Please Share Recipes From Your Region

by snowbird 64 Replies latest jw friends

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  TD

  Hot Salsa

  15 cups- Roma tomatoes (scalded, peeled & diced)

  1 whole medium sized onion

  2 green bell peppers

  6 to 15 jalapeno chilis

  6 to 12 habenero chilis (Optional)

  1/3 cup vinegar

  3/4 tsp cumin

  3 Tbsp salt

  1 Tbsp cilantro

  Chop the chilis, onion and bell peppers in a food processor. (Avoid touching the diced mixture -- You can forget several hours later and rub your eye without thinking!) Dump in a big pot. Add the tomatoes, vinegar and dry ingredients. Simmer 30 to 45 minutes while mashing with a potato masher (You decide how chunky it will be -- Add a can of tomato paste if it's too watery)

  If you've never canned before, the acidic nature of tomato recipes makes salsa a good starter project:

  When finished simmering, but still good and HOT, pour the salsa into sterilized wide mouthed Mason jars. Be careful not to get any on the rim of the jar. Allow about 1/8" headspace. Apply the hot sterilzed lids; they will suck down as the salsa cools. Tighten the rings.
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  snowbird

  Thanks, TD.

  My mother used to make many jars of that, but she called it "relish."

  Sometimes, she would add okra to the mixture.

  My job was to stack the cooled jars on the pantry shelves.

  I taught myself how to multiply that way.

  How I miss that woman!

  Syl
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  snowbird

  This is soooo good, and soooo not good for you!

  Just google cracklin' cornbread.

  Syl
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  TD

  Looks like fun. --Going to have to get me an iron skillet like that
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  nelly136

  no relation to cheesecake as you know it.

  http://www.yellowswordfish.com/735/how-to-make-a-london-cheesecake/

  1. Buy a packet of ready rolled puff pastry and cut out disks 9 cm diameter (or squares if you don’t want to be a purist) and place on a baking tray.
  2. Make indentations in the centre and place a nice drop of jam in the middle of each one.
  3. Add a blob of frangipane mix (equal amounts of egg, sugar, butter and ground almonds) or just plain cake mix (as used for fairy cakes) – about the size of a large walnut.
  4. Rest for 30 minutes while oven heats up.
  5. Bake at 200c /400f for about 15 minutes until nicely done.
  6. When cool spread fondant icing or thick water icing on top and dip into thread coconut.

  
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  snowbird

  http://www.lodgemfg.com/use-care-seasoned-cast-iron.asp

  The best!

  Syl
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  betterdaze

  Basic Marinara Sauce
  
  1 Tablespoon EVOO
  
  1 small chopped onion
  
  3-4 garlic cloves, minced or crushed
  
  2 28 oz cans tomatoes, roughly chopped with juice
  (can also use purée or 1 of each, depending on how chunky or smooth you like it)
  
  4 Tablespoons tomato paste
  
  1 cup water
  
  1 cup dry red cooking wine (I use Holland House brand)
  
  pinch of sugar
  
  Season with:
  
  Oregano and/or Rosemary
  
  TONS of freshly torn basil leaves (the more the merrier), and
  
  A huge fistful of fresh Parsley (again, the more the merrier)
  
  Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  
  
  Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil. Chuck in everything else, mix lightly and simmer half-covered for an hour, stirring every 10 minutes or so. Simple!
  
  I use this basic marinara for everything — meatballs and spaghetti, seafood lasagna, breaded eggplant or chicken parmigiana, stuffed shells.
  
  It freezes well, too, so you can double or triple the recipe and always have homemade sauce on hand for a lot le$$ than the salty, corn-syrupy stuff that comes in a jar.

  Oh! And it's not "gravy." Do not get me started on the gravy vs. sauce debacle around here… You start a "gravy" with meat bones. This is vegetarian/vegan and the greenery pumps it up with nutrients as well as taste.
  
  ~Sue
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  serenitynow!

  Scrapple

  My mom made this a few times when I was a kid. I always liked it. Where can you buy it?
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  snowbird

  

  Scrapple.

  Looks ... interesting.

  Never had any.

  Syl
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  serenitynow!

  I would have thought that was a southern thing. I remember my mom frying it up, the taste made me think of pork sausage but it was crispy like bacon, or tasty and crispy like fried chicken skin.