Grandma Hystad Recipes, Recipes, Food Information

Grandma Hystad Recipes, Recipes, Food Information

CONTENTAPPLE SLICE PANCKES

POLISH PYROGY

MEXICAN SALAD

CURRIED POTATOES

CORN BREAD

SPINACH AND MEAT CAKES

VEGAN INFORMATION

SUPER EASY VEGAN PASTA SALAD

APPLE CHUNK CAKE

GRANDA’S FRENCH DRESSING

FOOD INFORMATION

BAR MIXES, DRINKS

APPLE SLICE PANCAKES
1 Granny Smith apple
1 1/4 cup any type pancake mix
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg
2 teaspoons canola oil
1 cup low-fat milk

Lightly coat a griddle or skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium heat.
Peel, core and thinly slice apple into rings.
In a large mixing bowl, combine ingredients for pancake batter. Stir until ingredients are evenly moist. (Small lumps are ok! Over-mixing makes pancakes tough.)
For each pancake, place apple ring on griddle and pour about 1/4 cup batter over apple ring, starting in the center and covering the apple.
Cook until bubbles appear.

Turn and cook other side until lightly brown.

Serving Size: 2 pancakes.
Yield: 6 servings.

POLISH PYROGY
Everyone enjoys this dish. It’s one I could eat every day.
Dough
5 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 tablespoon salt
4 tablespoons oil
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vinegar
Mix flour and salt together.
Mix eggs, oil and water to make 2 cups.
Make well in flour add water mixture.
Mix well then knead. (the more you knead the better)
Roll dough flat, thin and cut into 2-3 inch squares
Put filling (below) in each, seal edge, and use flour to pinch
seal shut.
FILLING
Mashed potatoes.
Course cottage cheese.
Salt and pepper.
Mix together until course.

Drop into boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. Do not place to 
many in boiling water at one time as they all should have enough
room to float to top.

After cooking place in different pot and add butter, or
place in frying pan, add butter, and (onions) if you
prefer.  Fry for a few minutes until they start turning
a light brown.  Can then be served with or without sour cream.

MEXICAN SALAD

2 cucumbers
2 oranges
1 lemon or lime (the juice)
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Wash the cucumbers, oranges and lemon or lime under cold running water.

2. Slice the cucumbers. Peel and cut the oranges into small pieces.

Place cucumber and oranges in a medium size bowl. Add chilli powder, lemon or limejuice and salt.
Serving Size: 1/4 of recipe.

Yield: 4 servings.

CURRIED POTATOES
1/4 cup margarine or butter
1 small finely chopped onion
3 cups cold, boiled, cubed potatoes
3/4 cup chicken broth
1/2 Tablespoon curry powder
1/2 Tablespoon lemon juice

Peel the onion, and chop it into small pieces.
Peel the potatoes, and chop them into 1-inch cubes.
Boil the potatoes in a medium saucepan until they are soft. Drain off the hot water.
Add ice cold water to cover the potatoes.
Melt the butter on medium heat in a frying pan or skillet.
Cook the onion in the butter until it turns yellow.
Drain the water from the potatoes, and add them to the frying pan. Stir and cook until they absorb the butter.
Add the broth, curry powder, and lemon juice.
Cook until the potatoes have absorbed the broth.

Serving Size: 1/2 cup.
Yield: 6 servings.

CORN BREAD

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup all purpose flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup skim-milk

Heat oven to 425 degrees. Grease 8- or 9-inch square pan.
Measure cornmeal, flour, sugar, and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine ingredients.
Crack egg into a small bowl and beat with a fork to combine white and yolk.
Add egg, oil, and milk to flour mixture. Mix until ingredients are well blended.
Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes, until firm to touch or wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Serving Size: 2 inch square.
Yield: 12 servings.

 Change flavour

Cheesy Corn Bread. Add 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese with the milk.

 SPINACH AND MEAT CAKES
1 pound ground beef, or turkey, 7% fat (93% lean)
2 bunches spinach – washed and cut into pieces (may substitute a 1-pound bag of frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well drained)
1/2 small finely chopped onion
2 minced garlic cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
black pepper to taste
3 cups brown rice

Preheat frying pan (no oil).
Combine all ingredients except brown rice in a large mixing bowl. Mix well.
Form mixture into 12 small balls. Place in frying pan and flatten into patties using a spatula.
Cook over medium heat until cooked on both sides.
Serve over brown rice.

Serving Size: 2 meat cakes.
Yield: 6 servings.
Time: 25 minutes.

VAGAN INFORMATION
Vegan:
A person that chooses a lifestyle that aims to eliminate the use of products obtained from animals for food, clothing or any other reason. This means that they don’t eat any meat, fish, dairy products or eggs. They also avoid products that are tested on animals and do not wear fur, wool or leather.
A Vegan’s diet includes foods such as: beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, Soya products (for protein), whole grains, vegetables, fruits and healthy oils.
People choose to become vegan for various reasons, the most popular include -
-Ethical views concerning animal rights
-Concern for the environment
-To improve personal health
Super Easy Vegan Pasta Salad
2 cups whole wheat pasta, cooked & cooled
2 ripe tomatoes, chopped
1/2 green pepper, chopped
1 green onion, thinly sliced
1/4 cucumber, chopped
1/2 cup organic sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup ketchup
1/4 cup vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
Directions:
Mix together the sugar, ketchup, vinegar, oil, salt, pepper and paprika. Pour the dressing over the pasta and veggies, and stir well.

In a large skillet, cook onion in hot oil until tender.  Add
Meat and garlic, brown lightly.  Add remaining ingredients.
Simmer uncovered 1 ½-2 hours or until sauce is nice and thick.
Stir occasionally.  Remove Bay leaf.  Serve hot over spaghetti.
Top with Parmesan cheese.
YIELD:  6 servings.
Time:  2 ½ hours.

APPLE CHUNK CAKE
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 cups diced apple chunks
1/4 cup applesauce
2 cups sliced apple to place on cake

Preheat oven to 350° F.
In a large bowl, mix sugar, oil and eggs together. Beat well.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking
soda. Add to egg batter and mix well

Add apple chunks and applesauce to the batter. Stir to combine.
Coat a baking pan with vegetable oil spray, and pour in batter. Bake until done, about 1 hour.
Place apple slices on top of apple cake and serve.

Serving Size: 1 piece.
Yield: 12 servings.

GRANDMA’S FRENCH DRESSING
1 teaspoon …………(5 ml)…………sugar
2 teaspoons………..(10 ml)………..salt
½ teaspoon………..(2.5 ml)…………pepper
½ teaspoon ……….(2.5 ml)…………paprika
1 ½  cup……………(375 ml)……….salad oil
½ cup………………(125 ml)……….vinegar
1 clove of garlic (if desired)
Put sugar, salt, pepper and paprika in jar.  Add oil, vinegar and
garlic.  Shake well.  When dressing is thoroughly blended, pour
over salad.
YIELD:  approximately 2 cups (500 ml)
CALORIES: 92 per tablespoon (15 ml)
TIME: 10 minutes.

FOOD INFORMATION.
How safe is our food supply?
Increasingly, the corporations that supply us with processed foods are unable to guarantee the safety of their ingredients. As a result, not just red meat and poultry, is now a potential carrier of pathogens, government and industry officials concede. As the drive to keep food costs down intensifies, most corporations do not even know who is supplying their ingredients, let alone if those suppliers are screening the items for microbes and other potential dangers.

Some concede that they cannot ensure the safety of items — from frozen vegetables to pizzas — and that they are shifting the burden of safety to the consumer. It seems the only time we know the products are unsafe, is when there is a problem, people get sick, and the product is recalled.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association has called for new safety initiatives.  They include new training and more food safety audits.  The grocers also want a new internet-based recall system to speed up the process of finding and removing recalled food products.

For information on receiving recalls by e-mail, or for other food safety facts, visit: www.inspection.gc.ca

Don’t just guess to tell when meat, poultry and seafood are done.  Instead, use a food thermometer to make sure foods have reached at least the following internal temperatures:
Steaks: 145 degrees F (medium rare)
Ground beef: 160 degrees F
Chicken breasts: 165 degrees F
Whole poultry: 165 degrees F
Pork: 160 degrees F
Fish: 145 degrees F

BAR MIXES
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Trader Vic’s Rum Fizz
1 ½ ounces light Puerto Rican rum
1 ounce lemon juice
2 teaspoons bar sugar
1 egg
½ ounce cream soda
Grated orange peel
Shake all ingredients except orange peel in electric mixer (or in
shaker can with mixing glass) with ice cubes.  Strain into fizz glass.
Sprinkle with grated orange peel.

Fresh Fruit Punch
8 ounces apiece of orange juice, pineapple juice, and grapefruit
juice.
1 bottle ginger ale.  Sugar to taste.
Combine the juices with the sugar.  Stir until the sugar is
dissolved and refrigerate.  Add the ginger ale plus chunks of ice before serving.