Here is a creative way to begin the morning and insure you get your children to eat their cereal! When I read the recipe, my thoughts go to bran cereals, cornflakes, and if I'm being wild, possibly a raisin bran type of cereal. Knowing my children, even at the college age, they would want to try some colorful, sweet cereal just to see how it worked in a muffin. It is a good way to use up that half box of cereal that wasn't popular with milk!
Cereal Killer Muffins
2 1/2 cups dry cereal - your choice!
1 quart buttermilk
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter (that's two sticks)
4 eggs
5 cups all-purpose flour
5 teaspoons baking soda
Raisins, nuts . . . optional
Cream sugar, butter, eggs and 1/4th of the buttermilk in a large mixing bowl. Add flour, baking soda, the rest of the buttermilk and the cereal and mix to just combine. It makes a bunch so how many you get depends on the size muffins you are making.
Fill paper-lined muffin cups 2/3 full and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15-20 minutes. Mixure will keep in a sealed container in the refrigerator so you can make it the night before.
Ideas to change/improve recipe.
Vanilla extract has yet to hurt most any muffin recipe.
Cinnamon takes muffins to a whole, new level.
Soaking the raisins in juice or brandy does a muffin good.
Grating some lemon or orange zest into the batter puts you on superior baker level.
Monday, March 12, 2012
True . . .
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils
- Louis Hector Berlioz
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
- Louis Hector Berlioz
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
Potato Pancakes
I always forget about this recipe! Whenever I do make Potato Pancakes, however, my family is very happy so I’m officially putting the recipe at the top of my pile of recipes.
Potato Pancakes
2 large eggs
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt or to taste
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon ground caraway seed (use whole seed if you can’t find ground)
1/4 cup grated onion
2 ½ cups grated potatoes
Combine and beat together the flour, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and caraway seed in a large bowl. Grate the onion and potato together as the juice from the lemon will help keep the potatoes from turning color. You don’t have to be precise with the onion and potatoes. Stir the potato/onion mixture into the egg/spice mixture.
In a preheated frying pan or griddle, add a bit of oil or butter and drop generous spoonfuls of the potato pancake mixture onto it. Cook until golden on one side, turn over and complete cooking.
Serve as a side to a meat dish or just with a dish of chunky applesauce. It is a very versatile recipe and goes with a lot of meals.
Potato Pancakes
2 large eggs
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt or to taste
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon ground caraway seed (use whole seed if you can’t find ground)
1/4 cup grated onion
2 ½ cups grated potatoes
Combine and beat together the flour, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and caraway seed in a large bowl. Grate the onion and potato together as the juice from the lemon will help keep the potatoes from turning color. You don’t have to be precise with the onion and potatoes. Stir the potato/onion mixture into the egg/spice mixture.
In a preheated frying pan or griddle, add a bit of oil or butter and drop generous spoonfuls of the potato pancake mixture onto it. Cook until golden on one side, turn over and complete cooking.
Serve as a side to a meat dish or just with a dish of chunky applesauce. It is a very versatile recipe and goes with a lot of meals.
An improvement?
I posted earlier in the month about my favorite mustard sauce for corned beef and cabbage. In honor of my daughter's homecoming for Spring Break, I fixed just that dinner last night. In preparing my usual mustard sauce, I got a bit more creative. Turns out I improved on something I already thought was perfect!
Mustard Sauce for Corned Beef and Cabbage
1 cup mayo
1/4 cup of the grainy, stone-ground mustard
2 tablespoons of the regular, yellow mustard
2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon of the hot, dried mustard
Just thoroughly mix it all together, put it in a nice serving dish, and let your family be happily surprised.
This stuff really brings out the best in the corned beef. It makes the boiled cabbage stand out. I have even been caught putting it on the potatoes. And, if you have leftovers of the sauce, it is a good spread for cold, corned beef sandwiches on rye bread the next day.
Oh, and don't worry that we've used our corned beef too far in advance of St. Patrick's Day . . . I purchased two of them when they went on sale!
Mustard Sauce for Corned Beef and Cabbage
1 cup mayo
1/4 cup of the grainy, stone-ground mustard
2 tablespoons of the regular, yellow mustard
2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon of the hot, dried mustard
Just thoroughly mix it all together, put it in a nice serving dish, and let your family be happily surprised.
This stuff really brings out the best in the corned beef. It makes the boiled cabbage stand out. I have even been caught putting it on the potatoes. And, if you have leftovers of the sauce, it is a good spread for cold, corned beef sandwiches on rye bread the next day.
Oh, and don't worry that we've used our corned beef too far in advance of St. Patrick's Day . . . I purchased two of them when they went on sale!
A beautiful comparison . . .
“When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle.
Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will
make them fragrant.” ~ St. John Vianney
Two Great Speeches from the 2012 CPAC event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAaoCVDWtLk&feature=colike
This is a wonderful speeck by Kirk Cameron at the 2012 CPAC event. My favorite line in his speech is, to paraphrase it, that our hopes are not in the White House but our own homes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6QOscKvUjU
This talk at the 2012 CPAC event is by Dinesh D'Souza. He sets in in clarity some of the problems with the current administration and what we can expect and fear from the future if things continue along the lines they are going now.
Each talk is about 15 minutes but that is a small portion of our day compared to what ignorance of what is going on in our country could do for the rest of our lives and that of our children.
This is a wonderful speeck by Kirk Cameron at the 2012 CPAC event. My favorite line in his speech is, to paraphrase it, that our hopes are not in the White House but our own homes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6QOscKvUjU
This talk at the 2012 CPAC event is by Dinesh D'Souza. He sets in in clarity some of the problems with the current administration and what we can expect and fear from the future if things continue along the lines they are going now.
Each talk is about 15 minutes but that is a small portion of our day compared to what ignorance of what is going on in our country could do for the rest of our lives and that of our children.
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