Johnny Cake
Oil Cooking Spray 1 cup flour
3/4 cup yellow cornmeal 1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp baking powder 3/4 tsp salt
1 egg 1 cup milk
2 – 3 tbsp butter melted
Preheat oven to 425 F. Spray a square 8 inch baking pan with oil and set aside. Mix all dry ingredients together. Whisk together wet ingredients in another bowl. Combine together with dry ingredients with a few strokes just until mixed, and transfer to greased pan. Bake until golden brown about 20 – 25 minutes. Serve with hot soup, chili, stew, etc.
Lentil Soup
1 1/2 cup lentils rinsed 8 cups water
3 – 4 tbsp cooking oil 1 large onion chopped
2 cloves garlic peeled 2 carrots sliced
1 rib celery sliced salt and pepper
1/4 cup beef bouillon other vegetables as desired
Saute onion, garlic and celery in cooking oil for 2 – 3 minutes soft. Place all ingredients into large cooking pot and bring to boil and boil gently
for about 45 minutes until lentils and vegetables are tender. You can scoop out a good ladle full of this soup and blend it, then return to soup to
give a creamy thickened texture. Add salt and pepper as needed. Serve hot with Johnny Cake or your favorite cornbread recipe.
FYI: Corn is the second most plentiful cereal grown on earth for human consumption. The husks are used for making tamales, the kernels for food, the stalks for cattle,
the silks for medicinal tea. You can fry in corn oil, bake with corn meal, snack on popcorn, sweeten with corn syrup, thicken with cornstarch, and much more. One cup
white corn has about 130 calories, 2 grams of fat, 5 grams of protein, 29 grams of carbs, and 4 grams of fibre with no cholesterol. It is rich in antioxidants lutein and
zeaxanthin, and high in linoleic acid, and vitamin E.
COTTAGE CHEESE BEEF STROGANOFF
Serves 4 - 6
1 lb. ground beef Or 1 (15 oz can ground beef )
dash of pepper
1/2 tsp. sweet basil
5 slices bacon, diced
1 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 Cup chopped onion
1 can crm mushroom soup
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. paprika
1 Cup cottage cheese
Hot, buttered noodles
In skillet, brown ground beef with bacon (if using canned ground beef, simply heat with bacon). Add onion (rehydrated dried onion may be used, reconstituting to fresh equivalent, but add when you begin to heat with bacon) and cook until tender but not brown. Drain off excess fat. Add salt, basil, paprika, garlic and pepper. Stir in soup and cook slowly, uncovered, 20 minutes, stirring frequently. Blend cottage cheese in blender until smooth. Stir into stroganoff sauce and heat, but do not boil. Serve meat sauce over hot, buttered noodles.
CHICKEN (OR TURKEY) FRICASSEE FOR 1
Makes 1 Cup Broth and 2 Cups Potatoes
1 tsp. Chicken Soup Base
3/4 Cup dry Potato Pearls
1 tsp. dried onion
1/8 tsp. salt
Dash pepper
3 Tbsp. flour
2 oz. Chicken (1/4 cup)
3 Cups water, divided
Cook soup base, chicken, onions, salt and pepper in 1 cup of water. Thicken with as much flour as needed. Boil the other 2 cups of water and stir in the Potato Pearls. Make a "bowl" of the mashed potatoes and spoon broth mixture into it. Increase the recipe according to number of persons to be served.
Peanut Butter Cookies
Ingredients:
1/2 C vegetable oil 1 C brown sugar or honey
1/2 C peanut butter 1 egg, beaten
1 T sour cream 1 tsp soda
1 1/2 C whole-wheat flour
Cream oil and honey or sugar. Add peanut butter, egg and mix well. Add sour cream, soda & flour and beat well. Form into balls, the size of marbles and place on greased cooking sheet. Press with a fork. Bake at 350° for about 10 minutes.
Peanut Butter Crackle Balls
3/4 Cup powdered sugar 1 Cup peanut butter
1/2 Cup dry milk powder 1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 1/2 Cup Rice Krispies
Mix powdered sugar and dry milk powder thoroughly. Add peanut butter and melted butter or margarine. Stir in Rice Krispies. Form into walnut-sized pieces. For an added treat, dip in chocolate.
Peanut Butter Bites
Spread peanut butter on a Cheese Nips cracker. Top with another cracker, making a sandwich. Dip into melted chocolate Slide coated sandwich onto wax paper and let harden.
