The Raglan Shire Winterfest Cookbook 2012

RaglanRaglan ShireShire WinterfestWinterfest CookbookCookbook 20122012 1 Introduction It doesn’t take long to notice that Tinies like nomming, like thinking about nomming, like talking about nomming, like sharing nomming, like making noms, and dreaming up new noms. What better way to celebrate that part of Tiny life than a cookbook? And what better reason to celebrate than Winterfest, that most nommingest time of the year! Thank you all who contributed! Thank you all who make Raglan Shire wot it is! Rowena Paine, editor 2 Table of Contents Main dishes Side dishes Breads Chicken and Noodles...3 Drucilla’s Edible Brussels Chocolate Pumpkin Bread...14 Grape Jelly Meatballs...4 Sprouts...9 Spice Puffs...15 Kath’s Quick and Dirty Soup...5 Grandma’s Famous Sage Dress- Zucchini Bread...16 ing...11 Sheik Al-Mishee...7 Mashed Potatoes...12 Venison Stew...8 Tomato and Leek Tart...13 Cookies Desserts And More! Candy Cane Cookies...17 Coconut Pound Cake...2 Burphel’s Mocha...35 Keeba’s Banana Chocolate Chip Drucilla’s Goofy Pudding Dad’s Potato Candy...36 Cookies... Cake...26 Spiced Nuts...37 Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies...22 Gypsy Tart...27 Peppernut Cookies...23 Hostess Cupcakes...28 Ring Around the Cookie...24 Kentish Cobnut Cake...31 Rich Lady Cheesecake...32 Ruth’s Pudding Cake...33 Spotted Dick...34 3 Chicken and Noodles Ingredients Directions Noodles: For each 3 servings, beat one egg Eggs with half an eggshell of water Water and a pinch of salt. Add enough flour to form a wet dough. Knead Salt with lots of flour on a board. Roll Flour out thin, fold in half, repeat, flourbetween layers to be sure Chicken: they don’t stick, until very thin. Cooked chopped chicken Cut into strips. Dust with more flour and lay out on waxed paper Chicken bullion to dry. Meanwhile, boil a chicken in bullion until tender. Cool, No South Beach diet here. This debone, and chop. Save the needs to be served over mashed broth. You need 2 cups broth for potatoes with a side of hot rolls. each 3 servings so you may need This family starch-fest is made additional chicken bullion to get when relatives visit. It’s an afforda- that amount. Heat broth to a sim- Try this egg, it’s shiney! ble way to serve up vats of comfort mer. Dump the noodles into the food to a tribe. broth and cook for 20-30 minutes until tender, stirring frequently. Add chicken to warm through. The noodles will cook best and make their own thickened gravy if cooked slowly and gently. Rowena Paine 4 Grape Jelly Meatballs Ingredients Directions 1 bag frozen meatballs (or a whole In a sauce pan, melt down the mess of home-made, cooked) whole jar of grape jelly. Mix in 1 jar grape jelly (may substitute the ketchup. Add brown sugar to taste. Add water as needed to apricot jelly, or just about any other keep the sauce from getting too fruit jelly) thick. May also add a small 1 small bottle ketchup amount of onion or garlic as de- brown sugar sired. Put meatballs in crock pot and pour sauce over them. Cook or heat per directions on the meatball package. Serves: just one: me. Serving suggestions With a Maybe making it into just one toothpick. Or on sandwiches. Or giant meatball wuz not such a on pasta. It's good, easy, and ver- good idea after all. satile. It's also a comfort food. Copper Mistral 5 Kath’s Quick and Dirty Soup Ingredients Directions 1 package Ramen Noodles – chick- Crush Ramen Noodles in package en (you may use beef if you are us- and pour into microwave safe ing ground meat) bowl. Add rice, seasoning pack- 2 tablespoons dried veggie flakes. age from Ramen Noodles, veggie ½ cup uncooked Minute Rice flakes , meat, and water. Cook in While it's a wonderful way to 1 tablespoon bacon bits microwave for 3 minutes. Stir, use up left overs, it also is one 2 slices cheese (anything you have then reset timer for an additional of those cost cutting meals is fine) 3 minutes cooking time. Remove that can fill you up without 2 ½ cups water. (more may be add- from microwave, place into bowls emptying your wallet. ed as desired) Place cheese slices on top, then ½ cup chopped chicken or ground sprinkle with bacon bits. Micro- beef. wave for an additional ½ minute For a thicker broth, combine 1 ta- or until cheese is melted. Enjoy! blespoon corn starch into 1/4th cup cold water. Add into soup after The cheese makes a creamy fla- the first 3 minutes and allow to vorful sauce and the bacon adds cook with the soup. just the right amount of savory to It’s a very forgiving soup—what ev- it to warm you though and er left over meat and vegetables through. can slide right in. Kath McGill 6 Wintertime is soup time in our household- -Ryu and I call it Quick and Dirty because its shamelessly savory and so easy to put together after a long day. 7 Sheik Al-Mishee (Eggplant for a Sheik) Ingredients Directions 1 large eggplant, diced (peeled or Cook the onions in a drizzle of ol- not, it’s up to you), soaked in salt ive oil until tender. Add beef, salt water for 20 minutes, and rinsed to taste, garlic, and cook until off.* browned and crumbled. Pour off 1 pound ground beef fat. 1 large can diced tomatoes or diced fresh tomatoes. Grease a baking pan and put meat mixture, potatoes, and to- salt matoes in, stir it up. Add plenty 2 crushed garlic cloves of salt and lots and lots of cinna- 2 medium onions, diced small mon. Cover and bake at 350 de- Cinnamon on meat? You bet. Olive oil grees half an hour, then uncover, This is comfort food. 1-2 medium potatoes, diced small stir, and continue to bake until Cinnamon the eggplant and potatoes are tender when poked with a fork, 60-90 minutes total. *Soaking the eggplant before it is used removes any bitterness. I’ve substituted cream of tomato soup for the tomato in a pinch. Rowena Paine 8 Venison Stew Ingredients Directions 2 pounds venison, cubed Sear venison until brown on all 1 teaspoon seasoning salt sides. Add water. Add celery, carrots, potatoes, onions, and all Stews provide a simple, easy 1 cup onion, diced other ingredients except frozen 1 garlic clove, minced veggies. Cook on medium heat to make, very hearty meal. This particular recipe is from 12 potatoes, diced until vegetables are tender and meat is cooked through. Add fro- my brother, a great man who 1 teaspoon salt zen veggies and cook until hot. hunts to put food on the ta- 6 carrots, diced Remove bay leaf. Serve with ble. Mealtime in our family hard rolls. May need to add addi- 1/2 teaspoon pepper was a time to come together; tional broth. 1 package mixed vegetables, frozen and, growing up, stew was a 1 tablespoon parsley, dry very common dinner. Thick, hearty stew and a table with 1 cup celery, diced family or friends. What more 1 tablespoon beef soup base could you ask for on a cold 1/4 cup barley night? 1 package gravy mix 8 cups water 1 bay leaf NOTE: Venison can be substituted with any red meat. Copper Mistral 9 Drucilla’s Edible Brussels Sprouts Ingredients Directions Brussels sprouts In pan on stovetop, saute some ter into the pan and let it all simmer another 5 minutes or so. Re- Diced onion diced onion (for one serving, I use maybe half a small onion, move from pan with a slotted Garlic you may prefer more). I slice up spoon (basically you are just drain- Olive oil some garlic into the onion, cuz I ing the water) and put into a bowl. LOVE garlic. Chili seasoning, garlic and herb sea- Now this is the MOST IMPORTANT soning, or whatever Remove the darkest outer leaves PART! Lemon juice. LOTS and LOTS from each brussel sprout. Cut in- of lemon juice. Squirt it all over. Lemon juice to halves or quarters if they are You can use real lemon juince or large. Make sure you are cutting store bought--personally i keep a into that hard stem center thingy. little squeeze lemon handy at the That's the longest to cook and cutting into it will shorten the table. I dunno what it is, but the cook time. (See? You learned lemon juice does something to the NOM NOM NOM SO GOOD sumthin.) olive oil/garlic, I guess.... and NOT MUSHY!! !! Toss the Brussels sprouts into the onions and olive oil. Now the It also a HEART SMART recipe original recipe said to add some (until you go addin' bacon or chili seasoning. I didn't have any handy so I used a seasoning mix somethin') called Weber Roasted Garlic & Herb Seasoning and I LOVED it. You use whatever sounds good to you. Let this simmer for 5 minutes or so--you are just "blackening" the brussel sprouts a little, not cooking them through. Then pour wa- Drucilla Ferraris 10 I know, right? Did you know you can actually eat those things? Dis real simple recipe, kinda guess as you go... 11 Grandma’s Famous Sage Dressing Ingredients Directions 2 loaves white sandwich bread, Cook celery and onions in 2 sticks This is still more or less how it is toasted and cut into small squares oleo until it turns yellow. Remove prepared today, just with different tasters, and different bakers.

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