Recipe Thread

[Tanya&Fritz]

I love pot lucks! I'll eat anything made by anyone

[kohala]

I work for the Navy - potluck heaven! Especially with all the delicious Filipino food - I've had many varieties of pancit - love it!

[Miss Meow]

Barbara, your banana bread looks divine! I hope Filou allowed you to eat some

[Freckles]

A Potluck highlight.
A neighbor gave us this recipe years ago. I converted it for some relatives to a low fat version:

2 packs .3 oz SugarFree Lime Jello
2 cup hot water - cool until syrupy, then add
1 12oz can fat free evaporated skimmed milk, or equivalent.
1 cup Light Mayonnaise
1 - 16 ox tub lowfat Cottage Cheese w/2% milkfat
Fold in 2 cups pineapple minced or crushed Pineapple in unsweetened juice, drained well.
2 - ½ oz packs Walnut bits, or your choice. Almonds work well.
Refrigerate.

[Soledad]

Freckles - I've never heard of that. But, just looking at the ingredients it looks quite yucky. What on earth does it taste like???

[Freckles]

Many people make something similar to this recipe, but use Coolwhip or something sweet. Ruth's version isn't sweet Hmmm., kind of difficult to describe a "taste".

[Soledad]

Maybe it's just because of the mayo and jello combo. That sounds very odd to me.

[*LabLoverKEB*]

I don't know if this was already posted!

Amish Friendship Bread

1 cup sugar
1 cup oil
2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp backing powder
3 eggs
1 large box of instant vanilla pudding
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cups milk
2 cups flower
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup walnuts (optional)

Grease 2 lage loaf pans. Mix additional 1/2 cups of sugar and 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, sprinkle 1/2 of sugar mixture into pans. Pour batter into pans. Sprinkle remaining sugar mixture over the batter. Bake at 325 for 1 hour. Cool until bread loosens from the pan evenly.

http://www.armchair.com/recipe/bake002.html

[Logan]

Originally posted by Soledad
Maybe it's just because of the mayo and jello combo. That sounds very odd to me.

Maybe it is a southern thing, but it is quite normal to put a dolip (I don't know if that is a real word) of mayonaise on top of congealed salad. I'm not a big congealed salad lover, but seems like my mother's generation is!

Joan, that recipe is very familiar to me. My grandmother used apricot jello though, instead of the lime. And I've had it with the lime, but with cool whip instead of mayonaise. I actually enjoyed it both ways, too!

[Soledad]

But you're mixing sweet stuff with mayo? It sounds so wrong!!

[kohala]

Originally posted by Soledad
But you're mixing sweet stuff with mayo? It sounds so wrong!!

Soledad - my grandmother used to make a salad dressing mixing mayonaisse with pineapple (crushed with the juice) - it was soooo deliciuos on her salads (which always had apple pieces and raisins in them.) The lime jello with cottage chees and pineapple is pretty well know, her variety is probably really good! Have you every had that kind of jello dessert?

BTW, Logan, there are lots of dishes called "aspic" that are gelatin based. Not always sweet, either! You mentioned a lot of Southern dishes made this way - will you share some recipes?

[Karen]

Originally posted by Miss Meow
Barbara, your banana bread looks divine! I hope Filou allowed you to eat some

Well, Uncle Mac, whose Banana Bread recipe this is, used to sit and eat dinner with his best cat on his shoulder. The cat would eat occasional bites right off of Mac's fork when Mac held it over for the cat, so I am sure he is grinning from heaven, watching a cat over in Germany sharing banana bread with HIS human. Filou, you did share, right?

(Yes, the spoiling-animals-quite-rotten gene comes to me from both sides of the family, Uncle Mac being my Dad's actual Uncle! )

[Barbara]

I had checked with Filou in his radiator bed and this first photo shows his first try -after that I had to put the banana bread in a cupboard because he wanted to lick all over the surface. Of course he could get little bites from us just like Uncle Mac's cat but I prefer my food not being licked all over by Filou
This morning it was even better. Purrfectly cooked inside and still juicy and fresh.
Thanks Karen, thanks Uncle Mac
(I will spread my translated version of the recipe here among my colleagues -they were already interested when I left yesterday....).

[kohala]

Here's to Uncle Mac and Ruth - I'm going to make the banana bread and jello dishes (that Karen and Freckles posted) this weekend as a treat when Dadcat gets home - I'll be thinking of you both when I do - and let you know how I made out! Barbara's looks sooooo good. Wish we could do online potlucks!

[Vio&Juni]

Yes, Barbara, your banana bread looks very yummy.
We just had also a kind of banana/lemon bread the day before yesterday. I had to hide it, Juni likes it very much too. But she got her share.