Red Beans And Rice

Ingredients:

1 pound red beans, dry
8 cups water
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1 cup chopped celery
4 bay leaves
3 Tablespoons chopped garlic
3 Tablespoons chopped parsley
2 teaspoons crushed, dried thyme
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 cup chopped green pepper

Instructions:

Rinse and sort beans before mixing them in a five quart capacity pot with the bay leaves, celery, onion and water, bringing everything to boil before reducing the heat, covering the pot and then cooking for around 90 minutes until the be`ns are tender. Once they are tender, you can stir and mash them in the pan before adding the remaining ingredients and then uncovering the pot. Cook everything in this manner until the mixture is creamy, before removing the leaves from the mixture and then serving everything over rice.

Have My Heart Potato Pancakes

Make these heart potato cakes extra special for your Valentine by adding a spoon of applesauce with red hot candies on the top of each one.

Ingredients:

1 (14 oz) can chicken broth
1/2 t pepper
1 green onion, chopped
1 1/2 C instant potato flakes
Directions:

Pour the broth into a saucepan over medium high heat.
Stir in the pepper well.
Bring the broth to a brisk boil then remove from the heat.
Gently stir in the green onion.
Pour the potato flakes into the pan and let them stand until they have absorbed all the broth liquid.
Lay a heart shaped cookie cutter in a skillet over medium heat.
Fill the cookie cutter with the potato mixture.
Cook 5 minutes then flip and continue cooking 3 minutes or until browned.

Serving Size: 4

Apple Laced Sauerkraut

What You Need:

 

1 medium sweet onion, sliced

3 TBSP butter

2 Golden Delicious apples, peeled and shredded

1 TBSP lemon juice

1 (8 oz.) can sauerkraut, rinsed and drained

1/2 C apple juice, unsweetened

1 tsp. caraway seed

1/2 tsp. fennel seed, crushed

 

How to Make It:

 

Place the butter in a large skillet over medium heat.

Allow the butter to completely melt.

Add the onion.

Brown the onion 15 minutes.

Place the shredded apple in a mixing bowl.

Add the lemon juice and toss to coat.

Place the apples in the skillet with the onion.

Add the sauerkraut.

Pour in the apple juice.

Stir in the caraway and fennel seed.

Bring the mixture to a rapid boil.

Reduce heat, cover and continue cooking 15 minutes.

 

Serves 4

 

This is a great side dish for any pork recipe.  To make it a full meal brown some polish sausage slices in a little bit of butter and add to the sauerkraut mixture 5 minutes before it has finished cooking. 

Glazed Apple Disks

What You Need:

 

3 Red Delicious apples, cored and cut into 1 in slices

1/2 C brown sugar, firmly packed

2 TBSP butter or margarine

1 TBSP grated lemon peel

1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

 

How to Make It:

 

Place the born sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. 

Add the butter and cook just until mixture begins to bubble.

Add the lemon peel and stir well to incorporate.

Fold the apples into the glaze mixture in the saucepan.

Reduce the heat to low.

Continue cooking 15 minutes or until the apples are just starting to crisp tender.

Remove pan from heat and stir in the vanilla.

Serve warm

 

Serves 6

 

These apple disks can be served as a side dish or topped with a dollop of whip topping as a dessert. 

Cranberry Stuffed Apples

What You Need:

 

1/3 C canned whole cranberry sauce
1/4 tsp. orange zest
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
3/4 C water
1/2 C orange juice
1/3 C sugar
2 Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored and cut in half lengthwise

How to Make It:

 

Place the cranberry sauce in a mixing bowl.

Add the orange zest and nutmeg and stir to combine.

Place a saucepan over medium heat.

Pour the water and orange juice into the sauce pan.

Stir in the sugar.

Simmer for 4 minutes or until the sugar has completely dissolved being sure to stir often.

Hollow out just a little of the center of each apple half.

Place the apples in the orange juice mixture.

Cover the pan and cook on low heat for 20 minutes or until apples are fork tender.

Remove and drain well.

Fill each apple center with the cranberry sauce mixture.

 

Serves 4

 

This makes a great side dish to any chicken or turkey entrée.  Sprinkle the top with chopped pecan pieces for a special treat. 

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