What are some of your favorite winter comfort foods?

Today’s smoothie creation

in the blender I added

• 1/2 cup spring water
• 1 cup nonfat plain yogurt
• 2 cups fresh blackberries
• 1 and a half frozen bananas
• 2 spoons Coconut Creme Concentrate

blend away, super yummy!

Thank you Mrs Sisse Pfieffer!

Get a big bowl of clean snow
In another large bowl mix:
1 to 2 C. sugar
1 to 2 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 to 2 C. milk
1 to 2 raw eggs (optional)
After mixing those real well, taste to make sure that it is very sweet, because the snow will dilute the taste. If not real sweet, go ahead and add more sugar now. (It is hard to dissolve sugar after you add the snow.)
Start adding snow until you get the consistency and flavor you like.
ENJOY! ?

You will need

• refried beans
• grated cheese we like the Mexican blend
• sour cream
• guacamole
• diced onions
• diced tomatoes or salsa
• chopped fresh cilantro
• optional is cooked ground beef
• optional is cooked rice
• corn tortillas

Prepare your refried bean however you like, adding optional items if desired. For each serving, add beans then cheese then each topping as desired, usually after the cheese we add onions, sour cream, salsa then a spoon of guacamole and some cilantro. Remember anything fresh and green makes it look gourmet. We serve this with corn tortillas that have been cut in 1/4 ‘s and fried in hot oil and are served still warm.

This dish is a meal in itself.

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When it is cold or windy or rainy, ok I guess anytime except a hot summer day, I love soup!! My ultimate comfort food, well except for some dark chocolate. We have been working an a new soup book for my bookstore, a compilation of yummy soup techniques. This is what we did yesterday.

To our large crockpot we added

• diced raw potatoes
• chunks of broccoli tops
• 1 package of cream cheese cut in chunks
• a package of cooked bacon pieces
• enough whole (at our house fresh) milk to cover it all
• a dash or two of soul seasoning (healthy seasoned salt sort of)

we turned it on high and ran out the door to go get a horse, about 3-4 hours later we returned and served it up with a half cup grated cheese and a dollop of sour cream topping each serving. It was INCREDIBLE!!! I cannot wait to make it again and will probably add more veggies.

This is just a menu idea would you like to see it made into an ebook with step by step instructions and pictures?

This is another menu idea rather than an exact recipe. I will try to share our homemade spaghetti sauce in another post.

Basically you will need

• your choice of cooked pasta it doesn’t have to actually be spaghetti
• your choice of sauce, homemade is better
• Italian blend grated cheese
• Parmesan cheese, the grated kind in the cooler is better than the ground up stuff in the can
• bread homemade is best, slice it thick
• butter
• olive oil
• finely chopped fresh garlic
• fresh prepared salad

Prepare a spread for the bread using butter, olive oil, grated Parmesan and the garlic. Spread on each slice and broil just lightly.

On each plate add some cooked pasta, the top with sauce. Add some grated cheese, then sprinkle some Parmesan on top of that. If you have some fresh oregano or even parsley sprinkle a bit of it diced up on top. Green stuff always makes it look gourmet. Add your bread and a side salad, and  prepare to be pleased!

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Lately Georgia has been doing chicken a bit different. We don’t eat a lot of fried food but when we do it is homemade. I want to know exactly what is in it. She has perfected a chicken breast technique that can be used in lots of ways. These can be used for

• chicken sandwiches
• chicken biscuits
• sweet and sour chicken
• bbq chicken
• and more

She starts with boneless chicken breasts. Not some strange meat by-product that used to resemble a chicken, but real chicken breasts. If they are thick she will pound them out with a meat tenderizer. Then she cuts them in the desired sizes, sometimes she wants half a breast or sometimes just bite sized pieces.

She has two bowls already prepared, one with beaten eggs and one with seasoned flour, we like to use a local seasoning called soul seasoning, it is basically a seasoned salt with no msg.

She takes each piece of chicken and places it in the egg, then the flour then the egg again then the flour again, then fries in hot oil till golden brown.

It is incredible just like that and better than any chicken restaurant anywhere. But you could also place in a covered container with either sweet and sour sauce or bbq sauce and shake to coat. I love these on biscuits or with rice on the side.

This is just a menu idea would you like to see it made into an ebook with step by step instructions and pictures?

this is more of a menu idea rather than an exact recipe, start with 1 large baked potato per person then prepare several sides, and toppings, you can even use leftovers

• butter or ranch dressing or cheese sauce, or even gravy
• bbq pork or beef or diced cooked chicken
• vegetables, lots of cooked or raw diced vegetables
• grated cheese
• sour cream
• chopped chives
• bacon bits
• anything else that sounds good

Let each person load on what they want! Works great when set up like a salad bar or when the sides are put on a lazy susan in the middle of the table. Enjoy! This can be as healthy or extravagant as you choose it to be. Also great with a salad and some homemade bread.

This is just a menu idea would you like to see it made into an ebook with step by step instructions and pictures?

We moved from Southern California to Tennessee in the late fall of 1993. It was a wonderful new place except for one thing. We had grown up on Mexican food. Not American style fast food Mexican but authentic, miles from the border California style Mexican food. There was no good Mexican food in Tennessee. So I made it myself. Then I taught my daughters. Then we had more daughters and they learned to cook better than me. And they got better and better. And now that there are plenty of Mexican restaurants in Tennessee, we still can’t find one that tastes as good as our daughters cook. So I followed Georgia around the kitchen with my camera just to get this incredible information for you! 

Chimichangas are similar to fried burritos served on a bed of lettuce and smothered in sauce.

If you like this book you will probably also like my Creatively Simple – How to make Fiesta Basics – Salsa, Guacamole, Beans and Rice.

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