Author: Dave the Hubby

Chocolate Pecan Strata

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This is a truly faboo desert that everyone will enjoy. It’s also a very long one to make — do not wait until 8 p.m. the previous night to start making it, because the various layers have to set in the fridge at each step.
Ingredients:
1½ sticks Butter, melted
1½ c Flour
1 c Pecans, chopped
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8 oz Cream Cheese
1 c Powdered Sugar
2 c Whipped Cream
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6 oz Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix
6 oz Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix
4 c Milk
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Chocolate sprinkles, shavings, or chopped semi-sweet chocolate chips
You can substitute walnuts for pecans. You can also substitute Cool Whip for the whipped cream (but it’s not as good).
Instructions:

  • Crust: Mix butter, flour, nuts. Press into 9×13 baking pan. Bake 20 min. at 400°.
  • Layer 1: Fold together cream cheese, powdered sugar, 1 c of whipped cream. Spoon over crust. Refrigerate until set.
  • Layer 2: Mix chocolate pudding mix with 2 c milk. Spoon onto cream cheese mix. Refrigerate until set.
  • Layer 3: As Layer 2, only with vanilla pudding mix.
  • Layer 4: Spread with 1 c whipped cream.
  • Top with chocolate doodads mentioned above (just before serving).

Source: Dave, via Gloria Hill.

Dave’s Favorite Pecan Pie

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Dave makes a mean pecan pie. But it’s really, really simple.

Ingredients for one 9″ Pie:
¼ c Butter
⅔ c Brown Sugar, firmly packed
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¼ tsp Salt
⅛ tsp Cinnamon
⅛ tsp All-Spice
¼ tsp Nutmeg
¾ c Dark Corn Syrup
3½ Eggs, beaten (round down)
1 tsp Vanilla
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1 c Pecan Halves
1 9″ Pie Crust

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 450°
  2. Cream sugar and butter together until fluffy.
  3. Beat in next 7 ingredients.
  4. Line pie pan with crust, then pecans. Pour filling in.
  5. Bake at 450° for 10 minutes.
  6. Bake at 350° for 35+ minutes, until knife in the center comes out clean.

An 8″ pie pan, if that’s what you have, is about 20% less.

Source: The Encyclopedia of Cooking (modified)

Chili Cheese Rice Bake ala Dave

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This is a really easy, really filling, and really cheap meal.

Ingredients:
4 oz Green Chile, canned diced
3 c Rice, cooked
2 c Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
½ c Cheddar Cheese, shredded
1 c Sour Cream
½ tsp Salt

Instructions:

  1. Mix chiles, sour cream, salt in a bowl.
  2. In a 1.5 quart casserole, repeat these layers twice:
    • 1 c rice
    • 2/3 c Jack
    • 1/3 of sour cream mix
  3. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes (or 3 minutes at 100% in a microwave)
  4. Sprinkle cheddar all over top.
  5. Bake another 15 minutes (2 minutes at 100%) until cheese is melted and casserole is heated through.

It’s also quite possible just to mix everything up and bake it.

Serves: 6

Source: Dave got it from somewhere

Scotch Old-Fashioned

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Another favorite of Margie’s.
Ingredients:

  • 1 cube Sugar
  • 1 dash Bitters
  • 1 tsp. Water
  • 2 oz. Scotch

Instructions:

  1. In an old-fashioned glass, muddle Sugar, Water, and Bitters
  2. Add scotch and stir.
  3. Add a twist of lemon peel and ice.

If you don’t have a muddler (basically a long pestle to grind up sugar in a glass), try using powdered sugar.

Source: Mr. Boston

Rusty Nail

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One of Margie’s favorites.

Ingredients:

  • ¾ oz Scotch (blended)
  • ¼ oz Drambuie

Or, proportionately, 3:1.

Note that most single-malts will be too strong or idiosyncratic for the blend.

Instructions: Serve on the rocks in an old-fashioned. Mr. Boston recommends floating the Drambuie on the Scotch.

Margarita

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Ingredients:
1½ oz Tequila
½ oz Triple Sec
1 oz. Lemon or Lime juce
(or, proportionately, 3:1:2 — which, if you do it by ounces, is both easy to mix in a measuring cup and makes for a double)
Note that if you use actual fruit juice (vs. Tequila Mix) in these proportions, this will be a very un-sweet tequila. That’s how we like them. You might toss in a teaspoon-full of powdered sugar to sweeten it up for folks who are used to Margaritas from TGI Fridays.
Source: Mr. Boston

Instructions

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You (meaning Margie — all of this is for Margie) can re-edit an entry from the blog by clicking on the paragraph marker (¶) at the top of the entry.
You can enter in various special characters by putting in the following entity codes (the ones starting with an ampersand, and including the semicolon):
° (degree) – °
¼ (1/4) – ¼
½ (1/2) – ½
¾ (3/4) – ¾

Janine’s Oatmeal Cookies

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Ingredients
¾ c – Vegetable shortening
1 c – Brown Sugar
½ c – Sugar
1 – Egg
¼ c – Water
1 t – Vanilla
1 t – Cinnamon
1 c – Flour
1 t – Salt
½ t – Baking Soda
1½ c – Oats
Directions

  • Beat together shortening, sugars, egg, water, and vanilla until creamy.
  • Combine remaining ingredients, then add to above; mix well.
  • Drop by rounded teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 350° for 12-15 min.

Makes: ??
Source: Janine’s World Famous Resource Kitchen