Easy Cheese Ball

Ingredients:

  • 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
  • 1 (.7 ounce) package dry Italian-style salad dressing mix
  • 1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, pecans)

Directions:

In a large bowl, mix together cream cheese and salad dressing mix. Shape into 1 large ball and roll in chopped nuts.
Refrigerate cheese ball for several hours or overnight.

Individual Upsidedown Black Forest Cheesecakes

Ingredients:

  • 3 (250g) blocks of Philadelphia Cream Cheese
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup (120 ml) sugar
  • 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract
  • 1 heaping teaspoon (7 ml) flour
  • 1 box of Christie Chocolate Wafers (round)
  • 1 can of cherry pie filling
  • Paper cups

Directions:

Mix all ingredients, except wafers and pie filling.
Place paper cups in muffin tin.
Put a tablespoon of pie filling in bottom of each paper cup
Pour in cream cheese mixture
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes
When baked, remove and place a chocolate wafer on top.
Cool or freeze
Makes 24

Magic Cookie Bars

magic-cookie-bars

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups graham wafer crumbs
  • 1 can EAGLE BRAND Sweetened Condensed Milk
  • 1 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
  • 1 1/4 Flaked Coconut
  • 1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Melt butter and blend with graham wafer crumbs
Pour EAGLE BRAND evenly over crumbs.
Sprinkle with chips, then coconut and nuts.
Press firmly into pan.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cool well before cutting.
Makes 24 bars.

Maple Monkey Bread

Ingredients:

  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 2 tbsp margarine or butter
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 package Fleichmann’s Quick Rise Instant Yeast
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 3 cups of flour

Sugar Mixture

  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup margarine or butter, melted
  • 3/4 cup maple syrup
  • 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

In large bowl, combine 2 3/4 cups flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Heat milk, water and margarine until hot to touch; stir into dry mixture. Mix in egg and enough reserved flour to make soft dough. Kneed on floured surface until smooth, 8 to 10 minutes. Cover; let rise 10 minutes

Combine sugar and cinnamon, Divide dough into 32 pieces; roll each into ball; dip each in margarine and coat with sugar-cinnamon. Beginning and ending with syrup, layer coated dough balls, nuts and syrup into greased 10-inch angle food pan. Cover; let rise until doubled in size, about 30 minutes. Bake in a 375 degree F. oven 40 minutes or until done. Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes: flip over and remove cake.

Terry’s Stuffed Pasta Shells

Ingredients:

  • 18 – large pasta shells (from 16-oz package)
  • 1 – container (15 oz) whole-milk ricotta cheese
  • 1 – large egg, slightly beaten
  • 1/4 to 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese (depends on how intense you like the flavour)
  • 1-2 cups frozen cut leaf spinach, thawed, squeezed to drain and chop
  • (optional) 1 cup chopped cooked chicken or shrimp
  • 1 jar (26 oz) tomato pasta sauce
  • 2 cups shredded Mozzarella (8 oz) or more

Directions:

Combine ricotta, egg, Parmesan cheese, spinach and optional chicken or shrimp and stuff cooked pasta shells (alla dante). Put enough tomato pasta sauce to line the bottom of a baking dish and add the pasta shells. Drizzle tomato sauce over the tops of the pasta shells and put Mozzarella over top of all the shells. Bake at 375 degrees for 30-45 minutes depending on size of dish.

You can use the filling for rolled cannelloni by spreading it over fresh pasta sheets and roll the sheets like a jelly roll and place them in a baking dish lined with pasta sauce and then add the mozzarella over top along with the remaining tomato sauce and bake Bake at 375 degrees for 30-45.

Gramma Stewart’s Scottish Scones

I have modified this recipe. so that it can now be made in a food processor. I still do mine the old way. with a wooden spoon.

  • 3 cups All Purpose Flour
  • 3 tbsp Sugar
  • 2 tbsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 3/4 cup Cold butter
  • 1 Egg
  • ButtermiIk / I use cream
  • 1/4 currants (optional)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, salt into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse a few times to mix the dry ingredients.

Cut the butter into I inch cubes and add to the processor. Pulse until the mixture resembles coarse peas. Crack the egg into a large glass measuring cup and beat lightly. Add the buttermilk (or cream) until the liquid reaches 9 ounces.

Slowly add the liquid to the batter. pulsing after each addition. Be careful not to over mix. Only pulse until the mixture starts to come together.

Turn out the dough on a lightly floured surface. If using currants, add them now. Pat or roll the dough into a I 1/2 inch thickness. Using a 2 inch cutter, cut the dough into desired shape and place on parchment-lined baking sheet. Grandmother Stewart used two baking sheets together to prevent the bottoms of the scones from becommg too brown.

Sprinkle the top with raw sugar. Bake about I5 minutes until lightly golden.
Sprinkle lightly with coarse sugar, or powdered sugar before serving.
**** I you would like to have lemon scones. add the zest of one lemon to the mix.

Enjoy

Terry’s Biscotti

biscotti

Ingredients:

  • 1-3/4 cups of all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 cup whole unblanched almonds
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup butter, melted
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp almond extract
  • 1-1/2 tsp grated orange rind
  • 1 eggs white, lightly beatened

Directions:

In large bowl, combine flour and baking powder; stir in almonds. Whisk together eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, almond extract adn orange rind; stir into flour mixture until soft, sticky dough forms.
Transfer dough to lightly floured work surface; with hands, form into smooth ball. Transfer to an ungreased baking sheet and form into a log. Brush tops with egg white and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Remove from oven and let cool on a rack for 5 minutes. On a cutting board cut diagonally into 3/4 inch slices. Back for 20 minutes long or until golden brown. Remove biscotti to rack and let cool.

Terry’s Italian Sauce

Ingredients:

  • 2 Cups grated carrot
  • 2 Cups finely diced celery
  • 2 Cups finely diced onion
  • 1 Cup finely diced red pepper
  • 12 cloves garlic
  • 3 teaspoon basil
  • 4 cans (28 oz.) plum crushed tomatoes
  • 1 small can of tomato paste
  • 3 tablespoon Italian seasoning
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp ground black pepper – add extra if necessary
  • 1 tsp hot red peppers (add more after tasting)
  • 4 tsp beef bouillon (optional)

Directions:

Add carrot, celery, onion, red pepper to a fry pan, garlic, basil, italian seasoning, salt, pepper red pepper and sauté. Pour in crushed tomatoes and beef bouillon. Bring to a boil and cover. Reduce heat to simmer for 4-6 hours, stirring to make sure it does not burn.

Option: You can also transfer sauce to an oven proof container and put into oven to simmer at 200 degrees F. for 4-6 hours.

Serve with pasta, spaghetti squash or use with  your favourite Italian dish.

 

 

Terry’s Jambalaya

Ingredients:

  • 1 Carrot (Sliced)
  • 3 Cloves of Garlic
  • 1 Onion (Chopped)
  • 1/2 Red Pepper (Chopped)
  • 1 Cup Canned Tomatoes (whole tomatoes, cut up) do not use juice
  • 1 Cup (Cooked Diced Chicken
  • 1 Dozen (Shrimp)
  • 5 Italian Sausages (Sliced)
  • 1 tbsp Cooking Oil
  • 1 Cup Rice (uncooked)
  • 2 Cups Chicken Broth
  • 1 1/2 – 2 tbsp of Cajun Spices
  • 3 Bay Leaves

 

Directions:

Sauté Carrots, Garlic, Onion and Peppers. Add tomatoes.
Add Cajun Spices and Bay Leaves
Add Chicken Broth and bring to boil
Add Sausages, Chicken and Rice
Cook for 40 minutes
Add Shrimp 20 minutes before serving

Chicken Jalfrezi

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp Olive oil
  • 1 medium Onion
  • 2 tbsp Olive oil
  • 1 medium Onion
  • 2 Cloves garlic
  • 1 Green chilli
  • 3 cm of fresh root ginger (Grate)
  • 2 Chicken breasts (DICED)
  • 2 tsp Mild to medium curry powder or paste
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Tomato purée
  • 120 ml Water

Directions:

Add oil and onion to a pan and heat until translucent. Add garlic, chili, ginger root. Toss in Chicken Breasts and Curry. Stir until chicken is fully cooked. Add sald and tomato purée and water. Cook for 5 minutes and toss in green pepper to heat.