Kitchen Magic
Recipe: Witchy’s Jambalaya
Sunday, January 20th, 20088 small chorizo, sliced
Boneless breast of chicken, cubed - 2 breasts
Shrimp
Sliced yellow onion
Sliced red and green bell pepper
1 small jar Clam juice
Diced Roma tomatoes
1 heaping tablespoon roasted garlic
1 1/2 cup half and half cream (or lower fat… yummier with the cream)
1/2 cup chicken stock
grated parmesan cheese - 1/2 cup
Cajun seasoning
Cumin
Pepper
Tri-colored Rotini
Sauté the chicken. Add sausage. [...]
Recipe: Cuban Black Beans
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008This is a Cuban recipe from a friend who lived in Miami for many years.
- 6 cans black beans (unless you want to go to the work of using dried - have at ‘er), drained, but not rinsed.
- 1 jar Sofrito
- 1 can tomato sauce
- 6 packets Sazon
- 2 packages (4 [...]
Recipe: Witchy’s Famous Chili
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Okay, so everybody has a “famous” chili recipe. Here’s mine:
3 lbs. lean ground beef
6 lg cans red kidney beans, drained
2 lg cans diced tomatoes, not drained
3 cans tomato soup
2 large onions, diced
2 green peppers, diced
2 red peppers, diced
1/2 pound of fresh mushrooms, sliced
4 cloves garlic, minced or crushed
Chili powder to taste
Cayenne pepper to taste
Sea [...]
Recipe: Witchy’s Meatloaf
Saturday, October 27th, 2007Here’s an awesome meatloaf recipe. (And I don’t normally like meatloaf!) It’s very moist. The real secret is in the sauce that goes on top.
2 lbs lean ground beef
1 egg
3/4 cup rolled oats
medium onion, diced
3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup milk
3 cloves of garlic (or more to taste), crushed
Salt and pepper to taste
Sauce
1 cup ketchup
2 Tbsp [...]
Recipe: Chicken Marsala
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Ingredients:
4 tbsp. butter (or margarine)
4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
4 green onions, chopped
1/2 lb. mushrooms, sliced
1/2 c. Marsala wine (this is the key!!)
1 c. heavy cream
1 tsp. lemon juice
Lightly salt & pepper
Flour for breading chicken
Directions:
Dip the chicken in water and bread with flour, salt and pepper. In a large frying pan, melt butter over medium heat. [...]
Recipe: Marinated Shrimp Kabobs
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007This is AWESOME!
1 lb. shrimp
3 Tbsp oil
2 Tbsp Pickapeppa sauce (if you can’t find this, a sweet steak sauce will do)
2 Tbsp apricot preserves
1 Tbsp honey
1 Tbsp maple syrup
1 tsp red pepper flakes
t tsp ground pepper
1/4 tsp basil
1/4 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp rosemary
1 tsp minced garlic
3 Tbsp lemon juice
bacon
Peel and de-vein shrimp. Stir together oil, [...]
Recipe: French Canadian Tourtiére (Spiced meat pie)
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007This is a traditional French Canadian addition to Christmas dinner.
6 lbs minced beef
3 lbs minced veal
3 lbs minced pork
12 small finely chopped onion
6 garlic cloves, minced
½ tsp ground cloves
½ tsp ground nutmeg
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground allspice
1 tsp pumpkin spice
4 tsp celery salt
2 tsp savory
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
1 to 2 cups breadcrumbs
Combine all [...]