Cooking - for a new lifestyle (Our Test Kitchen)

So I am a planner! Whenever I am baking a whole chicken or turkey I always have this pot of goodies on the backburner of the stove just waiting! NOT hard, and uses all the bits of stuff you use for cooking whole birds!!! What you will need is: 3 cups of chicken soup base/boullion 1 1/2 cups of water 3 tbsp curry powder salt and pepper 2 tbsp of soya sauce/worchestershire sauce leftover chicken/turkey (we use whatever dark meat/drumsticks/wing meat is left) 1 cup med cut slices of celery 1 cup med wedges of onions leftover gravy if there is any OK. Boil soup and water. Mix in curry, S&P and soya sauce. Add veggies and chicken. Simmer and boil down. Add gravy if you have it. Thicken with whatever you would normally make gravy with if necessary. This will have a dark mustard yellow colour. Serve on rice or egg noodles. Judy called this green chicken as a child! She loves this and it is sooooo easy. NOTE: cheap curry from the $ store is not a bargain, I have learnt. Cheap curry will ...

This was from a cookbook called Blue Ribbon Recipes, a book from which I will be making a few more recipes in the very near future. Ingredients: 2 apples, cored, peeled and quartered 1 tube refrigerated crescent rolls 1 cup water 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup butter Cinnamon Directions: Preheat oven to 350F. Wrap each apple quarter in one triangle of crescent roll dough. Continue until all 8 quarters are wrapped. Place dumplings in a round baking dish. Meanwhile, in medium saucepan, bring sugars, water, and butter to a boil. Pour over dumplings. Sprinkle cinnamon over top. Cook for 30 to 40 minutes and serve warm with cream, if desired. Notes: The original recipe, as written, called for 2 tubes of crescent rolls. To my calculations, that equals 16 triangles of dough for 8 pieces of apple. I'm assuming it's a typo, because I used only 1 tube of dough and it worked out great. Also, this makes a LOT of sauce, which makes me wonder whether the typo was in the num...

Just received an email from a friend, Tim McNulty, who swears by this recipe. "Hi Pam, I see that your are into trying new recipes you might want to try this one. Medium size roast in slow cooker, add 2 can's Coca Cola or Pepsi, 1 large package Onion Soup Powder. Cook on high until done (left mine for 5 hour's on high then set to keep warm). As a side I prepared 2 cup's white rice and 2 cup's brown rice like you normally would and then mixed in 1 can each peas, mushroom's, corn and 1 can drained dice tomatoes. Season to taste with Soy Sauce, Parsley, Basil and Thyme. Bake in Caserole dish for 30 to 45 minutes at 350. At first I thought the Recipe for the Roast was a joke but it is actually good, being single I am always looking for new easy recipes that have left over's to get me through a few day's. " "Had the roast for supper tonight, it was sweet but very tender. Next time I think I will cut back on the Cola and try 1 can and a equal part w...

Here's a new post courtesy of heather....re: apples http://allrecipes.com/Newsletters/Archive/Detail.aspx?ms=1&year=2009&month=09&nid=2&eid=455&prop25=23775782&prop26=WhatsCooking&prop27=2009-09-17&prop28=TopNav&prop29=Archive&me=1

This was decadent! A very small piece is enough. Mix together: 1 Devil's Food Cake Mix 3 eggs 1/4 cup oil 3/4 cup water Beat on low until mixed and on high for 2 FULL minutes. Pour 1/2 of the cake mix into a greased rectangular cake pan. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. On low in a saucepan, melt: 1/2 cup butter 1/2 - 3/4 cup pecan pieces 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1/2 bag of chocolate chips (real not simulated) 1 bag of Kraft caramels This takes time, but it does melt eventually. Pour over the baked portion of the cake and spread evenly. Pour the rest of the cake batter over the caramel mixture. Sprinkle the other 1/2 of the bag of chocolate chips on top. Bake for another 15 - 20 minutes. This cake is sticky on the sides (obviously) so it is a little hard to get out when it cools, but it is well worth the effort.....I would add more nuts next time, John said he would like vanilla ice cream with it! Judy couldn't talk, her mouth was full of cake! LOL This was an expensive cake t...

This vegetable definitely tastes like celery with a hint of parsley. We tried it raw, and it tases like celery. It would be a conversation piece on a veggie tray with dip. On its own, a small amount is enough. Mixed into mashed potatoes was nice. We boiled the celery root which had been diced into cubes exactly like the potatoes. We mashed them with the potatoes and added milk butter and onions just like we always do. They add a very faint flavour to the potatoes. HINT: when shopping for one, look for hard bulbs, no soft spots. We found ours at The Superstore. "Bon Appetit!"

I had a whole chicken, made my favourite stuffing and stuffed it. This is the glaze that we topped it with. 1/2 cup apple jelly (WalMart $2.97) 1 tbsp lemon juice 1/2 tsp cinnamon Mix the three items in a small bowl and place on stove while the bird cooks. Roast chicken for one hour at 350. Cover the bird with the jelly, and bake uncovered for 1/2 hour. Turn off oven, and let the bird rest for a minimum of 15 minutes in the oven. Serve. The juices from the chicken mixed with the drippings from the jelly, actually gave a faint hint of apple to the gravy. Our opinion was this glaze was wasted on a whole chicken. The drumstick was the only place the flavour permeated the chicken. We think this would be nice on a pork roast, chicken drumsticks/pieces. John believes it would be nice on duck as well. So, for use of the leftovers, look at Judy's favourite Curry Chicken. "Bon Appetit!"