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Beef Stroganoff

Written By: Chris - Dec• 20•12

We had been eating leftovers following a recent dinner party for a couple of days. I’m usually good for having something again once, but am spoiled and then want different flavors through out the week. If I have given as much of the extras away and am unable to freeze something, I usually try to transform it into another dish audible!

We had an ambulance of homemade dried wheat pasta, about a pound of filet of beef and some caramelized onions on hand. If you didn’t have left overs in your fridge, you would just prepare your beef by seasoning it with salt & pepper, sear it in a hot pan drizzled with olive oil and slice it thinly. You could then caramelize your onions and even used prepared store bought pasta. This was a delicious and healthy stroganoff that tasted rich and delicious while very easy to prepare download star trek online for free german!

Ingredients:

1-2 Pounds Beef Tenderloin
2 Cups Beef Stock
1 Cup Onion, caramelized
2 Garlic Cloves, smashed
3 Tablespoons Butter
2-3 Tablespoons Flour
1 Tablespoon Dijon Mustard
3 Tablespoons Cognac
1 Cup Greek Yogurt, plain (or sour cream)
1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
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3 Tablespoons fresh Thyme
Salt & Pepper to taste

Melt the butter into a large sauce pan and whisk with flour cooking for about two to three minutes. Then stir in the beef broth, whisking continuously so there are not lumps! Stir in the yogurt internet explorer.

Add the Cognac and garlic and allow to simmer and cook for at least five minutes before adding the mustard and thyme film download van youtube.

Allow to simmer and thicken somewhat, stirring occasionally. Stir in onions, beef, mushrooms and cream. Season with salt & pepper to taste herunterladen.

Serve over prepared pasta

We enjoyed this with a crisp salad and a beautiful Jacuzzi – Sonoma County Chardonnay that was a gift from our uncle Ron Klang apple bücher herunterladen!

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Cheers!
~Chris

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Spinach & Strawberry Salad with Rose’ Dressing

Written By: Chris - Dec• 17•12

As you may know, I prepare dishes typically with based with what ingredients that I have on hand in my fridge and/or pantry. Although I’ve posted a strawberry and spinach salad recipe in the past, I thought I would share this version because you’ll see how easy it is to change things up in an effort of not getting tired of any particular ingredient or dish! I try to incorporate as much fresh spinach into our diet as possible, so this was a terrific alternative in flavor bubble shooter kostenlos vollversion chip.

As part of a dinner we recently shared, we had planned to start our meal with a “treat”! Bill had just received a shipment of a very nice Rose’ from one of my favorite wine makers Mitch Cosentino! I truly enjoyed this wine! Though I am typically a red wine drinker, I liked the crisp, light sweet notes and it paired perfectly with the salad because the dressing contained some of the rose’ within! This was a Christmas Holiday Celebration, so I felt that the Rose’ and the Salad were very festive looking and with the sweetness of the candied nuts, were a nice addition to the tablescape youtube treiber kostenlos downloaden!

Ingredients:

2 Cups fresh Strawberries
4 Cups fresh Spinach
2 Green Onions, sliced

Dressing:
1 Tablespoon White Vinegar
3 Tablespoons Rose’ Wine
1/3 Cup Sugar
1 Teaspoon Sesame Oil
1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
1 Tablespoon Poppy Seeds
1 Tablespoon Sesame Seeds
1/2 Teaspoon Paprika

Candied Walnuts
1 Cup Walnuts
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
pinch of Kosher Salt

Start by preparing these very easy candied walnuts; “Toast” the raw walnuts over medium heat – tossing frequently until browned. Remove from pan and set aside. Sprinkle the brown sugar directly into a non stick pan over low heat until melted mehrere pdf dateien herunterladen.

Turn off the heat and add the walnuts to the melted brown sugar. Toss and turn until the nuts are coated evenly. Spread onto parchment paper and separate as much as possible with a spatula before they begin to cool. Be careful, the sugar is very hot path of exile for free!

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Wash and de-stem the strawberries before slicing. Combine them with the spinach and green onion herunterladen.

Combine the ingredients for the dressing in a shaker container. Add the nuts and a light coating of the dressing, tossing just before serving! You may have left over dressing.

Enjoy herunterladen!

Cheers!
~Chris

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Scalloped Potatoes

Written By: Chris - Dec• 13•12

We were hosting dinner a couple weekends ago for our friends Deb and Robin who we had not seen in a while and I wanted to make something that was special. Scalloped potatoes sounded great along side of Grilled pork chops. This dish turned out quite tasty internet explorer for free! If you know me, you are aware that I am a big fan of white dishes and I try to find many shapes of them! I think that placing food on white plates makes the food pop and look very appealing. I found a great price and I bought myself a half a dozen new Ramekins not too long ago at Pier One. I like the shallow oval shape and they are different than the round ones that I already had. Recently I watched a show on the Food Network with Sandra Lee where she was preparing individual scalloped potatoes that included Gruyere cheese within the layers. Since I happened to have some of this cheese on hand in the fridge, and she prepared hers in a dish like my new ones I decided to create this scalloped potato dish! I searched and searched and was not able to find Sandra’s recipe, so I came up with these instead herunterladen. I cooked these for an hour, but Bill and I agreed that it could have baked a bit longer as we would have liked our potatoes a bit softer. They tasted great none the less herunterladen!

Ingredients:

4 Potatoes, peeled and sliced
1/4 Cup Milk, per dish
1/2 Cup of Half and Half, per dish
1 1/2 Cup Gruyere Cheese, shredded
1/2 Cup Mozzarella Cheese, shredded
1/2 Onion, sliced
Butter
Salt & Pepper

Rub the inside of the baking dishes with softened butter. Peel onions and potatoes and cut very thin

Start by layering each dish with a thin layer of potatoes covering the bottom completely. Place some onions on the potatoes and season with salt and pepper briefpapier winter kostenlos herunterladen.

Next, add layer of shredded Gruyere cheese, another layer of potatoes and onions and salt and pepper

Top with the last of the potatoes

I “eye balled” the cream, filling about half way. Then I added milk to each dish bringing the liquid almost to the rim garmin navi vote to for free.

Cover with foil and bake directly on rack in oven (I placed a cookie sheet under to catch any drippings) at 350 degrees for an hour. Uncover and sprinkle with Mozzarella cheese and cook for 15 minutes more until the cheese is brown and bubbling pdf architect for free.

Allow to set up for about 10 minutes before serving.

We served the scalloped potatoes along side of a grilled pork chops with a Rosemary cream sauce and a nice salad autorennen pc kostenlosen!

Enjoy!

Cheers!
Chris

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Sweet Onion Gruyere Dip

Written By: Chris - Dec• 10•12

I was pleased when I finally found Gruyère Cheese at my local Costco! Their prices are great and I find that I spend almost the same amount of money on a large chunk of cheese as I would a small wedge at the local grocery store. I often purchase large packages of cheese, cut them and freeze some after sealing it in a vacuum pack. The only cheese that I’ve found that doesn’t freeze well is Cheddar because it sometimes crumbles. But if you are going to use it in something like home-made macaroni and cheese, it keeps just fine herunterladen!

Bill and I were planning for an upcoming wine dinner. He had met Oscar at Beau Vigne some time ago in St. Helena in the heart of Napa. Bill immediately began planning for the December event. Oscar would come to our home to discuss and pour the wine and I would prepare the food to pair with the wines din herunterladen.

This appetizer dish was inspired by something I had eaten out at a local restaurant. Of course I didn’t know what was in their version of the dip, but I did a little looking on-line and came up with my own recipe. It paired wonderfully with the 2011 Reserve Chardonnay and our guests at the event let me know it was a hit herunterladen!

Ingredients:

2 Cups of Caramelized Onions:
2 Tablespoons Butter
1/4 C Brown Sugar
Salt & Pepper
1 Cup White Wine (Chardonnay), reduced
1/4 Cup fresh Thyme
2 Cups Gruyère Cheese Shredded
1 Cup Sour Cream
1 Cup Mayonnaise

Saute the onions in butter over medium low heat until translucent. Add the brown sugar, salt & Pepper, wine and thyme. Cook until the wine is reduced by about half. Mix onion mixture with sour cream, onions and shredded cheese 3sat filme downloaden.

Place into an oven safe baking dish. Bake at 400 for at least 30 minutes until the cheese is browned and is bubbling! I transferred it into a heated crock pot and kept it hot until needed at the dinner download tiktok for free.

Serve on a toasted Crustini that has been drizzled with olive oil and rubbed with fresh garlic clove. I charred them on the grill for additional flavor and they were terrific spider solitaire for free for mac!

Enjoy sender!

Cheers!
~Chris

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Sugar Roll Out Cookies

Written By: Chris - Dec• 09•12

Michelle and Jacob came over one evening last week to bake cookies! Her favorite are the roll out sugar type and mine are the spritz, so we made both! Sometimes roll out’s can be challenging to work with, but these turned out just wonderful, but be sure to chill the dough! They are not too sweet, and taste great just as they are but are pretty on a tray if you decorate them with frosting wekgeluiden downloaden.

The only problem we have with this recipe, is that when I wrote down the ingredients, we couldn’t remember if we used three or four cups of flour. I suggest starting with three cups and you’ll know right away if you need to add the fourth because the dough will be too wet. Michelle thinks it was four cups! These were the easiest roll out’s I’ve ever made spiele für den pc kostenlos herunterladen!

Ingredients:

1 Cup Butter (room temperature)
1 1/4 Cup White Sugar
3 or 4 Cups sifted Flour (plus some for rolling)
2 Eggs
1 Tablespoons Vanilla
1 Teaspoon Almond Extract
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda

Using a mixer, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Sift and stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt jedes video downloaden firefox.

Cover with plastic wrap and chill dough for at least one hour (we made the spritz while this dough chilled) sims download 3.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut the dough in half and work with half at a time. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. (We prefer ours thinner.) Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter Download purchased music from itunes. Place cookies on cookie sheets that have been lined with parchment paper. They don’t spread much, so they can be close together.

Depending on your oven, bake 6 to 8 minutes. We prefer ours soft and not crunchy, so less cooking time fortnite für nintendo 3ds downloaden.

Cool completely! Decorate if you wish! This recipe made roughly 8 dozen cookies filme auf handy downloaden. but it will depend on how large of cutters you choose to use!

Enjoy!

Cheers!
~Chris (Bill, Michelle & Jake!)

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Chris' Recipes

Beef Stroganoff

Spinach & Strawberry Salad with Rose’ Dressing

Scalloped Potatoes

Sweet Onion Gruyere Dip

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