Your all time favorite recipe

[figaromeetsmarie]

Care to share?

 

[bababear_50]

Mine is mini cherry cheese cakes

Here’s the recipe:

2 pkg. (8oz.) cream cheese, softened to room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 Tbsp vanilla
1 Tbsp lemon juice

Mix.

vanilla wafers
2″ aluminum mini baking cups
Cherry Pie Filling

Place a vanilla wafer in each mini baking cup.

Spoon approximately 3 Tbsp of cream cheese mixture over each wafer. Makes about 4 dozen.


Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. Let cool and top with cherry pie filling. Refrigerate.
Sometimes I use blueberry pie filling.

 

[natebenma]

Cider Roasted Pork Loin

1 tsp salt, coarsely ground pepper
3 lbs. boneless pork loin
1 long spring fresh rosemary
2 cups apple cider, divided

Rub salt and pepper on pork. Make slits over entire surface and insert rosemary leaves into slits. Place roast fat side up in a medium roasting pan (or loaf pan). Pour 1 ½ cups cider over pork. Cook at 350 degrees for 1 ½ to 1 ¾ hours (30 minutes per pound), basting every 30 minutes. Remove from oven and let stand 15 minutes before slicing. Add ½ cup cider to pan, if desired (I didn’t), add slurry of cornstarch and water to thicken, serve with pork slices.

 

[mrsklamc]

For anything? Or for a main dish?

 

[figaromeetsmarie]

anything

 

[dakcp2001]

Cider Roasted Pork Loin

1 tsp salt, coarsely ground pepper
3 lbs. boneless pork loin
1 long spring fresh rosemary
2 cups apple cider, divided

Rub salt and pepper on pork. Make slits over entire surface and insert rosemary leaves into slits. Place roast fat side up in a medium roasting pan (or loaf pan). Pour 1 ½ cups cider over pork. Cook at 350 degrees for 1 ½ to 1 ¾ hours (30 minutes per pound), basting every 30 minutes. Remove from oven and let stand 15 minutes before slicing. Add ½ cup cider to pan, if desired (I didn’t), add slurry of cornstarch and water to thicken, serve with pork slices.

This sounds great! How deep should I make slits?

 

[scootch]

Rachael Ray Scuderi Fake baked ziti

When she made it on tv, she put the asiago, parmisan right in with the milk to make the bechamal sauce, she only put mozzeralla on at the end and that is what I do. Sam's club actually sells a container with 4 cheese in it(Asiago, romano, Parm, and not sure the fourth) Also, fresh basil is the key.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/scuderi-kids-fast-fake-baked-ziti-recipe/index.html

 

[mrspaha]

My favorite recipe is the simplest and cheapest dinner ever. I take chicken thighs (with bone-in) that I get on sale for $.99/lb (sometimes less); put in a 9x13 pan, cover with about 1/3 of a bottle of store-bought barbecue sause that I get on sale --last week Sweet Baby Rays hickory/brown sugar for $.99 and bake/roast in the oven for about an hour. My family loves it. Just serve with a baked potato or macaroni and a salad or veggie. Easy and cheap.

 

[lovesmurfs]

This is the one I'm known for. Very simple, amazingly good.

Cinnamon Rolls

1 1-lb. loaf frozen bread dough, thawed
1/2 c. brown sugar, packed
1½ T. ground cinnamon
4 T. butter or margarine
2 T cream cheese, softened
2 T butter, softened
3/4 c. confectioners' sugar
1/4 t. vanilla extract
1/8 t. salt

I usually thaw the dough in the fridge early in the morning – it’s thawed when I make the rolls sometime after dinner. Or, if making in the morning, thaw in fridge overnight.

Mix cinnamon and brown sugar in a bowl. Set aside. Roll dough into about a 10 X 14 inch rectangle. Spread dough with 4 T. butter and sprinkle evenly with sugar/cinnamon mixture.

Roll up dough and cut into 8 rolls. Place rolls in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes (or you can cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight – remove from fridge in the morning and then allow to rise).

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake rolls in preheated oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes. While rolls are baking, beat together cream cheese, 2 T butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla extract and salt. Spread frosting on warm rolls before serving.

 

[Gr8t Fan]

Arroz con Gandules

Ingredients:
2 cups parboiled rice (must be parboiled – Uncle Ben’s brand can usually be found everywhere)
2 cups water
3 packages of Sazon Goya (the stuff that makes everything orange)
1 can of gandules (entire can including liquid)
2.5 tbsp. sofrito (in the frozen food section – we buy Goya brand but there are many others)
1 lb. smoked sausage (or pork or ham, depending on what you want to use) chopped into bite size pieces
Olive oil for browning meat
Salt (if necessary)


1. Put uncooked rice into a bowl and cover with water. (It will absorb most, if not all of the water);
2. Brown sausage or whatever meat you’re using in olive oil (use a little more than you need because it helps to keep the rice kernels separate during cooking);
3. Add 2 cups water, sazon Goya, sofrito, gandules (including liquid) to meat and bring to a boil (taste and add additional salt if necessary ); and
4. Add rice, bring to a boil again and lower flame to low/med, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.