33 when its Recipes

roughly a century ago , the founder of wellesley college held that, pies, lies, and doughnuts should never have a place in wellesley college. students honed their fudge-making skills in secret. we wanted to see what all the fuss was about. here s what we discovered, test kitchen discoveries, it seems decades of chocolate overload have desensitized the modern palate , and far more chocolate flavor was required of our cake. we substituted some of the bar chocolate for cocoa powder bloomed in hot water to deepen its flavor., our thick , fudgy frosting required an extra-sturdy cake to support it. all-purpose flour in place of pastry flour gave the cake more stability., traditional recipes called for thick sour milk, an ingredient we weren tsp quite prepared to call for. instead, we used buttermilk to give our cake a hint of tang., our filling recipe needed to be simple, so we immediately scrapped anything that required a candy thermometer. we found an unexpected solution that called for evaporated milk., our frosting kept falling apart when we added chocolate to the warm sugar mixture. the heat was causing the fat in the chocolate to separate, a problem easily solved by adding butter and evaporated milk first to cool it down a bit.

grilled baby back ribs, by todd wilbur, if you go by the tv commercial , chefs at chili s have so much fun making baby backs that they sing songs filled with lyrics about them: chili s baby back ribs...i want my chili s baby back ribs...barbecue sauce. if you know the ditty, you ll be singing it too when you give this clone recipe a go, and slap a few of your own racks on the grill. the secret to the taste is in the sweet sauce, which you ll duplicate here from scratch. to make the meat juicy and tender like the original we ll call up the same slow-cooking technique sleuthed out a few years back for the clone of tony roma s great ribs., sauce, water, white vinegar, tomato paste, yellow mustard, dark brown sugar , packed, liquid smoke hickory flavoring, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, racks baby back ribs

frozen pastry shells(not the mini ones ), raw small shrimp, shelled and deveined, other seafood (ie lobster, crab, crawfish, scallops, etc--raw if possible, otherwise, note instructions later about when to add cooked seafood), fresh mushrooms, sliced, green onions or scallions, sliced, garlic, minced, butter, flour, white wine or chicken stock, juice from 1 small, or 1/2 large, lemon, fresh dill, chopped, hot sauce (chipotle tabasco, if you have it), salt and pepper

sugar, milk, vanilla, flour, butter flavor crisco ( when i was little, it was butter and reg. crisco), eggs, baking powder, salt

sweet and sour chicken, this recipe came from an estate sale. i obtained it when i purchased the family collection from the holland estate in portland , oregon in 1987., cornstarch, eggs, up up chicken breasts, sauce, water, granulated sugar, white vinegar, catsup, soy sauce, garlic

plant in september or october and pick next june. wonderful hard neck varieties to pick from. jj, http://www.groworganic.com/default.html, type garlic bulbs in the search window and you will be taken to the page in the catalog. serving their catalog, it is full of great stuff., garlic is available in september. not sure you may be able to serving now or call them and find out when. once available, they sell out fast.

boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces, vegetable oil or cooking spray, water, chicken bouillon cubes, cornstarch (you may want to reduce this to 1/4 cup), sesame oil (optional), garlic powder, ground ginger, sugar, soy sauce (i use kikkoman, most generic kinds are watery), cooking sherry, rice vinegar (i use when i have it) or 1/4 cup white vinegar (i use when i have it), crushed red pepper flakes, to taste (i don tsp usually measure these ), green onion, chopped

kitchen witch s make-ahead honey wings, sometimes i get so busy cooking for guests that i feel like that is all i am doing! it s nice to be able to cheat and make something earlier - it s a real time saver and gives me a chance to enjoy my company (or make something else for them, start by either baking or deep-frying chicken wings. cool; and refrigerate., when ready to enjoy the wings, honey, diced red sweet peppers, rice wine vinegar, pineapple juice, garlic salt, bottled hot pepper sauce, combine ingredients in saucepan and simmer (stirring) until thickened., place wings in single layer in baking dish ; pour sauce over; place in preheated 350* f. oven for about 15 minutes - or until wings are well glazed., serve with plenty of napkins, this will do 4 1/2 - 5 lbs. wings or try it on chicken legs

ground chicken breast, onion, chopped, garlic cloves, minced, chili powder, dried oregano, cumin, fire-roasted tomatoes, diced (or any you like ), tomato sauce, water, beer (optional), v-8 vegetable juice (optional it depends on how thick or thin you like it, or if you have it on hand. you can sub water, ), red kidney beans, drained (when doubling use 1 each light and 1 dark kidney beans), pinto beans, drained (when doubling use a can of black beans), sugar, salt, extra virgin olive oil

bacon, pineapple chunks, drained well, bell peppers , deseeded and sliced to pineapple size, onion , chunked to pineapple size, brown sugar, mixed with, your favourite seasoning (black fresh pepper, cayenne, garlic, italian or ranch seasonings etc), tabasco sauce , if you like it hot, when ready to broil (optional), metal skewer, toothpick