Wash and pick over the beans, removing loose skins or shriveled beans. Put in a large covered pot and cover with hot water. Soak over night if you want to cut down on cooking time. When beans start to simmer add ham bone, salt pork or bacon. Add more water as needed but only hot […]

Heat 1/4 cup olive oil in a skillet. Add garlic, onion, and red pepper, and saute. In a second pot, put remaining oil and saute zucchini, carrots, and celery. Add ingredients from the first pot. Add tomatoes, spices, beer, and parsley. Cook for 30 minutes, uncovered, stirring occasionally. Add beans, dill, and lemon juice. Cook […]

Place rice, cloves, black peppers, turmeric, salt, cardamom, and water in a 2-qt. pan. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer about 20 minutes until the rice is tender and the liquid is absorbed. Remove cloves and black peppers (or be prepared to warn your guests to […]

Combine the oil, bourbon, onion, garlic, pepper, mustard, salt and vinegar, blending well. Place the meat in a plastic bag or glass dish. Pour the marinade over the meat and marinate 1 hour at room temperature, turning the meat 2 to 3 times. Drain the meat, reserving the marinade. Spit the meat from end to […]

-MARINADE – 1 tb Soy sauce 1 tb Water 1 tb Dry sherry 2 ts Sesame oil 1 ts Cornstarch SAUCE 2 tb Hot ketchup 1 tb Hoisin sauce 1 tb Steak sauce 2 ts Worcestershire sauce 2 ts Packed brown sugar 1/2 ts Tabasco sauce -NOODLES – 2 oz Bean thread noodles, broken -in […]

Preheat oven to 425F. Place bread crumbs in a flat dish; press both sides of the chicken into the crumbs. Place coated chicken pieces in a greased 9×13 baking dish. Sprinkle with oregano, and top with cheese. Sprinkle with parsley and dot with butter. Bake for 20 minutes or until done.

* See Recipe 12. ** You can substitute 1 fresh clove of garlic, minced, or 1/8 t of : garlic powder for the instant minced garlic. *** Wash and trim the mushrooms and then slice them. **** Thinly slice the zucchini. There should be about 4 cups of the : slices. ***** Cut each tomato […]

cut top and stem off the peppers. clean out seeds and inside ribs. chop onion into course cubes. cook the barley per box instructions. pre-heat an oven to 350 degrees. bring water to a boil in a pot big enough to hold the four peppers. add peppers to boiling water for about 2 or 3 […]

*Note: Chicken should be about 3 pounds, and cut into serving pieces. Wash and dry the chicken. In a frying pan, heat the oil or butter and sear the chicken over high heat, turning constantly to avoid burning the chicken. Remove each piece when reddish in color. Lower the heat and saute the onion until […]

Saute Scallions and mushrooms in oil until limp, about 5 minutes. In a blender, combine garlic, chckpeas and chickpea liquid, blend until smooth. Transfer to a large bowl and combine with mushroom mixture. Grind sunflower seeds in a blender or food processor to make a coarse meal, add to chickpea mixture along with curry powder. […]