of Food
There is nothing more special than feeding a group of friends through out this world. To bring together a group of people and laugh, joke, talk about life, and enjoy the little things that life has to offer while enjoying a good meal!
Pineapple Delight
A dish that makes a date night never unforgettable. A dish that will be talked about time after time even if the date is a failure the dish will win the taste buds
Pineapple Delight
A dish to dance to
A night to remember with this dish. I planed a dinner party with a group a friends and I wanted to try something outside the box. So I used my creative mind and began to throw a mix together of Spicy and Sweet by utilizing whole pineapples.
I used what was in the fridge from a series of spicy recipes and begun to chop and dice with my girl at the time. We spun and danced our way into a victory recipe that stands against time.
Pineapple Delight
The first and most important thing is to gut out the whole pineapple and save the carcass for your finishing design and taste.
One wok Needed
One Rice Maker Needed
4 or more whole pineapples (One per guest)
4 boneless chicken
2 whole Red Onions
stalk of broccoli
2 red Bell Peppers
2 yellow Bell Peppers
6 jalapeno peppers
3 habanero peppers
- 2 tablespoons of fresh garlic
- 1 sliced fuji apple
Its important to dice all ingredients separated in columns
SPICES (evenly spread across all ingredients
2 table spoons of sea salt
1 table spoon of black pepper
1 tea spoon of cayenne pepper
1 tea spoon of Asia Spice
The diced of chicken take Sriracha hot , Sesame oil and a touch of Truff Sauce and cover the chicken entirely.
The Cut out Pineapple keep inn the bowl.
In the rice maker use jasmine rice. 2 cups with 6.5 cups of water. Half way through the cycle add 2 cups of raw pineapple to the rice.
In the wok add your peppers and chicken and begin to cook separate from the rice. cook time is 20 minutes. Enough time to dance and have fun in the kitchen with your spouse.
Once the dish is finished and the rice is ready and grab your whole pineapples.
Layer your pineapple with the spicy chicken mix and sweet pineapple rice. Layer the whole pineapple to the top.
Take all p[neapples and place in oven for 5 minutes.
Serve on a plate, pair with apple salad and white wine
Pineapple Delight
Happy Chicken
I enjoy cooking all types of chicken dishes for parties. There are so many different variations of recipes its hard to pick just one. To keep your chicken moist and taste full is an art in its self. Cook to long your chicken becomes dry and cook to short the chicken can make you sick. Almost like a relationship. Not willing to meet in the middle can damage the molecules that work together.
Happy Chicken
One Glass Pan
8 fresh organic chicken thighs with the bone
1 can of IPA beer
1 cup of water
Place into glass pan and pour can of beer over the chicken, add cup of water on the side of one pan.
2 table spoons of Sea Salt
2 table spoons of Garlic Powder
2 Table spoons of Crushed Black Pepper
Fresh diced yellow onion
Evenly spread Truff Sauce over chicken
Take the spices and onion and spread over the top of the chicken. Drizzle Olive oil over the skin
Set Oven to 350. Cook for a 1.25 hours.
Pull and let set for 10 minutes before serving.
Pair with Brown Rice, cooked carrots and broccoli. White Wine
Veggie Pairing
Mix your main dishes can be tricky at times. Here is a set that pairs wellwith Steaks and Pork Chops (Serve for 4)
10 red potatoes chopped
Seasoned with pepper
1 table spoon garlic
1 table spoon of sea-salt
Boil in water for 45 minutes with 1/4 cup olive oil
3 to 4 hole carrots Chopped in half
1 to 2 whole bell pepprs slices
Place in a pan with 1.5 cups of water and cover with glass lid.
Steam for 10 minutes
Dancing Shrimp
Seafood Delight
My passion for shrimp cocktail developed latter in my life. This is when I realized a good dinner date should always involve a seafood of some sort. Call it a test of true passion, lust, and what ones tastebuds is willing to endure. And on those more intimate nights expect an oyster platter. LOL!
1 pound Cooked Shrimp
4 table spoons of Irish Butter
1 Lemon
1 Wok Pan
1 cup of water
Cook for 15 minutes on stove top
stir every 2 minutes
grab your 4 cups
fill with spicy Cocktail Sauce
Place shrimp around edge
Serve with White rice and cauliflower with cubed general chicken
Sushi Party
Art in the Kitchen
One of the best Parties I have designed in my time is the Sushi Party. The first one ever was for a Birthday Party. I went out and bought all the sushi makings, set up a buffet style setting in the kitchen and laid out the rules of the party. Also provided a demonstration on how to role a role.
Always have a glass of wine or a shot of Saki ready to go
Every person has to make at least one role
And make an Art Piece out of the role
All will be judged and the winner gets A surprise.
Ingredients
Sushi Grade Salmon (Filet)
Fresh King Crab (1LB)
Fresh Dungeons Crab (1LB)
Cooked Shrimp (1LB)
Cooked Scallop (1LB)
Ahi Tuna (2lb)
Yellow Fin (1LB)
Fresh Water ell (2LB)
ell Sauce
Cucumber (2 Sticks)
Yellow Squash (2 Sticks)
Jalapeno ( Diced)
Habanero (Diced)
Seaweed Wrap (3 packages)
Sticky Rice (White)
2 cups of white rice cooked with 6 cups of water
Sriracha
Bomb Sauce
Tortilla Soup
To have a party and feed a big quantity of friends is to make enchiladas and tort soup. To begin a master piece it always starts with the basics.
1 pot
fill half way with water
1 full package of Chicken Thighs with the bone.
Boil Chicken in the water for 1 hour.
Add one packet of Taco Seasoning in the mix of water from the beginning start time.
Cut 1 Red Bell Pepper in slices and clean out seeds.
Cut 1 Green Bell Pepper in slices and clean out seeds.
Cut 1 Yellow Bell Pepper in slices and clean out seeds.
1 jalapeno sliced
1 habanero sliced
6 whole carrots chopped up
6 red potatoes chopped up
1 white onion chopped up
3 table spoons of garlic
Add ingredients to soup 30 minutes into cooking.
Salt and pepper to liking
After an hour pull the chick out of the soup. Peel off from the bone and utilize half the chicken for Enchiladas and the rest into the soup.
Serve soup as first dish than follow with enchiladas.
Sexy TACO's
New Mexico Style
There was a point in my Life when I was with this beautiful Latina woman that taught me some skills in the kitchen. Throw on some Latin Music and dance the way through spices, peppers, and a little crying to a white Onion.
1LB Ground Beef
1 whole Red Bell Pepper (Diced)
1 whole Jalapeno Pepper (Diced)
3 table Spoons Garlic (Diced)
1 Package Taco Seasoning
2 Potatoes shredded by cheese shredder.
Cook together in a Wok until Meat is a solid brown.
1 mini frying pan
3 table spoons Olive Oil
1 package mini tortillas
Heat Oil until sizzling hot, put tort in pan, 30 seconds flip, 10 seconds fold in half, flip fast until light golden brown
Pair tacos with RICE and Beans
Fillings is Shredded cheese, lettuce, Choice of hot Sauce
Broiled Not BBQ
Oven Delight
As Much as I love a BBQ it is hard to beat a broiled Steak. As you and your partner are galloping through the kitchen making the sides to a beautiful beef platter, the option to broil is always a good bet!
1 glass pan
1 to 3 steaks
Steaks rubbed to perfection
Dash of Sea Salt
Dash of Crushed Pepper
Dash of Garlic Powder
Splash of Worcestershire sauce
A table Spoon of honey on both sides of the steak.
High Broil at 500 degrees, 10 minutes on one side
flip steaks over and 5 minutes on second side.
Pull steak and add to your plates.
Smoked Whole Chicken
1 whole chicken
Key is to pick the right spices to rub in to the chicken.
1/4 cup of sea Salt
2 table spoons of lemon juice
1 table spoon of Crushed Melody Pepper
1 table spoon of Vinegar
2 table spoons of Olive Oil
1/2 cup of water and 1/2 cup of Coors light
Mix together in a bowl
Take whole chicken and clean it and cut it in half
Important to get a good brush. Put chicken in a big metal bowl. Pour ingredients over the chicken. Rub the chicken on all sides and pull out onto chopping board. Take brush and evenly brush the marinade over the chick.
Preheat smoker to 225
Cook for 2.5 to 3 hours
Check temps of chicken with a thermometer.
Serve with a good green salad and red mash potatoes.
Just The Tip
Smoked Tri-Tip
Tri-Tip is by far one of my favorites to cook for others. One of my most memorable memories is the night I slow cooked the Tri-Tip on the Beach. The night was filled with laughter, dancing under the stars, and making love on the beach after a delightful fulfilled meal. Lets just say the strawberries and champaign stayed on ice as the night stayed heated!
1 whole Tri-Tip
Put in a bowl and marinated with
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup water
1 shot whiskeyFresh Squeezed Lemon
1/4 cup crushed pepper
1 table spoons garlic powder
Rub into meat while in the bowl. Let set for 2 hours covered in fridge before cooking. (the longer the set time the better the flavor) 3 days is preferred!
Smoker at 225 heat
Cook for 2.5 hours
Pull and set for 15 minutes (Cut and Serve)
Camping Life Style
Fire under the stars
Star Light, Star Bright, What should I cook tonight. I am into major camping, hiking, and rafting on river's to the mountains off the beaten path of mother nature. Everywhere, I go I have have designed a way of cooking on campfires, rocks, utilizing the sun and your basic camp stoves.
Salmon on the trail
Every Back Packing trip I go on I always pack heavy on my first night with a hearty meal. Almost like its your last meal on the earth because once on the trail your diet becomes dry real fast.
1 Kings Salmon
1 lemon to squeeze over the fish
2 table spoons of Irish Butter
1 teaspoon of salt and pepper
Enough Foil to wrap your fish
Grab four to 6 good sized rocks to make a fire ring. Find small stick, pine-combs, and dry grass to start a fire. Get some hot ambers and place the wrapped fish on the hot coals. Make Sure you have evenly seasoned the fish and keep the butter at the top of wrap. Cook for 8 to 15 minutes. Serve with a fresh green salad, carrots, and cheese.
Enjoy your last meal!!
Beer Brats
I enjoy taking Fresh Beer Brats from the local Butcher for first night of camping out in the great outdoors.
What people always seem to forget, is when going camping its more of a chore than a vacation.
Get to your camp site, set up tents, gather fire wood, set up kitchen, break out the hammocks, and so much more. By the end of the day you just want something easy to do and clean.
So I enjoy finding finger foods that are easy to obtain.
Package of Beer Brats
one good camp fire
A grill or if back packing a good flat rock
Hang over fire and heat up the grill or rock to kill the germs.
Place brats on source.
Cook for 15 minutes or until brats crack open on the side.
Serve in tortilla wrap, pair with can chilli
Back Packing Expedition
Wheeler Style
A tradition that has taken place for 50 years and beyond is a trip to Wheeler Pass. No matter where I am in the world this trip takes place the same time every year. Always the last full weekend of July!
This trip is filled with adventure, laughter, back breaking packs, beer, whiskey, smoke, and some great food.
Rules of the trip.
2 bottles of whiskey
30 beers
And at least one fun dinner
8 pund Tri-Tip
Marinated in Soy Sauce, Fresh Garlic Oil, chopped red onion, 1 habanero, and soaked in local honey. Frozen for the hike and in a double wrapped zip lock bag.
In another bag fresh chopped carrots, small potatoes, and mushrooms all marinated in a minced garlic and sea salt mix.
When you get to your first stop the question is how to cook your meal while back packing. For this dish I will find a Flat surface rock and sterilize it with the camp fire at night. And wash the top with water. Set the rock across the fire and throw the meat on the rock. The veggies I cook in my back packing gear set.
Use my buck knife to cut and serve on recyclable cook plates.
Car Camping
Hunting In Idaho
For the last two years I have been Joining my friends the Rounds Family for a hunting trip up in Idaho. The Rounds are some of my newest networking of friends in this crazy world! And are some of the best folks you will ever meet. This last year as I came up for a short visit I did one of Tri-Tip cook off for them.
4 whole Tri-Tips
Seasoned in raw garlic
1 cup campfire whiskey
1/2 cup of water
2 table spoons of sea-salt
2 table spoons of black crushed melody pepper
drizzled in local honey
Marinated for 3 days, Frozen and thawed in 2 days before night of cooking
Paired with a greens Mix
1 bag whole carrots
2 stalks of asparagus
1 whole red Onion Sliced
Fresh garlic cubes
Small Red potatoes cut in half (1 Small Bag)
1 Cauliflower cut up
Topped with fresh broccoli
Marinated in water and frozen for the trip in one big pan
Cooking is over a camp fire grill ( have to continuously flip the meat every 5 min for 30 minutes) Veggies set pan on hot coals and cook for 25 min. Keep Covered!
Slice and serve
Marine Corps
Born Nov. 10, 1775
The United States Marines were born in Tun Tavern and has been a fighting force from day one. No matter where the Marines are in the world they take a moment to celebrate the birth of the Marines. Always with a cake and a moment of silence. Or dressed in their blues and enjoying the Marine Corps Ball!
I myself through the out the years have made some fun recipes in the baking manner for each Marine Corps Birthday.
Marine Corps
Campfire Cake
One Betty Crocker White Cake
1 fresh squeezed Lemon
3 whole eggs
1 cup of water
3 shots of Campfire High West Whiskey
1/3 vegetable oil
Chocolate frosting
2002 was the beginning
Back on June 16, 2002 I joined the elite group known as the United States Marine Corps. With their traditions, history, and pride I celebrate any occasion that our beloved country celebrates from the Marine Corps Birthday to Independence day. I always will pair my meals with a surf and turf occasion.
Porterhouse Steak
Natural or Angus Beef Cut Rib Eye (24 ounces)
table spoon Sea Salt
table spoon Pepper
Tea Spoon of Garlic Oil
Tea Spoon of onion powder
splash of worcestershire sauce
Rub the spices and juices into the desired rib eye cut. Let sit for 20 minutes on counter top as your grill heats up.
Recommend using oak chips in BBQ.
Place on grill 10 minuets side one. Flip about 8 minutes side 2 or to desired rare, medium, or well done.
Pair with artichoke and bake beans with french garlic bread
Dessert
Breaking Up In the Kitchen
As time goes on, from your first time in a relationship, things a can go south from a lost love to a broken heart. We as humans will fill that void with self immolation in the consumption of sweet Foods.
For myself as my heart was breaking I turned my love in the kitchen into a place of designing bake goods that helped the quick satisfaction of feeling happy vrs sad. I found pies, ice cream dishes, cakes, cookies, and foreign desserts to help fill the void that was deep in my heart. As I cooked away I learned real fast it takes two to make things work and it takes two to end a relationship.
To talk out your feelings and to pursue one another is a never ending conquest and if two people begin to fill their needs with other sources and not willing to communicate than things can south real fast.
I look at a relationship in the mix batter's and its a technique for your mixes to truly fix together to have an healthy taste of a relationship.
A taste of Honey
Apple Pie
A recipe to true love. There is something about an apple pie that brings happiness, laughter, and old traditions with in the house hold. If I am ever having guest, family, friends, or cooking for someone I care about on a personal level. Expect a home made apple pie.
6 hole fuji apples
2 cups of brown sugar
3 table spoons of Irish Butter
1 teaspoon Sea Salt
3/4 cups raw Honey
1 table spoon of water
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
1 teaspoon cumin powder
2 pie crust
Mix together into a Wok and caramelize the apple recipe until the apples are tender. (20minutes) (Key is to continue to stir the wok
Set oven to 350
Move wok ingredients into Pie Crust
cook for 30 to 45 minutes.
Crush Gram Cracker over the top
Cook for 5 minutes
Cool for one hour in the open air
Serve. (great pairing is desert wine one vanilla ice cream.)
Lemon Gin Cake
3 eggs
1 cup of water
1/3 vegetable oil
2 shots of dry gin
1 fresh lemon squeezed in mix
1 fresh lime squeezed in mix
1 table spoon of Sea Salt
2 table spoon of Local Honey (Pour over top of cake before baking)
Beat together in bowl until creamy.
Pour into Glass Pan or twin cake set up)
Note to rub the sides of the pan with either vegetable oil or Irish butter to keep from sticking.
Oven set to 350. Cook time 22 to 27 minutes. Check with tooth pick.
Honey Take Me Away
Dark Mixes of Desire with a touch of Honey.
A batter can be molded in so many ways as a relationship can be shaped with ones own actions.
I look into my past and think of all the different loves, heart breaks, one night encounters and think of how easy it is to blend together in a heap of feelings. And the conclusion is always the same. There are many fish out there but it takes two important ingredients to make things work. Love for one another and Communication with one and the other.
One white cake mix
one cup of Dark Hershey chocolate
1 fresh squeezed Lime
1 shot of Kahlua
1 cup of dark chocolate Hershey kisses
3 Large Eggs
1 Cup of Water
1/3 Vegetable Oil
2 table spoons of honey dripped over the top of the batter after in glass pan.
Blend together and pour into cooking Glass Dish
Cook at 350 in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes. Check with a tooth pick to make sure the cake has set.
Frost the cake with Milk Chocolate frosting.
Serve with a glass of Cab.
Enjoy
Champaign Yellow Cake
Over the years of baking, I have learned using carbonated Drinks allows more taste and a more bubbly effect in the design of cakes.
One celebration, I had a party for someone I was with for several years. Cooking for a group of her friends a platter of slow baked ribs, Ears of Corn, and some homemade coleslaw. I paired a Cake Dessert that is design to be fitting with a glass of Champaign.
The Cake was a hit, everyone is impressed how the flavor of the cake a hint of dry champaign and moist at the same time.
Ingredients as follows
3 large legs
1 yellow cake mix
3/4 cup of Irish Butter
3 table spoons of pure lemon juice
3/4 cup of water
1 and 1/4 of champaign
1 table spoon Maple Syrup and 1 table spoon of Hershey Chocolate
Blend together in bowl, pour into Glass Dish. Bake at 350 for 20 to 35 minutes.
Check with toothpick to make sure the product is baked through.
Pair frosting with Fudge Frosting
Serve with a glass of champaign.
Sticky Toffee Pudding
English Special
Back when I was living in Northern England for 4 months I learned a lot of traditional mom and pop foods of England. I was out there refurbishing a Dam near the lake district of a town called Millium for my old company Carpi Tech. WE stayed in a Bed & Breakfast with a local family there. Every night would be a cooked meal of delight. And when dessert time came around twice a week there was sticky toffee pudding!
Date Nut Bread
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1 cup boiling water
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8 ounces dates, chopped
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2 tablespoons unsalted butter
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3/4 cup granulated sugar
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1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
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1 large egg
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2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
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1 tablespoon baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon fine salt
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1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
Blend together in a bowl and back in a buttered metal bread pan at 350 for about 15 to 25 minutes!
Custard
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4 cups whole milk
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1 tablespoon vanilla extract
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1 teaspoon butter
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4 eggs
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½ cup white sugar
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3 tablespoons cornstarch
Cook and stir milk, vanilla extract, and butter in a saucepan over medium heat until simmering. Remove mixture from heat before it comes to a boil.
Step 2
Whisk eggs, sugar, and cornstarch together in a bowl until sugar dissolves.
Step 3
Set saucepan back over low heat. Pour in egg mixture slowly, whisking constantly, until custard thickens enough to coat the bottom of a spoon, 5 to 10 minutes.
Final Is to serve the Bread warm with the hot custard drizzled over the top of the bread, and 1 big scoop of Vanilla ice cream on the side with fresh honey dripped over the dish.
ENJOY
Life goes in Stages and sometimes life throws you some twist and turns on the road your on!
Welcome to the agonizing stage of!!!!
Breaking Up in The Kitchen
To feel is to grow!!!
41 years of making love in the kitchen also has brought myself to some hard times in relationships, friendships, hardship in life, and heart breaking moments. In these times of heartaches, like a musician, I find myself in the kitchen designing food through feelings.
Sadness
Anger
Love
Loneliness
Denial
selfness
Rejoice
Laughter
Acceptance
Every Night the moon caches my messages and whispers my messages to those I care about.
A Solders Treat
Ever feeling sad or alone. Just take a moment and send a message to moon and stars and I promises somone will smile from a far hearing the faint messages through space and time.
A simple pass time My father and I used during the time I was in a foreign war. No Phones, Just paper and pins and a message to the moon.
One of my copes was to make and design meals out of MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat) To recreate all you need is a Lemon Pound cake, 1 Package of dry creamer powder, 1 packet of sugar, 1 table spoon of water and a flame to heat up your metal cup.
put the water in the bottlom of the cup, put the strawberry, powder, and sugar and mix in the cup. Take your lemon pound cake and put on top of the mis in the cup. Heat for 3 minutes or until you hear that sizzle.
One spoon and enjoy a Solders treat.
Shepherds Pie
This year i felt as if my heart has been buried by layers. And a shepherds pie is a dish that is layered with 1 pound of ground lamb, 6 whole carrots diced with a sharp paring knife, 6 whole stock of celery, half of a red onion diced, two table spoons of diced garlic, teaspoon of sea salt, teaspoon of pepper, two pie crust, and one medium pot of fresh red potatoes cooked to mash.
As preparing its important to have some Irish or Scottish music playing in the back ground to let your soul create the dish. Let your feelings be mixed as you you stir the meat, seasonings, and vegetables in a good cast iron frying pan. Let your potatoes boil for 30 plus minutes as you drink a shot of whiskey and a dark Irish beer. Once potatoes are boiled rinse and begin mashing your red potatoes mixed with a half 6 table spoons of butter, little olive oil and a table spoon of salt. As your mashing use your feelings of sadness to exert the bad energy out as you are making something tasty.
One more shot of whiskey, Crack another dark Irish beer, and begin taking your mixed feelings of ground lamb and vegetables and fill the pie crust. Than take your Mashed up energy and spread over the pies.
Put in oven for 35 to 45 minutes until the pie crus is golden brown. Crack a beer as you pull out the pies and let sit for another 25 minutes.
Redy to serve:
Exasperated Enchaldas
One of my favorite dishes stems from being livid in a uncontrollable situation in my life. I was mad at myself not being able to win the fight of uncontrollable desire in myself. I was unwilling to change and meet in the middle sometime ago with one of the most beautiful souls of people out there. Coming home I got in my kitchen and pulled out a whole chicken and begun to make Enchiladas.
I gutted the chicken and filled it one whole peeled garlic clover. Took the chicken and in put in the big pot I own with a strainer built into it and boiled the chicken. I added 2 table spoons of Chula sauce to the water and three tea spoons of sea salt. Boiled the chicken until the the meet fell off the bones. (hour to 1.5)
Breaking out a bottle of tequila for a shot, And some Island country songs in the back ground.
I pull the chicken and move it to a cutting board.
My anger was feeling spicy that fine evening so;
On another cutting board I have 4 jalapeños, 2 habaneros, 1/4 white onion, 1 tea spoon garlic and one yellow & red bell pepper all diced.
Take the lovely diced peppers and garlic and sauté in a frying pan for 5 minutes with two table spoons of sriracha.
Begin to pull the chicken off the bones and put in the pan with the diced peppers. About half the chicken will be used.
Take a shot of Tequila
Make sure you have cooked mex rice ready!!
Spinach Wrap or tomato wrap warmed and ready (Warm in oven at 200 for 10 min
about ten minutes your enchilada mix in the pan is ready.
Each tortilla you fill will be one table spoon of rice, 2 table spoons of chicken and peppers.
Wrap each tortilla and put into glass dish.
Cover with Red or Green Sauce
Cook for 20 minutes or until sauce is a dark sticky color.
Serve with a margarita/ sugar on the rim
Enjoy
Note (do not waste the boiled water (this is now a broth for a tortilla soup)