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Big Boy's Chicken Gravy
Categories: Copycat, Sauces, Chicken
Yield: 1 quart
-patdwigans fwds07a
28 oz Chicken broth
1/2 ts Onion powder
1 tb Chicken bouillon powder
2/3 c Bisquick
In blender, combine broth, onion powder, bouillon
powder and Bisquick. Blend at high speed, about 1/2
minute or until smooth. Pour into saucepan and stir
constantly over medium high heat, about 4 or 5 minutes
until if comes to a boil, is smooth and thickened a
bit. Serve at once. Can freeze up to 4 months.
Big Bucket In The Sky Chicken
Categories: Polkadot, Menarea, Chicken
Yield: 1 Servings
3 c Self-rising flour
1 tb Paprika
2 pk Lipton Tomato Cup-A-Soup
-powder
2 pk Good Seasons Italian
-Dressing mix powder
1 ts Salt
1/4 lb Butter or margarine
Moisten chicken in water. Place coating mixture in an oven roasting
bag and shake until chicken is covered. Bake in 350 degree oven for
about 40 minutes or until juices are clear.
Big Mouth Sandwich
Recipe By : Jo Anne Merrill
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:30
Categories : Copycat
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1/2 pound lean ground beef
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon salt -- or seasoned salt
2 California avocados -- sliced
1 French bread loaf -- or long loaf
garlic salt -- to taste
8 ounces refried beans -- 1 can
shredded lettuce
1 tomato -- sliced
2 green onions -- sliced
1/2 cup cheddar cheese -- shredded
taco sauce -- optional
1. Brown ground beef very thoroughly; drain well. Stir in salt and chili
powder; keep hot.
2. Halve, peel and slice avocados into flat slices.
3. Split French bread in half lengthwise. Lightly toast cut sides under
broiler.
4. Place half the avocado slices on bottom half of bread. Sprinkle with
garlic salt if using.
5. Heat refried beans. Spread an even layer of beans over avocado, then
spoon on browned meat.
6. Cover meat with shredded cheese, then with shredded lettuce. Sprinkle
lettuce with taco sauce if using.
7. Cover with a layer of sliced tomato then sprinkle on the chopped
onions. Place remaining avocado slices on tomatoes and sprinkle with
garlic salt.
8. Cover with top half of bread; cut into serving sized sandwiches.
Serving Ideas : Serve with warm tortilla chips and iced tea or beer.
NOTES : This sandwich speaks for itself as to how it got its name.
BOB "OVEN'S " COLONIAL DRESSING
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Copycat Dressings
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 c Water
1/8 c Cornstarch
1/2 c Vinegar -- light or dark
1 c Sugar
1 t Onion powder
1 tb Salt
1/4 c Butter or margarine
1/2 ts Pepper
1 t Celery salt
1 tb Celery seed
Put water and cornstarch
into blender on High speed for 1 minute or until
smooth. Transfer to a 2 1/2 qt. saucepan. Cook mixture
over Medium High heat, stirring constantly as you
begin to add each of the remaining ingredients,
stirring well after each addition. Cook and continue
stirring until it begins to thicken and become quite
smooth. Let it cool completel before pouring into a
refrigerator container. Cap tightly. Kepps for about
weeks. Do Not Freeze. Makes 2
1/2 cups. Variations: Creamy Italian Colonial:
to one recipe (above) add 1 Tbsp. prepared mustard, 1
Tbsp. light corn syrup, 1 Tbsp. dry oregano leaves,
1/2 tsp. garlic powder and 1/2 cup mayonnaise. Stir to
combine well. Keep refrigerated. Makes about 3 cups.
Do Not Freeze. Catalina Colonial: To one recipe
(above) add: 1 cup catsup and 1/2 cup sweet pickle
relish. Makes 3 1/2 cups. Creamy Onion Dressing: To
one recipe (above) stir in: 8 ounce carton onion chip
dip. Makes 3 cups. Do Not Freeze. Slaw Dressing: To
one recipe (above) stir in: 1/2 cup sour cream, 1/2
cup mayonnaise. Use within one week of preparing.
Makes 3 cups. Do Not Freeze.
Boston Chicken & KFC Rotisserie Style Chicken
Serving Size : 4
1/4 c Oil
1 tb Honey
1 tb Lime juice
1/4 ts Paprika
Season salt
4 Chicken breast halves with skin
Mix all ingredients well in saucepan and warm just to
melt honey. Arrange 4 chicken breast halves, skin-side-up
in a square baking dish or pan, sprayed with Pam.
Bake uncovered at 400~ about 35 to 40 minutes, basting
chicken without turning them, 3 or 4 times during baking
or until nicely browned.
Immediately upon removing from oven, seal baking dish
tightly in foil and let stand 15 to 20 minutes before
serving.
Boston Chicken Baked Beans
Categories: Copycat, Beans
Yield: 6 servings
-patriciadwigans fwds07a
14 c Dry chopped onions; reconsti
-tute in 1/4 c hot water 5
-minutes
24 oz Jar great northern beans;
-drain, rinse and drain
28 oz Can Campbell's Pork & Beans
1 c Hunt's Ketchup
1/2 c Open Pit hickory flavored
-BBQ sauce
3 sl Boiled ham; chopped fine
While onions are softening, empty jar of northern
beans into a 4-quart baking dish or pan. Add pork and
beans to northern beans. Stir in onion, ketchup, BBQ
sauce and ham. Bake, uncovered at 350~ about 30-35
minutes or until piping hot. Stir 2-3 times during
baking. Refrigerate covered, to use in 1 week. Freeze
to use in 4 months.
Boston Chicken Cranberry Sauce
Categories: Copycat, Sauces, Fruits
Yield: 3 cups
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1 lb Can jellied cranberry sauce
10 oz Jar Smucker's Simply Fruit
-Orange Marmalade
1/4 ts Ground ginger
2 c Fresh cranberries; each
-sliced 2 or 3 pcs horizont.
1/3 c Walnuts; chop fine
in 2-quart saucepan, over medium-to-low heat, use
rubber bowl scraper to stir together jellied sauce,
marmalade and ginger until melted, about 6-8 minutes.
Add the sliced cranberries, keeping sauce on low. Stir
often. Continue cooking and stirring often until
cranberries are no longer white and taste tender to
the bite (not soft, but not too crisp). Stir in
walnuts. When cooled to lukewarm, refrigerate, covered
and use with a week to 10 days. Should freeze well to
be used within 4 months.
Boston Chicken Creamed Spinach
Categories: Copycat, Vegetables
Yield: 4 servings
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1 tb Flour
4 tb Butter, margarine or canola
-oil
1/2 ts Garlic salt
Salt and pepper
20 oz Frozen chopped spinach; cook
-and drain
1 sm Onion; diced
In a saucepan, on medium heat, stir together with wire
whisk soup, flour, butter, garlic salt, salt and
pepper until smooth and piping hot. Combine with
spinach and onion. (MY NOTE:I'd substitute fresh
minced garlic for the garlic salt).
Boston Chicken Cucumber Salad
Categories: Salads, Copycat, Wrv
Yield: 4 to 6
patdwigans fwds07a
2 md Cucumbers w/skin;half, seed,
-1/2" slices
1/4 Red Spanish onion; 1/2" dice
1 lg Ripe tomato; dice
8 oz Paul Newman's Olive Oil and
-Vinegar Dressing
1 ts Dry dill weed
1/2 ts Dry parsley; mince
1/4 c Olive oil
Combine cucumbers with the rest of the ingredients in
non-metal refrigerator container, tightly covered.
Marinate for 24 hours in fridge before serving. Do not
freeze.
Boston Chicken Macaroni & Cheese
Categories: Pitzer, Pasta, Cheese
Yield: 6 Servings
3 c Dry spiral shaped pasta
Cook al dente, drain
2/3 c Milk (2% or regular)
1 lb Velveeta cheese, light or
- cubed small
1/4 ts Dry mustard powder
1/2 ts Ground turmeric
Salt and pepper to taste
Place into top of double boiler over gently simmering water milk, cheese,
mustard powderm turmeric, salt and pepper in that order. Stir with whisk
occasionally until melted and smooth. Stir pasta into hot cheese mixture
and keep hot until serving time over hot water, up to an hour. (If it
begins to thicken up too much, dilute with a little milk). Neverput into
oven or over direct heat as it will scorch and change the texture to a
sticky mess. 6-8 side servings or 4 main-dish servings.
Boston Chicken Marinade/basting Sauce
Categories: Copycat, Sauces
Yield: 1 servings
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1/4 c Canola oil
1 tb Honey
1 tb Lime juice
1/4 ts Paprika
Mix all ingredients well and apply to skin-side-up
chicken in a single layer in greased baking dish or
pan. Bake at 400~ 35-40 minutes. Baste every 8-10
minutes during the baking time.
Boston Chicken Saucer Sized Chocolate Chip Co
Categories: Copycat, Desserts, Cookies
Yield: 1 servings
-pat dwigans fwds07a
4 oz Nestle's Milk Chocolate bars
4 oz Baker's german sweet choc
4 oz Dove milk chocolate
Cookie dough
use your our recipe
Melt 3 chocolates, stirring until smooth. Pur into
greased 9" metal pie pan and refrigerate until hard.
Hammer into pea-sized bits. Store refrigerated until
ready to use. Use 1/3 c dookie dough, flattening to a
3-1/2 to 4" round. Bake at 375 for 16 to 18 minutes
or until golden brown but not overbaked or cookies
will be hard as rocks when cooled. The cookies will
look almost "RAW" at the end of 16 minutes if you make
them big enough and will continue to bake in their own
heat as they cool on the sheets a few minutes.
Boston Chicken Spicy Rice
Categories: Rice, Copycat, Wrv
Yield: 6 servings
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1/4 c Raw Rice-shaped pasta
3/4 c Minute rice
1 tb Pimiento; chop fine
1/2 ts Dry minced celery leaf
1 ts Dry minced parsley
1/4 ts Dry mustard
14 oz Can chicken broth
1/4 c Olive oil
1/2 ts Salt
In a 2-qt saucepan combine all ingredients. Stir often
and bring to a bol. Cover and remove from heat. Let
stand 15 minutes. Fluff rice with a fork occasionally.
Salt and pepper to taste if desired. Keep warm in top
of double boiler, over simmering water, to serve
within an hour. Refrigerate leftovers covered. Rewarm
Gently i 3 to 4 days. Do not freeze.
Boston Chicken Squash
Categories: Copycat, Vegetables
Yield: 6 servings
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2 Butternut squash; halve
-long, remove seeds
Margarine or butter
Salt
1/2 c Brown sugar; packed
1/2 c Honey
1/2 ts Ground ginger
1 ts Pumpkin pie spices
4 tb Butter or margarine; melted
Preheat oven to 400 . Place squash cut-side down on
Pam-sprayed shallow baking pan. Bake uncovered about
45 minutes or until fork tender. Wipe cut surface with
a little butter and sprinkle with salt. Return to bake
cut-side up about 10 minutes longer or until browned
and soft. Scrape out the meat into a mixing bowl. Add
sugar, honey, ginger, pumpie pie spice and butter.
Beat with electric mixer at med speed until smooth.
Return to oven, ocvered in foil, just to keep warm
until time to serve, 325 for 30 minutes. Refrigerate
leftovers for about a week or freeze up to 4 months.
Boston Chicken Stuffing
Categories: Copycat, Dressings, Vegetables
Yield: 8 side dish
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10 oz Can sliced carrots; undrain
4 oz Can slices mushrooms;undrain
14 oz Can chicken broth
2 Ribs celery; cut 4-5 pieces
1 tb Rubbed sage
12 ts Poultry seasoning
1 tb Chicken bouillon powder
3 tb Bottled liquid margarine or
-melted butter or margarine
3 English muffins; cut into
-1/2" cubes with crumbs
8 oz Bag unseasoned croutons
1 tb Dry parsley; minced
2 tb Dry minced onion
When you open the can of carrots, run the blade of a
paring knife through them right in the can so that
you've reduced them to tiny bits without mashing them.
Empty it then into a Dutch oven. Add the mushrooms;
set aside. Empty the cam of broth into the blender and
add the celery along with the sage, poultry seasoning,
bouillon powder and margarine. Blend a few seconds on
high speed, only until celery is finely minced.
Meanwhile, add the English muffin cubes, (crumbs too),
croutons, parsley and onion to the Dutch oven. Pour
blender mixture over and stir to combine with rubber
bowl scraper until completely moist. Cover with a lid
and bake at 350~ about 45 minutes to an hour or until
piping hot. Refrigerate leftovers to use within a
week. Freeze to use within 4 months.
Boston Market Meatloaf
1 cup tomato sauce
1½ tbsp Kraft barbecue sauce
1 tbsp granulated sugar
1½ lbs 10% fat ground sirloin
6 tbsp all-purpose flour
¾ tsp salt
½ tsp onion powder
¼ tsp ground black pepper
dash garlic powder
Preheat oven to 400°F. Combine the tomato sauce, barbecue
sauce and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Heat the
mixture until it begins to bubble, stirring often, then remove
it from the heat.
In a large bowl, add all but 2 tbsp of the tomato sauce to the meat.
Use a large wooden spoon or your hands to work the sauce into the
meat until it is very well combined. Combine the remaining
ingredients with the ground sirloin-- flour, salt, onion powder
and ground pepper. Use the wooden spoon or your hands to work
the spices and flour into the meat.
Load the meat into a loaf pan (preferably a meatloaf pan with two
sections which allows the fat to drain, but if you don't have
one of those a regular loaf pan will work). Wrap foil over the
pan and place it into the oven for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, take the meatloaf from the oven, remove the
foil and, if you aren't using a meatloaf pan, drain the fat.
Using a knife, slice the meatloaf all the way through into 8
slices while it is still in the pan. This will help to cook the
center of the meatloaf. Pour the remaining 2 tbsp of sauce over
the top of the meatloaf, in a stream down the center. Don't spread
the sauce. Place the meatloaf back into the oven, uncovered, for
25-30 minutes or until it is done.
Remove and allow it to cool for a few minutes before serving.
Makes 4 servings.
Boston Market® Meatloaf
In the early 90s Boston Chicken was on a roll.
The home meal replacement chain's stock was
soaring and the lines were filled with hungry
customers waiting to sink their teeth into a
serving of the chain's delicious rotisserie chicken.
So successful was the chain with chicken, that the
company quickly decided it was time to introduce other
entrée selections, the first of which was a delicious
barbecue sauce-covered ground sirloin meatloaf.
But offering the other entrées presented the company
with a dilemma: what to do about the name. The bigwigs
decided it was time to change the name to Boston Market,
to reflect a wider menu. That meant replacing signs on
hundreds of units and retooling the marketing campaigns.
That name change, plus rapid expansion of the chain
and growth of other similar home-style meal concepts
sent the company into a tailspin. By 1988, Boston Market's
goose was cooked: the company filed for bankruptcy.
Soon McDonald's stepped in to purchase the company,
with the idea of closing many of the stores for good,
and slapping Golden Arches on the rest. But that plan
was scrapped when, after selling many of the under-performing
Boston Markets, the chain began to fly once again.
Within a year of the acquisition Boston Market was profitable,
and those meals with the home-cooked taste are still being
served at over 700 Boston Market restaurants across the country.
1 cup tomato sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons Kraft original barbecue sauce
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 1/2 pounds ground sirloin (10 percent fat)
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
dash garlic powder
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Combine the tomato sauce, barbecue sauce, and sugar in
a small saucepan over medium heat. Heat the mixture until
it begins to bubble, stirring often, then remove it from
the heat.
3. In a large bowl, add all but 2 tablespoons of the tomato
sauce to the meat. Use a large wooden spoon or your hands to
work the sauce into the meat until it is very well combined.
4. Combine the remaining ingredients with the ground
sirloin - flour, salt, onion powder, ground pepper,
and garlic powder. Use the wooden spoon or your hands to work
the spices and flour into the meat.
5. Load the meat into a loaf pan (preferably a meatloaf pan
with two sections that allows the fat to drain, but if you
don't have one of those a regular loaf pan will work). Wrap
foil over the pan and place it into the oven for 30 minutes.
6. After 30 minutes, take the meatloaf from the oven, remove
the foil and, if you aren't using a meatloaf pan, drain the fat.
7. Using a knife, slice the meatloaf all the way through into
8 slices while it is still in the pan. This will help to cook
the center of the meatloaf. Pour the remaining 2 tablespoons
of sauce over the top of the meatloaf, in a stream down the center. Don't spread the sauce.
8. Place the meatloaf back into the oven, uncovered, for 25 - 30
minutes or until it is done. Remove and allow it to cool for a
few minutes before serving.
Serves 4.
Bull's Eye BBQ Sauce
1/2 C. chopped onions
1 (8 oz.) can tomatoes sauce
1 C. water (OPTION: Beer)
1 1/4 C. ketchup
2 T. brown sugar
2 T. prepared yellow mustard
1 T. olive oil
1 T. Worcestershire sauce
1 dash Tabasco sauce
Combine ingredients, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
I cooked this for 45 minutes to an hour. The sauce reduced
itself and tasted good. If you taste the sauce before simmering,
it will not taste as good as when the flavors have melded,
but after cooking it is great.
Just like the 'real' sauce on barbecued pork steaks. For
the original, do not use beer.
Burger King® Big King®
The Burger Wars are becoming the biggest food
fight since that cafeteria scene from the movie
"Animal House". The two burger giants, McDonald's
and Burger King, have each been cloning the other's
top products in the bloody battle for the big burger buck.
Burger King stepped up first with the Big King -
Burger King's version of the McDonald's Big Mac.
Yes, it had two all beef patties, special sauce,
lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun;
although everything was arranged a bit differently,
and there's no middle bun in there. Then McDonald's
rolled out the Big N' Tasty, which bore a striking
resemblance to Burger King's Whopper, with fresh lettuce,
tomato, and onion on top of a huge beef patty.
Who's winning this fight by leveraging the popularity
of the other company's product? Nobody, really.
McDonald's chose to alter its Big N' Tasty recipe
by making it smaller n' cheaper, then changed the name
to Big Xtra!, while Burger King bailed out on the Big King
altogether. But this food fight is far from over.
More recently Burger King tweaked its french fry formula
in an unsuccessful attempt to steal away fans from McDonald's
winning fried spuds recipe. And McDonald's has added more
breakfast sandwiches to compete with Burger King's wider
wake-up selection. So the war continues. And the battlefield
is splattered with ketchup.
Spread
1/4 cup mayonnaise
2 teaspoons French dressing
2 teaspoons sweet pickle relish
1 teaspoon white vinegar
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon paprika
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
dash salt
dash pepper
4 sesame seed hamburger buns
1 1/3 cups chopped lettuce
8 slices American cheese
1 to 2 slices white onion, separated
8 dill pickle slices
1. Prepare the spread by combining the ingredients in a small
bowl. Set this aside until you are ready to use it.
2. Preheat your barbecue or indoor grill to high heat.
3. Divide the ground beef into 8 even portions (3 ounces each).
Roll each portion into a ball, then press each ball flat to
form a patty about the same diameter as the bun.
4. Grill the beef patties for 2 to 3 minutes per side, or until
done. Lightly salt and pepper each side of the patties.
5. As the meat cooks, brown the faces of the buns in a hot skillet,
toaster oven, or face down on the grill. Watch the buns closely so
that they do not burn.
6. Build each burger by first spreading a tablespoon of the spread
on the face of the top bun. Arrange about 1/3 cup of lettuce evenly
over the spread.
7. On the bottom bun stack a patty, then a slice of American cheese,
another patty, and another slice of cheese.
8. On the top slice of cheese arrange 2-3 separated onion slices
(rings), then 2 pickle slices.
9. Turn the top part of the burger over onto the bottom and serve.
You may also want to zap the sandwiches in the microwave,
individually, for 15 to 20 seconds each.
Serves 4.
Burger King® BK Broiler
This grilled chicken sandwich was introduced by
America's number-two burger chain in 1990, and
soon after the launch the BK Broiler was selling
at a rate of over a million a day. Not good news
for chickens.
This one's easy to duplicate at home. To clone
the shape of the chicken served at the burger giant,
you'll simply slice the chicken breasts in half,
and pound each piece flat with a mallet. Pounding
things is fun. Let the chicken marinate and then
fire up the grill. The recipe makes four sandwiches
and can be easily doubled if necessary for a king-size
munch fest.
Marinade
3/4 cup water
2 teaspoons ketchup
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon liquid smoke
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon oregano
dash onion powder
dash parsley
2 chicken breast fillets
4 sesame seed hamburger buns
1 1/3 cups chopped lettuce
1/4 cup mayonnaise
8 tomato slices
1. Make the marinade by combining the ingredients in a medium
bowl.
2. Prepare the chicken by cutting each breast in half. Fold a
piece of plastic wrap around each piece of chicken and pound
the meat with a tenderizing mallet until it is about 1/4 - inch
thick and about the same diameter as the hamburger buns. Place
the chicken into the marinade, cover it, and chill for at least
four hours. Overnight is even better.
3. Preheat your barbecue or indoor grill to high heat. Grill the
chicken for 3 to 4 minutes per side or until done.
4. Toast the faces of the hamburger buns in a pan or griddle, in
a toaster oven, or facedown on the grill. Watch the buns closely
to be certain that the faces turn only light brown and do not burn.
5. Build each sandwich from the top down by first spreading about
a tablespoon of the mayonnaise on the toasted face of a top bun.
6. Spread about 1/3 cup of chopped lettuce over the mayonnaise.
7. Arrange two tomato slices on the lettuce.
8. Place a chicken breast on the toasted face of the bottom bun.
9. Flip the top part of the sandwich over onto the bottom and scarf
out.
Serves 4.
Tidbits
Liquid smoke is a flavoring found near the barbecue sauces and
marinades. Use hickory-flavored liquid smoke if you have a choice.
Burger King® Breakfast Sandwiches
You can have your eggs and sausage and biscuits
sitting next to each other on the plate like
all the traditional folks out there, or you
can get vertical with this top secret breakfast-in-sandwich
from the world's number two fast food chain.
And if you prefer a croissant to a biscuit,
I've got that version for you, too (along with
the special way to get bigger, circular croissants).
A great way to make the eggs for these breakfast
sandwiches is to pour the beaten egg into a well-greased
mold made from an empty pineapple can. Just cut both
ends off an 8-ounce pineapple can - you know, the short
cans that have crushed or sliced pineapple inside.
Oh, and take the pineapple out. Then, before you know it,
you'll be making perfectly round eggs like the fast food pros.
Biscuit Sandwich
1 small can (5 biscuits) Pillsbury Grands Buttermilk Biscuits
melted butter
Non-stick cooking spray
5 eggs
salt
ground black pepper
10 ounces ground breakfast sausage (such as Jimmy Dean) or 10
slices of bacon
5 slices American cheese
1. Prepare biscuits following instructions on the can
(bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 18 minutes). When you remove the
biscuits from the oven brush the top of each with melted butter.
2. Spray a skillet over medium heat with non-stick cooking spray.
Open both ends of a clean, small, sliced pineapple can. Spray the
inside of the empty can with the non-stick spray, and then place
the can in the pan to heat up. Use more than one can if you'd like
to speed up the cooking process.
3. Beat an egg, then pour it into the empty can mold, add a bit
of salt and pepper, and cover with a saucepan lid. Cook for a
couple minutes, then scrape a knife around the edge of the egg
to release it. Remove the can, then turn the egg over and cook
it for another minute or two. Repeat with the remaining eggs.
4. If using sausage, form 2-ounce portions of sausage into patties
with the same diameter as the biscuits. Cook the sausage in another
hot skillet over medium heat until brown. If using bacon, cook the
bacon and drain on paper towels.
5. Slice a biscuit in half through the middle. Build each sandwich
by first stacking egg on the bottom half of the biscuit.
Next arrange sausage (or 2 slices of bacon) on the egg,
then a slice of American cheese. Top off each sandwich with
the top biscuit half, then zap it in the microwave for 15 to 20
seconds to help melt the cheese. Repeat with the remaining
ingredients.
Makes 5 sandwiches.
Croissan'wich®
1 8-ounce can Pillsbury Original Crescent Rolls
4 eggs
salt
ground black pepper
8 ounces ground breakfast sausage (such as Jimmy Dean) or 8
slices of bacon
4 slices American cheese
1. Prepare the rolls by first unrolling the dough out of the can.
Separate the dough into four sections, each made up of two triangles.
Detach the triangles by tearing along the diagonal perforation,
then reattach the dough along the outside parallel edges,
pinching the dough together along the middle. This will make one
bigger triangle. Loosely roll the dough, from the wide end,
all the way up. Now, bring the ends around so that they overlap
and the roll is in the shape of a circle. Press the ends together
and place the roll onto a baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining
dough, then bake following the directions on the package
(bake at 375 degrees for 11 to13 minutes).
2. When the rolls are done baking build the sandwich using the
above steps 2 through 5 in the recipe for the biscuit sandwich clone.
Makes 4 sandwiches.
California Pizza Kitchen®
Dakota Smashed Pea & Barley Soup®
Got one of those cool hand blenders? You know,
the kind of gadget that used to be pitched on
those annoying yet compelling late-night infomercials?
It comes in handy for this recipe, which requires the
split peas to be smashed into a smooth consistency,
just like the original. If you don't have a hand mixer,
a standard blender works just fine. This soup is very
tasty and very low in fat. And the barley gives it a
special chunky consistency and added flavor that isn't
found in most pea soups.
2 cups split peas
6 cups water
2 14.5-ounce cans chicken broth (4 cups)
1/3 cup minced onion
1 large clove garlic, minced
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon dried parsley
1/4 teaspoon white pepper
dash dried thyme
1/2 cup barley
6 cups water
2 medium carrots, diced (about 1 cup)
1/2 stalk celery, diced (1/4 cup)
Garnish
chopped green onion
1. Rinse and drain the split peas, then add them to a large
pot with 6 cups of water, chicken broth, onion, garlic,
lemon juice, salt, sugar, parsley, pepper, and thyme. Bring
to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 75 minutes or until
the peas are soft.
2. While the peas are cooking, combine the barley with 6 cups
of water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and
simmer for 75 minutes or until the barley is soft and most of
the water has been absorbed.
3. When the split pea mixture has become a thick soup, use a
handheld blender to puree the peas until the mixture is smooth.
You may also use a standard blender or food processor for this step,
pureeing the soup in batches. Alternately, if you like, you may
skip this step, keeping the soup rather chunky. It's still good
this way, just not as smooth as the real thing.
4. Drain the barley mixture in a sieve or colander and add it to
the split pea mixture. Add the carrots and celery and continue to
simmer the soup for 15 to 30 minutes or until the carrots are
tender. Stir occasionally. Turn off the heat, cover the soup,
and let it sit for 10 to 15 minutes before serving. Garnish
each serving with a little chopped green onion.
Makes 8 servings.
Carl's Jr.® Bacon Swiss Crispy Chicken Sandwich
If you love crispy chicken sandwiches - and especially
if you don't live in the West - you'll want to try out
this clone of the tasty Carl's Jr. creation. The recipe
makes four of the addicting chicken sandwiches from the
California-based chain, but will also come in handy for
making a delicious homemade ranch dressing. Try using
some lean turkey bacon, fat-free Swiss cheese, and fat-free
mayonnaise if you feel like cutting back on the fat.
Then you can eat two.
Ranch Dressing
1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoons white vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon parsley
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
dash dill weed
dash garlic powder
dash ground black pepper
2 teaspoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
6 to 8 cups vegetable shortening
1 egg
1 cup water
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
4 chicken breast fillets
4 sesame seed hamburger buns
4 lettuce leaves
4 tomato slices
Kraft Swiss cheese Singles
8 slices bacon, cooked
1. Preheat 6 to 8 cups of shortening in a deep fryer to 350
degrees. If you don't have a deep fryer, you can also pan
fry using a large frying pan and just a couple cups of shortening.
2. To prepare the ranch dressing, combine all of the ingredients
except the water and gelatin in small bowl. Mix the water with
the gelatin in a small cup until all of the gelatin is dissolved.
Add this gelatin solution to the other ingredients and stir. Cover
and chill the dressing until it's needed.
3. Beat the egg and then combine with 1 cup water in a small,
shallow bowl. Stir.
4. Combine the flour, salt, paprika, onion powder and garlic
powder in another shallow bowl.
5. Pound each of the breast fillets with a mallet until about
1/4-inch thick. Trim each breast fillet until it is round.
6. Working with one fillet at a time, first coat each fillet
with the flour, then dredge it in the egg and water mixture.
Coat the chicken once again in the flour and set it aside until
all of the fillets have been coated.
7. Fry the chicken fillets for 8 to 12 minutes or until light
brown and crispy.
8. As chicken is frying, prepare each sandwich by grilling the
face of the hamburger buns on a hot skillet over medium heat.
Spread about 1 1/2 teaspoons of the ranch dressing on the face
of the top and bottom buns.
9. On the bottom bun, stack a leaf of lettuce and a tomato slice.
10. When the chicken is done frying, remove the fillets from the
fryer and drain them on paper towels or a rack for a couple minutes.
11. Stack one fillet on the bottom of the sandwich (on top of the
tomato), then stack a slice of the Swiss cheese onto the chicken.
12. Arrange the bacon, crosswise, on top of the Swiss cheese, then
top off the sandwich with the top bun. Repeat the stacking process
for each of the remaining sandwiches.
Makes 4 sandwiches.
Carl's Jr.® Ranch Crispy Chicken Sandwich
We'll use elements of the Carl's Jr. Bacon Swiss
Crispy Chicken Sandwich clone recipe to whip up one
of the other Carl's Jr. crispy chicken sandwiches,
because I always say you can never have too much crispy
chicken. This fried chicken breast sandwich includes
lettuce and tomato, and is slathered with a clone of Carl's
tasty ranch dressing. Use the recipes together and you
can easily serve up two different sandwich clones for
different tastes, with little extra effort. And you diners
will be so impressed.
Ranch Dressing
1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoons white vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon parsley
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
dash dill weed
dash garlic powder
dash ground black pepper
2 teaspoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
6 to 8 cups vegetable shortening
1 egg
1 cup water
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
4 chicken breast fillets
4 sesame seed hamburger buns
4 lettuce leaves
4 tomato slices
1. Preheat 6 to 8 cups of shortening in a deep fryer to 350
degrees. If you don't have a deep fryer, you can also pan
fry using a large frying pan, and just a couple cups of shortening.
2. To prepare the ranch dressing, combine all of the ingredients
except the water and gelatin in small bowl. Mix the water with
the gelatin in a small cup until all of the gelatin is dissolved.
Add this gelatin solution to the other ingredients and stir.
Cover and chill the dressing until it's needed.
3. Beat the egg and then combine with 1 cup of water in a small,
shallow bowl. Stir.
4. Combine the flour, salt, paprika, onion powder, and garlic
powder in another shallow bowl.
5. Pound each of the breast fillets with a mallet until about
1/4-inch thick. Trim each breast fillet until it is round.
6. Working with one fillet at a time, first coat each fillet
with the flour, then dredge it in the egg and water mixture.
Coat the chicken once again in the flour and set it aside until
all of the fillets have been coated.
7. Fry the chicken fillets for 8 to 12 minutes or until light
brown and crispy.
8. As chicken is frying, prepare each sandwich by grilling the
face of the hamburger buns on a hot skillet over medium heat.
Spread about 1 1/2 teaspoons of the ranch dressing on the face
of the top and bottom buns.
9. On the bottom bun, stack a leaf of lettuce and a tomato slice.
10. When the chicken is done frying, remove the fillets from the
fryer and drain on paper towels or a rack for a couple minutes.
11. Stack one fillet on the bottom of the sandwich (on top of
the tomato), then top it off with the top bun. Repeat the
stacking process for each of the sandwiches.
Makes 4 sandwiches.
Chef Paul Prudhomme's® Poultry Magic®
Louisianna chef Paul Prudhomme, America's number
one Dom DeLuise look a like, hit it big in supermarkets
with his magical brand of Cajun spice blends. Chef Paul
developed his seasonings after years of making little
batches and passing them out to customers in the restaurants
where he worked. Now his Magic Seasoning Blends come in
several varieties and are produced in a whopping 30,000-
square-foot plant by 38 employees. Fortunately, it'll take
only one of you in a small kitchen to make a clone of one
of the most popular versions of the blend. Use it when you
barbecue, roast, grill, or sauté your favorite chicken, turkey,
duck, or Cornish game hens.
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon rubbed sage
dash cumin
Combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Store in a covered
container. Sprinkle on any poultry to taste.
Makes 4 teaspoons.
Chevys® Fresh Salsa
Whip out the food processor and fire up the grill
because you’ll need these essential tools to clone
one of the best restaurant salsas in the business.
The key to recreating the flavor of the real deal
is to fire roast the tomatoes and the jalapenos,
and to add a little mesquite-flavored liquid smoke.
The restaurant chain uses a mesquite grill, so these
steps are crucial to getting the same smoky flavor
as the addictive restaurant version. Chevys uses chipotle
peppers, or smoked red jalapeno peppers. But unless you
grow your own jalapenos, it may be difficult to find the
riper red variety in your local supermarket. For this recipe,
the green jalapeno peppers will work fine.
6 medium tomatoes
10 jalapenos (red is best)
1/4 of a medium Spanish onion
2 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
2 tablespoons white vinegar
2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons mesquite-flavored liquid smoke
1. Preheat your barbecue grill to high temperature.
2. Remove any stems from the tomatoes, then rub some oil over
each tomato. You can leave the stems on the jalapenos.
3. Place the tomatoes on the grill when it’s hot. After about
10 minutes, place all of the jalapenos onto the grill. In about
10 minutes you can turn the tomatoes and the peppers. When almost
the entire surface of the peppers has charred black you can remove
them from the grill. The tomatoes will turn partially black, but
when the skin begins to come off they are done. Put the peppers
and tomatoes on a plate and let them cool.
4. When the tomatoes and peppers have cooled, remove most of the
skin from the tomatoes and place them into a food processor.
Pinch the stem end from each of the peppers and place them into
the food processor as well. Toss out the liquid that remains on
the plate.
5. Add the remaining ingredients to the food processor and puree
on high speed for 5-10 seconds or until the mixture has a smooth
consistency.
6. Place the salsa into a covered container and chill for several
hours or overnight while the flavors develop.
Makes approximately 2 cups.
Chevys® Garlic Mashed Potatoes
This easy-to-clone dish comes with many of the tasty
entrees at the restaurant chain or can be ordered up,
pronto, on the side. It's a nice clone to have around
since it goes well with so many dishes, Mexican or otherwise.
Just give yourself the time to bake and cool the potatoes.
Be here at TSR next week for a big clone request from the
same "always fresh ingredients" Mexican food chain. It's
for that muy delicioso salsa, baby! Si, si, si. See you then.
4 medium/large russet potatoes
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon minced fresh garlic (3-4 cloves)
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup cream
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Bake the potatoes by first rubbing them lightly with oil
and then baking them in the preheated oven for 1 hour until
they are tender. Cool.
3. Mash potatoes and remove about half of the skin. You want
to leave the rest in.
4. Melt the butter in a large suacepan over medium heat, then
add garlic and saute for 5 minutes.
5. Add the remaining ingredients to the pan and cook for 5-10
minutes while stirring often until garlic mashed potatoes are
very hot.
Serves 4.
Chevys® Mesquite-Grilled BBQ Chicken Quesadilla®
With this secret recipe from the latest TSR low-lat book,
it isn't necessary to cook the chicken over a mesquite
grill as they do in the restaurant chain. Sure, you could
get some mesquite wood chips and throw 'em on your barbecue
or you can use that charcoal that has mesquite in it.
But an easier way to get the flavor of mesquite--especially
if all you've got is a gas grill--is to soak the chicken
in a marinade made with mesquite-flavored liquid smoke.
In the restaurant these puppies are made with red chili
tortillas. Since these type of tortillas can be a drag to
track down, especially in fat-free versions, we'll use plain
fat-free tortillas for our tasty reduced-fat clone.
Mesquite Marinade
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon mesquite-flavored liquid smoke
1/2 teaspoon salt
dash ground black pepper
Spicy BBQ Sauce
1/2 cup Bull's-Eye Original BBQ Sauce
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
dash chili powder
1 boneless chicken breast
1/3 cup sliced red bell pepper
1/3 cup sliced green bell pepper
1/3 cup sliced Spanish onion
2 large (12-inch) fat-free flour tortillas
1 1/3 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1. Prepare the marinade by combining the ingredients in a medium
bowl. Add chicken breast fillet to the bowl, cover, and chill for
one hour.
2. When the chicken is finished marinating, preheat your grill to
high temperature.
3. As grill is heating, prepare the spicy BBQ sauce by mixing the
ingredients in a small bowl.
4. Throw the chicken on the grill and cook it for 4 to 5 minutes
per side or until it's done. When the chicken is done cooking, chop it into bite-size pieces.
5. Spray a light coating of nonstick cooking spray on a medium
skillet over medium heat. Sauté the sliced peppers and onion in
the pan for 4 to 5 minutes or until the veggies start to brown.
6. Set a large skillet over medium/low heat.
7. Put one flour tortilla in the skillet and sprinkle 1/3 cup
of cheese over half of the tortilla. Spoon half of the vegetables
over the cheese, followed by half of the chicken.
8. Spoon a generous portion of the spicy BBQ sauce over the chicken,
followed by another 1/3 cup of cheese.
9. Fold the other side of the tortilla over the filling, and press
down so that it stays in place.
10. By this time, the cheese on the bottom should be melted. If not,
wait another minute or so, then flip the quesadilla over and heat
for another couple minutes or until all of the cheese has melted.
11. Slide the quesadilla onto a plate and slice it into 4 pieces.
Repeat for the second quesadilla and serve immediately with salsa
on the side.
Serves 4 as an appetizer.
Nutrition Facts
Serving size – 2 pieces
Total servings – 4
Chi Chi's Mild Salsa
Recipe By : Gloria Pitzer
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:15
Categories : Salsas Copycat
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1 Cn Stewed Tomatoes (14 Oz.) -- sliced
2 Large Green onions -- snipped*
1 Large Ripe Tomato -- cored and diced
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Black Pepper
1 Ds Tabasco=AE Sauce -- or to taste
Cut up stewed tomatoes and combine in saucepan with onions, fresh tomato,
salt and pepper. Bring just to a boil. Boil hard 1 minute and remove at once
from heat. Put half of mixture through blender just to mince fine but not to
puree. Return to remaining half of mixture. Cool and refrigerate in tightly
covered container to use with a few weeks. Freezes well to use within 6=
months.
NOTE-For hot salsa, add 1 ts canned green chopped chilis or to taste,
freezing unused chilis to use in other recipes.
CHI-CHI'S CHICKEN FAJITAS
Categories: Mexico, Restaurants, Poultry
Yield: 1 Servings
From: Brett Jones
In the last 17 years, I've worked for a LOT of restaurants :) My
favorite trick was from Chi-Chi's [ha! I NEVER signed that
non-disclosure agreement] .... the absolute best marinade for chicken
(we used it for our fajitas) is margarita mix. Yes, just go out and
find your favorite margarita mix (Mr & Mrs T's is good) or a little
sweet & sour, put the chicken breasts in a shallow pan and cover with
the mix. Marinate at least overnight, preferably for 24 hours.
Chili's Margarita Presidente
1 oz vodka
½ oz triple sec
1/3 cup sweet & sour mix
Lemon wedge
Fill a glass with crushed ice and add vodka and triple sec.
Top off the drink with sweet & sour mix. Add a lemon wedge
for garnish and serve.
Makes 1 serving.
Chili's Twisted Lemonade Twist
1 oz Sauza Commemoritiva Tequila
½ oz Cointreau
½ oz Presidente Brandy
½ oz Rose's lime juice
1/3 cup sweet & Sour mix
Combine all ingredients in a shaker with crushed ice.
Shake Pour drink into a martini glass rimmed with salt.
Serve the remainder of the drink in the shaker on the side.
Makes 1 serving.
Chili's® Boneless Buffalo Wings
This clone of Chili's new menu items gives us the
zesty flavor of traditional Buffalo chicken wings
without the bones or skin. That's because these "wings"
are actually nuggets sliced from chicken breast fillets
that are breaded and fried, then smothered with the same
type of spicy wing sauce used on typical wings. If you
like Buffalo wings, you'll love this recipe. Serve these
babies up with some celery sticks and bleu cheese dressing
on the side for dipping. Now you can actually eat Buffalo
wings with a fork!
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 chicken breast fillets
4-6 cups vegetable oil
1/4 cup Crystal or Frank's Louisiana hot sauce
1 tablespoon margarine
On the side
bleu cheese dressing (for dipping)
celery sticks
1. Combine flour, salt, peppers and paprika in a medium bowl.
2. In another small bowl, whisk together egg and milk.
3. Slice each chicken breast into 6 pieces. Preheat 4-6 cups
of vegetable oil in a deep fryer to 375 degrees.
4. One or two at a time, dip each piece of chicken into the
egg mixture, then into the breading blend; then repeat the
process so that each piece of chicken is double-coated.
5. When all chicken pieces have been breaded, arrange them on
a plate and chill for 15 minutes.
6. When the chicken is done resting, drop each piece into the
hot oil and fry for 5-6 minutes or until each piece is browned.
7. As chicken fries, combine the hot sauce and margarine in a
small bowl. Microwave sauce for 20-30 seconds or just until the
margarine is melted, then stir to combine. You can also use a
small saucepan for this step. Just combine the hot sauce and
margarine in the saucepan over low heat and stir until margarine
is melted and ingredients are blended.
8. When chicken pieces are done frying, remove them to a plate
lined with a couple paper towels.
9. Place the chicken pieces into a covered container such as a
large jar with a lid. Pour the sauce over the chicken in the
container, cover, and then shake gently until each piece of chicken
is coated with sauce. Pour the chicken onto a plate and serve
the dish with bleu cheese dressing and sliced celery on the side.
Serves 2-4 as an appetizer.
Chili's® Calypso Cooler®
Ever order one of those expensive specialty drinks
off the shiny, full-color restaurant table-stand
cards and wish you had a clone recipe? This is one
of those drinks, off of one of those cards. And here's
the clone recipe.
1 1/4 ounces Captain Morgan spiced rum
1/2 ounce peach schnapps
4 ounces (1/2 cup) orange juice
splash Rose's lime juice
1/2 ounce grenadine
Garnish
orange wedge
maraschino cherry
1. Fill a 16-ounce glass with ice.
2. Pour all ingredients over ice in the order listed. Don't stir.
3. Garnish with an orange wedge and a cherry on a toothpick. Serve
with a straw.
Makes 1 drink.
Chili's® Chicken Enchilada Soup
It's an item that you won't even find on the current
menu at this national restaurant chain. But ask your
server what soups are available and this is a selection
that's available every day of the week. The dish is one
of Chili's most raved-about items, and a recipe to clone
the delicious soup is easily one of the most requested
here on the Internet. Looks like it's time for an official
TSR custom clone to answer those many requests. The secret
here is the addition of masa harina -- a corn flour that
you will find in your supermarket near the other flours
or in the Mexican food section. You'll find the recipe for
the pico de gallo garnish in the Chili's Nacho Burger clone
recipe from last November. Enjoy, amigos!
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 lb. of chicken breast fillets (approx. 3 fillets)
1/2 cup diced onion
1 clove garlic, pressed
4 cups chicken broth
1 cup masa harina
3 cups water
1 cup enchilada sauce
16 ounces Velveeta
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin
Garnish
shredded cheddar cheese
crumbled corn tortilla chips
pico de gallo (from recipe for November 17, 1997)
1. Add 1 tablespoon of oil to a large pot over medium heat.
Add chicken breasts to pot and brown for 4-5 minutes per side.
Set chicken aside.
2. Add onions and garlic to pot and sauté over medium heat for
about 2 minutes, or until onions begin to become translucent.
Add chicken broth.
3. Combine masa harina with 2 cups of water in a medium bowl
and whisk until blended. Add masa mixture to pot with onions,
garlic and broth.
4. Add remaining water, enchilada sauce, cheese and spices to pot
and bring mixture to a boil.
5. Shred the chicken into small, bite-size pieces and add it to
the pot. Reduce heat and simmer soup for 30-40 minutes or until
thick.
6. Serve soup in cups or bowls, and garnish with shredded cheddar
cheese, crumbled corn tortilla chips, and pico de gallo.
Makes approx. 12 servings.
Chili's® Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie®
What makes this dessert so special is the way it
comes to your table sizzling in a cast iron skillet.
just like fajitas. The chocolate chip cookie and graham
cracker crust "pie" is topped with a scoop of vanilla
ice cream, and then drizzled with chocolate and caramel
syrup. It's all served up in a hot skillet of cinnamon
butter. Yum! If you want to prepare this one just like
they do at the restaurant, you'll need one of those
skillets for each serving. Small iron skillets work the
best, but any 6 or 8-inch frying pan will do fine.
You just have to be sure your pan is super hot to get
that authentic Chili's "sizzle." If you don't have enough
of the right pans for each serving, you can slide it all
onto a plate. It may not have the sizzle of the real thing,
but it'll still taste awesome!
Cookie Layer
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup shredded coconut
Crust Layer
6 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Cinnamon Butter
1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
9 scoops vanilla ice cream
chocolate syrup
caramel syrup
6 tablespoons chopped walnuts
1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
2. Combine the flour, baking soda and baking powder in a
medium bowl.
3. In a separate large bowl, beat together the butter and
sugar with an electric mixer. Continue beating for about
30 seconds or until mixture turns lighter in color. Add the egg,
milk, and vanilla and beat until smooth.
4. Slowly mix the dry mixture into the wet mixture. Beat until
well-combined and then mix in the coconut flakes. Set this cookie
dough aside for now.
5. Melt 6 tablespoons of butter in a medium bowl in the microwave
on high temperature for about 30 seconds. Add the sugar and stir
well for 30 seconds. Add the graham cracker crumbs and stir. Press
this mixture into the bottom of a 9x9-inch baking dish or pan.
6. Sprinkle the cup of chocolate chips evenly over the graham cracker
crust.
7. Press the cookie dough into the dish, covering the chocolate
chips. Use flour on your fingers to keep the soft dough from sticking.
8. Sprinkle the chopped walnuts over the dough. Use your fingers to
press the nuts into the dough.
9. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until the edges of the “pie” become
light brown.
10. Prepare the cinnamon butter by creaming together the butter,
sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl with an electric mixer on high
speed.
11. When you are ready to make your dessert, heat up a small skillet
over medium heat. When the skillet is hot, remove it from the heat
then add about 1 tablespoon of the cinnamon butter to the pan.
It should quickly melt and sizzle. Slice the “pie” into 9 pieces
and place one into the hot skillet. If the “pie” has cooled,
you can reheat each slice by zapping it in the microwave for
30-40 seconds.
12. Place a scoop of ice cream on top of the “pie.” Drizzle
chocolate and caramel syrup over the dessert and then sprinkle
about 2 teaspoons of chopped walnuts over the top. Repeat for
the remaining ingredients and serve sizzling in the skillet.
Makes 9 desserts.
Chili's® Nacho Burger
Here's a clone recipe for a delicious new burger from Chili's
unlike any you may have tasted before. It was designed by
the folks at this popular chain to incorporate several of
restaurant's prepared sides -- all of which you will now
have clones for -- including Chili's chili queso, Chili's
pico de gallo, and Chili's guacamole. Stack it all onto a
bun with a juicy 1/4-pound ground beef patty and some crumbled
tortilla chips for crunch, and you've got a slightly spicy,
South-of-the-border taste. Muy bien, amigos!
Pico de Gallo
2 medium tomatoes, diced
1/2 cup diced Spanish onion
2 teaspoons chopped fresh jalapeno pepper, seeded and de-ribbed
2 teaspoons finely minced fresh cilantro
Pinch of salt
Guacamole
2 small or 1 large Haas avocado
2 tablespoons sour cream
1/4 cup diced tomato
1/2 teaspoon diced jalapeno
1/4 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon salt
Chili Queso
3 ounces ground beef
1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
pinch of salt
pinch of ground black pepper
16-ounce bottle Cheez Whiz
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon paprika
2 pounds ground beef
4 large sesame seed buns
2 cups iceberg lettuce, shredded or chopped thin
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 green onion, chopped
16-20 tortilla chips
2-3 fresh jalapenos, sliced
1. First make the pico de gallo. This is easy. Just combine all
of the ingredients for the pico in a small bowl and mix well.
Cover bowl and chill in the refrigerator.
2. Now we'll make the guacamole. In a small bowl, smash up most
of the avocado, but be sure to leave several unsmashed chunks.
Add the remaining ingredients for the guacamole to the avocado
and mix well. Cover bowl and chill in the refrigerator, next to
the pico.
3. Next we'll make the chili queso. In yet another small bowl, mix
together ground beef, flour, a pinch of salt, a pinch of black
pepper, and a pinch of chili powder. Use your hands to work the
dry ingredients into the ground beef. Brown the beef in a small
skillet over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Use a spoon or
spatula to crumble the beef as it cooks. Cook until it's brown,
then set aside.
4. Melt the Cheez Whiz with 2 tablespoons of milk over low heat.
When milk and cheese has been combined, add the remaining queso
ingredients. Heat while stirring often until cheese is smooth
and creamy, then cover saucepan and remove it from the heat.
5. Pre-heat a griddle or large frying pan over medium heat.
Lightly butter the face of each bun and brown the buns face-down
on the heat.
6. Separate the ground beef into four 1/2-pound portions. Roll
each portion of meat into a ball and then pat the meat down into
a circular patty slightly larger in diameter than the hamburger
buns. Cook the hamburger patties for 5-10 minutes per side, until
done. Lightly salt and pepper each burger patty.
7. Build the burger open-faced in the following order starting
with the bottom bun:
On Bottom Bun
1/2 cup shredded lettuce
hamburger patty
2 tablespoons chili queso
4 or 5 crumbled tortilla chips
2 teaspoons green onion
On Top Bun
1/2 tablespoon mayonnaise
2 tablespoons pico de gallo
2 tablespoons guacamole
4 jalapeno slices
Serve burger with extra queso and guacamole. May also serve french
fries on the side and use the chili queso for dipping.
Makes 4 burgers.
Chili's® Southwestern Eggrolls
Many people have hopped on the cloning bandwagon for
this recipe. Unfortunately the "clone" recipes that
are floating around out there for this dish are pretty
lame. So into the TSR test kitchen we go, and out comes
the closest thing you'll ever savor next to actually
eating the real thing. These "eggrolls" are made with
flour tortillas, stuffed with a spicy blend of corn,
green onions, black beans, spinach, jalapeno peppers,
monterey jack cheese and spices. When you add the creamy
avocado ranch dipping sauce, you're tastebuds will begin
to party. Make these several hours before you plan to serve
them so that they can freeze solid before frying. This will
help to make the outside a dark golden brown, and the
eggrolls will stay folded without letting any oil seep into
the filling. This is how they cook 'em at the restaurant
chain. And now you can check out the video for a hands-on
demonstration.
1 chicken breast fillet
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 tablespoons minced red bell pepper
2 tablespoons minced green onion
1/3 cup frozen corn
1/4 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
2 tablespoons frozen spinach, thawed and drained
2 tablespoons diced, canned jalapeno peppers
1/2 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
dash cayenne pepper
3/4 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
five 7-inch flour tortillas
Avocado-ranch dipping sauce
1/4 cup smashed, fresh avocado (about half of an avocado)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoons white vinegar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon dried parsley
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
dash dried dill weed
dash garlic powder
dash pepper
Garnish
2 tablespoons chopped tomato
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1. Preheat barbecue grill to high heat.
2. Rub the chicken breast with some vegetable oil then grill
it on the barbecue for 4 to 5 minutes per side or until done.
Lightly salt and pepper each side of the chicken while it cooks.
Set chicken aside until it cools down enough to handle.
3. Preheat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a medium-size skillet
over medium-high heat.
4. Add the red pepper and onion to the pan and sauté for a couple
minutes until tender.
5. Dice the cooked chicken into small cubes and add it to the pan.
Add the corn, black beans, spinach, jalapeno peppers, parsley,
cumin, chili powder, salt, and cayenne pepper to the pan. Cook
for another 4 minutes. Stir well so that the spinach separates
and is incorporated into the mixture.
6. Remove the pan from the heat and add the cheese. Stir until the
cheese is melted.
7. Wrap the tortillas in a moist cloth and microwave on high
temperature for 1 1/2 minutes or until hot.
8. Spoon approximately one-fifth of the mixture into the center
of a tortilla. Fold in the ends and then roll the tortilla over
the mixture. Roll the tortilla very tight, then pierce with a
toothpick to hold together. Repeat with the remaining ingredients
until you have five eggrolls. Arrange the eggrolls on a plate,
cover the plate with plastic wrap and freeze for at least 4 hours.
Overnight is best.
9. While the eggrolls freeze prepare the avocado-ranch dipping
sauce by combining all of the ingredients in a small bowl.
10. Preheat 4-6 cups of oil to 375 degrees.
11. Deep fry the eggrolls in the hot oil for 12-15 minutes and
remove to paper towels or a rack to drain for about 2 minutes.
12. Slice each eggroll diagonally lengthwise and arrange on a
plate around a small bowl of the dipping sauce. Garnish the
dipping sauce with the chopped tomato and onion.
Serves 3-4
Chili's® Southwestern Vegetable Soup
If you like a soup that's packed with veggies,
that's low in fat, and has some of that Southwestern
zing to it, this is the one for you. Just toss all the
ingredients in a pot and simmer. Garnish with some
shredded cheese and crumbled tortillas, and prepare to
take the chill off.
6 cups chicken broth (Swanson is best)
1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes, with juice
1 cup water
1 cup canned dark red kidney beans, with liquid
1 cup frozen yellow cut corn
1 cup frozen cut green beans
1 4-ounce can diced green chilies
1/2 cup diced Spanish onion
1/2 cup tomato sauce
6 corn tortillas, minced
1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
dash garlic powder
Garnish
1 cup grated cheddar/jack cheese blend
1 cup crumbled corn tortilla chips
1. Combine all the soup ingredients in a large saucepan or soup
pot over high heat. Be sure to mince the corn tortillas into
small pieces with a sharp knife before adding them to the soup.
2. Bring soup to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 45
minutes to 1 hour, or until the soup has thickened and tortilla
pieces have mostly dissolved.
3. To serve soup ladle 1 1/2 cups into a bowl. Sprinkle a heaping
tablespoon of the grated cheddar/jack cheese blend over the top of
the soup, and then a heaping tablespoon of crumbled corn tortilla
chips over the cheese.
Makes 6 servings.
CHOCOLATE COCONUT CRUNCH COOKIES
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 4 dozen
2 c Flour
1 ts Baking soda
1/4 ts Salt
1 c Butter; unsalted, softened
3/4 c Brown sugar
2 Eggs; lightly beaten
2 ts Vanilla
1 ts Almond extract
2 c Coconut; shredded
12 oz Chocolate chips
1 1/2 c Almonds; lightly salted
-dry roasted, finely chopped
Preheat the oven to 300. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour,
baking soda and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour,
baking soda and salt. In a medium bowl with an electric mixer, cream
the butter and sugars. Beat in the eggs, vanilla and almond extract.
Mix on low speed until blended. Add the flour mixture and mix just
until blended; do not overmix. add the coconut, chocolate chips, and
almonds and stir just until blended. Drop the dough by rounded tbsp
2" apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes.
Church's Fried Chicken
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 3 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Chicken Sandwiches
Salsa
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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-----WALDINE VAN GEFFEN VGHC42A-----
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 1/2 cups Self-rising flour
1/2 cup Cornstarch
3 teaspoons Seasoned salt
2 teaspoons Paprika
1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
1/2 cup Biscuit mix
1 Env Italian Dressing Mix
1 Env Onion soup mix
-----TO USE-----
2 Eggs -- mix with
1/4 cup Cold water
1 cup Corn oil
Combine all ingredients in a 4-cup container. Mix to blend the
ingredients thoroughly. Store tightly covered at room temperature up to
3 months. TO USE-Dip the chicken pieces in egg mixture and then into
dry coating mix and back into egg to coat the pieces evenly but lightly
and finally back into dry mix. Have oil piping hot in heavy skillet.
Brown pieces skin-side down for 4 to 6 minutes. Use medium high heat.
Turn and brown underside of pieces a few minutes. Transfer to an oiled
or Pam-sprayed 9x12x2 pan. Cover pan in foil, sealing it on only 3 side
of pan. Bake 350~ for about 45 to 50 minutes. Remove foil. Bake another
5 minutes just to crisp the coating. Serves 4
Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll
Serving Size : 12
Categories : Rolls
INGREDIENTS:
DOUGH
1/4 cup warm water, 1 cup milk -- room temperature
1 large egg -- beaten, 1/4 cup butter -- softened,
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt, 4 cups all purpose white flour
1/2 package instant vanilla pudding mix (3.4 oz box)
1 tablespoon bread machine yeast FILLING 1 cup brown sugar
-- packed 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1/4 cup butter -- softened
CREAM CHEESE CINNAMON FROSTING, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
4 ounces cream cheese -- softened, 1/4 cup butter -- softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 tablespoon milk, 1 1/2 cups powdered
sugar
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Preparation Instructions: Dough; (Add the dough ingredients,
in the order listed, to the bread machine and prepare using
the dough setting. On a lightly floured surface, roll out to an
18" by 30" rectangle. The dough can also be handmade. If you
use regular yeast, you may want to let the rolls proof for
15-30 minutes after assembly). Filling In a small bowl, mix
brown sugar and cinnamon. Spread the softened butter over the
dough and evenly sprinkle on the sugar and cinnamon mixture.
Starting at the long edge of the dough, roll up tightly. Mark
the roll every 2 inches. With a thread cut the roll by placing
the thread under the roll at your mark, crisscross over and
pull to cut. Place rolls into greased 8" or 9" baking pans 2"
apart. Cover and let rise in a warm, draft free place until
almost double, approximately 1 hour. After rising, rolls should
be touching each other and the sides of the pan. Bake at 350
degrees F. for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Cream
Cheese Cinnamon Frosting In a small bowl, mix cream cheese,
butter, vanilla and milk. Add powdered sugar and cinnamon and
mix until smooth. Spread on warm rolls and serve immediately.
This recipe has been adjusted so that the dough can be prepared
in your bread machine. These will taste most like the originals
if you use Makara Cinnamon (available at the Cinnabon Stands)
instead of conventional powdered cinnamon from the supermarket.
Cinnabon® Icescape®
In a blender, Cinnabon adds concentrated flavoring,
some ice and a curious secret ingredient referred to
only as a "dairy product." When blended smooth,
out comes these thick, refreshing drinks that look
and taste like they were made with ice cream.
For this clone we just need a little half-and-half
(that's half cream and half milk for those of you
across the pond). It gives this version the exact
same creamy consistency as the original with its custom
"dairy" ingredient. Strawberry is the most popular of
the flavors, but the other two are tasty as well.
The Mochalatta version uses the TSR clone of the
Mochalatta Chill from last week and produces as thicker
blended version of the drink, similar to Starbuck's
popular blended Frappuccino.
Strawberry
1 cup water
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3 cups crushed ice
1/3 cup frozen whole strawberries (about 4 large strawberries)
1/2 cup half-and-half
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup Hershey’s strawberry syrup
1. Combine the water and sugar in a cup and stir until the sugar
is dissolved.
2. Add this sugar syrup to other ingredients in a blender. Blend
on high speed until the drink is smooth. Serve in two 16-ounce
glasses.
Makes 2 large drinks.
Orange
3 cups crushed ice
1 cup water
2/3 cup orange juice
1/2 cup half-and-half
3 tablespoons Tang orange drink mix
1. Mix all ingredients in a blender set on high speed until smooth
and creamy. Serve in two 16-ounce glasses.
Makes 2 large drinks.
Mochalatta
3 cups crushed ice
1 1/2 cups TSR version of Mochalatta Chill
1/2 cup half-and-half
2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
1. Mix all ingredients in a blender set on high speed until smooth
and creamy. Serve in two 16-ounce glasses.
Makes 2 large drinks.
Cinnabon® Strawberry Lemonade & Mochalatta Chill®
Cinnabon gives lemonade a twist by adding strawberry syrup.
It's a simple clone when you snag some Hershey's strawberry
syrup (near the chocolate syrup in your supermarket),
and a few juicy lemons. But if it's a bit of a caffeine
buzz you're looking for -- enhanced by a killer chocolate
rush -- it's the Mochalatta Chill you'll want to whip up.
Brew some double-strength coffee (see Tidbits) and let it
cool off, then get out the half & half and chocolate syrup.
Man, these sippers are just too dang easy!
Strawberry Lemonade
1/2 cup lemon juice (from 3-4 fresh lemons)
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups water
2 tablespoons Hershey’s strawberry syrup
1. Mix ingredients together in a pitcher. Serve over ice.
Makes 2 drinks.
Mochalatta Chill
1 cup double strength coffee, cold (see Tidbits)
1 cup half and half
1/2 cup Hershey's chocolate syrup
Topping
whipped cream
1. Combine all ingredients in a small pitcher. Stir well or cover
and shake. Pour over ice in two 16 ounce glasses, and top with
whipped cream.
Makes 2 large drinks.
Tidbits
Make double-strength coffee in your coffee maker by adding half
the water suggested by the manufacturer. Allow coffee to chill
in the refrigerator before using it in this recipe.
Cracker Jacks
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Snacks Copycat
Popcorn
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 cup Peanuts -- warmed
1 cup Butter
5 cups Popped corn -- warm
2 cups Brown sugar -- packed
1/2 cup Light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
Pop corn; keep warm in oven. Warm nuts in pan. In saucepan, melt butter; add br
own suagr and syrup. Cook till thick then add baking soda; stir. Pour over warm
ed popped corn and peanuts. Stir well. Let cool and munch down.
Denny's Cheese Soup
Categories: Copycat, Soups, Cheese
Yield: 4 servings
-patdwigans_om@juno.com
4 tb Butter or margarine
10 oz Cream of chicken soup
10 oz Cream of celery soup
1/2 Soup can Kraft's mayonnaise
8 oz Jar cheese Whiz
14 oz Can chicken broth
Salt and pepper
Put butter, soups, mayo and Cheez Whiz in 1-1/2 quart
saucepan, stirring constantly over medium heat, until
smooth. Stir in broth and season to taste with salt
and pepper. Stir occasionally until piping hot -BUT
DO NOT LET IT BOIL! . Do not freeze because of the mayo.
Use within a week.
Dive!® S'mores
You don't need a campfire, wire hangers or long
sticks to make this popular marshmallow, chocolate
and graham cracker dessert. Steven Spielberg's Dive!
chain of theme restaurants is the inspiration for this
week's clone recipe, pulled from the third TSR book,
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes (which includes other
clones from the chain as well). You need only four
ingredients, an oven with a broiler, and a serious
sweet tooth to put together this delicious dessert
previously enjoyed only camping trips and at beach parties.
2 whole graham crackers (4 sections, not separated)
two 1 1/2-ounce Hershey milk chocolate bars
16 large marshmallows
2 tablespoons Hershey's chocolate syrup, in squirt bottle
1. Preheat the broiler. Arrange the graham crackers side by side
on an oven-safe plate (such as ceramic). You can also use a baking
sheet.
2. Stack the milk chocolate bars side by side on top of the graham
crackers.
3. Arrange the marshmallows on the chcocolate in 4 rows -- 4 across,
4 down.
4. Broil the dessert on the middle rack for 1 to 3 minutes or until
the marshmallows turn light brown on top.
5. Remove the dessert from the oven. If you used a baking sheet,
carefully slide the dessert onto a serving plate. With the squirt
bottle, immediately drizzle the chocolate syrup over the marshmallows
in a sweeping back-and-forth motion. Drizzle the chocolate diagonally
across the dessert one way, and then the other, creating a
cross-hatch pattern. Allow the chocolate to over-shoot the
dessert so that it creates a decorative pattern on the serving
plate as well.
Serves 2-4.
Dolly Madison® Zingers® (Devil's Food)
Former U.S. President James Madison's wife did not
create this baking company, despite the fact that her
name is on every carrot cake, crumb cake, and Zinger that
comes off the production line. It was instead company
founder Roy Nafziger's brainstorm to use the former first
lady's name, since she was notorious for throwing huge
shindigs featuring a fine selection of desserts and baked
goods. Nafziger said his company would create cakes "fine
enough to serve at the White House." While I don't expect
you'll be treated to a tray of Zingers on your next stay
in the Lincoln Bedroom, I will agree that these little
snack cakes are a tasty way to appease a sweet tooth.
You can craft a version at home by making little cake
pans out of aluminum foil that is wrapped around an
empty prescription pill bottle. The cake batter is easy,
since you just use any instant devil's food cake mix.
I like Duncan Hines, but you can use whatever you want.
As for the frosting, it may not come out as dark brown
as the original since the recipe here doesn't include brown
food coloring (caramel coloring). But the taste will be
right on. And I think President Clinton would agree that as
long as the sweet little treats taste good, appearance is secondary.
Cake
Duncan Hines devil's food cake mix
1 1/3 cups water
1/2 cup oil
3 large eggs
Filling
2 teaspoons hot water
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups marshmallow creme (one 7-ounce jar)
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Frosting
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup Hershey's chocolate syrup
2 tablespoons shortening
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
dash salt
Tear off a bunch of foil pieces about this size. These will be your
mini cake pans after folding two times and wrapping around a pill
bottle.
Empty prescription medicine bottles are actually good for something.
Use a toothpick or skewer to dig three caverns in the cakes where the
filling will live. Later you will cleverly hide these holes with
frosting.
1. Prepare the cake batter following the directions on the box.
If you use Duncan Hines brand, you will need 1 1/3 cups of water,
1/2 cup of oil, and three eggs. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. To prepare the cake pans that will make cakes the size of Zingers,
tear off 20 pieces of aluminum foil that are each about 8 inches
wide. Fold the foil in half and then in half once more so that you
have a rectangular piece of foil. Wrap this piece of foil around a
small prescription medicine bottle. Tuck in the ends and take the
bottle out, leaving the foil open at the top. This will form a little
pan. Flatten the bottom so that the mini pan stands up straight.
Place this into a baking pan and repeat with the remaining pieces
of foil. When you have arranged all of the foil pans in a baking
pan, spray the inside of all the pans with non-stick cooking spray.
Fill each little pan about halfway with cake batter. Bake cakes
for 15 to 17 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the center comes
out clean. Remove the cakes from the oven and allow them to cool
completely.
3. To make the filling, combine the hot water with the salt in a
small bowl and stir until the salt is dissolved. Let this mixture
cool.
4. Combine the marshmallow creme, shortening, powdered sugar, and
vanilla in a medium bowl and mix well with an electric mixer on high
speed until fluffy. Add the salt mixture to the bowl and mix.
5. To make the chocolate frosting, combine all the frosting
ingredients in a medium bowl and mix well with an electric mixer
until smooth.
6. To assemble your snack cakes first poke three holes with a
toothpick or skewer in the top of a cake and swirl around inside
the holes making little caverns for your filling.
7. Use a pastry bag with a small tip to squeeze some filling into
each hole. Careful not to overfill, or your cake will burst open.
Sure, it's exciting, but this mess won't make for a good clone.
8. Once the cake is filled, use a butter knife to spread frosting
on top of the cake over the holes. Drag a fork lengthwise over
the frosting making grooves just like the real thing.
Makes 20 snack cakes.
DoubleTree® Hotel Chocolate Chip Cookies
When you check in at one of 240 hotels run by this U.S.
chain, you are handed a bag from a warming oven that
contains two soft and delicious chocolate chip cookies.
This is a tradition that began in the early 90s using a
recipe from a small bakery in Atlanta. All of the
cookies - which weigh in at an impressive two ounces
each - are baked fresh every day on the hotel premises.
Raves for the cookies from customers convinced the hotel
chain to start selling the chocolaty munchables by the
half-dozen. But if you've got an insatiable chocolate
chip cookie urge that can't wait for a package to be delivered
in the mail, you'll want to try this cloned version fresh out
of your home oven. Just be sure to get the cookies out of
there when they are turning light brown. This way they'll
stay soft in the middle when cool. For even better results,
you can chill the dough overnight before you commence with
the ceremonial baking.
1/2 cup rolled oats
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
2 eggs
3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grind oats in a food processor or blender until fine. Combine
the ground oats with the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon
in a medium bowl.
3. Cream together the butter, sugars, vanilla, and lemon juice in
another medium bowl with an electric mixer. Add the eggs and mix
until smooth.
4. Stir the dry mixture into the wet mixture and blend well. Add
the chocolate chips and nuts to the dough and mix by hand until
ingredients are well incorporated.
5. Spoon rounded 1/4-cup portions onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Place the scoops about 2 inches apart. You don't need to press
the dough flat. Bake for 16 to 18 minutes or until cookies are
light brown and soft in the middle. Store in a sealed container
when cool to keep soft. For the best results, chill the dough
overnight in the refrigerator before baking the cookies.
Makes 20 cookies.
Dr. Ruth's almost as good as Sex Cheesecake
Servings: 8
Crust:
5 oz Graham cracker crumbs
3 tb Sugar
5 tb Butter melted
Filling:
16 oz Cream cheese softened
1/2 c Sugar
1/2 ts Vanilla
pn Salt
2 lg Eggs
3 tb Chambord liqueur
Topping:
8 oz Sour cream
1 tb Sugar
1/2 ts Vanilla
1 tb Chambord liqueur
1 c Raspberries fresh
Preheat oven to 350 Deg. F. To prepare crust, mix graham cracker
crumbs, sugar and butter. Press mixture firmly into bottom of 9"
springform pan.
To make filling, mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and salt at
medium speed with electric mixer. Add eggs, and mix until well
blended. Using a fork, gently fold Chambord into batter. Pour
mixture into crust.
Bake for approximately 40 minutes or until golden brown. Loosen
cake from rim of pan. Let cool and remove rim of pan.
To prepare topping, mix sour cream, sugar, vanilla, and Chambord
and spread evenly over cheesecake. Refrigerate for 4 hours or
until firm. Top with fresh raspberries just before serving.
Chambord a French liqueur
Drake's® Devil Dogs
Here's a clone recipe for a favorite east coast
treat that could even fool Rosie O'Donnell. The snack
food - loving talk show hostess professes her love
for these tasty Drake's goodies all the time on her
daytime show. And who could blame her? It's hard not
to relish the smooth, fluffy filling sandwiched between
two tender devil's food cake fingers. I'll take a Devil
Dog over a Twinkie any day of the week. For this clone
recipe, we'll make the cakes from scratch. This will
help us to create a flavor and texture closest to the
original, although the color will be much lighter than
the real thing (the miracles of food coloring). But if
you're feeling especially lazy, you can certainly use a
devil's food cake mix in place of the scratch recipe here.
Just make the filling with the recipe below and assemble
your cakes the same way.
Cake
1 egg
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Filling
2 cups marshmallow creme (1 7-ounce jar)
1 cup shortening
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons very hot water
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. In a medium bowl, blend together the egg, shortening,
and sugar with an electric mixer. Continue beating while
adding the milk and vanilla.
3. In another bowl sift together remaining cake ingredients -
flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder.
4. Combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients and beat
until smooth.
5. Spoon about a tablespoon of the batter in strips about 4 inches
long and 1 inch wide on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for
5 to 6 minutes or until the cakes are done. Cool.
6. In another bowl combine the marshmallow creme, shortening,
powdered sugar and vanilla. Dissolve the 1/8 teaspoon of salt
in the 2 teaspoons of very hot water in a small bowl. Add this
salt solution to the filling mixture and beat on high speed with
an electric mixer until the filling is smooth and fluffy.
7. When the cakes have cooled, spread about a tablespoon of
filling on the face of one cake and top it off with another cake.
Repeat with the remaining ingredients.
Makes 20 to 24 snack cakes.
Durkee's Famous Sauce
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 16 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Sauces Cheese/Eggs
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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-----WALDINE VAN GEFFEN VGHC42A-----
1/2 cup Cold water
4 tablespoons Cornstarch
1/2 cup Plus 2 TB dark vinegar
2 tablespoons Salt
1/2 cup Sugar
1 Whole egg
4 tablespoons French's prepared mustard
4 tablespoons Margarine -- tiny bits
Place all ingredients as listed in blender on high speed until smooth (2
minutes). Transfer to top of double boiler and cook over gently boiling
water, stirring often for 12 to 15 minutes or until thickened and smooth.
Once more put mixture back through blender 30 seconds or till smooth,
using high speed. Refrigerate in covered container 24 hours before using.
Keep refrigerated 3 months.
El Pollo Loco (Pollo Asada)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Chicken Cheese/Eggs
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 cup White wine vinegar
1 cup Olive oil
1/2 cup White wine
Oregano
Thyme
Salt
10 milliliters Garlic -- mince
1 1/2 teaspoons Hot sauce
Mix all ingredients and marinate two whole chicken which have been cut in
half. Marinate several hours in refrigerator. Grill chickens slowly until
done.
El Pollo Loco Chicken
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Chicken Sauces
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 Chicken -- cut pieces w/skin
BROILER BASTING SAUCE
1/3 cup Lemon juice
1/3 cup Lime juice
1/3 cup Canola or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon Ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon Garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon Black pepper
Briefly simmer the cut-up chicken in a deep-sided skillet, keeping pieces
in single layer without crowding them, until the meat appears milky white
and the juices run clear, no longer pink. Allow to cool in the broth,
uncovered, while you prepare the basting sauce. Arrange the chicken pieces
skin-side up on broiler pan in single layer and baste with enough of
mixture to evenly coat skin side. Turn and baste other side. Turn again to
skin side up and broil 6" from the heat, brushing with additional sauce
every few minutes until skin is really crispy and golden brown,
approximately 5 to 8 minutes for large pieces. BASTING MIXTURE-Mix juices,
oil, turmeric, salt and pepper. This makes enough to baste nine pieces.
El Pollo Loco Mexican Beans
Recipe By : Greg Young of El Pollo Loco via LA Times
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:30
Categories : Beans and Legumes California
Mexican Side Dishes
Low Fat
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 whole serrano chile
1/4 teaspoon serrano chiles -- ground
1 28-oz. can pinto beans
1/3 cup water
Heat oil and whole chile in sauce pan. When chile is tender, add ground
chiles, beans and water. Stir well. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 10
to 15 minutes.
EL TORITO CHICKEN AND LIME SOUP
Categories: Soups, Mexican
Yield: 4 servings
1 qt Chicken stock 1 c Julienne-cut tomatoes
2 Limes; (just the juice) 1/2 c Julienne-cut red onion
1 t Dried Mexican oregano 1 T Minced cilantro
1 t Dried basil 4 oz Jalapeno Jack cheese; cubed
1 t Pureed chipotle chile 2 Corn tortillas;cut in strip
s
1 Bay leaf 1 Avocado*
Salt & White pepper 4 Lime slices
2 Chicken breast halves* 4 Cilantro sprigs
*Note- Chicken breasts should be cooked and shredded. Avocado, peeled,
pitted and sliced. Combine stock, lime juice, oregano, basil, pureed
chipotle and bay leaf in stockpot. Season to taste with salt and white
pepper. Bring to boil. Simmer 15 minutes.
Add shredded chicken, tomatoes, red onion and cilantro. Bring to boil.
Simmer 5 minutes. Adjust seasonings to taste. Ladle very hot soup into
warm soup bowls. Drop in cheese cubes. Garnish each serving with a few
tortilla strips, avocado slices, lime slice and cilantro sprig. Makes
about 1 quart.
El Torito Sweet Corn Cake
Recipe By : El Torito Restaurant, California
Serving Size : 12 Preparation Time :0:30
Categories : Breads Copycat
Mexican
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1/4 cup butter or margarine
2 tablespoons shortening
1/2 cup masa harina
3 tablespoons cold water
10 ounces corn kernels
3 tablespoons cornmeal
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons whipping cream
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
My favorite, and well worth the effort. Masa harina comes in a bag like
flour and can be found with the flour in most supermarkets. It's the flour
to use for corn tortillas. The recipe doubles easily and turns out well with
either of the two methods provided. -- Ann Weeks, Corona Method two is the
moist scoop we usually get at the restaurant. -- patH
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Place butter and shortening in mixer bowl and whip until soft; continue
whipping until fluffy and creamy. Add masa gradually while mixing; add water
gradually and mix thoroughly.
Place corn kernels in blender or food processor fitted with metal blade;
coarsely chop. Stir into the masa harina. Place (regular) cornmeal, sugar,
whipping cream, baking powder and salt in large mixing bowl; mix quickly.
Add masa mixture and mix lightly, just until blended. Pour into greased
8-inch-square baking pan. Cover with foil.
Method 1: Bake in 350-degree oven 40 to 50 minutes or until corn cake has a
firm texture.
Method 2: Place pan in a larger pan and pour boiling water half way up corn
cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees 40 to 50 minutes, checking water level and
adding more boiling water, if necessary. When cooked through, remove corn
cake pan from water.
Let cooked cake stand at room temperature for few minutes before cutting
into squares or using a small ice cream scoop to serve.
Makes 10 to 12 small servings. Store leftovers in the refrigerator.
El Torito's Sweet Corn Cake
Yield: 10 servings
LYNN THOMAS DCQP82A--
1/4 c Butter, unsalted
2 tb Shortening
1/2 c Masa harina
3 tb Cold water
1 10 Ounce Pkg frozen corn
Kernels
3 tb Cornmeal
1/4 c Sugar
2 tb Whipping cream
1/4 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
1) Whip butter and shortening in mixing bowl until fluffy and
creamy.
Add masa harina gradually and mix thoroughly. Add water gradually,
mixing thoroughly. 2) Blend corn kernels until coarsley chopped.
Stir
into masa mixture. 3) Mix cornmeal, sugar, whipping cream, baking
powder and salt in large bowl. Add butter-masa mixture; mix until
blended. 4) Pour masa mixture into 8" greased baking pan. Cover
with
foil and bake at 350 degrees until corn cake is firm, 40 to 50
minutes. Allow to stand at room temperature 15 minutes before
cutting
into squares. Or use ice cream scoop to serve. Each serving
contains
about: 147 calories; 76 mg sodium; 16 mg cholesterol; 9 grams
fat; 17
grams carbohydrates; 2 grams protein; 0.21 grams fiber.
Entenmann's Apple Crumb Cake
1/3 cup Butter
4 Granny Smith Apples
¾ cup Sugar
1 tsp Lemon peel
½ tsp Cinnamon
1/8 tsp Mace
1/3 cup Currants
2½ cups Flour
3 tbsp Sugar
½ tsp Salt
1 package Active dry yeast
¾ cup Water
1/3 cup Butter
1 Egg
1 tsp Lemon peel
¾ cup Chopped pecans
6 tbsp Flour
¼ cup Confectioner's sugar
3 tbsp Butter
¼ tsp Cinnamon
Melt butter in large skillet. Pare,core and slice apples
to ½" pieces. Add apples to butter and cook, stirring,
8 minutes until tender. stir in sugar, peel, cinnamon,
mace and currants. Cook 15 minutes, stirring until thickened.
Cool.
In large bowl, combine 1 cup flour, sugar, salt and yeast.
In small saucepan, combine water and butter. Heat on low flame
until 120°F Gradually add to dry ingredients. Beat 2 minutes,
Beat in egg, peel and ¾ cup flour. With mixer, beat 2 minutes.
Add remaining flour, stir in. Cover, let rest 20 minutes.
Grease 2 baking sheets. Place half the dough on well floured
work surface, roll to 14"x12". Place on sheet. Spread ½ filling
lengthwise down center of the dough. Starting about ¾" for filling,
cut 1" wide strips diagonally from filling to edges of dough.
Alternately fold opposite strips of dough at angles across filling.
Fold ends over filling. Brush large piece of waxed paper with
vegetable oil. Loosely cover sheet. Top with plastic wrap.
Refrigerate 2 hours.
Uncover, let stand at room temperature 10 minutes. Preheat oven
to 375°F. Combine rest of ingredients for topping. Sprinkle over
loaves.
Bake 30-35 minutes until lightly browned. Remove from sheet. Cool.
Entenmann's Fat-Free Chocolate Cupcakes
1 small Box Jello chocolate pudding powder
½ cup Non-fat dry milk powder
1 tbsp Unsweetened Hershey's cocoa
½ cup Sugar
1 cup Self-rising flour
4 Egg whites, beat until stiff with 1 pinch Salt
1½ qt bowl
1 tsp Vanilla
4 oz Applesauce
¼ tsp Baking soda
In medium mixing bowl combine Jello powder, dry milk, cocoa,
sugar and flour. Set aside. With electric mixer, beat
alternately into the egg white mixture a cup at a time with
the vanilla, applesauce and baking soda, which have been
mixed together. Beat 2 minutes after last addition. Divide
batter equally between 12 paper-line cupcake wells. Bake at 350°F
about 18-20 minutes or until tester comes out clean. Cool in
pan on wire rack 10 minutes then remove.
Entenmann's Fat-Free Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 48 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Desserts Cookies
Low-Fat
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 tablespoon Molasses
3 Raw egg whites
1 cup Dark raisins
1 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla
1 cup Light brown sugar -- packed
1 cup Granulated sugar
1/2 cup Non-fat dry milk powder
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons Baking powder
2 1/2 cups Quaker brand quick-cooking -- rolled oats
1 cup All-purpose flour
Put molasses, egg whites and raisins into blender and blend on high speed
just to mince but not to puree (about 5-10 seconds). Empty mixture into
medium mixing bowl. With mixer beat in on medium speed each of the
remaining ingredients, beating well after each addition, adding both the
oats and flour in small portions. Switch to mixing spoon if dough becomes
too stiff for mixer. Lightly spray cookie sheet with Pam and wipe off
excess lightly with paper towel; any excess of the cookie sheet may burn
while cookies are baking. You need only a very light film of the Pam just
to keep cookies from sticking. Use 1 measuring teaspoonful of dough for
each cookie and place 2" apart on prepared cookie sheet. Bake in preheated
350~ oven 6-8 minutes. Do not overbake. Cool on paper towels, removing
from cookie sheets carefully.
Entenmann's Pound Cake
½ lb Real butter
2 cups Powdered sugar
3 large Eggs
1 2/3 cups Flour
1 tbsp Lemon or vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325°F. Spray an 8½" Pyrex loaf dish with Pam.
Cream butter with sugar on high speed of mixer for 5 minutes.
Add 1 egg and then a little flour, beating 2 minutes. Add 2nd
egg and half of remaining flour and beat 2 minutes. Add 3rd egg,
rest of flour and extract, beating 2 minutes. Spread thick and
creamy batter evenly in prepared loaf dish. Bake 65 minutes or
until tester inserted into center comes out clean.
Cool in baking dish on wire rack 30 minutes. Remove from dish.
Slice ½" thick. If freezing, be sure to slice before freezing
loaf. Thaw to use within 6 months.
Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Desserts Cookies
Low-Fat
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1/2 pound Butter or margarine
1 cup Light brown sugar -- packed
1 cup Sugar
3 Eggs
3 cups Bisquick
1 cup Cornstarch
1/2 cup Nonfat milk powder
2 tablespoons Sanka or coffee powder
1 tablespoon Unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tablespoon Vanilla
1 Package semi-sweet chocolate pieces -- (12 ounces)
4 ounces Pecans -- well-chopped
With electric mixer, high speed, cream butter until light and fluffy. Beat
in sugars, beating until very creamy. Beat in eggs, then each remaining
ingredient, except chips and pecans When dough is smooth, work in chips
and pecans with spoon. Make grape-sized pieces of dough for each cookie,
placing 1" apart on ungreased sheet. Bake at 350~ for 14 minutes or until
golden brown. 12 dozen itsy bitsy cookies. Freeze unbaked cookie dough to
thaw, shape and bake in 4 months.
Famous Amos Raisin-Filled Choc Chip Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 72 servings
2 c Margarine; softened
3/4 c Packed light brown sugar
3/4 c Granulated sugar
1 ts Vanilla
2 md Eggs
2 1/2 c All-purpose flour; sifted
1 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
2 c Raisins
12 oz Semisweet chocolate chips
Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 11/27/95
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat margarine, brown and white sugars,
vanilla, 1 teaspoon water and eggs with electric mixer in large bowl until
creamy and thoroughly blended.
By hand, stir in flour, baking soda and salt until well mixed. Stir in
raisins and chocolate chips.
Spoon dough by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets. Leave 1 to 1 1/2 inches
between cookies. Bake 8 minutes or until cookies are browned to your
liking. Yield: About 6 dozen.
Fatburger®
Southern California - the birthplace of famous hamburgers from
McDonald's, Carl's Jr., and In-n-Out Burger - is home to another
thriving burger chain that opened its first outlet in 1952. Lovie
Yancey thought of the perfect name for the 1/3-pound burgers she
sold at her Los Angeles burger joint: Fatburger. Now with over 41
units in California, Nevada, and moving into Washington and
Arizona, Fatburger has become the food critics' favorite, winning
"best burger in town" honors with regularity. The secret is the
seasoned salt used on a big 'ol lean beef patty. And there's no
ketchup on the stock version, just mayo, mustard, and relish.
Replace the ground beef with ground turkey and you've got Fatburger's
Turkeyburger all up and cloned.
1/3 pound lean ground beef
seasoned salt
ground black pepper
1 plain hamburger bun
1/2 tablespoon mayonnaise
1/4 cup chopped iceberg lettuce
1 tomato slice
1/2 tablespoon mustard
1/2 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
1 tablespoon chopped onion
3 dill pickle slices (hamburger slices)
Optional
1 slice American cheese
Grill the unsuspecting beef patty in a hot frying pan.
Slap the hot side and the cold side together.
1. Form the ground beef into a patty that is about 1 inch wider
than the circumference of the hamburger bun.
2. Preheat a non-stick frying pan to medium/high heat. Fry the
patty in the pan for 3 to 4 minutes per side or until done. Season
both sides of the beef with seasoned salt and ground black pepper.
3. As the meat cooks prepare the bun by spreading approximately 1/2
tablespoon of mayonnaise on the face of the top bun.
4. Place the lettuce on the mayonnaise, followed by the tomato slice.
5. When the beef is done place the patty on the bottom bun.
6. Spread about 1/2 tablespoon of mustard over the top of the beef
patty.
7. Spoon about 1/2 tablespoon of relish over the mustard.
8. Sprinkle the chopped onion onto the relish.
9. Arrange the pickles on the chopped onion.
10. Bring the two halves of the burger together and serve with
gumption.
Makes 1 burger.
Tidbits
If you want cheese on your burger, put a slice of American cheese
on the face of the bottom bun before adding the beef patty. The
heat from the meat will melt the cheese.
Fiddle Faddle® & Screaming Yellow Zonkers®
I know the most popular candy corn out there is Cracker Jack,
but my favorite has always been Screaming Yellow Zonkers and
Fiddle Fiddle from Lincoln Snacks Company. Fiddle Faddle is
butter toffee-coated popcorn with almonds thrown in. Screaming
Yellow Zonkers (you gotta love the name) is similar, but without
the almonds. The secret to the yellow coloring of the Zonkers:
buttered popcorn.
Fiddle Faddle (butter toffee with almonds)
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/3 bags plain or natural-flavored microwave popcorn
1/2 cup roasted almonds
Zonkers
1 cup granulated sugar
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/3 bags butter-flavored microwave popcorn
1. For either recipe, combine sugar, butter, corn syrup, water
and salt in a large saucepan over medium heat. You're going to
bring the candy to 265-275 degrees, or what is known as the hard
ball stage. For this it's best to use a candy thermometer. If you
don't have one, don't worry. Drip the candy into a small glass of
cold water. If the candy forms a very hard, yet slightly pliable
ball, bingo, you're there. Watch your mixture closely so that it
doesn't boil over.
2. While candy cooks, pop both bags of popcorn and spread about 2
quarts or 1 1/3 bags of popcorn (plus almonds for Fiddle Faddle)
on one large or two small cookie sheets. Put the popcorn in your
oven set on its lowest temperature. This will keep the popcorn hot
so that the candy will coat better.
3. When your candy has reached the hard ball stage, add the vanilla.
4. Pull the popcorn from the oven and, working quickly, pour the
candy over the popcorn in thin streams. Mix the popcorn so that
each kernel is coated with candy, put the popcorn back into the oven
for five more minutes, then stir once again. This will help to coat
each kernel. You can repeat this step once more if necessary to get
all of the popcorn coated. Pour popcorn onto a large sheet of wax
paper to cool. Spread the popcorn out, but be careful...it's hot.
5. When popcorn is cool, break it up and immediately put it into a
tightly sealed container, such as Tupperware. This will ensure that
it stays fresh. This stuff gets stale very quickly in moist climates
if left out.
Makes about 4 quarts.
Girl Scout Cookies® Shortbread
Since they only sell these once a year, right around
springtime, you're bound to get a craving sometime around fall.
And if you're still holding onto a box, they may have begun
to taste a bit like used air-hockey pucks. Now you can toss out
those relics and fill the box with a fresh batch, made from
this clone recipe for the first variety of cookies sold by the
Girl Scouts back in 1917.
1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons beaten egg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons buttermilk
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (plus an extra 1/4 cup reserved for
rolling)
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the shortening, sugar,
vanilla, and salt with an electric mixer.
2. Add the egg and beat mixture until it's fluffy. Add the baking
soda and mix for about 20 seconds, then add the buttermilk and mix
for an additional 30 seconds.
3. In another bowl, combine the flour and baking powder.
4. Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix well with an
electric mixer until flour is incorporated.
5. Roll the dough into a ball, cover it with plastic wrap, and chill
it for 1 hour.
6. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
7. Roll dough out on a well-floured surface to 1/8-inch thick and
punch out cookies with a 1 1/2 to 2-inch cutter (a medium-size spice
bottle lid works well). Arrange cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet.
8. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Makes 60 cookies.
Girl Scout Cookies® Thin Mints
If those cute little cookie peddlers aren't posted outside
the market, it may be tough to get your hands on these -
the most popular cookies sold by the Girl Scouts each year.
One out of every four boxes of cookies sold by the girls is
Thin Mints. This recipe uses an improved version of the
chocolate wafers created for the Oreo cookie clone in the
second TSR book "More Top Secret Recipes." That recipe creates
108 cookie wafers, so when you're done dipping, you'll have
the equivalent of three boxes of the Girl Scout Cookies favorite.
(See? That's why you bought those extra cookie sheets.)
You could, of course, reduce the recipe by baking only 1/3
of the cookie dough for the wafers and then reducing the
coating ingredients by 1/3, giving you a total of 36 cookies.
But that may not be enough to last you until next spring.
Chocolate Cookie Wafers
1 18.25-ounce package Betty Crocker chocolate fudge cake mix
3 tablespoons shortening, melted
1/2 cup cake flour, measured then sifted
1 egg
3 tablespoons water
Non-stick cooking spray
Coating
3 12-ounce bags semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
6 tablespoons shortening
1. Combine the cookie ingredients in a large bowl, adding the
water a little bit at a time until the dough forms. Cover
and chill for 2 hours.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out a portion of the dough
to just under 1/16 of an inch thick. To cut, use a lid from a
spice container with a 1 1/2-inch diameter (Schilling brand is good.)
Arrange the cut dough rounds on a cookie sheet that is sprayed with
a light coating on non-stick spray. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove
the wafers from the oven and cool completely.
4. Combine chocolate chips with peppermint extract and shortening
in a large microwave - safe glass or ceramic bow. Heat on 50
percent power for 2 minutes, stir gently, then heat for an addition
minute. Stir once again, and if chocolate is not a smooth
consistency, continue to zap in microwave in 30-second intervals
until smooth.
5. Use a fork to dip each wafer in the chocolate, tap the fork on
the edge of the bowl so that the excell chocolate runs off, and
then place the cookies side-by-side on a wax paper - lined baking
sheet. Refrigerate until firm.
Makes 108 cookies.
Good Reasons Italian Dressing
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Dressings Copycat
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 Tbls Garlic Salt
1 Tbls Onion Powder
1 Tbls Sugar
2 Tbls Oregano
1 Tsp Pepper
1/4 Tsp Thyme
1 Tsp Basil
1 Tbls Parsley
1/4 tsp Celery Salt
2 Tbls Salt
1 Env. Cup Of Soup Cream Of Chicken Mix
1/4 C Cider Vinegar
2 Tbls Water
2/3 c Oil
Combine all dry ingr. Store covered at room temp. For dressing: Mix vinegar, water, oil and 2 oz of the dry mix. Shake well. From: GLORIA PITZER "EATING OUT AT HOME" (CB018) *Also good as a italian spice blend
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NOTES : Yield One Serving
Good Seasons® Italian Salad Dressing Mix
Here's a clone for the instant dressing mix you buy in the
little .7-ounce packets. When added to vinegar, water, and
oil, you get one of the best-tasting instant salad dressings
around. But what if you can't find the stuff, or it is no
longer sold in your area, as I've heard from so many? Or maybe
you want to save some money and make a bunch of your own?
Just use the recipe below to make as much dry mix as you want,
and save it for when you need instant salad satisfaction.
I've used McCormick lemon pepper in the recipe here because
it contains lemon juice solids that help duplicate the taste
of the sodium citrate and citric acid in the real thing.
The dry pectin, which can be found near the canning supplies
in your supermarket, is used as a thickener, much like the
xanthan gum in the original product.
1 teaspoon carrot, grated and finely chopped
1 teaspoon red bell pepper, finely minced
3/4 teaspoon McCormick lemon pepper
1/8 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
2 teaspoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
2 teaspoons dry pectin
pinch ground oregano
1. Place the carrot and bell pepper on a baking pan in an oven
set on 250 degrees for 45 to 60 minutes, or until all of the
small pieces are completely dry, but not browned.
2. Combine the dried carrot and bell pepper with the other
ingredients in a small bowl. Mix can be stored in a sealed
container indefinitely until needed.
3. When ready to use, pour 1/4 cup of vinegar into a cruet or
jar. Add 3 tablespoons of water, then the dressing mix. Seal
and shake vigorously. Add 1/2 cup of oil and shake until well
blended.
Serves 8 to10.
GrandMa's® Oatmeal Raisin Big Cookies
GrandMa's Cookie Company was founded back in 1914 by Foster
Wheeler, but it wasn't until 1977 that the company introduced
the popular Big Cookie. This large, soft cookie comes two to
a pack and is offered in several varieties, including oatmeal
raisin. Now you can bake up a couple batches all your own with
this spiffy kitchen clone. Just be sure not to overdo it in the
oven. You want these cookies soft and chewy when cool - just
like a happy grandma would make 'em -- so take them out when
they are just beginning to turn light brown around the edges.
1/2 cup raisins
1/3 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 egg
1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups oats (not instant)
2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup raisins
1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
2. Combine 1/2 cup raisins with water in a food processor and
blend on high speed for about 1 minute or until very smooth.
3. Combine this raisin puree with the vegetable shortening, egg,
brown sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. Mix well with electric
mixer until smooth.
4. In a separate bowl, combine the flour with the oats, baking
soda, cinnamon, and salt. Pour this dry mixture into the wet
mixture and mix well until ingredients are incorporated. Mix in
1/2 cup raisins.
5. Roll 3 tablespoon-size portions of the dough into a ball in
your hands and press to 1/2-inch flat on an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Be careful not to overcook, or the
cookies will not be chewy. Store in a sealed container.
Makes 16 to 18 cookies.
GrandMa's® Peanut Butter Big Cookies
When these cookies are cool, be sure to seal them up
real super duper tight in something like Tupperware or
a Ziploc bag. That's the way to keep these puppies moist
and chewy like the original GrandMa's Big Cookies. In fact,
the real product claims to be the only national cookie brand
that guarantees the freshness of the product or double your
money back. That's very big of the current manufacturer,
Frito-Lay, which purchased the GrandMa's Cookies brand from
General Mills back in 1980.
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 cup Peter Pan peanut butter
1 1/4 cups packed dark brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
2. Beat shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar, egg, vanilla,
and salt together in large bowl until smooth.
3. In a separate bowl combine the flour and baking soda. Slowly
add the dry mixture to the wet mixture while beating.
4. Roll 3 tablespoon-size portions of the dough into a ball in
your hands and press to 1/2-inch flat on an ungreased baking
sheet. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Be careful not to overcook,
or the cookies will not be chewy and you may negatively impact
the full enjoyment potential of the product.
Makes 14 to 16 cookies.
Great American Cookies® Snickerdoodles
Rather than trying to beat the competitors - especially
if they have an exceptional product - Mrs. Fields Famous
Brands waves the cash at 'em. With the acquisition of
Great American Cookies in 1998 by the company that made
chewy mall cookies big business -- Mrs. Fields is now
peddling her baked wares in more than 90 percent of the
premier shopping malls in the United States. That's how
you make the dough! One of the all-time favorites you can
snag at any of the 364 Great American Cookies outlets is
this clone of the classic snickerdoodle. Rolled in cinnamon
and sugar, it's soft and chewy like the other cookies, and
will seem to be undercooked when you take it out of the oven.
When it cools it should be gooey, yet firm in the middle.
And a couple bites will make you wonder: "Got milk?!"
1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Topping
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars with
an electric mixer on high speed. Add the egg and vanilla and
beat until smooth.
2. In another bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking soda, and
cream of tartar.
3. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix well.
4. Preheat oven to 300 degrees while you let the dough rest for
30 to 60 minutes in the refrigerator.
5. In a small bowl, combine the sugar with the cinnamon for the
topping.
6. Take about 2 1/2 tablespoons of the dough and roll it into a
ball. Roll this dough in the cinnamon/sugar mixture and press it
onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat for the remaining cookies.
7. Bake the cookies for 12 to 14 minutes and no more. The cookies
may seem undercooked, but will continue to develop after they are
removed from the oven. When the cookies have cooled they should be
soft and chewy in the middle.
Makes 16 to 18 cookies.
Great American Cookies® White Chunk Macadamia
When Arthur Karp shared his grandmother's favorite chocolate
chip cookie recipe with Michael Coles, the business partners
knew they had a hit on their hands. They opened their first
Great American Cookies store in 1977 in The Perimeter Mall
in Atlanta, Georgia. Now with more than 350 stores in the chain,
these cookies have quickly become a favorite, just begging to
be cloned. The chain bakes the cookies in convection ovens at
the low temperature of 280 degrees for around 16 to 17 minutes.
But since most of us don't have convection ovens and may have
a hard time getting the oven temperature to this odd setting,
we have made some adjustments. Just be sure, when you remove
the cookies from the oven, that they appear undercooked and
only slightly browned around the edges. This will give the
cookies the perfect chewy texture when they cool.
1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup coconut flakes, finely minced
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 ounces solid white chocolate, cut into chunks
1 cup macadamia nuts, chopped
1. Cream together the butter and sugar in a large bowl with
a mixer on high speed.
2. Add the coconut, egg, milk, and vanilla and mix well.
3. In another bowl combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder,
and salt.
4. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix until dough
forms. Mix in the white chocolate and macadamia nuts.
5. Preheat oven to 300 degrees while you let the dough rest for
30 to 60 minutes in the refrigerator.
6. Measure out about 2 1/2 tablespoons of the dough and form a
ball. Drop each ball of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet
about 3 inches apart and bake for 12 to 14 minutes. Do not overbake!
Cookies should come out of the oven appearing slightly browned,
yet undercooked. When cooled the cookies will be soft and chewy
like the original.
Makes 16 to 18 cookies.
Hard Rock Cafe Baked Potato Soup
8 Bacon slices - fried & crumbled
1 cup Yellow onions - diced
2/3 cups Flour
6 cups Chicken stock - hot
4 cups Potatoes - baked, diced & Peeled
2 cups Heavy cream
¼ cup Parsley - chopped
1½ tsp Granulated garlic
1½ tsp Salt
1½ tsp Red pepper sauce
1½ tsp Coarse black pepper
1 cup Cheddar cheese - grated
¼ cup Green onions - diced
Chop bacon; reserve. Cook onions in remaining drippings
over medium high heat until transparent, about 3 minutes.
Add flour, stirring to prevent lumps; cook for 3-5 minutes,
until mixture just begins to turn golden. Add chicken stock
grdually, whisking to prevent lumps until liquid thickens.
Reduce heat to simmer and add potatoes, cream, chopped bacon,
parsley, garlic, basil, salt, pepper sauce and plack pepper.
Simmer for 10 minutes; do not allow to boil. Add grated cheese
and green onions, heat until cheese melts smoothly. Garnish
each serving as desired with chopped bacon, grated cheese and
chopped parsley.
Makes 8 Servings.
Hard Rock Cafe Orange Freeze
Here's a quick recipe for the dessert drink served at Hard Rock
Cafes all over the world. With only a few ingredients you can
make this one super-quick in the blender. Great on a hot day.
And it's easy to double or quadruple to serve more.
2 cups orange sherbet or sorbet
1 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
1/4 cup milk
1 sprig fresh spearmint
1. Put the sherbet, juice, and milk in a blender and blend for
15 seconds or just until the sherbet is smooth. You may have
to stop the blender and stir the sherbet up a bit to help it combine.
2. Pour the orange freeze into a tall, chilled glass. Place a
sprig of fresh spearmint in the top and serve immediately.
Serves 1 as a dessert or beverage.
Hard Rock Cafe® Bar-B-Que Beans
If you love baked beans you'll go nuts over this clone recipe from
the world's first theme restaurant chain. It's real easy to make
too, since you just pour all of the ingredients into a covered
casserole dish, stir, and bake for an hour and a half. The only
element that may give you pause is the pulled pork from last week's
recipe. It's an effortless addition if you've got some of that
pork on hand. If not, just leave that ingredient out. Or you could
add some cooked bacon to the mix. Either way the beans will still
come out awesome as a nosh-worthy side dish or snack.
2 15-ounce cans pinto beans (with liquid)
2 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/2 cup ketchup
1/3 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons diced onion
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
1/2 cup shredded pork (from last week's recipe)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Pour entire contents of the can of pinto beans into a casserole
dish (with a lid).
3. Dissolve the cornstarch in a small bowl with the 2 tablespoons
of water. Add this solution to the beans and stir.
4. Add the remaining ingredients to the dish, stir well and cover.
5. Bake for 90 minutes or until the sauce thickens. Stir every 30
minutes. After removing the beans from the oven, let the beans
cool for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
Serves 6 to 8 as a side dish.
Hard Rock Cafe® Cole Slaw
If you want the authentic Hard Rock Cafe Pig Sandwich experience,
you just have to serve your clone of that pulled-pork sandwich
with this creamy, delicious cole slaw on the side. Even if you
don't whip up the sandwich, you'll want to dive into a batch of
this secret slaw. It's just too easy to make, and Who Wants to
be a Millionaire? isn't on tonight. But be sure to let the stuff
hibernate in the fridge for a day or two after you toss it.
That's the only way to get the flavors up to dancing the perfect
tastebud mambo.
1 1/3 cups mayonnaise
3 tablespoons white vinegar
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons milk
dash salt
8 cups chopped cabbage (1 head)
1/2 cup shredded carrot
1. Combine all ingredients except the cabbage and carrots in a
large bowl and blend until smooth with an electric mixer.
2. Add cabbage and carrots and toss well.
3. Cover and chill overnight in the refrigerator. The flavors
fully develop after 24 to 48 hours.
Serves 6 to 8 as a side dish.
Hard Rock Cafe® Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
It's the chunkiest dang chicken soup you'll ever slurp down and
it comes from the first worldwide theme eatery and hip hangout.
Crank up the rock 'n roll and throw all this good stuff into a
pot and enjoy this final secret recipe in our series of
mouth-watering soup clones. Bah-bye winter!
1 pound chicken breast fillets
1 pound chicken thigh fillets
vegetable oil
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup diced celery
4 cups chicken stock
2 cups water
1 cup sliced carrot
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1/2 teaspoon minced fresh parsley
2 cups egg noodles
Garnish
minced fresh parsley
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Rub a little vegetable oil over the surface of each piece of
chicken and arrange them on a baking sheet. Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove the chicken from the oven when it's done and set it aside
to cool.
3. Melt the butter in a large saucepan or dutch oven over medium
heat. Sauté the onion and celery in the saucepan for just 4 to 5
minutes. You don't want to brown the veggies.
4. Dice the chicken and add it to the pot along with the remaining
ingredients, except the noodles.
5. Bring the soup to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 30
minutes or until the carrots are soft.
6. Add the noodles and simmer for an additional 15 minutes, or
until the noodles are tender. Serve with a pinch of minced fresh
parsley sprinkled on top.
Makes 6 servings.
Hard Rock Cafe® Pig Sandwich
Take a big honkin' bite out of one of these and you'll soon know
why it's the Hard Rock Cafe's most popular sandwich. According
to the menu the pork is hickory smoked for 10 hours. But since
we're impatient hungry people here, we'll cut that cooking time
down to under 4 hours using a covered grill and carefully
arranged charcoal. Just sprinkle wet hickory chips over the hot
charcoal arranged around the inside edge of a grill (such as a
round Weber), and let the smoking begin. You can certainly use
an actual smoker if you've got one, and go the full 10 hours with
this puppy. But while you're still waiting for your sandwiches,
the rest of us will have already dragged our full, round bellies
over to the couch for a nap.
By the way, make your marinated cabbage a day ahead of time,
if you have the foresight.
Marinated Cabbage
2 tablespoons white vinegar
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
4 cups thinly-sliced cabbage
4 cups hickory smoking chips
Spice Rub
2 tablespoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons cracked black pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon ground sage
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
1 boneless pork loin roast (3 to 4 pounds)
vegetable oil
Sauce
2 15-ounce cans tomato puree
1 cup white vinegar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke (hickory)
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
8 Kaiser rolls
1. Make the marinated cabbage at least one day prior to building
your sandwiches. Like cole slaw, this garnish needs some time to
develop in the fridge. Combine the vinegar and sugar in a medium
bowl. Add the cabbage, stir, cover the bowl and store it in the
refrigerator until you are ready to make the sandwiches.
2. Put the wood chips in a bowl and cover with water. Let the wood
soak for at least 1 hour. Light the charcoal after it has been
arranged around the inside edge of your grill. You don't want coals
directly under your pork. When the coals are hot, drain the water
from the wood chips and sprinkle the chips over the top of the coals.
You should now have smoke.
3. Combine the spices for the rub in a small bowl and mix well.
4. Rub some vegetable oil over the surface of the pork roast.
Sprinkle the spices over the entire surface of the roast.
5. Place the roast in the center of your grill and put the lid on.
Let the pork cook for 3 to 4 hours or until the internal temperature
of the roast reaches 175 to 180 degrees.
6. As the pork cooks, make the sauce by combining the ingredients in
a medium saucepan over medium/low heat. Let the sauce simmer for 15
to 20 minutes, then cover and remove from heat. Set this aside until
your pork is ready.
7. When the pork is done, remove it from the grill and let it sit to
cool for 15 to 20 minutes or until you can handle it. Now you want
to tear the meat along the grain, making bite-size strips of shredded
pork.
8. Put the shredded pork into a large saucepan over medium heat. Add
2 cups of the sauce to the pan and stir. Keep the rest of the sauce
for later to serve on the side. Cook the pork for 15 minutes or until
it is heated through.
9. Grill the faces of the rolls and stack about 1 cup of pork onto
the bottom half of each roll. Add a rounded tablespoon of marinated
cabbage on top of the pork, add a tablespoon or so of extra sauce
on top of that, then cap off each sandwich with the top half of the
roll. Serve with clones for the Hard Rock's cole slaw and baked beans
on the side, if desired.
Makes 8 sandwiches.
Hard Rock Cafe® Tupelo Style Chicken
The world's most famous theme restaurant pays tribute to the
birthplace of Elvis Presley with this chicken finger appetizer
dish, and two tasty dipping sauces. It's probably best they
chose to name the dish after a city, rather than after the King
himself. "Elvis Style Chicken" sounds like a concoction that
should include bananas, peanut butter and bacon grease.
4 to 6 cups vegetable oil
Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 1/2 teaspoons prepared mustard
2 teaspoons honey
pinch paprika
Apricot Dipping Sauce
2 tablespoons Grey Poupon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon apricot preserves
2 tablespoons honey
1 cup corn flake crumbs
2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
1 1/4 teaspoons cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
dash garlic
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1 pound chicken breast fillets
1. Preheat oil in a deep fryer to 350 degrees.
2. Make the honey mustard dipping sauce by combining the
ingredients in a medium bowl. Cover and refrigerate. Make the
apricot dipping sauce by combing those ingredients in a medium
bowl. Cover and refrigerate this sauce as well, until your chicken
is ready.
3. Prepare the breading by combining the corn flake crumbs, crushed
red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper, cumin, salt, paprika, onion
powder, and garlic in a medium bowl.
4. Beat the egg in a medium bowl, add the 1 cup of milk and stir.
5. Pour the flour into another medium bowl.
6. Slice each chicken breast lengthwise into strips approximately
1/2-inch wide.
7. When the oil is hot, bread your chicken by first coating each
strip with flour. Dip the chicken into the egg/milk mixture and
then back into the flour. Dip each chicken strip back in the egg/milk
mixture and then in the corn flake crumb mixture. Be sure to coat
each chicken piece thoroughly with the corn flake crumbs.
8. Fry 6 to 8 coated chicken strips at a time in the oil for 4 to 5
minutes or until the chicken is golden brown. Drain and serve
chicken with the dipping sauces on the side.
Serves 6 to 8 as an appetizer
Hardee's Biscuits
Categories: Copycat, Breads
Yield: 1 servings
2 c Self-rising flour
1 tb Sugar
1 c milk
1/3 c Mayo
Combine flour, sugar, milk and mayo into a smooth
dough. Divide batter equally between 10 paper-lined
muffin wells or cupcake wells. Bake 350~ about 25 to
30 minutes or until golden brown and doubled in size.
Harley Davidson Cafe® Harley Hog Sandwich®
In late September 1997, the Harley Davidson Cafe celebrated its
grand opening in Las Vegas. This is the second Harley Davidson
Cafe, with the first one located in New York City, just a short
walk from the first Planet Hollywood. Both locations serve up
some delicious "road food" amongst the awesome collection of
vintage Harley's and Harley Davidson paraphernalia. I think this
sandwich is one of their best, and this recipe comes right from
the source. The Pork Producers Council got the recipe from the
cafe's chef, and featured it in a promotional pull-out that ran
in a restaurant trade magazine in 1995. Now the secret can be
shared with you.
6 to 8 lb. boneless pork butt, tied
Rub
1 cup Kosher salt
1 cup course ground black pepper
1 cup paprika (sweet Hungarian is best)
2 cups hickory wood chips
1 cup apple wood chips
Hog Sauce
2 large onions, chopped
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
5 1/4 cups (42 ounces) canned tomatoes, with juice
3 cups cider vinegar
1 3/4 cups ketchup
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup brown mustard
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon coarse black pepper
12 large round rolls
1. Combine all of the rub ingredients. Coat the pork butt evenly
with mixture, shaking off any excess.
2. Soak wood chips in water 30 minutes. Place pork butt in a
smoker on rack at 220 degrees for 8 hours, with smoke going for
2 hours. Let it cool slightly. Break the meat apart with your hands.
3. Sauté' onions in oil in heavy saucepan until translucent. Add
the remaining ingredients and cook until mixture is thick and coats
the back of a spoon. Puree the sauce and let it cool. (Sauce can be
made 2 to 3 days in advance and refrigerated.)
4. Combine the pork and the sauce (to taste) in a heavy saucepan.
Cook until it is heated through.
5. To serve: Pile the pork on the rolls. Serve with french fries
and cole slaw if desired.
Yields 12 servings.
Todd's Tidbits
You can also smoke your pork in a charcoal barbecue, such as a
round Weber Grill. Just arrange the charcoal around the edge of
the inside of the grill. When the coals are hot, place the soaked
wood chips on them, and then place the pork on the center of the
rack above the coals. Cover. Cook the meat for 2-4 hours or until
the internal temperature comes to 150°-165°.
Heinz 57® Steak Sauce
In the late 1800s Henry John Heinz established the slogan
"57 Varieties," which you can still find printed on Heinz
products even though the company now boasts over 5700 varieties
in 200 countries. Today Heinz is the world's largest tomato
producer, but interestingly the first product for the company
that was launched in 1869 had nothing to do with tomatoes; it
was grated horseradish. It wasn't until 1876 that ketchup was
added to the growing company's product line.
Tomato is also an important ingredient in this tangy steak
sauce. But you'll find some interesting ingredients in there as
well, such as raisin puree, malt vinegar, apple juice concentrate,
and mustard. And don't worry if your version doesn't come out as
brown as the original. Heinz uses a little caramel coloring in its
product to give it that distinctive tint. It's just for looks,
though, so I've left that ingredient out of this clone recipe.
Besides, I've found that the turmeric and yellow mustard will help
get this version close to the color of the real deal.
Raisin Puree
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup water
1 1/3 cup white vinegar
1 cup tomato paste
2/3 cup malt vinegar
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon yellow prepared mustard
2 teaspoons apple juice concentrate
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon turmeric
1. Make the raisin puree by combining the raisins with the water
in a food processor or blender. Blend on high speed for 1 minute
or until the puree is smooth. Measure 1/4 cup of this puree into
a medium saucepan.
2. Add the remaining ingredients and whisk until smooth.
3. Turn heat up to medium high and bring mixture to a thorough boil.
Reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for 1/2 hour or until
thick. Let sauce cool and then refrigerate it in a covered container
for at least 24 hours.
Makes 3 cups.
Hershey® PayDay® Candy Bar
In December of 1996, Hershey Foods snagged the U.S. operations
of Leaf Brands for a pretty penny. This added several well
known candies to Hershey's already impressive roster, including
Good & Plenty, Jolly Rancher, Milk Duds, Whoppers, Heath, and
this delicious peanut roll, which we can finally clone at home.
The center is sort of a white fudge that we can make by combining
a few ingredients on the stove, then getting the mixture up to
just the right temperature using a candy thermometer (you've got
one, right?). Once cool, this candy center is coated with a thin
layer of caramel, then quickly pressed onto roasted peanuts.
Looks just like the real thing! This recipe will make eight
candy bars. But it's up to you to make the dental appointment.
Centers
1/4 cup whole milk
5 unwrapped caramels
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1 teaspoon peanut butter
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
20 unwrapped caramels
1 1/2 teaspoons water
2 cups dry roasted peanuts
1. Combine all ingredients for the centers, except the powdered
sugar, in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir often as the
caramel slowly melts. When the mixture is smooth, add 3/4 cup of
powdered sugar. Stir. Save the remaining 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
for later.
2. Use a candy thermometer to bring the mixture to exactly 230
degrees, stirring often, then turn off the heat.
3. When the temperature of the candy begins to drop, add the
remaining 1/2 cup powdered sugar to the pan, then use a hand mixer
on high speed to combine. Keep mixing until the candy cools and
thickens and can no longer be mixed. That should take a minute or
two.
4. Let the candy cool in the pan for 10 to 15 minutes, or until it
can be touched. Don't let it sit too long - you want the candy to
still be warm and pliable when you shape it. Take a tablespoon-size
portion and roll it between your palms or on a countertop until it
forms a roll the width of your index finger, and measuring about
4 1/2 inches long. Repeat with the remaining center candy mixture
and place the rolls on wax paper. You should have 8 rolls. Let the
center rolls sit out for an hour or two to firm up.
5. Combine the 20 caramels with the 1 1/2 teaspoons of water in a
small saucepan over low heat. Stir often until the caramels melt
completely, then turn off the heat. If you work fast this caramel
will stay warm while you make the candy bars.
6. Pour the peanuts onto a baking sheet or other flat surface.
Using a basting brush and working quickly, "paint" a coating of
caramel onto one side of a center roll. Quickly turn the center
over, caramel-side-down, onto the peanuts and press gently so that
the peanuts stick to the surface of the candy. Paint more caramel
onto the other side of the roll and press it down onto the peanuts.
The candy should have a solid layer of peanuts covering all sides.
If needed, brush additional caramel onto the roll, then turn it
onto the peanuts to coat the roll completely. Place the candy bar
onto wax paper, and repeat with the remaining ingredients. Eat
when completely cool.
Makes 8 candy bars.
Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix-dressing
Categories: Copycat, Salads, Dressings
Yield: 1 pint
Powder Mix
15 2" square saltines
2 c Dry minced parsley flakes
1/2 c Dry minced onions
2 tb Dry dill weed
1/4 c Onion salt
1/4 c Garlic salt
1/4 c Onion powder
1/4 c Garlic powder
Salad dressing
1 tb Mix
1 c Mayo
1 c Buttermilk
Put crackers through blender on high speed until
powdered. Add parsley, minced onions and dill weed.
Blend again until powdered. Put into bowl. Stir in
onion salt, garlic salt, onion powder and garlic
powder. Put into container with tight-fitting lid.
Store at room temp for 1 year. Makes 42- 1 tablespoon
servings.
Honey Baked Ham
Servings: 1
1 (7 lb.) med. smoked pork
picnic
shoulder (bone in or out)
2 c sugar
1 c honey or brown sugar,
packed
1 (6 oz.) can frozen orange
juice
concentrate, thawed
1 ts whole cloves
Preparation :
Make crosswise slits, 1/2 inch apart, halfway through ham to where
knife touches bone. Place ham in deep bowl and barely cover with
water. Stir in sugar. Soak at least 2 days in refrigerator.
Drain. Place ham in roasting pan, lined with enough foil to wrap
completely. Pour honey or brown sugar and orange juice all over
pork. Stick cloves all over meat. Wrap tightly with foil. Bake at
200 degrees for 6 to 7 hours or until done, unwrapping and basting
occasionally with honey mixture. Unwrap and bake at 450 degrees
about 15 minutes for slightly crisp skin.
HOSTESS TWINKIES
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cakes
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1/2 c Margarine
1/2 c Crisco
1 c Sugar
3/4 c Evaporated milk
1 tb Vanilla
-----CAKE-----
3 lg Eggs
3 1/2 ts Baking powder
1 1/2 ts Vanilla
2 c Flour
1 c Milk
1/2 c Butter
1 1/2 c Plus 1/2 cup Sugar
Sugar
1 t Salt
FILLING:
Mix together and bake in 13 x 9 pan cut cake into
sections and layer with cake, filling and more cake.
Hostess® Twinkie Creme Filling
Recently I've had an opportunity to go back and improve
the recipe for the Hostess Twinkie clone found on page
47 of the first book, "Top Secret Recipes." Specifically,
I wanted to make the creme filling more stable, using
non-dairy ingredients, so that it could not spoil and would
be easier to make. Here now, is the much improved recipe,
using fewer ingredients than the original clone, and with
marshmallow creme as the new secret component. This recipe
is for all of you who have supported the site by buying the
books, since the cake part of the recipe and mold-making
technique is not included here. But even if you don't have
the books, I'm sure you can find many uses for this versatile,
commercial-style, creme filling. Hope you like it!
2 teaspoons very hot water
rounded 1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups marshmallow creme (1 7-ounce jar)
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1. Combine the salt with the hot water in a small bowl and stir
until salt is dissolved. Let this mixture cool.
2. Combine the marshmallow creme, shortening, powdered sugar,
and vanilla in a medium bowl and mix well with an electric mixer
on high speed until fluffy.
3. Add the salt solution to the filling mixture and combine.
Makes 1 1/2 cups.
Hot Dog on a Stick® Hot Dog®
One hot summer day in 1946 Dave Barham was inspired to
dip a hot dog into his mother's cornbread batter, then
deep fry it to a golden brown. You could say that's when
the first Hot Dog on a Stick was born, and Dave soon found
a quaint Santa Monica, California, location near the beach to offer his new creation with mustard on the sidde along with a tall glass of ice-cold lemonade.
The chain uses only turkey dogs for this treat, so we'll
do the same. Just be sure you find the shorter dogs, not
"bun-length." In this case size does matter. For the stick,
simply snag some of the disposable wood chopsticks from a
local Chinese or Japanese food restaurant next time you're
there and start dipping.
2 cups flour
3/4 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup sugar
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 3/4 cups fat-free milk
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
8 to 10 turkey hot dogs
8 to 10 cups vegetable oil
5 pairs of chopsticks
1. Preheat oil in a deep pan or fryer to 375 degrees.
2. Combine the flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt, and baking soda
in a large bowl.
3. Add the milk and egg yolks to the dry ingredients and mix
with an electric mixer on high speed until batter is smooth.
4. Dry off the hot dogs with a paper towel. Jab the thin end
of a single chopstick about halfway into the end of each hot dog.
5. When the oil is hot, tip the bowl of batter so that you can
completely coat each hot dog. Roll the hot dog in the batter
until it is entirely covered.
6. Hold the hot dog up by the stick and let some of the batter
drip off. Quickly submerge the hot dog in the oil and spin it
slowly so that the coating cooks evenly. After about 20 seconds
you can use a lid to the deep fryer or pan to put weight on the
stick, keeping the hot dog fully immersed in the oil. You can
cook a couple dogs at a time this way. Cook for 5 to6 minutes or
until coating is dark brown. Turn them once or twice as they cook.
Drain on paper towels while cooling, and repeat with remaining hot
dogs.
Makes 8 to 10 hot dogs.
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