Simple, Perfect Chili for a cold snowy day.

I rushed out Friday afternoon trying to beat the winter storm. Was not lucky, half way thru the store it was just a snowing. We get to the front door of the store and make a mad dash to get the groceries in and get out of the wet slush that is falling.  Made it home safe and pretty dry.  I will be away from home for a few days so I wanted to make Adam something he could eat on while I was gone. Chili is not my favorite thing to eat, I HATE BEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!! but I only added one can of pintos to this chili.

Ingredients are

garlic

oregano

cumin

cayenne pepper

chili powder

ground beef

tomato sauce

salt

masa(corn flour)

optional: are pinto beans, kidney beans,jalapeno,diced tomato

first get ground beef and garlic cooking

then in a large pot I put the tomato sauce and all the spices

then once the meat cooked I added it to the sauce and spices and you are supposed to let it simmer for a hour but my mixture was too thick for that so I added the tomatoes and a little water to the pot and let it cook at once.

see too thick

now it is simmering for hour and it smells great!

French Breakfast Puffs OH MY!

I was still in a cooking mood so I decided to make the Pioneer Woman french breakfast puffs. I am not much on sweets, but my husband ate them up!

The ingredients are:

flour

baking powder

salt

nutmeg

sugar

shortening

eggs

milk

butter

sugar

cinnamon

cream the sugar and shorting

then add the milk and the flour and nutmeg

then fill 2/3 of the way and bake at 350

once they cool for a few minutes roll in butter and then in sugar and cinn

I just did the tops. I thought all of it was too much. Adam said they were great.

There are so many ways to name this one!

Pioneer woman calls it Egg in the Hole.  She also references 13 other ways to name this recipe. I made this for Adam for breakfast, I don't do eggs that well, working for McDonalds for over 2 years in high school, you would not want to eat them either. It was so simple, five minute total for the whole thing. So here is the steps.

The ingredients

sliced bread

eggs

butter

salt

black pepper

So simple

cut of holes(I used a glass)

cook for one minute then flip

Then plate

Try this sometime, it will be gone.

All that was left was the juice!

I have babied this beef brisket for 3 days. The marinating and waiting.....and waiting... and waiting.... and finally the cooking slow for over 3 hrs. I tell you it stuffed all six of us. This time I made Pioneer Women Beef Brisket. It for me was just a little salty, and did not shred, but it was devoured. So I will get to the good stuff.

Here is the recipe

Braised Beef Brisket

The Ingredients are:

beef consomme(not beef broth)

low sodium soy sauce

juice of lemons

garlic cloves

liquid smoke

beef brisket

One thing I can say is that none of these recipes have very many ingredients

Next we prepare

the beef consume(looks pretty gross)

The soy sauce(I will had half of this mext time) A little strong

the lemons

The garlic, oh!!! bring on the garlic

The liquid smoke(I think this is what makes it)

The brisket.  I went to Kroger and was looking all around the meat dept for beef brisket and the meat guy says this is way cheaper. Beef brisket is like 7.00 or more a pound. He says it is the same thing as beef brisket just leave the spices off. I think he was wrong. It would not shred.

I had to marinade for 48 hrs.

cover and wait...wait...wait...

wow looks good.

ready to eat and eat and eat.

Soups on with a side of cornbread!

I sat with my cookbook and made a grocery list of all the things I needed for a few recipes. I really needed to collect several things I was lacking in the spice cabinet and liquids like sherry, red and white wine vinegar. I started this morning with marinating a beef brisket, it has to marinate for 24 to 48 hours.

I decided to make Sherried Tomato Soup and a pan of Cornbread.
first the ingredients for the soup
white or yellow onion
butter
diced tomatoes
tomato juice
sugar
chicken base
black pepper
sherry
heavy cream
parsley
basil

Lets get to cooking. first start of with onions and butter in pan.

Then after you get the onions translucent add the tomato juice and diced tomatoes.

add the sugar and chicken base

then add the heavy cream.

then add the pepper, sherry and the herbs

Then just keep warm and serve.

The skillet cornbread she makes was very good and very easy to make

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Ingredients are.

yellow cornmeal

all purpose flour

salt

baking powder

buttermilk

milk

egg

baking soda

shortening

mix the dry ingredients together and the wet together

warm the skillet with 2 teaspoons of shortening

 once you pull it out add the mixture and bake for 25 min.

Enjoy and try a new recipe once in a while. I love to cook and it is a stress reliever. I really get a joy when someone likes my cooking and requests a dish I have made. Enjoy