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Freezer Foods Friday

I’m still on vacation and will be back next week!

I do the memes: Menu Plan Monday hosted by Laura at I’m an Organizing Junkie, Favorite Ingredient Friday hosted by Kathryn at Overwhelmed with Joy, Freezer Food Friday hosted by MJ at mjpuzzlemom, Scrumptious Sunday hosted by Meredith at Mercedes Rocks and Slow Cooking Thursday hosted by Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. Doing them all make great additions to help keeping me on track and finding so new recipes!

Favorite Ingredient Friday ~ Beef Stroganoff

This is supposed to be Weight Watchers week,
but I had already pre-posted this recipe while on vacation – so enjoy!

hosted by Overwhelmed with Joy

2 bunches green onions, sliced
1/2 pound mushrooms, washed and sliced
1 clove garlic
3 tablespoons butter
1 pound sirloin steak, cubed*
1 egg white
1 teaspoon cornstarch
3 tablespoons red wine
14 oz. beef consomme
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon white pepper
2 cups egg noodles (4 oz. dry)
1 cup sour cream
Kitchen Bouquet

Whisk together the egg white and cornstarch.
Toss meat in egg mixture and let sit for 1 hour.
Melt butter in skillet.
Over medium heat quickly stir fry meat pieces, remove and set aside.
In the same pan saute’ the onions, mushrooms and garlic until lightly browned.
Scrape bottom to loosen and add meat back in.
Add the red wine, consomme, salt and pepper. Simmer uncovered 20 minutes.
Stir in noodles, cover and cook until noodles are tender, about 10-15 minutes.
Add enough Kitchen Bouquet to attain desired color.
Add sour cream and mix well. Heat quickly , but DO NOT BOIL! Sour cream will curdle if you cook it too quickly.
Garnish with parsley.
Serve immediately!

*stew meat works, but tends to be tougher

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a great mother’s day! I’m still on vacation and have been checking in periodically. I will diligently answer all comments when I return and follow-up on all memes. It will be fun to see it all at once! Have a great week.

Tuesday's Romance of Cookery and Housekeeping

I’m on vacation and will be back next week!

Recipe (page) adapted from ‘A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband’ by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron

I do the memes: Menu Plan Monday hosted by aura at I’m an Organizing Junkie, Favorite Ingredient Friday hosted by Kathryn at Overwhelmed with Joy, Freezer Food Friday hosted by MJ at mjpuzzlemom, Scrumptious Sunday hosted by Meredith at Mercedes Rocks and Slow Cooking Thursday hosted by Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. Doing them all make great additions to help keeping me on track and finding so new recipes!

Run A Ground

Slow Cooking Thursday

Slow Cooking Thursday is hosted by Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.

I’m on vacation and will be back next week!

Monday's Musings ~ Kindness

There’s a new meme in town.
My good friend Barbara would love to see you and have you join in.
She made my header and this great button to match.
She’s made more buttons to choose from.
So head on Over to Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers to join the fun.

Remember the nicest thing you can do for yourself is to do something nice for someone else.
~George Burns*

*(pg 15) Highlighted in Yellow A short course in living wisely and choosing well by H. Jackson Brown Jr., author of Life’s Little Instruction Book and Rochelle Pennington

Menu Plan Monday

Monday ~ sis-in-law’s choice
Tuesday ~ Train dining car
Wednesday ~ Train dining car
Thursday ~ Out ~ need to do the shopping to restock the fridge
Friday ~ Grilled BBQ chicken & Potato Salad
Saturday ~ Hamburgers & Baked Beans
Sunday ~ Chicken Marsala & Salad

Camera Critters

My Friend Misty has started a new meme.

It’s taken off really well.
Who can resist critters? Come join us and have some fun.
You can get more information at Camera Critters.

I’m still on vacation so this is sis-in-law’s dog, Buffy. She got her after her SWEET Daisy passed on at a very old age. Buffy started out to be a holy terror. So much so that I used to call her CUJO. Yes, that sweet looking little thing we called CUJO, PSYCHO and numerous other expletives. And no, she’s not a a miniature husky, she’s a shaved pomeranian. She has mellowed into a sweet little lover girl though.

Photo Hunt ~ Share ANY photo~Tahquamenon Falls

This is one of my favorite photos of Tahquamenon Falls.
If you look close you can see the ice has JUST broken off
from the falls over on the left hand side.

About the PhotoHunt: A theme is given for each Saturday. Post a photo that best represents the theme. New and old photos welcome but must be from your personal collection and not photos obtained from the web. Play along once a week by posting your photo on your site.

Freezer Food Friday~Macaroni & Cheese Spicy Style

hosted by mjpuzzlemom

1 package cheese and garlic croutons, coarsely ground (2 cups ground)
2 tablespoons butter, melted
3 cups dry elbow macaroni
3 cups whole milk, room temperature
1/2 cup butter
1 small onion, minced
1/2 cup flour
2 tablespoons Frank’s Hot sauce
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
4 cups extra, extra, extra sharp cheddar cheese (16 oz. block), grated

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Toss crouton crumbs with melted butter and set aside.
Prepare macaroni and drain.
In large skillet melt 1/2 cup butter.
Add onions and saute’ until tender and slightly browned.
Whisk in flour until smooth.
Gradually add milk, stirring constantly until thick.
Stir in hot sauce, salt and peppers.
Stir in cheese until blended.
Toss together the macaroni and 3/4 of the bread crumbs.
Stir in cheese mixture until smooth.
Pour into lightly sprayed 9×9 stoneware.
Top with remaining crumbs.
Bake 30 minutes.

We have it for dinner that night and then I put the leftovers in 1 quart freezer containers for future meals.

Favorite Ingredient Friday ~ Devil's Food Orange Cake & Orange Butter frosting

CAKE

4 medium navel oranges, room temperature
3 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2 Jumbo eggs
1 cup whole milk
2 cups flour

Heat oven to 325 degrees.
Generously grease a Bundt pan (I like a decorative Nordicware or Wilton pan)
Squeeze oranges, saving pulp
Melt the chocolate in the microwave. Then add 1/2 cup of the sugar, the cinnamon and 1/2 cup of the orange juice, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Cool.
Mix the baking soda into 2 teaspoons of orange juice.
In a large mixing bowl cream the shortening with 1 cup sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
Alternate the milk and flour, sifting the flour into the cream mixture and blend until smooth.
Add the baking soda mixture and blend well.
Add the cooled chocolate mixture and blend well.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
Level pan by dropping on counter top to remove air bubbles.
Bake until springy 55-60 minutes.
Cool 10 minutes and then invert onto platter.
Cool before frosting.

FROSTING

1/2 cup butter, softened
5 cups sifted powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, pulp and all
2 teaspoon orange zest

Beat butter until fluffy.
Beat in 1/2 of the powdered sugar until smooth.
Add orange juice, vanilla and orange peel. Blend until smooth.
Slowly add the remaining sugar and blend until silky.
Adjust sugar and orange juice until desired consistency and flavor is reached.

If you don’t have this mess in the end,
you did it wrong!

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