Apple and Celery Salad

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Ingredients:

• 1 cup diced celery
• 1 cup diced apple
• 1/2 cup walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans broken
• 3/4 cup mayonnaise or a href=https//wwwgeniuskitchencom/recipe/boiled-salad-dressing-314599Boiled Salad Dressing/a
• lettuce leaves or mixed salad green

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and chill
• Serve on lettuce leaves or mixed salad greens

Chicken Pot Pie Founding Farmersrsquo; Chicken Pot Pie

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Ingredients:

• 2 ounces olive oil or 2 ounces canola oil
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 2 cups small-diced yellow onions
• 2 cups small-diced celery
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 sprig fresh thyme
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1 cup chicken stock warm
• 2 cups whole milk warm
• salt and pepper
• 1/4 cup olive oil or 1/4 cup canola oil
• 1 lb yellow onion roughly chopped
• 1 cup large-diced carrot
• 3/4 cup large-diced celery
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 1 chicken bouillon cube
• 3/4 cup white wine
• 1 cup small-diced potato
• 2 cups chicken velout
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter plus extra for brushing
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup
• 1 cup peas fresh or frozen
• 2 1/2 lbs rotisserie chicken meat cut into large pieces
• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
• 4 pieces pillsbury pie crusts Just Unroll
• salt and pepper

Steps:

• Make the velout
• Heat the oil and butter in a large saut pan over low heat Add the onions celery garlic bay leaf and thyme Saut 5 to 8 minutes or until the onions are transparent Sprinkle the flour over the vegetable mixture and continue to cook for an additional 2 minutes Add the warm stock and milk whisking to combine Raise the heat and bring to a boil then reduce the heat to a low simmer Continue to simmer for 15 minutes Add salt and pepper to taste Remove the velout from the heat and strain Set the liquid aside
• Make the filling and pie
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
• Heat the oil in a large saut pan over medium heat Saut the onions carrots celery and garlic until the onions begin to soften Add the chicken bouillon cube and white wine and reduce by half Add the potatoes and chicken velout and simmer for approximately 2 minutes Add the heavy cream and continue to simmer until the potatoes are tender Be careful not to burn the mixture Remove from the heat Fold in the butter maple syrup peas chicken and Parmesan cheese Add salt and pepper to taste
• Divide the filling evenly into 4 oven-safe pie baking dishes Top each with pie dough Lightly brush the tops with the remaining butter and if desired sprinkle with pepper Bake for about 40 minutes or until the dough is golden brown

Christmas Dried-Fruit Jam

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Ingredients:

• 3 lbs tart apples cored wedges
• 6 cups water
• 1 1/2 cups dried figs chopped
• 1 1/2 cups dried apricots chopped
• 1 1/2 cups dried pears chopped
• 1 cup dried dates pitted chopped
• 1 cup dried prune pitted chopped
• 1/4 cup candied lemon peel
• 1/4 cup candied orange peel
• 1/4 cup candied cherry
• 1 orange juice and zest of finely grated
• 1 lemon juice and zest of finely grated
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon anise seed crushed
• 4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup walnut pieces
• 1/2 cup slivered almonds

Steps:

• Place apples in large pot with water
• simmer until soft
• In a large bowl
• add all the chopped amp; pitted fruit
• Press soft apples with a potato masher
• then spoon into a square of cheesecloth clipped to a footed colander
• suspended over the bowl of fruit
• Let apples drip over fruit WITHOUT squeezing or forcing--overnight
• Next morning add remaining ingredients EXCEPT for nuts to a large sauce-pot
• adding soaked fruit
• Stir
• then simmer gently until sugar dissolves; bring to a boil; boiling for five minutes
• Skim survace
• add nuts
• boil another five minutes until 200F sea level
• Remove pan from heat; spoon jam into hot jars
• add two-part lids; process in boiling water bath for 15 minutes sea level
• Label and store in cool
• dark cupboard
• GIFT GIVING Use pretty jars and add a decorative label -- include in a basket with other home-made kitchen gifts How nice of you
• USES As described above OR as a replacement for traditional with suet mincemeat

Easy Cheesy Potatoes

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Ingredients:

• 1 32 ounce package frozen hash browns
• 16 ounces Velveeta cheese
• 16 ounces mayonnaise I use Hellmans
• 1 onion chopped
• salt
• pepper

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F
• Spread hash browns evenly in baking dish
• Melt cheese and mayo in saucepan and stir in onion stirring constantly
• Pour over potatoes and stir
• Bake 45 minutes

Easy Toffee Brownies

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Ingredients:

• 1 3 1/2 ounce box chocolate pudding mix such as jello brand use the cook and serve kind not instant
• 2 cups 2% low-fat milk the more milk fat the richer it will be
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 18 ounce box devil's food cake mix such as duncan hines
• 1 12 ounce package toffee pieces with it won't effect the outcome of the brownies or 1 12 ounce package without chocolate it won't effect the outcome of the brownies

Steps:

• Preheat oven 350
• In a medium size sauce pan on med/low heat add in your milk and your pudding mix IMPORTANT DO NOT FOLLOW PUDDING MIX DIRECTIONS
• bring to a boilas soon as it boils add in your butterand mix and turn off heat and set aside Get a large mixing bowlempty out your cake mix IMPORTANT DO NOT FOLLOW CAKE MIX DIRECTIONS After you empty out the cake mixstir in your pudding mixtureOnce everything in mixed well pour batter into a greased 9x13 glass pan Sprinkle the whole bag of toffee chips over brownie batter Bake 350 for 45 minutes
• For a variation you can change cake mix baseand or add 1 cup chopped nuts

Glazed Peaches

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Ingredients:

• 1 cup dried peaches
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup white corn syrup Karo
• 1/2 teaspoon mace
• 1/2 lemon juice and rind of grated

Steps:

• Wash peaches; cover with boiling water and let stand overnight
• Drain reserving 1/2 cup water
• Bring sugar corn syrup and water to a boil; add mace lemon juice and rind
• Pour over peaches in a baking dish
• Cover and bake at 300F for 2 1/2 hours

Granny Cake

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Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 3/4 cup butter softened
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups mashed bananas
• 1 8 ounce can crushed pineapple with juice
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• powdered sugar

Steps:

• Mix flour sugar baking soda nutmeg salt and cloves; set aside
• Beat butter with mixer for 30 seconds
• Add eggs banana undrained pineapple and vanilla- Beat
• Add flour mixture
• Spread batter in greased 10 inch fluted tube pan
• Bake in 325 degree oven for 70-75 minutes
• Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes
• Remove from pan and cool completely

Hootenanny Potatoes and Mushrooms

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Ingredients:

• 1 potato
• mushroom sliced
• cajun seasoning
• 1 teaspoon canola oil
• salt
• pepper

Steps:

• Oil your pan
• cut the potatoes
• either sliced of cubed
• and put them inches Season with Salt and Pepper
• Let sit
• or feel free to keep flipping and moving the potatoes around
• Which ever method you prefer
• is up to you
• Just before the potatoes begin to brown
• add the Cajun Seasoning amount is your preference
• Make sure that all the potatoes are seasoned
• After about another minute
• add the mushrooms
• You can add another amount of cajun seasoning if you want it extra spicy
• After everything is cooked to your liking I sayto your liking because some people like their potatoes cooked longer and some shorter you can remove from your pan
• and enjoy

Multi-grain Apple Muffins

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Ingredients:

• 2 cups white flour
• 1/2 cup soy flour
• 1/2 cup ground flax seeds
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup brown sugar packed
• 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
• 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 apple peeled and grated

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F
• Prepare muffin pan by spraying with cooking spray or lining them with paper cup liners
• Combine flours flax seed baking powder baking soda and salt in large mixing bowl
• Add brown sugar and mix until blended
• In separate small mixing bowl whisk buttermilk vegetable oil eggs and grated apple together Pour apple mixture into dry mixture and stir only until ingredients are blended Fill muffin cups about two-thirds full
• Bake for 18 to 20 minutes
• Cool about 1 minute before removing from pan
• Cool completely on wire racks