Lucky Tiger was Delicious

Lucky Tiger was Delicious

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Kiltlifter Roast Beef

Slow cooked roast beef. So ono!

Kiltlifter Roast Beef

1 large boneless roast beef
1 chopped onion
5-6 cloves garlic, peeled
1 bottle Kiltlifter beer

Put 1st 3 ingredients into slow cooker. Pour beer over it. Slow cook all day 7 hours low or 5 hours high. Shred and enjoy.

Crisp Cocoa Cookies

Cousin Jeremys favorite. Grandma Z always made these when I was a kid. They are simple, use hardly anything and are wonderful. Zoa made her first batch of these last night and they turned out FABULOUS.

Crisp Cocoa Cookies
dry:
2 cups flour
1/3 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking Powder
1/4 tsp salt

wet:
2/3 cup Crisco
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp real vanilla
3 TBS milk or 1/2 n 1/2

Whip wet ingredients together in one bowl until fluffy. Mix dry into another. Slowly mix the dry into the wet. Do not overmix.

Roll dough into 1 inch balls, place on greased cookie sheet. Take a flat bottomed glass and butter it. Dip glass into sugar and flatten dough ball once. Glass into sugar and flatten dough ball a 2nd time. 2 flattens per cookie.

Bake at 350 for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and take off cookie sheet after cooling for a few minutes. Enjoy.

Pork Roast

Moms Pork Roast

1 large rolled boneless pork roast
olive oil
white wine
garlic
onion
herbs
salt n peppa

Brown that roast in some olive oil over stove in a large dutch oven or doufeu (the big pot with funny lid, just google it).

Pour over it 1-2 cups white wine, some garlic or full cloves of garlic, peeled of course. Sliced onion, herbs and salt n peppa. Add a little bit of water for good measure. Bake in oven at 350 for a few hours. If want it to be more tender after a few hours, turn the heat down to 200 and let it slow finish for a few more hours. 4 or so in total. add water as needed to keep some moisture in there. Make gravy with the juice.

Monday, September 7, 2009

JRs Salsa and Scalloped Potatos

JRs is a divey 80s looking bar that is attached to a gym. Yes a real gym with free weights, ellipticals and saunas. I worked there for a season or so and the salsa was so-so but really fast.

JRs Salsa

2 cans diced tomatos
1 can stewed tomatos
1 tsp salt
2 chopped habanaros
2 chopped fat jalapenos
1 chopped sweet onion
handful of cilantro (or 1/2 TBS of dried cilantro)
garlic
1 TBS vinegar
1 TBS lime juice to taste

Put it all into the blender or food processor.

Scalloped Potatos
6 large baking potatos sliced thin
flour
shredded cheese
salt
pepper
butter

Lay down 1 layer potato slices in large baking dish. Dot with a bit of butter, salt, flour, pepper. Repeat except add a bit of cheese every other layer. When full add milk until you can see it at the top layer. Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour or so until potatos are soft. 400 degrees.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Recipes and other crap

This is a blog of recipes for the kids who may want it. I'm updating with just recipes and took out the personal stuff. Some of it is too painful to read. Even now all these years later. So I edited out the sad and bring on the FOOD LIBRARIES.