Recipe Swap Thread

[cl4clay]

Prissy - It's really easy and delicious too. When Bozena was here at Christmas last year, I made it and she just loved it. When I went down to Florida , she said "let's make it", but I didn't have the recipe. So, I promised i'd put it here so that everyone could see it.

Let me know if you like it!!!!

[Mary]

At my sisters job they talk about food a lot and sometimes have a contest to see who makes the best. She won the macaroni salad contest. The recipe I'll post is a dip contest. She wouldn't tell us what was in it until she knew that we all loved it.

Dip For Fruit

8 oz. package of Cream Cheese

8 oz. jar of marshmellow Fluff

fresh lemon juice (it does make a difference)

fresh fruit

Combine the cream cheese and fluff. Add lemon juice 1 teaspoon at a time until the mix tastes like cheesecake, refrigerate.

I always cut the recipe in half for just the 2 of us. I like it best with strawberries, pineapple and/or melons.

[Pepe]

MARY, how wonderful to see you posting here.  I love this thread and it doesn't seem to be very active like I would like.  I would love to hear about  your sister's macaroni salad.  If she would part with her recipe I would love to have it.  Sounds like I would love to work where  your sister works.  Love to talk about food. 

[Mary]

The macaroni salad is an old family favorite. No one ever wrote it down but we learned by doing and eyeballing it. When Tim asked me for it I did take the time to measure and count  in order to give it to him.

The first iip I give you is to use Hellmann's (Real) mayonnaise and not Miracle Whip and definitely not low fat. After a year of making it Tim decided to cut calories by using low fat mayo. He really cut the calories because he threw it out! The next tip is to use real lemon juice if you can.

Macaroni Salad

2 c. elbow macaroni
11/2 cups Mayonnaise
1 T. lemon juice concentrate
2 T milk
3 to 4 celery stalks, thinly sliced
25 (or more to taste) Spanish olives
2 cans tuna, drained and flaked

Cook elbows until tender in salted water, drain well and rinse with cold water to stop cooking. In a la reg bowl whisk together Mayonnaise, mild and lemon juice until smooth. Stir in celery, olives and tuna. Add elbows and mix well. Refrigerate until cold.

This will serve 8 to 10 people so now I cut the recipe in half.

Note: Sometimes I'll use frozen, peeled and devained shrimp instead of tuna. Yum.

Hope you enjoy, Pepe.

[Pepe]

MARY, come back!!!!!!!!  Is that 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or 1 teaspoon?  And 2 tablespoon of milk?  Got everything to make it hope to make it tomorrow.  Thanks for posting the recipe!   

[Prissy]

One of my friends brought me this chocolate cake as a late birthday cake.  Skip and I both thought it was one of the best cakes we have ever eaten.

Today she emailed me the recipe:

CHOCOLATE CAKE

Put the following in bowl and set aside:

2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Put the following in a pot:

5 Tbs cocoa
2 Tbs cinnamon
1 stick butter

In a 2 cup measuring cup put:

1 cup water
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup buttermilk

Pour the water, oil, and buttermilk into the pot with the cocoa mixture.  Bring to a boil on range, stirring, and let boil for 1 or 2 minutes.

Remove pot from range and add the flour/sugar mixture in the bowl to the pot.  Stir well and add:

2 eggs
1 Tbs Mexican vanilla

Stir all ingredients and then pour into a greased 9 x 13 pan and bake for 20 minutes at 400  degrees.


ICING FOR CHOCOLATE CAKE

In a pot put:

8 Tbs milk
5 Tbs cocoa
1 stick butter

Put the pot on the range on low heat and stir until all butter is melted.

Then add:

1/2 large package sifted powdered sugar (more if needed)
1 Tbs Mexican vanilla
Optional:  Pecans

Stir well and pour warm frosting over cake.

[Pepe]

PRISSY, yummm Yummmmmmmmmmm!!!! I have to write that recipe down!!  I knew when I was reading the receipe and saw the cinnamon it was probably a Mexican receipe.  They always put cinnamon usually with chocolate and that is why there food is always so wonderful, they love their cinnamon and so do I.  Will make this for sure.  Thanks for posting.

[Anniebell]

Prissy,
Thanks for the recipe !  I don't have Mexican vanilla.
Can you buy that here anywhere? The cake sounds
delicious. 

[Pepe]

CAROL, last year I saw that Walmart had large bottles of Mexican vanilla for sale.  I bought it and it is very flavorful.  I have not seen it since though.  You would be able to use any vanilla it is just the Mexican is a stronger flavor.   Let us know if you make the cake.

[Mary]

Pepe, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner but a capital T is a tablespoon and a small t is a teaspoon in recipies. I always taste and adjust as needed.

[Anniebell]

Pepe
Thank's.  Being that you found Mexican vanilla at
Walmart last year it must be aound some where. I
am going to let the yellow pages do my walking and
see if I can find it some where. If I can't find it do you
think if I add a little more of my vanilla like an extra tsp.
would be good to do? I use Watkins Vanilla and that has a
stronger flavor than any other vanilla's you can buy in a grocery
store.Yup, I am going to make the cake and will let you know
when I do. Let me know if you make it too. 

[Pepe]

MARY, thanks for answering, I thought so but thought I had better double check.

CAROL, If you use Watkins vanilla that should do fine that is really a good vanilla but sure is hard to find.  Haven't seen the Watkins brand for years.

[JoAnn Moody]

I just "finished"up a refreshing summer dessert someone might be interested in.  Most of you know that I'm trying to lose weight, so this is one I can use.  If you want to, you could use real sugar to make it less diet.

  My sister made this for us yesterday while she was visiting us.  I thought it was great.

  Peal fresh peaches and cut into halves, set aside.
   Take fresh blueberries, put into a pan with a little water and she added several packets of Splenda(use real sugar if you want) and boil down to a syrupy consistence .
   Cover the peaches with the blueberries while warm and add low fat or regular cool whip.

It was good the next day too and  I didn't reheat the blueberries.

Another good summer treat and quick.  Mix fresh blueberries and watermelon chunks together.  I had them for breakfast. 

   

[Anniebell]

JoAnn
Thanks for the summer dessert recipe . I am a
diabetic and it sounds sooooo good.  The
blueberries and water melon sounds delicious too. 
I copied them both down already 

[JoAnn Moody]

Carol,


  You're welcome.  I am always looking for low cal. diets and diabetic diets can fit into many of these types of recipes.  My husband was also a diabetic and I remember that I didn't have many of the great recipes back then as I do today.

[Anniebell]

JoAnn
That is so true. When I frist found out I was a diabetic
About all the sweet things you could eat was fresh fruit.
All the sugar substitutes would turn bitter if you tried to
heat  them up. But now we have splenda and that heats up
with no bitter taste at all. So now we can make cakes
and everything.  Plus all the sweets you can buy for
diabetics.  Most of those I don't like though, so it is
really nice to get a recipe . Thanks again. I went today
and bought some blueberries, peaches watermelon,
and coolwhip. 

[Anniebell]

Pepe,
I did find the Mexican vanilla today at the HyVee
grocery store. I bought a small bottle to try it
for Prissy's cake. Walmart didn't have it.

[Pepe]

CAROL,  you will like the Mexican vanilla.  When I bought mine a year ago it was in a large bottle for only $5.00.  I couldn't believe how cheap it was since they wanted $3 for about a 1/2 oz of McCormick vanilla.  I will have the Mexican vanilla probably for three more years, I keep mine in the fridge.  The Mexican vanilla and the Mexican cinnamon is really tops.

[Anniebell]

Pepe
I bought a small bottle of the Mexican Vanilla to see if
I would like it . The price of the small bottle was $ 5
and the large bottle was $11.  They weren't on sale.
I found Watkins pepper on the web site on sale for
$8 . When it isn't on sale it is $10. You can't buy it
in Wakins stores for that. I don't know what I payed
for the pepper, but I'm sure it was more than that.
Also the pudding was on the website and it is cheaper
there too, then in the store. They only listed Lemon,
coconut and vanilla I think. A year ago they had more
flavors than that.

[Pepe]

CAROL, just leaving the house and saw your post.  I got the vanilla a lot cheaper at Walmart but like I said they only had it that one time near the holidays.  Never saw it again.  With all the weight I am gaining I won't be baking any time soon.  It is like these steriods are putting a pound a day on me, it is unreal.  I didn't get a chance yesterday to check out if Watkins had a website maybe today.  Hubby has been using the computer looking up deep sea fishing rods to price the ones he has to sell good to know the products are cheaper online as you have to pay postage also.