Hello, Darlings
I heard that some non-Catholics wanted to know who my angel, so I created added their names and a brief description of their importance in the Holy Bible and Christians lives to the updated photo arrangement below.
Seven Ninety Seven
"Home Of The Bargain Queen"
Monday, December 9, 2024
Christ’s Christmas Season 2024: the Angels
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Christ’s Christmas Season 2024
Hello, Darlings
Our garage was robbed more than once due to a hacker preventing us from reinstalling our security cameras, and our putting trust in those not worthy of trust. Because of these thefts, a lot of household items and precious holiday items, along with the warm memories attached to them are gone. Therefore, this year we are simplifying our Christmas display. To do so, we had the repurchase a new set of battery operated Advent candles, 24 long red battery operated display candles, and some bath towels and rugs sets. Among these stolen items there was also items for Thanksgiving and Halloween that also held memories of warm, love and fun.
However, those items will be discussed more at a later date, because this is now Christ’s Christmas Season, and we want our simple display to reflect it, and to whom this holiday is really about.
We hope you all have a Blest Holiday Season
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley and Evelyn Fain
(Evelyn Altheimer-Fain)
First posted on A Catholic's Life, Anew
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Instant Pot Ace Blender Homemade Tabasco Sauce
Hello, Darlings
Thank you for viewing.
Today, I am posting an update to the Homemade Non-Fermented Tabasco Sauce recipe added in July. This new recipe is easier to make because I am just using my Instant Pot Ace Blender. Why I didn’t think of making it this way last year is beyond me. Nevertheless, here is the new recipe. If you have an Instant Pot Ace Blender (discontinued), or a similar one with a pureed setting, you can click the link below to download this recipe.
Made from home grown tabasco peppers |
Instant Pot Ace Blender Homemade Tabasco Sauce
Ingredients
- 5 ounces tabasco peppers, whole
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup white vinegar
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ teaspoon corn starch
Instructions
- Add the tabasco peppers, white vinegar, salt, corn starch and water to the Instant Pot Ace Blender
- Select the hot Pureed Setting twice.
- Start the blender and repeat a second time for a smoother sauce. This setting will pureed and boil the peppers for short time, about two minutes and 56 second each go around.
- Once the peppers are pureed, select the Soup Setting once. This setting will cook longer, about twelve and half minutes.
- Hit the start button.
- Cool slightly, and then add the sauce into a 5oz sauce bottle with cap
- Store the hot sauce in the refrigerator. It will last up two years
The two orange hot sauces on top were made today and are combination of the red and green peppers. While the red and green sauces in the grouping on the bottom were made in July.
The remainer of the peppers are dried and stored for soups, green beans, and chili meals
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Sunday, October 6, 2024
Update: Evelyn’s Butter Pecan Ice Cream Made with Junket
Hello, Darlings
This is mom, grandma to some of you, and to the newest ones, great- grandma. Since I have fallen into the graying, toothless geriatric generation, I find that many of the foods, like uncooked carrots and nuts are difficult to eat.
Sadly, I discovered that this was the case the first time I made homemade butter pecan ice cream. To combat my inability to chew the nuts, I substituted the half cup praline pecans halves slices with one tablespoon of pecan meal. This simplified the recipe and enhanced the taste of the ice cream.
Check it out. The link to the recipe is below.
Update: Evelyn’s Butter Pecan Ice Cream Made with Junket
Ingredients
· 1-1/4 cup lactose free whole milk
· 3/4 cup heavy cream
· 2 tsps. Pecan extract
· 1 tbsp. Pecan meal
· 1 package Junket Simple Vanilla Ice Cream Mix or the Very Vanilla Ice Cream Mix
Equipment:
· COWSAR 1.3 Quart Ice Cream Maker (has its own freezing compressor)
· An Instant Pot Ace Blender or a regular blender
· Airtight ice cream container
Instructions
1. In the Instant Pot Ace Blender or a regular blender combine the milk, heavy cream, pecan meal and Pecan extract. On blender, select the ‘Smoothie’ setting and run it once.
2. Then add the Junket Very Vanilla Ice Cream Mix
3. Select the ‘Smoothie’ setting and run the setting twice, or if using a regular blender, blend the mixture until it is dissolved well, about 5 to 10 minutes.
4. Turn the COWSAR 1.3 Quart Ice Cream Maker on. Pour mixture into the bucket and press the Ice Cream Function button and once cycle ends turn off the machine and serve.
5. If eating later, transfer ice cream to an airtight container and place iDn the freezer.
With that done, I have a new ice cream recipe using the Junket Ice Cream Mix. I called it Evelyn’s Adult Rum Raisin Ice Cream Made with Junket. See the running theme. Like the butter pecan recipe it is quick and easy.
Evelyn’s Adult Rum Raisin Ice Cream Made with Junket
Makes 1 quart
Ingredients
½ to 3/4 cup raisins
1-1/4 cup lactose free whole milk
3/4 cup heavy cream
2 tsps. Rum extract
1 ½ tablespoon of real white rum
1 package Junket Very Vanilla Ice Cream Mix
Equipment:
· COWSAR 1.3 Quart Ice Cream Maker (has its own freezing compressor)
· An Instant Pot Ace Blender or a regular blender
· Airtight ice cream container
Instructions
1. Add the raisins to a glass measuring cup and filled with enough water to cover the raisins.
2. Microwave on high for one minute; drain and place in a small bowl to cool.
3. In the Instant Pot Ace Blender or a regular blender combine the milk, heavy cream, real rum and Rum extract , then run the ingredients on the ‘Smoothie’ setting once.
4. Then add the Junket Very Vanilla Ice Cream Mix
5. Select the ‘Smoothie’ setting again and run the setting twice, or if using a regular blender, blend the mixture until it is dissolved well, about 5 to 10 minutes.
6. Turn the COWSAR 1.3 Quart Ice Cream Maker on. Pour mixture into the ice cream bucket and press the Ice Cream Function button.
7. Five to 10 minutes before the ice cream cycle ends add the raisins.
Serve, or if eating later, transfer ice cream to an airtight container and place in the freezer. I found that letting the ice cream age a few days increases the flavor.
That’s it! Quick and easy Rom Raisins ice cream.
Worried about the alcohol content in the ice cream? You can always make up another batch or two for the kids by omitting the real rum and increasing the rum extract to taste
Until next time,
Chow, Darlings
Thursday, July 25, 2024
How to make Homemade Non-Fermented Tabasco Sauce & Whole Bottled Peppers
Hello, Darlings
Thank you for viewing.
Today, I have a couple of new recipes for you. If you are a fan of spicy food like us, than the two recipes below for homemade tabasco sauce and whole hot vinegar peppers, than give these recipes a try. Click the title link to download recipe.
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Made from home grown Tabasco peppers |
How to make Homemade Non-Fermented Tabasco Sauce & Whole Bottled Peppers
Ingredients
- 5 ounces tabasco peppers
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white vinegar, or White wine vinegar*
- ½ cup water
- ½ teaspoon corn starch
Instructions
Tabasco hot sauce
- Add the tabasco peppers, white vinegar, salt and water to a small sauce pan
- Bring the mixture to a quick boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes to soften.
- Cool slightly, and then add a ½ cup of the vinegar mixture and peppers to an Instant Pot Ace Blender, or food processor.
- Add corn starch
- Process food on Smoothy twice or until smooth.
- Add the 5oz sauce bottle seal and store hot sauce up two years in the refrigerator.
- Add the tabasco peppers, white vinegar, salt and water to a small sauce pan
- Bring the mixture to a quick boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes to soften.
- Cool slightly and add the pepper to the 5oz sauce bottle
- Fill bottle with vinegar mixture, seal and store sauce up two years in the refrigerator.
Note:
- If using White wine vinegar omit the water.
- The corn starch will thicken the sauce a bit, so that it clings to the food, such as fish chips and wings.
Until next time,
Chow, Darlings
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Rice and Potatoes: Updates and More
Hello, Darlings
This morning, I have several recipes to post. As you know last year I bought a 1200 watt microwave oven, because a 1000 watt oven was unavailable. Since then, a few of my popular recipes have had to be adjusted to the newer heat settings. For example the list for baking potatoes in my post, “Did You Know That You Can Nuke Your Potatoes?” was created for 900 to 1000 microwave ovens. With a jumbo potato you would normally microwave it for 10 to 12 minutes on high, but with a 1200 watt microwave oven that same jumbo potato would only need 9 -1/2 minutes of cook time, so reducing the cook time for my older recipes I have posted on this website is a must.
However, this morning the following recipe "1200 Watt Microwave Oven Rice" is an update for the recipe printed on most rice packages where you would microwave a cup of rice in a 1000 watt microwave oven with 1-1/2 cup of water at a setting of 5 minutes on high, then again for10 minutes on the 50% or number 5 setting. Whew! What a sentence.
Well, with a 1200 watt microwave cooking rice became another learning curse … I mean curve.
So said, I now present my new microwave rice recipe to life easier, the “1200 Watt Microwave Oven Rice”.
1200 Watts Microwave Oven Rice
Ingredients:
1 cup rice
1 ½ water
Direction:
- Add water and rice into 2-quart glass casserole dish
- Place dish partially covered in microwave
- Set cook time for 5 minutes; don’t worry if after this time the water level appears to be all gone, it’s not, so then,
- Set power level to 5
- Cook 6 Minutes
Once the rice is done, fluff with a fork and cover with a paper towel and glass lid to absorb the extra moisture.
This next recipe is a microwave variation for the popular Vigo Yellow Rice. I am a rice lover and if it wasn’t for the number of carbs that rice contains, I would eat it every day. Alas, when I do give in to my craving, I not only eat it with dinner but with breakfast and lunch as well. And, I had a yesterday I had a craving, but I was out of the regular rice I normally cook. However, I decided to cook some yellow. Normally, you cook the whole package of Vigo Yellow Rice as a main ingredient in another recipe such as Red Beans and Rice with Sausage or Shrimp Fried Rice.
As with my 1200 Watts Microwave Oven Rice recipe, the Vigo Yellow Rice can be microwave in a similar way and smaller amounts. I mean, why cook rice, any rice for an half an hour or more on the stove top. Stove top cooking has its day in my home also, but if I can do it easier and quicker … let’s nuke.
1200 Watts Microwave Oven Vigo Yellow Rice
Ingredients:
1 cup rice
1 ½ water
Direction:
- Add water and rice into 2-quart glass casserole dish
- Place dish partially covered in microwave
- Set cook time for 6 1/2 minutes
- Then Set power level to 5
- Cook 6 Minute
Once the rice is done, fluff with a fork and cover with a paper towel and glass lid to absorb the extra.
This final recipe is for microwaving sweet potatoes on 1200 watts. Like cooking regular potatoes this recipe was a bit tricky at first, but I learned quicker with it, than with microwaving the regular potatoes. So here it is my... "1200 Watts Microwave Sweet Potatoes" recipe.
1200 Watts Microwave Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
1 large sweet potato
Nutmeg
Cinnamon
Villa flavoring
1 -2 pads of butter
Directions
- Clean and pat dry sweet potato
- Use fork to add vent holes
- Place sweet potato in microwave and cook on high for 7 minutes
- Test for tenderness
- Cut open in the middle and a sprinkle of each of remaining ingredients
- Cook an additional 3 minutes
- Repeat direction foe any additional sweet potato
Note: For medium sweet potatoes, I suggest reducing the cooking time by two to three minutes, and checking for doneness before adding more ingredients. By now you should be a pretty good judge of how much more or less cooking time will be needed to finish the potatoes. However, since it is just me and my husband, Stan, I cook the potatoes one at a time. Twenty minutes in the microwave versus one hour in the conventional oven. You choose.
Well, that’s all for today, and I do hope you find these recipes helpful and delicious.
Click links to download PDFs. I realized that I left the s off of watts in the PDF copies of these recipes, but I know my old grammar professors would forgiven this once.
Until next time,
Chow, Darlings