Pear Freaking Amazing Pie (Felicia's Words)

As I get older, I grow patience I guess. I never baked in my early culinary years.  Now, I enjoy it, what's wrong with me, I'm not sure.  But I will continue to do it, if I become good at it and of course if I have time.  

Well Felicia my wonderful wife, has asked me to make a pear pie.  Since we went to Costco and bought a 8 lb bag for just us 2.  I had to do something with them fast.  So here you go my friends.

It's Amazing.

Enjoy........

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Brown Organic Sugar

4  TBL Corn Starch

1/4 TSP Ground Ginger

1/4 TSP Nutmeg

3/4 TSP Cinnamon

2 TBL Fresh Lemon Juice

5 TBL Butter

2 TSP Vanilla

5 Cups Pears (total of 8 pears, sliced thin)

Homemade crust (recipe for mine is on my blog)

Now lets put this awesomeness together

Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees

Grab a large bowl

Slice your pears thin and put in large bowl

Add your first 4 ingredients and lemon juice

Mix it well together until all coated

Add your vanilla extract

Roll out your pie dough on a nice floured surface

Grab your rolling pin and roll the dough out thin

Add it to your nicely oil pie pan

Add your pear filling next

Top it with your other pie dough top

Now use your index finger and thumb and pinch dough together

When down

Grab a sharpe knife and slice 5 slits in the top

Make an egg wash for the top to brown it nice and evenly (I used 1 egg mixed well)

Bake in oven on 425 degrees for an hour

Put a drip pan under pie

Take out of oven and let it rest for a 1/2 an hour

Enjoy my friends, have any questions.  Just ask.

Enjoy......

Wasabi Roasted Ginger Chicken (yum, yum, yum)

Ok, so normally Felicia can not take spicy food. But tonight I threw her a curve ball.  I introduced her to an amazing dish that I just came up with out of the thin little air.  Only took 20 minutes to put together and bake only another 20.

We served it over rice with steamed asparagus.  Amazing.

Enjoy

Ingredients
Organic Chicken Breast
1 TSP Ginger Powder
1 TSP Granulated Garlic
1 TSP Seasme Oil
2 TBL Soy Sauce
2 TBL Olive Oil
Pinch of Salt
4 TBL Wasabi Mustard (Jungle Jim's)

Putting The Magic Together

• First wash off your breast (get your mind out of the gutter)
• Grab a small bowl
• Add all your dry ingredients to the small bowl and mix well with a fork
• Pat your breasts dry
• Turn oven on to 400 degrees
• Drizzle your breast with the oil, soy sauce and seasme oil and rub it well
• Now rub the salt all on it
• Now rub your other dry ingredients all over it
• Place in a baking pan and bake till golden brown (about 20 minutes)
• Take out of the oven and serve it with rice and what ever vegetable you want

Enjoy my friends. Ask me anytime to help with recipes.

It's Apple Sauce Time (Gluten Free)

Apples are in season and its time to go apple crazy.  I've made apple butter, apple sauce, apple bread, etc, etc,etc.  So in this wonderful blog you are getting my apple sauce recipe.  Simple and really, really good.

It goes great on anything.  So true it. 

Enjoy.

8 LBS Apples (Preferably Oregon)

1/2 Cup Brown Sugar

1 TSP Cinnamon

1/2 Apple Cider

1 Lemon Squeezed

Making Apple Sauce

1). Peel apples and dice them into bite size cubes

2) Add cubed apples to a large stock pot

3) Add your apple cider

4) Add your lemon

5) Add your sugar

6) Add your cinnamon and turn your stove top on medium 

7) Allow this to cook slowly for 35 minutes stirring often

8) When all apples turn to mush, take off heat and add it too a blender or use a hand blender to mash them well

9) And you have apple sauce

Like I said, easy, simple and goes great on anything.  Enjoy and have fun.

Not Your Boxed Brownies With Cream Cheese Frosting

Now let me ask you this. Do you love brownies? Or do you loveeeeeeee brownies? Because what I have here is the best brownie you will ever eat and trust me that box stuff your eating is crap.

Now here's the recipe I'll stop talking so you can stop salivating.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!

Recipe

2 Sticks of Butter

8oz Dark or Milk Chocolate Bars

2 Cups Sugar

1TSP Vanilla Extract

1 1/4 Cup Flour

4 Eggs

2TBL Chocolate Powder

Putting Amazingness Together

1) Grab 3 bowls

2) Grab a sauce pan and add your butter and chocolate bar, turn heat on medium and mix these ingredients together very, well and often

3) now mix your flour and and coco powder together and set aside

4) Now take your chocolate/butter mixture off the stove top and let cool for ten minutes

5) In your second bowl add 1 cup sugar and eggs and mix until well blended

6) Set aside

7) Add 1 Cup of sugar and vanilla and mix well with your cooled chocolate/butter mixture

8) Add the chocolate/butter mixture and add it too your egg and sugar mixture

9) Add your flour and coco mixture and mix well

10) Grab your 9x9 pan add a little butter to grease the pan

11) Add your brownie mixture and bake in a pre-heated oven of 350 degrees

12) Bake for 35 minutes and let them cool

13) Now make my cream cheese frosting

Ingredients For Frosting

4oz. Cream Cheese

4oz Butter

1TSP Vanilla Extract

2 Cups Powdered Sugar

Basically just mix it all together and put it on top of the brownies and well lick the bowl too.

Strawberry Pie (How Can You Resist)

On July 4th this year my mother and I decided to make strawberry pie.  I did not take many pictures as I was not aware my mother wanted to bake.  Anyways here is a great recipe of an awesome double crusted strawberry pie.

Enjoy.

Ingredients

Pie Crust (Of Course my recipe, its on my blog)

2 1/2 Cups Strawberries (quartered)

1/2 Cup Brown Sugar

2 TSP Vanilla Extract

3 TBL Corn Stratch

2 TBL Water

4 TBL Butter

1 Egg Yolk

1 TBL Milk

2 TBL Raw Sugar

Making The Sauce

Ok first clean strawberries and pat dry, 

In a large bowl and the strawberries after they have been quartedered

Add sugar, vanilla

In a small bowl and corn Stratch and water mix well until dissolved 

Add cornstarch to strawberries and mix well

Grab a 9 inch pie pan 

Set oven to 375 degrees

Spread your pie crust out

Add strawberries to crust and add your butter

Add other crust to the top and crimp sides

Cut four slices on top

Mix your egg yolk and milk together and brush on top of crust 

Add some raw sugar to the top

And bake for 40 minutes or until golden brown

Take out and set aside

Now you'll have the best pie at the picnic or family event.

Enjoy......

Ambrosia Salad (My Momma's recipe)

Ambrosia salad is a combination of canned fruits with a ton of sugar.  I am not a big fan of this dessert, but my Mother would make this in the summer time for any event that was coming up in the family.  Our family enjoys it so since the holidays are here. Why not?


My mother asked me to make it for her, so I did.  Here is the recipe for you all to enjoy for your summer events.


Enjoy.


Ingredients


1 Container of Whipped Cream
2 Cups Shreddad Coconut
1/2 Cup Chopped Pecans
1 Can Crushed Pineapple
1 Can Mandarian Oranges
1 Cup Frozen Blueberries
1 Jar Maraschnio Cherries
1/2 Cup Mini Marshmellows
1 Cup Sour Cream

Mixing It All Together

Grab a large bowl

Add all your ingredients

Mix well, cool for a few hours or over night and serve cold

It's great for a hot summer day, picnics, family gatherings and what nots.  Have fun and enjoy.

Turkey Burgers with Cucumber Coleslaw

It's been awhile, maybe to long.  I've had a rough month, but I'm back in the kitchen and ready to make your mouth water.  Here is a favorite recipe we do almost every summer.  I thought that these flavors together make a great summer classic.

Here is mine with a cucumber coleslaw that is fast and simply to make and is amazing on the turkey burger.

I hope you all enjoy and have a great day.

Enjoy......

Ingredients

1 Pound Ground Turkey Breast (local butcher)

1 TSP Cumin

1 TSP Cajun Seasoning

1 TSP Chili Powder

1 TSP Granulated Garlic

1 TSP Salt

1 TSP Worchershire Sauce

1 TBL Fresh Cilantro

Putting It All Together

Grab a large mixing bowl

Add your turkey meat

Add all your spices and mix well

Grab some and form into a pattie set aside on a plate

Continue until meat is gone

Turn your grill on

Now Time To Make The Coleslaw

Ingredients

1/2 Cabbage (Shredded

8 Baby Carrots Diced Up

3 Green Onions Diced Up

1/2 Cucumber Diced Up

1 TBL Apple Vinegar

1 TBL Sugar

1/2 TSP Dijon Mustard

1 Cup Mayo

Salt and Pepper to taste

Grab a cutting board and bowl

Dice all your ingredients up

Add too bowl with all your wet ingredients and mix well

Place in fridge until burgers are ready

Grill your Turkey Burgers until all the way done

Assemble them and serve right away

I hope you all enjoy these as much as we do.  Have a great summer.