Aunt Lynn's Green Bean Casserole

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Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon white sugar
• 1/4 cup onion diced
• 1 cup sour cream
• 3 14 1/2 ounce cans French style green beans drained
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 can French-fried onions aka fried onion crisps
• 1 tablespoon butter melted
• 1 4 ounce can chopped water chestnuts
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans
• 1 4 ounce can chopped mushrooms

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees 175 degrees C
• Melt 2 T butter in large skillet over medium heat
• Stir in flour until smooth and cook for one minute
• Stir in salt sugar onion water chestnuts pecans mushrooms and sour cream
• Add green beans and stir until coated
• Transfer mixture to a 2 1/2 quart casserole dish
• Spread cheese over top
• In a small bowl toss taste toppers and butter and sprinkle over the cheese
• Bake for 30 minutes or until top is golden brown and cheese is bubbly

Butterhorns Aka Rugelach / Rugulach / Snails / Schnecken

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Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter at room temp
• 8 ounces cream cheese at room temp
• 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 egg white beaten with
• 1 tablespoon water for glazing
• granulated sugar for sprinkling
• 1 cup walnuts or 1 cup pecans finely chopped
• 1/2 cup brown sugar firmly packed
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Steps:

• Cream butter
• cream cheese
• and sugar until soft
• Sift in the flour and mix to make a soft dough
• Divide dough into 4 equal balls
• flatten each one and wrap in wax paper
• Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes
• Make the filling by mixing all ingredients in a small bowl
• Preheat oven to 375
• Working with one disk of dough at a time
• roll thinly on a lightly floured surface into a circle
• about 9 in diameter
• Brush the surface with the egg white glaze and sprinkle the dough with 1/4 of the filling
• Slice the dough with a sharp knife or pizza cutter into quarters and then each quarter into 4 equal sections
• to form 16 triangles
• Starting from the base of each triangle
• roll up to form spirals
• You can curve them into crescents if you like
• Continue with the other 3 disks of dough
• Place on baking sheets and brush with egg white glaze
• Sprinkle lightly with granulated sugar
• Bake until just golden
• about 10 minutes
• For 32 extra large butterhorns
• divide the dough in half instead of fourths and roll each disk into a 12 inch circle and use half the filling
• Continue as above but bake for 15-20 minutes

Eggs with Garlic and Parsley Oil

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Ingredients:

• 1 dozen egg
• 1/2 cup tightly packed parsley
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 3/4 cup olive oil preferably Spanish extra-virgin
• 1 small carrot grated
• 4 green Spanish olives sliced
• 4 black olives sliced

Steps:

• Hardboil the eggs
• Place the eggs into a large saucepan
• cover with enough cold water to have 2 of water above the eggs
• Bring the eggs to a boil
• boil for 1 minute
• remove the eggs from the heat
• cover with a lid and set aside for 18 minutes
• Pour off the hot water and immediately fill the pan with cold water
• and keep pouring out and refilling
• until the water remains cool
• This will stop the eggs from continuing to cook
• This technique makes a hard-boiled egg that is cooked through
• without being tough or rubbery
• It also has a yolk that is a beautiful color with none of that over-cooked grayish-green rim
• Once the eggs have cooled; peel
• quarter and place into a decorative plate or bowl
• I prefer to use a slightly smaller serving dish and place the quartered eggs where they are laying slightly on top of each other
• Similiar to the way you layer fruit on a tart
• Place the parsley
• garlic
• paprika
• and black pepper into a blender container
• Pulse until the parsley and garlic are minced
• Then slowly add the olive oil while running the blender
• Drizzle the flavored oil over the eggs
• reserving 1/4 of the oil
• Garnish with the grated carrot
• sliced green olives
• and sliced black olives
• Drizzle the remaining flavored oil over the garnished eggs
• Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours
• Remove from the refrigerator 30 minutes before serving

Kringles

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Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup butter softened
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup water 105-115F
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup warm milk 105-115F
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups pie filling poppyseed prune apricot raspberry
• 1 cup sliced almonds
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 -2 tablespoon water

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl stir the yeast up with the warm water; add the sugar warm milk egg salt and lemon extract mixing well
• Stir in 1 3/4 cups of the flour until it forms a large ball
• Turn ball out onto a floured surface and knead in the remaining flour until the dough is smooth and elastic about 2-3 minutes
• Cover the dough and let rise about 5-7 minutes
• Flour a surface and roll out the dough into an 8x12-inch rectangle; place one sheet of the butter on top of the dough at one edge
• Fold the 1/3 that has no butter down over the middle third; then fold the side with the butter over the top of that it should be about 4-inches wide by 8-inches long
• Now fold the 4-inch side over 1/3 of the way and the same with the opposite end leaving a stack of dough
• Loosely cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30-40 minutes
• Now roll the refrigerated dough out again to a 12x8-inch square
• Place the last square of butter to one side of the dough and do the folding process again then refrigerate the dough for 2 hours
• Cut the dough in half keep the other in the refrigerator while waiting; and roll out to a 6x24-inch rectangle if hard to roll allow to rest for 5 minutes or so
• Spread half the filling on the middle of the dough and sprinkle with half of the almonds
• Fold the dough over 1/3 of the way; brush lightly with water then fold over the other third and pinch the dough to form a seal
• Grease a baking sheet and place the kringle on forming it into a ring as you do and sealing the ends together; pat the kringle with your hands to keep it flat
• Repeat with remaining kringle
• Allow kringles to rise for about an hour or until a fingerprint remains when touched
• Bake at 350F for 20-25 minutes or until golden; cool on wire racks
• Prepare icing by mixing powdered sugar with enough water to form a drizzling consistency; drizzle over kringles while they are still warm

Pecan Tassies

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Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup pecans coarsely chopped
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tablespoons butter melted
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 dash salt

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F
• Mix all filling ingredients together well
• Using a teaspoon
• carefully distribute filling mixture into pastry-lined muffin cups
• Fill each pastry cup 3/4s of the way full
• The amount needed does vary because there is no standard to the size of mini-muffin cups mine are just about the smallest Ive seen and I use about a 3/4 tsp of filling per tassie
• Bake for 20-25 minutes
• Immediately
• and very carefully using the tip of a pointed knife
• gently knudge out each tassie out of its cup and transfer to a rack to cool
• If they cool in the pan too long
• they are more difficult to remove
• Your first couple may break those are the ones I eat on the spot- the rewards of making them
• but you will soon learn just the right move to remove them perfectly

Pineapple Pickle Relish

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Ingredients:

• 20 ounces pineapple chunks in juice drained
• 8 ounces pineapple chunks in juice drained
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 teaspoon whole cloves
• 3/4 cup apple cider vinegar

Steps:

• Combine brown and white sugars cinnamon stick cloves and apple cider vinegar in a medium saucepan
• Bring to a boil over medium heat and simmer 10 minutes
• Add both cans of drained pineapple chunks Bring to a boil again and cook 10 more minutes
• Put in jars and store in the refrigerator

Potatoes Dauphinoise

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Ingredients:

• 4 medium potatoes
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
• 2 -3 cloves garlic crushed and chopped finely
• salt
• fresh ground black pepper
• grated nutmeg
• 1 cup cream low fat is fine
• 1 cup milk no fat or low fat is fine
• 1 cup grated tasty cheese low fat is fine

Steps:

• Variation This recipe also works well with orange sweet potato kumera
• If using sweet potato try substituting the nutmeg with a generous sprinkling of caraway seeds over each layer
• Yum
• Grease a 6 cup capacity ovenproof dish generously with the butter or margarine then smear the garlic around the bottom and sides of the dish
• I use a round glass pyrex dish Peel potatoes and slice thinly into rounds
• I use the slicing blade of my food processor
• Line the bottom of the dish with a single layer of overlapping potato slices
• Sprinkle generously with salt pepper and nutmeg
• Repeat this layering and sprinkling process until you have used all of the potato slices
• In a large jug combine cream and milk and stir well
• Pour this mixture over the potato slices gently easing the potato away from the sides of the dish to allow the liquid to penetrate evenly
• Place the dish onto a microwave safe plate and cook uncovered in a microwave on MEDIUM HIGH for 15- 20 minutes
• Check occasionally
• If the liquid in the potatoes boils over simply pour it from the plate back into the dish and continue cooking
• Microwave just until you can push the blade of a sharp knife through the potato layers without feeling any crunchy resistance
• Having reached this stage you can go on to cook the dish in the oven or cover with plastic wrap and keep in the refrigerator for several hours or more before cooking
• Pre-set your oven to 180C 350F
• Sprinkle the top of the potatoes with the grated cheese and place the dish on an upper shelf in the oven for 20 minutes or until the top turns golden brown
• This may take slightly longer if taking the dish straight from the refrigerator To serve cut into wedges and remove each wedge carefully with a spatula