Dumplings

When my brother's and I were younger, mum used to make chicken soup with dumplings.  Because my brother enjoyed dumplings so MUCH, mum would make him a pot of dumplings all for himself.

Oh and my boss said that these dumplings were delicious!

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon margarine
1/2 cup milk

Stuff you will need

Mixing bowl
Fork or pastry cutter

Directions

Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in medium size bowl. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in milk to make a soft dough.

Drop by spoonfuls into boiling stew. Cover and simmer 15 minutes without lifting lid.

Enjoy.

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome.

Mum's Vanilla Fudge

I was approached by one of the guys at work.

He was really looking for someone that could make him some vanilla fudge.

I was able to fix his sweet tooth.

Ingredients

3 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar (icing sugar)
1/2 cup butter
3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt

Stuff you will need

Heavy sauce pan
Heavy spoon that can withstand heat
Crisco
9 x 5 inch baking pan
or 8 x 8 silicon pan (I've got one from Canadian Tire)

Directions

Grease a 9 x 5 inch pan.

In a 3 quart saucepan, using very low heat, mix together confectioners sugar, butter, milk, vanilla, and salt until mixture is creamy.

I tried using a wire whisk.  Oh my.  Learn from my fail.  The wire whisk got all plugged up.

Pour into a greased 9 x 5 inch pan. Refrigerate until firm, then cut into squares. 

Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Click on the picture (below) to see the video.

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome!

Chicken Meatballs

A few weeks ago, Tonya had gone to the store and she seen these "tubes" of what she thought was ground beef.  Only this time, there was 4 tubes for $10.00.

What a deal!  So she bought one package, thinking it's ground beef.  She took two of the tubes out and examined them.  Oh my...  ground chicken.

So I found this recipe.  Obviously not quite the same as ground beef meatballs, but still, quite delicious none the less!

Ingredients

1 pound ground chicken
1 egg
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
2 tablespoons olive oil (makes meatballs more moist)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
black pepper to taste
additional seasonings optional!

Directions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. 

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl.

Makes about 30 meatballs. Place on baking sheet.

Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome!

Keto Pancakes

This recipe hasn't been "proven" yet.  Hopefully this weekend, I will try it and modify this entry.  Perhaps even a video...

Ingredients:

1 & 1/2 Cup Almond Flour
8oz Cream Cheese (softened)
6 Large Eggs
2 Tablespoons Vanilla Extract
1/4 Teaspoon of Baking Powder (optional)
2 Teaspoons Pyure Sweetener (optional)
Butter (I prefer salted butter)

Instructions:
Place the Softened Cream Cheese into a large mixing bowl, or a Food Processor if you want it to be even easier!
Pour the Vanilla Extract on top (Pure Vanilla Extract is best, but you can use Imitation Vanilla Flavor if you have that handy).
Crack the 6 Large Eggs on top of the Cream Cheese.
Blend by hand, or with a hand mixer or stand mixer if you prefer.
After blending the wet and softened ingredients together, slowly add in the Almond Flour as you continue to mix. If you notice the mixture getting thick enough to your liking you don’t have to add all of the almond flour. If it’s not thick enough, just slowly add a little more almond flour while continuing to mix.
Heat a Large Skillet up to about 290* and add enough Butter to coat the bottom of the pan.
Once the butter has been melted and begins to bubble a little slowly pour in the pancake mixture to create the size pancakes that you prefer.
Cook for about 2 minutes on each side, but be careful not to over-cook them.
Plate them and smother with butter, or topping of your choice.

Pulled Pork using a charcoal BBQ

OK, yesterday I pulled a double wammie.

I did a Burnt End BBQ'ed Roast and then I did a pulled pork at the same time.  Thankfully the BBQ is big enough to pull that off.

Ingredients

Picnic Pork Butt
Spices
BBQ sauce
Brown Sugar - optional

Stuff you will need

Charcoal BBQ
Tongs
Tin Foil (aluminium foil if you prefer)
Sharp Knife
Cutting board
2 x forks
Tin Foil tray - shallow i.e. the sides are not high

Directions

Set up your BBQ for off set cooking.  That means putting all the charcoal on one side as you will be cooking on the other.

Spice up your pork which ever way you desire.  I guess if your a purist, use salt, pepper and garlic.

Once the BBQ is at temperature, put the pork in the BBQ, close the lid and walk away for an hour, or if you got a temperature probe, till it reaches 160 F.

Wrap your pork in heavy gauge tin foil.  I found this stuff at the Dollar Store, it's called BBQ Tin Foil.  Cost me $2.00 for 50 feet.

Put the pork back on the BBQ for another hour, or till the internal temp hits about 190 F.  Honestly I wasn't too worried that it wasn't cooked all the way though.  The BBQ was at about 400 F.  I figured the pork was really done (it was).

Slice the pork with the grain.  Now, use 2 forks to pull the grains apart.  Or you could hold the pork with your hand and using 1 fork, just pull the strands off.

Put the shredded pork into a mixing bowl.  You can add Brown Sugar (about a 1/2 cup), but you may find this makes it too sweet, depending on the BBQ sauce that you use.  Mix it all up, making sure all the pork is covered with BBQ sauce.

Put everything on a shallow tin foil tray and back into the BBQ for one last hour.  This is going to hit it once again with the smoke.

You can opt to just have the pulled pork with cole slaw or what ever other favorite side dish you like.  I personally had the pulled pork on a sliced crusty bread with some mayo on it.  Oh so good!

Click on the picture to take you to the YouTube video I made.

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome!