Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Peach Cobbler

My dear friend Nikki absolutely loves my peach cobbler!! Every event she has, she has asked me to fix this buttery, sweet gooey cobbler. Nikki, this one is for you!

2 bags of frozen peaches (or you can get at least five cut up fresh peaches)
2 cups of sugar, divided
1/2 cup of water
1 stick of salted butter
1 1/2 cups of self-rising flour
1 1/2 cups of milk
2tsp of cinnamon
2tsp of nutmeg
2tsp of peach schnapps

Preheat oven to 350f.

Combine the peaches, water, and 1 cup of the sugar. Bring to a boil for ten minutes. Add the cinnanmon, nutmeg and peach schnapps. Remove from heat.

Put the stick of butter in a 13x9 inch pan and put that in the oven and let the butter melt in the pan. While that is melting, mix the milk, the rest of the sugar, and self-rising flour in a bowl make sure the batter is nice and smooth.

Once the butter is melted, remove from the oven and pour the flour mixture slowly over the melted butter. Then spoon the fruit and juice from the pot on top of the flour mixture. Put the pan on a large cookie sheet (for spillage), and bake for 30 minutes until nice and brown. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream. Yummy!

Cheesy Goulash

This recipe another one of Malik's favorites!!! Easy to make and you can also freeze this recipe as well. When I make this, I have to make two trays. Thanks Karla for sharing this easy and delicious recipe with me over ten years ago.

1lb (or more) of ground turkey
1 small sweet onion chopped
2 cans of tomato sauce
2tsp of garlic
2tsp of garlic powder
2tsp of fresh cracked pepper
2tsp of salt
4tsp of sugar (Malik has a sweet tooth)
2tsp of seasoning salt
1 package of cheddar cheese grated
1 box of macaroni noodles *

Season and brown the ground turkey with the season salt and chopped onion. Turkey doesn't have alot of fat, so there will be no need to drain it, if it looks oily, then drain.

Mix the rest of the ingredients into a pot with the sauce and add the done ground turkey and sauteed chopped sweet onions.

Boil the macoroni according to box instructions in good salted boiling water. Leave off an additional 2 minutes of cooking time (as the pasta will cook the rest of the time in the oven). Drain the pasta and add to the pot with the sauce, ground turkey and sauteed sweet onions. Bring to a simmer over medium heat and remove from heat.

Line a 13x9 inch pan with foil and pour the mixture into the pan. Top with lots of cheddar cheese, and bake at 350f for 30 minutes. Enjoy!!!


*You can play around with all different types of pasta for this dish. I have also used cavatelli pasta here as well.

Dulche De Leche Cookies

Sorry I have been gone for soo long!!! Summer hit and had things to do. Now that school is back and fall is fast approaching it gives me time again to update my blog with recipes!!

This cookie soo good when the caramel (Dulche De Leche) is warm!!! It is a bit time consuming to make the caramel, but the taste is well worth it!!! The original recipe calls for homemade cookie dough, but I used the instant sugar cookie dough frozen and then I cut out little circles with my cookie cutters!!! This is one of Malik's favorite cookies and once you taste it, it will become one of your favorites too!!

Two cans of sweetened condensed milk

One tube of instant sugar cookies, or you can buy the package deal in the baking aisle where you add butter and one egg.

Almond extract *

Powered Sugar

Instructions:

Place the two cans of sweetened condensed milk into a pyrex glass dish. Cover the dish and place into a big roasting pan filled with water that comes half up to the pyrex glass dish. Cover loosely with foil and bake at 350f for about two hours, possibly more, until you get a beautiful golden brown color. Wisk briskly once it comes out of the oven.

With the sugar cookie dough, while it is soft, put one tsp of almond extract in and roll it into a ball and let it set in the fridge for about an hour. Roll the dough onto a floured surface and use a very small cookie cutter circle and place on cookie and bake cookies according to package instructions.

Once the cookies are done, let cool on the cooling rack for about 10 minutes, and then spread the caramel over one cookie, then top it with the other. Sprinkle powered sugar over the cookies. Eat while warm!!!!


*You can use any flavoring you want! Rum extract or pure rum, even coconut or coconut rum will do just fine in place of the almond flavoring. You can also roll the sides where the caramel has leaked out in crushed peanuts or even crushed chocolate.