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The Gist……in a Pandemic — Dish with this chick
I really like this cook! #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES
I’ve been to the Caribbean humm, probably a half a dozen times. Whether it be a cruise, or actually visiting the island itself. I so enjoy the relaxation of the ocean waves, sipping an island cocktail, lying on the beach, sun in my face, and cooling off in the clear, aqua water. Yes! I have […]
A Tropical Blast — Dish with this chick
Good day to all, on this North Florida, sunny day. It is hot and so very muggy here but I’ll take some sunshine for a nice change.
I hope that you find a way to make your day become a nice and joyful day. Anyway, here is a little trip to the Caribbean for your day!
I, really like this Caribbean recipe so I thought that I would share it
with you!
Over and out from Connie B.
Good Morning, All. I am posting from another very wet and grey sky day from North Florida, today. Now, I am thinking of the song that has the lyrics (I’ll sail away in it). For the life of me, I can’t remember who sings it. (Journey, comes to mind). Anyway, I am wishing you a good day and all the best.
This is my ham-bone bean recipe and it was good to the last bean.
The recipe is a spiral ham bone with some meat left on the bone.
It is well worth the cost (On sale, at Walmart) Still $24.00 though. I, cut off almost all of the spiraled ham and put in quart zip-lock baggies for the freezer for so many meals. Then I save the ham bone until I was ready to use it.
So, along with that ham bone, I used 2 15oz cans of fat Italian string beans.
1 1/2 onions sliced.
6-medium-large golden potatoes washed and peeled and diced.
1-tsp Accent 1-tsp Greek Seasoning 1-tsp coarse salt (work with your seasons) and do not get too salty as it will get stronger later and you could always add more. 1-tsp black pepper.
Boil the ham bone in a large pot filled with 8-cups of water for 1 hour, as it is already cooked, when you purchase it and then take it out of the pot and let cool, take all the meat off, and tear into strips. Put the meat back into the pot.
Open you two cans of fat Italian string beans (just my name for them) and put liquid and all into your soup pot.
Add in your Golden potatoes. (Diced)
Add in your sliced onions. Add in your seasonings and cook on med-high for 40 minutes. You are done, now.
Thank you for your visit today and do come back soon. Connie B.
Homemade Apple Strudel
Good Morning All!
I am posting to you, on this very cloudy North Florida day. I hope that your day goes well! I know that mine will. In my mind, I will just project a lovely and peaceful day.
I have a little recipe for you that won.t break the bank and people do like this one. This was my first strudel so I did not give justice to the looks. I will do better on the next one and there will be a next one, believe me!
Ok, onward to the recipe, now.
The ingredients are:
1 long can of crescent rolls
1 beaten egg
Powdered sugar and milk for the glaze and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp of pumpkin pie spice
1/2 pint jar of canned apples and cinnamon with a little brown sugar
(OR make your own) cut up 2 apples (peeled and diced small) add 2 TBSP of brown sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon. Let this marinate overnight in the refrigerator. Simmer for 15 minutes with a TBSP of butter and let cool.
Get a baking pan and put parchment paper on it.
Open your can of crescent rolls and use some flour on the counter to roll this out in as long of a rectangle that you can achieve. Keep going you will get there! Now put the strudel on the parchment pan and do these strip cuts.
Use a butter knife to make cut marks down both sides (while leaving the middle uncut for2-3 inches) this is for the filling.
Sprinkle with pumpkin pie spice (if you wish) I wanted the aroma wafting through the house as I can’t wait for fall!
Spoon the filling onto the middle of the strudel and then wrap or braid-like wrap the strips and pinch the ends together. (All ends).
Brush with egg wash. Bake 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes, until golden brown.
This feeds 3 people, but you did want some more! Oops, almost forgot the glaze! Use a 1/2 c of powdered sugar and whisk the lumps out. Use 1 TBSP at a time of milk and stir until you get the glaze how you want it, so it can be drizzled over the strudel with a fork.
Thanks for your visit today. I do appreciate it, more than you know! Always feel free to share with good friends and family, if you wish.
Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES
Good Morning All, on this cloudy and muggy, North Florida, Tuesday day!
I hope that you make this day a good one. And I hope that all your wishes come true.
I have a nice little recipe for you, today. And it is really easy to make this one. I don’t know why I was so scared to make this for so long of a time.
Chicken Parmesan Ingredients:
1 large chicken breast that is washed and sliced in two by the thickness. Then use a meat mallet to pound it out thin, it will break into some pieces so don’t worry. This is in the photo in the full pan. This uses only 1 chicken breast!
I do this the night before and keep it in a cover in a container in the refrigerator. ( prep-work done).
The next day:
2 cans of diced tomatoes- 1 diced onion- 2 TBSP garlic in the squeeze jar-1/4 cup of olive oil. 1 TBSP of oregano (I was out of basil or I would have also added 1 TBSP of basil Simmer this for 30 minutes on med-low.
3 mixing bowls- 2 whisked eggs in one bowl
3/4th c of flour in one bowl. I used Kentucky Kernal Flour (already seasoned) from Walmart.
The third bowl is 3/4th c of panko crumbs with 10 saltines crushed medium-sized.
All 3 bowls are ready to go now. Dip a piece of the chicken in the egg wash and then in the flour and back to the egg wash again and then into the breadcrumbs, last of all. Have a plate ready to put this one on while you do the next one and so on.
Have 1/2 inch of hot oil in a medium frying pan at medium temp. Like #6. Fry the chicken just until golden brown on each side.
Have a 13 x9 baking pan ready and put 1/2 of the simmered sauce in the bottom of the pan. Lay the fried chicken on top of the sauce. Pour remaining sauce over the chicken and add sliced mozzarella on top.
Bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes.
While it is baking. Make your spaghetti (1 lb) boil for 8 minutes and drain.
After the photoshoot, I added some of this extra sauce to my plate and topped it off with parmesan cheese that was sprinkled over the top of this dish.
My photo did not show this part of the recipe, but I do like a lot of sauce with my spaghetti so I used 1 can of tomato sauce (15 oz) and 1 can of paste (6 oz) with 3 little cans of water and whisked together. I also added in 1/2 package of McCormicks Spaghetti seasoning and simmered this while the chicken parmesan was in the oven cooking.
I hope that you try this! Thank you for stopping by today and please share my recipes with your friends and family, if you wish.
I will post another recipe on Saturday and then Tuesday. Thanks again. Connie B.
Good Evening All! I am late posting today as it was a very busy day for me. I hope that your day was good and tomorrow is even better for you!
I have a little tip-recipe for you, today.
A quart jar of Thomas Orange Blossom Honey! I do believe that it was processed off of 441 North, from Lake City Florida, and heading North on 441 to Georgia. As I have passed that place of business many times throughout the years.
Now, I do not know where He put out all those Bee boxes, in which-ever orange grove. When I was a child, down in Ocala Florida on Highway 301, there used to be a lot of beautiful Groves of oranges-tangerines and grapefruit but that has been many years ago.
If you have followed along on this blog, then you know that I am always into one thing or another. I have always had a quest for learning and doubt that I will ever stop searching for things I feel that I just have to know.
I do make some of my own meds and that is how I came across the reason to use this tip, for myself. As I am allergic to all antibiotics except for one, I have to treat myself, when the Dr. says I can not help you! I do not have the plague and am not sick. I was just trying to keep my immune system built up very strong.as I have COPD and can not even be around anyone that is sick.
As a child, I was healthy as a horse. I am not going to tell you the remedy that I tried out as I made a mistake and it was a painful one.
Needless to say, I took a half dose of my item and it blistered the inside of my mouth and the inside of my lips. Agony! I researched and remembered that honey is great on burns, more on that later.
Also, honey is great for mouth cankers and fever blisters which I have never had. So I took a big spoon of honey and held it in my mouth as long as I could keep it there, which was not long. I did this twice a day for 2 days and I was back to healthy, no more blistered mouth and lips.
Yesterday as I was canning milk, yes milk. Only Rebel canners do this and this is not by the blue book, so no haters, please. As I was taking the jars out of the pressure canner and placing them on the counter on a towel next to the stove. One jar slipped and fell on its side.
If, you are a canner, then you know that the jar lid seals with a pop as it sits there and cools. That means that when it fell over, the boiling hot milk in the jar, shot out in a stream of pain for me as I did not just get out of the way and let that milk go all over my kitchen.
Of course, dummy me stood right in the way and set the jar back up with a thick potholder and it stopped squirting out of the jar. But the damage was done to my upper chest, tender parts.
So, again honey to the rescue for last night and more for today. That was a bad burn but you can not even see the burn today. So honey is great food and it is a healing medicine for burns. So please remember this!
Thanks for stopping by! Connie B.
Happy Thursday, on this glorious North Florida day!
It is so beautiful outside, with a blue sky day and an awesome windy, breezy day. I was outside for most of the day and almost had to beat myself with a stick to make me come back into the apartment, but a neighbor sent me on my way to do this post for you.
I started out washing the outside doors of my apartment and went on to do all the outside window cleaning. Also, I cleaned and prepared my gas grill so that it will be ready when I am, which may be very soon with this beautiful weather!
After all that cleaning, I had gotten hot and sweaty so I made an ice-cold coke and sat out back in my rocking chair with my refreshment. I was watching a buzzard that was gliding on the wind currents, I also was watching a wasp and a news-carrier wasp (they don’t sting). The skeeter hawks were everywhere. And my wind-chimes were singing in the wind. I could have sat there all day, with nature for my company.
Onward to the recipe tip that I have for you today, as I just may, sneak back outside and disappear into nature for the remaining time of this day, as nature holds my heart and soul, very near,
Ok, enough! 1 glass of milk with 1 TBSP vinegar stirred into it.
You can use lemon juice instead but I prefer vinegar. Let this sit for 5 minutes and it is ready for your recipe that you need it for. Or, it is ready to drink if you love buttermilk as I do!
I truly do thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you will visit again and share these recipes. Connie B.
Hello, everyone. I wish you the best for this day. North Florida is cloudy today but not a cold day. The world is only cloudy if you let it be. Put your mind on something interesting and let it carry you through this day.
I am always thinking of and praying for everyone in this world, for every-day that goes by. And I do try to give out a little joy to you all as that is all that I have, but that is enough.
So, today, I am giving you my favorite chocolate fudge frosting recipe. If you make this and put it on a devil’s food cake or a fudgy chocolate cake mix. All I can say is oh my my! Because when I gift this cake to someone, that is all they can say, too.
I will add a photo one of these days when I make this delightful fudgy frosting. I have to watch what I eat and I can not eat a whole cake by myself so one day when there is an event, then I will cook one up.
Ready for the recipe now? I just bet you are! Ok these are the ingredients that you will need.
1/2 c cream or milk 1 stick butter microwave until boiling
5c powdered sugar 1/2 c cocoa whisk together
1 tsp vanilla
Add all dry ingredients with vanilla into your mixing bowl with the vanilla. Have the boiling cream and butter near by.
Begin by pouring a little of the cream and butter mixture into your frosting as you are whipping it up with your mixer. Keep adding the cream mixture in slowly and a little at a time, just until frosting becomes creamy enough to spread on the cake. You may not need all the cream mixture. The next step is to share this and enjoy or give as a never forgotten gift.
I used to bake one of these each month for 2 dozen brown chicken eggs, straight from the farm. The cake was well appreciated and so were those beautiful eggs.
Thanks for visiting and do stay a while and check out the monthly archives for more recipes if you wish. Share away and think about returning to visit again as I post on Sat-Tue and Thursdays. Connie B.
Hello to everyone on this sunny but cloudy, North Florida day. Our day is in between, while making up it’s mind today. So it is in sync with our world today. I wish you peace of mind on this day and all the days that follow. I also wish you, happiness, so look around and grab onto some and hang on to it, with all your might! I am also keeping all of you in my prayers, each and everyday.
I am working up to the recipe, I promise!
Now for the recipe—-1 can of tomatoes
1 can of paste (the little one)
2 jars of Ragu (Left-over from my couponing days) The last two!
6 cloves of garlic peeled and chopped fine
1/2 of an onion chopped 1/2 tsp. accent 1/2 tsp. garlic powder 1/2 tsp. oregano and 1/2 tsp. basil
3 TBSP. sugar (An Italian tip to reduce heartburn). Mushrooms if you like them,however many you like.
2 lbs, hamburger meat Box of spaghetti 1-lb.
I use ground round hamburger meat so I don’t have to drain off, a lot of grease. Fry the meat, along with onion and garlic cloves until done. If you have grease in the pan then drain it off.
Open up your jars of Ragu and pour in the pot, use a little water in the empty jars to get all the sauce out. Open your can of tomatoes and pour in the pot. Open your paste and dilute it in a bowl, with 3 cans of water, whisked into it. Pour this in the pot.
Add all your spices and if you want, add in some mushrooms. They can be dry of fresh. If fresh make sure to wash in water real quick, and cut up. Cook on medium high temp. for 30-40 minutes, while stirring the pot sometimes. You could use a lid on the pot so that the sauce will not pop out everywhere.
Use a big pot of water and get it to boiling. Put in your spaghetti noodles. I use the 1 lb box and that makes a ton of spaghetti. Boil for 8 minutes for al dente spaghetti (firm) and not mushy). Drain off the water and put into a huge bowl and pour all the sauce over the spaghetti, if you wish or keep the sauce and pasta apart if you wish.
The only reason that I used Ragu in this recipe is that I was one of those bad Mamma jamma couponers, years ago and this was the last of it. I could buy $100 worth of editable groceries and only have to pay $8 for them. But I don’t coupon any longer as I am by myself now and I have no use for all that food.
So without the Ragu, you will need to have 3 cans of tomato sauce and 2 cans of tomato paste to take the place of the Ragu.
So I will be adding a whole tsp. of each of my spices the next time I make spaghetti and adding in 1 tsp. of parsley also. I hope that you will try this recipe and see if you like it! I eat this for days and then on the 3rd day, I give the rest of it to one of my neighbors and tell them to eat it that day as it is 3 days old, but still good for the day.
While you are here, feel free to check out my monthly archives for more recipes. I post on Sat-Tue and Thursdays so stop back in for a visit anytime. Thank You. Connie B.
Just want to say Hello to everyone, this fine cool October morning, from Live Oak Florida. It was a very nice start to my day this morning as I was sitting in my rocking chair among my flowers and on my back patio, while sipping some whiskey coffee and reflecting on things that have to get done this day. So alas I had to come inside,but I do put you, on top of my list as I hope you are expecting to hear from me today!
Hope all is well at your house and I send you fall greetings for this day in your lives. I do hope you slow down and listen to the wind, and I hope it helps calm your soul with joy and wonder.
Now I will tell you about my little crab salad recipe. First it is not real crab, bummer there! It is imatation crab. Sorry, but crab is expensive for some people like me, who live off of a small social security check that has to pay all bills and some groceries thrown in there also. All’s well that ends well, though. So back to the recipe.
1/2 package of imt. crab
1 can of english green peas drained
1 1/2 c of raw macaroni cooked
Italian salad dressing to taste
1/2 c mayo.
1/2 tsp accent 1/4 tsp pepper a little salt
Put your cooked macaroni noodles in a large bowl and add 1/2 of the imt. crab chopped up into the bowl. Add mayo and salad dressing, along with spices. Add in the can of drained green english peas. Slightly lift and mix with a large spoon.
This gets better with time as it is being kept cold until ready to serve. This is just a little recipe that I threw together but it hits the spot for me and I hope it will for you also.
While you are already here, please do look around by going to the bottom of the page for my monthly archives, I think it might help navigate you, around my blog. Please share with others and do come back soon. I post on Tue-Thur and Saturday’s. Thank you for your time.
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