The purpose of this recipe newsletter is to post requests and replies, and recipes  from our recipe family (members) and to post all their great tried and tested (TNT) recipes. 

July 9 2006
Page 1 

CLICK HERE to respond to messages. Please include date of newsletter, name of recipe and number of servings.  Remember to include your name within the message as well. (Just clicking on your email message will not get your messages in the newsletter.) Please use the link listed above.

Page 1     Page 2

Cooking/food
Low Carb Chicken Recipes Made Easy
Tips For A Perfect Low Carb Cheesecake
Take a Mop to Your Meats!
Kabobs-Another Word For Dinner On A Stick
How to Create the Perfect Ribs in Your Smoker 
Spicy Chipotle Flank Steak Sandwich Recipe
Advice on Buying and Using a Meat Smoker
11 Tips to Making the Best Pork Ribs.
Natural Gas Grills - the Best Way to BBQ Your Steak
Simple BBQ Chicken
BBQ Sauce - What Style Do You Prefer?
Barbecuing, a Fun and Convenient Way to Make Dinner  
Incredible Edibles Art Projects for Kids
Nutrition for Kids: How to Teach Your Children About Healthy Eating
Deviled Eggs, Egg Dye and Other Egg Recipes
Easy Tuna Recipes

To Jocelne In Quebec, Betty here from HOT, HOT, HOT Whittier in So.Cal.

Just wanted to thank you again for the "Black Angus Cheesy Garlic Bread" recipe. (in the June 14, P1 newsletter) The family was over yesterday and couldn't get enough of the garlic bread. Of course the smell was all over the house and the family was standing in line waiting for the bread. I only wish I had made more. Next time I will. Thank you again for sending in the recipe. For anyone else that may want to try it, it is now tnt.

Hope all is well with you Nancy. Take care and hugs to you for all your hard work. Pats for the cats.
Betty in Whittier.

Nancy,
A few weeks ago I stumbled across a party planning website the had a list of saying to put on Christmas tags for homemade gifts. I'd thought I'd pass it along for anyone else that gives goodies for Christmas.

http://thepartyworks.com/article_info.php/
Fran in Ottawa

I know I am very late on getting this recipe to you but I had to move in with my mother when she fell and dislocated her shoulder. I was able to make the move since my wife passed away this Jan.
Hope this helps. Terry S. in Tx

Does anyone have a recipe for something similar to Onion Soup Mix? I have a
recipe that uses an envelope of it, but it came out salty, and I'd like to make it again, but cut down on salt...
Thanks! Mari in NY

Dry Onion Soup Mix
1 cup dry minced onion
1/4 cup onion powder
1/4 cup parsley, freeze-dried
2 tablespoons onion salt
1 teaspoon pepper
2 ounces beef bouillon
1/4 cup brown gravy powder

Mix together. 1/4 cup = 1 envelope onion soup mix. Yields: about 2-1/2 cups mix

Note: I would cut back on the onion salt and add more onion powder to make it less salty.

In response to:
Computer problem- 200 of your newsletters on my Outlook Express

Answer: Open OUTLOOK EXPRESS and then minimize (make the screen smaller) to where you can see desktop. Create a new folder on desktop and name it Daily Recipe Exchange, whatever. then highlight each of the unopened emails you wish to keep (or do CONTROL + A) right click on one of the highlighted files and drag them to that folder.

Simple, nothing else involved. Original stays in OUTLOOK EXPRESS til you delete. I always check to be sure but have done this for many years. I always know they are there rather than through the compression that OE has...Hope this helps...
doe

For Sue in MI who needed and easy way to clean oven grates.

I put oven grates in a lg. plastic garbage bag, then spray them well with oven cleaner, and twist tie the bag. shut. I put the bag out in the sun and let them "cook". When they've been out in the sun, (sometimes I forget they're out there and leave them out all day), I take them out of the bag and just hose them off! Works like a charm for me! Hope it works for you.

Bev in NC

Hi Nancy and all. Have been hoping someone else would send a Pickled Peaches recipe for Deb in GA, as mine taste real good but only keep even after water bath canning them for about 6 months. I don't know if it is our heat here (our pantry in is the garage, and it gets pretty hot) or if I'm doing something wrong. Please, if any one knows after reading this how I can make them last longer, please let me know. Meantime, Deb, guess you can do what I do and only can as many as you can eat in that length of time. Will also include a salad we make with them which is really tasty. Marilyn in FL

Old Timey Sweet Pickled Peaches
20 medium peaches
80 whole cloves
2 pts (4 c.) white or cider vinegar
12 c. sugar
Sterilized jars and hot lids

Scald peaches, slip skins off, halve, and pit them. Stick 2 cloves in each half. Heat vinegar & sugar to a boil; drop peaches in & cook till tender, about 5 or 6 minutes. With a slotted spoon, put peach halves in sterile jars.
Continue cooking syrup till it thickens slightly; doesn't take long. Then pour it over the peaches, release any air bubbles, put on hot lids, tighten down lid rings, and process 20 minutes in a boiling water bath, counting time from return to a boil.

I always notice some lowering of the level of the syrup after the water bath, but don't know how to stop this. Also, some folks add cinnamon also, but we don't like it, it's much spicer and changes the taste , more like the commercially made ones, and while we like spicy food, we just happen to like the peaches the old way but you could give it a whirl. 6 to 8 pints.

Greens with Pickled Peaches

Per serving:
1 large handful spinach
1 medium handful leaf, romaine, bibb, or boston lettuce
1 to 3 pickled peach halves, sliced if you'd like to
Blue cheese crumbles (or feta is good too)
Ribs of celery heart
3 to 5 scallions, trimmed
A mild Greek or Italian viniagrette dressing

Wash & dry greens & celery tiny ribs, and slice scallions in about 3/4" diagonal pieces. Mix greens in a bowl, top with peaches, scatter on the cheese crumbles. Arrange the celery ribs around the sides of the salad and scatter on the scallions. Cover with plastic wrap and chill till needed; dress with viniagrette to serve. Pretty simple, pretty adaptable, pretty!

For the person who wanted a good way to clean oven grates. I always put mine in a garbage bag spray generously with an oven cleaner and place bag in the sun for several hours. They will just spray clean with plain water. I have used this with our grill grates also.

This newsletter is a great replacement for when I was a young wife and all the women in the neighborhood were stay at home moms who got together and shared info to make homemaking easier. Not too many neighborhoods like that today with all working wives.
Merrymaryan from MN

This response is for Mary G. In CA. who is looking for the Omega 3 fish oil and the flaxseed oil softgels in smaller doses than the 1000mg. I found them at Whole Foods and also at other health food stores. I have a Cairn Terrier that has SEVERE skin allergies and she has to take the Omega 3-6-9 fish oil which buying from the vet was very costly. I was
shopping at Whole Foods one day and I found them along with all of the other herbs, oils, etc. They have a very helpful staff that can help you find exactly what you are looking for. They have never let me down! If you don't have a Whole Foods store in your area I have also picked them up at any health food store.
Good Luck! Geralyn in NC

I need help from my Portuguese friends. My husband and I were at a Portuguese wedding Saturday, and part of the main course was a fish dish with rice. My husband loved the rice and I would love a recipe for it.
Thank You Judi in Mass.

I have a recipe for Lemon Bars with 2 ingredients. 1 box -1 step Angel Food cake mix and 1 can Lemon Pie filling. This recipe was in one of the past newsletters. I cannot find a 1 step Angel Food cake mix. Does it say that on the box? What should I be looking for.

Hope you can help. I really want to make this. It sounds delicious.
Mary Ann Arbor, Michigan

Rosemary from WV (07/09/2006) I myself save the recipes from this letter by copying and pasting the recipes I want into a Microsoft word document and then burn to a CD.

A quick lesson in copy and paste is.... go to the bottom of the page you want to copy then hold down your button on your mouse and drag it up through all that you are copying then let your finger up and then go to the top to edit and click on copy then open you microsoft words and click your mouse in the middle of the page and go to the top and click on paste. TAAAA DAAA !!! I usually make 200 pages of recipes before I burn it to cd.

And make sure that you give you Microsoft document a name you can find so when you go back you don't search forever. I hope some of this might have helped you.
Cindy

This is for Rosemary in WV who wanted to know how to save all of her Recipe Exchange newsletters out of Outlook Express. With over 200 newletters it will take a while but here's what to do. As each file is opened to read, click on File in the upper left corner of the screen, then click on Save As, choose (or create) a folder to save all of the files in, then assign a File Name and choose Text as the File Type. Each files should be readable in Word or word processing program. Who says cooking is all we think about?!
Keep up the great work, we'd all get stuck in a rut without you.
Tawanna AR

This is to the person (Rosemary) who asked how to save her newsletters to her hard drive or a CD, rather than keeping them in her Outlook Express mailbox. This was in the July 8 newsletter.

1. Make the Outlook Express (OE) window small enough to see part of your desktop and move it (the OE window) to the left, so that you can see some of the desktop.
2. Make a new folder on the desktop (right-click once, select New, then folder). Name the folder s.
3. Move to OE, highlight the newsletter e-mails, then just drag and drop them into your new Recipe Exchange folder. You can drag with the left or right button, but even if you select "move" it will just copy. So you'll need to delete the e-mails from OE after they're safely copied to the new folder on your desktop, unless you want them in both places.
4. You can leave the folder on your desktop or move it to My Documents or wherever you want to. If you want it on a CD, you can do that too, but if you want to continue to add new newsletters, you'll need a CD-RW rather than a CD-R.

Hope this helps. I've done this with several categories of e-mails that I want to save but don't want in OE.
Sandy

Good morning to everyone in Nancyland.. In previous newsletter suggestions were written about the Micro-Fiber miracle cloths. I just purchased a box and would like to know how to and the many uses of using these.
Thank you, Candy

Hello Nancy, JNNN and All. Here are a couple of ideas for JNNN (7/2 newsletter) to use on Bundt cakes.

Vanilla Glaze
2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1-2 Tablespoons hot water
Whisk all ingredients in a small bowl adding hot water as required to make a pourable glaze. Drizzle over cake (can use the below syrup or not – up to you – the syrup makes the cake far more moist).

Soaking Syrup (in place of glaze or with glaze)
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
Heat the sugar and water to a gentle boil in a small saucepan. Simmer 3 minutes and then cool to room temperature. Using a pastry brush, soak cake thoroughly, at least twice with this syrup.

Cheaters Glaze
Heat up a can of purchased icing in the microwave for several seconds and drizzle over your favorite bundt cake.
Amy in Fort Wayne, Indiana

For Karen, 7/8:
Very Berry Broil
2 c. (1 pt) fresh raspberries
3 c. (1 pt) fresh blackberries or blueberries
1/2 c. reduced fat sour cream
4 T. brown sugar

Preheat broiler. Rinse and drain berries. Place in 8" baking dish. Combine sour cream w/half of brown sugar & pour over berries. Top w/remaining brown sugar. Broil 6" from heat for 1-1/2 min. or until top is caramelized. Do not overcook. Spoon berries into dessert dish & serve.
Serves 4.

Athena in DE (Note to Rosemary, 7/6: You need 30 qts. of potato salad for 250 people)

This is for Sue in Mi. I remember in my Girl Scout days. we cleaned a lot of sooty and dirty grates and racks - believe it or not with sand and water. It did a great job, and to this day I resort to that a lot. Try it you'll be surprised.
Anita in FL.

Nancy, I just read the story titled "Siggy's World". Not having been a member when Siggy originally posted it, I hadn't seen it before. What a great read!!! It was so believable, that I could swear that Siggy actually wrote it. Oh, sorry, of course he wrote it. It was so well written, that I feel as tho I know your furry helpers, personally.
http://members.amaonline.com/siggy

Amazing, also, how he brings you the phone too. The pictures are adorable, as well. Thanks, Nancy for re-posting the story, and thanks to Carol in San Diego for suggesting the post.
Cheryl, Ohio

Comment
It was written one snowy weekend when everyone (in Amarillo) was snowed in and nothing else to do. Some site in 1996 advertised that the most original site would win a digital camera. Siggy's World got a digital camera a couple of months later.
Nancy

This is a easy snack to make to take to the cabin or bring with camping, or any time!

2 - 15 oz. bags of pretzel twists
1 - 12 oz. bottle of Orville Redenbacher's butter flavored popcorn oil
1 pkg. Hidden Valley original ranch dressing (dry)

Preheat oven to 250.
Heat oil and dry dressing: mix together on med. heat for 3 - 4 min. until all mixed. Pour over pretzels and stir. Bake pretzels for 15 min., stirring every 5 min. Pour pretzels onto paper towel to cool. Makes 2 - 1 gallon size zip-loc bags.

Hi Nancy,
Here are some summer recipes that my family enjoys.

Burger Muy bueno
2 pound Ground Beef
1 package Chili seasoning mix
1/2t. salt
2 cups grated cheddar cheese
1/2 c. milk
8 hamburger buns

Combine all ingredients except buns, mix lightly. Shape into 8 patties. Broil or grill to desired degree of doneness. Serve on toasted hamburger buns.

Lemon Filling Salad
1 can Lemon pie filling
1 can Mandarin Oranges, drained
1 can Fruit Cocktail, drained
1 can Pineapple Tidbits, drained
2 cups Miniature Marshmallows
1 (8oz.) Cool Whip

Add Cool Whip to pie filling and blend well. Fold the drained fruits and marshmallows in. Chill. Can be made the night before.

Shoestring Salad

Mix:
1 cup carrots, shredded
1 cup celery, diced
1 very small onion, chopped fine
2 cans tuna, drained
1 to 1-1/2 cups salad dressing

Blend together. Just before serving, add 1 medium sized can of shoestring potatoes.

I make crescent rolls to eat this salad with. unfold them and seal them into flat rectangles. Poke with a fork and bake them until golden brown. Cool and eat the salad on top.
Yummy! Sarah

Nancy, I enjoyed Siggy's website. I had never seen it and it was so enjoyable. I love cats, but I am so allergic to them that I only have a dog baby. However, I do have a grand-cat named Jr. and I do love him from a distance. Ha!

This wasn't an email to print in the newsletter I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed finding out about Siggy and his sister. Has Ditto put his page up yet????
Thanks again,
Sandi Hutson in Jasper, Texas

Comment
I haven't done a Ditto page yet. I guess I need to. He is such a character. It has been difficult to get this newsletter done tonight. Ditto (my youngest cat) has been in trouble all night. I forgot to close the bathroom door so I had to chase him out of the bathroom. He was sitting on the edge of the tub pulling down the toilet handle and watching the toilet flush a number of times. After chasing him out of the bathroom and closing the door he then came in to the living room. He is currently jumping off the top of my lift chair making a whole lot of noise as he is attacking his furry toy mouse. Ditto can't hear so he hasn't a clue that he makes noise just before he attacks anything. He also doesn't have a clue that before he gets into any kind of trouble he makes noises as well. I can find him and there he sits looking so guilty. I used to think he had an attitude because when I said no he didn't pay attention to me. I found out later he didn't hear. I have to be in front of him and say no and use my hands as well to indicate no as well or he doesn't understand. Ditto is beside me on the desk stuffing all his toys down the hole that is suppose to be for computer cords. He is on his fourth toy right now. It is sometimes a surprise when I open my desk drawer and there are most of his toys.
Nancy

Many years ago my mother would make jams and jellies then covered them with wax. It seems that is is not done that way anymore. Is there a reason for this, if so what is it? By using wax you can fill any size jar. I don't have a large enough pot to water bath anything bigger than 1/2 pint jars. Besides using odds and ends jars is cheaper. I have lots of those. In this issue there's a recipi for [pretty peach jam] which sounds delicious but i don't want to have to freeze the jars or keep them in my Refer. I don't have the room for that. Would appreciate any information on this. thank you Doris.CA

Hi Nancy and all. Brenda from Alabama here. I need a T&T recipe for Lemon Bars if anyone has one.
Thanks in advance.

In answer to Barb in WA for the Rueben Casserole it was in the June 27, 2006 newsletter Page 3. Hope you can find it
Sylvia

For Janice in Pennsylvania
The little smokies or hot dogs wrapped in bacon. If you just wrap each dog with bacon (about 1/3 of a piece) and secure with a toothpick lay out in a single layer in a jelly roll pan and cover liberally with dark brown sugar, bake at 400 until the bacon is crisp around 10 to 15 minutes they turn out crisp and beautify glazed.
Nancy in Crystal Lake

For Rosemary in Nova Scotia. When we make potato salad for church functions, we always figure on 5 lb of potatoes for every 25 people. So, for 250 - you would need to make up 25 lbs of potatoes.
Lesleigh in PA

Also sent by Peggy from Belleville Ontario

Hi. My name is Brenda. I enjoy this recipe site VERY much. I was wondering if anyone had a recipe for Maple whoopee pies or Pumpkin whoopee pies. My mom has looked for these and she has not been successful. I would love to find them for her.
Thanks so much! Brenda

I can't imagine anyone not loving the mailer as much as I do. Always great recipes, tips and I enjoy getting to read about the different states and countries that the readers are from. Thanks and hope the 4th was a special one for you and all the wonderful readers.
Sharon in TN

Hi all. Your web-page sure makes my day, Nancy. Thank you for all your work. Hope you get to feeling better real soon.

When I was young, my mom made refrigerator cookies. She would make the dough, form it into long cylinders and wrap it in waxed paper and store it in the refrig. When she had time to bake, she would slice the dough into cookies and baked. Would any of your readers have TNT recipes for refrigerator cookies? Guess the dough could be frozen too. Would sure be handy to keep on hand.
Carolyn in Los Banos

In 07/06/06 newsletter, a lady was asking for the amount of potatoes needed to make potato salad for 100 for a wedding reception. This recipe came from Taste of Home about 1997 because I used it for the rehearsal dinner when my son got married. I cut the recipe in half and left out the horseradish. I have even cut it by fourths and gotten good results. BTW-I don't use all the bacon called for-too much for my tastes.

http://recipes.tasteofhome.com/eRMS/recp.aspx?recid=579
Signed, Connie in TX

For Knitter in Il.
My MIL used to use those cans of corned beef all the time. She cooked a big pot of cabbage with onion, tomatoes and spices (plus whatever else she felt like at the time) and put in the canned corn beef. Sometimes with potatoes and carrots. No recipe-just what looked good.
Sue in Fl

A creamy potato salad with eggs but soo good ..May be you can omit to put the eggs ? Jocelyne in Québec

6 med. potatoes
1 c. thinly sliced celery
1/2 c. finely chopped onion
1/3 c. chopped sweet pickle; optional
2 tsp. vinegar
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/4 c. salad dressing
2 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. celery seed; optional
2 tsp. prepared mustard
2-3 hard cooked eggs, chopped

In a covered saucepan, cook potatoes in boiling water for 25-30 minutes or until tender; drain well. Peel and cube potatoes. Put in a large bowl. Add celery, onion, and sweet pickle. Combine salad dressing, sugar, celery seed, vinegar, prepared mustard and salt. Add salad dressing mixture to potatoes. Toss lightly to coat potato mixture. Carefully fold in chopped eggs. Cover and chill thoroughly

To Rosemary in Nova Scotia, and others who need info to feed large groups.

Here are my favorite links to sites with good info and recipes for cooking large quantities for parties, foodservice, catering, etc. I have personally checked these all and found them to be very informative.

www.ellenskitchen.com/bigpots
www.greatpartyrecipes.com
www.bigrecipes.com
www.foodservicerecipes.com/
www.angelfire.com/bc/incredible/foodservicelist.html
From Merry M in MN

Joyce from Herndon Pa ( july 6th ) from Jocelyne in Québec

OLD FASHIONED SOUR CHERRY PUDDING
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
Cream these together until smooth

2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1-1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. Baking Powder
1 pint sour cherries (washed and pitted)

Mix all together and put in an 8 or 9 inch round pan that has the bottom sprayed or buttered. Bake 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes Check by toothpick in center coming out clean. Cool and cut into wedges -served with sugar and milk

Hi Nancy, Siggy, and Ditto, I too am a cat lover and have one I named sleepy, because they were raised in my bath tub and she was always a sleep when I went in there. I kept a basket handy to put them in when I need shower shower. That way they got a clean houses every day. I enjoy your newsletters and look at them soon as I get on line. For the lady in the July 5th newsletter on how to use corn beef. As a teenager some 50 plus years ago. Mother use to make corned beef sandwiches when our class went to the park for a picnic. She would warm the corn beef in a skillet then add fine chopped onion, pickles, boiled eggs and mayo to taste, and spread it on bread. Just heating it enough to melt the grease and make it mix together good. It makes a good sandwich with potato chips on the side. You can also fix potted meat the same way for a quick sandwich. I was born and raised on a cotton farm in Southeast Missouri, so we ate a lost of sandwiches at least during harvest time. Hope this helps Knitter in Illinois. Keep up the good work Nancy.. Thanks Jerris, from Paragould, Arkansas

For Janice in Pennsylvania who has such a not friendly church member :(( There are so many recipes , it's hatd to know which one you liked but here is a good one in the crock pot but I'm sure you can try it on the stove of you don't have one .
Jocelyne in Québec
 pot
1 pkg. little smokies
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp ketchup or Heinz 57 sauce
1 tsp mustard
a little water about a tsp
1/2 tsp honey

In crockpot add all ingredients except smokies. Simmer and stir until mixed through. Add smokies and simmer 30 minutes. Serve as a appetizer

Hi Nancy, Here are two links with recipes for Duck Sauce. Maybe one could be the one Harriet AZ from the July 5th newsletter is looking for. One is very easy to make. Hope these recipes will help.

http://www.justgreatrecipes.com/recipe.asp?res=201
http://www.vegfoodcourt.com/vegetarian-side-dishes/Duck-Sauce.htm
Barbara East TN

Page 1     Page 2

Free Downloadable Publications and Cookbooks
(in pdf format)
Cookbooks to download and Product Samples
How to Bake:  Your Complete Reference
Baking Essentials Lessons (Easy lessons on Baking)

New Articles-Garden and Gardening
How to Choose the Best Plants for Your Garden
Hummingbird Feeder Maintenance
Learning about Hummingbirds
Attracting Hummingbirds with Homemade Nectar
Hummingbird Information- Helpful information
Attracting Wild Birds
Tips For Attracting Birds To Your Back Yard
Different Types of Bird Feeders
Bird Feeders: Look Who's Coming to Dinner
Birds - Attracting Them With Flowers
How to Naturally Dry Hydrangeas
Planting Hydrangeas For Late Season Color
Window Box Gardening Tips And Techniques
Plants for Your Butterfly Gardening Plans
Gardening Through A Drought
Soil PH And Its Effect On Your Garden

Other New Articles
Tips on Buying a New Refrigerator
10 Steps to Help Refrigerators Live Longer
How To Choose The Right Refrigerator and Freezer
How Much Water Should You Drink  
Diet Tips To Lower Your Cholesterol Levels Naturally  
Coffee Smoothie Recipes

F.r.e.e Daily and WeeklyOnline Horoscopes

pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp