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Ham and Red Eye Gravy

Recipe Source: Down Home Soul Food Cooking Blog

Ingredients:

1/4 Vegetable oil
8 slices (1/4-inch thickness) raw country ham
3/4 c. black coffee
1 tsp. granulated sugar

Directions:

Heat about 1/4 cup oil in a large heavy skillet until skillet is medium hot. Lay ham slices in skillet. Cook on one side for 8 minutes over medium high heat. Turn slices of ham and fry 8 minutes more. Pour coffee into skillet with ham slices. Sprinkle with sugar and stir. Cover and let simmer over very low heat for 5 to 10 minutes. Serve ham and red-eye gravy together. 8 to 10 servings.

Asian Fire Meat

Recipe Source: allrecipes.com

Ingredients:

1/2 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
2 tablespoons brown sugar
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 large red onion, chopped
ground black pepper to taste
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
2 leeks, chopped
1 small carrot, chopped
1 pound beef round steak, sliced paper thin

Directions:

In a large bowl, mix together the soy sauce, sesame oil, brown sugar, garlic, and red onion. Stir in the black pepper, red pepper flakes, sesame seeds, leeks and carrot. Mix in the meat by hand to ensure even coating. Cover and let marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight.

Brush the bottom half of a wok with cooking oil, and heat over medium-high heat. Put in all of the meat and marinade at once, and cook stirring constantly. The meat will be cooked after just a few minutes. Remove from heat and serve with rice or noodles.

For Korean style fire meat, roll the meat mixture up in a leaf of red lettuce.

Ham and Pineapple Dinner

Recipe Source: Melissa / allrecipes.com

Prep/Cooking Time: Prep Time: 20 Minutes / Cook Time: 15 Minutes

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons butter
2 1/2 cups cooked and cubed ham
2 green onions, chopped
1 cup pineapple chunks, drained
1 1/3 cups pineapple juice
4 teaspoons cider vinegar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
2 tablespoons cornstarch

Directions:

Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute the ham, onions and pineapple chunks in the butter for about 5 minutes.

In a separate medium bowl, combine the pineapple juice, vinegar, brown sugar, mustard and cornstarch. Stir this together well and pour over the ham mixture in the skillet. Stir well and allow to heat through and thicken, about 5 minutes.

Makes 4 servings.

Mississippi Mud Cake

Recipe Source: Down Home Soul Food Cooking Blog

Ingredients:

½ cup butter or margarine
½ cup oil
4 tbsp cocoa
1 cup water
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
½ cup buttermilk
1 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla

½ cup margarine
4 tbsp cocoa
½ cup buttermilk
1 lb. powdered sugar
½ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup walnuts, chopped In a saucepan, combine butter, oil, cocoa, and water. Bring to a boil.

In a bowl, sift together flour and sugar. Pour cocoa sauce over dry ingredients. Mix well.

Combine remaining ingredients for batter. Add to mixture. Mix well. Place in a greased 11×17-inch pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Frost while still hot.

Frosting:

Combine margarine, cocoa, and buttermilk in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients. Blend.

Directions:

Apple Puff Pancake

Recipe Source: Michele / allrecipes.com

Prep/Cooking Time: Prep Time: 15 Minutes / Cook Time: 30 Minutes

Ingredients:

6 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter
2 apples – peeled, cored and sliced
3 tablespoons brown sugar

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).

In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to blend eggs, milk and vanilla. Add flour, sugar, salt and cinnamon; mix just until blended. Set aside.

Melt butter in a 9×9 inch square pan. Arrange apple slices in the bottom of the pan, and pour the batter over them. Sprinkle brown sugar over the top.

Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until puffed and lightly browned.

Sweet Potato Casserole

Recipe Source: bhg.com

Prep/Cooking Time: Prep: 45 minutes / Bake: 25 minutes

Ingredients:

1-1/2 pounds sweet potatoes
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 beaten egg
3 tablespoons butter, cubed
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup pecan pieces
Pecan halves (optional)

Directions:

Scrub and peel sweet potatoes. Cut off and discard woody portions and ends. Cut potatoes into cubes. Cook, covered, in a small amount of boiling water for 25 to 35 minutes or until tender. Drain.

Combine hot sweet potatoes, granulated sugar, milk, egg, the 3 tablespoons butter, and vanilla. With a wooden spoon, stir to break up potatoes but not completely mash them. Put mixture into a greased 2-quart square baking dish.

Combine brown sugar and flour; cut in the 2 tablespoons butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in pecan pieces and sprinkle crumb mixture on top of potatoes. Bake, uncovered, in a 350 degree F oven about 25 minutes or until set. Garnish with pecan halves, if desired.

Makes 8 side-dish servings.

Cookie Pancakes

Recipe Source: recipesrecipe.com

Ingredients:

1 cup old fashioned oats
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 ounces, 1/4 cup, chopped walnuts
3/4 cup sour cream
3/4 cup whole milk
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 really ripe bananas, mashed up
3/4 cup raisins
1/2 stick butter, 1/4 cup, melted, plus additional for buttering skillet
Maple syrup or honey, for drizzling

Directions:

Here’s a great tip: if you cannot find really ripe bananas, just nuke them in the microwave for about 15 seconds and they will become super soft for mashing.

Mix dry ingredients, the first 7, in a bowl. In a another bowl, mix the wet ingredients, the next 4. Whisk the wet ingredients into the dry until just combined, then fold in the mashed up bananas and the raisins. Stir in the melted butter.

Heat a griddle over medium heat and brush with additional melted butter. Cook pancakes, each about 1/3 cup, until bubbles form on the top, then turn. Cakes will cook in about 2 minutes on each side. Keep pancakes tented with foil as they come off the griddle to keep them hot.

Serve with drizzled honey.

Molasses Gorp Popcorn Logs

Recipe Source: bhg.com

Ingredients: Cook: 15 minutes, Prep: 30 minutes

12 cups popped popcorn (about 1/2 to 3/4 cup unpopped)
2 cups peanuts
1/2 cup candy-coated milk chocolate pieces
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup light molasses
1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions:

Remove all unpopped kernels from popped corn. In a greased 17×12x2-inch baking pan combine popped corn, peanuts, chocolate pieces, and raisins. Set pan aside.

Butter the sides of a heavy 3-quart saucepan. In the saucepan combine sugar, water, molasses, and salt. Cook over medium-high heat to boiling, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon to dissolve sugar. This should take about 5 minutes. Avoid splashing mixture on sides of pan. Carefully clip candy thermometer to side of pan.

Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until thermometer registers 250 degree F, hardball stage. Mixture should boil at a moderate, steady rate over entire surface. Reaching hardball stage should take about 10 minutes.

Remove saucepan from heat; remove candy thermometer from saucepan. Pour sugar mixture over the popcorn mixture; stir gently to coat the popcorn mixture. Cool until popcorn mixture can be handled easily. Use buttered hands to shape mixture into 3-inch logs, about 1-1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap each log in clear plastic wrap. Makes about 36 logs.

Chocolate Pasticcios

Recipe Source: Jaques Pepin ex Gourmet Magazine (or maybe it was Bon Appetit!)

Ingredients:

Pastry:

1 1/4 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 lb chilled butter; cut into pieces
1 large egg yolk
2 tablespoons ice water

Filling:

3 oz butter; cut up
12 oz semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup light Karo
8 large egg yolks; freeze whites for other uses

Directions:

Pastry:

Place flour and sugar in work bowl of processor fitted with steel blade. Pulse briefly to mix. Add 1/4 lb butter in pieces and process until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the egg yolk and water and process only until mixture forms a ball. Wrap airtight and refrigerate for at least one hour, or as long as a few days, or freeze for as long as three months.

Filling:

Prepare filling while pastry is chilling since filling must cool to room temperature before use, and must not be refrigerated or it will become too firm. It may wait at room temperature for several hours if necessary.

Place 3 oz butter and chocolate chips in top of double boiler over hot water on moderate heat; cover for a few minutes until almost melted, then stir until smooth. Stir in Karo. Stir (do not beat!) 8 yolks in a bowl just to mix; gradually add about 1/3 cup of chocolate mixture to yolks, combining fairly well. Stir the egg yolk mixture gradually into the remaining chocolate mixture, combining very well. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, for five minutes.

Remove top of double boiler from hot water. Let stand, stirring occasionally, until cooled to room temperature.

Shells:

Flour a pastry board or cloth and rolling pin. Work with half the dough at a time, reserving other half in refrigerator. Flatten dough slightly and turn to flour all sides. Roll the dough very thin – about 1/16th inch. Cut into rounds with 2 inch plain-edged cutter. Ease rounds into mini-tartlet pans. Repeat with remaining dough, rerolling scraps only once. Place the filled pans on a cookie sheet and freeze until dough is firm, at least one hour, or overnight (or up to three months).

Remove pans from freezer, place square of foil into each shell, and fill with dry beans or other blind-baking aids. Bake in preheated 400° oven about 12 minutes, reversing pans back to front halfway through baking to ensure even browning. Check at 10 minutes – pastry should bake until really golden. Remove from oven, remove beans and foil, reserving beans to reuse for this purpose only, and cool tart shells in pans.

Fill and finish:

When shells are cool, place a well-rounded teaspoon of filling into each (do not spread – filling will run and level during baking). Bake in preheated 300° oven for 12 minutes, reversing pans back to front halfway through baking. Tops will feel dry to touch but filling will still be soft. Do not overbake!

Yield: appx. 36

Banana bake

Recipe Source: recipes.box.sk

Ingredients:

6 medium ripe bananas
1 tsp grated orange rind
50 g butter (about 3.5 Tbsp)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup orange juice
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 Tbsp rum
salt

Directions:

Peel bananas, halve lengthwise and arrange in buttered shallow dish. In a small saucepan combine and heat butter, sugar, citrus juice, rum, cinnamon and salt. Pour sauce over bananas and bake 10-15 minutes at 180 C (350 F) degrees.