Monday, December 28, 2009

What is your favorite recipe to cook? And how do you cook it?

Mine is Scrambled Eggs, cooked until they're light brown, sprinkled with home-grown spring onions, and covered with ketchup.What is your favorite recipe to cook? And how do you cook it?
That's a hard question. I really don't know that I have a favorite, but on top of my list is a pineapple cake, eggs, and potatoes. And after careful consideration, I would have to say my favorite is hashbrowns.


Peel and grate potatoes, slice a onion, grab some garlic, toss in skillet and cook over a med heat in olive oil and butter until just done.What is your favorite recipe to cook? And how do you cook it?
My favorite thing to make is homemade chicken or beef pot pie.





Chop a small onion into small piece. Chop two stalks of celery into small pieces as well. Saute the two in about 1 1/2 TBS of olive oil, seasoned with salt n pepper, til the celery is tender and the onions are translucent. Just before the onion/celery is done, toss in one clove of finely chopped garlic. ( I recommend waiting til the end of the cooking process to add garlic because it burns fast and adding it in with the celery and onions in the beginning will result in tiny burnt pieces of garlic, no good! ) Set celery/onion/garlic aside after done.





Open and drain all the veggies you want for your pot pie. For this recipe I use one can of each: carrots, peas, green beans ... and two cans of sliced potatos that I slice again into smaller pieces. Toss together in large pot or bowl, along with celery/onion/garlic mix.





Shred or slice chicken or beef roast ... I prefer to shred the chicken for chicken pot pie but chunk the left over beef roast when I make beef pot pie. Toss this into the veggie mix bowl as well.





Lastly, you'll want to make the sauce. Melt 4 TBS butter over medium heat. Add 1/2 cup flour to make rue. If you do not know what that means ... basically you are mixing the flour into the butter and it will clump together ... continue to cook for a few minutes to cook out the flour flavor. Next, add 2 cups chicken broth ( for chicken pot pie ) or 2 cups beef broth ( for the beef pot pie ). Make sure the broth is hot when you add it in. Whisk til it starts to get bubbly and thick. Next, add 1 1/2 cups milk. Whisk til it starts to get bubbly and thick again. This time it will take a bit longer because the milk is cold and will need to heat back up again. At this point you can add salt n pepper to taste, about a tsp of lemon juice ... and if you like nutmeg, grate in about 1/2 tsp. Stir. Then pour sauce over the veggie/meat mix and stir til well blended.





Pour into 9 x 13 pan.





Cook at 400 degrees til nice and bubbly, you may want to stir it a few times ... usually takes about 30 minutes to get nice, hot and bubbly.





You can use a pie crust top but we prefer a biscuit top instead. To do that, take bisquick and add water til smooth and a little soupy. Not too thick but not too soupy either. Hard to explain but you want to be able to pour it over the pot pie. Do so ... then bake for whatever temp and time it says on the box ... I believe its 450 degrees for 10-12 minutes for biscuits.





GOOD GOOD, my favorite thing to have! And my 7 year old niece LOVES this.

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