½ c soy sauce
¼ c ketchup
1 T parsley
2 cloves chopped garlic
½ c orange juice
2 T lemon pepper
¼ t black pepper
¼ t oregano
Combine all ingredients and pour over swordfish in baking dish, marinating 45 minutes to one hour.
Grill 10 minutes each side, or place baking dish in oven and cook 25 minutes at 350.
Notes: This recipe comes from the Caldwell Seafood Market and every time I make it, I think about weekend dinners on our deck there. We’ve always used this marinade for swordfish.
2 ½ c rice krispies
2 c oats
½ c raisins
½ c brown sugar
½ c light corn syrup
½ c peanut butter
1 t vanilla
½ c chocolate chips
Combine the first three ingredients in a large bowl and set aside. Bring the brown sugar and corn syrup to a boil in a small sauce pan, stirring constantly, over medium heat. Take pan away from the heat and stir in the peanut butter and vanilla until blended. Pour this mixture over the cereal mixture and stir until coated. Let it stand for ten minutes. Stir in the chocolate chips. Press into a 13×9” glass or metal pan. Let stand until firm before cutting into bars.
Posted in Breakfast, Cookbook V2, Katie and Dan's Recipes, Snacks
Tagged chocolate, granola, peanut butter, raisins
5 ½ T butter
1 ½ c sugar, divided
2 c blackberries
2/3 c flour
2 t baking powder
1 t salt
¾ c milk
Melt butter in deep 8 or 9” square pan. Set aside. Stir ½ c sugar into fruit and set aside. Sift flour, 1 c sugar, baking powder, and salt into a mixing bowl, then whisk in the milk. Pour batter into prepared pan but do not mix. Pour fruit over batter, but do not mix. Bake for 50 minutes at 350 until puffy and golden brown.
Notes: I’ve also made this with 2 cups fresh peaches and it was delicious.
1 large salmon steak
1/3 to ½ c half and half
½ tsp fresh dill, minced
Salt (optional)
Place salmon in shallow baking dish and add half and half so the fish is half immersed. Sprinkle with dill or chives and add some salt, if desired. Bake 30 minutes at 350, occasionally spooning some of the liquid over the salmon, until fish is flakey.
Cake
1 c flour
1/2 t baking powder
1 t salt
3/4 c sugar
1/4 c shortening
1 egg
1/2 c milk
2 c blueberries, floured
Topping
1/2 c sugar
1/3 c flour
1 tsp cinnamon, more if desired
1/4 c butter, softened
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and set aside. Mix sugar and shortening. Add egg and mix. Beginning and ending with flour mixture, add flour mixture and milk to the sugar mixture. Fold in blueberries and pour batter into a 9″ pan.
Blend all topping ingredients together, using cold butter to prevent it from becoming pasty. Sprinkle on top of batter and bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
Notes: Tom and I spent some great weekends in Cape May, New Jersey. This is a recipe from a fund-raising cookbook I bought there about fourteen years ago. We have this a lot in the summer and it has become a tradition to make it for Shannon’s birthday breakfast. This year, I took it to her in the hospital the day Benjamin was born, so maybe we should change the name to Benjamin’s Blueberry Birthday Cake.
Posted in Breakfast, Cookbook V2, Rita and Tom's Recipes
Tagged blueberries, cake, coffee cake
1 stick butter
1 c sugar
2 eggsg
2 c flour
1 t baking powder
1 t soda
½ t salt
1 c sour cream
1 t almond extract
1 small can cranberry sauce
½ c chopped nuts
2 t sugar
½ t cinnamon
Cream butter, add sugar and cream well. Add eggs and mix well. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with sour cream that’s had almond extract stirred into it. Pour into greased tube pan, first a layer of batter, then a layer of cranberry sauce, finishing with a batter layer. Sprinkle with nuts, sugar, and cinnamon. Bake at 350 for 55 minutes.
Posted in Breads, Breakfast, Cookbook V2, Rita and Tom's Recipes
Tagged coffee cake, cranberries, nuts
3 egg whites
½ t cream of tartar
¾ c sugar
¾ c chopped pecans
2 c heavy cream
¾ c chocolate syrup
1 tsp vanilla
Heat oven to 275.
Beat egg whites until frothy. Add ½ t cream of tartar and beat until soft peaks form. Add sugar, one tablespoon at a time, and continue beating until very stiff peaks form. Fold in chopped pecans.
Cover 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Using an 8” plate, draw a circle onto each paper. Divide and spread meringue over each circle, shaping into flat shells.
Bake for 45 minutes. Without opening oven door, turn oven off and do not remove meringues for another 45 minutes. Then remove and cool.
When ready to assemble, beat cream until very stiff. Fold in syrup and vanilla. Spread 1 meringue layer with half of the chocolate cream. Add second meringue and cover top with remaining cream mixture. You can make swirly designs in the top cream layer with a fork and/or decorate with chocolate shavings or pecans.
Freeze at least six hours.
Remove from the freezer 5-10 minutes before serving.
Notes: This is a recipe I got while living in New Jersey and working at Arthur Andersen. One of my bosses bought a Junior League Cookbook from any city he visited on business, and this was in one of them, although I forget from which city. It is easy (as is anything I make!) and can be made ahead, and has always been a big hit.
Crust
14 chocolate wafer cookies, ground into crumbs
3 T butter, melted
Cake
1 pint chocolate ice cream
1 c chocolate chips
½ c heavy cream
1 pint vanilla ice cream
Chopped walnuts
Sauce
1 bag raspberries, frozen
For crust, mix ingredients until crumbs are evenly moistened and spread on the bottom of a lightly greased 9” pie plate. Freeze crust for at least 30 minutes.
Thaw chocolate ice cream until spreadable, then spread over frozen crust, smoothing top of ice cream. Freeze about one hour.
For truffle layer, combine chocolate chips and cream in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir until chocolate begins to melt, then remove from heat and stir until very smooth. Spread evenly over the frozen pie. Freeze for 30 minutes or until firm.
Soften vanilla ice cream and then spread over pie. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts or chocolate crumbs and freeze for up to two weeks.
For sauce, defrost raspberries. Puree them in food processor or blender until smooth. Press through a strainer, discarding all seeds. Use as is, or add a little sugar, or 1 T Grand Mariner, if desired.
Notes: This is from Quick Vegetarian Pleasures by Jeanne Lemlin. Allan doesn’t eat many desserts, but he does like this one, so I usually make it if he’s here for his birthday.
Posted in Cookbook V2, Desserts, Rita and Tom's Recipes
Tagged chocolate, pie, raspberries
½ c butter
1 ½ c graham cracker crumbs
1 ¼ c sweetened condensed milk
2 c chocolate chips
1 c coconut
1 c walnuts (optional)
Prehead oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a 13×9” pan. Add graham cracker crumbs and press into pan. Pour sweetened condensed milk over the crumbs. Sprinkle chocolate chips, coconut, and walnuts over the milk and press in firmly. Bake 25-30 minutes. Cool.
Posted in Cookbook V2, Desserts, Katie and Dan's Recipes
½ lb ham
¼ lb salami
¼ lb Ham-O-Cola
1 medium tomato
½ head lettuce
¼ lb American cheese
¼ lb provolone cheese
Oregano
Mayonnaise
Dice all meats and cheeses. I find the fastest and easiest way is to stack alternate slices of the cooked ham and American cheese and dice them, and then to stack the salami, ham-o-cola, and provolone cheese and dice them. This ensures a good mixture and prevents the cheeses from sticking together.
Dice the tomato and lettuce and add to the mixture. Add oregano to taste. (I use about 2 t.) Add mayo until just moist. (I use about ¼ c.)
Mixture will get juicier as it sits.
Serve as an appetizer over small pieces of French bread.
Posted in Appetizers and Dips, Cookbook V2, Katie and Dan's Recipes