COOKING

Grandma Hystad’s Recipes, Drinks, Bar Mixes, Food Information

CONTENTS

BAKED SALMON

ROAST BEEF

GRANDMA’S BAKED HAM AND APPLES
PIZZA POTATOES

GRANDMA’SHORT BREAD COOKIES
VEGAN CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS
LIGHTSIDE

VEGAN PANCAKES

TIPS

FOOD INFORMATION,

PEANUT BUTTER RECALLS
BAR MIXES

DRINKS

BAKED SALMON

4- 6 OZ. SALMON FILLETS

1 LEMON

1 TABLESPOON OAT BRAN

1 ½ teaspoon dill weed

½ teaspoon thyme leaves

 ½ teaspoon onion powder

1 lemon

1 teaspoon paprika 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine oat bran, dill weed, thyme leaves, onion powder, and paprika. Sprinkle over salmon fillets. Bake at 350 for 15 to 20 minutes. Serve with lemon wedges.

YIELD; 6

BEEF ROAST
3-4 pounds, rib or sirloin.
1 teaspoon salt per pound of meat.
½ cup flour.
1 small onion.
1 cup water.
Rub with salt, flour, pepper and onion.
Place meat in roasting pan with fat side up.
Add 1-cup water.
Do not cover unless a less tender cut is used.
If beef is fat, it will require no basting.
Time required for roasting depends on shape of cut.
For well done roasts, the average cooking time is 30 minutes per pound of meat, for medium 25 minutes per pound, and 20 for rare.
ROAST AT 325

GRANDMA’S BAKED HAM AND APPLES

2 large slices of ham steak.
2 teaspoons……………..(10 ml)………………….prepared mustard.
4 tablespoons………….(60 ml)……………………brown sugar.
2 tart apples.
1 ½ cups…………………………(375 ml)…………………apple juice.

Place the ham in baking dish and rub with mustard.  Sprinkle
with 2 tablespoons (30 ml), of brown sugar.  Core the apple
and cut into thin slices.  Cover the ham with the apple slices
and sprinkle with rest of brown sugar.  Add apple juice. Bake
at 300 F, (150 C), for 30 minutes or until tender.
YIELD:  4-5 servings.
TIME:   40 minutes.

Pizza Potatoes
1/2 cup broccoli, chopped
1/4 onion, chopped
1/4 cup carrots, chopped fine
1 small tomato, sliced
2 baked potatoes
1/2 tablespoon margarine
1/2 tablespoon flour
1/2 cup skim milk
1/4 cup cheese, shredded
Cook broccoli, onions, and carrots in a small amount of water until tender and set aside. In a saucepan, melt margarine and stir in flour. Add milk slowly while stirring. Cook until sauce thickens, stirring occasionally. Add cheese and stir until melted. Add vegetables to cheese sauce and stir. Split open potatoes. Pour equal amounts of vegetable cheese mixture over each potato. Top with sliced tomatoes.
Serves 2.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

2 cups unbleached white flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

cinnamon to taste (optional)

1 cup vegan chocolate chips

1 cup organic sugar

1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup water

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

In a large bowl mix flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Mix in the chocolate chips. Make a well in the center and set bowl aside.

In a medium size bowl mix vegan sugar and oil. Add the vanilla and then add the water. Be sure to mix it well.  Add the wet to the well in the dry. Spoon dough onto ungreased cookie sheets.  Bake for 8-12 minutes.

Take them out and move them to wire cooling racks.

Makes almost two dozen cookies.

GRANDMA’S WHIPPED SHORT BREAD COOKIES
1 POUND………(500 G)……………..BUTTER OR MARSRINE
3 CUPS………..(750 ML)……………FLOUR
1 CUP ……………(250 ML)…………..ICING SUGAR
Beat with mixer until creamy.  Drop on cookie sheet and bake at 350 F, (175 C) until slightly brown.
YIELD: approximately 5 dozen cookies
TIME:  1 hour (includes cooking and cleaning time)

LIGHTSIDE
Dinner Blessings
The housewife invited 2 couple and their children for dinner one night. As they get ready to eat, the housewife asks her son, “Would you like to say blessings”?  “I don’t know what to say”, the boy replies.
“Just say what you hear what your mother says”, replied the mother.

The boy bowed his head and said, “Lord, why on earth did I invite two 2 couples and their kids for dinner”?

A priest dies and is in line at the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter asked the guy ahead of him his name.  The guy replies, “I am Sam Horton, taxi driver from New York.” Saint Pater gives him a silken robe and golden staff and said, “Enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”

Now it’s the priest‘s turn. He booms out “ I am the Right Reverend Anderson.” Saint Peter gives him a cotton robe and a wooden staff, and says to the Priest, “Enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”  Taken back the priest asks, “ That man was a taxi driver why does he get a silken robe and golden staff”.

“Results,” Said Saint Peter. “While you preached, people slept.
When the taxi driver drove, people prayed.

Vegan Pancakes

Ingredients:

 1 1/2 cups unbleached white flour

 3 tablespoons organic sugar

1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder

dash of salt

3 dashes of nutmeg

1 to 1 1/4 cups soymilk

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 Ener-G Egg Replacer (found at health food stores)

Directions:

Combine all dry ingredients (flour, salt, vegan sugar, baking powder, nutmeg). Combine wet ingredients in a separate bowl.  Mix wet and dry ingredients, but don’t over-stir.  Pour onto hot skillet, flip once.  Makes 6 medium pancakes.

Note: You may also add fresh fruit such as blueberries or vegan chocolate chips for some variety!

TIPS
BABY WIPES TIPS
Since heading the market in the 80’s, these moistened disposable baby wipes proved to be great in and outside the home.  From cleaning your hands after changing oil or a tire, clean tools, rub marks off your walls, many, many uses including shining your shoes, wipe with baby wipe and buff with a soft, dry cloth.

To freshen up a smelly drain, just pour a cup of Baking Soda into it, and flush with hot water.

Blocked Drains?
Instead of using caustic products (be green and save money) for clearing blocked drains, throw a cup of baking soda down the drain followed by a few jugs of water.

FOOD INFORMATION

GABA ENRICHED RICE

Having succeeded with GABA rice – using gamma-amino butyric acid, which aids the nervous system and muscle tone – Orapin and Natta aren’t about to be so stingy with the rice-loving public.

They’re happy to show interested groups and organisations, especially small enterprises, how to germinate the brown rice, and this gives them an alternative way to earn money.

Studies have shown that germinated brown rice can lower blood pressure, improve kidney function and help us sleep better. It appears to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease as well.

USE FOOD THERMOMETER
Don’t rely on looks alone. Bacteria can spread during ground meat.  Always use a food thermometer and cook at 160 degrees Fahrenheit when cooking your hamburgers.

After about 15 years, Health Canada has come out with a new Food Guide. Included in the guide is advice for different ages and stages of your live (children, women of childbearing age, men and women over 50).

Some recommendations are;

Eat at least one dark green and one orange vegetable each day.

Vegetables, fruit with little or no added fat, sugar, salt.

Have vegetables and fruit more often then juice.

Make half your grain products whole grain each day Choose grain products that are lower in fat, sugar or salt.

Drink skim, 1%, or 2% milk each day.Select lower fat milk alternatives.

Have meat alternatives such as beans, tofu often.

Eat at least 2 Food Guide Servings of fish each week.

Select lean meat with little or no added fat or salt.

Peanut Butter Product Recalls

The outbreak of salmonella illness, which began in late summer and is ongoing, has been linked to eight deaths, including two in Virginia. In all, about 500 people in 43 states and Canada have become ill. About 22 percent were hospitalized, and about half of those affected are children.

Health officials said they would work with companies supplied by Peanut Corporation of America to continually update a recall list that is available on the FDA’s Web site. The Web site details a long list of popular products that are affected, including candies, cookies, snack bars and snack mixes.

Search For Peanut Butter Product Recalls
Information current as of 12 PM January 21, 2009
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm

NEXT HEALTH CRISIS?

The past decade witnessed the massive off shoring of jobs to low-cost countries, decimating the U.S.A. and Canada manufacturing base. Cheap food may bring the next health crisis.Ice cream. Yogurt. Crackers and biscuits. Egg and products containing powdered eggs. Cake. Powdered and condensed milk, pet food, pie, cereal plus other food products.

You probably consumed some of these products.  Did you know where they came from?  You may have thought these products were produced in the USA or Canada.  You would not know that some of these products came from china, and yes, China imports them into Canada and the USA.

These foods of Chinese origin have been found by authorities in the United States, Canada, Australia, to contain an industrial chemical called melamine that is used to make plastic.  In recent weeks, the Chinese government has admitted that adding melamine to food – which raises protein levels, making poor-quality products look more nutritious – is common practice in China. 

Melamine can cause kidney stones and kidney failure when eaten. It has already sent about 54,000 Chinese consumers to the hospital and caused the deaths of at least four infants.

Elanor Starmer is a research analyst with Food & Water Watch, a national non-profit firm working to ensure clean water and safe food. For more information, visit; www.foodandwaterwatch.org

BUY LOCAL

Where possible we should buy locally grown foods. As a rule your food is fresher, better flavor, picked within a day of your purchase. Local produce more likely has a higher nutrient content than store-bought produce that has spent time on a transport truck and warehouse.

Further farmers who sell directly to local customers receive the full value for their product, can sell cheaper, as there is less cost to processing, transportation, packing, warehouse etc.

BAR MIXES
SHANGHAI COCKTAIL
¼ juice of lemon
1-teaspoon anisette
1 ½ ounce Jamaica rum
½ teaspoon grenadine
Shake with ice cubes. Strain into cocktail glass.

MARTINI (sweet)
1-ounce gin
½ ounce Italian vermouth
1dash orange bitters
Stir with ice cubes. Strain into chilled cocktail glass

NON- ALCOHOLIC DRINKS
ORGEAT FIZZ
1 ½ ounces orgeat syrup
½ ounce limejuice
Club Soda
Shake orgeat and lime juice with ice cubes. Strain into fizz
Glass.  Add ice cubes. Add soda to glass. Serve with straws.

ICED COFFEE
There are just as many ways of making coffee, as there are different brands. Here are some general rules.

For good results measure water and coffee.
2 tablespoons coffee to each 1 cup
Make coffee just before serving
Make coffee double strength and pour the hot coffee over ice in a tall glass.  As the ice melts, it will dilute the coffee. Top the glass with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

About the Author

Article Source: Bruce Chambers sold his printing, publishing, mail order business and retired in 1980. He came on the Internet in 2003. He researched for 1 year, and then started a free monthly Internet marketing report, plus free monthly recipes, bar mixes, tips newsletters.
At present he resells from his website. You can subscribe to either or both free newsletters by going to his web site. Please visit: http://www.cbestbuys.com

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