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June 14 2006 Newsletter
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Awhile back, Bev in Michigan wrote that her recipe for a broccoli-rice-cheese casserole was missing from her recipe box and that she would appreciate anything similar. Her recipe called for a tube of garlic cheese that she wasn’t even sure was on the market anymore. The garlic cheese roll is made by Kraft, and I just saw some at Walmart the other day. It was in a bin between the cottage cheese/sour cream and the regular sliced sandwich cheese. Also, I bought some at Kroger a few months ago.

Bev, I did an internet search and found the following broccoli-rice-garlic cheese recipes. I hope one of them is similar to the one you had--or maybe you can look at them all and piece together a recipe that you like. ha

Broccoli Rice Casserole
1 stick butter
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 c. chopped onion
1/2 c. chopped celery
1 roll garlic cheese
1 pkg. frozen broccoli pieces
1 1/2 c. cooked rice

Sauté onion and celery in butter. Add mushroom soup and cut cheese and melt thoroughly. Add broccoli and rice. Bake in casserole dish 25 to 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Broccoli Rice Casserole
2 pkg. cooked, chopped broccoli
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 sm. roll garlic cheese
1 c. cooked rice
Salt, pepper & Tabasco to taste
1 stalk celery, chopped
1 sm. onion, chopped
1/2 stick butter
Sliced cheese for topping

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Sauté onions and celery in butter. To the mixture add cream of mushroom soup and sliced garlic cheese until well blended. Add broccoli, cooked rice, salt, pepper and Tabasco to taste. Arrange grated or sliced cheese on top. Bake, uncovered, about 30 minutes.

Broccoli Casserole
1/2 med. onion, chopped, sauté in 2 tbsp. butter
1 sm. jar Cheese Whiz
1 roll garlic cheese
1 can cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
2 pkgs. chopped frozen broccoli, cooked & drained
1 1/2 c. cooked rice
1 tsp. Tabasco
Pepper to taste
Fried, crumbled bacon

Melt the cheeses, mix in the soup. Combine with rest of the ingredients, pour into 1 1/2 quart casserole and top with bacon. Bake at 350 degrees, covered for 25 minutes.

Also, the following is one of my favorite recipes. It is similar to the broccoli and rice recipes above except that it doesn't contain rice. It came from the book, “Thirty Years at the Mansion,” by Liz Ashley, who cooked for Arkansas governors for 30 years. Most of the recipes, like the one below, are easy to make and delicious.

Broccoli Casserole
2 (10-oz.) packages frozen broccoli spears
1 (2½-oz.) package slivered almonds
1 stick garlic cheese
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken soup

Bread crumbs (I use the plain store-bought kind.)

Cook broccoli in salted water. Drain and place in a baking dish. Sprinkle with almonds. Slice garlic cheese and combine in saucepan with soups. Heat through until cheese is melted and pour over broccoli. Bake at 375° until bubbly. Before serving, top with bread crumbs (cubed bread tossed in melted butter in skillet) and return to oven until crumbs are browned.

Notes: After cooking the broccoli in salted water, I let it cool a little and dice the larger stems because they can be a little rubbery and hard to chew if you don't. (I tried using frozen chopped broccoli instead of the spears, but the casserole didn’t look or taste nearly as well.) Also, since the garlic cheese and the soups are all fairly salty, as a personal preference I use the lower-sodium Campbell's Special Request soups. However, I do taste the cheese mixture before pouring it over the broccoli and add more salt if necessary.
Jan in Memphis

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Nancy, I am having trouble clicking on the link for responding to requests or questions. It gives me a little box to fill out and then starts asking me about my servers, coming in and going out. I don't know what this means.
My husband thinks the one going out is http, but doesn't know what it would be coming in. Can you or someone else out there help me? Thanks!

Hello Nancy, I hope I am sending this to the right address because for some reason I cannot click on the link and make it work.

This is for the woman who was looking for a sweet potatoe recipe to make for her son-in-law. I got this recipe from the McCormick spice recipe site, made it this last Christmas and the dish was practically licked clean.

Whipped Sweet Potatoes with Coconut Streusel
3 Pounds sweet potatoes (about 6) or 2-29 ounce cans, drained
1/2 Cup packed brown sugar
1/2 Cup heavy cream or evaporated milk
2 T. cold butter or margarine
1 T. vanilla extract
2 t. Pumpkin Pie spice
1 C. miniature marshmallows

Coconut Streusel:

1/4 C. all purpose flour
1/4 C. packed brown sugar
1/2 t. Pumpkin Pie spice
2 T. butter or margarine
1 C. chopped Pecans
1/2 C. shredded coconut

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pierce each potato twice with a fork. Microwave potatoes on high, 5 to 10 minutes or until tender, turning potatoes over halfway through cooking. Let them cool until they can be handled.

Remove skin from potatoes. Place potatoes, brown sugar, cream, butter, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice in a large bowl. Beat with electric mixer until smooth and fluffy. Transfer mixture into a greased 13x9 inch or 3 qt, baking dish. Top with marshmallows.

For streusel, mix flour, brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice in a medium bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blade or fork until crumbly. Stir in pecans and coconut. Sprinkle over marshmallows and whipped sweet potatoes.

Bake uncovered 25 minutes or until heated through and topping is golden brown.

For those of you who are having "odor" problems, there is a product called Atmosklear that I have heard quite a lot about that is supposed to be very good. They say it gets rid of the odors, it doesn't just cover them up.

You can check it out at www.Atmosklear.net
Terri in Mn.

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Hi Nancy
Regarding the question from Doris via Jocelyn from Quebec in the 6/12/06 newsletter. NO way can you
heat the inner pot from a crock pot on the stove. Was visiting my sister one time and she'd made chili in
the crockpot. The next day for lunch she said she would heat up the chili. To make a long story short,
I'm in the other room, my sister is in the shower and I hear this loud POP from the kitchen. I go running
in there and there was chili all over the kitchen with a huge hole in the crock pot. My sister gets out of
the shower, I call to her, she comes into the kitchen and I looked at her and said: What the hey were
you thinking!! We cracked up laughing and spent around 1 hour cleaning the mess up!
Take heed Barbara in Turlock CA

Here's a quick and easy recipe for chicken fingers. Someone wrote in and suggested Chex brand cereal instead of cornflakes. Should work fine.
Dennis Weaver, The Prepared Pantry

How to Make Chicken Fingers

Chicken fingers are quick and easy to make, perfect for a picnic or an outing on the patio. Serve them with barbeque sauce or sweet and sour for kids or fancier sauce for the adults. We think you’ll find these good enough and easy enough that you’ll make them year-around.

4 chicken breasts
1 1/4 cup crushed cornflakes
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 large eggs

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.

1. Cut the chicken breasts into strips 3/8-inch thick.
2. Mix the crushed cornflakes, cheese, paprika, salt, and pepper together in a medium bowl.
3. Whisk the eggs in another medium bowl.
4. Prepared a baking sheet by lining the pan with aluminum foil and grease the foil.
5. Dip the chicken strips in the eggs and then roll them in the crumb mixture. Place the strips on the prepared pan.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until done. Serve with a sauce.

JOYCE from Texas~ My idea of a useful wedding gift for your grandson would be a lovely sterling silver photo frame (possibly engraved with his & wife's name, to hold one of their wedding pictures). At any rate, even if they receive other photo frame gifts--there's always a need for another one, and it would always be a visible reminder of your thoughtful gift to them.
~Carol in San Diego

I have lost a recipe I got off the site, I have searched and am unable to find it. I remember it definitely called for beef stew meat and ginger ale, and possibly some kind of creamed soup. I could be wrong about the soup, but I remember it was unique in the fact it called for ginger ale. It was cooked in a crockpot and then eaten over rice. This was so easy and really simple and tasty. Can someone out there help me?
Jill, Gonzales, Louisiana

Hi Nancy and Nancylanders. Hope everyone is doing well. I have a question for Barbara S-Omaha, NE.. (June 12 page 2).

Barbara, you submitted a great sounding recipe for Orange Sherbet, that was requested a day or so ago. You said to freeze it, after mixing all the ingredients. Do you just freeze it in a regular freezer, or does it have to be done in an ice creamer freezer? There were a couple others in the newsletter, and they said to use an ice cream freezer. I'd like to make it, but have misplaced or lost my ice cream maker, so it would be great if it can be done in a regular household freezer. I'll wait to hear from you before making it. Thanks for your help, and thanks again, Nancy for all your hard work in putting the newsletter together. Hope you and your furry helpers are doing well, and are all settled in your new residence. Have a great week everyone.
Cheryl, Ohio

For Joyce for her wedding gift dilemma: I've been married for 30 years and I am still using daily, the crystal & silver salt & pepper shakers, I received from a dear friend. They have outlasted any other gift I received and they still look nice. Mine are large and I do not have to fill often. The shaker base is crystal and the tops are silver. They must be coated, since they do not tarnish. Either way, a nice crystal set, is hard to beat.
Julie

I have often wondered why bagels come fork-split. If they want to slice them, why not slice them all the way? I often end up with uneven pieces when I try to finish the slicing and can't quite hit the right spot to continue the original slice. Anyone know why?
Sara in Orlando

To Maggie B, regarding what to give a police academy graduate: last fall my niece married a policeman, as a gag wedding gift, I gave them gift certificates to Dunkin Donuts. She had to explain the reasoning behind the gift to him, lol. Just an idea for you.
Knitter in Illinois

For Joyce (6/10 newsletter) who is looking for a wedding gift idea: I gave one of my sisters a set of large ruby colored goblets as an engagement gift. She uses them for every holiday dinner and says it is one of her favorite gifts. I gave a set of gold flatware to another sister for her engagement and she uses it for every holiday or special occasion and loves it. Perhaps a beautiful cake stand or plate, or crystal fruit or salad bowl would be nice. If you identify yourself with an ethnic group , Irish or Polish for example, you can find porcelain or crystal bowls that are just beautiful. If they are not into formal or fancy things, perhaps a hand made bowl from a potter, or a framed photo or print from a local artist of a local landmark . Margo/Boston

Good Morning Nancy. I must apologize b/c I have been extremely busy here lately and I have probably 15 newsletters in my inbox that I haven't read yet, I promise I'll get to them in the next few days. I am in my second week of taking a Wilton Cake Decorating course and I wondered if anyone out there has any good cake recipes from scratch or a really good buttercream icing recipe. While we are in class we have to use the instructors recipe but once class is over I think I'll switch b/c it is just to sweet. Thanks in advance for any help I get!
Nikki, F'burg VA

The Fresh Blueberry Cake from Merry M from MN was delicious and easy to make.
Thank you very much.
Frank-Chicago

Thanks to Luanne for the wedding gift suggestion. I went on line to About Things Remembered's Web site , since we don't have one at the Mall I go to & found a nice clock & had their names & date engraved on it. Everyone have a great week & stay cool.
Joyce

Clay Pot Cooking
Someone asked for recipes for Clay Pot cooking. I've had the book The Clay-Pot Cookbook by Georgia Macleod Sales since 1974. It's on sale used at Amazon for 65¢, wonderful book. Here is a sample.
It's a fun way to cook.
Enjoy! Penny

Swiss Chicken with mushrooms
1 chicken, cut up
1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp. oregano
1/2 tsp. marjoram
1/2 tsp garlic salt
2 T. olive oil
salt & pepper to taste
1 tsp paprika
4 green onions, diced
12 to 18 mushrooms, sliced thin
1/4 cup dry white wine
1/2 pint sour cream
1/4 pound Swiss cheese

Presoak pot, top and bottom, in water for fifteen minutes. Shake chicken in bag containing mixture of flour, oregano, paprika, marjoram and garlic salt. Set aside any remaining seasoned flour.

Brown chicken in frying pan--quickly--in olive oil, adding salt and pepper to taste. Place browned chicken in pot, add diced onions and sliced mushrooms.

To chicken drippings in saucepan, add white wine and 1/4 pint sour cream; heat and thicken with small amount of seasoned flour that's left over. (I add 1 can of mushroom soup at this point) Pour over chicken. Salt and pepper to taste.

Add grated Swiss cheese to chicken. Place covered pot in cold oven. Set temperature to 480 degrees.
Cook 45 minutes.

Remove from oven, pour off sauce into saucepan and thicken with 1/4 pint sour cream and small amount of leftover seasoned flour. Serve with the chicken or over rice. (Rice is good)

I am looking for a software to enter my recipes and make a cook book with my family recipes for my girls, but I also want to import recipes from the internet ( like this wonderful web site). I came across a website called www.Recipebox.com and they have a free trial download. I didn't know if there was a better one. Thanks, Ruth, MS

For the person asking about South Beach Diet recipes (low-glycemic index recipes). Don't forget
www.mizfrogspad.com

Well last night i went to Lowe's and Home Depot! I bought the Terro Liquid ant killer, Grant's Kills Ants Ant Stakes, Amdro Ant block and some boric acid. We placed the stakes around the outside and inside of the house,sprinkled the amdro around the perimeter of the outside of the house and the Terro Liquid ant killer comes with these little square cards you put the liquid on, they have been coming out and eating that gel,they are supposed to take it back to the nest and die then the other ants eat them and die,the amdro is granular and a saw a couple of the ants carrying those granules, good thing,they take them back and give them to the queen or whoever else is there and they all die. So I'm on an ant mission right now. I also bought some insecticidal soap that kills critters on contact, these caterpillars are all over .Yesterday I just made a solution of soap and water and that took them out as well.So we'll see if I'll be critter free!
Thanks for the suggestions, Lynette in NY

This is for MaggieB.
I love to give St. Michael pocket medallions. My husband wears on a heavy chain around his neck and carries one in his pocket. St. Michael is the Patron Saint for Law Enforcement. If you have a Catholic Based Book and Gift store in your area, they should have a good selection. When I give these, I will have them blessed. The receiver of this gift will find this very special.

I am a proud wife of a Master Sergeant. He works with some of the most caring, spiritual, and highly educated (they all have college degrees) people I have ever met. They have all told me that their degrees did not include going into law enforcement and the majority of them left incredible jobs in order to do what they do now. Everyone of them will say it was a CALLING and that is how they explain it because they never thought they would be defending good from evil.

My husband has been serving for 17 years and has seen most everything. The Murrah Bombing was the worst and receiving a smile from a child who finally feels safe. He has purchased many a Happy Meal, changed diapers, and given bottles.

A quick off topic. I want to Thank the kind person who submitted the Incredible Banana Bread recipe. I can't bake enough of it. I can't even get the topping put on the majority of the time because my boys (40,9,5) won't leave it alone long enough. THANK YOU!!!!!

Deborah Childers
Proud wife of Oklahoma City Police Officer
Just my 2 cents.

June 12th letter about a "crib" set caught my attention. I believe the term for the set that the gal was talking about is a "crèche" set, or "navitivity".
Jane, CA.

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