Recipe Thread

[Edwina's Secretary]

I love banana bread (and have been known to bake it....sssshhhhhh) but no one else in my house likes it so I have to eat the whole thing!

I can smell your bread from here! Have you tried the other recipe yet?

[Logan]

Originally posted by Barbara

Karen you skipped 2 important informations (maybe because you have a bunny:

You must first wipe the cat hair out of your big baking bowl.
Then you must wipe the cat hair out of the baking pan (it stands in a closed drawer under the oven where the cats NEVER get in but it seem to be impossible here to take something from the dishwasher without finding a reminiscence to TigriFiluzi there.

Had to chuckle at that one, Barbara, as when I went to clean out for my move, I found Golden Retriever and cat hair an inch thick in the drawer under my stove. YUCK!!!

[kohala]

Originally posted by Logan


Had to chuckle at that one, Barbara, as when I went to clean out for my move, I found Golden Retriever and cat hair an inch thick in the drawer under my stove. YUCK!!!

ROFLMAO at that one!! Oh, no - maybe I'd better check my stove drawer. Ack!

[sammi]

This a very very bad thread!!!!!!!! Everytime I read a new post I get just starved! I just warmed up a huge piece of Peach pie in the microwave that was given to me and I had it in the freezer!!!
Warm pie with ice cream!

This is a good time to ask if you have "pot lucks" where you live? Or do you ever go to restaurants and have buffet meals? I like this sometimes but - I rather leary about eating peoples food I don't know at pot lucks. Silly I know.

[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?