Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Pork Tenderloin Stuffed with Pimento Cheese Rice and Veggies







For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. - 2 Peter 1:21








Rotisserie flavor pork tenderloin
1 c Bird's Eye Steam Fresh Chicken Flavored Rice and Veggies
1/2 c Pimento cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

Slice loin, pound and fill.
Tie with five lengths of kitchen string.
Salt and pepper outside.
Sear in oil.
Place on rack on top of foil pan with 1 c water and bake 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until internal temp is 160 degrees. 
Let rest 15 minutes, remove string and slice.

Cheater Dark Chocolate Chunk Cannoli Made With Pizzelle Waffle Cookies






For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. - 2 Corinthians 4:6







Pizzelle cookies (Costco)
Wrap cookie in a damp paper towel, microwave 30 seconds, unwrap and mold around thick handled kitchen tool, a wooden dowel or any circular 1/2 inch. You can only do one at a time.
You have to work quickly because they cool fast.


Filling
Small Ricotta cheese(15 oz.) place in colander, over a bowl to drain, cover and refrigerate for 1 hr
1/2 c Dark chocolate, chopped
1/4 c Sliced almonds
1/4 c Powdered sugar
1 T Vanilla
1 T Whiskey
1 c Cool whip 

Mix well, refrigerate until firm.
Keep filling in fridge and only fill cookies when you are going to eat them.
They will get soggy!

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Asian Ground Pork Burger with Sesame Slaw





1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 
3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 
5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!  - Psalm 139:1-8








1 1/2 lb. Ground pork
1 Diced Apple
3 green onions, chopped, greens tops and white bottoms
3 T Fresh Ginger
1 t fresh Tumeric
4 T soy sauce 
2 T sweet chili Thai sauce
2 T Mirin 
1/2 c panko bread crumbs

Form into patties and place in freezer 30 minutes 
Grill until 160 degrees internal temp.
To serve add sesame slaw ( recipe under the slaw/salad tab) and a toasted bun.

Sesame Slaw






4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
5 and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." - Matthew 19:4-6









1 c shredded Cabbage
1/4 c shredded Onion
1/2 of a Cucumber, really thin sliced
1 small Carrot, grated

Dressing
1 t apple cider vinegar
1 T Sesame oil
3 T Soy sauce
1 T Sesame seeds
1/8 c Honey
1/2 t Cilantro
Whisk together.

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Zucchini and Pasta Noodles






23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. - Romans 3:23-25








3 small Zucchini, cut into Zoodles
2 c cooked angel hair low carb pasta
Drizzle of Olive oil
2 t Lime juice
1/2 t Tuscan seasoning

Add oil to skillet, sauté zoodles, when zoodles are done add juice, seasoning and pasta.
Serve with chicken Parmesan.

Manchego Cheese Biscuits






He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. - 1 Peter 2:24







2 1/2 c biscuit mix
4 T butter cut in 1/8 inch bits
3/4 c Buttermilk
1/2 t Tuscan seasoning
1 c  Manchego cheese

Biscuit brush liquid to use before baking
Fresh parsley
2 T Butter
Melt butter and add parsley.

Into the biscuit mix, add cold butter bits and mix gently.
Next add cheese, seasoning and milk.
Mix with hands until the mix is moistened.
If too dry add half and half by or milk teaspoon full until just moist. 
Hand roll into golf ball size, slightly flatten and give top butter wash.
Bake preheated 400 degree oven for 15-20 minutes.

Nana's Carrot Cake






explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ." - Acts 17:3

23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, - Acts 17:23-27

30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead." - Acts 17:30-31






1bowl
3 eggs
1 1/4 c oil, I used olive oil
2 c sugar
Mix well using a wooden spoon.

2nd bowl
2 c AP flour
1 T baking soda
1 1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt 
1 t cinnamon 
Mix well using a whisk.

3rd bowl
2 c grated carrots
1 c coconut
1 c chopped pecans
1 c crushed pineapple with juice
1 T vanilla 
Mix well using a wooden spoon.

Add bowl 2 ingredients to bowl one a little at a time. 
Mix well using a wooden spoon.
Add bowl 3 ingredients to the bowl with bowl 1 and 2 ingredients.
Mix well using a wooden spoon.


Bake 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes using 2 greased cake pans.
Cool before frosting.
I used a 13x9 pan and cooked 50 minutes and the middle was runny.
I just cut out the small amount and discarded it.


Frosting
1 stick softened cream cheese
1 12 oz. cool whip, thawed
3 T powdered sugar
Mix with a mixer.
This frosting is not real sweet but you could increase the powdered sugar.

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Coq Au Vin






When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life." - Acts 11:18





8 Boneless chicken thighs
1 Onion, sliced
2 Carrot, matchstick cut
1 clove Garlic, diced
6 Mushrooms, sliced
6 slices Bacon, diced
2 T tomato paste
Salted Butter
Fresh Rosemary
Fresh lemon Thyme
1 1/2 c Cabernet Sauvignon, reserve 1/2 c for cooking
1/2 c Water
1 t Chicken base seasoning 
1 T Flour
Salt and pepper 


Add 1 c of wine to a ziplock bag and add chicken.
Burp air from bag and let chicken marinate for 30 minutes to 1 hr.
Prepare veggies.
Heat Dutch oven, add diced bacon.
When bacon is done, add veggies. 
When veggies are done, remove them and add butter, salt and pepper chicken and sear chicken then add veggies and flour back in.
Add all liquids, tomato paste, seasoning, and herbs.
Place in preheated 350 degree oven and cook 30 minute, uncovered.
This was delicious, a very deep rich sauce that pared well with the chicken.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Apple Pimento Cheese Kale Andouille Sausage Stuffed Pork Loin






49 "'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? 
50 Did not my hand make all these things?'  - Acts 7:49-50





1 Applewood Smoked Pork Tenerloin
1 c Pimento cheese
1 Leek, chopped
1 c Kale 
1 Apple, chopped
1 T Roasted Garlic
1/2 inch piece Andouille sausage, diced
2 T Ghee, clarified butter
Smoked salt, to taste
Cracked black pepper, to taste
Kitchen string

Slice tenderloin down the middle without cutting all the way through.
Open up and lay flat, cover with plastic wrap and place on a cutting board.
Pound on one side then flip and repeat.
Set aside.
Sauté the andouille, apple, leeks and garlic in the ghee, cool.
Add this sauté mixture to the pimento cheese and then spread on one side of the pork, roll and tie about every 2 inches.
Salt and pepper and sear off in a skillet. 
Bake on a rack sitting on a foil pan that has 1 c of water in the bottom.
400 degrees for 45 minutes.
Wrap in foil and let it sit 20 minutes before cutting.
Using scissors, clip string and remove.
This was delicious and made great sandwiches the next day.

Left over idea:
Fry 4 slices of bacon.
Set aside. 
Add some pieces of the pork roll to bacon fat and fry to just heated.
Toast 2 croissants.
Add the bacon and pork to the croissants. 
Yum!!!

Saturday, January 7, 2017

DIY Refried Bean Mexican Layered Dip






18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. - Acts 3:18-21








Layer 1
1 recipe of DIY Refried beans( this blog under vegetable tab)

Layer 2
Sour cream mixed with 2 T taco seasoning

Layer 3
Avocado cream layer
2 small ripe avocados
1/2 onion, diced
1/4 c salsa
Pinch of garlic granules 
1/2 of a lime juiced
Salt and pepper to taste

Layer 4
Chopped tomato layer

Layer 5
Black olive layer

Layer 6
Grated Manchego cheese layer 

DIY Refried Beans


















But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. - Ezekiel 3:19








Any can of beans, pinto, navy or black, drained

2 T Olive oil
1/2 of a Onion, diced
1 T roasted Garlic, smashed 
1 t Cumin
1/2 Lime, juiced
1 t Cilantro 
1/2 t Smoked paprika
Smoked Salt and pepper to taste

Heat oil in skillet and add onions and garlic.
When they are soft add well drained beans.
After they slightly boil, mash.
Add all seasonings, and juice.
Take off heat and cool.
If they are too dry, add a little oil and water.
I'm making Mexican Layered Dip with mine.

Lloyds Knock Off Onion Strings






14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
16 And his name-by faith in his name-has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all. - Acts 3:14-16






1 really large onion, sliced and separated into rings
Milk to cover rings
Few shakes of Worcestershire sauce in the milk
1 1/2 c Seasoned Flour( AP flour and seasoned salt)

Oil for frying( I used olive oil in my Fry Daddy)

Cut onions into thin rings.
Soak in milk spiked with Worcestershire sauce.
In a 13x9 pan place the flour.
Take a fork full of rings out and drop into flour.
Fry in the hot fryer.
Drain.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Instant Pot Chicken Sage Parsley Cream Cheese Stuffed Cabbage






But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. - 1 Timothy 5:8








1 head of cabbage, steamed and separate leaves

Filling:
2 c shredded rotisserie chicken
1 block of room temperature cream cheese
3 leaves fresh sage
2 T diced parsley
1 t garlic seasoning
1/4 c grated carrot
2 mini red bell peppers, diced 


1 c water for bottom of instant pot 
1 c spicy v-8, pour over stuffed leaves
Cracked Black Pepper

Set aside separated steamed cabbage leaves.
Mix fulling ingredients.
Stuff leaves with 2 -3 T of cream cheese chicken mixture according to leaf size.
Put your rack in cooker and add water.
Loosely cover rack with foil.
Spray with cooking spray.
Stack stuffed leaves on top of each other.
Pour v-8 over leaves.
Put top on and bring up pressure.
Set meat setting to 30 minutes.
Take off steam.
To serve, drizzle BBQ sauce over each cabbage roll.