Sour-cream Biscuits

This is a twist on Baking powder Biscuits that you will want to try. They are so good you will want to make them every day.
Biscuits and gravy are one of my husbands favorite breakfast and these make it so much better.


Preheat oven to 450.
2 cups sifted flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup shortening
1 cup dairy sour cream

Sift all dry ingredients together in medium bowl. Cut in shortening with a fork or pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.
Add sour cream stirring only until mixture is moistened
Turn out dough onto lightly floured surface knead about 10 minutes to farm a smooth dough
Gently roll out dough from center to ¾ inch thickness.
With floured 2 ½ inch biscuit cutter (I sometimes use a glass dipped in flour), cut straight down int0 dough being careful not to twist cutter
Place on ungreased cookie sheet bake 10 to 12 minutes. Serve hot

Streusel Coffeecake

Ok this is the coffeecake that I use to make for my family when I felt like something sweet for breakfast. A nice tall glass of ice cold milk and this hits the spot. Enjoy

Ingredients
Batter:
1 ½ cups flour
1/3 cup butter or margarine (melted
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ cup milk
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
¾ cup sugar

Streusel layer:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons soft butter or margarine
½ cup coarsely chopped walnuts (optional)
2 tablespoons flour

Preheat oven to 375F. Grease an 8x8x2 inch pan
Make streusel layer in a small bowl: combine all ingredients; mix with a fork until crumbly.
Make batter. Add all dry ingredients, set aside. In medium bowl with beater beat egg sugar and butter together until well combined. Add the dry ingredients a little at a time while mixing on low speed.
Pour half of the batter into pan then put half of the streusel in evenly on top add other half of batter then the rest of the streusel layer.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes, or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool partially, in pan, on wire rack. Serve warm

Tarrogon Pork Chops

Tarragon Pork Chops
OK my mother use to make these pork chops that were so, so good, we would lick the plate clean and the pan and the utensils and anything else that had the gravy on it. They were just that good. That said, I finally asked her for the recipe and this is what she gave me. So have fun with this one.
Pork chops (enough to feed everyone )
Salt and Pepper
2 Tbls Dijon Mustard
1/2 tsp Tarragon
1½ Tablespoon Butter
1 can ChickenBroth
8oz. whipping cream
Corn starch
After you cook the pork shops in the butter for awhile you add the rest of the ingredients. She said to add it to your taste and the desired thickness of the gravy. So there you have it the trade mark of a true cook is one that does not know the exact measurements to any of the recipes they make.

Homemade Pizza Crust!

No pictures for this one either...I'm a slacker!

HOMEMADE PIZZA CRUST

1 tsp. oregano

1 tsp. basil

1/4 tsp. pepper

1/4 tsp. salt

1 Tbsp. parmesan cheese

1 Tbsp. sugar

2 c. flour

2/3 c. warm water

1 Tbsp. yeast

Preparation:

• Mix 1 c. flour with all ingredients
• Gradually add 2nd cup of flour until it forms a ball.
• knead dough
• Let dough rise 10-15 minutes
• Bake at about 450 for 15-20 minutes

This makes about a 14" pizza. We had to make 2 for the 5 of us and Boston.

This is also a good recipe to splurge on...get some really good specialty cheese and meat from Harmons (or Cari...I guess wherever you can find them.) and have fun with it! We made it with some delicious mozzerella, asiago, and parmesan rigiano foud at the cheese island by the deli in Harmons and we topped it with some Boar's Head pepporoni! YUMMY!

Pei Wei Mongolian Beef!

Sorry I totally forgot to take a picture...

PEI WEI MONGOLIAN BEEF

2 tsp. vegetable oil

1/2 tsp. ginger, minced

1 Tbsp. garlic, chopped

1/2 c. soy sauce

1/2 c. water

3/4 c. dark brown sugar

1 c. vegetable oil

1 lb. flank steak

1/4 c. cornstarch

2 large green onions

Preparation:

• Make the sauce by heating 2 tsp. of vegetable oil in a medium saucepan over med/low heat. Don't let the oil get too hot. Add ginger and garlic to the pan and quickly add the soy sauce and water before the garlic scorches. Dissolve the brown sugar in the sauce, then raise the heat to about medium and boil the sauce for 2-3 minutes or until the sauce thickens. Remove it from the heat.
• Slice the flank steak against the grain into 1/8" thick slices. Dip the steak pieces into the cornstarch to apply a very thin dusting to both sides of each piece of beef. Let the beef sit for about 10 minutes so that hte cornstarch sticks.
• As the beef sits, heat up one cup of oil in a wok (you can also use a skillet for this step as long as the beef will be mostly covered with oil). Heat the oil over medium heat until it's nice and hot, but not smoking. Add the beef to the oil and saute for just two minutes, or until the beef just begins to darken on the edges. You don't need to thoroughly cooking here since the beef is going to go back on the heat later. Stir the meat around a little so that it cooks evenly.
• After a couple minutes, use a large slotted spoon to take the meat out and onto paper towels, then pour the oil out of the wok or skillet. Put pan back over the heat, dump the meat back in and let it simmer for about a minute. Add the sauce, cook for one minute while stirring, then add all the green onions. Cook for one more minute.

Serve over rice or noodles..Makes enough to feed 4-5 people. (depending on how much everyone eats...)

I added zuccini, snow peas, and celery to mine and it was DELICIOUS! Seriously it was so good!

Chicken Wings

My girls use to love to put the sauce over rice. I have also made it with drumsticks and it taste just as good.

½ tsp salt
¼ Cup Soy Sauce
6oz can frozen orange juice concentrate
2 Tbls sugar
2 tsp ginger
1 Tbls lemon juice
1/8 tsp garlic powder
2 ½ lb wings (I sometimes use breasts and cut them up)

Mix the first 7 ingredients together and pour over chicken that has been placed in a 9x13 cake pan.
Bake @ 350 for 1 hour.