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Can someone help! Need receipe for some bomb chili! Can someone help?
Here's a great recipe I got once for tailgating!
High Flyin’ Chili
1 chopped Yellow Onion
1 Chopped Green Bell Pepper
1 Chopped Red Bell Pepper
1 Chopped Jalapeno Pepper
2 lbs. Ground Beef
2 (15 oz) cans crushed tomatoes
2 (15 oz) cans Pinto Beans
2 cloves garlic – minced
1 cup white wine
3 tbsps. Chili powder
½ tea. Cayenne
1 tsp. Cumin
1 tsp. Oregano
1 tsp. Pepper
1 tsp. Salt
Directions: Brown ground beef. Sauté onions, bell peppers, jalapeno pepper and garlic. Mix all with other ingredients. Cook in crock-pot on low for two to three hours. Place in a suitable pot to keep hot on the portable grill. Serves 12 hungry football souls.
Half a turkey - what to do? Gumbo?
My Mom makes delicious seafood gumbo (seafood, notice no chicken or chicken stock added), even though I've had good gumbo made from chicken stock.
SEAFOOD GUMBO
3/4 c. Chopped onion
2 - 3 bay leaves
3/4 c. Chopped celery
4 lbs. Shrimp (de-headed of course)
1 stick butter
1 lb. Crab meat (claw meat)
A can tomatoes (chopped well)
FILE
Sauté onions and celery in a stick of butter. Cook until tender - stirring constantly so they don’t burn. Add this to about 2 quarts of water in a pot. Add 1 can tomatoes (chopped up), salt (about 1 tablespoon), and pepper. Let cook about ½ hour. Put 2 or 3 bay leaves in . Add seafood. Cook about 15 minutes. In sep. pan, brown flour in oil to make a roux (make sure oil is hot first, then add flour and STIR CONSTANTLY so that the roux does not burn. When it is the consistency you like, and dark brown add to gumbo mixture and let cook about 30 minutes. Remove from heat and sprinkle about 2 tablespoon's of FILE on top. Stir after FILE has dissolved.
Recipe for lemon pepper chicken wings?
Lemon Butter Sauce:
1/4 cup white wine
5 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
5 tablespoons heavy cream
1 cup butter, chilled
salt and pepper to taste
purple hull peas
Nothing better than purple hulls with a pan of cornbread! Delicious.
Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes . . .
I'm not much on tomatoes (and my Mom and sister both grow them). However, they LOVE this simple, but cool dish for fresh tomato's.
Tomato, Onion & Cucumber in Italian Dressing,
6 tomatoes, peeled & sliced
1 onion, sliced
2 cucumbers, sliced
1/4 c. Italian dressing
Combine all vegetables in salad bowl; add Italian dressing. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Best Paula Deen Recipes?
Paula Deen's Swiss Steak recipe is delicious. Have also tried her recipe for Mexican Cornbread -- delicious. As someone else mentioned -- not for those counting calories, but great comfort foods. Here's another link for her recipes (BTW -- her cookbook "Savannah Country Cookbook" has some great family recipes.
http://web.foodnetwork.com/food/web/searchResults?searchString=paula+deen&site=food&gosearch=&searchType=Recipe
