Month: March 2021

Categories
Pizza

Canadian Bacon- Pineapple-Pizza

Good morning everyone! I hope that your day goes well. I am headed off to the Dentist this morning, so I am trying to post this recipe now before I go.

I really like pizza, but as I have never tried a Canadian Bacon Pineapple pizza, I thought that I would try to make one up. As unusual as it is for me, I have to say it’s not too bad.

I will say that the next one that I make, will not have alfredo sauce on it as that made it a little too rich in taste for me. These are my ingredients that I used.

Pizza dough for one pizza.

1 package of Canadian Bacon. 8 ounces of shredded cheese – mixed cheddar and motzarella.

2 TBSP melted butter and sprinkle of parmesean for the top rim on the crust. 1 TBSP of cornmeal for the bottom of crust.

Sauteed onion and red bell pepper Pineapple tidbits drained of juice.

I took my pizza dough out of the freezer that morning and at lunchtime, I pre-heated my oven to 200 degrees and turned the oven off.

I used olive oil on my hands to handle the dough an d added a tiny bit of oil to the glass pie dish that I was using. I flipped the dough over and over to oil and then removed the dough for a minute to throw in the cornmeal on the bottom of the dish. Then I placed the dough ball back in the dish and covered with syran wrap and put it in the oven for an hour.

After the hour was up I took the dough out of the oven and set the oven temperature to 400 degrees.

I used my hands to push the dough up around all the sides and the bottom of the dish. Then I baked the crust for 20 minutes until light brown. Take it out of the oven and assemble your items now.

I layered shredded cheeses and Canadian bacon with about 1/3 cup of garlic alfredo sauce, which is very salty. And I used pineapple in the layers and used onions and bell pepper with more pineapple on the top.

I brushed the melted butter on the rim of the crust and added parmesan to the crust. Then I baked it for 20 minutes at 400 degrees. It was good but too rich and cheesy with the Alfredo sauce so next time I will leave it out. Also, know that alfredo and parmesean are both salty and so is Canadian Bacon.

Thanks for your visit today and come back again if you wish. I will post again on Saturday-Tuesday and Thursday. Share with good people if you wish. Thank You again. Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

Categories
Pies

Vanilla Bean-Strawberry Ice-Cream Pie

Ice Cream Pie in the making!
This is the finished result of my vanilla-bean ice-cream/strawberry cookie pie.

Good early morning, everyone. I am up am posting early this Tuesday morning from North Florida. I do hope that your day is good.

I was in my kitchen, yesterday and put this ice-cream pie together for our weekly card game. This was a hit with everyone and I will be making it again in a different flavor as there could be endless combinations to be made.

You could exchange the cookies for Reese cups or my favorite, Turtle candy or other cookie flavors. Just use your imagination and this dessert will be received well at any event, I, kid you not.

On to the recipe!

One box of Vanilla Bean Ice-Cream (Walmart-Great Value).

I bag of Vanilla Cream cookies 1 bag of Strawberry Cream cookies (Save-A-Lot).

On the day that you will be making this awesome dessert, let your Ice-Cream thaw out half-way. Do this early in the morning or at night the day before. This recipe only takes about 15-20 minutes to prepare.

I used 12 vanilla cream cookie in the food processor to make the crumb crust with and added 2 TBSP of melted butter to a pie dish. The crumbs were still a little to dry to combine well so I added 1 TBSP of milk at a time, just to get the right texture, damp but not soggy. It took 2 TBSP of milk for me.

Next you spoon half of the ice-cream over the crust and spread with a butter knife. Then you break up some strawberry cream filled cookies into medium sized chunks and top with those. Last but least, you put just a very small amount of strawberry cream filled cookie into the food processor to make fine crumbs to just barely sprinkle over the top.

This recipe is not a diet recipe. This is for the folks that like to eat! I hope that you will try this as it is very easy to make and very cheap to make. It might be cheap, but the taste is Grand!

Thank you for your visit today and stay awhile if you can! Do come back to visit as you are all Welcome to browse and share any recipe that you like. I will post again on Thursday-Saturday and Tuesday. Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

Categories
Sandwiches

Loose Meat Sandwich

Good morning to all, on this rainy North Florida day. I hope your day is well!

I came across an older recipe from times past and I thought that I would do a post on it. It is called loose meat sandwiches I do remember having one of these about 13 years ago at a little Mom and Pop Cafe

I opened a jar of my dry canned hamburger meat, which was a pound of meat, roughly. You can start with fresh hamburger meat from the grocery store if you don’t have canned hamburger meat. It is my very favorite item to can as it saves me so very much time.

You just cut up a large onion and use a large TBSP of garlic from a jar.

Put these veggies in a frying pan and saute for about 3 minutes and then add the canned hamburger meat in and keep cooking on medium heat until the grease from the meat is cooked out.

Or if, you start with raw meat then cook it first and drain and then add in the veggies and cook until they are done.

A slice of cheddar cheese tops this sandwich off. I only had a little piece of a strip of cheese so I ended up cutting it too thick to melt prettily. I also added mayo-ketch and mustard to my loose meat sandwich.

It was a nice change for a meal for me and I really enjoyed the loose meat sandwich along with an ice-cold, Sam’s cola from Walmart.

I do hope that you will try this recipe for yourself and see what you think about it. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to share these recipes with good people. Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

Categories
Homemade

Real Coconut Extract

This coconut extract has taken me three months to make. But, it was well worth the time spent.

This is an update on the coconut extract that I made last November 2020. It smells so awesome and I can hardly wait to make a coconut pie with some of this.

So, if you go back to the November category on my site, here. You should see the recipe that I used. It involved, me and a hammer and a fresh coconut that opened just long enough to grab the side of my hand and then close back up. Ouch!!! That hurt!

A lot of sites do not want you to use alcohol in your recipes but for extracts, you have to. I used a quart jar and put the peeled and shredded coconut into the jar and topped it up to one-inch headspace with vodka and let it sit under my sink for three months time.

I did shake the jar when I thought of it. And at the three-month time-line, I strained off the liquid and bottled it up for some luscious-smelling coconut extract. This will probably last me a lifetime but if I make it again then I would use a pint jar instead of a quart jar.

For those of you who use the best extracts, I hope that you try this one out for yourself! Thanks for stopping by today and please come back to visit me again and if you like a recipe then feel free to share it with good people. Thanks again. Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

Categories
Frugal

Made up some sweet-smelling laundry soap today.

This homemade soap has the sweetest smell to me. It was time to make up a new batch as I was almost out of laundry soap. This soap mixture is also kind to the elements, besides cleaning your laundry.

Hello all! I thought that I would share my soap recipe with you this evening. It is not a food recipe so I don’t know how many people that I can share it with! But, I have been using and making this powdered laundry soap up for many many years now and I just love it.

I have a lot of allergy problems with a lot of scents so I began making and using this soap, a long time ago. Did I forget to mention that it is a huge money saver and gentle on fabrics but tough on grease. It is also better for our water-ways and the earth.

No, I am not a tree hugger, but on the other hand, I just will not use a dishwasher! You just can’t pay me enough to use one. I never have had one. As I do feel it wastes so much water and nature is so beautiful to me.

Ok, now on to the recipe. This recipe smells and looks close to Dreft. The baby washing powder from days gone by. That is the sweetness of the smell. I do add 1/5th of a capful of the Purex Scent Crystals to 2 TBSP of my washing powder soap.

This is for a large load or a regular-sized load of laundry, either one. Just toss it in the front loader and load up your laundry. I use nothing else, not even in the dryer.

You will need to spend a little to start out with for your supplies to make this but then you can make up more batches as you need them and just keep them in a coffee-mate can as mine is, or a covered container. And for every load, you just use 2 TBSP of this washing powder. It does not get all sudsy as it does not contain that chemical that does that. But it cleans your clothes so that you almost want to eat them.

Box of 20 Mule Team Borax

Box of Arm And Hammer Washing Powders

Get big boxes as you will use 4 cups of each.

1 Bar Of Zote. I use the pink color as I love the sweet smell.

In a large bowl, put 4 cups of each of the washing powders.

Use a box cheese grater and grate the bar of Zote into large cheese-like curls. Now put these into the large bowl and combine well.

I have a little food processor that I loaded up with this mixture and I shredded up many batches until I had emptied that large bowl.

This will last me for 9 months to a year as there is only me to wash for. I hope that you try this and share my blog with others. Thank you for your visit. Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

Categories
Meats

Cast Iron Delmonico Steak

A nice Delmonico, sizzling steak, in a cast iron frying pan that is right out of the oven.
#Recipe #delminicosteak #castironskillet

Hello everyone. I am sorry that I am very late posting for today.

It has been a busy and misty, North Florida day. But I still love this day and hope that you will too.

This is how I like to cook a steak so I thought that I would share my recipe with you. Delmonico steaks always seem the tenderest steaks to me, so that is always my choice of steak. Though it is a rare treat to have one as they cost so much for me to have one. It does make two meals for me, so sometimes it is worth the cost.

In the morning put your seasoning on the steak and cover it in a bowl and keep it in the refrigerator, all day long, until you are ready to cook it. I used garlic powder and Accent on this one.

I used a TBSP of olive oil in my little cast iron skillet and let it get to the sizzling stage, then I dropped in the seasoned steak and seared both sides to get a pretty brown color.

Have the oven on 350 degrees while you are searing your Delmonico steak. After the steak is finished searing and is sizzling, slide the cast iron frying pan into the oven on the top shelf and set your stove timer for 6 minutes or less if you want a rare steak. I messed up and set this cast iron, Delmonico steak at 8 minutes and it cooked to a doneness of brown. So next time, I will check it at 4 minutes and maybe, on to the 6 minute time. But it still was very tender and good.

Along with this I used some dehydrated mushrooms, a handful, with a TBSP of butter and 1/8 c. of water with garlic powder. I just cooked on medium for about 3 minutes to let the mushrooms absorb the liquid. I still like my mushrooms crunchy and chewy on a steak.

I also made skin mashed potatoes with some red potatoes that were washed and cut in half and boiled just until barely fork tender. After I drained the potatoes I just used the old-fashioned hand masher and barely mashed the potatoes. I like some lumps in mine.

Just added in, 2 TBSP of mayo along with pink salt and freshly grounded pepper-corns (black-pepper). 1/4 c of heavy whipping cream that I needed to use up. Goodness me, they were good.

Thanks for stopping by and please do so again in the future. I enjoy seeing the numbers grow. Thanks again from Connie B.

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