Category Archives: recipes

Baked beans

Posted on by

​Ingredients

  •     1 lb of dry Navy Beans, soak overnight
  •     1 lb of Ground Beef, 80/20, cooked and drained
  •     ½ lb of Bacon, diced, lightly cooked
  •     1 cup Onion, diced
  •     1 cup Bell Peppers, diced (optional)
  •     2 cup Beef Broth
  •     1 ½ cups Brown Sugar
  •     1 15oz can Tomato Sauce
  •     ½ cup Grandmas Molasses
  •     2 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
  •     1 Tablespoon Texas Pete Hot Sauce
  •     1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
  •     1 teaspoon Liquid Smoke
  •     ¼ cup Yellow Mustard
  •     ¼ cup Ketchup
  •     ½ teaspoon Salt
  •     ½ teaspoon Black Pepper

 Baking 

Sort beans an soak 8 hours, overnight. Crisp bacon and sauté onion in rendered fat. Place beans, onions and other ingredients and bake covered at 300°F for 3 hours. Add salt & pepper to taste and bake one hour uncovered at 250°F.

Pressure cooker

Prepare ingredients as above. Place ingredients in pressure cooker and raise heat to 15psi. Hold pressure 30 to 40 minutes, use natural pressure release 20 minutes. Add salt & pepper to taste.

Variations

Some recipe variations call for mustard seed & ground mustard, tomato paste in place of ketchup or tomato sauce, or did not use ground beef.  Also mentions of vinegar, smoked paprika and Cayenne pepper.

Wendy’s Chili

Posted on by

This is cribbed with tweaks from an article on TSR.

  • 2 lbs ground beef 85%, browned and drained
  • 1 (29 ounce) can tomato sauce
  • 1 (29 ounce) can kidney beans (with liquid)
  • 1 (29 ounce) can pinto beans (with liquid)
  • 1 cup diced onion (1 medium onion)
  • 1 cup diced poblano pepper, 1 pepper (substitute 7oz can chopped green chiles)
  • ¾ cup diced celery (3 stalks)
  • ¼ cup crushed garlic (6 cloves)
  • 3 medium tomatoes, chopped or (substitute 29oz can chopped tomato)
  • 2 -3 teaspoons cumin powder
  • 2 tablespoons chili powder
  • 2 teaspoons ground oregano
  • 1½ teaspoons black pepper
  • 1 teaspoons chipotle pepper powder
  • ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper powder
  • 2 cups water (substitute 2 cups tomato juice, omitting salt)
  • 2 teaspoons salt

Brown ground beef in a large skillet and drain. Combine olive oil, onion, garlic, poblano pepper and celery and black pepper in a large pot or dutch oven. Sauté over medium heat until aromatic, about 4 minutes. Combine remaining ingredients and simmer uncovered 1½ to 2 hours, stirring occasionally until liquid is reduced. Serves 12.

Pickled eggs: Variations

Posted on by

Trying some pickled eggs today.  Being lazy, I used store bought hard boiled eggs, because I hate peeling them.  

First, sanitize a wide mouth, quart sized canning jar. Place the open jar and lid in a large pot and boil at least 5 minutes.  Remove and empty the jar, and fill with hard boiled eggs. All 12 eggs should fit easily in the jar with plenty of room for brine. Set aside.

Next, I whipped up a quick brine. 

  • 1 cup water
  • ½ cup white vinegar
  • ½ cup cider vinegar
  • Scant ¼ cup kosher salt (I would use less next time, maybe half)
  • 1 tsp Himilayan pink salt
  • 2 tbsp crushed garlic
  • 1 tsp dill seed
  • 1 tsp yellow mustard seed
  • 1 tsp celery seed
  • 1 tsp coriander seed
  • 1 tsp black pepper corn
  • ½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes

Combine the brine ingredients in a small saucepan and simmer 5 minutes. Pour over eggs packed in the sanitized quart jar. Seal the jar and allow to cool. You may process the jar by boiling for 5 minutes of you plan to keep the eggs for more than a couple weeks. Refrigerate for 48 hours or up to 3 weeks. Flavor will improve with time.

Pork Chop Sauerbraten

Posted on by

Who doesn’t love sour pork?

Ingredients

1 4-5 lb pork roast
2 med onions thinly sliced
2 Cups vinegar
2 TBS brown sugar
1/4 tsp pepper
1 clove minced garlic
6 whole cloves (1/4 tsp ground cloves)
2 bay leaves
2 Cups water.
leaves of 3-4 stalks of celery
flour
12 old fashioned gingersnaps – Ground

Directions

Roll or dust roast with flour; brown in shortening and place in crock pot, top with onion slices, garlic cloves bay leaves and celery leaves

Bring vinegar, brown sugar, salt, pepper and 2 Cups water to a boil. pour over pork roast and cook on low for 6 hours.

Remove pork from crock pot, strain so that you only have the liquid and bring the liquid to boil in a med to large sauce pan over med-hi heat. Cook down about 1/3 add ground ginger snaps and whisk until it is a desired thickness. (how thick do you like your gravy?) Shred or cut meat and serve the gravy on the side

Jimmy Dean copycat

Posted on by

Original recipe from TSR: http://www.food.com/recipe/tsr-version-of-jimmy-dean-pork-breakfast-sausage-by-todd-wilbur-250325

INGREDIENTS

Sage

  • 16 ounces ground pork
  • 1 teaspoon salt No salt added if using Italian sausage
  • 1⁄2 teaspoon dried parsley
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon rubbed sage (or more)
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon dried thyme (or more)
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon coriander
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon MSG (such as Accent flavor enhancer)

Hot

  • 16 ounces ground pork
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or more)
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon rubbed sage
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh coarse ground black pepper
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (or more)
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon coriander
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon msg (such as Accent)

Maple

  • 16 ounces ground pork
  • 3 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1⁄2 teaspoon msg (such as Accent)
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon coriander

DIRECTIONS

Combine all ingredients for the flavor of your choice in a medium bowl.Form the sausage into patties and cook in a skillet over medium heat until brown.

Classic Beef Stew (Pressure cooker edition)

Posted on by

Who doesn’t love beef stew? Who doesn’t love the whole afternoon it takes to make beef stew for dinner when there’s a right proper Nor’Easter afoul? Assuming you still have power, this is a great pressure cooker adaptation of a traditional beef stew .

Beef Stew (Pressure Cooker)

Servings 4
Total Time 35mins
Prep 15 mins
Cook 20 mins

To make an easy Beef soup, omit the potatoes, add more water and a few boullions and serve with egg noodles or rice.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon canola oil
1 1⁄2 lbs rump roast
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 large onion, cut up
4 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
4 celery ribs, peeled and cut into chunks
4 potatoes, cut into chunks
salt & pepper (to taste)
1 -2 teaspoon dried parsley
1 1⁄2-2 cups water
1 -2 beef bouillon cube (optional)

Directions

Cut the roast into chunks, about 1 inch (or larger if that is your preference). Heat oil in bottom of pressure cooker until hot and add the meat all at once (do not turn for at least 1 minute – you really want to let the meat sear – this gives the stew such yummy flavor.

Stir the meat, letting it brown on all sides. Add the chopped garlic, stir for 1 minute, then add the onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, salt, pepper, parsley, water and optional beef bouillon(the bouillon gives a stronger flavor – you can also wait to see how it comes out, and if you feel that it’s not flavorful enough, you can add the beef bouillon and boil the stew for a minute or so).

Lock the pressure cooker lid in place and bring to high pressure over high heat.

Cook 15 minutes.

Cool pot immediately and serve. ENJOY!

Optional ingredients – you can add some chopped tomatoes if you’d like before cooking, or after bringing it to pressure, you can throw in some canned mushrooms or frozen peas and heat thoroughly.