Learning How to Cook Day 12

So today I am making open face turkey Sandwich's (Banquet Turkey Dinners ) Baked in the oven when you bake them in the oven the cook hotter all over.
Take a piece of bread on your plate, place two pieces of turkey on top of the bread, and then place a dollop of Marsh potatoes on top of the bread and turkey and then place turkey gravy over top of it. The Vegetable is cut green beans.

For dessert I am making a Chocolate Mint Cake. Using a Dunkin Hines Chocolate cake mix from the box, I am adding Chocolate mint syrup from Smuckers into the mix and mixing some of the syrup into the frosting.

And watching the nightly dinner show, a yellow bird eating the seeds out of the giant picker bushes in front of the dinning room window.

don't cook. I only eat. It's a problem.

Final Word Index By Craig Wilson

Lucky for me I live with someone who is a great cook. Other than my trademark meatloaf, with its two secret ingredients, A-1 sauce and Parmesan cheese, I have not made a meal in 27 years. A good run. I do the dishes. Seems only fair.

So I'm always intrigued people actually buy cookbooks. Not only do they buy them, they read them. I was on a flight the other day and the woman next to me was actually reading recipes. Recipes!

Lucky for such foodies, books extolling their culinary world arrive every month. This spring is no exception.

The good thing for the rest of us is that the wonderful world of wasabi has branched out. Food, and any kind of food, is now celebrated.

Guy Fieri Food: Cookin' It, Livin' It, Lovin' It, from the bigger-than-life Food Network's celebrity chef, is filled with dozens of "kick-ass" recipes, or so Fieri says.

Included: s'more pizza. Yes, s'more pizza. Seems it's the treat du jour this spring.

Sarah Huck and Jaimee Young were wise enough to put a photo of the old-fashioned campfire favorite on the cover of their new Campfire Cookery. They also were wise enough to include campfire cocktails recipes to wash the s'mores down.

Speaking of treats, how about Food Trucks?

This paperback by Heather Shouse is a fun romp — a guide to "the kitchens on wheels" that serve up meals on urban street corners.

I walk by a lobster-roll truck most days on my lunchtime stroll to the gym. The long line is testimony that these trucks offer up fare worth waiting for.

Not that I'm just a street-corner, lobster-roll kind of guy, some schlump who doesn't know truffles from tahini. No sirree. I know good food when I open it.

My good friends from college — the Chef Boyardee family — are out with an aptly titledDelicious Memories. Written by Anna Boiardi, the granddaughter of Mario Boiardi, the book is filled with fabulous-looking dishes that appear to not come out of a can. Odd, I know.

And then there's Harold Pearman's spring offering, A Cookbook for a Knucklehead: Bachelor, New Graduate, Beginner and Other Spoiled Brats.

I do not consider myself a spoiled brat, but this book works for me. Each recipe is accompanied by three photos: the ingredients, the saucepan in use, what the finished product should look like.

But the best tip is upfront. "Be careful and think at all times."

Perhaps that's why I just do the dishes.

Learning How To Cook Day 11

Soup again :-) soup is my favorite food!

I browned the meat and place the water in, I added 6 bay leafs this time, and when I did the potato's I left the skin on. and it was really good, the second time was taster then the first.

Learning How To Cook Day 10

Today in the kitchen I made Denice's world famous chili

1 pound of Hamburg in a sprayed warm pan and fry it.

Add Onions, Celery and Green Peppers diced

Add Beans

2 Kidney Beans

1 Pinto Bean

1 Can diced tomato's

Add Tomato Juice

1 Teaspoon Cumin

3 Teaspoon Chili Powder

3/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper

Let Simmer 4 Hours

adding more juice when need.

Singing while you make it. I was singing "I am going to live in the Garage" Ashton Kutcher signs in Open season. Then I would sing "Someone poisoned the water hole" Woody for Toy Story The theme to the Duke's of Hazard and some Johnny Cash.

Denice liked it! Me not so much!

Learning How to Cook Day 9

Friday, May 13, 2011

We have a lot of left over cookies and fudge from last night event. Last night for dinner I had dinner with friends Mary Helfmann and her daughter Teresa Helfmann (or T) our senators mother Kim Hune, My sister Denice and Former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land at Treasurer's in Owosso. If you ever get to Owosso stop by Treasurer's at 109 N. Washington St and have lunch or dinner they are the best in town, ask for Dave and Peggy.

So today is another HOT Day so for dinner my mother showed me how to make Scalloped Potato's

Peal and Cut Potato's ( Large cuts about 4 for a Small 6 for a large potato)

Peal Onions

and Cut up about five hot dogs

In a bowl place to scoops of flour and add as much milk as you do potato's

place in slow cooker and stir then had a half a stick of butter on top.

If you place a bag in the cooker do not cook on high the bag will melt cook on 225

after about 40 minutes stir for the first time, and continue to stir

takes about 2 and half hours it took mine about 3 hours

Learning How to Cook Day 8

Day 8, Wednesday, May 11, 2011 a very busy day.

The Wise Republican Women of Shiawassee County (WRWSC) decided to host Former Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land and Michigan Republican Party Ethnic Chair Linda Lee Tarver speaking event on "Women in Politics: How Women Are Shaping the Future of Politics" and I need to bake cookies for the event.

At 3 pm I started baking Pumpkin Cookies it is a family recipe that my mother got from her mother and so on. Around here it is my mothers world famous pumpkin cookies, thanks to my good friend Phyllis Lahmann I changed the recipes from two teaspoons of Cinnamon to one and half teaspoons of Cinnamon and one teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice and it was good!

Then I made my dinner at 6:30 pm when I finished making the pumpkin cookies, I made what we call Home Made Noodles, (Denice makes them the best) You take Chicken broth, I prefer Swanson's (Just looking at it you see a more yellow color using store branch looks a little more like water) I add egg noodles until they peek out from the broth. stirring, off and on. Then in a bowl add flour and water and mix together, should be a little runny. When the juice is nearly gone, add the flour and water and stir. Serve Hot!
I make this a couple of times a year, but this wast the first time I got the flour and water right!

After dinner I made Home made Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Pre-heat the oven at 350
Combine (1 1/2 Cups of Flour, 1 teaspoon baking Soda, 1 teaspoon Salt) in a bowl and set aside
In a bowl mix together Sugar (1 Cup Sugar and 1 Cup Brown Sugar) with the Shorting (1 Cup Shorting) until cream
In another Bowl add Eggs (2 Eggs) and vanilla (1 teaspoon) mix well
Add egg and vanilla to the sugar and shorting and mix well, then add the Flour, baking soda and Salt mixer and mix well
Add Oats (3 Cups) and stir well
add Raisins (1 Cup) you can add more if you like

Using a tablespoon full of mixture roll into ball. Place the ball on a greased cookie sheet when the cookie sheet is full flatten them with a fork
Bake in a Pre Heated oven at 350 for 10-12 Minutes and makes about five dozen
cool before eating because raisins that are warm do not taste good.

Learning How To Cook Day 9

Today I made Sloppy Joe's Brown 1 lb. lean ground beef in a sprayed warm large skillet until no longer pink drain if needed Stir in one can of Mejier's Sloppy Joe Mix .Serve on hamburger bun or Bread I made mac and Cheese to go with it, using two different noodles (which is not a good Idea)

Learning How to Cook Day 8

Well it has been a few days since I cook anything. I made spaghetti and pancakes over the last week. But I have made them before.

So today lesson was goulash. I sprayed a frying pan with Pam and warmed it before placing the hamburger in. I had another pan bring water to a boil, ( I added salt and oil to make it boil faster and not stick)

While the Marconi was boiling (and there was a lot of Marconi) I chopped up the hamburger, in the frying pan ( I like small Hamburger in my goulash and chili) I chopped up onion ( I like onion to flavor the meat, not take it over) really fine. Placed the onion in the frying pan, I added some salt and pepper to the hamburger, then I added Chili powder over the hamburger.

When the marconi finished boiling, I added some tomato juice and hambuger and stirred, then I added more chili power.

My mother said the marconi is cooked perfect, but she did not like the onion in the hamburger. Denice said it was ok. Sharron Scott was over and she tested it and said it was good.

Learning How to Cook Day 7

Today I was alone in the kitchen, I made pork chops and beef noodles. I placed the pork chops in the warmed frying pan that I sprayed with pam and added some pepper to the pan ( I am the only one who likes pepper)

In a sauce pan I added two cups of water and one tablespoon of butter and added a package of beef noodles. Cook them for ten minutes then set them aside to mold.

I cut up a green granny smith apple on the side.

Everyone enjoyed it.

Learning How to Cook Day 6

It has been a few days, Sunday we had a frozen pizza before going off to my aunt Suzie's Birthday party. I had Chocolate ice cream for the first time in years.

Monday, was a busy day I took my mother out to Meijers and we were there for three hours. For dinner we had Meijer dell department fried chicken, and a salad which Denice made. I wa wind blowned from pumping gas and my eyes hurt. We purchase Meijer Dell Fried Chicken a lot. We like it better then Kentucky Fried Chicken. To me it is less salty.

So tonight I warmed up the left over Meijer Dell Fried Chicken, made box mash potatoes, with brown gravy, and fresh uncooked green beans. It was my first day in the Kitchen all by myself.

It was also the first time the milk and butter did not go over in the pan while I was trying to cook.

Tomorrow is the final lenten soup supper at church, the 8th grade class at Salem Lutheran church is making sloppy joes, so tomorrow night will be dinner with the fun people at Salem.

Learning How to Cook Day 5

Saturday, April 9, 2011 a slow day. I went to the Movies and saw the movie Paul starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, had a lot of popcorn. Went to Meijers where they were handing out the Meijer O Cookies dipped in white chocalte (Yum)

Came home and made dinner, waffles. We have a waffel iron that makes two waffles at a time, the only problem with it is the next waffle is done before you can eat the first one.

So I mixed by batter while the waffle iron was pre-heating

2 Cups of Batter mixed with

1 1/2 Cups cold water

2 tablespoons of oil

Mix it together, really fast and hard (To remove the batter lumps) it will still look like a little lump.

Spray waffle iron and poor two spoons full of batter into the iron shut the lid and Flip over to the other side, and repeat making sure you always spray the waffle iron before each waffle you make.

and enjoy.

Learning How to Cook Day 4

Today is day four of learning how to cook, for lunch I made Grilled Cheese on Italian bread. Using Kraft Cheese singles (2 1/2) , it turned out wonderful, the cheese was pulling away from the sandwich when you would take a bit.

As you may already know I had a special person in the kitchen with me tonight, my sister Denice was the teacher and we made Lasagna. And she did not make fun of me!

Denice sprayed the extra large sauce pan and place the water in it to boil. I sprayed the frying pan with Pam and started to brown the hamburger. Once the noodles cooked for 15 minutes she had me take them out of the pan and cut the ends off (four or five ridges) because they did not fit into the pan. When finished it turned out really good, my mother even eat a second plate, which I have never seen her do.

Lasagna

Spray pan and place water in, once water boils place noodles in (in number of 3, 3 noodles of each layer) 12-15 Noodles. Keep stirring noodles so they do not stick to the pan

Spray frying pan and warm the pan. Place hamburger in the pan and chop with spatula, keep stirring hamburger so it does not stick to the pan .

Pre-heat oven at 375

When noodles and hamburger are done, spray glass baking pan (11*8) and place a layer of meat Flavored Sauce. Take noodles out in numbers of three and grab them out of the pan in the middle of the noodles (ends will break off if you grab them by the ends) trim a few rows off ( 4 or 5 ridges on the noodle) so the fit into the pan.

Place 3 noodles into the pan and put sauce on top of noodles, place some hamburger on top of the sauce and then some cheese. (Sauce and Cheese can be water ever kind you like)

Repeat steps until all the noodles are in the pan. Place into the oven and bake 15-18 minutes.

Place most of the Cheese on the top

When removing the noodles from the pan use tongs and do not drain, water will splash up onto you

Learning How to Cook day 3

Day 3 of learning how to cook. Today I made Hamburgers and Salad. I rolled the hamburger meat into a ball and pressed down on them, then I smoothed out the edges and placed into a warm frying pan, that I had sprayed with Pam cooking oil, then I added pepper to them.

While the hamburgers cooked I made a salad. When the hamburgers were finished I added cheese to mine. They turned out! I finally cooked some meat (-:

My mother said it was a good dinner.

Day 3 a success.

Day 2 of Learning How to Cook

So Tuesday I had left over Soup (YUM) and I was going to boil eggs but Denice beat me to it. Today was going to be a busy day, I had to take a sack lunch with me to the DUVCW (Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 Juliet E. Stevens Tent 14) Meeting in Corunna. I cut up two boiled eggs, added to teaspoons of miracle whip and a dab of yellow mustard and placed it a piece of french bread. Denice made an Applesauce cake the other day, we got the recipe from my Walton's Christmas CD it is Mama Walton's Recipe and it is reall GOOD (-: Tonight is soup supper before the Lenten Services at Church, so I will be eating at church.

Learning how to cook

So I have decided that I need to learn how to cook. So yesterday I asked my mother if she would show me how to cook, and she agreed. So today we started with what we call Theresa Soup ( because it has beef in it, the chicken soup is made a little different and is call garbage soup) I was surprised how good the soup turned out, it was my first time using the pressurer Cooker. Step one Cut the slightly frozen meat into a size that would fit onto a spoon Put the meat into the pan and brown the meat but in a med is bowl of water and add 3-5 Bay leafs, stir the bottom of the pan really well and place lid on the pan cook on high until you hear the sizzling noise, reduce heat to Med and cook for 20 minutes Clean and cut 5-6 med Potatoes, and 5-7 Large Carrots (Do not use the small carrots or can) Cut into large pieces so they do not become mushy place in a bowl of Cold water. Drain the water and place in the pan (when the meat is done) add water to pan if needed. Cook 15 Minutes remove lid and taste test carrots. Once the Carrots are cook Drain one can each of Corn, French Cut Green Beans, Peas, Cut Green Beans add to the pot bring to a slight bowl and enjoy.