Hot Chocolate

15 March 2015

Ingredients

1. 3/4 mug of milk
2. 1 square of chocolate
3. 2 tsp of sugar
4. 2 tsp of chocolate 
5. 2 tsp of water
6. 1sp vanilla
7. marshmallow

Instructions

Melt square of chocolate with med/low heat
Stir the chocolate into the hot milk
Mix the chocolate and water in the empty mug until liquid
The milk is heated when bubbles for on the side and there's steam
Pour milk into cup
Add the vanilla into the cup
Add marshmallows

Pierogi

30 December 2014

Ingredients

10# Baking Potatoes – peeled, cubed, boiled and mashed (save water for dough)
8# Farmer’s cheese
1 pt sour cream
salt & pepper to taste

Proceed as follows

  1. Combine mashed potatoes, farmer’s chees e, sour cream, salt and pepper in large bowl
    Shape into balls using 1 3/4″ ice cream scoop or roll by hand into 1 1/4″ balls
    Dough

  2. 1 stick margarine – melted 4 large eggs – beaten 3/4 C Milk 1-1/2 C Potato Water – stir in sediment 1t salt 8 c flour

  3. beat eggs in mixer bowl with whisk. A dd melted margarine, milk, potato water & salt.

  4. Change to paddle beater and add 4 c flour. Beat until smooth. divide batter in half.
  5. Change to dough hook and add enough remaining flour to half of batch so dough does not s tick to hands repeat with other half of batter. Dough should be refrigerated for several hours or overnight to make it easier to handle. Pat out a piece of dough and put through pasta machine on thickest setting
    Reduce thickness u ntil pierogis do not break when boiled (trial and error)
    cut dough into cir cles – approx 3 3/4″ dia. using cookie or biscuit cutter (or lid of jar)
    NOTE - about 3 batches of dough needed for 10# raw potatoes used in filling.
    Assemble dough & filling by putting scoop of filling in center of each circl e, folding dough over and pinch edges to seal.

  6. Cool in boiling water app roximately 1 minute after pierogis rise to surface.

  7. Coat with melted marg arine and refrigerate or freeze until ready for use.

  8. Thaw and fry until golden brown. Serve with mushroom gravy of desired.

Yields about 200 to 250 pierogis

Spinach balls

30 December 2014

Ingredients

2 10oz boxes of frozen chopped spinach
2 cups stove top stuffing
1 stick margerin melted
1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
2 eggs
4 onion very finely chopped (Optional)

Proceed as follows

  1. Mix melted butter with stuffing mix and add enough warm water to slightly soften but not make mushy (about 1/4-1/2cup)

  2. Slightly beat eggs

  3. Mix everything together
  4. Form balls (about 1″)
  5. Bake at 350 for 15-20 mins.

What I did at your place on Thanksgiving was with 1 of your bags of spinach (I don’t know how much it was)

I reduced the other ingredients to

1-1/2 cups stuffing mix
1/2 stick margering
1 egg
1/2 cup cheese

Swedish Meatballs

30 December 2014

There are almost as many recipes for Swedish meatballs as there are
Swedish amateur chefs. The three main types are (1) small, fried, served
without sauce; (2) large, fried, served in brown gravy; (3) medium size,
boiled, served in sauce. The present recipe is a very simple version of
type-1 meatballs, a children’s favourite.

Ingredients

500 grammes (1 lb) ground beef
1 small onion
1 egg
1/4 cup dried bread crumbs
vegetable oil (for frying)
salt, pepper

Proceed as follows

  1. Finely grate or chop the onion.

  2. Mix the ground beef, the onion, the egg and the bread crumbs. Add some white pepper and salt to taste.

  3. Form into 30 walnut-size meatballs.

  4. Heat 2 tbsp of vegetable oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Sauté the meatballs in two batches until browned on all sides and cooked through (approximately ten minutes).

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