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Pluto Transit To The Moon - Mine: Have A Favorite Family Recipe? Share It!
Outtakes and various other sundries
Per Jilly’s request, this is the recipe I got from the soldier’s mother yesterday. itdates to the 1800’s. It’s very good and very filling.
Arroz A La Valenciana
Chicken
6 boneless chicken breasts (halves)
1 ½ C water
1 T salt
1 bay leaf
Sauce
1 ½ sticks butter
2 1# cans tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
½ C salad olives with pimentos (coarse chop)
½ C pitted black olives (coarse chop)
1/2 C capers
½ C hot mix (hot Italian giardiniera, coarse chop)
½ c vinegar (from the hot mix)
½ C small white pickled onions
2 C garbanzo beans (squeeze off the skins)
juice of 1 lime
1 ½ c chopped onion
Rice
3 T olive oil
½ c very fine egg noodles (crushed lightly - one time)
2 C long grain rice
1 clove crushed garlic
Chicken broth from chicken
Stew chicken with ½ qt water, ½ c onion, the bay leaf and salt. (15 min pressure cooker)
Blend tomatoes and paste in blender
Melt butter in large pan, sauté onion
Add the rest of the sauce ingredients and heat
Slice chicken breast into chunks (it will shred) - add to sauce, heat thoroughly and set aside.
Saute garlic in olive oil, cast iron pan. Add rice and egg noodles and sauté until browned and infused.
Add rice mixture to pressure cooker with 1 qt chicken broth add to pressure cooker - cook for 2 min, remove from heat.
Arrange rice on a platter when pan has cooled, place chicken in the center and sprinkle with English green peas, or whatever else you have that’s green (parsley, green onions, et) Make it pretty.
Have a family recipe? Share it!
8 Responses to “Pluto Transit To The Moon - Mine: Have A Favorite Family Recipe? Share It!”
It looks like this:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Hot-Italian-Giardiniera/Detail.aspx
You can get it in the pickle section of the grocery store next to pepperonicis and the like. You won’t regret making this… it really is both good and good looking. 
Yum. Thank you SO much for sharing. I adore sharing recipes. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend.
My favorite family recipe doesn’t translate to text well, but it goes something like this, as best I can in my grandmother’s words:
OK so take some of that self rising flour, just throw a couple of those big scoops in the bowl. Now get the crisco and add in a big scoop of it and cut it into the flour there til it looks like peas, but drier. Then stir in milk until it all sticks together. Throw it in the oven there til it’s done. (I think that translates into “drop large spoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at around 325″ for … well it depends on how big your spoons are! I start checking at around 15 minutes)
In my family, we have a LOT of recipes like this one. But darn if I don’t make some great biscuits!
My favorite was always my dad’s Squirrel n’ Dumplings, but it’s not really a family recipe. We’re not a tight enough clan (on either side) to have such things.
My man’s family has a Graham Cracker Pie that is deadly! I haven’t weaseled my way into that one yet, though. I should’ve held my Black Beans and Rice recipe hostage for it, but I never think that far ahead. Not sneaky enough, I suppose. 
woot! Thanks! I’m going to cook this for sure.
Blitzkuchen
(Lightning Cake)
4 Tbsp Butter -
10 Tbsp Sugar - hahahaha
3 Eggs, beaten -
1 1/3 C Flour, sifted -
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder -
1/4 tsp Salt -
1/2 C Milk -
1 tsp Vanilla -
1/2 tsp Cinnamon –
1/4 tsp Nutmeg -
1/4 C Walnuts, chopped - (One small supermarket pack, and crush a bit more with a jar or something before you open it)
Zest from one large lemon
4 Tbsp powdered sugar
DIRECTIONS ————————————————————
Cream the butter and 10 Tbsp sugar.
Sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk to the first mixture.
Add the rest of the wet ingredients and the nuts & mix.
Add the eggs and mix thoroughly.
Pour into a well-greased pan. (I use a Bundt pan, which it fills halfway. If you do that you need less powdered sugar for the top.)
Sprinkle top of cake with the 4 Tbsp powdered sugar, & some more cinnamon and walnuts if you want.
Bake at 350-F for 30 minutes. (More like 40 – 45. Use toothpick method along with touch springiness.)
This isn’t an American-type cake.
- My 3 Korte Great-Aunts (via my sister)
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My mom’s buttermilk pie recipe:
don’t double recipe
bake on cookie sheet
3 eggs
1 1/2 C sugar
1 stick butter (melted)
1 Tbsp vanilla
1/2 C buttermilk
mix and put in 9″ deep dish pie crust
bake 400 degrees ten minutes and 325 degrees 50 minutes or til lite brown and jiggly in middle
Gran Johnson’s legendary yeast roll recipe. She died a couple months ago at age 100.
Written exactly as she has it:
Rolls
6 C. Flour
2 Tablespoons Sugar
4 Teaspoons Salt
1 1/2 Cups Water
4 are 5 table spoon Crisco
heat until melts. Cool luke warm.
1 or 2 eggs
1/2 Cup warm water
1 1/4 paks Fleischmanns yeast
let rise one hour - in warm place it doubles
knead on floured wax paper
roll out cut in biscuits pull them long ways a little. heat oil in a little dish take your fingers an dip in oil rub the middle an tap. put in pan let rise one hour or til big as you want them when they rise as much as you want them cook in 300 degree oven - 20 minutes they cook slower then biscuits hope you can read this I’m in a hurry
“Hope you can read this I’m in a hurry” *LOL* 
Your gran sounds great, Jilly. My condolences.
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Elsa, could you tell me what giardiniera is? I’ve never heard of it before. The recipe sounds good, but don’t know if I could get that ingredient
Thanks,
Michele