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Saturday, November 23, 2013

My Red Beans With Sliced Sausages

I love Beans of all kinds and I will cook them up in a tinkle of an eye. One thing you much know you got to cook beans in smoke meat so they can get that flavor.It don't have to be pork you can cook them in smoke turkey tails,"yes sir"

1 pound of dry red beans clean and picked
2 smoke turkey tails
1 pound smoke sausages sliced
1 large onion chopped
2 garlic clove mashed
1/2 cup celery
1/8 teaspoon cayanna pepper
salt to taste
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1 cup Uncle Ben’s long grain rice (cooked)



Procedure:

1. Boil turkey tails in 8 cups of water 1 hour

2. Add Beans and cook 1 hour

3. Add all ingredients to the cooking beans.(not rice)

4. Cook 30 minutes

5.start mashing some of the beans on the side of the pot with a big spoon
to make them creamy.... beans need to cook 30 minute more with the sliced smoke sausages.

6.Take out turkey tails before serving over rice

Friday, November 22, 2013

Greens Gumbo Recipe



Just call it the way of New Orleans great cooks cook that Gumbo many ways to please your pleasure in a taste of  Cajun style. The first time I taste this Gumbo I was a very young woman and now I prepare for so many occasions.everyone who has this recipe prepare it the same way.... but it's never taste the same.




1 cup cooking oil
  
1 cup flour
  
2 cups chopped onion
  
1 cup chopped green bell pepper
  
1 cup chopped celery
  
4 cloves garlic
  
2 bay leaves
 
1 Tbsp Cajun seasoning
  
1 pound smoke ham chopped
 
10 cups chicken broth
  
1 pounds each mustard greens and turnip greens clean and chopped
  
Salt to taste

Red Pepper to taste




Heat the oil in an pan

stir in the flour to create a roux



Brown to a light brown




Until you get a dark brown

Add the holy trinity (the onion, pepper and celery); increase the heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables soften. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute.




Stir in the bay leaves and Cajun/Creole seasoning



 Bring 10 cups of chicken broth to a simmer in a large pot.


Add the greens and Cajun/Creole seasoning as needed. Bring just to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer for 1 hour.




Add  Smoke Ham
And Smoke Sausage



Cook 15 mins




Thursday, November 21, 2013

Turkey Necks And Dumpling Stew

Turkey neck stew or Turkey neck gumbo is often served at large gatherings such as Mardi Gras parties in Louisiana and serve with a lot hot sauce. One Good reason turkey necks are serve because the meat is inexpensive and very flavorful and  guess what???,there’s a lot of meat on those turkey necks, not like > "chicken necks" Not knocking chicken neck because the chicken necks make a rich broth for chicken and dumplings.

I came up with this recipe Turkey Necks and Dumpling Gravy....because sometime you don't want to get too full on dumplings < > just the taste of those season meaty turkey necks with a little flour season gravy.

When buying turkey necks they normally available in packs of 6 in the poultry section of your supermarket. The necks are usually cut into 2 (6-inch) sections but if they are packaged whole, cut them in half for easier handling.

Recipe

8 or 12 turkey necks

2 cups onions, sliced

1 cup diced celey

1/4 cup garlic, minced
Place turkey necks in pot filling all way with water covering the turkey necks.
Adding onion, celery ,garlic and black pepper and salt to your taste.and other ingredients you like.
Cover and cook on low med heat for 2 hours or until water is half gone
Adding ¼ cup parsley, chopped

and 1 cup green onion

salt and black pepper to taste cover and cook until green onions are tender

Then mix ¼ cup flour

1 cup chicken stock mix well add salt and pepper to taste.
 Pour over Turkey Necks and stirring lightly and in two seconds it will look like this.simmer for few mins.






Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Meat Balls Stew

My mother always cook a big pot of meat balls Stew.We ate as many as we wanted not with pasta; we ate them with creamy mashed potatoes.

It's seem like that homemade red thick tomato gravy just give those creamy mashed potatoes the best taste ever.

When the Meat Balls was gone from the pot, we did not care too much because we had the wonderful meat ball gravy to do some serious slopping with bread.

Here we Go!

Adding water and two teaspoon salt to a big pot filling almost full to the top and let boil.

In a bowl at 2 pound ground meat
3 Beaten  Eggs
1 cup Milk
1/2 cup water
Chop real fine 1/2 cup each green onion and red and green bell peppers
Spice 1 tablespoon each onion powder, garlic powder,salt and black pepper.

Mixing all together

Rolling into a ball

Place them on a sheet pan
Than drop them one by one in the boiling water. Cook 10 mins.
Draining meat balls and place in another pot
Pour four Jars pasta Sauce and and cover pot and let simmer on med heat for 30 mins
You can also make a Meat Ball Sandwich

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie Stew Under Biscuits




When you come home from a long hard day and this is waiting for you..What more can you ask for in life?

Well more love of course!! This stew is prepared with a slow cooker, it is your stay home chef.

 Let's Start With....

 4 large skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into cubes


 10 medium red potatoes, quartered


    1 (8 ounce) package baby carrots


    1 cup chopped celery


    2 (26 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup



    6 cubes chicken bouillon


    2 teaspoons garlic salt


    1 teaspoon celery salt


    1 tablespoon ground black pepper


    1 (16 ounce) bag frozen mixed vegetables



Directions
Combine the chicken, potatoes, carrots, celery, chicken soup, chicken bouillon, garlic salt, celery salt, and black pepper in a slow cooker; cook on High for 5 hours.





 Stir the frozen mixed vegetables into the slow cooker, and cook 1 hour more.

 Pour when mixture is done pour in serving bowls



Add a Crescent roll on top 


Bake Them Golden Brown