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Joan, I love carrot and raisin salad. Hmmm, the thought just crossed my mind about whether I could freeze this. The recipe I uses calls for vinegar and oil, as I recall. So my guess is that this will freeze. I have some carrots to use up, so I may experiment. In a few months, when I thaw and try to eat it, I'll let you know how it worked. My guess is that the carrots will have lost their crispness.
As I mentioned in the Cooking thread, I baked Garlic-Herb Butter Drop Biscuits this afternoon, from Allrecipes. It's suggested to brush them after baked with melted butter, parley flakes and garlic powder. I didn't do that. I don't like melted butter on top of biscuits and rolls once they come out of the oven. Plus, there's garlic powder in the dough, and I'm not a fan of garlic powder. In the dough, I reduced it from 1/3 teaspoon to 1/4 teaspoon. Overall, these are good biscuits, and I'm not a biscuit person. I'm glad I did the trial run with EZ Drop Biscuits so I knew which cookie scoop to use today and how full to fill it.
A man who works for me and his wife have some health issues. I'm taking them an easy meal for dinner. Easy for me. I'm buying a quarter ham & their dessert. I made Paula Deen's Garden Pea Salad this morning for them. It's such a delicious recipe that I'm enclosing the link:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/garden-pea-salad-recipe-1914547
I always use the Lesueur brand peas Paula suggests. They're pricey, but the end result is worth the money.
When Paula made these on her show, she used a serving/soup tablespoon to measure out the mayonnaise, not a measuring spoon, and that always works for me. Finally, I highly recommend using the diced pimentos, which she says are optional. They add pleasant color, and I only use enough to give some red color throughout. Otherwise, the pimento is too strong a taste and detracts from the peas, in my opinion.Recipe says it takes 5 minutes. Surely that's after ingredients are prepped. Still, it comes together quickly.
This afternoon, I'm going to make Garlic-Herb Butter Drop Biscuits from Allrecipes, for their meal. The reason I made drop biscuits for the first time a few days ago was to test whether I wanted to make drop biscuits for their meal. I still think dinner rolls are better, but I just don't want to spend 2 or 3 hours making good rolls. I'm also giving them mashed potatoes.
Yesterday, the Appliance Apocalypse struck at my house. Plus, my brain went on vacation., I made Banana Coffeecake for breakfast. After I had 3/4 of the batter in the baking dish, it occurred to me that there wasn't much batter. I had forgotten to put in the bananas! I scooped the batter out of the baking dish back into the mixing bowl, added chuncked bananas and let the stand mixer go to work.
After baking the required 25 minutes, I pulled the oven shelf out and realized the upper oven wasn't working up to temp. Instead of being done, the surface was a little brown and bubbly. I raised the oven temp twenty-five degrees and set the timer for 15 minutes. Eight or ten minutes would have been adequate, probably. When the coffeecake was fully baked, it was a little too brown on top and crusty along one edge. It tasted good, though, so mission accomplished.
In the afternoon, I tried a new recipe for dinner rolls to go with Cabbage Soup from the freezer. Using the lower oven. I found the recipe for Sour Cream Rolls at Fleischmann'sBreadworld.com. Since it's listed as a beginner recipe, I figured I could have them prepped and baked in 90 minutes and get rid of sour cream. My downfall in this recipe is that I decided to experiment with paper liners.
I had the idea that my life would be easier if I never again had to grease muffin tins. So I put paper cupcake liners in 6 of the openings to see if they work as good for yeast rolls as for muffins/cupcakes. They do not. The batter barely rose in the liners and didn't spread. After an hour rise. The ones in the greased tins looked perfect for baking. I decided to try a trick my beloved stepmother used.
She never put her bread and rolls in a preheated oven. She wanted the oven spring from the bread going into a cold oven and gradually going up to temp. I don't know if that really works, but I remember her believing it did. So I put the pan into a cold oven, hoping the gradual heating of the oven would force a rise out of the dough in paper liners. I added five extra minutes to the cooking time, which was a huge mistake. I ended up with burnt tops!
On top of that, the rolls were too oily for me with butter spread on them. Still later, I remembered why I had a lonely container of sour cream in the fridge. I have become lactose-intolerant and instead of throwing away the sour cream, I shoved it to the back of the refrigerator. Today, I will throw away 11 rolls. My husband won't eat them with the burnt tops. But at least I know not to use paper liners for yeast rolls!
I agree with you, Mike. The recipe from the 1938 cookbook doesn't sound like chop suey to me, either. My dad's recipe uses pork shoulder, not ground beef. It has no pasta and no rice. It's cooked stove top, not baked. Nevertheless, it is Americanized chop suey, and you may feel free to delete the recipe, if you want. I just posted it because it's different than the 1938 recipe I saw on You Tube.
