Category: Grandpa’s Use Only

These recipes are for Grandpa and his family. This category includes recipes from magazines, TV shows, newspapers, and other sources where I don’t have permission to republish the recipes, but still feels they are recipes that he may want to cook for himself at a later time.

Irish Scones

sconeINGREDIENTS

  • 2 C AP flour
  • 1 TBL baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1/2 C sugar
  • 1 egg – separated
  • 1 C currants. cranberries or raisins
  • 6 TBL cold butter
  • 4 OZ (1/2 C) sour cream
  • 1/2 C buttermilk – room temp
  • Turbinado sugar for garnish

STEP BY STEP

  1. Grease a heavy baking sheet
  2. Sift dry ingredients together
  3. Cut in cold butter until crumbly
  4. In separate bowl, mix currants, egg yolk, sour cream and buttermilk
  5. Make well in the center of the dry mixture
  6. Mix slowly until wet and dry are combined
    Use a woooden spoon to mix
  7. Using your hands, form the ball into a circle
  8. Cut into eight wedges
  9. Brush flat surface with egg white
  10. Roll from the wide end to the pointy end
    Don’t compress, leave fairly loose
  11. Place onto cookie sheet
  12. Brush with egg white
  13. Garnish with Turbinado sugar
  14. Bake at 425 for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown
  15. Serve warm

Dutch Oven Family Style Dinner

Braise one bratwurst per person in a Dutch Oven on the stovetop
Remove cooked brats, leaving fond in pan bottom
Wash small new potatoes
Prep (halve and quarter and chop) cabbage, corn, parsnips, carrots, onion,
. Just enough for your people
Lay whole potatoes in the bottom of the pan
Layer cabbage
Later ears of corn
Later other veggies into pan
Top with peeled garlic, thyme, bay leaves
Cut brats in 4 pieces each and put on top of veggies
Add 1 c broth or beer to deglaze
Heat until steam starts to come out
Cover, reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes
Add chopped bell peppers, broccoli
Cook 15 more minutes
Test potatoes . If they are soft it is done
Plate family style
Put half liquid over the top
Make gravy with the other half

Meat Lettuce Wraps

This can be used with beef, pork, or even tofu.

  • Sear 80/20 ground beef and pork in peanut oil over high heat
  • Spoon out some of the excess fat into a bowl and set aside
  • Set meat aside
  • Add Onion
  • Add garlic
  • Add soy, rice vinegar, chili oil, hoisin, pickled ginger
  • Add Water chestnuts, scallions, a few drops of sesame oil
  • Add back in the meat and stir to combine
  • Spoon onto butter lettuce leaves

Soft boiled egg

Whites gel at 180° Yolks start setting at 160°
Use a steamer instead of pot of boiling water
Temperature is a constant 212° covered
Use large eggs straight from the fridge: about 45°
This way the yoke will stay cooler during the cooking process
Cover and cook for exactly 6 1/2 minutes
Remove and plunge into a bowl of cool water for about 30 seconds
Put into an egg cup and top with salt and pepper
Buy Roslee Egg Topper

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Several Burger Recipes

ITALIAN BURGER
Red wine vinegar, evoo, diced shallots, salt and pepper to baste during cooking
Lean burger on high heat
Top with provolone cheese
Top with salami and mortadella
Top with lettuce, tomato, pickle
Top with diced sweet hot peppers

AMERICAN BURGER
100% ground chuck . 85/15%
Make fat donut patty with a hole in the middle to prevent puffing up in the center
Salt and pepper lightly
Sear over high heat .
Press down to sear more 3.5 minutes each side
Top with American cheese, bacon, BBQ and more bacon
Grilled onions, peppers.
Mushrooms

DELI BURGER
Two Thin patties
Fry quickly over high heat
Mayo, mustard, paprika on a toasted bun
Lettuce, patty, onion, cheese

MEXICAN BURGER
Patty, tomato, pickle
Chorizo, ground chuck
Stuffed with queso fresco
Top with guac
Italian sliced beef

COMFORT BURGER
Bacon, burger, pepper jack, cheddar
Mac cheese burger topping
Sauté Butter and chopped onions
Add flour
Brown, then add milk
American, cheddar, jack
Toss in cooked macaroni pasta
Mix in Franks cayenne pepper sauce
Add parmesan and pecorino/romano
Season with salt and pepper
Top your burger with this!

SPECIAL BURGER
Cook your burger
Ketchup, dill chips,
Swiss cheese
Top with cooked pastrami
Caramelized onions
Brown mustard
Wrap in a burger diaper
Special meat blend: 81/19 and 73/27 Resulting in 77/23
Add pepper, salt, bread crumbs . Bread crumbs absorb the fats
Chipotle/guacamole

TEXAS RED BURGER
Chili verde, Chipotle, green chilis, jack cheese, guacamole
Blue cheese and jalapeño
Mix venison and ground chuck
Pepper jack and bacon with onion strings

KITTY’S HUSBAND’S BURGER
Grilled onion and mush
Top with havarti

Veggie Soup

Chop up onion, tomato, carrot, peeled parsnip, potato … Whatever
Put on baking sheet
Toss with EVOO and salt
Top entire head if garlic, drizzle with oil and wrap in foil . Place on baking sheet too
Bake all for 45 minutes at 350°
CAREFULLY squeeze out garlic
Put all in blender
Add some broth and a bit of cream or milk
Pulse about 15 seconds . More if you like creamy rather than chunky
Top with shredded parm
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Salisbury Steak

Sauté:
3 cloves slivered or minced garlic
Two stems chives or green onions
Large handful of chopped parsley
Minced onion
Chopped mushrooms

Chill

Mix in:
1 lb 80/20 ground chuck
Five saltine crumbs
One egg
One table Worchestershire sauce
Salt and black pepper to taste

Press into patties
Cool in fridge 30 minutes
Bake at 425° about 15 minutes
Or in hot pan 4 minutes per side

Gravy:
Heat 1 tablespoon EVOO and 1 tablespoon butter over low heat in sauté pan
Add one Bay leaf
1 red bell pepper
Minced onions
Season to taste with salt and pepper
Cook till translucent
Add a bit of sage and flour
When browned add 2 C broth and a dash or two of Worchestershire

Shredded Mexican beef

This recipe comes straight from Ninos Mexican restaurant in Sun City, Arizona.

ADD OTHER RECIPES. 

In summary, you are going to boil the beef in a pot of seasoned water. Once it has cooked, he will shred it and combining it with the appropriate seasonings. Pay attention…

In a large pot, add one bottle of Tecate or Corona beer.
1/2 C cider veinegar
Cut sides off four poblano peppers. No seeds.
One entire hand of garlic cut in half, then smashed.
Four bay leaves
Two teaspoons each: salt, oregano, tomato paste, cumin
One teaspoon each: ground cloves, cinnamon, black pepper
Place thick slices of onion to elevate the meat. So ir can brown
Cut 3-5 pound beef bottom round or chuck into large chunks
Cover and bake three hours at 300°
.
Pull beef out and let rest
Strain remaining mixture in pot retaining liquid
Add to blender, blend, then let rest one hour
Skim off layer of fat
Add sauce back to pot
Shred meat and put back into pot
Serve with thin cabbage, green chilis, onion slivers

Dark chocolate taste test

Dark chocolate must have at least 35% chocolate.
Terms semi sweet and bitter Sweet are not regulated.
ATK recommends 60% chocolate
70% chocolate starts to get a little bit like a dry brownie they say.
Going low-fat, high solid, will give you a better creamier chocolate

Winner was Ghiradelli 60% cacao

Callabeau Belgian was the runner up

Baker’s bittersweet was the third place winner

Least favorite was Nestle semi-sweet baking chocolate

What was not evaluated was our favorite: Dove 70% dark chocolate. I think that we will have to do a taste test have our own in the near future.

Canned Brans… Or scratch?

According to America’s Test Kitchen dried beans made from scratch gave inconsistent results. Here is their evaluation of canned beans, which they actually rated as superior to scratch beans.

The older beans get, the more they lose moisture content. Below 10% gives a bad tasting tough bean.

Canned beans are processed at the peak of their ripeness, and very scientifically processed to assure a good tasting bean.

The best according to there evaluation was Goya Cannellini Alubias Premium beans

What was evaluated here though was kidney beans. Bottom line: evaluate things yourself and make your own decision.

Tennessee spicy chicken

Wings, drumsticks, or chicken breast

Day before

Mix together garlic powder, cayenne pepper, paprika, cumin, salt, pepper

Mix a couple of tablespoons with AP flour

Mix some melted butter and Tobasco with remaining spice mixture. This is a brushed onto chicken after frying

Cover chicken with buttermilk overnight

On THE DAY OF…

Set oil to exactly 370°
Coat with flour mixture
Drop into hot oil
Let temp return to 370° between wings
Cook about 4-8 minutes . Rotate occasionally
Set onto newspaper to drain
Brush with sauce
Serve with sliced pickles

Snacks . Thumbnails

Cook diced onion, garlic, ground beef
Render one slice diced bacon
Tomato skin dices . Use meat elsewhere
Mustard, catsup, Tobasco, red wine

Russet potato
Mandoline thin slices
Soak in water with salt and vinegar
Dry off
Fry in hot oil . Wok base

Garlic
Saute
Parsley
Black pepper
Drizzle over chips

Dip
Sour cream, salt, red wine vinegar, pickle juice, dill

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