Recipes

Recipes from December RS Meeting:
Butter Balls - Deanna Allred
Cream: 3 Cubes (room temp) margarine and 1/3 C Sugar
Add: 4 C Flour, 1 Tsp Vanilla, 1 C chopped Nuts
Mix all Together

Make into balls about 1" size. Roll in powdered sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 min. Cool. Then roll in powdered sugar again.
 - Makes 4 dozen

Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups - unknown person?
1 package Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough
1/2 C heavy whipping cream
2 Tbsp hot cocoa mix
1 C semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 C white chocolate chips
12 mini pretzels
1 C Jet-Puffed mallow bits

Put 1 Tbsp of the sugar cookie dough into 24 greased mini muffin tins.
Bake for 12-14 min at 350 degrees. Allow the cookies to cool completely in the pan before gently removing them.
Make the chocolate ganache by bringing the whipping cream to a boil.
Stir in the hot cocoa mix.
Pour the hot cream over the semi-sweet chocolate chips and let it sit for 3 minutes. Then, stir until the chocolate chips are melted and the ganache is smooth.
Break off the loops on some mini pretzels to use as handles.
Melt the white chocolate and use it to attach the pretzel handles to the cookie cups.
Spoon the chocolate ganache into the cookie cups and top with the mini marshmallows.

Recipes from November Project Night:

Moms Carmel Corn - Sam Phillips
4T butter

1/2 c. White corn syrup

3/4 c. Brown sugar

2/3 c. Sweetened condensed milk

1/2 t vanilla

Boil butter, corn syrup mad brown sugar over medium heat.  Slowly stir in sweetened condensed milk.  Continue cooking and stirring until a soft ball forms in cold water.  Remove from heat and add vanilla.  Pour over about 2 1/2 bags popped microwave popcorn or 1/2 c. Kernels popped.

**I like it really gooey and so I don't boil Carmel until soft ball forms in cold water - I mix in sweetened condensed milk and remove from heat, add vanilla and then pour it over popcorn.

Apple Bread - Erica Carlson
3 c Flour
1 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Cinnamon
3 c Peeled thinly sliced apples & chopped
2 c Sugar
2 tsp Vanilla
1 1/2 c Oil
3 Eggs

Sift together: Flour, Soda, Cinnamon, Salt. Set aside.
Cream Sugar and Oil. Then add vanilla and eggs one at a time and beat well.
Add dry ingredients alternately with apples. Spray loaf pan with nonstick spray and sprinkle with sugar. Pour batter into pans about 1/2 full. 
Cook at 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours for full size pan or 45 minutes for mini loaf pan.
(Makes 2 full size loafs)

Chocolate Almond Balls - Kendra Mauger
24oz milk chocolate almond candy bars (Hershey's Symphony - 4 large)
1 large Cool Whip (you will use about 12 oz)
Vanilla Wafer Crumbs

Melt chocolate in microwave, stir in cool whip. Take about a tablespoon of mixture and roll into a ball (will be gooey). Then roll ball into crumbled wafers. Freeze 1 hour.

Cheesy Spinach and Artichoke Dip  - Jan Welling

Brazilian Cheese Balls (Pan de Queso) - Lisa Lara

Note: The Tapioca flour I get is at the Asian market on Federal and Alemeda. You can find it at a regular grocery store, but they are so much cheaper at an Asian market. The little packages I get are 400 grams, so I use 2 1/2 packages. 

1 Kilo Cassava starch (Tapioca Flour)

3 Cups Milk 

1 Cup Vegetable oil 
1 Tablespoon Salt 
4 Eggs 
500 grams semi-hard or hard aged cheese (Parmesan, Fontina, Reggianito, etc.)

In a very very large bowl mix together salt and cassava starch. In a sauce pan add milk and oil and bring to a boil. Pour about a quarter of the hot liquid into the cassava and stir a bit with a large wooden spoon or spatula. Pour in about half of the rest of the liquid and stir some more. Then pour in the rest and mix as best you can with the spoon. The easiest way, if you have someone laying around the house at the time, is to get them to continuously drizzle in the hot liquid while you stir. 

Time to get your hands dirty. The dough will be quite warm, perhaps a little hot, so touch it a little with your hands to see if you are comfortable enough to work with it. If not then stir around some more with the spoon until you can. Knead with your hands until all of the cassava starch powder is totally worked into the dough. Then cover the bowl with a damp cloth and allow to cool. While that is set aside, grate the cheese and set that aside too. When the dough has cooled down a bit, add the eggs. The dough doesn’t have to be room temperature, just cool enough so that the eggs don’t start too cook when you add them to the warm dough. Before you add the eggs turn your oven on maximum heat. When you add the eggs, you’ll get the feeling that they’ll never blend in with the dough; it has the consistency of chewing gum. Just keep kneading and eventually they’ll mix. Next add the cheese and mix well. 

Lightly grease a large shallow baking pan. With your hands, form little balls of dough about 5cm (2 inches) diameter. Lay them out on the pan so that there is at least 4cm (1.5 inches) space between them. Before placing them in the oven make sure that it has been on max for at least 15 minutes. Place in the oven and turn the heat down to medium. Cook for no longer than 30 minutes. Allow them to cool a bit before biting into them but not too much. Always enjoy them warm. 

Note: A mixing machine with a dough hook may work wonders for mixing, I didn't try it this time, but this stuff is tough so make sure you have one that can handle the task.

Recipes from Super Service Day:

From Lisa Lara: It may look like a bit of work, but it's really not. I've never done the homemade croutons before, I'm sure they are yummy, just more work :) Regarding the dressing, I just use 4 tbs. Parmesan cheese and omit the romano cheese, and it works fine. I also don't worry about getting banana peppers for the salad, but you can if you want. 

Olive Garden Salad

Olive Garden Salad Dressing:

½ c. mayonnaise

1/3 c. white vinegar

1 tsp vegetable oil

2 Tb. corn syrup

2 Tb. Parmesan cheese

2 Tb. Romano cheese

¼ tsp garlic salt – or one clove garlic, minced

½ tsp Italian seasoning

½ tsp parsley flakes

1 Tb. lemon juice

Salad:

1 large head romaine lettuce

slices red onion

black olives

2-4 banana peppers

2 small tomatoes, quartered

½ c. croutons

freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Homemade Croutons:

4 slices sandwich bread

1 clove garlic, minced

3 Tb. butter

salt and pepper

dried parsley flakes

For the salad:

Chill one salad bowl in freezer for at least 30 minutes. Put lettuce in bowl. Place on top of lettuce red onions, black olives, banana peppers, tomatoes, and croutons. Add some freshly grated Parmesan cheese if you like, and add plenty of Olive Garden Salad Dressing on top.|

For the salad dressing:

Mix all dressing ingredients in a blender until well mixed. If this is a little too tart for your own personal tastes, add a little extra sugar.

For the homemade croutons:

Cut off crusts of sandwich bread, and cut bread into cubes. Melt butter in small saucepan and add minced garlic. Toss sandwich cubes in the butter and spread out in a pan. Sprinkle salt and pepper and parsley flakes to taste. Bake for 15 minutes at 350°, turning half way through baking.